January 12, 2025 • 45 mins
In this weekly series, we share highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- In The Vet's Office with Dr. Josie (no episode this week), Take This Personally with Morgan Huelsman, The BobbyCast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers, Movie Mike's Movie Podcast and Get Real with Caroline Hobby. You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
You can find them on Instagram:
-The BobbyCast- @BobbyCast
-In The Vet's Office with Dr. Josie- @DrJosieVet
-Take This Personally- @TakeThisPersonally
-4 Things with Amy Brown- @RadioAmy
-Sore Losers- @SoreLosersPodcast
-Movie Mikes Movie Podcast- @MikeDeestro
-Get Real: @GetRealCarolineHobby
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Sunday Sampler, Thank you guys for being here. A bunch
of clips from a bunch of the podcasts. On the
Bobby Cast, Eddie Mike Dia myself talked about a bunch
of different topics like real songs from fake bands, like
TV bands like the Zach Attack. That's fake band, but
they didn't have a song that was kind of pretty good. Also,
Doctor Josie on her show In the Vets Office, she
(00:29):
talked with doctor Shake Chatterjee, a veterinarian but also a
villain on a reality TV show, which.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Is Love is Blind.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So it's gotta be weird, like you're a real vet
but also you're a villain on a reality show. They
talk about that, exotic animals, and a bunch more So
let's get started with a clip from in the Vets
Office with Doctor Josie.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You're listening to In the Vets Office with Doctor Joe
see horse Chack.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So one of the big questions I had for you
is what was it like coming off Love is Blind
or the Villains and going back into practice. I don't
think it's like any secret that you weren't at the
top of everyone's nice list coming off these shows or clients.
Did they recognize you? Did anyone say anything?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
How was that?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yeah? So it's interesting. You know, I just opened up
about this really recently, something I didn't really feel like
talking about when I was going through it. But as
soon as the show came out and I kind of
became this villain. And let me also say, you know,
(01:44):
these shows that edit you to make you look a
certain way. Everybody kind of has this idea in the
back of their mind that that happens, but it's not
till you go for it that you realize, like just
how much they can twist things and take things out
of context and so on and so forth. So so
not only was I the villain, but I wasn't able
(02:10):
to talk about what happened because we'd signed all these
contracts say hey, whatever comes out on the show, like
you have to go along with it, and if you
speak out against it, they're like, we're going to sue
you and blah blah blah. So I not only could
I speak out against it, but also I didn't even
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feel like, you know, people wanted me to apologize, and
I'm like, I'm not going to apologize. I didn't do anything.
You know what I mean, like the show made me
look a certain way. I'm not going to apologize for
something I didn't do, or you know, to the extent
that I was portrayed, and that made people even more
bad because I'm like unapologetic about it. So what happened
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is the clinic that I worked at in Chicago got
review bombed by strangers on the internet really and I
got I got to let go. So this happened within
you know, two months of the show coming out, so
I didn't get to even experience much of clients recognizing
me or anything. I was. It was a corporate practice
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and one of the big corporations. I don't want to
say who it was, but it was one of the
big corporations. And you know, first they put me on
like a leave, like a paid lead, and I was like,
all right, sweet, I'm just gonna go to Miami. Then
I guess, you know, just like hang out during this
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paid lead. But you know, obviously I didn't. I didn't
have a good feeling about it. I'm like, oh, am
I being put on this paid lead. And I remember
I was at the pool one day and I get
a call from I guess one of the HR people
or you know, somebody higher up in the corporate and
they like basically told me, like hey, you know where
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what they call it an involuntary separation, Like okay, that's
a fancy way of saying I'm fired because of of
these the reality, and I can't blame them. I can't
be mad at the corporation even because who would want that?
You know, that's not good for business.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, that brings up a really interesting point that I
think about a lot and met especially is how dependent
these clinics are on reviews, customer reviews on Google and Yelp.
I feel like I know that when I owned a practice,
I checked them every single day, and bad reviews are
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really detrimental for business. I don't know that other healthcare
providers have that same you know that they worry about
them as much as we do.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's the same extent. I mean, I think reviews are
important for most industries, but some industries, like you said,
rely on them and focus on them a lot one.
But you know, it worked out really great for me
in the long run because I had gotten this really
big signing bonus, just like maybe even like six months
(05:13):
before the show came out, like big, big, signing bonus,
like I didn't even This was like you know, around
COVID time when ve's were like really in demand, so
like close close to a year's salary type of signing bonus.
And I was like, okay, well what happens with the
signing bonus? Then? Like I didn't leave, so you're telling
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me to leave, and they're like, oh, you're gonna have
to You're gonna have to get it back, and I
was just like I can't, like I spent and then
ultimately I had a lawyer review everything and send them
a letter, and my lawyer said, just just don't pay
him back and if they'll want to do something, they'll
do something. And you know, they didn't do anything. So
(05:57):
I took that sign on bonus and I I was
loving Miami so much that I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna move down here, you know. So I
had I had a little period there where you thankfully
I didn't have to work to this, to this nice
bonus that I had, So I had a lot of
(06:19):
fun and then and frankly, I just started missing being
in practice because that's you know, that was my whole life. Really. Yeah,
I was DJ two and had my fun things. But
you know, we go to a lot of school. I mean,
being a vet is more than just a profession for
most of us, right It's something that you know, is
(06:41):
like a part of it, right, Yeah, exactly. So I
was like, you know what, let me get my Florida license.
And the demand for vets down here is just as
high as everywhere else in the country, right So. And
I had never worked in this urgent care environment before,
so I didn't realize how much I was going to
(07:02):
like that. The pay is better too as an early
care vet, because not everybody wants to work those long hours,
you know, but if they find somebody that will do.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You have clients down there, does that recognize you from TV?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Oh that's the other thing. While people in Chicago were
like shunning me, Miami just welcomed me with open arms.
They just love me down here. And I even felt that,
you know, before I started working down there, I just
felt it socially because you know, my season of Love
Is Blind was filmed in Chicago. I was the villain.
(07:40):
A lot of people switched stuff on me, you know
what I mean, And people that knew me switched uff
on me, and I was like, all right, this is
this is cool, you know, and then I come down
to Miami and all of a sudden they're like, oh
my god, we love you, like come to the yacht party,
come to this house party. And I was like, this
(08:01):
is where I've lost, you know, Miami's you know, my
kind of place.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So it's really it seems like you're handling it pretty well.
Like being labeled a villain, I would say that veterinarians,
I just inherently we are kind of people pleasers for
the most part. Do you feel like at any point
you're like, wow, this sucks, Like I wish I'd never
gone on this show. Are you just like this is it?
This is what it is?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Actually, I never never for a second thought that because
the hate and most of that was all online. In
person is a whole of my story. You know, you're
like the man of the hour, and especially here in Miami. Yeah,
(08:48):
even though some of this was editing in portrayal, even
that that negatively portrayed version of me, they love that
here in Miami. They loved it. You know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Come on, I have the list of things that you
do when the year starts for good luck, like things
you eat okay. And I bring this up because one
of my good friends is been Rector, super talented artists,
(09:19):
good friend, great guy. Every year his wife sends over
a thing of black eyed peas and she drives them
around to like their friends. Really it has for like
their or four years, and we get the black eyed peas,
we eat them day one. We didn't make the black
eyed pea list this year, and I don't know.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
You think you did something to not make that list.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I don't know. I don't know if they didn't do it.
I can text them and ask them.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Hey, man, I didn't get my black eyed piece this year.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I will text him and then we'll talk and if
he sends a message back, all boys and I'm away. Hello,
it's Bobby and Eddie. It's up Ben and we're recording
a podcast and we're talking about the new Year and
how traditionally you eat black eyed peas. And I told
them about how your wife would bring us black eyed
peas year of the past few years and we'd eat them.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We had a great year because of that, and this
year we did not get the black eyed peas, and
we didn't know if we didn't make the cut, like
we weren't on the list anymore like we felt in
the rankings.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Or if it was just a bad year for black
eyed peas.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Maybe she didn't make any right.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We're just curious because we're talking about you, and we're
talking about how wonderfully talented you are in your music.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But then I was like, I didn't get my black
eyed peas. Now I'm not asking for the black eyed peas,
but what I'm wondering is did we not make the
cut or did she not make the peas? Both are
acceptable seasons change, So let me know. We'll recording for
the next little bit. If you do hear this, have
a great day, man, unless we didn't make the list
and have a moderately good day.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
What are black eyed peas like? Like? What do they
taste like?
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Like?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
What are they?
Speaker 9 (10:46):
I don't know if I've ever had black eyed peas?
No way, nah, really, I don't think that I've ever
eaten black eyed peas. I'm definitely never ordered them at
a restaurant, so I know that for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You don't order them at restaurants. I mean at black
Eyed Peace. My grandma liked them.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's very Southern thing, which I guess is not really
a Mexican thing. No, so she would make black eyed peas.
They feel pretty bitter. Okay, they're they're they're like if
I were to make an analogy, you know, brussels sprouts. Yeah,
by themselves, kind of bitter, like if you do nothing
to brussel sprouts, kind of bitter, kind of weird, but
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if you have a bacon on them and honey, and
russel sprouts became kind of trendy for a while because
of all the things you could do with them.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
They're a little soy sauce.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Black eyed peas are kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But black eyed peas, remember the little gum family, has
a pale cream color and distinctive black spot resembling an eye.
They are thought to have originated in North Africa, where
they've been eating for centuries. They were introduced by North
America by Spanish explorers. They are now grown throughout the world,
especially in American Southern.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Cooking collared greens, black eyed peas like that kind of
stuff cornbread.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
My grandma was a big black eyed pea person.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Really, so they just look like beans, yeah, with a
little black eye like that is that it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Okay, do you eat them like beans?
Speaker 9 (11:58):
You just kind of yeah, it's they're wet a bowl
and a spoon.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It's almost like black eyed peas. You can have them
with the Again, I'm gonna be way wrong, but you
can have them like in the broth. It's not quite soup,
but it's wet. Yeah, yeah, or you can just drain
them completely. But we had we had black eyed peas
once every couple weeks, but for New Year and so,
I have this list of the reasons why things are
for good luck and so. Number two is pork. From
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the Midwest to Germany to eastern Europe. Many people believe
pork symbolizes progress because pigs root forward as they eat.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, they stick their noses in the ground and eat.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This protein is often paired with the cabbage or sour krawd.
But it's.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The reason it is considered luck is because pigs push forward,
and they think if you eat a pig who pushes forward,
you will also push forward in the year. Yes, it's lucky.
Number three grapes eat twelve grapes at midnight on New
Year's Eve for luck. Also, prosperity could be in your future.
This is according to the Spanish, originating in Spain only
(13:01):
eighteen hundred's. This tradition is known as come ons do
it las dece uvas de last birthday?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
How would you say that?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Say it again? Las doce was it?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Las deuce uvas de la?
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Okay? That's like the good luck midnight grapes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How would you say that with the accent? Proper?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
I don't even remember what you say.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
It's like la, It's like ladoce lados is the midnight
the twelve I blowed up Sing's it so?
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Ladoce uvas? Oh? The twelve grapes of good luck? That's
what it is.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Say it las las d'orcevas last birthday?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh yeah, the twelve grapes of good luck. Each of
the dozen grapes represents a month of the year.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Oh, twelve grapes twelve. That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I remember Morgan number two eating grapes under her table
at New Year's and I didn't know where that but
now I see.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Where it's from. Interesting, is she's Spanish?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I think the opposite, actually, because it's a Spanish tradition. Interesting,
I think the so the opposite number four greens, as
in collared greens, any leafy vegetables, and what.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Do those tastes like? The like?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Not great?
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Like green beans?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
No? I like green is better than calli greens.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Collar greens are good if they're cooked in something like
my grandma made a bunch of color greens, but it
was always cooked in like a grease or something that
made it actually taste better because just the collar green itself,
the texture is kind of rough. The category of leafy
vegetables think collar greens. Kale resembles paper money. This is
why greens are lucky, since it looks like money. Eating
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them is thought to encourage prosperity, a tradition with roots
in the African I don't know this word diaspora and
lad exactly and the Civil War. They often serve up
with black eyed peas, which may represent coins. As if
that's not enough, eating a plate full of greens will
start your year on a healthy note. Interesting, Okay, that's
for number five. Pomegranates.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Pomegrants are good.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I do like pomegranates, Like have you.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Eaten the fruit? I only drank the juice.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Sometimes I'll get pomegranates in a plastic case can just
eat them with the seeds and everything.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, they are the seeds.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Yeah, I see them at the store, and I've seen
them like cut in half, but I've never.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, I'm not talking about the big ones, and I'm
talking about there are the pomegranate seeds.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I think that you can eat.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Oh okay, okay, yeah, those are the seeds. Yeah. So
and they're like jelly, they get like soft.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So I will eat those. I've never eaten a full pomegranate,
and I don't think. In Greece, it's tradition to smash
a pomegranate by the front door on New Year's Day.
The more seeds that spread out, the more fortune you
can expect. In Judaism, pomegranates are said to contain six
hundred and thirteen seeds, which is the number of commandments
in the Torah at Rashizana, the Jewish New Year. Each
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pomegranate seed represents a wish for the coming year. In Brazil,
people eat pomegranate seeds and groups of seven, a lucky number,
meant for financial prosperity. So it seems like pomegranates have
slowly distributed themselves in different ways throughout the world.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
To mean different things.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Good for them, they've really expanded their their footprints on
the look.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
You should try that though, you should go around smashing
pomegranate on the people that don't have wife.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Would be so pissed.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
There's pomegrants all over the front door.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Uh so that and Ben has not messaged me back yet,
But that's what That's what I was thinking about.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
He did listen to the message, though, maybe he's conversing
with his wife like, hey, why.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Didn't they make the list?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Did you make any did they do something? Does he
know anybody else that got him? So we need to
say we didn't make him. So does I come back
to bite us on the butt?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Cast up little food for yourself life?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Oh it's pretty bad, it's pretty beautiful, mauls a little more.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Cut.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You're kicking with full.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
With Amy Brown.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Today's episode is all about exploring shedding what no longer
serves us. I've got an email from a listener that
is so inspiring. She shed so much of herself she
doesn't even recognize herself. And I'm not talking about looks
wise and talking about inside internally for me, I'm going
to talk about botox and facial fitness. Also, I've personally
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made a decision to quit taking certain medications that are
not needed for me. They're not life saving in any way,
shape or form. Always consult a doctor if you're considering this.
I certainly have. And then we're going to wrap things
up with a quote that will help you kick off
twenty twenty five if you're looking to be more in
alignment and you're looking for growth. So let's get started.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
First, right.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
So I got one of the best emails ever of
my entire radio career. The email fits the of shedding
things because you're about to hear that. Well, when I
read it that this listener has been in the process
of shedding her old self, her old ways, and she's
been so successful at it that she barely recognizes how
(18:15):
she used to be. Now before I read it, it's
probably helpful for me to set up that over Christmas break,
I had a few episodes that were what we call
best of or reruns because well vacation. So keep that
in mind when you hear the email. Okay, this is
from a listener named Kristen, and here's what she sent in. Hey,
(18:38):
I was nonchalantly making dinner on a Thursday evening and
catching up on the four Things podcast and played the
newest one. All of a sudden, I hear a story
about a runner with an eating disorder. It took a
few seconds to realize it was my story. Fast forward
two years, and I hardly recognize that person. I was
(18:59):
journal this morning about how far I've come with my
eating disorder and anxiety in the past two years. It's
the holiday season, and I didn't spend the whole time
analyzing caloric content or having near panic attacks thinking about
being out of my normal routine. I'm buying new clothes
without worrying about the size. I'm still a runner and
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care about my health, but I have freedom in those feelings.
I still have thoughts about my body, but don't think
about restricting and remind myself how happy I am now.
It was meant to be that this episode was replayed
so that I can really see how far I've come
in the last two years. I've gone on countless trips
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to see friends and family, including four international trips, one
being completely solo for two weeks. I am learning to
find the joy in the now. I'm single. I'm a
thirty four year old woman who is over dating apps,
and I am open to what the next minute, day
or year brings me. After hearing that episode again, I
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felt like I had to reach out and just say
thanks one more time. Happy holidays to you and your family,
your friend Kristin. So there you go. That's Kristen's email,
and Kristin, if you're listening right now, thank you so
much for sending this update, you sharing your story and
then me revisiting it here now being able to read
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this email, I know is going to encourage and inspire
and impact another listener somewhere. And congratulations on living in
the now, finding the joy in the now, and being
curious and excited about what's next in the next minute,
the next day, or the next year. I love that
you wrote that part and that you got to listen
(20:47):
to the rerun. And I really need to travel. Saying
that you've gone on four international trips in two years
and one being completely solo for two weeks. Oh, I'm jealous.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
It's awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Thanks Kristin. All Right, I touched on this on Tuesday
with kat during the fifth thing. But I'm cutting back
on botox this year and I'm giving facial fitness a try.
If you're not familiar with facial fitness, maybe you've seen
it labeled as face yoga or maybe even face pilates
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or face gymnastics, But it's all about strengthening the muscles
in your face, similar to how we exercise other parts
of our body. Now, some of it is about working
the muscles, and then there's other areas that you really
want to just relax. So some of the exercises feel
like a workout and you're like, oh wow, I can
really feel that, and other stuff just feels so good,
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like you're giving yourself this little massage every day. And
I've just been doing different videos on YouTube. I'll link
a few of them in the show notes if y'all
want to give them a try. It's been an adjustment
for sure working this into my routine, and it's a process.
You do have to do it every day, so I'll
share updates as I go. But I'm looking forward to
exploring this path and seeing where it takes me. Some
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of my friends have asked, like, why in the world
are you doing this, especially my kids when they see
me in the mirror doing it. But I'm enjoying it
so far, and I'm curious I think that's that's the
best thing. I don't really talk to my kids about
the botox part, but my friends that have been asking,
I'm like, yeah, you know, I do love me some botox,
and honestly, I will likely still get more in the future.
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I just want to sort of get it out and
then assess things and do a reset of sorts like
seee the true baseline again and then maybe add to
it with more intention with the theme being less is
more and I want to reset because I've had several conversations,
even with people that that administer botox, about the amount
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going in our faces and it eventually having the reverse
effect on us as we get get older. So I
just want to be thoughtful about the amount being injected.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
We're gonna do it live.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
We oh the one, two, three sore losers?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know the most
about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts, my
sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with Bayser,
my wife. We do have a farm. It's beautiful, a
lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops hopefully
soon corn pumpkins, rye. I believe maybe a little fescue.
Oh to be determined.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Over to you, coach, And here's a clip from this
week's episode of The Sore Losers. Right. You know what
we never talked about, yeah, is when we went to
the Brett Eldredge Show over the Christmas break.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, it doesn't work because Christmas is over.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know, but there were there was a
couple of funny moments. I mean, we went first, we
went to didn had a little Mexican food, had some
Margarita's and that was fun and all. It was great.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You're great.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Well, it was great that your wife got a reservation
because I was thinking, we'll just walk in and get
a table and there'd be no problem. We walked into
that restaurant. I've never seen anything more crowded in my life.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
That one's gotten a little bit more popping. Yeah, since
I was down there. It's because it's at the epicenter
of everything.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
You're right, it's right downtown and I should have known better.
But I'm glad your wife thought of reservations because at me.
I was like, we don't need a reservation. It's not
that big a deal. But it is great. Then we
go to the show and we meet up with Kevin
and we meet up with Pitts and they're sitting in
a different section. Ray sitting in a different section than us,
and I'm like, let's just go into this one section.
Look at all these seats here, and we sit down
on these empty rows because the whole section is empty.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Hold oh on, is this worthy of a camera?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
No?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
No, no, I don't think it's worthy of a camera. I'm
just it's Ray being a little bit nervous. It was
Ray just going, man, I don't like this. I don't
like sitting here. Why he goes, man, people are gonna come.
The people are gonna come for these seats. And I'm
just like, dude, just they if they come, there are
three rows all around us that are wide open. They
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can just sit in one of them. And he's like, yeah,
this isn't in right, man, I think we should probably
just go to our seats. And me and Bay are
just gonna go to our seats. I'm like, would you
just calm down for a minute, And he's like, every
person that walks down that stair man. They're looking at us, going,
those are our seats. I know it. I know we're
in someone's seats somewhere, sitting there. And some people come
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and they sit a row in front of us, and
there's like four of them, and there's four of us
and they're sitting there and here comes Kevin and Pitt's.
They're hanging out. We're chatting, and this guy, what I
don't understand is he wants to go get a drink,
so he could just go through his three people that
he's with and go to the island, go up and
get a drink. Instead, he climbs over two rows of seats.
(25:56):
He did because he doesn't want to inconvenience his friends
to stand up so he can go out. So he
climbs up two rows to where we are and then
goes out that way. And of course may be in
a smart.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Ass or something you hit him with.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
We got a climber. We got a climber, dude, we
got a climber.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
There's nothing, as a man more emasculating than trying, because
when you're climbing over a row, you're kind of vulnerable,
your nuts are exposed.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You kind of look like a dufist. You look and
somebody's yelling, we gotta climber. I mean, talk about just
making the dude looking like an idiot.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
You gotta worry about your pants, ripping, your foot, getting
caught in the cup holder. You got all sorts of
things that could go wrong, You got drinks, you got
and he just he doesn't. Even the guy doesn't laugh.
He looks pissed off that I'm yelling we got a climber,
We got a climber, and.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
We're falling out. Dude, that was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
If somebody ever tries to climb over your rope, pull
that one, because I'm.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Telling you it's a good laugh. Hopefully they don't kick
your ass.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
And most times, your friend, they're gonna laugh and they're
gonna feel really stupid and awkward. And that's what we did.
And I don't understand why he climbed up two rows
to go out when he could have just had his
friends stand up. I understand if it's like strangers and
you don't want to inconvenience the strangers because there's a
hundred of them and you're going through the whole row.
It was your set of friends. But anyway, Ray was right.
Someone came and sat in our seats. They're like, hey,
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you're in our seats, and we had.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
To move and then yeah, I'll hang up and listen
on that one, because eventually I knew it was gonna come.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
I think it was.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
I was a little gun shy because there was a
person that came up and I immediately stood up.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Oh he puckered and he stood up and there like.
But then it was like they're like, oh, we're way
down there on the floor. Yeah, it was like, okay,
sat back down.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
The lady at the seat helper totally misdirected herd, so
that was on them. But yes, I knew it was
eventually gonna come, and it did, and I was like,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Yep, some work is done. So we moved to another section.
We sit on a row. We're sitting there and Glow
is a Christmas show. Guys. Brett Eldritch comes out. He's
mister Christmas. He sings these Christmas songs. Don't know the
names of them, but he sang them, and he's saying
them fine, He's sang them.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Great.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
It was cool. The band was great.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
You literally just said two of the titles in that statement.
One of his songs is mister Christmas and the other
one is called Glow.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Oh okay, I just thought that was the name of
the tour.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
Hey, the tour Glow. And he's like, mister Christmas. You know,
I don't know any of the titles any of the songs.
You just said two of them. Didn't realize that anyway.
Then there's three girls that are sitting three women. I
shouldn't say girls. These are women that are sitting two
seats over from us.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
This was great. I'm glad somebody heard this.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
And guys, it is Christmas time in Nashville. We are
talking like five days before Christmas. Like the sleigh is
getting gassed up. Yes, the Sanna is getting his suit
ironed and pressed. He is ready to go. He's getting
his beard fixed up, his hair trimmed, making sure the
suit fits right.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Miss Claws is on her knees, ye, rapping presents.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Sewing the costume back together. Anyway, Glow we all, Oh, no,
it's a Christmas show. Brett Eldridge. Lets you know he
is going to do a Christmas show every Christmas. And
he sings the first song, Oh Holly, Jolly, Christmas. I
don't know if that's why he'say anthing. He said, Next song,
Santa Claus is coming to Town. Third song, jingle Bells,
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Jingle bells, Jingle all the way, finishes a song, and
the three women go, we came for fucking country music.
What is this shit? And got up and left.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
Dressed in cowgirl boots, skirts, white teas and hats.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Ladies read the room, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
We came for fucking country music.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
What is this sh But he doesn't play any of
his songs other than his Christmas ones at that show.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
And I just laughed because I'm like, hey, you're a
Brett Eldridge fan, so you should know be you already
paid for the tickets, so you're gonna leave. You're not
just gonna sit here and enjoy him singing Christmas songs hilarious.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
And you know the issue they wanted to shake it ain't.
None of those are gonna most of this time. We're sitting.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Oh we're sitting because it's a sit down show. It's
not really a shake it show.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Yeah, you're in awe exactly went and found it somewhere,
probably at Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
I mean, oh, that's where We're gonna be on chiefs
Is next Friday night. We're gonna be there for the
open bar, Happy Hour, Sorelosers dot Com Ray hell of
a Plug, No, hell of a plug. And then we're
gonna be at Category ten. I mean, thank you to
the Grand Hyatt. We're gonna be at the Preds game.
I mean, it's gonna be an amazing weekend. I don't
know if people there's no way people are still buying
tickets right well, and I.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Was gonna say, I hope nobody leaves saying.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I haven't learned anything about coaching.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
I'm really excited to be joined by Jesse Hutch today.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Jesse, how are you doing?
Speaker 7 (31:16):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 12 (31:17):
People have been asking me have you slept, and I'm like,
don't ask me that. Then I'll think about it, and
then I'll have an opinion, and then that'll probably cause
me to go downhill. So we just don't talk about Bruno's.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
That's a fair point, especially when you're in like the
heat of everything happening. Most people know you for being
an actor.
Speaker 13 (31:36):
That's your You've When I went to.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
Your IMDb page, you had over ninety five listings.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Is that crazy to you?
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Yeah, I just passed like one hundred and something. Oh
you did even hired. I was like, okay, yeah, it's
not like you get a badge or anything for that,
but you know, personally, I was like, wow, Okay, I
guess I've been doing this a little while.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
You do have a really interesting part of your story though,
before this acting, and we'll get into some more acting stuff,
but you've had some near death experiences. Can you talk
about those a little bit because those are wild?
Speaker 12 (32:12):
Yeah, I mean they weren't planned first. Yeah. I mean
some of the injuries that I've had probably are ye.
I put myself there. You know, I rode the bike
on top of the train bridge. It was me trying
to pull something off. It was me free climbing that cliff.
Or I used to love climbing church steeples. It's kind
of like a thing.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
You've always really had, this like kind of adrenaline side. Yeah,
it sounds absolutely beyond the stunt.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Yeah, so I've I've never drank alcohol, never done drugs.
Swearing is not my thing, but for some reason, when
I was younger, I just started out that. I was like, oh,
that sounds fun.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Climb that thing.
Speaker 12 (32:48):
I can jump off there I can, I'll try white
water rafting or white water kayaking, and so excuse me. Yes,
I was a white water raft guide. I was like
years in. I was in my first year of college,
and it's just happened to be in the right place
at the right time and ended up drowning so full
on right to the end, blacked out, and they found
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me a couple of miles down the river. They estimated
I was underwater from eleven to twenty two minutes. Wow,
and so rightfully, so I should be either dead and
or if alive, I should be I have complete brain
damage or a loss of function, you know, physicality, memory,
you name it. And so the fact that I recovered
(33:32):
from that is an absolute miracle. And I couldn't call
it anything else. I can't be like, oh, the water
was really cold and it froze me, like it was
nothing like that, because how else do you explain that,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (33:47):
Do you recall the rescue at all?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Like when people came to.
Speaker 12 (33:50):
Mind you, Yeah, I had moments moments of it, but
really small little memories that I have that I'm like
part of me is even like, was that even an
accurate memory?
Speaker 7 (34:02):
You know what I mean, Are.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
You like making it up because that's what you feel
like happened.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
I know, I just I remember being very cognitive obviously
going into it right by the time I went underwater,
you know, I was guiding. It was a twelve foot
Moravio raft. We hit the first wave. I had twelve
people in my boat. We had another guy in the front.
We hit it and went straight up, and we're just
about to crest over, as you should, and then everybody
was having a great time, and just we didn't have
(34:26):
the power, and so we started to come back down
and we started surfing, and so I'm keeping the paddle
there and I'm keeping it straight and one of the
guys that are too, of the guys that fell off
from the front. As they fell, one of the guys
managed to grab me.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Not his fault.
Speaker 12 (34:40):
I mean, I'd be grabbing on his stuff too if
I was falling. It's just like, oh yeah, you know.
He grabbed my life jacket kind of wrapped me around
the back. And then I ended up sort of almost
like water boarded. It was like I kept going into
the water, out of the water, in the water, out
of the water, and eventually I just was like, man,
I'm getting whooped here, Like I can't shake this guy,
(35:00):
so I'm gonna have to just bail. So I bailed,
and I just happened to be right in that sweet
spot where the veterans that I worked with called the
green room. So there's a current on the top of
the river, and then there's another current that's maybe twelve
to fifteen feet or so below the surface, and this
rapid was called the colosseum, so it kind of fitting
(35:20):
right that you think of these battles. And I ended
up going under right there and went down really fast.
Both my ear drums kind of could feel the pressure.
I knew there was a shift. I was like, oh,
that was different, okay. Immediately tried to swim, couldn't do it,
and just felt like the water pressure was like pushing
(35:41):
everything together, and I was like, man, it's really hard
to swim. And I had to eventually abandon my paddle,
which you never do as a as a guy that
you get, you know, reamed out and everybody makes fun
of you. But I was I knew this was a
different situation and I wasn't able to get out of
this yet, and so I let go of the paddle,
so I could really swim as hard as I could,
still couldn't break the current. So my training told me,
(36:05):
all right, chill out, you got to go with the flow.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
I'm not going to beat the river.
Speaker 12 (36:10):
And so I just hung out and hung onto it,
you know what i mean. And as I'm floating along,
it's kind of you you go through the the process
of like, so I'm underwater, you know, I like to
be done with this soon so I can get some oxygen.
And I just I tried again. I tried to swim,
you know, I use more energy, burn more of my strength,
(36:32):
and then just couldn't get out and was like, okay,
I have to just literally go completely numb to this.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I just let everything go.
Speaker 12 (36:41):
It just went completely limp and trying to save my energy,
right so, because I mean, oxygen's still in my blood,
so I'm like, okay, the less I can use my muscles.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
I can't believe how much you're aware as all of
this is happening.
Speaker 12 (36:52):
Yeah, I mean, it was three years into being a guide.
I'd done it for quite a while. I was also
in college training for this very thing, you know, being
out door guide swift water rescue technician training I had
I was, I had search and rescue training, I had
wilderness first aid training, which is pretty intense.
Speaker 10 (37:11):
So you had all the tools for a potential survival
out of this.
Speaker 12 (37:15):
Yeah, and I've always been I knew going through that
course that I was a person that I stayed pretty
calm when pressure hits. I actually operate better the more
stress there is.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
In my life.
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Sometimes there's certain family things where I'm still like navigating.
I'm like, oh my goodness, I just fell apart. I
couldn't handle that, Like why not? Should be easier than that.
But for whatever reason, when I'm on the river or
I was, you know, I'm on set for twelve fourteen
hours a day and this pressure hits, I just really
feel comfortable.
Speaker 13 (37:46):
Hello, and welcome back. O't no, I'm wrong podcast. I'm sorry.
That's what you get if you listen to my podcast.
But hello Sunday, Samplers. My name is Mike d. I
have a podcast called Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, And on
last week's episode, I did my top ten movies of
the year, Like, out of everything I watched, I think
over one hundred almost one hundred and fifty movies. These
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are my top ten. I'm only gonna share with you
number three and number two. So if you want to
hear this full list, you want to know what is
my number one movie of the year after watching all
those movies, you gotta go listen to the full episode.
But right now, here's just a little bit a movie.
Mike's Movie Podcast. See I do so many podcasts, I
forget what I'm doing. But Sunday Sampler. Thank you have
a great weekend, or hope you're having a great weekend.
Speaker 8 (38:25):
All right?
Speaker 13 (38:26):
At number three, speaking of a movie, people talked about
a lot and made a lot of memes of I
have Wicked, which I gave a four point five out
of five. It's still not available to stream yet, but
you can't rent it at home. It is a movie
I feel that people are not only gonna rent, but
maybe even purchase. I think Wicked is a movie that
has that type of appeal where you're gonna want to
rewatch this movie a lot because of the music, because
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of the songs, because of those performances.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
But not only that.
Speaker 13 (38:52):
We have the sequel coming out this year, which they
did officially change the title to Wicked for Good. It's
coming out on November twenty first, so pretty much a
year after this one came out. It's gonna give a
lot of people a reason that maybe didn't watch this
movie in theaters to watch it at home, or maybe
some people will wait till they have like the two
showing events where you watch one leading up to number
two in theaters. But I think why I love this
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movie so much is because I have such an affinity
for the Wizard of Oz and all the mystery and
just kind of lore that surrounds that movie, with all
the dark and gritty past of just the filmmaking process,
but also its impact on film. It being a movie
I would say only one of few movies that are
almost one hundred years old that people still watch and
(39:37):
still hold up and still influence film to this day,
to this day. And I rewatched that movie after watching Wicked,
and I'm fully in that world right now and seeing
how they're going to connect the first one to the
second one, and how even though it's not a full
on prequel, hell now, because of its success, it's going
to be so interwoven. So I'm very curious to see
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how the second one plays out. So at this point,
I still avoided spoilers, and I think it was also
that I didn't know anything about Wicked going into it.
I didn't even know how to say Alphaba's name up
until I did that trailer in the Trailer Park and
I was like, how do you say this name? So
I think not knowing a whole lot about the story
allowed me to enjoy the movie that much more. But
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from just the filmmaking standpoint, I love that this movie
brought back real sets and sequences that take place in
real time. A lot of live singing was done for
this movie. It just really felt like the set was alive,
which you don't really have a whole lot anymore. For
the most part, it's just a bunch of green screen
and blue screen and people were just acting to nothing.
(40:42):
You can truly feel that in this movie, and I
think is what made it so enjoyable to me. That
it still kept that Broadway theater vibe very live and fluid,
which I think is important for all the songs in
this movie. And just having those big elaborate sets that
remind me of the filmmaking process for that first Wigards
(41:03):
of Oz, where they had no ability to rely on
special effects.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
They had to do all those themselves, so hopefully.
Speaker 13 (41:09):
Since they did film both of these movies at the
same time, we get to see more of that in
the sequel. I'm hyped for it. Very rarely am I
this hype for a sequel that I think has the
potential to be better than it's original, because man, there
has to be so much more action in Wicked for good.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
But at number three, I have Wicked.
Speaker 13 (41:27):
At number two, I have a movie I gave a
four point five at a five. You can't stream it
anyway right now, you have to rent it. But it
is a real pain, starring Kieran Colchin and Jesse Eisenberg,
who also directed the movie. They play these two mismatched
cousins as they call them, who traveled tough Poland to
go on this tour after their grandma dies, and this
(41:50):
is them reconnecting and you find out all about why
they haven't remained as close. Kieran Colkin's characters very just
go by the seat of his pants, very chill, laid back.
He is a people person who can form a connection
with a random stranger on the street, and Jesse Eisenberg's
character is very reserved, neurotic, overthinks a lot but he
(42:11):
has a wife and kid at home, so he has
a life to get back to, and it's how those
two personalities clash and you have kind of an odd
couple here. The movie only costs three million dollars to
make ended pretty well at the box office, probably through
word of mouth, and like I was saying earlier, I
think this is the only movie that makes the entire
top ten list of mine that has the potential to
(42:33):
win Best Picture. I do hope Karen Colchin is nominated
and wins Best Supporting Actor because he is fantastic in
this film. I also think Jesse Eisenberg should get a
nomination for Best Director. But this movie kind of just
hit me in the gut in a way that I
wasn't expecting. And these are both characters that normally I
wouldn't have anything that I could relate to them to.
(42:55):
But it's through the storytelling and the power of all
the things that get revealed that I'm like, Oh, I
am like one of these people. And this was a
movie that after I watched it, I really just reflected
on my feelings and on it hitting a nerve that
I've never even talked about and much less seen represented
in a movie that I associated myself so much with
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Jesse Eisenberg's character that I thought, man, how did he
make a movie like this and really just hit me
in the gut. And I think it was also the
fact that they had such great on screen chemistry, the
fact that the movie dealt with a lot of different
emotional layers, one of losing their grandma, one of their
falling out, and maybe I related a little bit to
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not being so close with some family members that I
was closer to when I was a little bit more
younger and care free. I think we've all kind of
experienced something like that, when you're a little bit more
wild and just don't care about things in your twenties.
Then you get in your thirties and you have more responsibility,
you get more involved in your career, and maybe some
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people aren't at that exact same point in their life
at that same age, and there's some friction that happens
between those types of people when you hang out. Even
though for me personally, it is the front runner that
I want to win Best Picture, the one I will
probably get behind the most, maybe maybe for my Number one,
but depending on how that shakes out, there's nothing I
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feel is super novel about it that I think it's
a hands down, full on winner, deserves a five out
of five. So not to take away from the story,
to take away from anything I've said here, it just
doesn't feel like anything I haven't seen done before. But
what it does do, it does really well. So if
you haven't seen it yet and you want to experience
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that or just see, like, why do this movie make
Mike so emotional? I do advise you to check it
out because I do think it's worth it. I put
a real pain at number two.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
And that was this week's Sunday Sampler. New episodes out
weekly to go check them out to the Bobby Cast.
Four Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers movie, Mike, Caroline
Hobby in the Vets Office, Take this Personally with Morgan Heulesman.
All that up there something to listen to check it
out if you're bored, have a great week. Don't forget
to subscribe. Please and you don't have a lead to comment,
but it'd be cool if he did. All right, Thanks,
Sunday Sampler, Thank you guys for being here. A bunch
of clips from a bunch of the podcasts. On the
Bobby Cast, Eddie Mike Dia myself talked about a bunch
of different topics like real songs from fake bands, like
TV bands like the Zach Attack. That's fake band, but
they didn't have a song that was kind of pretty good. Also,
Doctor Josie on her show In the Vets Office, she
(00:29):
talked with doctor Shake Chatterjee, a veterinarian but also a
villain on a reality TV show, which.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Is Love is Blind.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So it's gotta be weird, like you're a real vet
but also you're a villain on a reality show. They
talk about that, exotic animals, and a bunch more So
let's get started with a clip from in the Vets
Office with Doctor Josie.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You're listening to In the Vets Office with Doctor Joe
see horse Chack.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So one of the big questions I had for you
is what was it like coming off Love is Blind
or the Villains and going back into practice. I don't
think it's like any secret that you weren't at the
top of everyone's nice list coming off these shows or clients.
Did they recognize you? Did anyone say anything?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
How was that?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yeah? So it's interesting. You know, I just opened up
about this really recently, something I didn't really feel like
talking about when I was going through it. But as
soon as the show came out and I kind of
became this villain. And let me also say, you know,
(01:44):
these shows that edit you to make you look a
certain way. Everybody kind of has this idea in the
back of their mind that that happens, but it's not
till you go for it that you realize, like just
how much they can twist things and take things out
of context and so on and so forth. So so
not only was I the villain, but I wasn't able
(02:10):
to talk about what happened because we'd signed all these
contracts say hey, whatever comes out on the show, like
you have to go along with it, and if you
speak out against it, they're like, we're going to sue
you and blah blah blah. So I not only could
I speak out against it, but also I didn't even
(02:31):
feel like, you know, people wanted me to apologize, and
I'm like, I'm not going to apologize. I didn't do anything.
You know what I mean, like the show made me
look a certain way. I'm not going to apologize for
something I didn't do, or you know, to the extent
that I was portrayed, and that made people even more
bad because I'm like unapologetic about it. So what happened
(02:53):
is the clinic that I worked at in Chicago got
review bombed by strangers on the internet really and I
got I got to let go. So this happened within
you know, two months of the show coming out, so
I didn't get to even experience much of clients recognizing
me or anything. I was. It was a corporate practice
(03:16):
and one of the big corporations. I don't want to
say who it was, but it was one of the
big corporations. And you know, first they put me on
like a leave, like a paid lead, and I was like,
all right, sweet, I'm just gonna go to Miami. Then
I guess, you know, just like hang out during this
(03:36):
paid lead. But you know, obviously I didn't. I didn't
have a good feeling about it. I'm like, oh, am
I being put on this paid lead. And I remember
I was at the pool one day and I get
a call from I guess one of the HR people
or you know, somebody higher up in the corporate and
they like basically told me, like hey, you know where
(03:57):
what they call it an involuntary separation, Like okay, that's
a fancy way of saying I'm fired because of of
these the reality, and I can't blame them. I can't
be mad at the corporation even because who would want that?
You know, that's not good for business.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, that brings up a really interesting point that I
think about a lot and met especially is how dependent
these clinics are on reviews, customer reviews on Google and Yelp.
I feel like I know that when I owned a practice,
I checked them every single day, and bad reviews are
(04:40):
really detrimental for business. I don't know that other healthcare
providers have that same you know that they worry about
them as much as we do.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's the same extent. I mean, I think reviews are
important for most industries, but some industries, like you said,
rely on them and focus on them a lot one.
But you know, it worked out really great for me
in the long run because I had gotten this really
big signing bonus, just like maybe even like six months
(05:13):
before the show came out, like big, big, signing bonus,
like I didn't even This was like you know, around
COVID time when ve's were like really in demand, so
like close close to a year's salary type of signing bonus.
And I was like, okay, well what happens with the
signing bonus? Then? Like I didn't leave, so you're telling
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me to leave, and they're like, oh, you're gonna have
to You're gonna have to get it back, and I
was just like I can't, like I spent and then
ultimately I had a lawyer review everything and send them
a letter, and my lawyer said, just just don't pay
him back and if they'll want to do something, they'll
do something. And you know, they didn't do anything. So
(05:57):
I took that sign on bonus and I I was
loving Miami so much that I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna move down here, you know. So I
had I had a little period there where you thankfully
I didn't have to work to this, to this nice
bonus that I had, So I had a lot of
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fun and then and frankly, I just started missing being
in practice because that's you know, that was my whole life. Really. Yeah,
I was DJ two and had my fun things. But
you know, we go to a lot of school. I mean,
being a vet is more than just a profession for
most of us, right It's something that you know, is
(06:41):
like a part of it, right, Yeah, exactly. So I
was like, you know what, let me get my Florida license.
And the demand for vets down here is just as
high as everywhere else in the country, right So. And
I had never worked in this urgent care environment before,
so I didn't realize how much I was going to
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like that. The pay is better too as an early
care vet, because not everybody wants to work those long hours,
you know, but if they find somebody that will do.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You have clients down there, does that recognize you from TV?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Oh that's the other thing. While people in Chicago were
like shunning me, Miami just welcomed me with open arms.
They just love me down here. And I even felt that,
you know, before I started working down there, I just
felt it socially because you know, my season of Love
Is Blind was filmed in Chicago. I was the villain.
(07:40):
A lot of people switched stuff on me, you know
what I mean, And people that knew me switched uff
on me, and I was like, all right, this is
this is cool, you know, and then I come down
to Miami and all of a sudden they're like, oh
my god, we love you, like come to the yacht party,
come to this house party. And I was like, this
(08:01):
is where I've lost, you know, Miami's you know, my
kind of place.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So it's really it seems like you're handling it pretty well.
Like being labeled a villain, I would say that veterinarians,
I just inherently we are kind of people pleasers for
the most part. Do you feel like at any point
you're like, wow, this sucks, Like I wish I'd never
gone on this show. Are you just like this is it?
This is what it is?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Actually, I never never for a second thought that because
the hate and most of that was all online. In
person is a whole of my story. You know, you're
like the man of the hour, and especially here in Miami. Yeah,
(08:48):
even though some of this was editing in portrayal, even
that that negatively portrayed version of me, they love that
here in Miami. They loved it. You know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Come on, I have the list of things that you
do when the year starts for good luck, like things
you eat okay. And I bring this up because one
of my good friends is been Rector, super talented artists,
(09:19):
good friend, great guy. Every year his wife sends over
a thing of black eyed peas and she drives them
around to like their friends. Really it has for like
their or four years, and we get the black eyed peas,
we eat them day one. We didn't make the black
eyed pea list this year, and I don't know.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
You think you did something to not make that list.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I don't know. I don't know if they didn't do it.
I can text them and ask them.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Hey, man, I didn't get my black eyed piece this year.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I will text him and then we'll talk and if
he sends a message back, all boys and I'm away. Hello,
it's Bobby and Eddie. It's up Ben and we're recording
a podcast and we're talking about the new Year and
how traditionally you eat black eyed peas. And I told
them about how your wife would bring us black eyed
peas year of the past few years and we'd eat them.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We had a great year because of that, and this
year we did not get the black eyed peas, and
we didn't know if we didn't make the cut, like
we weren't on the list anymore like we felt in
the rankings.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Or if it was just a bad year for black
eyed peas.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Maybe she didn't make any right.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We're just curious because we're talking about you, and we're
talking about how wonderfully talented you are in your music.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
It's so great.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But then I was like, I didn't get my black
eyed peas. Now I'm not asking for the black eyed peas,
but what I'm wondering is did we not make the
cut or did she not make the peas? Both are
acceptable seasons change, So let me know. We'll recording for
the next little bit. If you do hear this, have
a great day, man, unless we didn't make the list
and have a moderately good day.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
What are black eyed peas like? Like? What do they
taste like?
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Like?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
What are they?
Speaker 9 (10:46):
I don't know if I've ever had black eyed peas?
No way, nah, really, I don't think that I've ever
eaten black eyed peas. I'm definitely never ordered them at
a restaurant, so I know that for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You don't order them at restaurants. I mean at black
Eyed Peace. My grandma liked them.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's very Southern thing, which I guess is not really
a Mexican thing. No, so she would make black eyed peas.
They feel pretty bitter. Okay, they're they're they're like if
I were to make an analogy, you know, brussels sprouts. Yeah,
by themselves, kind of bitter, like if you do nothing
to brussel sprouts, kind of bitter, kind of weird, but
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if you have a bacon on them and honey, and
russel sprouts became kind of trendy for a while because
of all the things you could do with them.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
They're a little soy sauce.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Black eyed peas are kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But black eyed peas, remember the little gum family, has
a pale cream color and distinctive black spot resembling an eye.
They are thought to have originated in North Africa, where
they've been eating for centuries. They were introduced by North
America by Spanish explorers. They are now grown throughout the world,
especially in American Southern.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Cooking collared greens, black eyed peas like that kind of
stuff cornbread.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
My grandma was a big black eyed pea person.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Really, so they just look like beans, yeah, with a
little black eye like that is that it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Okay, do you eat them like beans?
Speaker 9 (11:58):
You just kind of yeah, it's they're wet a bowl
and a spoon.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It's almost like black eyed peas. You can have them
with the Again, I'm gonna be way wrong, but you
can have them like in the broth. It's not quite soup,
but it's wet. Yeah, yeah, or you can just drain
them completely. But we had we had black eyed peas
once every couple weeks, but for New Year and so,
I have this list of the reasons why things are
for good luck and so. Number two is pork. From
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the Midwest to Germany to eastern Europe. Many people believe
pork symbolizes progress because pigs root forward as they eat.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, they stick their noses in the ground and eat.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This protein is often paired with the cabbage or sour krawd.
But it's.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The reason it is considered luck is because pigs push forward,
and they think if you eat a pig who pushes forward,
you will also push forward in the year. Yes, it's lucky.
Number three grapes eat twelve grapes at midnight on New
Year's Eve for luck. Also, prosperity could be in your future.
This is according to the Spanish, originating in Spain only
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eighteen hundred's. This tradition is known as come ons do
it las dece uvas de last birthday?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
How would you say that?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Say it again? Las doce was it?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Las deuce uvas de la?
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Okay? That's like the good luck midnight grapes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How would you say that with the accent? Proper?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
I don't even remember what you say.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
It's like la, It's like ladoce lados is the midnight
the twelve I blowed up Sing's it so?
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Ladoce uvas? Oh? The twelve grapes of good luck? That's
what it is.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Say it las las d'orcevas last birthday?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh yeah, the twelve grapes of good luck. Each of
the dozen grapes represents a month of the year.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Oh, twelve grapes twelve. That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I remember Morgan number two eating grapes under her table
at New Year's and I didn't know where that but
now I see.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Where it's from. Interesting, is she's Spanish?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I think the opposite, actually, because it's a Spanish tradition. Interesting,
I think the so the opposite number four greens, as
in collared greens, any leafy vegetables, and what.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Do those tastes like? The like?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Not great?
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Like green beans?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
No? I like green is better than calli greens.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Collar greens are good if they're cooked in something like
my grandma made a bunch of color greens, but it
was always cooked in like a grease or something that
made it actually taste better because just the collar green itself,
the texture is kind of rough. The category of leafy
vegetables think collar greens. Kale resembles paper money. This is
why greens are lucky, since it looks like money. Eating
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them is thought to encourage prosperity, a tradition with roots
in the African I don't know this word diaspora and
lad exactly and the Civil War. They often serve up
with black eyed peas, which may represent coins. As if
that's not enough, eating a plate full of greens will
start your year on a healthy note. Interesting, Okay, that's
for number five. Pomegranates.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Pomegrants are good.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I do like pomegranates, Like have you.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Eaten the fruit? I only drank the juice.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Sometimes I'll get pomegranates in a plastic case can just
eat them with the seeds and everything.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, they are the seeds.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Yeah, I see them at the store, and I've seen
them like cut in half, but I've never.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, I'm not talking about the big ones, and I'm
talking about there are the pomegranate seeds.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I think that you can eat.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Oh okay, okay, yeah, those are the seeds. Yeah. So
and they're like jelly, they get like soft.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So I will eat those. I've never eaten a full pomegranate,
and I don't think. In Greece, it's tradition to smash
a pomegranate by the front door on New Year's Day.
The more seeds that spread out, the more fortune you
can expect. In Judaism, pomegranates are said to contain six
hundred and thirteen seeds, which is the number of commandments
in the Torah at Rashizana, the Jewish New Year. Each
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pomegranate seed represents a wish for the coming year. In Brazil,
people eat pomegranate seeds and groups of seven, a lucky number,
meant for financial prosperity. So it seems like pomegranates have
slowly distributed themselves in different ways throughout the world.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
To mean different things.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Good for them, they've really expanded their their footprints on
the look.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
You should try that though, you should go around smashing
pomegranate on the people that don't have wife.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Would be so pissed.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
There's pomegrants all over the front door.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Uh so that and Ben has not messaged me back yet,
But that's what That's what I was thinking about.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
He did listen to the message, though, maybe he's conversing
with his wife like, hey, why.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Didn't they make the list?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Did you make any did they do something? Does he
know anybody else that got him? So we need to
say we didn't make him. So does I come back
to bite us on the butt?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Cast up little food for yourself life?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Oh it's pretty bad, it's pretty beautiful, mauls a little more.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Cut.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You're kicking with full.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
With Amy Brown.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Today's episode is all about exploring shedding what no longer
serves us. I've got an email from a listener that
is so inspiring. She shed so much of herself she
doesn't even recognize herself. And I'm not talking about looks
wise and talking about inside internally for me, I'm going
to talk about botox and facial fitness. Also, I've personally
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made a decision to quit taking certain medications that are
not needed for me. They're not life saving in any way,
shape or form. Always consult a doctor if you're considering this.
I certainly have. And then we're going to wrap things
up with a quote that will help you kick off
twenty twenty five if you're looking to be more in
alignment and you're looking for growth. So let's get started.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
First, right.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
So I got one of the best emails ever of
my entire radio career. The email fits the of shedding
things because you're about to hear that. Well, when I
read it that this listener has been in the process
of shedding her old self, her old ways, and she's
been so successful at it that she barely recognizes how
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she used to be. Now before I read it, it's
probably helpful for me to set up that over Christmas break,
I had a few episodes that were what we call
best of or reruns because well vacation. So keep that
in mind when you hear the email. Okay, this is
from a listener named Kristen, and here's what she sent in. Hey,
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I was nonchalantly making dinner on a Thursday evening and
catching up on the four Things podcast and played the
newest one. All of a sudden, I hear a story
about a runner with an eating disorder. It took a
few seconds to realize it was my story. Fast forward
two years, and I hardly recognize that person. I was
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journal this morning about how far I've come with my
eating disorder and anxiety in the past two years. It's
the holiday season, and I didn't spend the whole time
analyzing caloric content or having near panic attacks thinking about
being out of my normal routine. I'm buying new clothes
without worrying about the size. I'm still a runner and
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care about my health, but I have freedom in those feelings.
I still have thoughts about my body, but don't think
about restricting and remind myself how happy I am now.
It was meant to be that this episode was replayed
so that I can really see how far I've come
in the last two years. I've gone on countless trips
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to see friends and family, including four international trips, one
being completely solo for two weeks. I am learning to
find the joy in the now. I'm single. I'm a
thirty four year old woman who is over dating apps,
and I am open to what the next minute, day
or year brings me. After hearing that episode again, I
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felt like I had to reach out and just say
thanks one more time. Happy holidays to you and your family,
your friend Kristin. So there you go. That's Kristen's email,
and Kristin, if you're listening right now, thank you so
much for sending this update, you sharing your story and
then me revisiting it here now being able to read
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this email, I know is going to encourage and inspire
and impact another listener somewhere. And congratulations on living in
the now, finding the joy in the now, and being
curious and excited about what's next in the next minute,
the next day, or the next year. I love that
you wrote that part and that you got to listen
(20:47):
to the rerun. And I really need to travel. Saying
that you've gone on four international trips in two years
and one being completely solo for two weeks. Oh, I'm jealous.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
It's awesome.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Thanks Kristin. All Right, I touched on this on Tuesday
with kat during the fifth thing. But I'm cutting back
on botox this year and I'm giving facial fitness a try.
If you're not familiar with facial fitness, maybe you've seen
it labeled as face yoga or maybe even face pilates
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or face gymnastics, But it's all about strengthening the muscles
in your face, similar to how we exercise other parts
of our body. Now, some of it is about working
the muscles, and then there's other areas that you really
want to just relax. So some of the exercises feel
like a workout and you're like, oh wow, I can
really feel that, and other stuff just feels so good,
(21:43):
like you're giving yourself this little massage every day. And
I've just been doing different videos on YouTube. I'll link
a few of them in the show notes if y'all
want to give them a try. It's been an adjustment
for sure working this into my routine, and it's a process.
You do have to do it every day, so I'll
share updates as I go. But I'm looking forward to
exploring this path and seeing where it takes me. Some
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of my friends have asked, like, why in the world
are you doing this, especially my kids when they see
me in the mirror doing it. But I'm enjoying it
so far, and I'm curious I think that's that's the
best thing. I don't really talk to my kids about
the botox part, but my friends that have been asking,
I'm like, yeah, you know, I do love me some botox,
and honestly, I will likely still get more in the future.
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I just want to sort of get it out and
then assess things and do a reset of sorts like
seee the true baseline again and then maybe add to
it with more intention with the theme being less is
more and I want to reset because I've had several conversations,
even with people that that administer botox, about the amount
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going in our faces and it eventually having the reverse
effect on us as we get get older. So I
just want to be thoughtful about the amount being injected.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
We're gonna do it live.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
We oh the one, two, three sore losers?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know the most
about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts, my
sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 11 (23:23):
It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with Bayser,
my wife. We do have a farm. It's beautiful, a
lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops hopefully
soon corn pumpkins, rye. I believe maybe a little fescue.
Oh to be determined.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Over to you, coach, And here's a clip from this
week's episode of The Sore Losers. Right. You know what
we never talked about, yeah, is when we went to
the Brett Eldredge Show over the Christmas break.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, it doesn't work because Christmas is over.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know, but there were there was a
couple of funny moments. I mean, we went first, we
went to didn had a little Mexican food, had some
Margarita's and that was fun and all. It was great.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You're great.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Well, it was great that your wife got a reservation
because I was thinking, we'll just walk in and get
a table and there'd be no problem. We walked into
that restaurant. I've never seen anything more crowded in my life.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
That one's gotten a little bit more popping. Yeah, since
I was down there. It's because it's at the epicenter
of everything.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
You're right, it's right downtown and I should have known better.
But I'm glad your wife thought of reservations because at me.
I was like, we don't need a reservation. It's not
that big a deal. But it is great. Then we
go to the show and we meet up with Kevin
and we meet up with Pitts and they're sitting in
a different section. Ray sitting in a different section than us,
and I'm like, let's just go into this one section.
Look at all these seats here, and we sit down
on these empty rows because the whole section is empty.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Hold oh on, is this worthy of a camera?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
No?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
No, no, I don't think it's worthy of a camera. I'm
just it's Ray being a little bit nervous. It was
Ray just going, man, I don't like this. I don't
like sitting here. Why he goes, man, people are gonna come.
The people are gonna come for these seats. And I'm
just like, dude, just they if they come, there are
three rows all around us that are wide open. They
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can just sit in one of them. And he's like, yeah,
this isn't in right, man, I think we should probably
just go to our seats. And me and Bay are
just gonna go to our seats. I'm like, would you
just calm down for a minute, And he's like, every
person that walks down that stair man. They're looking at us, going,
those are our seats. I know it. I know we're
in someone's seats somewhere, sitting there. And some people come
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and they sit a row in front of us, and
there's like four of them, and there's four of us
and they're sitting there and here comes Kevin and Pitt's.
They're hanging out. We're chatting, and this guy, what I
don't understand is he wants to go get a drink,
so he could just go through his three people that
he's with and go to the island, go up and
get a drink. Instead, he climbs over two rows of seats.
(25:56):
He did because he doesn't want to inconvenience his friends
to stand up so he can go out. So he
climbs up two rows to where we are and then
goes out that way. And of course may be in
a smart.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Ass or something you hit him with.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
We got a climber. We got a climber, dude, we
got a climber.
Speaker 11 (26:14):
There's nothing, as a man more emasculating than trying, because
when you're climbing over a row, you're kind of vulnerable,
your nuts are exposed.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You kind of look like a dufist. You look and
somebody's yelling, we gotta climber. I mean, talk about just
making the dude looking like an idiot.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
You gotta worry about your pants, ripping, your foot, getting
caught in the cup holder. You got all sorts of
things that could go wrong, You got drinks, you got
and he just he doesn't. Even the guy doesn't laugh.
He looks pissed off that I'm yelling we got a climber,
We got a climber, and.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
We're falling out. Dude, that was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
If somebody ever tries to climb over your rope, pull
that one, because I'm.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Telling you it's a good laugh. Hopefully they don't kick
your ass.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
And most times, your friend, they're gonna laugh and they're
gonna feel really stupid and awkward. And that's what we did.
And I don't understand why he climbed up two rows
to go out when he could have just had his
friends stand up. I understand if it's like strangers and
you don't want to inconvenience the strangers because there's a
hundred of them and you're going through the whole row.
It was your set of friends. But anyway, Ray was right.
Someone came and sat in our seats. They're like, hey,
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you're in our seats, and we had.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
To move and then yeah, I'll hang up and listen
on that one, because eventually I knew it was gonna come.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
I think it was.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
I was a little gun shy because there was a
person that came up and I immediately stood up.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Oh he puckered and he stood up and there like.
But then it was like they're like, oh, we're way
down there on the floor. Yeah, it was like, okay,
sat back down.
Speaker 11 (27:37):
The lady at the seat helper totally misdirected herd, so
that was on them. But yes, I knew it was
eventually gonna come, and it did, and I was like,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Yep, some work is done. So we moved to another section.
We sit on a row. We're sitting there and Glow
is a Christmas show. Guys. Brett Eldritch comes out. He's
mister Christmas. He sings these Christmas songs. Don't know the
names of them, but he sang them, and he's saying
them fine, He's sang them.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Great.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
It was cool. The band was great.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
You literally just said two of the titles in that statement.
One of his songs is mister Christmas and the other
one is called Glow.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Oh okay, I just thought that was the name of
the tour.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
Hey, the tour Glow. And he's like, mister Christmas. You know,
I don't know any of the titles any of the songs.
You just said two of them. Didn't realize that anyway.
Then there's three girls that are sitting three women. I
shouldn't say girls. These are women that are sitting two
seats over from us.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
This was great. I'm glad somebody heard this.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
And guys, it is Christmas time in Nashville. We are
talking like five days before Christmas. Like the sleigh is
getting gassed up. Yes, the Sanna is getting his suit
ironed and pressed. He is ready to go. He's getting
his beard fixed up, his hair trimmed, making sure the
suit fits right.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Miss Claws is on her knees, ye, rapping presents.
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Sewing the costume back together. Anyway, Glow we all, Oh, no,
it's a Christmas show. Brett Eldridge. Lets you know he
is going to do a Christmas show every Christmas. And
he sings the first song, Oh Holly, Jolly, Christmas. I
don't know if that's why he'say anthing. He said, Next song,
Santa Claus is coming to Town. Third song, jingle Bells,
(29:20):
Jingle bells, Jingle all the way, finishes a song, and
the three women go, we came for fucking country music.
What is this shit? And got up and left.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
Dressed in cowgirl boots, skirts, white teas and hats.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Ladies read the room, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
We came for fucking country music.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
What is this sh But he doesn't play any of
his songs other than his Christmas ones at that show.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
And I just laughed because I'm like, hey, you're a
Brett Eldridge fan, so you should know be you already
paid for the tickets, so you're gonna leave. You're not
just gonna sit here and enjoy him singing Christmas songs hilarious.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
And you know the issue they wanted to shake it ain't.
None of those are gonna most of this time. We're sitting.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Oh we're sitting because it's a sit down show. It's
not really a shake it show.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
Yeah, you're in awe exactly went and found it somewhere,
probably at Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
I mean, oh, that's where We're gonna be on chiefs
Is next Friday night. We're gonna be there for the
open bar, Happy Hour, Sorelosers dot Com Ray hell of
a Plug, No, hell of a plug. And then we're
gonna be at Category ten. I mean, thank you to
the Grand Hyatt. We're gonna be at the Preds game.
I mean, it's gonna be an amazing weekend. I don't
know if people there's no way people are still buying
tickets right well, and I.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Was gonna say, I hope nobody leaves saying.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
I haven't learned anything about coaching.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
I'm really excited to be joined by Jesse Hutch today.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Jesse, how are you doing?
Speaker 7 (31:16):
I'm doing great.
Speaker 12 (31:17):
People have been asking me have you slept, and I'm like,
don't ask me that. Then I'll think about it, and
then I'll have an opinion, and then that'll probably cause
me to go downhill. So we just don't talk about Bruno's.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
That's a fair point, especially when you're in like the
heat of everything happening. Most people know you for being
an actor.
Speaker 13 (31:36):
That's your You've When I went to.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
Your IMDb page, you had over ninety five listings.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Is that crazy to you?
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Yeah, I just passed like one hundred and something. Oh
you did even hired. I was like, okay, yeah, it's
not like you get a badge or anything for that,
but you know, personally, I was like, wow, Okay, I
guess I've been doing this a little while.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
You do have a really interesting part of your story though,
before this acting, and we'll get into some more acting stuff,
but you've had some near death experiences. Can you talk
about those a little bit because those are wild?
Speaker 12 (32:12):
Yeah, I mean they weren't planned first. Yeah. I mean
some of the injuries that I've had probably are ye.
I put myself there. You know, I rode the bike
on top of the train bridge. It was me trying
to pull something off. It was me free climbing that cliff.
Or I used to love climbing church steeples. It's kind
of like a thing.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
You've always really had, this like kind of adrenaline side. Yeah,
it sounds absolutely beyond the stunt.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Yeah, so I've I've never drank alcohol, never done drugs.
Swearing is not my thing, but for some reason, when
I was younger, I just started out that. I was like, oh,
that sounds fun.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Climb that thing.
Speaker 12 (32:48):
I can jump off there I can, I'll try white
water rafting or white water kayaking, and so excuse me. Yes,
I was a white water raft guide. I was like
years in. I was in my first year of college,
and it's just happened to be in the right place
at the right time and ended up drowning so full
on right to the end, blacked out, and they found
(33:12):
me a couple of miles down the river. They estimated
I was underwater from eleven to twenty two minutes. Wow,
and so rightfully, so I should be either dead and
or if alive, I should be I have complete brain
damage or a loss of function, you know, physicality, memory,
you name it. And so the fact that I recovered
(33:32):
from that is an absolute miracle. And I couldn't call
it anything else. I can't be like, oh, the water
was really cold and it froze me, like it was
nothing like that, because how else do you explain that,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (33:47):
Do you recall the rescue at all?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Like when people came to.
Speaker 12 (33:50):
Mind you, Yeah, I had moments moments of it, but
really small little memories that I have that I'm like
part of me is even like, was that even an
accurate memory?
Speaker 7 (34:02):
You know what I mean, Are.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
You like making it up because that's what you feel
like happened.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
I know, I just I remember being very cognitive obviously
going into it right by the time I went underwater,
you know, I was guiding. It was a twelve foot
Moravio raft. We hit the first wave. I had twelve
people in my boat. We had another guy in the front.
We hit it and went straight up, and we're just
about to crest over, as you should, and then everybody
was having a great time, and just we didn't have
(34:26):
the power, and so we started to come back down
and we started surfing, and so I'm keeping the paddle
there and I'm keeping it straight and one of the
guys that are too, of the guys that fell off
from the front. As they fell, one of the guys
managed to grab me.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Not his fault.
Speaker 12 (34:40):
I mean, I'd be grabbing on his stuff too if
I was falling. It's just like, oh yeah, you know.
He grabbed my life jacket kind of wrapped me around
the back. And then I ended up sort of almost
like water boarded. It was like I kept going into
the water, out of the water, in the water, out
of the water, and eventually I just was like, man,
I'm getting whooped here, Like I can't shake this guy,
(35:00):
so I'm gonna have to just bail. So I bailed,
and I just happened to be right in that sweet
spot where the veterans that I worked with called the
green room. So there's a current on the top of
the river, and then there's another current that's maybe twelve
to fifteen feet or so below the surface, and this
rapid was called the colosseum, so it kind of fitting
(35:20):
right that you think of these battles. And I ended
up going under right there and went down really fast.
Both my ear drums kind of could feel the pressure.
I knew there was a shift. I was like, oh,
that was different, okay. Immediately tried to swim, couldn't do it,
and just felt like the water pressure was like pushing
(35:41):
everything together, and I was like, man, it's really hard
to swim. And I had to eventually abandon my paddle,
which you never do as a as a guy that
you get, you know, reamed out and everybody makes fun
of you. But I was I knew this was a
different situation and I wasn't able to get out of
this yet, and so I let go of the paddle,
so I could really swim as hard as I could,
still couldn't break the current. So my training told me,
(36:05):
all right, chill out, you got to go with the flow.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
I'm not going to beat the river.
Speaker 12 (36:10):
And so I just hung out and hung onto it,
you know what i mean. And as I'm floating along,
it's kind of you you go through the the process
of like, so I'm underwater, you know, I like to
be done with this soon so I can get some oxygen.
And I just I tried again. I tried to swim,
you know, I use more energy, burn more of my strength,
(36:32):
and then just couldn't get out and was like, okay,
I have to just literally go completely numb to this.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I just let everything go.
Speaker 12 (36:41):
It just went completely limp and trying to save my energy,
right so, because I mean, oxygen's still in my blood,
so I'm like, okay, the less I can use my muscles.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
I can't believe how much you're aware as all of
this is happening.
Speaker 12 (36:52):
Yeah, I mean, it was three years into being a guide.
I'd done it for quite a while. I was also
in college training for this very thing, you know, being
out door guide swift water rescue technician training I had
I was, I had search and rescue training, I had
wilderness first aid training, which is pretty intense.
Speaker 10 (37:11):
So you had all the tools for a potential survival
out of this.
Speaker 12 (37:15):
Yeah, and I've always been I knew going through that
course that I was a person that I stayed pretty
calm when pressure hits. I actually operate better the more
stress there is.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
In my life.
Speaker 12 (37:26):
Sometimes there's certain family things where I'm still like navigating.
I'm like, oh my goodness, I just fell apart. I
couldn't handle that, Like why not? Should be easier than that.
But for whatever reason, when I'm on the river or
I was, you know, I'm on set for twelve fourteen
hours a day and this pressure hits, I just really
feel comfortable.
Speaker 13 (37:46):
Hello, and welcome back. O't no, I'm wrong podcast. I'm sorry.
That's what you get if you listen to my podcast.
But hello Sunday, Samplers. My name is Mike d. I
have a podcast called Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, And on
last week's episode, I did my top ten movies of
the year, Like, out of everything I watched, I think
over one hundred almost one hundred and fifty movies. These
(38:07):
are my top ten. I'm only gonna share with you
number three and number two. So if you want to
hear this full list, you want to know what is
my number one movie of the year after watching all
those movies, you gotta go listen to the full episode.
But right now, here's just a little bit a movie.
Mike's Movie Podcast. See I do so many podcasts, I
forget what I'm doing. But Sunday Sampler. Thank you have
a great weekend, or hope you're having a great weekend.
Speaker 8 (38:25):
All right?
Speaker 13 (38:26):
At number three, speaking of a movie, people talked about
a lot and made a lot of memes of I
have Wicked, which I gave a four point five out
of five. It's still not available to stream yet, but
you can't rent it at home. It is a movie
I feel that people are not only gonna rent, but
maybe even purchase. I think Wicked is a movie that
has that type of appeal where you're gonna want to
rewatch this movie a lot because of the music, because
(38:49):
of the songs, because of those performances.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
But not only that.
Speaker 13 (38:52):
We have the sequel coming out this year, which they
did officially change the title to Wicked for Good. It's
coming out on November twenty first, so pretty much a
year after this one came out. It's gonna give a
lot of people a reason that maybe didn't watch this
movie in theaters to watch it at home, or maybe
some people will wait till they have like the two
showing events where you watch one leading up to number
two in theaters. But I think why I love this
(39:13):
movie so much is because I have such an affinity
for the Wizard of Oz and all the mystery and
just kind of lore that surrounds that movie, with all
the dark and gritty past of just the filmmaking process,
but also its impact on film. It being a movie
I would say only one of few movies that are
almost one hundred years old that people still watch and
(39:37):
still hold up and still influence film to this day,
to this day. And I rewatched that movie after watching Wicked,
and I'm fully in that world right now and seeing
how they're going to connect the first one to the
second one, and how even though it's not a full
on prequel, hell now, because of its success, it's going
to be so interwoven. So I'm very curious to see
(39:57):
how the second one plays out. So at this point,
I still avoided spoilers, and I think it was also
that I didn't know anything about Wicked going into it.
I didn't even know how to say Alphaba's name up
until I did that trailer in the Trailer Park and
I was like, how do you say this name? So
I think not knowing a whole lot about the story
allowed me to enjoy the movie that much more. But
(40:19):
from just the filmmaking standpoint, I love that this movie
brought back real sets and sequences that take place in
real time. A lot of live singing was done for
this movie. It just really felt like the set was alive,
which you don't really have a whole lot anymore. For
the most part, it's just a bunch of green screen
and blue screen and people were just acting to nothing.
(40:42):
You can truly feel that in this movie, and I
think is what made it so enjoyable to me. That
it still kept that Broadway theater vibe very live and fluid,
which I think is important for all the songs in
this movie. And just having those big elaborate sets that
remind me of the filmmaking process for that first Wigards
(41:03):
of Oz, where they had no ability to rely on
special effects.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
They had to do all those themselves, so hopefully.
Speaker 13 (41:09):
Since they did film both of these movies at the
same time, we get to see more of that in
the sequel. I'm hyped for it. Very rarely am I
this hype for a sequel that I think has the
potential to be better than it's original, because man, there
has to be so much more action in Wicked for good.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
But at number three, I have Wicked.
Speaker 13 (41:27):
At number two, I have a movie I gave a
four point five at a five. You can't stream it
anyway right now, you have to rent it. But it
is a real pain, starring Kieran Colchin and Jesse Eisenberg,
who also directed the movie. They play these two mismatched
cousins as they call them, who traveled tough Poland to
go on this tour after their grandma dies, and this
(41:50):
is them reconnecting and you find out all about why
they haven't remained as close. Kieran Colkin's characters very just
go by the seat of his pants, very chill, laid back.
He is a people person who can form a connection
with a random stranger on the street, and Jesse Eisenberg's
character is very reserved, neurotic, overthinks a lot but he
(42:11):
has a wife and kid at home, so he has
a life to get back to, and it's how those
two personalities clash and you have kind of an odd
couple here. The movie only costs three million dollars to
make ended pretty well at the box office, probably through
word of mouth, and like I was saying earlier, I
think this is the only movie that makes the entire
top ten list of mine that has the potential to
(42:33):
win Best Picture. I do hope Karen Colchin is nominated
and wins Best Supporting Actor because he is fantastic in
this film. I also think Jesse Eisenberg should get a
nomination for Best Director. But this movie kind of just
hit me in the gut in a way that I
wasn't expecting. And these are both characters that normally I
wouldn't have anything that I could relate to them to.
(42:55):
But it's through the storytelling and the power of all
the things that get revealed that I'm like, Oh, I
am like one of these people. And this was a
movie that after I watched it, I really just reflected
on my feelings and on it hitting a nerve that
I've never even talked about and much less seen represented
in a movie that I associated myself so much with
(43:17):
Jesse Eisenberg's character that I thought, man, how did he
make a movie like this and really just hit me
in the gut. And I think it was also the
fact that they had such great on screen chemistry, the
fact that the movie dealt with a lot of different
emotional layers, one of losing their grandma, one of their
falling out, and maybe I related a little bit to
(43:40):
not being so close with some family members that I
was closer to when I was a little bit more
younger and care free. I think we've all kind of
experienced something like that, when you're a little bit more
wild and just don't care about things in your twenties.
Then you get in your thirties and you have more responsibility,
you get more involved in your career, and maybe some
(44:01):
people aren't at that exact same point in their life
at that same age, and there's some friction that happens
between those types of people when you hang out. Even
though for me personally, it is the front runner that
I want to win Best Picture, the one I will
probably get behind the most, maybe maybe for my Number one,
but depending on how that shakes out, there's nothing I
(44:22):
feel is super novel about it that I think it's
a hands down, full on winner, deserves a five out
of five. So not to take away from the story,
to take away from anything I've said here, it just
doesn't feel like anything I haven't seen done before. But
what it does do, it does really well. So if
you haven't seen it yet and you want to experience
(44:43):
that or just see, like, why do this movie make
Mike so emotional? I do advise you to check it
out because I do think it's worth it. I put
a real pain at number two.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
And that was this week's Sunday Sampler. New episodes out
weekly to go check them out to the Bobby Cast.
Four Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers movie, Mike, Caroline
Hobby in the Vets Office, Take this Personally with Morgan Heulesman.
All that up there something to listen to check it
out if you're bored, have a great week. Don't forget
to subscribe. Please and you don't have a lead to comment,
but it'd be cool if he did. All right, Thanks,
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