Best Bits of the Week With Morgan and Special Guest Hillary

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan Number two.
What is up, y'all? It's the best Bits of the
Week Morgan here. And if you haven't heard this podcast before,
Basically what I do is take the best segments from
the show this week and I count them down, so
if you miss something or you want to relive it,
I kind of break it down. But my favorite personal

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part of this whole podcast is that I get to
bring on another show member and we typically just talk
about a bunch of random things. And this weekend, I
gotta bring on one of my best friends who also
happens to work on the show. Hillary, Hello, and we're
back to talk about a lot of fun things. So
are you ready, I'm ready. A bunch of random stuff, yes,
like dog stuff, TV show movie recommendations, places we want

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to go see in the country. I don't know, maybe
other things might stumble out, right, Yeah. I feel like
we always go down like little rabbit What is it?
Rabbit holes? Rabbit trails? What's the same? No, you know
what it is, rabbit holes. But now forever I will
say that makes more sense. It's a trail. You go
down a trail, all right. You can get you can stop.
Oh yeah, we keep going. So it's a trail, rabbit trail.

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I like rabbit trail. All right, well we may go
down some rabbit trails. So well, let's get started on
the show. This week, Amy posted something on Instagram about
her cat and she got cat shamed. She bathes her cat,
and basically all the trolls came out online saying you
can't do that and try to tell Amy the best
way to have her cat, right, And Hillary and I

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are no stranger to shaming on social media. But yes,
another pet shaming is dog shaming. What's something that's happened
on your Instagram that you've posted and somebody shamed you
about having your dog? Because your dog is very new
in your life. Yes, she's only seven months old. I
feel like any to my post about her, it's always

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something like I've been told the leash I use is
wrong and not safe. And first of all, let me
preface this. I go to Morgan Ford because she has
the same dog I do, and she's a huge dog lover.
So I go to Morgan and I'm like, hey, like,
can you give me tips? And you know, stuff like that.
So I have somebody I can go to if I

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have questions, but these random people will hit me up
and they're like, hey, you don't need to be using
that leash or oh you know you shouldn't. I posted
her in a onesie the other day because she had surgery,
and they're like, are you sure she's not like when
she's scratching along the rug, like scratching her incision, and
I'm like, no, she's playing like it's just always something

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and it just drives me nuts. It makes me not
want to post about her. Yeah, well, I think people too,
like majority of them. Meanwhile, right they're coming with good intentions,
but then the way that they type it, You're like,
these don't feel like good intentions. No, and even treats
I give her and I'm like, you don't even know
what treat this is. I didn't even post like the
brand or anything, but they like, you shouldn't. You shouldn't

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feed that to her, You shouldn't give that to her.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, I know what I'm doing.
I know, and they like, well, into Its hard because
right now, especially with like pets and stuff, you know,
we're trying to feed them better and we're trying to
do better about what's in their food with treats. Yeah,
And it's so funny that people are coming at you
for stuff like that because I I mean, as most

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people know, in my life, I'm very holistic with Remy.
I have you know a veterinarian that is holistic and
Western medicine does all the things, and you know, she's
insanely and intelligent and wonderful what she's done for Remy.
So when it comes to knowing what you're doing with
your dog, like, I am the most in tune possible

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with my dogs. So when somebody comes at me and
tries to be like, do this, I'm like, you don't
even know me, let alone my relationship with my dog,
and trust me, she is as spoiled as they come, exactly.
And I know that's the same case for you and Georgie. Yes,
we our dogs are very They're probably the most well
taken care of dogs that you will ever meet. Know,

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we take very good care of our dogs. And I
remember too, like there was one time, gosh, Remy, So
I groom Remy right like I do her hair. And
there was one time I'd posted a video over and
she was looking extra scruffy, because you know, it's hard,
like once a month making sure on the dog I'm grooming. Yeah,
and now her being a therapy dog, I have to
like that is a requirement of her training and or

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her going out and getting to do things. But somebody
wrote in was like, your dog looks so messy, and
I'm like, no, you're amazing that off of one photo.
Oh my gosh. Right, yes, yeah, like I'm telling you,
I obviously mean more than her best friends. So I
get to see the behind the scenes. This girl is

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a vegetarian and makes chicken for her dog, Like she
goes above and beyond for this dog. Remy is nobody
needs to worry about Remy. She's very well taken care of,
for sure. I know. Well, I did have a scare
this week that was crazy. Yeah, I mean so Remy
started like whimpering, which is not usual for it. She
never does, And every time I touched her she was wincing,

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and I was like, what is happening. It took her
into the vet. She has a humor, and I'm like,
you know, obviously going right into the worst case scenario.
And I'm like, I don't know what I would do
with how her what am I going to do. And
thank goodness, it came back as benign all clear, but
like she's still kind of doing that and wincing and stuff,

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and you know, thankfully you don't have to get them removed.
They stay there and it's no big deal. Maybe you know,
over the course of their life, you do. But I
had so many people when I posted about that on Instagram,
you know, writing the different variations of that result. So
many people have had that same problem with their dogs,
and you know, like fifty percent it was benign and

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life went on. Fifty percent it was cancerous and life change.
And I just can't, like, my heart goes out to
all those people as like a pet parent. And I
know some people say they're pet owners or pet parent
however we call it, but my heart goes out to
so many people that have to deal with that because
that for the first time in my life, I literally

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had a full blown meltdown because I was afraid I
was possibly gonna lose remy right. I can't even imagine.
And I feel so bad. I see all these people
who post, like, you know, their dog does have cancer
or they have a scare and things like that, and
I just can't imagine, Like Georgie's my fourth, like the
fourth dog that I've had, you know, in my life,

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and I don't know. I just like I can't imagine.
We had one dog, my first dog, that we got
when I was eight years old, and he ended up
having a heart condition that we didn't know about. It
was an enlarged chart. And I was in college. I
was the one who wanted this dog, like this dog
is my best friend. I hated going off to college
without him, like I loved this dog. And I came

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home to visit one weekend and my mom called me
that next day on Monday, and she was like, hey,
you know, I hate to tell you, but we're gonna
have to put hers down. Like he has an enlarged heart.
He wasn't breathing, like right when you left, his breathing
was really off. And they found out like he had
an enlarged heart. And the next day we have to
put him down. And so it is. It's so hard

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because your pet becomes your family. And yeah, I'm I
was so worried when you told me. You're like I
have to take remmy to the fat I found something
I My heart just like sunk I was like, oh
my gosh, please, like I just said a prayer. I'm like,
please be okay, Remmy, please be okay. Yeah, And it
doesn't matter how many animals come into your life, You're
always going to have that pop print on your heart

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from each one you do. And so just like hershey,
that you're talking about, and you you know, I've always said, like,
an animal's biggest fault is that they are not here
as long as we get to be they know, And
that's so hard. Like I'm gonna cry even thinking about
I know, I want to sit here and cry now
because it's so sad. I'm gonna tell you, like a

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story now that I can look at funny that is
related to me having pets in my life. You know,
at the time it obviously was not. But so my
sister and I my poor parents, like we put them
through the ringer when it came to getting animals. We
had so many different kinds, right, And at one point
my sister convinced them to let her get a bunny

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that we called Cuttles and we had for several years
and great little bunny, I mean hopped around the house
all the time. It's great and he's fluffy. Um, and
I say, I say he now, But at the time
we thought it was a she until Cuddles died a
testicular cancer that we found out the whole time we

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had been calling this poor bunny she, Oh my god,
was actually a he. Yeah. Yeah, how long was this
a well, I mean a long time about bash from
here in like middle school. It's when we I think
we had this bunny. It's like funny but not funny.
It is one of those stories. But like now I
can look back and like I can we laugh at that.

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We're like, hey, remember that one time we totally thought
this bunny was the wrong gender for its entire life.
And then that's just the irony of that's what the
bunney died from. Yeah, and that's like that's hard for
me because I cannot find like humor out of animals dying.
I can't even watch movies for animals die, like not
even a horse can't die in a fight scene. Yeah no. Um,

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so like a little bit of comical relief there, which
is unusual for me. But yeah, it's kind of an
ironic story. Oh I hadn't heard that one before. Oh yeah,
so cuddle you know, guys, make sure you check the
gender of your animals, because that's a big deal. Oh
my gosh, all of them, not just dogs and cats, bunny,

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guinea pigs, all the things. Yes, oh man, Okay, well
you guys can hear right now, Amy is going to
talk about the time she got cat shamed recently, and
it's just not fair, y'all. Let's just stop shaming each
other for anything, but definitely stop shaming each other with
their pets. Like parents. Jaman is bad enough, pet Jaman,
it's just as bad, so just quit it. Number seven,

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Amy said that she didn't know it was going to
be so controversial to have a cat. What did you do?
I bathed her the kitten. I gave her a bath,
and I put a picture up on like a video
online of her ins to shear's arms because she looks
so cute, wet, and I mean, people started debating each
other whether or not you should bathe cats, and one
woman or a guy, I don't know exactly who they are,

(10:26):
but they felt super passionate about the fact that you
should bathe cats. And she called me idiotic for doing so,
and I was like, whoa, you know, I guess we
had a couple of cats growing up. We never bathed
them because they licked themselves. Yeah that's what That's what
they were saying, and so listen, I don't know, could
you look it up? No, I want to bathe a cat.
I don't care how. I saw some vets comment on there,

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or one girl that was in vet school saying it
was okay to bathe the cat, and I saw that
as my permission to continue bathing the cat. Not all
the time, but I mean every so once in a while.
I mean they go into inside of a litter box
and then they come out, and we're just supposed to
be okay with that. I'm bathing the cat. You know.
I'm being told to shower a little more of these days.
And I consider myself somebody who is clean, but I've

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been only getting about one a day. Sometimes you're a
little stinky, I guess so. And I don't really get
up in my armpits. But when we lay down Caitlin's head,
she's smaller than I am, and so but she'll put
her head on my shoulder, which puts kind of her
in that spot and she's like, or she'll go, did
you forget to put on deodoro because that could be

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another reason too. And when you look by yourself, when
you're just a man living foot loose and fancy free, yeah,
you don't have to worry about that. But now she's like, hmmm,
it doesn't that doesn't smell good. So I'm having to
shower a little more or re deodorize a lot more
sometimes finally do it like a mild work out. I
think I can get away with it. I'll just put
deodor on just to see if she notices. That's like

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middle school. Here's the thing she noticed time course. So
let's look up if you should bathe your cat, Like,
what is the official rule on bathing a cat? What
do you think it is, Eddie, No, I don't think
you should. They can handle themselves. What if they getting
like mud? No, they can lick it off themselves. I
don't think you're allowed to. I've never seen someone bathe

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their cat. I mean because their claws they just get mad.
They rip your skin off. There's no LUs they hate it.
Those claws they do get me. Okay, here's what it says.
This is from the National Cat Groomers Institute of America. Okay,
cats do a good job of cleaning most debris from
their coat, but their self grooming won't get everything out,
nor will it make them smell any nicer. The National

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Cat Groomers Institute of America recommends a bath once every
four to six weeks. But wait, wait, this is the
Groomers Association. They want business, they care about cat. Take
it in and spend money on Are you gonna do it?
You don't put it in the shower with her? How
the cat feel about that? She didn't really love it
so much. We might try the kitchen sink next time.

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The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan Number two.
Chris Jansen was on the show with Us this week.
He talked about his new song by Mom and the
story that inspired the really emotional song and what that
song has done for him in his career, similar to
other songs that he's written, and he also performs some

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of his really big hits. It's always a good time
when Chris Jansen comes in because he performs on his
guitar and its harmonica, and it's a whole thing. He
has so much energy or he brings us so many emotions. It's,
you know, the whole spectrum of things. Happen, so right now,
listen here Chris Jansen's interview and then I heard you
to go watch it at Bobby Bones dot Com number

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six on the Bobby Bones Show. Now Chris Jampson, Chris,
how are you, buddy? I'm doing great, Thanks Bobby, how
are you? I'm good. Have you ever checked your steps
after one of your live shows? No? I have not.
I say that because you know, I did a whole
list of the best live performers in country music and
put you up there because you are one. You sound great,

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you play great, but you are just non stop and
so I would be curious to put a fitbit on
Chris Jansen. And then after you come off a show,
just see how many steps because you are all over
the place and in jeans and boots. It's not even
like you were in tennis shoes. Nope, nope, we'aring miserably
tight pants and boots too. By the way, my wife
dresses me. So you're welcome. But I would actually that
would be a great, a great thing to do. I'll

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definitely put on a fit bit because I've never I've
actually never thought about that. I walked twelve point six
miles that I didn't even think about it in Colorado,
just just hiking or walking or yeah. We were on
a big hunting trip and we were out there hiking
in the Colorado Mountains and just we got back and
my guy was like twelve point six. I was like
twelve point six. He's like, yep, miles and I was like,
oh my gosh. And half of that was on my stomach,

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crawling around like an army man. He still got that energy.
Huh man. I just you know what, I wake up,
I feel blessed to be alive. So heck, yeah, I
want to run through Chris's number One's real quick. Buy
me a boat number one, but it can by fix
a drink. Number one. Well, I can't fix that, but
I good vibes number one. I'm getting them done. A

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two week number one. It's pretty cool to have a
set now where you get to put all your number
ones in the set last huh man, it's an incredibly
humbling blessing. I literally was on stage last night speaking
of and I said, last night, I said, guys, you

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don't quite understand. It was acoustic, by the way, so
it was very intimate. I said, you don't understand. For
a guy like me, coming from where I come from
to be able to say here's my number one song,
Like if it was if it stopped right there with boat,
it would have been enough for me. But to be
the to have the opportunity that privileged to say, and
here's another number one, or here's another number one, that's
a big deal and I'm I'm just like to me, man,

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it's all I ever wanted. So I'm every day I
wake up in this career and I'm living my dream out.
That's it. It's it's incredible. How about a little verse
and chorus of I always love it when they do
this boat like why not picked the word by or me?
Or yeah, yeah, hey, I love it Walking into Krogers
feel like Chris Chanpsen love the boat song. Here's a

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little bit of buy me a boat from Chris, Thank you,
Thank you. Will I ain't rich, but I damn you
wanna be he working like a dog all day, ain't
working for me? Will? I wish I had a rich

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humph that would kick the bucky. And I was sitting
on a pile like a Warren Buffer. I know everybody
says money can't buy havings, but he can buy me
a boat. He can buy me and trug the bo.
He can buy me at anyone's down with se same

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money can buy everything. Maybe so, but you can buy
me and ye job, you ever go because you tore,
you tore a lot, you ever go? You ever yelled
the wrong city out? Um? No, I haven't yelled the
wrong city out. You know how I get around that is? Um?

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First of all, yes, we travel a lot and it
does get confusing, I can admit, so I have them
write down what state we're in because I can remember
the states better. And so you know, if you're playing
in the Wichita and you just happen to think you're
in Colorado, you can just say hey, Kansas, and everybody's like, yo,
we love you so. Um. You know I have thankfully

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never done that. It very well might happen now that
I leave the studio of knock on Wood. Who knows,
probably will, But you know, mistakes happen, and if I
if I have a hiccup, I just have a hiccup.
What about lyrics? Do you need lyrics? Ever? Oh? Yeah, absolutely?
I actually brought some lyrics today just in case. Um,
how do you keep them on stage? Oh? I don't
have them on stage. If I if I mess up

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lyrics on stage, I just I just mumble my way
through it until I get there. And you know, the
good news is is that, you know, you start out
with one hit, like we were talking, and and you're
playing like the early slots. Then you get two, and
you get a little bit better slot, and then you
get three and you're you're kind of like, Okay, what's
going to happen next? And then once you get a
couple of hits under your belt, then you're finally playing
in those slots where people are actually there, and um,
the good news is is like fifty percent of the

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crowd is is um incoherently happy, I'll put it like that.
And then the other part is like really itching for
those songs. So only fifty percent of the people notice
when you mess up anyway, and the other fifty percent
of like, whoa that I thought that's what the words were,
which which does happen quite a bit. And I'm the
I'm the world's worst at uh. I enjoy kind of

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personalizing things, and so for instance, if I'm playing in Nashville,
you know, it's like Nashville, how you do and you
know you would hear that, But I put some I
put try to put personal footnotes into my songs to
make it a little more personal for the crowd or
whatever town we're in, because we you know, we travel
a lot and we've seen a lot of places, thankfully,
and so it works out. But yes, sometimes I do
forget my lyrics and it just happens. I mean, you know,

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it's just say the name of stayed over and over again. Yeah, yeah,
but it's bound to happen every now and again. Let's
talk about this new song because a lot of people
are talking about it, very very emotional song. Yeah, sure is.
It's called by Mom. Tell me about this, so thank you.
My one of my best friends in the world, Brandon Kenny,
who you guys have heard me talk about before, is
a longtime co writer of mine and a longtime friend

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of mine. It's coming up on about a year. He
called me. He said, hey, man, mom's not doing so
well and we had not talked in a little bit, so,
you know, and I said, he said, you got time
to talk. I said, sure, got time to pray too,
if you like, And so we just like immediately jumped
into prayer. Guys, it was really strong, and from that
point on we were talking can pray and like each day,

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his MoMA got admitted to the hospital and it was
like a really rough time because during the pandemic shutdown,
when nobody was really traveling, his mom's in West Texas
and Brandon has children and one particular with like an
autoimmune disease disorder kind of things, so you have to
be careful in certain situations, right, and so he couldn't
go to Texas to see her, and it was just

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really it was really bad. So we prayed and talked
like every day. Ultimately, unfortunately, you know, God takes his
angels when he wants them, and there's nothing we can
really do about it on earth, and so he took her.
And in that time of grief, I woke up at
two o'clock in the morning with this song called Bye
Mom on my heart just a title and some random

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lyrics and that's never happened to me before ever in
my whole life. And I wrote them all down and
I texted Brandon like two o'clock and I said, you
got to call me as soon as you get up.
We have a song to write. Now. This is in
between his mother passing away and before she was laid
to rest. And so the next morning we got up
and we got on his zoom and we wrote by
Mom and like, I don't know, it felt like a flash,

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like maybe thirty minutes or so, and I gave him
everything that I had and then he just immediately reciprocated
with everything that he had and we had this beautiful song.
And at first we were like, oh my god, we
love this, but you know what an amazing tribute, right,
And we didn't even know if it would get cut
or anything. Well, I just so happened to have a
session with Warner the next morning and I played it

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for Kelly Mike Kelly, and then I played it for
Chris Lacey at my label and she goes, well, you
better find out what you're going to cut off that session,
And I mean not like cut record, like cut out
of the session to put by Mom in it, and
which was very humbling to me. And the song just
spoke volumes because you know, there's a line in the
song says, when you love, when you realize you're somebody
that somebody loves more than themselves. I think that whether

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you love hate don't know you want to get to
know better. Whatever the situation may be with your mother.
Out there, everybody's got one, and it you start right there.
When you're a kid, you don't realize how much you're
loved by somebody, whether that be a mother, father, or
whoever it may be. And when you and are an adult,
even if you have kids, you certainly get it. If

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you don't have kids, you can get it too, because
that loving somebody more than yourself thing is just what
a huge honor and a huge blessing that is. And
so that was really the premise of it. It started
out as a tribute, but it touched so many other
lives right outside of that. And I've probably only played it, guys,
maybe a handful of ten times since that we've released it,

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and the reaction that I see is absolutely undeniable. It
touches people's hearts in a way that I've never had
a song touched people's hearts before. I remember a little
bit of reminiscent from like songs like Drunk Girl. It
really people were like WHOA, Like what just happened? This
kind of song is making people pull over in their cars.
I mean, I'm hearing it, they're writing it. They're telling

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me and go, oh my God, like I lost my
mom or I still have my mom. I'm gonna call
my mom, or I'm gonna call my dad, or I'm
gonna just call the person that loves me more than
life itself. And it's just as I gotta tell you, Obby,
it's like the most humbling experience to have a song
like this. And when we were picking the first single
for the new album, which by the way, we'll be
coming out around February, I was going to the old

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Nashville way of doing things. I was like, we're gonna
get a tempo, We're gonna get a temp We're gonna
get this in this And I'm talking about unanimously across
the board, from not only people in our business, with
people that I work with, my wife, everybody, fans. They
were like, no, no no, no by Mom is like a
great song. It's a real song. And man, when you
have that kind of support, you go with your heart.

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And I followed it, and I have never been more
proud to have picked a single because I feel like,
at thirty five years old, too, I'm at a great
place in my life where number one, my career is
at a place where I can carry a song like
this Number two. It's a humbling thing to tell somebody
else's story, especially the way that it happened. And it
pays a great homage and tribute to not only Brandon's
mother and Brandon's life and story, but to so many

(23:55):
stories out there when they hear it on the radio.
So I'm very proud of it. Thanks asking. It's the
best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two. Do
you guys have a pre show ritual you do every night?
Pretty much crush about as many Mountain dews as like,
are you back on Mountain Dew? Now? Yeah, I am.
I thought you had moved from Mountain due to some

(24:16):
Starbucks strength that you were having ten of a day.
I'm rocking those two. Oh man, I'm rocking those two.
I'm not gonna lie, by the way, just like you
were rocking a Christianson T shirt at the iHeart Oh yeah.
Awards by the Old School, by the way, by the way,
my favorite one we've ever had. And thank you for that.
My phone was blowing up and Kelly was like have
you seen this? And I was like, have you seen this? Um?

(24:38):
So thank you for that that that made my day.
I appreciate that that'd be on the CW. By the way,
I had I found that at we were doing some
shopping in Franklin, a lot of those old stores there
and that had a lot of old school and I
saw it was you and you were super skinny in
a vest. It was it was so fly and I
was like, how did this is the luckiest find ever? Yea,

(24:58):
So I saved it because I wanted to wear it
on TV somewhere. Um and sank, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank
you very much for that. I appreciate you guys looked awesome,
by the way. Congrats on your new marriage and your wife.
And I see the happiness in your eyes. Um, it's
what a privilege and honor that is. Huh yes, most
all for me. I'm being honest, buddy, Trust me when

(25:20):
I say that. You know, I know you married up
and I did too, and gosh, what a what a like?
We share the same birthday. Most people don't know Bobby
and I have the same birthday. We have a lot
of time we're probably cousins. Who knows we're I don't know.
We were born pretty closely. Legitimately we could be family.
So it's but congratulations and thanks for the T shirt. Yeah,
of course you have a seven year old son, would

(25:41):
you let him play tackle football? Absolutely? Yeah, So you're
okay with that kind of I struggle. I played football
growing out my whole life too, and we talked about
it on the show, and so there's a lot of
heads slamming now that we've learned more and more about correct,
I'm gonna be frankly honest, I'm gonna retract that a
little bit. Okay, The answer is yes, because I want Mike.
I've always been very stringent on all of my kids

(26:04):
doing what they want to do, not what I think
they should do, Okay, because that's I was raised kind
of more like the other way, and that's why I
was kind of rebellious growing up. So, um, I want
my kids to do what they want. Thankfully. My kid
likes to hunt and fish and like do that kind
of thing, and he loves music. He's actually he told
me the other day in fact, he said, uh yeah,

(26:24):
he was dead serious too. He's like, yeah, I think
I'm gonna quit school and uh start drumming pretty much
full time on the road bed but but full time,
but only on the songs. That I want to drum
on the yep for the crowds that I want to
play for. And his grandma was like, yeah, but you're
you're gonna love you know, school's great. He's a first grader.
You're gonna love school. You're gonna get a girlfriend. He's like,
not like you get on the road, grandma. And I

(26:47):
was like, oh my god, what is happening right now?
But football wise, yes, and no, I'm super scared of
the I'm constantly telling him. I'm like, your body is
the most important part of everything, right, it's your temple,
but your head is the most important part of your body.
And if you mess up your head in any way,
son or daughters, you know it could ruin you for life.
So just please, please please take care of yourse from

(27:08):
be very careful. And and God, I pray over them
every day that they're careful. I mean, we prayed this
morning before they went to school, and like, you know,
yes and no, I want them to have fun. I
wanted to be safe all doing it. We were talking
about Caitlin and I were talking about that too, because
I again I credit a lot of my fighting through
adversity through my football coach and playing ball and yeah, um,

(27:32):
but man, she was like I would let them, and
I'm like I would just keep going basketball, golf club
right through everything at them like whatever. Like So you know,
it's because you overcame a lot of adversity through you
football coach. It's interesting you should say that because I
kind of did two in a in a roundabout way.
So I was doing the football summer training camp thing

(27:53):
to like decide if you want to play high school football,
right and um, and I got right down to it.
And this is where my football career totally ended. I'll
never forget to the day I die. We were on
the practice field where the track was at the middle
school and dude grabbed my helmet, pulled me up there
in this camp and started yelling at me. And that

(28:14):
very moment, I took the helmet off, dropped it on
the ground. I was like, seventh grade, eighth grade, dropped
it on the ground, took the pads off, walked off
and said, don't I've already been playing guitar. I loved
to skateboard. I'm going this route. Bye. That was it.
I saw a video of you given away a guitar
to an employee that you met when you were picking
up plants outside of a store. How did you find

(28:36):
out her daughter was an aspiring singer? Well, thank you,
By the way, Can I please start with this was
saying that I you guys know me personally, and I
want the listeners to really understand too. I am not
the kind of guy that likes to do stuff, and
I hate secretly film it and let my left hand
to what the right hand's doing. I'd just rather just
do it on my own and off the cuff and quietly.

(28:57):
But Jason, my head of production, actually filmed it. We
went to Kroeger. Long story short. I was picking up
plans for Kelly on like her one day off at home,
and this lady was like, you know, she was helping
me or whatever. And I was loading them up and
somebody walked by going into Kroger and goes, hey, Chris Jansen.
There was that day of the boat love your Songs,
Man Boat Song Woo, and I was like, thank you
so much, and the lady goes, oh my god, wait,

(29:18):
you're christ Janson, the country singer. And of course I
didn't look like christianson the country singer and my dad's
shirt tucked in with my khakis and glasses on and stuff,
and then one thing I love to another and she
was like, my granddaughter is an aspiring singer. She's ten
years old. Here's a video and a picture, and of
course you'll see. And it was very cute and she
sounded great, and she was singing that if it will be,
it'll be bb rexa Florida Georgia line. Thing, very cute.

(29:42):
And she said, here's what hit me in the heart.
She goes, I'm saving up all year to buy her
a guitar at Christmas like that. Let mena tell you, man,
it was not so long ago, right, the guys like
me and you were in that position. And I know
what it's like to have to save all year for
something like that, literally right before buy me a boat.

(30:02):
I mean, I would have had to save all year
to get a guitar that I that I wanted, and
it may not have been a great one at that
And that just hit me so hard. And Jason, my
guy Biddinger, who's my head of production on the road,
who kind of takes care of everything out there, he
was coming over anyway to bring me some guitars, and
I said, do we have any extras at the house.
He's like, oh, got so many, And so I said,
just bring one to Kroger. He's like, what Kroger. So

(30:25):
he met me at Kroger and it was just on
my heart. Man, So I took one right off of
the vault that we that I would play on the
road and gave it to him. And now she has
a guitar. I just in moments like that, I look
for reasons for God to lay it on my heart.
I always have and and and now that I've been
blessed to be where I'm at in life, and I

(30:47):
feel very confident and so thankful that for the successes
we've had, I'm at an opportunity to where I'm able
to give that back. And I want to give that
back so much because I remember when I didn't have
anything and I wanted to give back, and it's and
have much to give, and so now I can give
it with open arms. And it was just the right
thing to do. And hopefully this little girl will turn

(31:07):
into a big star. She already sounded really good, and
her grandmother's awesome and has obviously is a big influence
in her life. And it was just it was just
a great morning at kroger Man. Giving back and blessing
others by being blessed is like the greatest gift. Chris
Jansen's here with us right now. How about I know
you have your guitar. Speaking of guitars, let's hear a
little bit of good vibes. Can you do that? Sure? Thanks?

(31:29):
Former number one from Chris Jansen. Ain't watching TV today,
bad music, and just stay away. If you ain't got
anything good to say, then shut your mouth. I got
my windows down and the blinders on radio, said to

(31:52):
my favorite song, all Green Lights on the Road. I'm
a man. There ain't no doubt I'm getting them good
good vibes. I'm living this good life. I'm breathing on
Gods time and I ain't gone away swan breath. So
get it all. I got me a fool come. There

(32:14):
ain't nothing gonna spill it, nothing gonna kill it. What
I even new? Where its? Good bye? Feeling them good vibes.
Harmonica is so cool, so awesome. Thank you. I just
just added, I don't even know why, but you play it.
I'm like, that's so cool. Thank you? All right Done

(32:36):
was a two week number one for you, which is.
If I'm right here, I think that was your only
multi week number one and it's so rare to happen
at all nowadays. Yep, it's my only one to date,
and uh, do you feel like that's your most known song?
You know what? In a way? Yes, here's here's the
cool part about it, the unfortunate and cool part about it.

(32:56):
So we had a two week number one during a
time where I couldn't do shows right, which was incredibly awkward,
cringey and just the worst timing ever, right, but still
a two week number one is a two week number one,
so you still celebrate it the same way. People still
have heard it in a big way, and it almost
made it bigger than even being just a two week

(33:17):
number one. It made it so much bigger than that
and one of my most well known songs because people
didn't get to hear me play it. So the minute
that I started getting back to doing shows again this year,
people were like, oh my god, finally we're getting to
hear the newest number one song, which was a huge blessing.
And so it's really kind of a pinnacle staple. When
I play it live. We save it kind of towards

(33:37):
the end towards like the buy Me a Boat minute,
and I actually play it right before I play boat
and it's it's yeah. I would say, yes, well, let's
play it a little bit of it now, let's let's
wrap it up here with a little bit of Chris
Jansen and done, thank you. Done. The first time I

(33:59):
saw an get dune, the first dance was through I
was dune. That one kiss. I knew there was nothing
I wouldn't do, just to give you that house on
a heel with the four blank around and every last

(34:20):
friend to the last star is counting. Just say the
word paint me your perfect. I won't quit till the
good Lord says my work is done, like a fitting
out song on the radio, done like the Cowboy gets
the girl in the credits roll, I give you a

(34:43):
lifetime of days in the sun, whatever you need, and
you won't. I won't stop till it's dumb. Nice Chris Chanson,
It's always killed my friend. And I gotta ask, is
that a new camouflage shirt? It looks very fresh, isn't
it fresh? It's this thank you? First where so fresh
and so nice? Second where it was actually yeah, it's

(35:05):
a Memphis it's a Memphis right on the Arkansas border.
Made shirt by a hunting company called Avery, and thank
you for the very fresh well it feels so fresh
and it's so nice. We'll follow Chris on Instagram at
the Chris Jansen and you guys go we played it earlier,
but go and stream by mom and if you see
him out and he's out all the time, go to
Chris Jansen dot com for tour dates and tickets. Chris,

(35:27):
thank you, and we'll see soon. Thank you. Bred there
is Chris Janson. Everybody. It's the best bits of the
week with Morgan number two. This week we've been hearing
all about Lunchbox and Abby's trip to the Crater of
Diamonds State Park absolutely wild. I mean like they win
to go dig diamonds and you know it'll come in

(35:49):
at number one and he reveals what he found and
but the most exciting part of this, right is that
him and Abbey almost had to stay and Sketchy Hotel.
And I stay exciting now because this is after the fact,
but when it was happening, it was not exciting. It
was not and this was a horror movie moments that

(36:09):
we were seeing take place when they were posting on
Instagram of the sketchy hotel. Now, I don't want to
relive that for them because they already lived through that,
and living through like a situation like that is traumatizing, right. Yes,
So have you ever had to stay in like not
so great place and you're like, what is happening? Why

(36:30):
am I here? That like has stuck with you forever.
I've been trying to think of places that I've stayed
because we've done a lot of camping, like with my family,
we had a camper growing up, and I can't think
of any places that I've stayed that were sketchy. But
I did have a sketchy moment where I did think
I was going to die. Okay, do tell me more.
I don't know if I've told you this story before.

(36:52):
So we were in we were going to a family
reunion in Georgia. It's this very small town Homerville, Georgia.
We have a a family hunting club there and all this.
So we went to this family reunion and when we
were leaving, me and my middle sister, Shelby. I am
going to call her out by name because she plays
a big role in this story and my oldest sister

(37:14):
would not be happy if I did not specify who
was with me. Siby and Shelby were driving back home
to Florida, and my mom told me this road to
turn down. She was like, make sure you turned down
this road when you leave. I misunderstood what she said
and I went down a different road. And I was

(37:34):
on this road for like an hour. It had just rained.
I was in my Honda Civic. It was muddy, like
I literally took my Honda Civic mudding like I was.
It was bad. It was a bad situation. So of
course our phones aren't working. Da da da da da. Well,
we end up being able to pull up the little
GPS we had and it showed that the highway, which

(37:55):
is just a two line road, was two miles away.
So I'm like, okay, because I wanted to turn around
and say, like, you know, we need to I think
we missed the turn. You know, this isn't the right road. Well,
Shelby was like, no, it's just two miles. Like, let's
keep going. We got this in my Honda Civic. Again,
there's mud everywhere. It's like a horrible situation. Surprised y'all
didn't get stuck at this point, Oh, we got stuck. Okay,

(38:18):
so that's what's coming. Okay, we got stuck. And I'm
in like white shirt or white shorts, flip flops, all
this stuff. I'm getting out trying to dig, like I'm
on my hands and he's trying to dig my car
out of this mud. So me and Shelby were like,
I think I said a cuss word and I don't cuss.
It's like, are you kidding me? Like, what are we

(38:38):
gonna do? I legit came to peace that I was
going to die that day because we had to walk
from my car. We leave my car two miles through
the woods. We're in woods, by the way, I don't
think I pointed that out. We're in the woods' middle
of nowhere. We're in the middle of nowhere. We have
no cell service. I see these like little homes, like
I don't even know what they are. I didn't even

(39:00):
have a weapon, Like an animal could come out of
the woods and kill us, and I didn't have a weapon.
I didn't have anything. And so I really did come
to peace. I was like, this is how we're gonna go.
They're not going to find our bodies like, this is
all running through my brain and I just I knew.
I was like, something's going to happen to us. But
we ended up reaching the highway and flagged somebody down.
They took us to the sheriff's house and him and

(39:23):
his son helped us. The sun was really cute, by
the way. So many details to this story. I know,
I feel like I missed. It happened so long ago.
I feel like I'm like sousy details. You've hitch hiked
in your life, yes, and I would say it worked. Yeah.
I see hitchhikers often, but if ever found out a
full situation. Yeah, Oh my gosh. Okay, so we've hitch
hiked in your life and they took you to the

(39:46):
sheriff's home, not like the sheriff's office. So we're in
like a super small town. Oh yeah, there's like no
I mean no stores, there's no Walmart, there's no like restaurant.
They have more in the restaurant. I'm yeah, literally in
the middle of nowhere. And we finally we're able to
call There's so much to this story, but we were
finally able to call my parents and my dad was like,

(40:08):
who were we all with? Like My dad was the
one who was really a concerned because we hopped in
the back of a truck with two random people we
didn't know. Oh that's what I'm saying, y'all, hitch hot. Yeah,
I feel like, before you die, this happened ten years ago,
so I'm acting like it's no big deal, But it
really was a big deal at the time because it
was how old I would have been eighteen, okay, and

(40:29):
then Shelby would have been twenty. So yeah, we were
We flagged down this couple and thankfully ended up being
a very nice couple, and they told us that the lady,
the wife, she was like, I have two daughters at
are y'all's age, and I would hope somebody would have
helped them out. So that's why they pulled over. So
we hopped in the back of their their truck and

(40:52):
they said, we know the sheriff lives like right down
the road, so we're going to take you to his house.
And when we pull up, they had him and his
son had just gotten home from a golfing trip actually
in the town where I'm from. And the lady, the
lady hands me her little hairclip. She goes, hey, the
son's looking pretty cute, and you kind of look like,
like your hair looks like a mask. Y'all hitch hike,

(41:14):
but you're hitch hitch hiker savior. I don't even know
what you call them. The people that picked y'all up
tried to help you get hooked up with the sheriff's son. Yeah,
she was like, your hair looks like a mask. Here's
a clip. Actually, probably has been a rom com on
a Hallmark or Lifetime already. Actually, I'm pretty sure I've
seen something very similar to this, where like a woman crashes,

(41:37):
she doesn't remember who she is, so she wanders into
town and she stays with a guy and they fall
in love, and she comes back and leaves her big
city life. I could have been a Hallmark movie, but
I'm pretty sure you are a Hallmark. Didn't know it
got in the way of it, Yeah, I know. Me
and him didn't didn't talk. I was embarrassed. So he
probably was like, I don't really want to date a

(41:59):
girl who dry it's a Honda Civic and the mud
in the middle of the woods, Like that's not smart, No,
you know what, you just own that, And you're like,
I was just having the time of my life. I
had no idea what I was doing, and I own it. Yeah, No,
it was I mean it was probably the dumbest moment
of my life. Just I mean, my oldest sister, Mallory's
still to this day makes fun of us, and I
try to blame Shelby. I'm like, she's the one who

(42:20):
told me to keep going. She's the oldest one, She's
the one who should have told me to turn around.
So I try and put all the blame on Shelby,
But I was the one driving. Oh I always blame
it on the older siblings. Yes, that is exactly what
you do as the youngest. Oh yeah, And Mallory, I'm
telling you. Still to this day she makes fun of
us for that, like she will never let us live
it down. She was like, how dumb can y'all be
to take a Honda Civic because she drives a truck.

(42:41):
My dad drives a truck, Like, you know, we're a
truck family. And she's like, why would you take your
little tiny car through the mud. Didn't think that you're
going to get out? Like, She's like, y'all are so dumb.
So yeah, it was not. It was a horrible situation.
So yeah, I literally thought I was gonna die. We
didn't have to. I thought we were gonna have to
stay overnight. I was like, what time, you know, when

(43:01):
are we gonna get home? Are we gonna get home?
I'm gonna have to sleep in my car in the
middle of the woods. So yeah, we didn't thinkfully have
to stay. But that was definitely a sketchy moment for me.
I mean, I'm really glad you're still alive to this day.
I am too. There was a lot of moments on
there like something bad could have happened. I yeah, I
thought either some random person who lives in the woods
was going to come out or an animal was going
to attack me. And I didn't bring my booger knocker,

(43:23):
you know the booker knockers that way have I had
him as a booger knocker it, which is like a
weapon of a form, which is where that's where we
make him, the place where I was at in Homerville,
that's where my grandpaa kee chops that he gets those trees.
He just takes a tree and or like a branch
from a tree, and he whittles it into like a stick,
and it is a booker knocker, that's what we call it.

(43:46):
So if anybody attacks us, we hid him on the
head of it. And that thing's pretty like it hurts,
which is also similar to like. So so for people
who need a reference to this, it's almost my dad
remembers it as being like something that helps you with
your tire. That tool does the what do you call it,
thing a cast an iron, I don't know, but it

(44:08):
looks it's a similar tool that can help with that.
So people have them in their car, but they are
not called booger knockers. Now that's just what my family has.
My mom came up with a nay. But it's basically
like this piece of wood. It's a big old piece
of wood, and the way he so he always tries
to find the best trees because it can have a handle,
like the way that the branches like branch off, so

(44:30):
he has to find like a certain one so it
has a handle to it. God, he just whittles it.
And yeah, we all have him in our cars, but
in that moment, I didn't take mine with me. Nobody'd
be messing with Hillary. She's got a booger knocker in
the back. I don't sneak up on me in my
car because I will whack you with that thing, and
it's not fun. You didn't remind me of something that
made me laugh, Like, this is totally polar opposite of

(44:53):
the topic we were discussing of, you know, sketchy situations.
You're talking about your sister and your dad and and
just you know family dynamics, right, always that. So when
I gosh, this is when we lived in like our
first house, and I couldn't have been more than nine
years old, I shut the garage door on my dad's truck. Yeah,

(45:19):
and I tried to blame it on my sister, and
I got so much struggle. Oh my Okay, I have
so many questions. First of all, the little censor thing
not go off. Well, So what happened was, I believe
at the time it was an older house, so the
sensor was broken. Okay. My dad was unloading groceries, so

(45:39):
he hadn't like pulled in the right way. He had
to move stuff around right like you have a garage.
There's a lot of stuff in there. And so the
back like his little back part of his truck, his
bed of his truck was sticking out just a little bit,
and so I and I, you know, trying to be
the good daughter. I was like, I gotta close a
garage door. We gotta make sure of these things closed

(45:59):
and locked up or whatever. So we're like heading it,
and I vividly remember closing the garage door, hitting the
button and just hearing this down and I was like,
that's not good. That's not good. So it goes back up.
It hits my dad's truck. It goes back up, and
I like slowly walked down to see the damage that
I caused, and thankfully, it really like it didn't smash it, right,

(46:23):
like you think that's what would happen, is like the
whole back end fell off. No, so it just like
scraped the back So, like you know how there's a
truck and the little bed door that goes up, Yeah,
it scratched that beddor right, it's a black truck. It
had a white scratches all over it. And I'm like,
I can't get out of this one. There's literally no
way I can get out of this one. And so
like I just go and I just sit on our

(46:45):
porch and don't talk to anybody for like an hour
because I'm like I don't. I don't want to deal
with this. I don't want to talk. I know I'm
in trouble. And so my dad comes out, He's like,
what are you doing? And I and I finally like
confess up. After I tried to like sit my BlimE
it off. My sister trug blaming it on your sister,
Like what did you say? Like something like, oh, she
told me to close the garage door, Like it's not
my fault. I was just listening, you know what I mean,

(47:07):
But like, really, it's my fault. Yes, Oh my gosh,
I I got in so much trouble that day, but
part for what closing the garage are being dishonest all
of it. Next time your parents come to town, I
got't want to ask about this. Oh yeah, my dad
was fuming. And it's so funny too, because my sister
jokes that I am the favorite child with my dad,

(47:29):
and I still don't to this day. I'm like, I
don't think I am be, because I'm pretty sure if
he ever like remembers that I'm not a favorite child,
I've ruined his I love that you remember that exact
moment of disappointing your dad, and I don't remember a
lot from that time in my life, right, like, because
I'm older now, that's I was really young when that'll happen.
But I remember that so vividly. So kids don't be

(47:52):
shsh door unless everything's out of the way. My gosh,
I can't imagine if I did that to my dad's truck.
He would not because my dad, like I'm sure your dad,
My dad like washes his truck once a week, a
vacuumed out, like his truck is like his baby, And yeah,
that would not have gone. Well. No, whole truck and

(48:13):
the lawn are my dad's babies, which I have had
a hand in getting destroyed. I did I tell Have
I told you about whenever I mowed our lawn one
time when I was little. No, so I'm not asked
to mow the lawn anymore. We don't remember how old
I was. I had to be like ten or something.
I really don't remember. And I was mowing our lawn

(48:34):
and I don't really know what happened, but I crashed
into our neighbor's shed and I didn't push crashed with
the mower. Yes, were you on a sitting mower or
a push mower? A sitting mower. Okay, so this isn't
kind of like a little IDB crash situation. Yes, I
was on a sitting mower and crashed into their shed

(48:55):
and their plants. I was like digging them all up,
like completely ruined their plants. And my dad's like push
the break. Like They're all like shouting at me, and
I'm like what, like what do I supposed to do?
And He's like push that break, and so he had
to like run over there and he had to like
help me get away from the shed. But yeah, I haven't.

(49:16):
I don't think I've mowed since that day. I'm just
never asked to. Yeah, you do not mess with a
dad in his lawn or his car or truck or
whatever vehicle he has. No, those are those are two
things that they love their prize possessions. Yeah, And but
to be fair, as I have gotten older, there are
two things that I love and it is my lawn.
And I am literally my father's daughter seriously, because I'll

(49:40):
ask her. It'll be like a Sunday and I'm like, hey, um,
do you want to go grab lunch or something? No,
I gotta take care of my lawn today. And I'm like, Okay,
we'll see you tomorrow at work. I know, I trust
me when you end up buying a house or a
situation where you have that understand Yes, I never was
that way. I mean I hadn't. My dad had to
ta me out of mo lawn when I first bought

(50:01):
my house, right because he never let me touch the yard.
So yeah, I mean, and now I'm like, I gotta
make sure it looks pretty. I do landscaping. I have
a green thrumb Who would have thought in my entire
I wouldn't have. I was never allowed in the yard.
You really take care of that, Like she'll post her
projects on Instagram and I'm we had a whole conversation
about it. I'm just so impressed. Our friend group is

(50:23):
so impressed with Morgan. We're like she saw there like
haul and mulch and like plants and digging, and we're like, what,
I'm just being a modern, modern independent woman who you know, really,
what's what's Yeah? But like it's not domestic, right, Like
I'm not trying to be domesticated. I'm like the reverse

(50:44):
of domesticated. I'm trying to do everything for myself. You're
very independent, Yeah, yeah, my boyfriend does not like that sometimes.
Oh I can imagine, because I'm so fear It's not
like he loves that. He lets me be independent. He
doesn't care about my life what I do, and I've
worded that wrong. He cares what I do. He does

(51:04):
not mind that I'm very fiercely independent. Yes, but he
loves to try and help me, and I don't accept
help very well. I am the polar opposite of that.
Like he tries to do things and like I like,
he's been staying with me for a while and I'm
so ocd about cleaning right. I will literally pick something

(51:28):
up after he puts it down. He was like, I
was going to take care of that, and I'm like, yeah,
but it didn't happen fast enough. Oh my goodness. I
just don't. I've just lived. And this is a consequence, honestly,
a good one. I was single for so long and
I became so comfortable with being independent. Yep, that when
I got into a relationship, and a very healthy one
at that. Who somebody who cherishes the fact that I

(51:50):
am independent, but it still comes with the complications of
the fact that I am so used to being independent
is very hard for me. To depend on somebody else
at this point, and I never will get back to
the to the point either where I fully depend on
somebody else. I've been hurt too much in that area,
so if it will ever exist, it'll be like twenty
five percent that I depend on. And even then I'm

(52:12):
still like I don't want to. It makes sense, and
I do see that, like Morgan doesn't even want us
to drive her to the airport or you know, do
things like that. She's very independent and which I mean,
I'm in some way, but you're very independent for a reason.
I mean, I can't say anything but no, you're very independent.
But I mean I've been single for literally my entire life,

(52:35):
and you had a period where you are single for
so long. So we did. We had to rely on ourselves.
So this is why we are the way we are. Well,
I mean, I think you can relate and I think
so many other people can relate to that that it's
just like it's really it feels really good when you
get to such a place of independency, right, like, yeah,
you don't have to depend on anybody and you can

(52:57):
take care of yourself, and you know, I mean, for gosh,
because there was one time where Hillary and I changed
the battle of my car. Literally that independent one of
the best moments of my life that I helped change
a car battery. Yes, and Hillary was a huge help
in that, which is funny that we're talking about independency.
But I needed you in that moment. We needed each other,
We needed each other. But yeah, we're and I think

(53:19):
our whole friend group is that way, just very fiercely
independent and very okay on their own, which is honestly
what I think you need to be anyway to think
in a relationship. But it comes with a cost, right,
and you have to be able to get out of
that at some point. That's hard. I think we're all independent,

(53:40):
but we're not too stubborn with it. Yeah, it's like
it's you're just being independent survival almost. Yeah, And I
mean if you think about it all, like our friend group,
we don't have our parents here, we don't have our
siblings here. We're literally here on our own, so we've
kind of had to figure it out. I remember the

(54:00):
first when I lived on my own, the first time
I killed a cockroach, I texted my Dad's like I
just killed a cockroach, or like, you know, you know
how you snake out your drain like your tough drain.
Every time I do that, I text my dad. I'm like, Dad,
I just did this. Yeah, it's like we just have
to learn how to do things on our own now.
And yeah, it creates independence for sure. Yeah, and I
think too, that's the underrated side of moving to a

(54:21):
city where you don't know anybody, right, Yeah, all of
us did that. That was what happened when we all
chose to move to Nashville. And that's something that people
don't talk about enough, is that, yes, you gain independency,
and yes you go on your own, but like you're
also doing so many things for the first time by yourself. Yes,
you don't have help physically in any way. Like I

(54:43):
can face my time and my dad as much as
they want, but it's he's still not there, and I
still have to do it at the end of the day. Right,
And just like well you even if it's as much
as killing a spider or a cockroach, like so many
things that you don't think about when moving to a
new city, that it Yes, it it propels you into
that fiercely independent, like self sufficient person, but it also

(55:07):
like really challenges you to do things that you never
thought you were capable of doing. Oh yeah, for sure.
I mean you have to learn so much. Even like
hanging a picture on my wall, I have to FaceTime
my dad in which I feel comfortable. I can do
it now. But yeah, I'm putting together a desk from
where was it? Ikia walmart Wart? That desk? Actually, you know,

(55:29):
I never told him about that. I was so proud
of it. He's coming in a couple of weeks, so
I'm going to show him and say, look what I did.
The whole I jokingly put on Instagram like I wanted
somebody to come help me, but I did not. In
the whole reason, I did not because I wanted to
text it to my dad and say, Dad, look what
I did. I put this desk together all by myself.
I hope you're so proud that I did that. Because

(55:50):
growing up, I was the youngest in my family. I
was not the one who went out to go like
help him. I have two sisters, so there's three girls
in the family. I was not the one who went
out to go help him, you know, do stuff or
build stuff. That was the oldest. So anytime I can
do something I'm so proud of it because I was
not the child he asked to go out there and
help and build something, and I'm still not, so I

(56:11):
always want to show him like, look what I did. Yes,
And I think it's so cool. I love when we
come on here because we have such similar family dynamics
and we talk about that. So shout out to both
of our parents and our dads who helped us try
to be as independent as possible as we moved away
from home. But then also all the dads out there
and moms who taught their kids to do that stuff,

(56:33):
because yeah, it is underrated in this world that we
live in. It really is. So thank you too, our
lovely parents. We love them both. And we'll get back
to the whole reason we even got into this. I
guess as Hillary calls them a rabbit trails, yes, not
a rabbit trail, lunchbox an abbey. They were down in

(56:53):
Arkansas for the Crater of Diamonds State Park and they
had to almost stay in a sketchy hotel so you
can hear what all went down Number five your hotel
last night, like shady is crab? Oh, don't even get
me started with that. Don't even give me start with that.
I mean scuba like scuba did something there, like scuba
was messing with us, Like I mean, there was a

(57:15):
here ball or whatever on my bed like it was
it was like my I opened the door to my
hotel room and it was nothing but nasty must smell.
They didn't even have air conditioning in the room. Got
a window open. It was disgusting. So what did you
end up doing? Oh, don't you worry that that that hyunda?
Two songs, Very comfortable slept. Listen, guys, I don't think

(57:39):
you understand how disgusting it was. Like I feel, I
plucked over my pillow and there was a big like
black spot on the pillowcase, not on the pillow, on
the pillow case, and then I pulled the you know how, Yeah,
you can hit stars and you can like give me
the most stars? Yes, did you hit that and then
accidentally hit it twice so it gives you the least
number of stars? And then you bot that hotel? No,
that was actually the highest hotel within that region. Do

(58:01):
they have they have an indoor water park. It seemed
like it was a great experience. I mean, I would
love to have stayed there. It was either that or
a Taunted bed and breakfast. I gave you the best
option of the three cool. But here's the thing. That's
why I know you're lying. You want to know know why
I know you're lying. How I got on Google. I
got on Google and three and a half stars, No, no, no,
two and a half stars and point two miles down

(58:22):
the road, four point five star bed and breakfast. That
was the Haunted bed and breakfast. I was being put
you in there best stars. I'm looking at Lunchboxes hotel.
I'm not gonna say the name of it. It has
three point one stars. It does have a water park,
and I mean it does like pretty cool from the pictures,

(58:42):
although I saw much on Instagram, it did not look
the water was green, dude. Like I walked in there
and I was like, I got COVID. But from the
water park you got in the water even though the
room no, no, no, no no, the water was green and
there was like like pile of dirt on the ground
or the bottom of the pool. Yeah, guys, when I

(59:04):
went to go check the in, the guy comes slumbering
out of the back and his T shirt and boxers
and let me read that review. Just pulled up the
reviews to this place. It says pet friendly showerhead didn't
work it cold shower, blood by the pool, blood by

(59:24):
the pool. I'm fine with old rooms, but food under
the bed, dirt on bathroom floor, hair and bathtub. Not
our hair. By the way, No, Continental Breakfast still charge
one hundred twenty five bucks a night. Oh wow? Anything
about the guy wearing T shirt and boxing? No, no, no no, no, here, guys,
it gets better. So I have I have my mask
on because you know that's what I do. And he

(59:45):
sees me with the mask, he goes, honey, you get this.
And he just walked to the back because yeah, and
he had I mean, and then his wife comes out
and she has no shoes on, and just I mean,
it was Why are we just not learning that? Do
you blame scubas D for that? Oh he did, Yes,
he did it on purpose. I'm going based on the line.

(01:00:10):
Here's the thing about a phone screen or Abbey is
just like, I don't know what to do. She was like,
I can't sit down. I don't even want to sit
on the bed. She goes, We're guaranteed to get bed
bogs if we sit on these beds. Oh no, so
he slept in the us on then you five you did?
Did you sleep in the Tucson or no? No, guess
where I went. I went to the four point five
star hotel down the street and booked the room. I thought,

(01:00:31):
he said he slipped in the car. What about Abbey?
Thank Paris Hilton? Yes, what about Abbey? There's no, there's
no Paris Hilton. Here here's the thing, here's the thing,
Abby even said, She goes, this would not happen to
another member on the show. They would not even they
wouldn't even do this for a second, she goes. She goes,
I guarantee you every single person on the show would
be like, they would not do this to them. And

(01:00:53):
by the way, day I didn't know anything about it.
I saw the Instagram story last night. It was like, well,
that doesn't look appealing and this happened to remember to
bring it up during a bit. It wasn't even written
down for me to talk. Oh yeah, no, I mean,
I'm like, why was this not the first thing we
talked about? Where where did Abby stay? She went down
to the four point five star hotel? Also, Oh, did
she have to pay for it or did you pay

(01:01:15):
for it? Oh no, why are you going? Oh? Oh
here here's the funny part. Here's the funny part. Scoop
A books these rooms and paid for him. Guess what,
It's not paid for until you get there and you
have to use your own credit card paid for it.
Then you then you have a problem because I paid
for it with my company credit card. Go check your
receipt on the Travelocity booking. It says it is paid

(01:01:38):
upon arrival. Well then why would I give my credit card?
Then now we have a problem or a deposit? So
so okay, So the bright side is we didn't pay
for two rooms here, no, oh no, no, no, I
paid for two rooms at two different hotels. Oh man,
this is I hope he finds a diamond now for him. Yeah, wait,

(01:02:01):
you'll buy a diamond and planet out by his feet.
So you guys, have you ever walked in somewhere and
it just smelt dirty and felt dirty? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, sure, yes,
exactly what this was. Because there was dead rope shoes
on my bathroom for two of them upside down. Well
at least they were dead. Yeah, Like, it seems like
I hate this for you. I didn't know I didn't

(01:02:23):
even know this was going to be part of the
bit it's now the best part of the bit um.
He's gonna leave this trip in debt instead of unless
he finds a diamond. Well, he'll get reimbursed, I'm sure. Well,
his expense reports are already getting all eyed with a
magnified glass. Yeah, okay, well, lunchbox, keep gaging. No, No,
here's what's crazy, school. I mean, you walk into this

(01:02:45):
other hotel and it was like, just like a normal hotel,
you know how they have cups wrapped in plastic, and
they have brand new coffee, and they have the seals
on the toilet to let you know it's clean. They
got all that. It was amazing and it was literally
point three miles down the road. But scooping, did all
this research? Scooping? Anything you want to say for yourself
in your defense? Yeah, and my defense one, I've never
been to Arkansas or that area, so I have no idea.

(01:03:06):
I just looked online. I found three things within the
region without you having to drive two hours away, JORDI
drove seven hours to get there. I thought this was
the nicest place, and apparently I was wrong. How is three?
How is two? And a half stars better than four
hal he said three and a half three point one
on what I see, Yeah, okay, and then the other
one was four point five. So which one is greater
than which was left? When I was looking at the

(01:03:27):
When I was looking at the images, though, the bed
and breakfast you're talking about seem haunted and creepy and gross,
and so I felt, Okay, they don't want to stay there.
They shouldn't stay there, So let's put him in this
other spot as a pool. It seems like it'd be
a nice family place to stay. Are you apologizing, Scuba,
I'm not apologizing for anything I didn't. I didn't do
this on purpose. That's what he's saying. I didn't do
this on purpose. So I'm not nothing to apologize for.
If we had to take a boat around the room,

(01:03:48):
we know Scuba six six sense of humor, he do
it on purpose? No, I don't think so. I'm looking
at pictures. It actually looks pretty cool because I was
supposed to go on this trip and that's where I
was going to stay with you. Yeah, no, you wouldn't
have stay there, I promise you, like like literally, we
did not even sit like I took my bag in

(01:04:08):
the room, and I was like, man, I'm just gonna
leave in the car, Like I'm just gonna leave my
bag in the car. Like we didn't even sit down
in the room because we were like we don't know
what to touch. That's really awful, all right, we gotta
end this bit. But but also what a blessing you
have the luxury to go down the street. Some people
might have to just stay there and you got to

(01:04:29):
go get yourself a different room. So be thinkin five star,
four point five star, I'm telling and they had a
continental breakfast in everything. Okay, you get to digging. We'll
check back the other one. No, no no, no, let me
tell you about the other one. I'm being told to
go to break hold on. The other one had breakfast
on their sign and they crossed it out with a
cold pieces of tape and they ran out. There's no

(01:04:53):
more raisin man. Okay, that's lunch box. He's digging for
a diamond right now. It's the best bits of the
week with Morgan number two. We talk about TV shows
and movies all the time on the show What we watch,
you know, what we recommend, And this week we had
to put in some parameters around everything because I've spoiled movies.

(01:05:17):
Amy spoiled movies, Eddie spoiled the TV show. There's been
a lot of spoiling on our show, right, and so
we had to put down some possible punishments for if
somebody spoils a TV show or movie. So we hillary
right now are not going to give any spoilers, okay,
but we are going to recommend some things that we
had been watching lately with no spoilers, because we can

(01:05:38):
do that. Yes, the two things I've watched recently I
feel like I haven't really watched a lot of TV lately,
is actually the show Amy got in trouble for clickbait. Okay,
watching that's good, you do recommend, Okay, So can I
say you watch it and give a writing for it? Okay? Um,
I will give it M four and a half. I

(01:06:06):
can't think of anything, focus on the ring my brain.
It's okay, we can just do star. Let's just do stars.
So four and a half stars because I can't don't
think of anything from this show and I just finished. Yes,
I might not be in that good. I remember I
liked it, but now I can't remember what happened. Yeah, yes,

(01:06:30):
scouring to half volleyballs out of five? Okay, four and
a half volleyballs out of five. Did you want to
say something on it? I don't think I'm allowed to.
You can, but you just have to be careful. Oh
um show, and I know I just feel like, okay,
I'm scared to say anything. But no, I liked it.
I thought, okay. I I love trying to figure out

(01:06:51):
shows and movies. Y'all know I do look up spoilers
before I finished things. So if I can't finish the
show in a day, then I'm going to have to
look it up. I can't go to bed unless I
know what happens. Like that's just me. Yes. I think
we've discussed on this podby Hass in particular that you
like to know the endings. I like to know endings
before I go to bed. So I did binge this

(01:07:13):
entire show in a day? Sweet? Yes? Okay? So worth
watching on Netflix? Yes, worth watching on Netflix. I like
to try and figure things out. I like to think
I'm a detective. I think I can say this. I
didn't figure it out. Interesting. Yeah, And I really feel
like I can figure a lot of things out. I

(01:07:33):
did not figure this one out, so I feel like
it really keeps you until the very last minute of
this show. All right, I'm talking, Okay, I'm like trying
to figure it out. Another thing I do want to
recommend real quick, and I know this is so random,
but I watched at the beginning of the month is
the nine to eleven documentary on Hulu. Oh okay, I

(01:07:55):
don't know if you've seen it. One season A limited's
here it is. I think it was it five or
six episodes, five or six episodes. Highly highly recommend. That
was one of the things I watched recently that I
really really recommend people watch. How many stars or other
things do you give it? Five American flags out of

(01:08:16):
five American flag That is a solid rating. It was
just so good because they talked to I hate using
the word good when we talk about tragic things. It
was just so well made because they talked to survivors
from the nine to eleven attacks, And I don't like
to use the word cool either, but it was just

(01:08:37):
so interesting. They had footage like from inside the towers,
like actual footage from that day, and it was footage
from the people they were talking to, like they we
saw what that person went through on that day, like
actual footage, and then now we're talking to them today
about their experience from that. I cried. I think every

(01:08:58):
episode like I so, maybe great thing to watch, but
make sure you're ready for kind of the emotional rollercoaster
you may go on, yes, because I mean it is
it's just sad. Like I knew it was sad, but
I was eight when it happened, and so I wasn't.
I didn't really fully comprehend what was going on in

(01:09:19):
our country at that time and how tragic this was.
And obviously through the years I've learned, but watching that
really put it in perspective of how horrible it was.
I've always known it was horrible, but it just really
takes it to a whole new level of wow. Like
people had to choose between jumping out of a building

(01:09:43):
or staying in there and burning, Like it's just it's
I can't imagine even being put into that situation, have
to make that decision. Yeah, and just the people who
you know, they were trying to get out and the
people next to them or right behind them didn't make
it but they did. And wondering why that Survivor was them. Yeah,
and like hearing how people have dealt with that these

(01:10:06):
past twenty years. Yea, And yeah, it gives me chill
talking about it now, but I highly recommend me. Eddie
and Mike d sat around and talked about it a
few weeks ago after we all watched it, and we
all just had the same thoughts and feelings on it.
It was one of the most well done documentaries I've
ever seen. I thought they did a really great job
with it, So I recommend watching. It's not like a happy,

(01:10:30):
you know, feel good show. It's very tragic from stuff
and I learned a lot. There's a lot I didn't know,
and I really learned a lot. They take you to
the Pentagon and you know all that stuff, and then
you know it was supposed to go to the Capitol.
The other plane was that ended up crashing, And you
hear from one of the guys who crashed that plane.

(01:10:51):
You hear from his mom, like and she got to
actually talk to him before that happened. Wow. I mean,
it's just it's so that we don't typically yes vm
us or social media. H So I recommend to that one.
But I'm gonna have to steal your Hulu account from
that one. Oh yeah, you can totally have it. There's
so many streaming services now, I think I have all

(01:11:14):
of them. I have Apple TV, I have Hulu. I
just got it back. Okay, yes, because there's something on
there I wanted to watch, so yeah, I got you.
What have you been watching though? Do you have any others?
I mean, I feel like all I do watch TV
shows and movies. I'm trying to think if there's anything
else I've been watched. Oh I started, um nine Perfect Strangers. Okay,

(01:11:36):
that's also on. I do have to admit something. I'm
on the third episode, but I already looked at what
happened because I had to go to bed and I
needed to know, so that yourself. I spoiled myself for
that one. But I will say, and this is not
a spoiler, don't watch it for you because there's an
animal dies. Oh yeah, and I wish I would have
been warned about it, and I wasn't. So this is

(01:11:58):
a warning tall animal lovers that that does happen. I
literally I cannot watch anything. We're an animal dice, I
particularly dogs, but like even further so, it's very difficult
if there's like animal scenes. Yeah, it's very hard for me.
I had to close my eyes. It was very it's
a lot. I don't think that's a spoiler. I think
people are okay because I want to be warned about
stuff like that. Yeah, So it's not like it gives weight.

(01:12:20):
Anybody can always tell me an animal dies. And I
will never consider a spoiler, even if it's like the
biggest part of a movie. I'll be like, thank you, yeah,
because it wasn't a big part of it, like it
had nothing like it wasn't. It just happened. And I
was like, Okay, that happens, which I would have known
about that because that's very traumatizing for me. So those
are some so nine Perfect Strangers. We've got the nine

(01:12:41):
to eleven documentary all on Hulu and then click Bay
on Netflix, Netflix, Yeah, Nextflix, Netflix Cli Yes. Also on
Netflix Lucifer. I finished all of that. They just concluded
the final season of that, which was so good. There's
some hardcore Lucifer fans out there, and I really loved it.
I didn't think I like, I would like it as
much as I did watch that one. That one. I

(01:13:04):
give that four out of five Devils devil Horns, devil
horns yeah? Or wings Let's do wings? Um happier yeah
yeah um? And then Ted Lasso of course on April.
I still have I cannot say words of any of
these streaming services today. Apple TV watch now, I haven't
even seen the horrisine. You have to get into Ted Lasso.

(01:13:26):
I'm weird about when everybody's talking about something like I
never watched Tiger King. I didn't watch it either. When
everybody's talking about something, I just I don't know. I'm like,
you know, I actually I've been hearing about it so
much that it's consumed my life in that way. You're like,
I'm not sure if I really am gonna like this
as much as everybody's hyping it up. Yes, that's I
guess that could be it. But I will say I

(01:13:48):
felt the same way about Ted Lasso. And then finally
I was like, I'm just gonna watch one episode. If
I don't like it, I won't. I loved it. I'll
watch it. I do have Apple TV. It's the perfect
mix of feel good things that you just kind of need,
and it's so light and it's quick, like yeah, it's
really good. There's a show and I wish I remembered
with the name of it was, Um, my favorite Chris
Evens season. It. Um, it's on Apple TV and it's

(01:14:10):
oh defending Jacob. Yes, did you watch? I didn't watch it,
but I knew because Kurs Sevens love him like he is.
He maybe my favorite actor. He's up there for sure. Yeah,
he's definitely up there for me. I mean all the
Chrises are up there for me pretty much. Yep. Same. Yeah,
if your name is Chris, I'm gonna like you. No,
I watched anything with Kurs Evens like, I'm gonna watch it.

(01:14:33):
But that was on Apple TV. That was good. I
watched that a while ago. I enjoyed that one in
morning shows. Also, Oh, I'm watching that one. I forgot
about that. Yeah, every Friday watching that one. Um. I'll
have to give my final review at the end of
the season because I'm unsure all my thoughts right now. Interesting. Yeah.
Also I recommended this week the UFO series. Yeah, you like,

(01:14:59):
oh my gosh, Yes, I do, Yes, I do. Yeah,
I mean, it's just it just confirms everything I've known. Yeah,
and it's interesting because it's all stuff now at least
it's coming from the government that's been hidden for years,
which is why I find it so interesting, because it's
like all these things have been out there and we've
known them, right, well, some people have known them, but
now the public gets to know them, which is why

(01:15:19):
I find it so interesting. Okay, so if you're into
that kind of stuff, I totally suggest watching it because
it's very intriguing. And then but there's also a emotional
if you need a good cry, there is a movie
on HBO Max called All My Life and it is
based on a real story and okay, definitely made me cry. Um.

(01:15:44):
Basically it's about a love story. And I'm not going
to say more than that without you know, giving anything away,
but it's a love story and I cried a lot.
But it's really good. So if you need a good cry,
watch that one. Is it like a like a Nicholas
Sparks type movie? Ish? Yeah, obviously he didn't like direct
that one, but yes, ish in a way Okay, Um,
but inspired by true events Okay, a true like couple. Yeah,

(01:16:09):
who's in it? I feel like I've heard of this. Um.
I don't think you know the actors. They're new. You might,
I say that you may know one of them. Here's
the I'm showing you the picture. Yeah, like the lead.
You might have seen like previews for it, Okay, no
I haven't. Yeah, they're not like really well known actors.
I recognize them from some things. But okay, I'll have
to watch that. Me and Georgie. You will sit and

(01:16:29):
you need to get crab out and crash that one.
I do like, I love sad movies. Anything else we got.
Have you seen the previews? I will not watch it.
I know you will not watch it for that Squid Games. No, yes,
I won't watch it, but yes, I have seen the previews.
So I looked that one up. Real breaking, crazy, it's real.
Those are real people. That's like the Hunger Games, real

(01:16:50):
life intense. Oh I've already looked up this or looked
up everything without it, but but yes I heard it
is more and it's like Hunger Games and Saul real
life though, like real people. This is really happening, right,
Like you mean like it's really like this actually happened. Yeah.

(01:17:12):
From what people were writing online, I thought this was
a like a fiction. I mean I don't. I thought
it was real life. I feel like if this happened
in real life, we would know about this because this
is really bad game, A real game. That's fine. No,
there's no way. It's not like a documentary like true
thing like The Suspicion. Okay, I feel so much better

(01:17:33):
because that's why I could have watched. I was like,
I thought this was real. No, I was wondering made
by by by real because Saul is real people, And
I was like, what does she thought it was real? Real? Like? No,
people were literally this is literally happening to people in
real life. No, it's fake. Okay, but it's that makes
me feel tragic because I hear it's very gory and

(01:17:55):
very um it is realistic. I mean if it's like
the Hungry Games, that makes sense. It's just sounds sick.
I can't watch stuff like that. So I'm gonna be
on the pass tragic recommendation. But people say online it's
really good. I'm gonna but now I know that it
is not really to have Mike d watch it and
he can give me the rundown on it. Yeah, he would.

(01:18:16):
He would watch something like that and he would tell
us if it's worth watching or not. I won't watch it. Okay, Well, here,
you guys can hear what our possible punishments are for
spoiling a TV show, movie, and hopefully in the segment
we just did, Hillary and I did not spoil anything
for you. I don't think we did, but you never know.
I'm still concerned about the nine Perfect Strangers thing I said.
But no, I don't consider that a spoiling. Maybe that's

(01:18:39):
a discussion to have. I don't think when you warn
people about animals dying that it's a spoiler. Personally, they
can prep that for the show, because that's a question
I have. Okay, well, here you go. You guys can
hear this right now, and then you know, go online,
tell us which punishment you would choose for us to
you know, have happened on the off chance we did
spoil something. Number four. This is a voicemail we got

(01:19:02):
last night. Hey, I hate to do this because I
love Amy, but she totally ruined clickbait. She said on
the show the other day when talking to Lunchbox, leaping
it out. And then I started watching it, and the
whole time I was just waiting to figure out, Oh, okay,
have a good day, guys. I didn't want to spoil it. Okay, Well,

(01:19:24):
I don't even know what I said, trust me you did, Okay,
but can you tell me off here? Okay, but I
think we have new rules have to go into place
for spoiling shows or movies, and then we have a
board of votes on if they spoiled it or not.
Oh wow, okay, but so here are some ideas. One is,
if you spoil a show or a movie, you have
to go out on a busy street during the show

(01:19:46):
with a sign that says, honk if you think I'm
a bad person for spoiling a TV show until you
get a thousand honks thousand so you can't. Yeah, that's
a lot of honks. Bonn Yeah. Day. The next TV
show they start watching in love, they have one year
to watch the finale. Okay, and how are you going
to monitor the honor system? They get called peepee poop

(01:20:09):
poop butt Fase on the air for a week, that's
their name. They have to pay for everyone's streaming service
bill for a month the show. What that's good? All
streaming platforms, well one of them, okay, the one you ruined.
Oh wow, but that's still significant. We got how come
whenever I said it, nobody said anything like I ruined it?

(01:20:32):
Because we didn't watch it. They have to change their
Instagram profile picture by photo shopping. That little kid that
peas on things on it. That's so nice, that kid.
So okay, we have to decide which one of those
is the thing I'm a big fan of that holds
a sign up on the street. If you spoil, I
like public shaming. That's exactly what that is. Um So,

(01:20:55):
which one do we like that? Which one do you like? Eddie?
I mean, I like the pain for the provider. That's
that's really cool. You want to do that because I've
maybe done it once, I will never spoil again. I
like changing the Instagram photo. What we're all torn? Right now?
I can vote, but I also made my own. Well
go ahead, let me hear your own. You spoil a

(01:21:15):
show you drink spoiled milk sick? Yeah, that's awful, dude,
on your second offense, sil milk torturer. All right, what
do you got, Ray? Definitely the sign let's do by
the street. Okay, Well that's two for that. If you

(01:21:35):
spoil it, you gotta go out on this on a
street you get a thousand honks. Okay, one more question?
Who is the board and are they going to be
very fair, I think the board's gonna be Scuba, Steve,
Mike d and myself. Oh you're on the board. You're
on the board too. I gotta be on the board. Okay.
So like basically, now we just say which I mean.
I don't even know that I was reviewing bait. Clearly

(01:21:57):
I said something about lunchbox, So maybe I was just
making Yeah I made a reference. Yeah you know what
the reference would be. I think I can't. I don't know.
You're gonna have to tell me off air. I just
said it. What dude again? Okay, now do you realize
I could see where there would be problem there you
go if that came through on the air, I didn't

(01:22:18):
hear it. Okay, good, Okay, that came through on the air.
Bobby has to go on the street order. Yeah, that's
how I suffer from it. It's the best bits of
the week with Morgan. Number two Elvie Shane's first time
on the show happened this week. He came in. He
performed his song my Boy, also one of his songs

(01:22:38):
called Miles, both super emotional in different ways, um and
really great songs. He talked about you know the viral
edity of my boy, what happened with that song? What's
happened over the course of his career? Really awesome interviews,
So again, listen to it right now you can hear
him talk to Bobby and then go to Bobby Bones
dot com and watch his awesome performance. Number three, The

(01:23:00):
Friday Morning Conversation with Elvie Shane Olbi. How many people
mess up your name? Do people call you Elvis that
have no idea? Elvis? Sometimes Elva? Elb with a B
a lot. Who would call you Elvi? That's funny. I
don't know, man, I don't. I don't get that one either.
ELB really bugs me. I think it's just because over
the phone, I got like the hillbilly speech impediment, you know,

(01:23:23):
and V's kind of hard to pick out. So I'm
always like E l V as in Victor I E
LV Shane? Is is that your real name? Elvi? Yeah?
It's my first middle name. LV. Is your first name
middle name? No, LV Shane? Yeah, my first middle Oh
got it? So what's what's LV? What were you named after? Um?
My great grandfather Um was named Elvi. I guess it

(01:23:43):
used to be like a fairly common name for older
countryman back in the day. I don't know. The only
other place I found it is Filipino women on social media.
They reached out to me and they're like, hey, my
name's el there's actually Elvie Shanes. They're all women. You
grew up with Kentucky. I did. I grew up in Kennyville, Kentucky.
What's that hear? Um? It's kind of a spoken will

(01:24:04):
thirty five miles from elizabeth Town, Bowling Green, Owensborough, So
not too terribly far from here, but far enough that
Nashville seems like it could be a whole, you know,
world away. Yeah, definitely. I I didn't even know that
this was a thing that you could like come to
Nashville and write songs and stuff until I was in
my twenties. I just I thought that songs just magically
appeared on radio somehow. You know, you have this like

(01:24:25):
this look, this feel about you, like a vibe value
where you Your look seems twenty five, but like your
soul is like ninety. Like I'm just kind of confused,
But like I doesn't he seem like he's just been
through a Like he looks like he's just learned a
lot in tattoos all m down his arms. I just
made a lot of mistakes, you know. Yeah. I grew

(01:24:47):
up around a lot of characters. My dad was a
truck driver. My dad's like the king of making mistakes
and finding a way making them back out of him
and looking like a brand new penny. So, uh, you
can't be older than like thirty? Are you thirty three? Okay? Yeah,
just turned thirty three? Because it looks like a kid,
but a kid who's been you know, a little gray
and my whiskery do you? Yeah, a little bit? I

(01:25:08):
get at my sideburns. Do you think about dying it
at all? Or no? Man? I thought about it, but
then I was like, I gotta keep up with that,
and I already can't keep up with everything else I
gotta do, so I'll just, you know, maybe it'll be
a silver fox about thirty seven. Well, I like to
look a lot, Thank you, brother, Because I think I
was talking with Morgan wall on the once and we
were having this conversation of people knowing you by your

(01:25:32):
like what do you call the shadow of someone that's silhouette? Yeah? Yeah,
Like if I saw a silhouette of you, I would
know it. Well, that's cool. If I saw a silhouette
of me with the glasses or Morgan with the hair,
like you would know it. So like, I mean, that's
a compliment. Absolutely, I'm glad you say that. John Lovell.
One time I used to wear a big hat and
everybody started wearing hats and I realized that hat was

(01:25:52):
really hot in the summertime because it felt and I
showed up to Christmas party. He's like, man, you gotta
have your hat. That's your silhouette. And I was like, dude,
you can't glue that thing in my head. It's too hot.
So there you go, John Lowe, there's your silhouette. You
were a planing of songs. We were just doing a
little sound check before you came on. I don't know
what it was something, what was that song? You're a
plan there. So we've been out on the Brooks and
done tour and uh so Belief and one of my

(01:26:15):
favorite songs of theirs and that that was Believed of
what's it done? Yeah? Absolutely? Can you play a little
bit of that. I didn't put it together because it
was saved old man really living that white happen now.
I hear it down street where I grew Look, Mamma
used to send me over with things. We stroke a

(01:26:36):
friendship good. Yeah, and that's a that's that song hits
different because Ronnie speaks it and then it feels like church.
It's hard to learn man, middle of it because he's
he's got such a pocket in that song that's so
unlike anything else he does. So learning that song was

(01:26:57):
a bit of a bear. You're out on on tour
with Brooks and Dunn and Travis Trupp both. That's gotta
be pretty cool, man. It's awesome. I mean, you're talking
about some of the greatest voices in country music ever.
So to be able to be out there and see
how these guys perform and put it on a show
and interact with their crowds and everything, it's trying to
just soak it in learn what I can from it.
So lb Shane is here with us. He's got a

(01:27:18):
song that's top five right now, I called my boy.
This song was inspired by your own life, right because
you have a step kid. Yeah. I met this girl
ten years ago, Mandy. She was a bartender and waitress
and I was just I don't know what I was doing.
I was playing pool and drinking pictures, and she walked
up and kind of acted like she liked me and

(01:27:40):
confused me a little bit. She walked up to you. Yeah,
she well, I was there. She was trying to make
some money, so you know, but she's my waitress. But yeah, yeah,
it wasn't nothing special about me at first. But uh no,
she uh she kind of acted like she liked me,
and I was like, dang, that ain't usually the kind
of girl that comes up to me like that. And

(01:28:00):
she told me she had a five year old little
boy and I just needed some reasons to change a
lot of things in my life, and that seemed like
two big reasons to me. And a year later she
let me marry her and I became a stepdad, and
this song is just blown up him. It's crazy. It's
been around for We wrote it in two and sixteen,
so it's been around for five years. It went viral

(01:28:21):
like three years ago and then just disappeared on Facebook
and we were like, well everyone in our fifteen minutes
of fame, you know, But then ended up getting a
record deal over that and then blowing up again on
TikTok last year, and then country radio has been really
good to us over the last year. And yeah, I
got a top five record country music. That's crazy, man,
I never knew that it was possible. Congratulations, Thank you

(01:28:44):
so much. If you don't mind, would you mind playing
that for us now? Absolutely? Here is Lvy Shane, which,
by the way, you can follow him Lvy Shane Music.
If you like what you hear, go follow my Instagram.

(01:29:08):
He ain't got my smile. That don't bother me, bit
he's got somebody else's eyes. I'm seeing myself in. I'm
holding on to every moment. God knows. I missed a
few the day we met. I knew I had some

(01:29:30):
catch enough to do. He ain't my blood, ain't got
my name, but if he did, I feel the same.
I was in there for his first steps. But I
ain't missed the ball game yet, and that ain't ever
gonna change. I can never walk away. Yeah, he's my

(01:29:55):
son and that's my choice. He ain't my blood, but
he's mine. He's my boy. We only hope that this
song would do what it's done when we wrote it
that day and wanted it to connect with some folks,
you know, But since then we've seen it connected with

(01:30:16):
more people than we imagine adopted families, foster families, even coaches.
But we knew that one word was wrong for a
lot of folks. So we got back in the city
and trying to fix that one. She's Saturday morning cartoons,
She's haking sleeping your room. She's bigger than the plans

(01:30:40):
I had. She's making me a better man. She ain't
my blood, ain't gotten my name, but if she did,
I feel the same. I was in't there for her
first steps, but I ain't missed the ballgame in and
that ain't ever gonna change. I can never walk away. Yeah,

(01:31:05):
she's my baby, my whole world. She ain't my blood,
but she's mine. She's my girl. Yeah, he's my he's
my boy. Come on, it's awesome. So talking me through that,

(01:31:27):
you would the record of the song, but I so
many people were going, hey, what about web web daughters too?
So he went back in. Yeah, a lot of people.
Then when we put it out, I was getting messages
left and right on Instagram, and and I was like,
I hollered at my co writers, and I was like,
it's it's really easy. Listen, change the pronouns and and
changes like the girl line in the chorus, and so
we got out there, you know. But I've since then,

(01:31:48):
I've had step moms reach out and I'm like, I
don't know how to pull that one off. So maybe
maybe there's a female artist out there that they could
cover it for me and do that for them. But uh,
I'm really glad that people have reached out. Well, let
me say that his EP came out earlier this year.
It's got six songs. But we're announcing your record Backslide
or October twenty ninth, so just a little over a

(01:32:08):
little less than a month from now. Yeah, man, I'm
so excited. More music, more tracks on this thing. Yeah.
I thought I had a whole record when I signed
my deal, um, but they tell me they only had
one song, my boy, so everything has been written after
I signed my deal. At first, I was like, yeah,
full of crap, I got more than one song, you know,
but uh, I'm so glad they did that. It just
pushed me to really dig in. And what we came

(01:32:28):
up with is this, you know, basically a biography. It's
where I come from, where I've been, where I am now,
and a little bit of hopefully where I'm going. And uh,
it's honest, and it's raw and and I feel like
a lot of people will be able to relate. Here's
what I'll do. Um, we'd only planned for that. If
you want to do another segment, you have another song

(01:32:48):
from the EP that you want to play, We'd love
to have you stick around and play another song. It's
up to you, though, absolutely, do you know any more
of your songs that's you want the you want to
EP song or take a couple of minutes figured out
well you want to come back though, we rarely invited
you back for an extra break. But man, you're so good.
Another sogument. Absolutely, it's the best bits of the week

(01:33:11):
with Morgan. Number two, the Friday morning conversation with Elsie Shane.
All Right, he's here. He just played my Boy, right,
let's play a clip of my Boy, so our audience
get here again. He got my name, by the way,
great performance of the song. I think everybody in this
room was moved. Amy's got adopted kids, Eddie's got two

(01:33:32):
foster kids. It's hard and so I'm sure I was
a step kid. You know that's cool, man. So I'm
sure that, um, all of us in a different way
kind of felt that song. It seems it seems to
be pretty relatable. You know, we hoped that when we
wrote it, but we also didn't know what was gonna
happen in the night we wrote that song. It just
kind of came to us. We've always called it a
god song, me and my co writers. You feel like

(01:33:53):
that song was just kind of put in you that night. Yeah,
it was a gift. Man. It took four years for
any of us to write anything. Anybody was interested again,
so the proofs to putting you know so well, we
asked you to stick around, and we didn't tell you
before you got here, but we were all just kind
of moved, not only by the song, but you're really good. Well,
thank you man. I mean you're like really good. And
we have people come in and they're good. They're supposed
to be good because you don't get to come and

(01:34:13):
be on this stage with that, but like there's something
really special about you. So I said, if you want
to play something else, we'd love to have you. And
what did you decide? I've got a song. I try
to be as honest as possible and writing all these songs,
but sometimes you got to change the car or the
road name or something to make it run. But there's
one song on my record that is really honest to me,
and it's at first started to be a tribute to

(01:34:35):
my dad, who was a truck driver, and also ended up,
you know, kind of calling him out on his bs,
you know, not being around that much and stuff, And
towards the end of writing it, I just kind of
discovered them definitely my father's son. And now what I'm
doing out here is very similar in the struggles and
stuff to be in a truck driver differences. I'm in
a bunk and he was in a driver's seat, you know.
But so miuse it's probably the closest song to me

(01:34:59):
on this record. All right, This is ELV Shane doing
a song called Miles Spread, little whee throwing, breathing old.
She cranks poor little folders from the thermost and take

(01:35:25):
a drink, hard packed them marble rats, check the oi
in recab treads, little rocking, rolling around the radio. You're
gonna miss your boys, but it's time to go. Put
eighteen ears on eighteen We use with little white peles,

(01:35:46):
even natural eves like some MoU ass fall cowboy riding
high to you run out. It's up you battles Ski,
hearing name, trying to get somewhere on a road, just
st one recent time and losing mouse you'll never get back.

(01:36:22):
Whoa LVI shamee live? Thank you? Yes man, so good.
I can't wait for the record October less than a
month away. Man, I'm excited. We will see you around,
I am sure for a long time. So I appreciate

(01:36:42):
you coming in today, sharing your story, sharing your music.
I mean, anything you want to say to ELB yeah, no,
just shoot. I'm more emotional now after I think hearing
the second song, like, both of those are just so touching,
and I feel like right now, I mean, music has
always been therapeutic for people, but I feel like that
one in particular for me, it definitely was writing. This

(01:37:05):
entire record was exactly that. It was just a way
to sift through all the you know who taught you
to play guitar um. The very first person to teach
me any chords on guitars my great grandmother. I would
go over motor yards on Saturdays because she was eighty two,
and I caught her push mower yard one time and
she gave me a Roger Miller's greatest hit CD and

(01:37:25):
she taught me E, A, and B and said, you
can play any Roger Miller song in the world with
those three chords. And she taught you B early. That's
not one of the first ones you learned. So if
you're learning B, yeah, then you got a good star.
I broke my wrist like three times, so it's hard
to do those chords these days. But yeah, well, hey,
thanks thanks for coming in. Thank you guys. Elvie Shane, everybody,

(01:37:45):
Elvie Shane Music. It's the best Bits of the week.
With Morgan number two, we had a phone call from
Gary Levox. He called in asking us to listen to
his new solo song and play smash it or trash
it with it, which is like an old school radio
thing where people would play a song and the listeners

(01:38:06):
would decide if it's a hit, you know, like smash hit,
or if they should trash it and never play it again.
So Gary wanted us to play that with his new song.
We ended up playing kind of a different version of
the game that Bobby came up with, and well, let
me just tell you, the song did really well. A
lot of laughs in this segment though, so listen to it.

(01:38:27):
Right here. Number two on the phone with us right
now is Gary Lavox, lead singer of Rascal Flats, who
put out a solo song it's called Working on Sunday.
And he said, Hey, don't be afraid if you want
to do like one of those bits where you trash it.
What was the bit you suggested, Gary we do with
this song. I was just saying, you know, because I

(01:38:47):
know I know how you like to stir up drama.
I'm just saying, you know, just like smash or trash
or what's this smash or trash? That sounds like two
negatives though, No, but it's a smash. Oh like smash
it or trash it? Yeah? Like is it a smash
or is it trash? And you're willing to let us
play this new song of yours, it's called working on

(01:39:08):
Sunday and we will play hump it or dump it? Oh,
we don't like it? What do we pick? Smash it
or trash it or hump it or dump it? What? Trash? Dump?
But here's the deal. Though. Here's the deal though, So
if you hump it, what does that really mean you

(01:39:29):
love it? Yeah, it means we're very passionate about it.
Dump it means you throw it out. Hump it is
a good thing. I don't know. Yes, it is a
good thing. Okay, Okay, So it's hump it or Dump
It with Gary levoxa song. Now tell me, let me
be serious for a second. This is a solo song.

(01:39:51):
What is this? Which what project is this from? Yeah?
So yeah, so you know I'm a solo artist now
ming bling bling bing? Uh yeah, so this is this
is this is the first thing go off of my
country record that comes out, uh first quarter of next year,
twenty two. Okay, so the album's far away, but this

(01:40:14):
is the first song from the Gary love Buck solo
project and actually the first song to ever be featured
in Hump or Dump It. Yeah, Okay, that up I did.
I was trying to remember things that rhyme, because back
in like the nineties is when people did this kind
of stuff where it was like make make it or
break it. And I was like, I don't what rhymes,
and I don't know why that came out of my mouth.

(01:40:36):
Humping or dump it, So make love to it or
shove to it, I don't know. I don't know. We're
just gonna go straight up with the Bobby bounce Pompeter
dump it. Okay, so we're gonna but here's the thing.
If we don't like it, yeah, we have to dump
They have to dump it. Do we have sound? You
have to. But here's the other thing. Yeah, the other

(01:40:57):
part of it is that you can absolutely and like
it and still have to hump it. So yeah, good,
I look forward to that. Okay, No, no, that's something
I've signed up for time. If we dump it, he
still has time to rework early next year. You can
go back in the studio. Maybe we give a note
over emphasizing the problem. The problem would be how to

(01:41:21):
not re hump it. Okay, that would be the thing
I would not No, I wouldn't know how to do it.
Here's what I'm nervous about because I haven't heard I
haven't heard the song yet, and that just came to
my humping it up. But it was stupid. I'm twelve
years old working on Sunday. Is this is this song
about church in anyway? Because if not, I can't put
it on, hump it or dump it. No. So the

(01:41:42):
theory is, I mean, the whole reason we wrote it,
which is what with one of your buddies, clearest t. Judd.
He's the one that came up with it. What the
pridle was, um, so it was actually written about a
break up. So the guy's going to look and he's
just for the first time in a long time, he's prayed, like, look,

(01:42:05):
we fought, and I text I've caught her, you know,
and she won't hit me back. But listen, I promise you, Lord,
I cannot. I know how you feel about working on
Sunday because it's supposed to be the you know, the
Lord's Day riff. But if there's no way I can
make it till Monday, if she hadn't hit me back,

(01:42:25):
there's no way I can get through this weekend. There's
no way to do it. And the greatest thing, Bobby,
is that, I mean I've since the song has been
out just in the last week, is that people from
Afghanistan and families on COVID that have taken that, just
that chorus of I know how you feel about working

(01:42:46):
on Sunday. I need a miracle in a bad way.
I don't think I can wait. I don't think I
can make it till Monday. And I know how you
feel about working on Sunday. So it just It was
written about a relationship, and it's just transferred over to
so many people's you know, spiritual places and where they're

(01:43:12):
at in life, you know, with the Afghanistan and the
military coming home and COVID and so it's just it's
been great many just you know, it's that's the medicine
of music, especially country music. Yeah, well, now I have
to hump it. I haven't heard it yet. This may
not be the song for humping and dump it. Go
ahead and hump Okay, we're gonna play it. Here's here

(01:43:37):
are your two. By the way, Gary Lavox solo project
working on Sunday. You may know Gary for being the
lead singer of Rascal Flats. Gary, we're gonna play this song.
Do you want to wait for three minutes and actually
hear the verdict? Or do you want to just hang
up and never know? No? No, I gotta know, Okay,
I gotta know if somebody's gonna hate it, trash it,
hump it. I just wanted to hump Okay, here we go.

(01:43:59):
We're gonna play it now. This is working on Sunday
from Gary Lavox Bobby Bon Show. Love's been a while

(01:44:21):
since I prayed and I'm hoping that I'm not too late.
See we fall and she lived. I'm call a night text,
but she won't answer me, so I'm down my knees.

(01:44:45):
I love working on side. I need recalling back. I
figure I don't figure I can make killing angels do

(01:45:24):
even where star? How do you feel about? Just all right?
There you go? Gary Lavox working on Sunday. You may

(01:45:44):
know Gary from being the lead singer of Rascal Flats.
Hopefully you'll know him for his own solo project, which
which he put out his first single. The new record
comes out next year. Amy, I'm going to you first. Yeah, Um,
I'm fit, I'm fits up in her duff it and
now I'm just looking at you, keep saying over and over,
I know what you're saying. Okay, feels awkward. I'd rather

(01:46:05):
say smash it, But smash it feels like you're smashing Eddie. Yeah,
it's gonna feel weird to say it, but I'll hump it.
Yeah absolutely. I like that song. Hey, Gary, sure humps
all around, buddy, Come on my humps, humps my house.
You know you don't feel crazy? And now gives it
a whole different aspect on the song because I think

(01:46:26):
when we wrote it about the relationship, I think that's
what he wanted to do, is hump it. Definitely didn't
want to dump it. God, here's what we're gonna do.
That's what he wanted to do. For putting your song
up for grabs and hump it her dump it. We
will now feature it. It may be a week or
so before we can get it in in the National
Country Top thirty and the Countdown show as well. We'll
put it in there and play it on a you know,
a couple hundred radio stations, and we'll build this thing

(01:46:48):
from the bottom. Well, you know what, from the bottom up.
We're gonna hump it all the way to the top. There.
He is our friend and yours, Gary Lava, Gary, you
for being so vulnerable. I have a good day. Thanks
bye bye. Yeah. I think literally, I think he's in
a tree stand right now. He's doing something like hunting. Yes, yes,

(01:47:10):
he was like, let me get down. I don't have
any signal in this tree right now. And so that's
what we got him on. Also one of the funniest guys. Well,
there we go. We've never done that. It was not planned, No,
it was nice. We feel about it. So if any
other artists want to call in, and I don't know
that that's the case, how do we I mean, because
he put that out there, But I'm gonna always check
my email and see if i have any sort of Hey,
you can't say hump it that many times? Done a second? Okay?

(01:47:33):
Oh yeah, and then we all go around the room
and we have to say it. You know. Yeah, I
liked it. It's the best bits of the week. With
Morgan number two of course coming in at the number
one spot, Lunchbox came back from the creater of Diamond
State Park. He revealed what he found, A lot of rocks,

(01:47:53):
maybe some other things, but you know, I'm not gonna
spoil that for you. So we've we've been talking all
week about this creator of I'm in State Park, right,
which is like a I guess you could say a
wonder in the country. Yeah, it's like a destination. Yeah,
it's a place that people want to go to or
try to go at some point in their life. What
are some other places that, like you want to go

(01:48:14):
at some point in your life in the country that's
kind of a wonder like this, I would love and
I'm shocked. I have not been there yet. I want
to go to the First Chick fil A. It's down
in Georgia, So I'm not what I was expecting you
to say. What are you thinking, like Canyon, Yeah, I
don't know. That was like you're forever. No, I want

(01:48:37):
to go to the First Chick fil A because they
have like another restaurant and I wish I could remember
the name of it. But they sell things that are
not Chick fil A items there, like the founder I
think his favorite food type thing. I think it's like
a Hawaiian themed one, and I'd totally be wrong on that,
but yeah, I really want to go. It's in Georgia.
It's in Georgia and it's Hawaiian themed, so interesting. Now

(01:48:58):
I have heard about this though, And I shouldn't give
you too bad of a hard time because we're a
long time. I wanted to go to the Taco Bell
Cantina in Las Vegas, and you did that, right, Yeah,
when when we were there for festival one year, I
made sure to go and check everything out, So I can't.
I can't give you too much of a hard time,
but like you gotta give me some other wanders in
the world besides or a restaurant. Okay, I found the place.

(01:49:21):
It's called Truett's lu Aw. It's casual island dining. It
looks super cute. It's in Fayetteville, Georgia. And how do
you know it's the first chick fil A If it's
not called chick fil A. That's so they have the
first Chick fil A in there as well. And then
this okay, I'm so there's two, like two places I

(01:49:42):
want to go. Truet's flu out and then the first
chick Fila. Okay, and they're by the same person, yeah,
the founder. Okay. And I mean that's not a far drive.
We're close to Georgia. You go do that on a weekend.
I should totally go. Let me make sure the first
Chick fil A is here as well. I think they're
both in fayettvill Georgia. Oh that's in Hateville, Georgia. I'll

(01:50:03):
just go Georgia. You're just going down Georgia. Just don't speed.
You don't want a speeding ticket there. It's very expensive.
I know from experience. Um yeah, I'd like to go there.
And then another place this is food related too. I
want to go to like where they make ice cream,
like Bluebell or places like that. I want to see.
How haven't that been in Jerry's. That would be cool.

(01:50:23):
I think they have like a whole thing. They have
like a graveyard where they retire flavors and stuff. You've
never been in Jerry would be cool. Yeah, and well
I say Wisconsin because they're known for dairy dairy products, cheese. Yeah,
that's stuff. So I don't know if that's the same
with ice cream, but I think it would be cool
to go see, Oh, they make ice cream. I see.

(01:50:44):
She told me to like pick places before we did this,
so I was thinking, like, super fun, I want to
go to chick Fili and no, like are my answers?
Like you know, to be fair, everybody wants to experience
different things, which is what makes it so cool that
there's so many different experience So yes, I was just
not prepared expecting yet expect the unexpected when it comes

(01:51:04):
to me. But I liked it. Yeah, it was a
great answer. I mean, yeah, I would like to go
to like the Statue of Liberty. I've never been to
New York, so I want to go see the nine
eleven Memorial Um, the Grand Canyon. Never seen the Grand Canyon,
so but I feel like those are typical. Everybody wants
to go do answers? Yes, you know what, You're right.
You did the extraordinary yes decision in saying what you said,

(01:51:26):
so I did. I'm not going to give you a
hard time for it, but it was funny. It threw
me off for a minute. Now, I want to know
what your star like in comparison, what are yours? Because
they were like the ones that you just said that
are basic. I mean I want to go. I want
to drive the highway in California and see the redwood
forest up there. Oh, I want to go to the
sand dunes and I believe it's Utah. And don't people

(01:51:48):
like um take wakeboards yeah, boarders yeah, and they like
go down the sand dunes. I want it so scary,
so fun. Though it looks so fun to me. But
like on your level, it's not food, but it's animal related. Okay,
A listener to this to me because I've mentioned that
slots are like newly a favorite animal of mine in
very recent years, and I've always wanted to go down

(01:52:12):
to Louisiana from Marty Girl. That's kind of a bucket
list item. For me just to go experience the craziness
of that. And on the way down, because a listener
said this to me, if I ever make it, I'm
going to do this too. There's there's a sloth experience.
You can go and hang out with a sloth at
this like sanctuary place. Oh my gosh, and you can
hold them in stuff. I believe. So I haven't looked

(01:52:32):
into it enough because I don't want to get so
excited and I'm like, I can't not think about it,
and I you know, I want to go, right, I
want to go. Wait, So the sloth thing is in Louisiana. Yeah,
it's in Louisiana. I want to go. So it's not
something you could do like quick for a weekend. You
need a few days because I think Louisiana from US
is quite a few hours. But I think so. I mean,
I would want to spend most of my days with

(01:52:54):
the sloths. Right, you go to Marty girl, I'm gonna
stay with the sloths. I know the a right, like, oh,
I love that if you and they move. I just
love sloths so much. I need to And I've mentioned
this before, but I love alpacas and there's something just
like with sloths. We've been close to a sloth before too,
we both have at the zoo. It's just magical. I

(01:53:14):
know that sounds so lame, but like when I get
close to an alpaca, it's just like it's an experience.
So I feel like getting to experience that with a
sloth would be a dream come true. I feel like
that's true though. I mean because like once upon a time,
all these creatures were here without us, So like it isn't. Yes,
this very magical experience because they've been around for hundreds

(01:53:36):
of years, their animals or their animal counterparts, yep, And
so it is a magical experience to get to do
stuff like that. And I don't. As I've gotten older,
I try to steer clear of experiences and stuff like
that because most of the time animals shouldn't be in
that environment, right, Yeah, I'm learning that as I get older.
It's just sad when they're like in captivity. Yes, so

(01:53:58):
I try not to. So I do you believe this
one might be a sanctuary? If it's not, though, I
may have to not do it to see if it's
like a rescue or they're trying to do for them.
But even still, from from what I've heard, even still,
human interaction is not supposed to have. They're wild, you know,
they're supposed to be out in the wild. But I know,
and it's so hard because they're these these such magical

(01:54:20):
creatures and you just want to interact with them, I know.
But then on that that flip side, I'm like, they
should be out in the wild, like living their best life,
and yeah, whatever, I hope they're treated right. I need
to go recent. I know, I need to go look
into it more. But somebody sent it to me. I
like briefly looked at it my message, and I just
like mind marked it down to be like okay, like
if I go down to Louisiana, I have to piss

(01:54:41):
it would be so cool. Okay, I want to go
see that. Yeah, so those are some fun little experiences
we want to do in our life. I'm sure there's
so many other cool things out there. Like yeah, I knew,
I have like this this list in my phone that's
like a bucket list of like normal things I want
to do and like things I hope to do when
I travel. Right, Traveling is harder because that's the whole

(01:55:02):
trip experience differences, But I have this other list and
I still want to make it happen. But I want
to play because of Princess Diaries. I want to play
paint balloon darts. Oh that would be so fun. We
could totally do that. I know. I've wanted to do
it for so long, Like it has literally been in
my phone for so long because I want to play
paint balloon darts. Did we talk about this because I
want to do the Rade Room? I think we did

(01:55:24):
when we were like, we'll do and we'll do the
ray Room and we'll walk these off our list. Yeah,
we're gonna do it. I still need to do the
Rade room. It's needed. Um, yeah, we need to do that.
That would be so much fun. I think we just
need to make it happen. We just need to commit
to it like a day, like we're finally doing this
and we go do it. I wasn't going to bring
this up until the very end, but Morgan's birthdays on Wednesday.

(01:55:44):
We can do something fun like this for like your birthday. Oh, yes,
that would be fun. Can we say it? Do it
as like a because we have a little pre dinner
plans because yeah, having a middle of the week. Birthday
is pretty lame. It's hard, yeah, and you don't want
to celebrate, especially with us. You have to get up
so early, like that, I'm going to dinner with my

(01:56:05):
boyfriend on my birthday. That's that's exciting. That's it's getting
because I don't do much during the week days. No,
with our job, it's really hard to yeah, to do things.
But we're gonna be. We're gonna have fun. But we can.
Maybe maybe this Sunday after our dinner, maybe we do
one of those, Okay, or maybe we do it the
following weekend because we got Alan Jackson that concert that

(01:56:26):
we're going to. It's kind of like a week of celebration,
it is, and maybe we do it. Oh yeah, but
dad can come. My dad's gonna come do paint darts. Yeah,
it could help us that Actually, that may be a
better idea because he could help us, like figure it out.
He's good at building things and came into town to
like hang out. But like, can you help us with me?
Help me with some paint darts? So, like, what are

(01:56:48):
y'all getting into? Ridiculous? Oh man? Yes, so we so
be on the lookout on our Instagram. We are going
to make this happen Monday. We want to figure out
like how to do it, like an easy, easy way,
and where to do it. I definitely think we can
make it happen. There's a park behind my house. We
can do paint balloon darts. We know there's rage rooms
in Nashville. We can pay go do that super easy.
We just gotta make the point to do it. I

(01:57:09):
just don't know why we haven't done it yet. I
mean that's the whole point of life, right, It's like
making the point to do things. And it won't be
super messy. We can set up tarps and stuff. Yeah, okay,
well we're gonna make that happen. And so I encourage
all of you guys, even though it may not be
your birthday, or maybe you just want to do something fun,
if you want to go visit a cool place like
the Creative Diamond State Park or one of these cool
things we mentioned, or other things on your list, I

(01:57:31):
encourage you to check something off your bucket list, your bucket,
your bucket list this weekend because you should, as we
all should. And I'm gonna try to be better about
doing that and putting my action. So I'm not just
telling you guys to do it and me not doing it. Right,
I'll hold you to it, you too, you holding you
to a rage room. You're holding me to paint balloon darts. Yes,

(01:57:54):
that's happening, all right. Well, right now, this is a
lunchbox revealing dune undone. Well he found that the Crater
of Diamonds State Park Number one lunchbox went to the
diamond mine yesterday. It's the only one in North America.
Drove seven hours to Murphy's Borough of Arkansas. Stayed in
the nicest of hotels. Oh, the nicest of hotels. I mean,
you want to talk. Someone even on Instagram said, I'm

(01:58:16):
from Murphysboro and just by describing the hotel, I know
exactly where you stayed. And you happen to go to
the armpit of our city right off the bat. She
called it the armpit of their city because it's the
worst thing in the world. But Scooba couldn't find anything
else aside from that, which I'm sure will be something
that's talked about forever. This hotel situation. You went and

(01:58:36):
you spent a whole day digging a whole day, man,
a whole day. Do you mean a lot of people.
I met a lot. There were so many people from
all walks of life. We're talking granny and grandpa to
the single dad, to you know, mom and dad with
the kids out there for an adventure. I mean, there
was people from all Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas, Florida. It was crazy.
He lifts every state. We sit Olaska. Well, I'm just

(01:58:59):
saying it was people work from all over. And then
one guy he was going from there, he was going
to Georgia and look for something. I mean a lot
of people. So the guy Kevin Kennard founded nine Carrott
Diamond last year. We talked to him. Another guy discovered
two point two carrot diamond. We talked to the woman
who works there. She said, they how about two a
day that come in. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And when

(01:59:19):
there's big ones, they have a shovel like marking the
spot like a statue to that person. It says, this
person found this diamond here in nineteen ninety five digging
in this area. Wow, oh, are you gonna get a
little shovel statue? Let's find out. So thanks to our
friends at Hyundai, it was you took the Hunday Downs

(01:59:40):
awesome car. Awesome car, very relaxing, easy drive, didn't feel
any of the bumps, didn't drive broke and your license expired.
What I'm saying. I was able to nap, no problem.
It was great. Okay, well let's let's get started here.
He has his brown paper bag and just a pound
on the table. Look at it. I'm not look okay,

(02:00:02):
it could be full of diamonds. You know how sometimes
you'll see like somebody pull out a little bag of
diamonds on a movie. Oh yeah, they dump them out. Yeah,
that could be what that is. But in a brown
paper back, it's usually a velvet bag or something better. Um.
At the beginning of the day, Lunchbox met some people
at the Crater Diamond State Park and thought it would
be a good idea to pray to the diamond gods.
Am I going to play this club? Wait? Why don't

(02:00:23):
we do? Yeah? Yeah, no, No. It's a couple from
Oklaholm and they were on vacation. I don't even know that.
I want to hear you praying to something called a
diamond god. Yeah? Why and you're praying with them? Yeah,
you led the prayer. If you were just doing I
you were just doing a prayer, I would understand it.
But to a specific diamond god, that sounds a bit sacrilegious.
What do you mean? It's just there's separate I mean

(02:00:43):
entities up there, you know, like when your team's losing,
you pray to the sports gods like, oh, please come on,
let's kick this field goal has always divided his belief.
Let me hear this. Should we say, guys want to
I didn't know. If you guys want to do it,
you can you can say anyone, Ah, all right, go here.

(02:01:03):
Dear diamond gods, please bless my friends from Oklahoma and
hopefully that they find a diamond, but not as big
as mine, because I'm trying to find a million dollars
diamonds so I can retire and move to an island.
And then they can be like, oh, I remember that
guy when he was just just on the radio and
not some famous diamonds minder. You know, so, dear and
diamond gods, please help them out. Amen, amen, diamond all right,

(02:01:28):
not just some diamonds minder. He's going around asking for advice.
And so you met a guy who's found fifteen different diamonds.
Fifteen diamonds guys. I would just follow him. Yeah, like
he was good, Like he was a pro expert, and
I was like, because I was walking on anybody found
anything over here? And boy he had fifteen? Any luck

(02:01:49):
over here yet? Not just prints? So far have you
found some in the past fifteen? And how much of
those words? Oh? I don't know. I just collect them.
What does your what's your what's your secret? What? What
do I need to be doing? Find revel? That's it?
Huh Yep, you're like the diamond Oh my goodness, got
all but one of them in here. That's incredible. So

(02:02:12):
why finger you can take it out and look? Wow?
So have you already been in the newspaper for all
these you find? Or no, no, they don't give it
put stories about you, not unless it really big. Okay,
Wow one was on his my singer. Yeah, he made
a ring out of it. And so he's been going
for thirty years and he goes two weeks at a time,
three times a year, and he's found fifteen diamonds. Here's

(02:02:34):
the midday checkout on lunchbox. He's struggling. It's getting hot, guys,
shoveling dirt for I don't know what four hours, five hours.
It's kind of tiring, but I gotta keep looking for
that million dollars diamond. I mean, no telling how many

(02:02:54):
diamonds we've already found, but why not find ten, eleven, twelve?
Who knows working hard out here? Did you have rocks
saved from throughout the whole morning? Oh? Yeah, I mean
it's it's it's a great community out there because you
go to the sifting station where the water is, and
then you you dump it out on the wood and

(02:03:15):
you leave it there to dry, and you can leave
your pile and no one touches it. They let it.
You just walk away. You go get more dirt, and
you come back and you sift through and you put
it back in your pile. Someone's over here with their pile,
so you can leave your rocks there all day. No
one touches them. Amazing. It's a great it's an honor
system out there with us mine diamond miners. Yeah. Did

(02:03:36):
you have rocks though that you found earlier that you
thought could be worth something? Absolutely? I mean I was
sitting there going, oh my gosh, that's the one. That's
the one, and then an hour later, oh that one's one. Two.
It was so it's such a neat feeling, the butterflies
and the feeling in your stomach when you do sift
through something and you see something glimmer and it's like, oh, oh,
I like that one. And you look at Abby and

(02:03:57):
how he's like shaking her head like yeah, that could
be it, and then you're like, oh, it feels good.
After a long day of searching for diamonds, Lunchbox gets
the group pumped up with what group is this? Well?
This is I was back at the sifting station. It's like,
you know, two thirty three o'clock in the afternoon, everybody's
looking sad, and it's been a long day, tired, and
people are losing hope. And I felt like they needed some,
you know, encouragement. Don't get discouraged, don't give up hop guys.

(02:04:21):
I know it's getting it's been a couple of hours.
You're tired, You're like, I'm never gonna find one, but
you've got this. We just gotta keep digging. We're gonna
we're gonna find diamonds. Okay, quitting is not the answer.
We got this in your other life, right, that's right here,
We'll go. Let's go clap it up, I clap it
over the diamonds. One, two, three diamonds you guys ready? Two? Three? Yeah? Okay,

(02:04:45):
so we want to see if you don't mind passing
around the room a couple of what oh you want
to pass them around? I don't want you guys touching
my stuff. Okay? Will you show the camera though? Eddy?
What camera? Shit? He go to? Yeah, it's the bag
like show like your prize possession the Oh. Okay, that

(02:05:09):
looks like a rock. That's a rock? Why would that
be a diamond? They don't look like diamonds, Bobby, don't
you But how do you know? We just didn't grab
random rocks. If you guys are experts, let me know.
But I'm an expert. I'm not throwing it amy. So
you think that can be a diamond? It literally looks
like a rock piece? Yeah, everything looks like a rock, Bobby.

(02:05:30):
You've never been out there? Yes a half, I'm on
field trips there, I've been and how many times you
find something? Hold on, let me zoom into that. That
looks like a rock. This is a rock. But this
isn't the one he showed me. He's getting there. This
looks like a rock so far, too rocks. The second
one looks like a second rock. Why did you decide
to fill a bag when you're walking out, like, I'll
take this in. That's a pebble. That's a smaller rock.

(02:05:57):
What do you doing? That's nothing? Give us the good? Actually,
I do see something sparkling. One don't throw it? So
I wonder why. Diamonds literally the hardest thing. So if
you throw it at okay, that's true. Yes, it don't break.
Oh yeah, because that's gonna say if we took a
hammer to this, we'd made whoa take a hammer to

(02:06:18):
my diamond? Amy, you're saying that one sparkling? It's a
big rock. Dust on your fingers, it's sparkling exactly. So
when you hold your diamond and your rings like a
big rock, there's there's a sparkling nothing but let me
buy let me buy it. Yeah, Oh God's great. Your
tooth here, okay? Know us the moneymaker? The word is

(02:06:41):
that the moneymaker. No, that's just a pebble. That's like
gravel from the driveway, lunch the moneymaker? Do it? Look
before I show it to you. You just want to
hear what the lady had to say about them? Yes,
what are you sure? Do we want? I haven't heard
the lady. You want to hear the lady? Okay, here
we go. Here is what the last clip of lunchbox
of the diamond mine talking to the person works there?
How much does that one? Don't praise any of it? Oh,

(02:07:03):
but a diamond no sense? Then? Should I just pour
it all out on the teet? Oh? I got It's
more fun doing it one by one? Though? Is that diamond?
Jer what about that? Nothing? Jafer? You know what I'm slaying?
No diamond now dumping? There's nothing good. I don't think

(02:07:27):
it hasn't enough. Both of my really only hopes a
black ones are actually lamp right, lava, not diamond, diamond
and sense bands. Th that's it? Wait, so you have
a lava show us the one, the one that you
showed me to throw it away? What do you mean

(02:07:47):
there was nothing? It looks like sandstone or quartz or
some stupid thing. And so some little girl thought it
was cool as I just gave it to her. I
was like, it ain't worth anything. Look here's the picture
of it. I know it looks like a diamond, but
it's not. It won't a diamonds like a Chris, whoa
you found that? Yeah, oh that's really cool. But it
wasn't worth anything, so I didn't want it, so I
didn't bring it back, was it? And she tricked you?
No that late No girls, some little ten year old

(02:08:10):
girls there with their dad. Oh that's so cool. Take it.
It was that was that. It was like, no, it
was like that little pebble that I just showed you
like it was nothing. Oh, Jasper, it's okay, exactly. I
got Jasper, Lava Samson whatever. The crash was saying, that's
a legged brand. Oh but whatever. So yeah, that moneymaker
that it looks like a diamond. I was all excited.

(02:08:30):
It was nothing, nothing, So I spent eight hours for nothing.
You know, you take a shot. You've also spent thousands
of dollars on the lottery and got nothing. You're right,
But the lady did tell me, you know, I said
I might as well just played the lottery, and she goes,
I will say, the odds are better to find a
diamond than playing the lottery. Oh well, then you should
be back next week. I don't know. Mass a lot

(02:08:50):
it's a lot. It was mas a tiring day, Like
I mean, people are out there and what's crazy is
how some people are so good at it. Like when
we were pulling up, people had thirty buckets, shovels, kneepack.
I mean, they had everything, and they were just going
to town. They're like, remember when you get home, you
got to search through all your dirt. I'm like, search
through all my dirt. If I can't find it out here,
how am I gonna find it? They take five gallon

(02:09:12):
buckets home a dirt and sift through it and hope
to find something. One guy had twenty five buckets full
of dirt taking home. Wow, that is dedication. Yeah, and
that's why I was like, I don't know if I
can do that. So it was a very it was
a very depressing ride home because I didn't have a diamond,
and I knew the whole way home that you guys
were just gonna laugh at me. And then I wasn't gonna,

(02:09:33):
you know, get I wasn't gonna get the appraise, and
I wasn't gonna be able to quit, and I wasn't
gonna be able to move to an island. I went
out there, I tried my best, and I came home
with a bagful of rocks. I mean, well, I'm glad
you didn't because like we'd miss you, especially if you
just left without saying by. Let me say Lunchbox traveled
in a twenty twenty two Hunday tuoson to Arkansas and

(02:09:54):
went on a journey searching for a diamond at the
Crater of Diamond State Park thanks to our friends at
Hunday learn more at hynday dot com. A journey that
I'll never forget. You're gonna keep those rocks. Actually, I
got one for you to you guys. Oh, I would
like a jazzper Please you want a jazz I mean,
you know, here's another thing. Maybe that lady doesn't know anything.

(02:10:15):
Maybe she's an idiot, And maybe I'm not co signing that.
I'm not co signing that. It's the best bits of
the week with Morgan number two. All right, y'all, thanks
for hanging out with me. It's kind of a pre
birthday celebration for me. I turn twenty eight years old
on Wednesday. Oh, Atlanta, I feel Yes, we have dinner

(02:10:39):
plans tonight. We got so much exciting things to to celebrate,
you know, birthday, life, everything, right. Yeah, I don't even
know really what all I don't even know do I
even know what time dinner rest? I need to go
back and look at the Texas Hillary. Yes, we're gonna
have so much fun. Yes, it's gonna be a good weekend.
In my defense, a lot of things were thrown out

(02:11:01):
in the text, and so I have to go back through.
So many things were suggested. Now I got to go
back through and figure out, Okay, what was the final plan. Yes,
I'm in a place in my life right now where
I'm like, oh, on a roller coaster ride, and I've
been feeling very meth about just about everything. So when
I was texting my friends trying to figure out my
birthday plans, was like, I don't know what I want.
I don't know anything right now. I'm just very meth.

(02:11:22):
It's literally high described to my life for about three
months there, understandable. Yeah, so I sent a bunch of
things to you. So I got to go back there
and figure out where am I supposed to be at
at what time? I think I do know what we're
going to eat, So I got that, but I need
to figure out everything else. Yes, Okay, well we're gonna
have a fun weekend celebrating I hope you guys have

(02:11:44):
a fabulous weekend. And I'm glad you hung out with
us for a little bit and took some time to
hear Hillary and I. It's crazy stories per usual. Hillary,
thanks for joining me. Thank you you went. Happy birthday?
Oh thank you? You want to tell everybody where they
can find you? Yes, always complicated. Twitter is Hillary Borden,
two hells, and then Instagram is Hillary dot Borden. I

(02:12:06):
need to get I need to get Hillary Borden. Yeah
you do, and should email the girl and ask our
DM her and be like, hey, can I have my name?
You should that? Hey, you know what? I implore you
to do that this weekend. Hillary, I'm not bold enough,
but we'll see. Okay, all right, y'all, And I'm at
web girl Morgan all the things, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook,
you name it, and the show at Bobby Bones show

(02:12:27):
on all the things, so follow it up. Let us
know what you guys weekend plans are, or what you're
doing or maybe you're also celebrating a birthday. I don't know.
Just hit me up about whatever you want to in
my d MS. All right, Okay, yeah, I say that loosely,
not whatever you want, all right, Bye bye bye bye bye.
Y'all have a good weekend.

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