Best Bits with Morgan and Special Guest Hillary

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It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan Number two.
Happy weekend, y'all. It's Morgan here with the best Bits
of the week, and it maybe a happy weekend. But
we also have a special guest who has very big
news to share, and I'm just gonna put it out
there that it's not actually happy news for me, very
happy news for them, not for me, though, So please

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welcome Hillary to hang out with me. Hi, you have
very big news to share. We're not sharing it yet.
I'm gonna say, are we jumping it? No? No, no,
this is just the intro. We gotta get him. We're
prepared for what's coming, yes, And we do have a
lot to talk about before that happens. So I'm just prepping, y'all.
You may need some tissues, you know, just putting it
out there, bring them for the last kind of statement

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that comes out at the end of this podcast. Yea,
but we do have a lot to talk about, so
we're just gonna get started. Be sure, y'all. If you
don't want to listen to the bits, tell me that, Like,
hit me up on social media. If you're like just
listening to this podcast for the behind the scenes. I
like feedback, kind feedback. So I'm just gonna preface that.

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But yeah, let's get started. This week, we heard about
Amy in the party she had for adoptive and foster parents,
well moms to be exact, and there were bets placed
on how much wine was going to be drank at
the party, and we got an update from Amy how
everything went down, how much wine was drink, So lots
happened with this story and one that y'all love to

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also place your own bets on. So here it is.
Here is the full blown update to make sure y'all
don't miss a thing. Number seven. Okay, So Amy had
a party at her house and it was for what
you said yesterday, twenty five mothers who have adopted or foster.
They foster or foster. Okay, and how did you become
the house? Well? I volunteered because the like once a

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month they get together, and I attended the meeting last
month and had been a member of the group for
a little bit but finally able to start going to
the meetings, and I just thought, well, I mean, I'm
sure they it would be helpful to have hosts. So
I volunteered. Okay, where do people park? Because I've been
to your house many times and there's not parking for
twenty five Yeah, we had to draw a little map

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of like this is the street where you need to park,
like park and then walk. Yeah, so what time did
the party start? Seven? What time did the first person
get there? Oh? They warned me that moms tend to
arrive early because they're excited to get out of the house. Um,
if they happened to be moms, that are happened we

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stay at home. Some of them work as well, but
maybe even six thirty eight was the first door Ville. Wow? Yeah,
were you ready? Yeah? I mean I was ready because
again I was told by the leader like, hey, this
is what tends to happen, and that they can linger.
Not that that's bad, I don't mind that, but also

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I have kids, and it was difficult for my son
to get to bed, and he left the house for
a little while. That way we could have you know,
open discussion of like without kids around, feeling like you know,
we're talking about Well, that wasn't the next two questions
I had won did you be like, here are my kids,
They're going to say a little something. And then two
what time did the last person leave? Because you know,
I'll like, you gotta tell everybody and they're out the

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door at nine before they even get there. Yeah, I
think last person. Let No it was like ninety five?
Was it just you and one other person? No, that's
awkward when it's just one person. So the final two
are women that I've gotten to know really well, and
they've become like very special people to me. Because I
think that in any just speaking to any other adoptive
or foster moms out there, at times it can feel

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very isolating. You can feel isolated. So I just these
are women that I've bonded with lately that I feel
like it's a safe space to say anything. And so
they were the final ones there. Did your kids do
a little little song and dance? No, get My son
was gone for most of it. My daughter did stay
and she actually did participate and speak a little bit
on her about about her experience with adoption and what

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it was like, you know, having a sibling and just
different challenges that are there. So yesterday the bet was
over under. So you had how many bottles before they
showed up? I think I put out ten? Okay, just
tell us that I've read five white Did all ten
get used? Now was a different story? Yeah? No, I

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checked and there was three totally empty and about a
fourth of a bottle left and in another one, So
basically four empty bottles. Clean up after they left, No,
not at all. My daughter, while we were still talking,
she because snacks were made, plates were made, and then
we gathered in the living room and then I led
like I led a discussion and whatnot, and she I

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noticed her in the kitchen kind of helping clean up,
and I'm like, oh, that's sweet. So thought of no
turns out. I go and check her backpack. She baggied
up everything in individual ziplock bags to take to her
snack locker. That yeah, good for her. She's so yeah,
like she was on it. She's like, whoa look at
all these extre snacks. I think all she saw was

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dollar son. She was like, are y'all done eating? And
then when everyone's taking their plates early, so THEO. So
what was in let's paraphrase, out of bed? But what
was the the overarching message? I decided to go with
a theme of calm, like that was my theme for
the night of I read from a book that has

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been very helpful to me on staying calm. I read
quotes about calmness. I read encouragement. I passed out little
cards for them to keep, like in their purse that
will remind them that what they're doing is hard. I
had a white board where I had people share what
they do to stay calm, and then I read them
aloud and told everyone to get out their phones and
take a picture of it. In case you need to
refer back to it when you're not calm, Because the

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most important thing we can do as parents is be
the calmest person in the room at all times, for
any parents, for any parent, whether you're biological or adopted.
And sometimes it's very difficult, and we all flip our
lid at times, but like especially with kids with trauma,
like if the lid gets flipped, there's no rational thing thinking,
and then we can if we have any trauma or
we're not able to stay control and our brains, our

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lids get flipped, then no one's thinking rationally or logically,
and there's it just can lead to chaos. And I
have been there and it's not a good place to be.
And so I'm thankful now for a community and tips
and tools and therapy that I have in my back
pocket to that allow me to stay calm. And now
I'm like, I get put in a situation and I'm like, dang,

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this is amazing. Like being able to stay cool as
a cucumber is awesome. Well, when you've been through crap,
you're not that scared of crap and you don't react
as crazily to the crap, like the first time you
experience the crap. Yeah, I'm glad you said the word scared,
because a lot of it is coming from a place
of fear. The children. Maybe you're experience coming from a
place of fear, and then you're scared too, and then

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you're just it's it all could link back to fear.
When I was doing my keynote in Vegas for the
Remax convention, there's like seven thousand people out there. A
part of what mine was was, you know, a lot
of folks more than you know, I've been through some
pretty traumatic stuff when when they were kids or young
adults or even adults now. And the greatest thing about
that is you've been through it and you're not so

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scared anymore because you know you've seen bad and you've
still fought to, you know, to get to the other side.
And once you've done that, you know that whatever comes
at you, you've done it before. It's not going to
be pleasant, but you're gonna get through it again because
you've already been through it once. And you can also
take that knowledge and share it with somebody else who
hasn't gone through it yet. Yes, and so yeah, I
mean it was a very special night, and there was

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some moms at the end that just were, you know,
very thankful. They were like, I it's almost didn't come tonight,
but I'm so glad I did, and I'm feeling so
encouraged and so that itself made the late bedtime and
all of that worth it, because I mean it's one
night out of the month too, you know, my son
to stay up a little bit later than usual, which
is difficult. But then also so many of the women, Eddie,

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I know you were talking about how you were wanted
to come, but like every woman was like, oh, I
wish there was a group like this for my husband
because he needs this, and like there's no And I'm
something like, why don't the men gather one thing guys
with dads. I gotta feeling it won't be as white
board and quote friendly, like we're getting together to work
on ourselves, like we're making it happen, so like the
dads should also want to be proactive and make it happen.

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We start with like, all right, we're all foster and
adopted dads. You'll see the game last Yeah, but the
under was under thirteen bottles of wine. Yes, I owe
Eddie and Nicole, I went the over. I lost No,
I thought I went over you set the line. I said, Okay,
Well I see you could have taken my nickel. It's

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the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.
This week on the show, Bobby brought a story about
his wife Kaitlyn. They were in California and she saw
her number one celebrities she ever wants to see out
in public. So the show shared theirs. But before we
get into all of that, we got some things to

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talk about. Hill. I want to know who's the number
one celebrity you would love to see him in public
that you would almost just like die. I So I
had an answer for a long time. But I finally
met that person and it was Martina McBride. But I
would say Taylor Swift okay, okay, would freak out. So
Martina McBride, how did that meeting go? She was that

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person forever for you, Yes, and you finally met her.
It was in studio. I remember this, But how did
that finally feel to meet that person? It was crazy?
So for some reason I wasn't up here. It was
like later. It was like after the show. So it
was later. I was at home I had went home
and washed my hair. Well, I get a call from

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somebody who knows I'm a major fan. Literally, my hair's wet.
I'm not ready, and they're like, Martin McBride's at the studio.
And I was like, excuse me, I've waited for this
moment for my entire life, and you're calling me when
I have soaking wet hair. Tell me, Martina McBride is
at the station right now, like literally where I work
at every single day. And so I quickly dried my hair. Um,

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I put a little makeup on, I like got as
quickly dressed ready as I could, and I drove up
here and she was across the hall from my office,
and so I went into my little studio and um,
somebody who works with us who had set up the
interview she was doing. I was like, I'm like literally
her biggest fan, Like first album I ever bought was

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Martin McBride first music video I ever remember seeing Martin
McBride first concert, Like I just love her, Like she's great.
I don't know what I'm gonna do, Like I'm shaking
right now, like I may cry. And so the door
opens and she comes out and I just like go
up to her, and I'm like, I am a big fan.

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I don't even even remember what all I said. I
don't even think I let her get a worded. I
just like blurted it out. I was like, you were
my first concert, You're the reason I'm even here in Nashville.
You're the reason I work in country music. Like I
just let her know everything, and she was so kind
and she was like that is so sweet, Like you know,
thank you for telling me that, and you know all
of that. But I remember I was like on the

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phone with my mom, was answering her phone. So I
called my sisters and I'm like, I'm freaking out. Like
on my drive up here, it was a ten minute
drive and I was like, I'm freaking out and I'm
about to me weren't you eat ming pride? I don't
know what to do. You need to calm me down.
But it was great. I was calm. So she was
everything you had hoped she would be. Yes, she was
so kind and I feel like I got to tell

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her everything I wanted to tell her. There were some
stuff I left out. I was like, oh, she doesn't
need to know that. Like when I was in fifth grade.
I did a whole report on her and how to
dress like her and everything, and you know there's some
stuff I left out, but no, she was so great
and she was just very kind. She really took the
time to sit there and talk to me, like she

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didn't have to do that. She could have just said, hey,
got a picture and left, but she could tell that
it really meant a lot to me to meet her,
and she probably was so startled, like coming out of
an interview and Bam, there's a girl. They're like, You're like,
I'm missing my chance right now. Absolutely not. I was like, no,
this is this is my opportunity. I just like I
took a deep breath beforehand. I was like, this is it.

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This is the moment I've been waiting for my entire
life and it's here. Yeah. And I will say something
similar happened to me when it was my first day
of work I met Shania. That was the biggest moment
of my life. Though I didn't really get the chance
to freak out. I got a picture with her and
you can see like a huge smile that you're stay happy.
But like I was also like first day on the job,

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I didn't want to lose my cool and like not
get the job because that was freaking out. Yeah, so
I didn't. It was just more like, hi, like I
take a picture and I smiled, and I'm like sitting
there dying inside it, and I'm like bye, and that
was it, and it's still to this day is something
I remember. I think she's come in one more time
since then, and I still don't even think that time.

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I told her how much I love her, But she's
probably seen we post all over social media about my
love for her, so she's probably afraid of me. She
retweeted it right when she retreated one of the I
did like the TikTok of the Shania Twain songs, and
she did retweet that, but I'm not sure if her
team did or whatever we're gonna go with, she did it.
I mean I would like that. You don't need in

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no details. I'm sure she saw it, but like every
time we talked about stuff on the show, I'm like,
Shane I Twain, everything, Shania Twain. And I know she's
seen that because she's getting tagged in it or her
team is and they're probably like this girl really literally
may need to take a step major Van. I know
we may be on lists on some of these artists. Well,
but at least like you were so calm and like

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you were just really happy to see Martia. I bet
she loved that. It was like a I don't really
remember what happened type of situation, like our actual conversations,
remember her being very kind, but I don't remember, Like
I think I just kind of blacked out for a moment.
That's fair, though, I meant better to black out and
say kind things in blackout. And You're like, I have
no idea if I was mean or rude or whatever. Yeah,

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I was like, you know, I've I talked. I don't
know if it made sense, but I talked. So now
that you have met her, you're other ones Taylor Swift
who you would love to meet or just see right Like,
if you saw her in public, you would be like,
oh my gosh, that's her. I would freak out there
if this is this is kind of funny. So we
were at me and our friend Jody, we were at

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the mall and we were walking into Nordstrum and this
elder like this older man, like he had to have
been in his late sixties or like seventies. He was
listening to Taylor Swift like sitting in the chair, you
know how like the husbands sit in the chair waiting,
and I was trying to get her attention. I'm like

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Taylor Swift like whispering like and pointing, and she was like,
what like? And she saw I saw Taylor Shift at
norde strumt Green Hills, and I was like, to be fair,
but not far off. I have seen a few celebrities there,
and it is possible if I saw a Taylor Shift
at nordstrump like or just at the mall, that would
be crazy. I don't think i'd I would not want

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to bother her. You would just let her live. I
would high like wave and and then you saw her
on public with her boyfriend, who they really don't get
seen together often at all. Yeah, would you then go
up and be like, oh my god, this is a
huge moment I have to I mean, I don't want
to bother them. I'm just that type of person. I
always feel like I'm bothered everybody in general. Yeah. Also,

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separate subject need need to work on. That's that's a
whole nother thing that has to start, not a bother
I know. I just I feel that way. You know,
personal things have happened. Who were talking about in therapy.
Um No, I don't know. I just I want to
let her know. And I feel like she is the
type of person who wants to be let known that
you know, you appreciate their work and stuff. Honestly, my dream,

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Um I go to Centennial Park. Yes, personal and all
of that. And she mentions that in her one of
her songs and how she used to sit there in
in Centennial Park, And I'm like, I think that's where
I'm gonna meet Taylor Swift. She's gonna be sitting in
Centennial Park. That's possible. I could totally picture her sitting
in the park, like either having a picnic or sitting

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there with her guitar trying to write a song. But
that plate that park is so populated now. I don't
know that she'll go because maybe not too many tourists go.
It's close enough to the city. It's a cool outdoor activity.
You get to see a replica of the how do
you how do you say it? I'm not even a Parthenon.
I say Parntheon sometimes like trust me words Parthenon, Parthenon.

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I can say that you said it. I wasn't going
to be the first one to say I mean, that's okay,
I got you. Um, But I think now it's just
become too populated. I don't know she'll ever end up
going there, And maybe she goes at night and she
sits in the actual parthenon on the inside. That could
be cool. I just I don't know. Now that I
know that that's a place that she has gone to,

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I'm like, well, maybe, so do you ever try and
go there and try to channel your inner Taylor Swift? Oh?
I go. And that's all I listened to is walk
around and listen to Taylor Swift. And I listened to
that song because it's just cool. I'm like, oh my gosh,
she was here. She probably like had these thoughts and
these ideas while she was sitting here, Like what songs
did she write while she was sitting here? These are

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the things that go through my head. Very fair though,
I mean, she's incredibly talented and a mega superstar, so yes,
that all adds up. I think there would be a
lot of people that would be on that same page. Yeah, you,
And I'm not a creepy like fan. I'm just a fan,
like I just not appreciate I don't know, I appreciate
her work. I think you might be a stand which
is well, yes, that's not a stalker. Yes, I wanted

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to clarify I'm not a creepy stalker. I'm just a
really big fan and I just appreciate what she has
done for me. I would call you a stand of
Taylor Swift. You have Taylor Swift parties, I think you
are ye past the point of just a regular fan.
I was also hoping somehow she would have gotten an
invitation to the parties I had, because I created like
really cute, like Taylor themed invitations in turn invitation Um no,

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but I did post it. I blurred out my address
on my Instagram, and I know I have somebody who
follows me who does know her, and so I was
hoping they would have been like, oh, this is fun,
let me share it with her. And I thought, when
she was doing all her rereleases, I could totally see
her doing this. If she was in Nashville going around

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and stopping at all these parties that people were having
for her album release. Can you imagine if she knocked
on my door? Oh my gosh, that would be insane.
And I opened it like holding my dog with this
blonde wig on, like, oh my god, a story for
the lifetime books. But I again, I think just because
she's too mega of a superstar, I don't know that
she can do the things that she used to do.
I would love it, though, because I told you about

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my Taylor Swift story, I think that I've met her.
I believe we have talked about this. I think we
have just a short recap as I met her in
which Jock Kansas actually at a melodrama spot which was
before she right before she took off in the country world,
and so there was maybe one hundred people there seeing

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what we all thought was a new artist. We got
free tickets through the radio station, and my sister and
I were both dressed up. We loved her at the
time because she was out enough that people knew her.
But she was a new artist, right, she was not
somebody everybody knew yet, and so we loved her and
we went. My parents took us and all four of
us got to meet her. She did meet and grout

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with everybody that was there, because it was, you know,
not a big amount of people. She complimented our dresses
and our boots, and she was like, you guys are
so cute. We took a payture, we smiled, and that
was that you're so lucky, and she was very kind.
But this was what I mean, literally, like curly haired
Tim McGraw Taylor's quist. Oh I love it because I

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mean any concert I went to, I was wearing a
sun dress and cowboy boots because of her. Yeah, we
all were. Anytime you went to a concert, that's all
you saw. She did definitely inspire that look. If it
wasn't already a thing, she definitely was a big inspiration
behind more people wearing it. She was I had this
is so funny we're having this conversation because I was
just talking to somebody about this the other day. I've
met a fellow Swifty and I was talking about because

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we were talking about when we became fans, and I
was like, oh, I've been here since the tim of
gall days. Like I literally would take a not a
permanent marker, but I would take a marker, a black one,
and I would draw a heart on my foot because
that's how she has it. Like if you go get
them the Taylor Swift album, the first album, and you
look at this the CD, the actual CD. You see

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her feet and she has a heart that she drew
in a black marker, and so I had to do that.
See here's the thing. You are absolutely a stand. There
is absolutely I don't know that I even even though
my love for Shania Twain is strong, I don't know
that I'm a stand because I've never I mean, back
when I was a kid, I probably recreated some of
the songs and stuff, but in my adult life I

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have not. And you have with Taylor, what exactly would
you mean a stand? Like you're just just made everything
about her, you know, her life, you know, in a
non creepy way. I just feel like I really have
to clarify that because I'm not somebody where I don't
need to be put on a Taylor Swift watch list.
And yeah I don't. I'm good. You do have stands
that cross that line, but no, that's absolutely there. But

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there are stands that are just massive fans of people
and they're their biggest supporters, and definitely you want that spectrum.
Yes it's me. I don't have that love for I
Like I love a lot of artists, and a lot
of sleverage. But I do not have that kind of love.
I think it's cool though, because it's something you're passionate about,
and I have friends who are like that, and so
like again, our friend Jody, we are just talking about

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we'll just drive around Nashville and listen to Taylor Swift
and sing at the top of our lungs like we
just I don't know. It's Taylor Swift is your love language.
I'm going to add that to my love language list.
You better make sure whoever you meet loves Taylor Swift
at least, and that's to let you keep loving them
in this way. This is a big deal because if

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I meet somebody who tells me that they can't stand her,
don't like her, that's definitely not going to work for me.
Very true, it's not, it's just not going to happen.
I'm with you, and I do want to talk about dating.
I will say, like, listen, if there's two people I
would like to see out and about, it's Ryan Reynolds
and Reese Witherspoon. It's all I got too. We have
a we have a Ryan interview coming up on the

(23:14):
show that's happening and I'm just gonna say. Even him
sitting on the computer, I was like, oh my god,
this is really happening. Yeah, I love him. I think
he's an incredible actor. He's so funny. Yes, so them too,
but those would be mine. I might go up to them.
I might not. I think it depends probably how much
alcohol I may have. Well, it depends on the situation. Yes,
if they're not eating, if they're not with kids, which

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both of them do have kids and stuff. Um, I
think Reese Witherspoon is more likely. She is in Nashville often,
and I think she has a house here. Yes, she does.
Ryan Reynolds, I don't think is very likely unless I
go out to California. I mean, too bad. We couldn't
have gone to the ACMs because Blake Lively is nominated.
Don't know if she would be there, doubt it, but
that would be cool. True, and it's in Las Vegas,

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so it is possible with it being a supposed to
CALIFORNI exactly she could have made an appear. She goes,
I'm gonna be so sad, and Rhine Roylds goes, I'm
gonna be so sad. I know I would be like
oh um, but yes, I yeah, those those would be mine.
Still again, not on your tailors, but I do. Let's
talk about dating. We're talking about you know, a guy
has to make sure he loves Taylor Swift. Do you

(24:21):
have any dating appdates in this moment? I love We
asked this every time I have no, and I'm like,
I'm not gonna speak for anybody else. No, when it's fine,
like you know, there's there's literally no update, absolutely no update.
I don't even know at this point what to do.
I've done the dating apps. I'm not going to church

(24:43):
to meet people. So when I say I'm going to church,
I don't mean it in that way, but I'm just
saying somewhere where I go, where there are men who
are single and I have not met any of them,
Well I have met them, but they're just it's not
gonna happen. Um, but no, still single, Okay, it's still looking.

(25:04):
I am definitely very much looking okay. I um, yes, yes,
Well there's two topics of dating too that you sent
me that I would I want to talk about because
this will be fun. Yeah, you were telling me about
a new dating trend, Dawn dating. Yes, like Dawn dawn
dat Okay, yeah, it's give me the breakdown of what

(25:27):
it is. So I believe it's just doing like breakfast,
like you know, like morning time dates. Okay, I'm not
like dinner dates, but morning time dates I'm fine with that.
I love a good brunch, even for a first date. Yeah. See,
I love going on breakfast dates with my boyfriend. It's
my favorite, like going to breakfast having a good time.

(25:49):
I don't know that I would like it as a
first or even like the first few dates. Well, I
think of it this way. I wake up, get it
over with because if it went bad, I'm like great,
got the rest of my day. But just things like
went well, we had the rest of the day to still, like,
you know, maybe go do something else. But see, like
my thing was like the first day, and I always
need like to break off the nerves. I don't drink

(26:12):
often on dates, mostly so I can make sure I'm
very aware of everything that's happening, right, But I always
like having one drink because it shakes off the nerves
and you can kind of listen up and see somebody's
like more genuine side than they're very tense, very protected side, right,
and besides brunch on a Saturday or Sunday, which this
is leading to that point, you know, brunches like the

(26:34):
only time you're it's socially acceptable to have an alcoholic beverage.
I can't go to breakfast at Pancake Pantry and say
I would like a Coors Light right now. I mean
you could, yeah, but it doesn't the most or something. Yeah,
but on a weekday is still like still questionable, right. So,
And I also don't like having dates on Saturdays or
Sundays because it wastes my time. Here's my thing. If

(26:57):
I'm going to go out with a guy on a weekend,
it's not going to work out. I don't know if
it will or won't. But like my Saturdays and Sundays
are reserved for my friends all day, every day until
I meet somebody in that shifts a little bit, right, Yeah,
So I make sure my dates always happen in the
evenings on the weekdays because my time is more valuable

(27:19):
with my friends on the weekends. Because I don't see
my friends often during the weekdays. I can see that.
I feel like the only time I probably I agree,
I would agree to like a weekend date would be
just say y'all were out of town or y'all already
doing something and I was available type thing. But if
we were all planning something, I would never choose the

(27:40):
date over my friends. But it's hard because dates you're
typically planning, especially the first few, it's like you kind
of are planning in advance. That's by the one time
we ever see men really planned, and even then it's
typically not them, you know. So that's what I'm saying, Like,
normally you're kind of planning it. So like I love
the idea behind, but I can't do it on weekdays

(28:03):
because I'm working. I would hope they're also working in
some capacity. I mean, I really hope. So so like,
I love it in the more serious dating than the
casual dating, mostly because I have other rules in place
with that. I see that. I just think, like breakfast
is possibly the most casual meal of the day. Yes,

(28:23):
and I'm pretty casual, and I feel like, for like
a first dating, I'm I would like to be pretty casual,
so it works for me. Yeah, I get that. I
like that we both have different views on that though,
because that's why I wanted to bring it up. I
just love a good like chicken biscuit or something in
an iced coffee and true, if you just say Hillary
to chick Fili, she'll be very happy. I'm so happy.
It would be the best first day ever. The one

(28:44):
thing they don't have our cheese grits that would be phenomenal,
would be perfect. You never know. I could see chick
Fili adding that they're very Southern. Maybe I should submit that.
I think they would appreciate that. I mean, they did
add mac and cheese, so they have the cheese, they
just need the grits. Have you everad cheese? I don't
like them? Do you not like grits? Are just don't

(29:05):
like cheese graps? I don't like gritz period. I think
they the texture of them is very gross. Like I'd
rather eat mashed potatoes, and I do think it's portally
different thing. Yeah, but I think it's one or the
other because most of the time people will get mashed
potatoes or they'll get grits where and when like cracker barrel,
eat into get one or the other. I mean, or
like dinner or like Thanksgiving, you'll have one or the other.

(29:27):
If you're a Southern family, you don't typically have both.
I just don't. I I picture more of grits is
like a breakfast food, and I don't really see mashed
potatoes as a breakfast food. Oh yeah, No, I've seen
them served all like style potatoes, but that's not a
mashed potato. No. I love homestyle potatoes. I do not.
I don't know why. I've tried grits several times and
I cannot get behind them. Did not know. We've never

(29:47):
had this conversation, but kind of Have you ever had couscous,
which is like cauliflower like basically all I don't know,
groined up or something, yeah, fancy for me. No, I
don't like it. It's fine, and if I'm in a
situation where it's the only vegetarian meal, I will eat it, Okay,
I don't choose to, and I feel like couscous is
on the same level as a gritz. Do you like

(30:07):
kean wall? Not really. I don't like like a tiny
textured things. It makes me feel weird, okay, But I
do like bubble tea, and those are little bubbles. I've
never had that something about that weirds me out. It
so good it tastes like freaking milkshake. Okay, I know,
but yeah I don't. I don't know why I don't
like grits. Didn't know. This is if I'm going to

(30:28):
eat something in that texture vein, I'm gonna eat mashed
potatoes even for breakfast. I have no shame. Okay, all right,
but you know what, I support you trying to get
chick Fili to bring grits to the table. Yeah, that's
gonna be. I want to be. I want to have
a picture on the wall of me at chick fil A.
Have you seen those pictures? You don't ever go to
chick fil A? They have like these um photos of

(30:49):
like customers on the wall. I really want one of those.
They're professionally done photos though, um. And then cheese grits.
Those are my two things for chills. My request. You've
heard it here. Cheese grits and a photo on the wall.
If thats yes, it came from this podcast and they
need to bring back They now only have one size
of milkshakes and a lot of people are complaining about that.
So okay, if everybody from chickflis listening to those two

(31:11):
first things, there's my third thing. That's your third thing? Yes,
anymore that we need to put out on the floor.
Think I'm good, Okay, just making sure before we go
into this last one before the before the little segment
here runs. Okay, you also send me this story, which
I think we should totally talk about the story about
the groom who invited his fiance's at bullies to their

(31:33):
wedding and doesn't see an issue with it because it
happened so long ago. That bothers me. Ditto really bothers
me because there are things that happened to me in
middle school, high school that really affected me and really
kind of have stuck with me. And there are certain
people who caused that that I really don't want at

(31:56):
a very personal like event of mine, like my wedding.
I really don't want to see them honestly ever, like ever,
but I don't want them at my wedding because whenever
I see these people or hear their name or anything,
I automatically first thing I think of is what they
did to me. I don't want that at my wedding.

(32:16):
I don't know it's it's supposed to be both of
y'all special day. I don't like the lack of respect
in this, and I say that with pure honesty. Because
all we know is whatever was written in right, maybe
there could be more to the story. Maybe one of
the bullies was like the fiance sister, I don't know, yeah,
which at that point there's more stuff going a lot.

(32:38):
But I feel like if this is just the blatant
story right here that we're hearing, there's a lack of
respect from this fiance to do that knowing that that's
who that is, right, Because wouldn't you want your wife
to be as happy as she can possibly be, just
as she would want the same for you on that day,
instead of inviting somebody who you really probably don't care

(33:00):
that's there and you're probably having gonna talk to She's
not going to talk to him, all right, So like same,
You and I have very similar situations from high school.
I would be furious if this worked to happen, really
about it. But it would also make me question if
I'm marrying the right person. Yeah, for them to not
take the chance to to listen to me or yeah,

(33:23):
I don't, I just I don't love it. It just
makes me feel as the kids say, choogie, choogi, choogi,
what is that it's an ick? Or do you get
an ick? Like choogie is here. Let me give you
the legit definition it choogie. And I say that because
c h e U g y is used broadly to

(33:43):
describe someone who is out of data, trying too hard,
or like that. Us, No, are we out of data
trying to like it's and it's also like kind of
using a way like you're being too choogy. I feel
like the groom is in this situation by like trying
just to be nice to everybody one like he's trying
too hard. Yeah, okay, I can see that. Maybe he's
like thinking, oh, I don't want to hurt their feelings,

(34:06):
but you're forgeting about your wife's feelings, yes, your future
wife's feelings. Yeah, I don't. I wasn't a fan of that.
I wouldn't like that at all. We should discuss who
comes and yeah, and like also I don't know if
he even asked her before he invited them, Like did
he invite them without even I got through it and
be happy about that either because and it's not because

(34:26):
I'm trying to be like picky or selective about you know,
the guest list or anything, but I think that's something
you kind of do together, like you kind of review
it together. So it's not like I'm like asking, oh,
give me your guest list because I want to make sure,
like I like everybody, it's just something you do together.
I thought, well, and further than that, like you guys
are paying for this wedding, or her parents are, or

(34:48):
if you're doing it traditionally and you're asking her, hey,
pay for the food of the people who made your
life a living blank for how many years? Exactly, Like
that's literally saying like in yes, they're he's saying, like
at this point she should be over it. But like,
I don't think people realize that when you go through
something traumatic, and bullying tends to be, especially when it

(35:10):
happens younger and in high school or middle school, it's
very traumatic and that it sticks with you the rest
of your life. As much as I would like I
am grown up, there's no like ill will towards these
people who did that in my life, but I want
nothing to do with them. Exactly. They ruined part of
things that happened for me, and I can't look back
at those memories without thinking of that. So regardless if

(35:32):
I am as grown and healthy as possibly can be,
like this is still going to impact that Beyonce. Yeah,
for especially if she has to now look at her
wedding and see them. I just don't like it, yea,
all that I the that's another that's another trendy word.
It gives the ick learning all the trends. Oh yeah,

(35:56):
those were those were good topics. I thought. I felt like,
I thought we we're going to have similar feelings on it.
But the first one we did not so and I
learned you don't like cheese grits. So that's what I got.
Ruined our friendship from the first segment. Yeah, the second
one we were on were we were pretty good with
Yes for sure. Okay, y'all you guys can can hear

(36:17):
right now. Um, the celebrity that everybody hopes to one
day see in public, their number one celebrity number six.
So a few days ago, Kaitlyn and I were in California.
We went to watch a softball tournament O. Our brother
in law coaches at Utah and his mom is the
head coach at Oklahoma, and so we went to watch
them play. I guess that's what you do now when

(36:38):
you have family, you go and you support family. And
so we go and we're staying at this this hotel
in Palm Springs, about to go to the softball game,
and Kaylyn are walking up to have breakfast and it's
just this little outdoor restaurant, nothing super fancy or anything.
And she grabs my arm and goes, oh my goodness,
I'm like what what what? She goes, look and sitting

(36:59):
at table is Larry David. Larry David is like her
number one most famous, the person she loves the most.
He created Seinfeld with Jerry Seinfeld and we watch Curb
Your Enthusiasm every day now. And so he's that guy,
old guy, balding on top, his hair is kind of
crazy around the edges, real tall and skinny. But he's

(37:22):
sitting there with his wife and she's like, that's Larry David.
I'm like, no way, and I be dang. It was
Larry David, his wife and their dog. But they're so
rich that at one point they ordered sausage from the
restaurant and they just chopped it up and put it
on a plate for the dog to eat, like sausage. Yeah,
it's that's how you know you got money when you

(37:43):
can order off the menu for your dog. And so
you know, we were sitting so close I could hear
him talk, and so he was talking to his wife,
and you know in the show, he's always you know,
negative and a bit quirky, and he's going, okay, we
just wanted to park and there was a car in

(38:05):
front of us and it was electric and it was
plugged in charging and we needed to get by it,
but they said they couldn't because the car was charging.
Just unplugged a car and move it and we'll go
by and then replug in the car. And he was
like on a little tangent and I felt like I
was getting my very own private Larry David show. It
was really a and for me, I thought it was cool.
But Kaitlyn loved him and she was just trying. I mean,

(38:27):
we were facing him and we were trying so hard
not to be those people that are staring or taking
pictures and credit to us, well mostly met because she
has a season. I gonna take a picture of anybody
like that. I didn't take a picture. I did not
take a creeper picture. And they went along in their
married away. We never bothered them. They had a nice
breakfast and we have a cool story to tell about it.
I feel pretty good. And the question though, was and

(38:49):
she asked me, who was your number one person if
you were to see out that you would freak out
because to her, it's Larry David, and we happened to
stumble right up on him. Of everybody, hers Larry David.
So mine would be David Letterman. If I were to
go into a restaurant and I were seated at a table,
I look over and I see David Letterman, I would
be in shock and I probably wouldn't be able to

(39:10):
keep my composure or it'd be really difficult not to
say hello. I don't think I would, but that would
be difficult for me. So minds David Letterman, Amy yours
Julia Roberts. I mean, I have a long list, but
that's probably that would probably be very difficult for me.
Like there's just like years I've watched her as a
little girl, so like to see her out, and she's

(39:31):
someone I've never seen before, So I would definitely try
to watch her without her knowing, but I'd probably wouldn't
say anything, especially if she's eating him. Amy's number one's
Julia Roberts, Minds David Letterman, Eddie Whatsers Eddie Vetter, lead
singer a Pearl Jam. I mean, come on, this is
my whole childhood growing up listening to Pearl Jam. But bones,
I think I would just stare at him and not
have the guts to go talk to him at all. Well,

(39:54):
I wouldn't go talk to David Letterman. I would maybe
if he were walking out, I would say hey, I'm
a huge fan, like as he's moving out, so he
doesn't have to stop. You know. Once I saw David
Spade sitting at a restaurant. I think David Spade is
super funny and I don't want to bother him. And
he wasn't eating, he was just sitting there ready for
his food. And I walked by him to go to
the bathroom. Didn't say anything. So then when I walked back,

(40:15):
I didn't stop, and instride I said, hey, huge fan,
I hope you have a good dinner, and he goes, hey,
thanks man boom. And then he wrote about me on
his Instagram said, hey, there was the fan came up
to me and did the coolest thing, just said hi
and kept walking and I was like, yeah, that's just
playing it cool. No. He did that on his Instagram
story and it was you, yes, serious, I've told you
guys that. Yeah. Okay, somehow that didn't stick serious like

(40:39):
us and didn't stick again he did. Coincidence? Wow, Well,
Amy did freak out when she saw Reese Weatherspoon and
I was with her, and it was embarrassing a little
bit because it was not embarrassing. Okay, explain what happened. Okay,
First of all, she wasn't eating, and second of all,
it was at an industry type event, so I feel
like the vibe is different and people are there because

(40:59):
of work and being honored for your work. And while
she's not a country music singer and is an award show,
I still saw her backstage and she's there like she's
It was just, hey, I feel like saying hi to
her in that moment quickly was totally appropriate and not embarrassing.
And I and what did you say? I think I
said something like I'm a big fan. What did I say? Well?

(41:21):
You kind of creepily walked up to her, and you
know how if something's hot and you try to touch it,
and you're like, oh, I don't know, Did I think
can I touch you that way? Yes? Yeah? And you
touched her shoulder. Oh yeah, that's weird. Yes, I guess
I've walked that fart out. Yes, Lunchbox too yours. Oh

(41:45):
it used to be Johnny Bananas, but I saw him,
so now it has to be Chelsea Housco from Teen
Mom Too. If I saw her in public, I would
just I would lose it. That's possible. I think you
could probably just call her, look up her number online
and she's a Team Mom and the number one, yeah,
number one, she's Team Mom two and she's off that show.

(42:07):
Now she has a redecorating show on HDTV or one
of those channels, and I mean she's big time. Guys,
it's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.
Her a listener request, we brought back a draft of
things from the two thousands. I'm a little disappointed, y'all.

(42:27):
I did not win this one. I'm pretty sure Lunchbox one,
and you can go see Bobby Bones dot com if
you like, place a vote you'll see who won. And
I'm disappointed because I had strong ones. I had Polypocket,
Harry Potter and Britney Spears, which are three things that
were very involved in my life in the two thousands.
But you know. That's fine. It's fine, I'm fine. I do.

(42:48):
Hope you guys enjoy this draft though. Here it is
number five. All right, another Bobby Bones Show draft. Let's
roll the dice for the first pick. Here we go.
The number is zero, Ray, you have the overall first pick.
All right, so well, least draft three things. The team
with the most votes wins. Let's draft right. The category

(43:10):
is things from the two thousands. Yeah, it's pretty obvious.
I used it all the time when I was in
high school. Give me lime Wire. Interesting. Interesting because I'm
gonna go Napster. That was the first. Napster was so
much bigger. Yeah, the lime Wire was only created after
Napster was shut down and it was well I had

(43:32):
it too, but it stunk and you would get in trouble.
You got a bunch of viruses. Okay, So Ray goes
lime Wire, I go Napstre. That's like if we said, hey,
what's a good cereal with honey and raygos honeybones the
secondary cereal. That's like Honeycombs and I go, but I'm
gonna pick Honeycombs. Unreal man. Yeah, okay, did you think Ray? Well,

(43:55):
I mean we both picked the same thing out of
all things in the nineties. That's pretty crazy that both
are thought that crazy? Um, Amy, your pick that wasn't
the ninety Yes, that's good, Amy, Amy one, I was open.
I was sliding through. That's a good one. Hey, great
triggered me with LimeWire, Lunchbox, Facebook, Good Morgan, I'm going

(44:22):
with Holly Pockets. I grew up playing with us. No
idea what it is, but EI there. Okay, So now
we go backward. Morgans that you went last in that
first round. You need to go first in the second round. Yeah,
and you know I'm a huge nerd and I have
to choose these. I'm doing the Harry Potter movies. Wow,

(44:45):
this this category is so wide open. Yes, okay, there's
a lot of things. Lunchbox, guys, this was the biggest
show in the world. This is American Idol. That's true.
Still on now though, but it was. That's when it
was at its peak. Mellie Clarkson, Simon, Paula, Randy. I mean,

(45:08):
come on, guys, Amy breaking bad. Okay, I'm gonna go
Blockbuster video. Oh I did that start? Who knows? Amy?
I just wrote it down. I like it and I'm
committed to it. I feel like we had hey Amy
ninety Oh yeah we did in the night. I probably

(45:30):
died in the two thousand. Yeah, but I'm committed to it. Yeah,
we're celebrating it to death. We're actually the one the
legacy of Blockbuster. Okay, ray it came in so hot
and it was so popular and I wore it. It
was afflictions the lime Wire and a He's out next week? Eddie?

(45:51):
Are you playing? No? No, no, I'm out? Yeah? Thank you? Right?
And why don't you playing Eddie? Because I was bad
last time? Okay, So, RAYMONDO, what what so far? What
is on yours? Lime wireing affliction? Okay, you have the
first pick in the third round. What are you gonna
add to that? Going music again? Burning CDs? That was

(46:14):
definitely a such a thing. If you buy blank CDs,
you download I'm from Napster, you download your music illegally,
and then you burn CDs illegally. We were so rebels awesome. Okay,
I have Blockbuster, I have Napster. I feel like you

(46:35):
have to go with your favorite thing that you use.
It's like one of your favorite things. I know, you
know I'm talking about well I know what I'm thinking. Okay,
and I don't want to share what I'm battling between
because you guys might take it. But I'm gonna go
his favorite. Oh, I'm gonna go with The Office. Okay,

(46:55):
that works too, TV show, The Office. I don't know
what you're referring your wrescuelo. Twitter. Oh Twitter is still
so current, I don't really Okay, true, that's just when
it started. Yeah, I get it. Two thousand and six.
I think it's all right. I like the death of
things like Blockbuster Amy. Okay, Well, I'm gonna go with
early early two thousands. I think it was when the

(47:17):
Bobby Bones Morning Show started. Okay, that's right. I mean,
I don't it's still a thing now. But so you're
just gonna put the Bobby Bone Show that's when it started. Yes, Well,
I'm hoping this one isn't about the death that bad Okay,
blush box man. Well, this person got their start in

(47:38):
the two thousand's biggest thing on this planet? Give me
Taylor Swift. Wow, that's good. This is good. The iPhone
she wasn't as big then. Hey, her and Tim McGraw,
that's how we got how they got started mgrawl sing
about him. Yes, that was her song between them. That's
when boom swift. I have so mini on my list

(48:00):
that we didn't choose, and I'm like stuck because they're
all good. Because you want to go frosted tips, write
me too. Um, I mean like Cartoon Network, Scholastic book fairs,
all instant Messenger. There's so many. There was crocs and
eggs at this time, like, just let her go, let

(48:21):
her go in Listen. I had different two thousands because yeah,
she got the belt. She's younger than I thought, like
we would have to have started in that year. Just exist. Okay,
when they were big in that in that time period. Now,
oh man, you know what. I love her and she
was she ate blew up during this time. I'm going

(48:43):
Britney Spears. Okay, there you have it. I did have
Justin and Brittany together as one of mine. That was
ninety eight through two thousand and two, so it kind
of but still they were there to for a couple
of years. Okay, let me read the list here. Ray
has Lime Wire, Election and Burning CD. I mean nothing,

(49:04):
says Raymundo, more than the category of things he just picked.
I have Napster Blockbuster in the Office, Amy has iPhone,
Breaking Bad and The Bobby Bone Show, Lunchbox has Facebook,
American Idol and Taylor Swift, and Morgan has Polly Pocket,
Harry Potter Movies and Britney Spears. Britney Spears. Okay, don't

(49:28):
vote for the first round pick because it's easy, because
whoever gets first picked overall. Except this time, it's going
to have the best pick. Vote for the whole team.
Look at second round, third round. It's up at Bobby
Bones dot com. Things that I had listed that I
didn't pick trl which was massive back in the day.
Circuit City doesn't exist anymore, but it was pretty cool

(49:49):
back then. Razors or blackberries like the phone, Yeah, those
were cool. Oh, I remember my work before I had
this job. Give me a BlackBerry and my thoughts the
coolest person where it gave you a BlackBerry? Yeah, when
you're selling granted, Yeah, sales. I need to check my emails.
So cool? Punked the TV show um pooka shell Necklaces,

(50:15):
in which I thought Ray was in the running to
really pick that ugs them all. I mean, yeah, I
think I'm all making a comeback. Though I'm being honest.
I've been in a while. I don't know. I like
to go have many Orange Julius hang out you do.
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan number two.

(50:41):
Y'all have been loving this game, and this week was
the championship round, which means there's not any more rounds
coming up at least for the next few weeks. Elder
Versus Millennial Championship went down. Your girl took the crown.
I'm just gonna you've probably seen it on social media.
You might have heard it, so this is just like
a recap. Okay, I'm not spoiling anything, but your girl

(51:02):
has a crown, maybe a losing grown, maybe a winning crown.
I mean, I don't know, but I have a crown
from this championship game. Hear it right now. It's Eddie
the elder versus Me the millennial number four. It's the
championship round of Elder versus Millennial. You guys will get
easy trivia questions about each other's generation. Okay, Eddie, you
are forty two years old. Forty two, Morgan, you are

(51:24):
twenty eight years old. Okay, let's get to the questions.
Then we'll do the intros up first, Eddie, these are
three questions for you, Morgan should know the answers. Question
number one, what do fans of Lady Gaga call themselves?
Who poker facers? Lady Gaga's gagenators? Gagaators? Is that your answer? Gagenators? Wow?

(51:56):
That's increct. No, Wow, we're really god? Yeah? Actually terrible answer.
More again, any guests there? I should know. I've seen
this so many times. The monsters, Hold on, it's there,
hold on three seconds time monsters. I don't remember the

(52:20):
little monsters, any little monsters. All right, let's introduce Eddie.
Here we go up first, he's a data four the
Hispanic who don't panic. His palms are sweaty, knees weak,
arms are heavy. There's vomit on a sweater already, Mom
Spaghetti gesst producer Eddie Eddy. Question number two, what two

(52:47):
celebrities were in movies like New York Minute and Passport
to Paris? This is for the championship. What two celebrities
were in the movies New York Minute and Passport to Paris?
Two celebrities Jennifer Lawrence and batman Richard Pattinson. There's just

(53:16):
a lot wrong with that, huh, Robert Pattinson. Yeah, um,
that's first, that's wrong. Then Richard Pattinson, Yeah, incorrect, Morgan.
Do you know what two celebrities were in New York
Minute and Passport to Paris? I do believe that's Mary
Kayton Ashley Olsen. That is correct. Oh wow, then watch
those all right, Eddie. Your final question that Morgan should
know based on her generation, who wrote the movie Mean Girls?

(53:44):
M Wow? I mean I'm I'm leaning towards Is it
Rebel Wilson She's in it? Right? No? Mean Girls? I
mean girls speaking white girls. Now I'm going like the
Wayne Brothers white chicks. Um, let's go. I feel like

(54:08):
it's Rebel Wilson or um Melissa McCarthy. Yeah, I could
be way off on all these. Your answer is Rebel Wilson.
That is incorrect, dam Morgan. Do you know who wrote
the movie Mean Girls? I feel like it's two people.
I know it's one of them. It's either Tina Fair
or Amy Poehler, but m Tina and they were they

(54:31):
were both in it. Amy Poehler, It's Tina Fey. That's crazy.
So Eddie zero Morgan one because she stole one question
of the three wild not good on either one of
these parts all right, okay, Morgan, You're gonna get questions

(54:52):
that Eddie will know the answer to. Being aged forty two, Okay, okay.
Liam and Noel are the first names of the brothers
from what band. Here is a clip of their song
Champagne Supernovae. Can you named that band? Gosh? I mean,

(55:22):
come on, Liam and Noel and it's a band. It
doesn't sound like rock. That sounds a little more in
the middle alternative. Maybe I need an answer, Morgan ac
DC incorrect, Eddie Man. That is the rock band Oasis.

(55:45):
That is correct, Eddie on the board. Let's go introduce
Eddie's opponent. She runs all of our digital all of
our social media, the website. She has the eye, the tiger,
the thrill, the fight, rising up to the challenge of
her rival, Eddie and the last known survivor. It's Morgan
number two. Everybody is okay, Morgan? Question number two. Los

(56:12):
del Rio released a song that popularized what famous dance
in the nineties. The dance and the song have the
same names. I don't know that this is the right
roof that's saying that, but it's the only dance that
I'm aware of that was also the same name as

(56:35):
a song, which would be the Makarena. Is that your answer? Yes,
she says Mackarina. The answer is the Macarena, Morgan. This
is for the win. Yeah, I need it, I need it.
What is the name of Phoebe Buffet's twin in Friends? Oh,

(57:01):
my gosh, Bhoebe Bouffet's twin. I've watched so many times
I have. I feel like it's very similar to Phoebe Alicia. No,
that's not right. I thought it's not there phyllis phyllis. Wow,

(57:25):
phillis is incorrect. Dang, I felt pretty good about that, Eddie.
You need this in order to tie or Morgan wins
the championship. Really, yeah, because Morgan has two and you
only have one. So Phoebe Buffet has a twin sister. Yes,
she's like so different than Phoebe. What is the name Boebe?
And of her twin sister? It's not like it's not

(57:48):
like Phoebe. It's doesn't start with a P. I don't
think Bhoebe And oh I don't know this. Wow, I
don't know Stacy. No, the answer is Ursula La and

(58:08):
Morgan is the champion. Wow. Shit. Over ten weeks to
this game almost three months, it's been that long, and
Morgan gets we are the champions. Wow, Morgan, what would
you like to say? You know, I would just like
to say that Eddie, you're a loser. You don't get

(58:28):
a wear crown. Y'all. I am so proud of myself
because I was not alive when you were alive. So
this is great. Thank you, And then play Morgan's winning
song because she did win here it is alright, congratulations.

(58:49):
It's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Number two.
As for another listener request, y'all want at us to
bring back the employee of the month, which is always
crazy and studio. So we're not going to talk about
that because it was crazy enough on its own and
we all had to share, you know, the our speeches

(59:11):
we would have given if we won, which gets weird
all in itself. I want to talk Hill. You recently
just made your first big Girl purchase. Well I've made
big Girl purchases, but not this particular one before. Not okay,
so let's let's break it down how big it is
and what this purchase is. I want to know, I
bought a couch, the couches that you sent me a

(59:33):
picture of Yes, okay, describe the couch to people, because
I'm the only one that got the It's very cozy.
It's like a deep couch like we're like when you
sit on it, your feet are not going to be
touching the ground like it's that type of the couch
stocked into the couch. Yes, it's cozy. It is like
a grayge color gray Grage. Oh, I have not heard

(59:54):
grage before. Really Okay, well there you go, Grage. So, yes,
I bought this couch. And what is funny? Not funny
is I posted because I'm not good with making decisions
like at all, especially when it comes to big decisions
with money. It's just a lot, and the couch is

(01:00:14):
a very big, very big purchase, very big purchase because
I want to have this thing for a long time.
It's a little bit of an investment. Um. So I
posted on my Instagram the name of the place, and
I was like, has anybody shopped here lately? Have y'all
had good experiences? Morgan? I kid you not. My dms
were like, run, don't buy from there. But guess what

(01:00:36):
I decided to do. I decided to turn around and
go buy from there, so I may or may not
have a couch coming well, okay, I'm gonna be fine. Okay,
let's so it's from Ashley Furniture, right, Yes, I wasn't
sure if I could say that, But I mean I
bought my couch from there, you did. Yes, It's also
been six years and it's still great quality. So we

(01:00:59):
bought it in Wichita and they packed it up into
our U haul. They did, and so we didn't touch it, right,
it was just sitting in the back of the U haul.
Nothing was on it. When we unpacked it in Nashville.
It had a huge hole in the back of one
of them and they sent somebody out to come fix it,
like fix it, and it looked brand new. I still
have extra fabric in case anything happens. So like, I

(01:01:22):
really didn't have a bad experience. I was super just
unfortunate when they were moving it into the U haul.
What happened just happened, and they made it better. Like
I didn't pay for anything to fix it or whatever.
And that couch, I mean, you still have it in
my house and I love it. Everybody loves that couch. Yes, yes,
I didn't know that's where it was from Well, my
aunt texted me because she saw my post and she
was like, this was the place where I just bought

(01:01:42):
my furniture like over the summer and it was great.
And most people are telling me that they had issues
with shipping. Well, my guy told me it's in stock,
like it's coming. I could have it in two weeks,
but I can't get it in two weeks because it's
just not going to fit with what I'm doing, So
I'm going to get it in a month. So he said, no,
it's in stock, like you're getting it in a month,

(01:02:04):
because everybody's like, you're not going to see it for
a year. Okay, So people aren't mad at Ashley, they're
mad at what's happening, which is not anything any brand
or any I guess person or brand has it has
control over. Is the changes in what's happening with shipping,
like everything has been on it. Everything. They yes, but

(01:02:24):
they said that the way customer service has handled it
has been horrible. They said their customer service is really bad,
which I'm wondering if that's like kind of a known
thing within their company. Because the guy gave me his
business card and was like, do not call customer service first,
like always call me first because I will get a
handle on it for you. Well, and maybe two customer services.

(01:02:44):
So over, like so many people are trying to call
many things because everything's backed up. Yeah, there's all these
people that have shipping issues with furniture going there. Yeah,
customer service is getting called all the time, and you
maybe have a few people working, because it's true, we've
seen it, like service industry in general is not the
way it used to be as far as people employed

(01:03:05):
and people wanting to work there. And so I can
imagine you maybe have fifty people that are there for
every thousand that's calling in. So it's probably not a
good experience because those people probably aren't very happy and
people are probably quitting right on top of that. You're
exactly right, and so then if the salesperson does it,
it's like, Okay, I can help this situation move along

(01:03:26):
a lot better. So it sounds like you're going to
have a good situation with this. I'm hoping I will.
We'll see. And then people were like, oh, they're cheap,
Like I guess quality wise, I'm like, hey and wanting cheap,
but they were like, quality wise, it's cheap. But I'm like, again,
I do know people who have furniture from them, and
I think it's great, and I even like what I got,

(01:03:48):
So I don't know it just they must have just
had bad experiences. I'm excited for my couch and people
were freaking me out yesterday. I was like having such
I get really bad by or worse anyways, like after
about my car I had, I had that, but I
was like on another level of buyers or worse after
reading everybody's horror stories. But I was like, you know

(01:04:11):
what I've gotten, like good feedback from people I know,
like Gator. He even wrote me, he was like, I
got most all of our furniture from there. We've loved them,
have had great experiences. So we'll see. But yeah, you'll
be able to come out and test the couch hopefully
in a month if it's here. I mean, I think,
you know what, I'm putting out that energy into the
universe that's gonna be here and everything's gonna go great.
It's gonna be great. Yeah, I think it'll be awesome.

(01:04:33):
I do think qualities great. I mean, like I said,
I thought happened, going strong for six years, no problems,
no problem at all, So I think you're fine, But
I do. I do think we are in this, which
is really hard to take with a grain of salt.
Right when you ask for advice about brands and different
things that you're trying to buy. We are in a
very like tumultuous time. It's very weird as far as

(01:04:56):
like goods and services go, or whenever we're seeing things
so differently than what it used to be three years ago.
And I don't think we're giving that a grace period enough,
Like we're still in this and this is still the
repercussion of the pandemic. And yeah, everything I know, you
know enough research, everything that's going on not here is

(01:05:18):
going to impact this as well. So like a little
bit of grace goes a little bit of a long way,
if you can. That's how I feel. But I do
understand that's also incredibly frustrating because it is your money,
and it's a lot of money. So I do, I
get And if you're not a couch for a year,
like I get it, that's what are we supposed to do.
I was gonna if I don't have when I'm just

(01:05:38):
gonna blow up my air mattress and just put it
in my living room. I mean that it'd be like
happens back in the nineties when they had those blow
up chairs that we'd sit in. Yes, just buy one
of those those that would work. Well. Well, the guy
did tell me, he said you actually He's like, I'm
not just saying this is like a salesperson, I'm just
warning you. He was like, you actually really did buy

(01:06:00):
it a good time because prices are about to go
up really high on furniture. And I asked why. I
was like very curious, and I'm assuming this is true.
I don't know why he would tell me like something
that wasn't um. He said that shipping containers, like for
all this is usually like six hundred dollars. Well then

(01:06:20):
they went up to like six thousand dollars and now
they're at like twenty five thousand dollars. So that's why
it's going up because of all these shipping containers. I
was like, that makes sense. I mean, that does make sense.
It does suck, though, like I guess why people are
angry and mad and yeah, frustrated, but it doesn't mean
like hey, dis on a brand because the reality is like, yeah,

(01:06:42):
people still have to make money, and people are still
working those jobs even if they're not pretty. Right now,
you're making me feel better about my purchase. Yeah, thank you.
I think it'll be great and I think i'm excited.
A really cool couch, yeah, tunnel on it. Did you
get the TV stand at Ashley Furniture too? Did I
send you a picture of that one? No? I just
got the couch we're talking about. It's technically not a

(01:07:04):
TV stand, but I'm making it a TV stand. It's
like a buffet, like a dining buffet type thing. I
love it. I'm excited. I'm very proud of you for
making these big girl purchases, I know, adult purchases. So
it's happening. I'm just excited for Georgie to my dog,
to like jump up there and like get onto her
blanket and just like cuddle on the couch like she's
just gonna love it. Well, And because right now, and

(01:07:25):
the whole reason this is happening is because your roommate's
moving now. Yes, So yes, I feel like I do
need to give a backstory. My roommate's moving out right now,
so she's taking her couch. So some things you're having
to purchase, Yeah, so literally, when I tell you she's taking,
I mean, obviously it's all her stuff, so she's ever
right too. She's taking the couch, dining room table with

(01:07:47):
all the chairs, the bar stools, the trash can, like
they're just little things. I keep thinking. I'm like, oh,
I'm not going to have that. I need to get that.
And it's hard too, because, like when you're making those
purchases right now, you're also thinking of, I'm going to
keep this for a while, exactly. I gotta love it.
I gotta love the idea behind it. Can I add
more to it when I do actually buy a house,

(01:08:09):
And that's like smart financial thinking, right, You're not just
buying for this moment. You're buying right here for like years.
And the cool thing about the couch I'm getting is
it's all like separate like little chairs that kind of
it's together, and so I can grow it if I
want to, Like I can buy an extra chair and
like slide it in there and make my couch bigger.
If I removed somewhere and I have a bigger house,

(01:08:30):
I can make it bigger. I think that's perfect. I'm
so excited. I really am excited about it. It's just
when you get that bill and you look at it,
it's like, oh, man, but I'm really excited about it. No,
you will, and you will stay excited about it. Like
I when I bought my house and I made two
of my biggest purchases were the massive mirror I have

(01:08:53):
in my Oh it's so sturdy. Yes it's a monster,
but it's gorgeous. It's beautiful. And then a bar cabinet,
which every time people come out they comment on it
and they're like, what is this? They were two the
two biggest purchases in my house, which is kind of
funny considering like you know, you got the couch in
the bed and stuff. But I debated on both of

(01:09:15):
buying both of those for over a year before I
actually pulled the trigger on buying them. So I do
think like your anxiety that was associated with making this
big purchase is also totally warranted. Yes, And because I
did have two of our friends you were doing gymnastics,
I had two of my friends come and test the
couch out to sit on it to make sure, and

(01:09:36):
I was like, you know, I've never like made a
decision this quickly, And our friend was like, hill are
you even talking about this for the past two days,
and I was like, two days is very quick for
being like, that's not long. But you also don't have
a lot of time to figure exactly like I need, right,
So now I've got to figure out the other things.
I think I did find a trash can at Costco

(01:09:58):
that I'll go get. So I'm just, you know, trying
to sellly replace things. I will say, like too, like
just the biggest things I learned when I was like
decorating my house. People often ask for a lot of
like tips. Is like a first time homeowner or like
a young homeowner. It's hard, like you're you're doing all
this and you're like, what am I doing? And you're
kind of experiencing some of that even though this isn't

(01:10:20):
like buying a house. You're going to be at this
house by yourself, right, and so or get a roommate
of this. I was going to say, I'm not advertising
this because I don't really need a bunch of dms
of people who are like strangers. But yes, I am
looking for a roommate. Yes, but but for a while
you will be like and I will say one of
the biggest things and that I'm really glad that I did.
And my oldest sister gave me this piece of advice

(01:10:42):
was you don't need to decorate everything right away. She's like,
get your essentials that you need to live and live
in the house because something that you think you may
want may not actually be what you want. When you're
in there and you're like, that's not the vibe of
the space. You feel it out and you see what
you need or what's useful while also being really cool.

(01:11:02):
And that was such an helpful piece of advice for
me because I really didn't get a lot of my decorations.
I still. I'm also just not a big decoration person.
I don't like putting a lot of things on my walls.
You love that I'm like that, or you love decoration.
I love decorating, yes, I well I do too, but
I'm very simplistic when it comes to decorations. If I

(01:11:23):
put something on my wall, like, you know, I thought
about that for a while before I put it up.
It took you a long time to put up the
pictures by your front door a long time, But it
was also because I don't I didn't know what I wanted. Yeah,
Like it was like I just needed to sit with
that wall for like a year to be like I
just don't know what we'll fit here or what will
be too much, right, So it was like in your

(01:11:46):
to make your house a home is not going to
happen overnight. It's not even gonna happen in a couple
of months. It's going to happen over the course of time.
Takes a minute. And like there's still times where I'm decorate,
I'm like, oh, this could be cool there, and then
I think about it for a while, like the near
my my bar, cabinet area, my um, like my little
nook I have in my bathroom, Like so many pieces

(01:12:08):
were added on so much later. I just really got
the bar centrals, a bed, a bed frame. I had
my couch from my apartment. I got a new TV
stand in your dining table, I bought the dining table.
And that was really about it. Like I didn't I
had one of my rooms wasn't furnished. I had my
old furniture from my apartment go into one of the
spare bedrooms. Like there wasn't a lot that I purchased beforehand.

(01:12:32):
So much of it happened after So in big statement
pieces are the ones you end up building stuff around,
so like you'll build stuff around your couch, couch and everything,
and so, like I did, those big purchases influence what
the rest of your house is going to look. Smaller pieces,
which I have some like decoration type things that I'm
going to bring down and decorate because I love decorating,

(01:12:55):
like I really do. But yeah, I'm taking it very slow.
I'm like, if this isn't a necess Sarah purchased, like
I'm not going to use it very often, then we're
not worrying about it right now. Yes, a couch I
will use, the trash canoe will use. I do want
to get some bar stools. I'm not going to worry
about a dining table right now because it's not necessary,
Like you can eat at the bar. So yeah, so yeah,

(01:13:16):
you're doing it in that fashion anyway. You just don't
realize that I'm trying to. It's like it's hard. You
get really excited, You're like, I want to buy all things.
When I walked in at Home after I purchased my house,
I was like, I want everything. Oh my gosh. I know,
especially in a store like that, you just the time
with home goods. You just walk in and you're like,
all right, let's fill my buggy up and let's, you know,
go decorate the house. But if you want your house

(01:13:37):
to have like a theme or an esthetic, like it
does take this like natural progression of planning that you
don't realize you're doing, but you are doing it in
your head. And I just wanted a very homey, simplistic
like look, and I got that. I feel like you
definitely did. That's how I want. I told my mom,
I really want people to come to my house and

(01:13:57):
not leave thinking wow, that girl's couch is really uncomfortable.
Like I want people to be like, oh, this is
very comfy, because I've been to people's houses before and
the couch is fine. Like even this couch I'm sitting on,
I'm like, it's fine. But I really want like a
comfortable hangout couch where my friends can come over, we
can have the TV on, watching a movie or whatever,
just hanging out talking. I just really want a homey space.

(01:14:20):
And I feel like too. I was trying to figure
out how I would describe my style and this word
keeps popping up. But coastal, like you know, like the
driftwood color, like the gray like wood type color, and
then the grays and like the tans and stuff. So
you mean very pottery barn yes, basically. And I think
too that reminds me of home, like Florida, and so

(01:14:41):
that makes it comey too for me. So yes, I
just I love a homie space, yes, And you and
I both love hosting people. And the couch, like the
center of that couch in a kitchen, Yes, are two
center pieces of hosting, and so they're very important elements,
yes for people like us. Then you have other people
who just have it for for the comfort, comfort, comfort,

(01:15:03):
trying to stay comfy, and then comfortable um comfy factory
because they don't like to host people, right right, They
just want it for themselves to watch movies or whatever.
And I love that too, But I did want a
couch that was comfortable, stylish and also people love to
sit on or sleep on if I end up having
a huge sleepover at the house exactly. Yeah, I want

(01:15:24):
something people can take a nap on it and it's
like deep enough to wear. It's just gonna be so
cozy and I'm so excited, so fluffy. You've got it,
You've got it fluffy. Yes, it's the dupe for the
it's um the restoration hardware cloud. It's a dupe for that.
It's like ten thousand dollars. We love a dupe, especially
from restoration hardware, because that's where I got my mirror,
and I yet nobody touching that mirror. No, I don't

(01:15:46):
even like to get a mirror. I even like to
look at myself in your mirror. I'm like, just don't
even look at it. Hillary, Oh my god, no, listen,
this is this is hilarious. My boyfriend loves to shadow
box in that mirror because it's large. You can see
your whole body. And I'm like, I swear, if one
day you ever get close enough that something happened, can
you imagine. I'm like, I don't like I think I

(01:16:08):
have entrance through restoration hardware, like if something minor happens,
but if like massive something happens, I don't know that anything,
you know, And this thing it weighs like three hundred pounds,
it's freaking heavy. So like I'm like, I don't actually
think you can do damage at least as far as
like it knocking over. But every time, every time he
does that I'm like, just don't do it in that mirror.

(01:16:30):
It's just it's not worth it. We can go get
you a twenty dollars mirror or something. Yeah, so let's
do that. That's become a thing. I'm like, we gotta
figure this out. So funny. I'm picturing all of this
going down. Oh yeah, don't touch the mirror. One day,
I'll figure it out. But for now, it's still it's
still the shadow boxing mirrors. Also the mirror take on
my outfit photos in and you can't even see the

(01:16:52):
border because that's how huge it is. It's huge. So yeah,
you can actually kind of get a peek at Morgan's
like fantastic mirror on her Instagram. It's it's massive. I've
tried to take to picture of it before and you
just like you can't. You just can't. There's a I
think I have it on my house highlights on Instagram
when I got like a boomerang of it or something. Yes,
when you first got it. Yeah, so you need to

(01:17:12):
go check out this mirror, like, go right now to
go look at it. It is my that thing in
my mouth, like the weirdest, bougiest thing to have, But
it is the bougiest thing I have in my house.
I would say, yeah, that or even your bark heart,
but it doesn't look like it. It just looks very classy.
It's very wooden, and it doesn't happen. The mirror is
definitely bougie, like all the crystals or what make it

(01:17:34):
bougie when I look. When I think something's bougie, it's
like diamond out, crystallized out, or like just looks incredibly expensive.
Well don't you even have like a like a chandelier
and you're yes, it cost me a hundred fifty bucks. Like,
but it the looks wise, it does. It looks very
I went out and bought the rug you had in

(01:17:54):
there because I loved it so soft. I do have
a little fluffy like bulush pink rug in there. I
was trying to emulate like a cool celebrity closet, not
that I have one, um, but yeah, that's surprisingly that
she cost me, like and I actually think I haven't
got it on sale for like one twenty five. But
it looks super bougie, which is cool. Yeah, your closet

(01:18:15):
looks good. You did a great job. No, thank you.
I'm excited for you though. Your Big Girl purchased. You're
more coming for sure. Yes, with this phase of your life.
I'm so excited. And speaking of phase in your life,
we have another segment to intro, and then we got
something to talk about. Yeah, I'm gonna try not to cry.
I know, I know, well, we can get through it. Chat.

(01:18:38):
We'll chat um. But here right now, you guys can
talk about we'll not talk about. You can hear the
Employee of the Month segment that went down and how
it became down to two. And I'm still bitter. You know,
I didn't even get chosen. It's fine. Nobody knows what
I do half the time anyway, even though I work
all the time, nobody actually knows what I do exactly,
which is pretty funny than yes, Yes, so here it

(01:19:02):
is Employee of the Month for February number three. Okay,
here's a voicemail we got from a listener last week
about the segment we're about to do Morning Studio. I
was just wondering if you were going to bring back
the Employee of the month. Thanks, love the show. It
is March first. I got on my team of Mike

(01:19:22):
D and Scuba Steve, so they are not in the
running from employee the mind because he's gotten it before. Yeah. Yeah,
but they're voting. They're voting now. We just talked about it.
They lent me their ears. Okay, so I haven't fully decided, though,
it's pretty close. Betweent a couple of people, so employ
the month to win forty dollars the bed of their
choice sometime over the next month when they want to

(01:19:43):
do a segment and just have it. Who want to
employ the month? Last month? Abby? Abbey one last month? Abby?
How did your life change after you were Employee of
the Month? Probably in many ways? Huh. I mean it
really is one of the biggest honors. There you go,
did you guys create your speeches? Yes, we're ready. So
once I eliminate you, you you then read your speech. Oh

(01:20:08):
this is the worst. Could you have to read a
speech for something you didn't get but you already wrote
it though? Okay, Yeah, here's who's not employee of the
month at first? Eddie? What you're not already Yeah? Yeah,
well that was anti climac take for you for me, Yeah, Eddie,
give us your speech that you were going to read

(01:20:29):
if you were employee of the month. Let me act
like I'm really excited about this. Wow wow, wow, thank
you guys. I would like to thank everyone here, especially
as Scuba Steve, because only he knows how hard I work. Wow,
Me and Scuobar here endless hours after the show is over,
making sure everything is good for the show. I believe
we have some great digital content and I want to
thank our listeners and everyone watching on Facebook right now.

(01:20:51):
This is for you because I provided this content for you.
That's what I do here. So thank you very much
and you all have a blessed day. Thank you so
so much. You don't really make content, you just show it. Yeah,
but you know if it wasn't for me, they would
it wouldn't get to them. You know what I mean?
You did not you post it up there? Yeah? Yeah,
did not win that. Eddie's the first one eliminated from
Employee of the month, the second person that is not

(01:21:13):
Employee of the month. Ray Ray like her speech, if
you would have been like unlike Eddie's mind will be real.
I don't know what he was lying about there, but seriously,
this is such an honor. At my apartment, the Penthouse
Bay has always been complaining. She's like, we have two

(01:21:34):
plaques here from ACMs and CMA's and then we have
one plaque here from CMA's there's an imbalance. I need
another plaque there so that there's two on each beam
in the penthouse when we're overlooking the Cumberland River. I finally, Baby,
I'm bringing home that plaque to give us that balance
we need in the penthouse. Ray, who runs our board

(01:21:55):
and does the audio and vital member of the team,
did not win. This is the employee of the Month, Beanie, Baby,
you'll win. Oh that could be worth a lot. Yeah,
it couldn't. It's a bear. The bears are expensive. He
did very good this month. That the next person not
Employee of the Money. Sorry Morgan your thirty second speech.

(01:22:23):
Thank you so much everyone, because without this team, I
couldn't do what I do. And listen. I know I'm
not the best at trivia, and sometimes I make a
lot of people roll their eyes with my answers at things,
but I've loved having the opportunity to make people smile
and feel related to being the youngest one on the show.
I try to make sure every day I walk in

(01:22:44):
here with a smile and do the best job that
I can do each day. I love all of you.
Thank you family. Morgan is our head of digital. If
there's something on social media, Eddie said, he goes, I mean,
I've put it all up there, man. You okay, he
gets it too more and then she lots of posting,
lots of picture. There are three people left, Amy, Lunchbox,

(01:23:10):
Abby having get he's gonna lose his mine. I didn't
even think of that. You think you might leave for
a minute. I don't think you'll quick quit, but like
you might exit the room, which I've done that before.

(01:23:30):
It's fine. Maybe sometimes enough is enough. Person. The next person,
the next person who is not Employee of the Month
is Amy. Okay, my speeches. Well, there's no I in team.

(01:23:52):
So first, I'd like to thank everyone on the show,
because you're each a nassa to every segment every show. Secondly,
I'd like to thank my friend's stories him kids, because
that's basically my content. But it's a good it was
really a good. You did a great you had a
great month. Thank you, Yeah you really did. Okay, we're
down to two. Lunchbox in Abbey who won last month?

(01:24:14):
Is it possible she could be Employee of the Month again? Wow?
I didn't even know. Do you want me to just
announce the winner like that? Wait? But then, but then,
but then we'll make the first runner up do their
speech first. We just announced the winner. Yeah, the winner
of Employee of the Month. It's March first today. But
the February Employee of the Month is Abbey, she repeated,

(01:24:41):
as champion. Oh man, but you have to thank you.
Her psalm was a big part of it. She charted
national anthem, a lot of content. She revealed she had
a boyfriend on the air. Ye did it kind of
came up and then she did so Abbey again. And
maybe it's that you're exceeding expectations. Oh, is that what

(01:25:02):
it is? Maybe? So, I think because you're not on
the air all the time, you answer phones, So maybe
it's because you're on air, roll is not expected to
be very much when you overperform. I think that's probably
why the team voted you is Employee the Month. But
let's go to Lunchbox, who did not win. Who has
his speech? Lunchbox, Yeah, to all you haters that call

(01:25:23):
and tell me my voice is annoying, that why has
Lunchbox on the show. Not only am I on the show,
I'm the employee of the month, So eat that crap
for breakfast, lunch, dinner, whenever you're listening to us in
your ears and your car, at your work whatever. And
ever since I worked at Randall's when I was fifteen
years old, the grocery store, I would be in that
break room and they had a little plaque up there
for Employee of the month. I've dreamed about this for

(01:25:45):
years and it has finally come true. And I thought
about singing this to you, but we've heard enough bad
singing this month when we play Abbey's national anthem over
and over, so I just gave it to you, nice
and easy. Have a great day employee the month out?
Oh are you? Are you leaving? No, I'm not leaving.
What are your thoughts? Though? I mean, it's rigged. They

(01:26:08):
just want to make me mad. Here we go again,
just like we're gonna play her song just to honor
her employee of the month, just to rile me up
a little bit more. You want to ruin my I mean, listen,
you ruined my favoritey might as well starting my march
out in a bad mood. So here we go. I'm
in a bad mood. I tried to keep it in.
I tried to like I didn't care. But here we are.
It's been a whole minute, and I'm really upset because
when it was announced, I just sat here quietly trying

(01:26:29):
to add like, hey, you know, no sweat on my back,
but guess what its sweat on my back? What percentage
of you thought when it was down to you an Abbey,
that you were gonna you were gonna be it? Zero presented?
I knew by the looking Bobby's eyes, because you knew
you didn't deserve it. No, No, because I could look
in your eyes and I was like, oh, he's smiling
too much. He came down to Abby and Amy. If

(01:26:49):
I'm being honest, as the last two we were talking
through um, we just thought we'd roll Ncebox up at
the end D like I saw it in his eyes,
like I was like, he he won't look at me.
That means he doesn't want to tell me that. Sometimes
I do the opposite. Yeah, but in a way like lunchbox.
Let me this something that just popped into my head.
I don't want to make this about Lunchbox. Yeah, just

(01:27:10):
want he tends to do that, but well I didn't
do any day. No, don't blame me for this. Go ahead,
like in a way again, like you said, Abby's main
role is not to be on the mic, but in
the way Lunchbox reacts to her technically gives her more time.
We basically I created the employee of the month. Is

(01:27:31):
what you're saying. Without me, she wouldn't be where she is,
is what you're saying, Amy, Right, Amy, she wouldn't have
the material. I'm gonna let you do your speech and
then you can come and collect a forty dollars right
here in her very good, Barrett, right here at your
bea the month bear very good, Okay, okay, And here
is our employee of the month, Abby, our phone screener. Okay.
So I want to thank Bobby, everyone I work with,

(01:27:53):
and all the listeners for their support. Um, and I
especially want to thank Lunchbox because you know you're right.
You're singing for Dummies book. It's paying off. I've been
reading it and it's obviously paying off because my versions
being played on different stations. UM. It's like really been
the best month because it's been played on all the stations.
I'm going to Strawberry Festival. Um. And now I get

(01:28:13):
an employee of the month, so the only repeat champion.
Can I just say she needs a speechwriter? Because when
she had her seventy one party or whatever number, she
was seventy nine, it was bad. That was bad. Like
didn't say I was the best at giving speeches. She's
not an on air person. I'm just saying. I'm just saying,
if we're gonna have speeches, maybe she needs help. I mean,

(01:28:34):
even the president has people that writes his speeches for me.
Even the president of the president literally a job. I
want to help. You're so good, you want to help
me speeches. I mean, I'll help your speeches singing. I
mean I'll get you all sorts of lessons. Okay, Abby,
thank you. You've been a great employee. You win the
money and the bear and you have You've just done
the next. Thank you well, and there's your employe of

(01:28:56):
the month. Abby. To everyone, though it is a difficult decision,
everyone in the running really except Eddie really Yeah? Interesting,
thanks Scuba. I'll remember that. I hate that, I like
feel bad for winning, like looking at lunchbox. Just no,
don't let that get to it's the best bits of

(01:29:16):
the week with Morgan. Number two, This one, I can't
play for you guys on the Best Mits. But it's
definitely worth adding two here because Kane Brown just released
a new song called Leave You Alone and it's so good.
He performed it on the show. We were able to

(01:29:37):
share that performance with y'all. It's his first live performance
of it, and as much as I would love to
include it on here, I don't want to get in trouble.
So I'm just putting this in here as an intro
to say, right now, go to Bobbybones dot com and
watch it. It's really great. Kane Brown totally slayed this
performance in every way and it's a great new song
of his number two. That's the most pure I've ever

(01:29:58):
heard vocal. I mean, and you always come in and
kill it, but that when you're singing that, I was like, God,
dang man, that's the best I've ever heard Kane sing.
That's awesome. And then you know, I mean that it's
a compliment. It's not like, hey man, you stalk every
other time like you're always good. What are you say? No,
especially considering because I think, yeah, you were mentioning before
we went on that he was nervous about singing in
the morning, like he had trouble sleeping last night because

(01:30:20):
he was going to sing, you should do all your
shows in the morning. Tell your team, book all your
show that's how good you sound. The Morning Shows official
YouTube Chan go to YouTube search Bobby Bone Show and
subscribe Today Bob Bone it's the best bits of the
week with Morgan number two coming in hot at number one.

(01:30:42):
It's rejected segments. But that's actually not what we're talking
about here, Hillary. You have a very big announcement to share.
I do, and I haven't announced it all really anywhere,
and I haven't even told like I told people who
like need to now. Um, but I am leaving the show.

(01:31:04):
I'm leaving the show. I'm going to a new job. Um.
I just it was before you get into it, a
little round for you. Thank you. You've worked for the
show for so long. I think it's been four and
a half years now. I've been with the show, Yes,
and I'm gonna like you keep taking it away because
I'm probably gonna cry if I talk anymore. Um. Yeah,

(01:31:25):
I just i felt like I'd needed a change in
my life, like a major change, and this opportunity came
up and I went for it. And I'm I'm excited
about it. Do you want to talk about the opportunity? Yeah,
I can say what it is. So I'm going to
be working at a label in town called Broken Bow.
They have like Jason Aldean and Dustin Lynch, Um Granger Smith,

(01:31:48):
a bunch of really great artists over there, and UM, yeah,
I've never um, I've only done radio. Literally my entire
career has been with iHeart. I don't know anything different,
and so it's crazy that I'm gonna be going and
doing something else. And I told Bobby, like me and
him had a chat right here where we're sitting at

(01:32:11):
and it was a great conversation. And then afterwards, I
was like, I'm gonna go tell the studio. I'd been fine,
Like I was good. I was like, you know, when
I accepted the job, I was like happy about it.
I hadn't cried or anything. I get into the studio
and I just like say, I haven't like I have
to tell y'all something, and everybody just stares at me,
and I just start crying, and I'm like and I

(01:32:33):
hadn't even said what I was going to be doing yet,
and they're probably like, what's wrong with her? So I
had to tell everybody I was leaving, and yeah, it
was hard. I was like, this is not it's hard.
I'm excited, obviously, but when you have spent most of
your career doing something, it's just hard to leave. It

(01:32:56):
is hard to leave, regardless of anything. It's hard to leave.
It's hard to leave something that's so comfortable and known. Yeah,
and I think that's kind of what it is too.
I was too. I want to challenge myself, like I
was too comfortable, Like I I have been doing this
job for four and a half years, and I just

(01:33:16):
want to I want to try something new, and I'm
going to be thirty next year and I kind of
wanted to make twenty nine my year of big changes.
And yeah, so that was kind of like one of
the first things that I did. And we're so happy
for you. I'm so happy for I know. I mean
because I'm still gonna see your best friends. We're still

(01:33:37):
going to see each other outside of work. Yes, but
it is going to be weird not having you around here.
It's gonna be very weird. And I don't have to
wake up early anymore, which is great, Thank God. That's
going to be the best thing ever now what are
you doing at Broken Bow? So I'm going to be
a project to manager. Um, I'm going to be helping
out with like artists projects, like if they an album

(01:34:00):
coming out or a song. This is my understanding of
my job I'm going to be taking. I'm just making
sure everybody's like staying on track, Like I'll be talking
with managers, I'll be talking with other people from the label, promotions,
the radio team, just everybody making sure everybody's staying on
track to make sure this album or whatever is getting
out on time. Yes. So, and you're going to be

(01:34:23):
so good at that because one of your jobs on
the show for a very long time was to help
with artists. Yeah, when they came into the studio. Yes,
so I know a bunch of people. Yeah, you would
talk to the label to organize, tell a little bit
about what you were doing on that side of things
here for the show. Yeah, I kind of led into
this love for doing it. I would book artists, so

(01:34:44):
I would. I'm actually really close with all of our
We have label reps, which are people who we have
a person at each label who I will reach out
to if we need an artist or they reach out us.
Whenever you know, somebody's coming out with an album or
something that they need to promote. So I just became

(01:35:07):
very close with all of these people, and I thought,
I kind of want to see what that side of
it's like, because I know what our side is like,
and I want to go see what that side is
like and grow a little bit and that that part
of the industry. Because again I'm I mean twenty nine,
I still have so much left, like career wise, I

(01:35:27):
just want to experience so much more and I want
to grow and I want to learn more about this industry.
So I'm excited it. Definitely. I had no idea what
I wanted to do. It's not like even went out searching, Oh,
I want to be a project manager. Like the job
came up and I was like, I actually think I
would like that. I think I'd be pretty good at it,
and I've already got a couple of artists who like
want me to be their project manage. I saw low

(01:35:50):
Cash at CRS and because okay, when I told everybody
after the show, like I was leaving and I'd been crying,
Low Cash was here doing it to be with Amy,
and so they walked by me and I had went
out to go get them, and so they knew I
was okay. But then like a few minutes later, I'm
crying and I was like, I hate crying in front

(01:36:11):
of people, so I was embarrassed. I saw them the
next day at CRS and I went up to them
and I was like, they saw me, They're gave me
a hug. I was like, I'm so sorry I was crying,
and I said, I'm actually coming to y'all's label because
they're on Broken Bow, yes, and they're forgot. Yeah, okay,
they're on Broken Bow. And what are you gonna be doing?
And I said project manager and all of this. They're like, well,
whatever it is you're doing, we want to be your artist,

(01:36:32):
Like we want if you have I'll have a roster.
They're like, we want to be one of those artists. Okay.
So is there like multiple project managers? Man Yes, managers,
so we'll have three. Okay, So you'll split up the
artists on that label, so I'll get ten artists. Wow,
that's a lot of artists. I first I'll be getting
fifteen because one of the girls is going on maternity leaves.

(01:36:53):
Oh wow, I don't think I'm sharing too much. If
I think I can share all this, I'm so used
to like our show, like knowing I can and can't share.
I know I'm going into this job. This is new.
I'm like, I'm allowed. I'm not spilling any secrets, so
it's fine. Um, but yes, So I think I will
have fifteen at first, Wow, and then get down to ten.

(01:37:14):
It's my understanding. Wow. Yeah, that's a lot of artists,
it is. And I would you be working like eight
to five? Are you working from home? What does that
look like? And it's going to be a normal job.
I had a normal I did ask somebody yesterday who
is in the same position. I was like, what's the
hours like? And um, he said that it was going

(01:37:37):
to be I think nine to five. Okay, Dolly, I
never I could never relate to that song because I've
never talking about to relate to it. Yeah, so I'm
gonna relate to that. Um. It's going to be interesting
with Georgie because usually I can go home after the
show and spend time with her and go take her out.
Now it's not gonna happen. Georgie's gonna have to do
a little growing up of her own now. Too. She

(01:37:59):
sure is. Which is Hillary's dog by the way, for
anybody who's yes, you're listening to probably what is that?
It's my dog. But she's just so used to my
schedule and so now she's going to have a new schedule.
So that's going to be interesting. But I'm excited. It's
definitely a new opportunity. Um, it's something I've never done before,
never even thought about doing before. Um, But I'm really

(01:38:22):
excited the group over there, like I'm going to work with.
They're all really great. I've known quite a few of
them for a while for years, just through radio, and
I'm excited. I'm so excited for you. But like it
makes me sad to think this is the last time
we'll be on my podcast. I know, I didn't even
think of that. Thanks. Tell you know what, maybe maybe

(01:38:44):
if I have another podcast or something else, then you're
back and it'll be great. I can kind of maybe
we'll put that in the my key card, yes, hold
on to it. Well, we'll put that out in the universe. Yes,
for those things I'm still around. What about Okay, so
what on the show? What are the things you're gonna
miss the most and things you're gonna miss the least.

(01:39:06):
Du dun d We're just gonna go out from sight
for the least. Waking up early, Yes, Um, that is
not fun. Also, is always cold here in the classroom
or is it just cold in the studio? No? I
was freezing today, like I came in here to thaw out. Um, No,
it was freezing and radio stations. I don't know why,

(01:39:27):
but it is apparently because of the equipment. Um. Yeah,
I'm not gonna miss the cold. I'm not gonna miss
waking up super early. Um, that's gonna be fantastic. Um.
What am I gonna miss the most? Honestly, probably just
like y'all, like the the daily like chatter, like after

(01:39:48):
the show, like they're all out on the hallway right
now talking if you can hear them in the background.
That you mean you're you're about to tell me that
The thing you're gonna miss the most is the locker
room talk that we have to put up with every
day because it's mostly men, I mean not really, Like
there were some inappropriate things that earlier and I was like,
did we have to say that. I'm not going to
say who said it, but it is it's locker room talk.

(01:40:09):
I'm sure every time you could guess, I don't know,
just like the you know, just like you know how me,
you and Lunchbox will like sit in the green room
and like chat, yes, you know, things like that. What
else am I gonna miss? I do love like um,
getting to meet all the like labels and managers and stuff.

(01:40:30):
I've created such a good relationship with a lot of them.
Like I saw one of them today and I was like,
I just want to watch, you know what, I'm leaving,
and like I'm not going to really see him often anymore.
They all follow each other on Instagram. But just like
those relationships that I have spent so much time building,
and I'm just not going to see them see them
as much. I think the cool thing for you on
that aspect is that you'll end up seeing them at

(01:40:51):
events or different things. Yeah. That the industry, as much
as there are different labels and there's different sets of things,
all comes together very often. Yeah, Nashville is a very
small town, it really is as far as the music industry.
So I do think you'll still see a lot of them,
and you'll still get to work with Saint Jude, which
I know is a huge thing for you. You do

(01:41:12):
so much work on our Saint Jude radio thon. Yeah,
I forgot no, honestly, that maybe the thing I miss
the most. It's definitely the thing. Whoops, It's definitely the
thing that stresses me out the most, just because I
put a lot of pressure on myself to do well
with it because it does mean a lot to me.
So that's why I say when it stresses me out

(01:41:33):
the most, that's why because I put so much pressure
out myself to make sure it's great. Yeah, I just
I'm gonna miss doing that. I like, so I kind
of created like the templates for things like kind of
how to do things. Since I had to turn I
turned those into whoever is going to do it next?
I mean so basically Hillary helped us institute a lot

(01:41:55):
of things at the show, as far as the battle
that people may never know or see, but you should
definitely know from this podcast because you did. You want
a hand in a lot of things and it will
live on. Yeah. It was weird, like putting together like
examples of everything I do and sending it because like
even with Bobby's packet, like I kind of created that format,

(01:42:16):
like I created all of that in the packet you're
referring to as like all of the spots and advertisements
he does that. He has to do commercials and everything.
We like aerial font fourteen, size fourteen. And then I
figured out how like the word count, how many words
it needs to be for like a sixty, a thirty
or fifteen. I just I kind of I kind of

(01:42:39):
created that little thing. So I'm proud of doing that.
And yeah, the radio thon, I'm still proud. I still
hold the record for two five million in twenty nineteen. Yeah,
I'm so proud of that because I think I'm so
proud because that was the first year that I did
it and because Morgan Massingale had just left. She was
our EP and she left, and they're like, oh, we

(01:43:01):
had to do the radio thon. And I was like, oh,
what does that mean? Like what do I do? And
they're like, oh, well, we kind of got a book artists,
we have to get the show together. We've got to
figure out like you know, the text number, the phone number.
I mean, so much goes on behind the scenes for
a radio thon, like it's insane, And yeah, I had

(01:43:22):
literally no idea what I was doing. But I had
so many people come up to me, even like the
head people at Saint June and they're like, that's the
best radio thon we've ever heard, and it just like
I think I went home and cried that day because
I spent so much time doing it. And when they
gave me that final number, they said, this is the
most your show has ever made, and it was two

(01:43:44):
point five million dollars. I just I could not believe
that I did it. I was like, how did I
pull this together? But it wasn't just me, Like, I mean,
we have Ray who's piecing the show together, Mike who's
like running sound. You you're doing all the digital stuff
and creating all the graph fix Like, it's not just
a one person job. It's a everybody has to come

(01:44:07):
together to do it. My job, which is basically kind
of making sure I was giving y'all the correct info
to make sure y'all could do y'all's jobs. So you're
the organizing you were the producer behind it. Yes, so
that kind of has become like my baby and like
my project, my special project, And yeah, I'll never forget
that first year I did it, and just knowing how

(01:44:29):
how well we did and it was great, and I
got to go toward the hospital, which was awesome. And yeah,
that place just really holds a special place in my
heart and I just love it so much and I'm excited.
I'm still going to be able to get to work
with them. The girl who's going to be my boss,
she I think she's on like the board or something,
or she did something very close with them. So one
Country music is very involved with saying yes. So your

(01:44:52):
artists will definitely be working with them show. I'm sure
on some level that means you too, which is pretty cool. Yeah,
I'm I'm excited about that. To me, that's like our
jobs are all about, like we're giving a platform and
I love to be able to do things for good
and I feel like that's what we do with that
Yes for two days, we get to as you said,
as we should yes, yes. Yeah. Now I want to

(01:45:15):
know we're gonna leave this on a high note again,
because I'm sitting here like my body is waiting to die.
I know, I'm like I'm doing good, I'm keeping it together. Surprised,
but like it's there. It's just like sitting there. I
want to know your top five memories you've been on
the show for four years, Yes, four years. I don't
know the top five memories for you. There are quite

(01:45:37):
a few, but five, five, I would say, I think
that's what you had. Did you have top ten or
do you want to do top five? No? I had five.
I did come up with five. All right, let's do
you're tolling my little list. Five, I would say one,
that's definitely you know, I'm gonna save that one for last.
We're gonna go with this one because I just talked
about it. The raising the record number two point five

(01:46:00):
million for the radioson That was yeahreaking huge, that was awesome.
Um number four I had I lost a bet, which
was our March Madness bet. Yes, I remember that. I
knew I was gonna lose, like I had no idea
what I was doing, and I had to go sing
at the Starbucks close by to our office, wearing underwear

(01:46:21):
outside of my pants and seeing I'm a little teapot
and do like the actual motions. Yes, and that that
video that all of that is still up on Bobby
bones dot com. Can you would like to read somewhere? Yes,
it will never come down. Yeah, that was definitely not
my best moment in life. But you know what it happened,
and that was a memory. You can look back on
it now and it was a fun memory. Yes, um,

(01:46:44):
I would say, three, oh, Bobby, he picked me for
the Christmas gift exchange one year, and this was really sweet,
like this was really awesome. Before um, I was gonna,
I was just about to say, before Christmas comes Thanksgiving?
At Thanksgiving or is that like our show party or something.

(01:47:04):
Bobby had asked me if I went home for Thanksgiving
and I said no, I couldn't afford it, Like flights
were seven hundred dollars or something ridiculous like that. It
was crazy, and I said they couldn't afford it. And
so for the Christmas gift exchange, he gave me an
entire box of cash, all cash, so I could book
a flight for Christmas. So I will never forget that.
That was definitely one of the sweetest moments and like

(01:47:25):
one of the sweetest things somebody did, because again, that
was just like a I thought, a passing conversation of
him just asking like, oh, would you do for Thanksgiving?
And I just made that comment. But that's stuck with him,
and he remembered it and he got that for me,
So I thought that was very kind, and it was.
It was awesome. I'll never forget that. That was a

(01:47:46):
really cool moment. I think he might have cheered up
a little bit too, and I think I did. There's
also a video of that someone else. There's just videos
of everything. Number two, I would say this is definitely
one of the worst moments of my entire life when
I crashed into the building. Oh yes, the crock pot,
the crock pot or the coffee. It was a crock pot.
It was a coffee. It was a coffee. It was

(01:48:07):
a coffee. Yes, yes, it was a coffee. I went
on a coffee run for everybody. And when I came
back the way our parking garage is set up, we're
on a hill, which I hate our parking garage. It's
one thing I'm not going to missus parking garage. It
was up on it like you kind of go up
on a hill. And I had them in my passenger
seat floorboard and they were going to spill literally all

(01:48:28):
over my car. So I bent down to grab them.
And as I'm doing that, I thought my foot was
on the break, but it was on the gas and
I floored it into the building, Like, oh, it was
so bad in the building. You really didn't do so bad.
There's still a mark on the building. Yeah, I wasn't say,
but you didn't do much of damage, Like the building
didn't have to be repaired. You left your mark, but
like you left your mark more so on your own car. Yeah,

(01:48:51):
it was, it was not. It was not a great
moment for damage. It was done on your car. I
can't remember now. I don't know if I m I'm
not going to say the total out of respect to Bobby,
but Bobby paid for it because he felt bad and
I was like it was like it was my fault,
but he was like, it happened at work, so I
want to help you. He loaned me his jeep for
like a week while my car was being fixed, and

(01:49:13):
he paid for the damage. But yeah, like it was.
There's also I think a picture on the internet somewhere
of that it definitely dented, like the entire front corner.
The building has some scrapes on it still, so if
you ever come by, you can go see that good
old brick building. Yes, I think it was very interesting
having to come in and tell everybody I walked into

(01:49:35):
the studio and I was like, I wrecked my car,
and Bobby and Mike's faces were the first two I saw.
They were like they couldn't believe it, Like their faces
were hilarious, like thinking back, it's funny now. And I
think Bobby was the one who was like, is your
car okay? And somebody else was like is the building okay?

(01:49:56):
And Amy was like, y'all is she okay? She was
like are you okay? You literally just got into a wreck,
and I was like, oh, I'm fine, Like I promise.
I was like shaking up, and I was like my
car though, because it was spilled everywhere. So then I
had to go get like I had to go get
a carpet cleaner, I had to go do all kinds
of things and yeah, and then having to make the
phone call to my parents. I yeah. My mom's like,

(01:50:19):
I mean, you're as long as you're okay, you know,
we're you're you know, you're good. I don't know why
I still feel like I have when I called my
parents with bad news, say I just hate it. Yeah,
and um, but yeah, that happened, and that was not
that was not a great moment. I still get made
fun of for that, and that was your your number
two moment. That was a huge moment when it happened, though, Yeah,

(01:50:39):
that was that was really bad. I just I still
cannot believe that was life but literally happening on the shows.
What that was? And what's fantastic? Yes it was. What's
fantastic about all of that is none of us thought
to tell our bosses, and so they had to hear
about it on the radio. And so then I'm getting
calls from like HR and from our bosses to make
sure I'm okay, because like, if something happens, like why
are at work, we have to do something about it.

(01:51:01):
And yeah, so that happened. And I don't think I've
ever shared this. My mom's always told me. She said
she didn't want me to share it whenever it first
happened because she was like, it's just not the smartest
thing to do. Did I ever tell you I got
I think I have an injury from it? Wait? Really, yeah,
I don't know if I told you this. What's the injury?
So I um, like shortly after that happened, I cannot

(01:51:25):
pinpoint it to that being what it is, but my
doctor says it is like it very well could be.
So shortly after that, I felt a lump in my
chest and I went and got like a mammogram, like
I went, I remember this whole lump in the chest situation.

(01:51:45):
I know that it could possibly be connected to this. Yes,
oh yes, So I and I went and did the
whole thing of like I got it all checked out,
like scans and everything, and they're like, there is a
mass um. We're gonna keep an eye on it. And
I said, okay. They just said come back in six months.

(01:52:05):
So I go back in six months and they're looking
at it and they were like, okay, well the mass
is looking good, but there's also another spot. So what
I was referring to they were talking about something else
that they had seen, which is it was fine, thankfully.
They were like, you have a oh my gosh, what's
it called. It's my sternum. My sternum sticks out right here,

(01:52:29):
it like it sticks out still. Is that where the
no the seatbelt would have been. I think it's the
steering wheel. I hit the steering wheel like when I
was when you went forward, I went forward. I hit
my steering wheel, and I asked the girl, my doctor,
I said. The only thing I can think of is
right before I felt this, I did get into an

(01:52:50):
accident and she said, yeah, you could have hit your
staring wheel or you could have hit something, and it
could that could have caused it. Okay, so question do
you still have it? M It's always going to be there.
My sternum is always going to stick out. This is
so interesting because I learned this with Remy, my dog.
Oh god, remember when I took her into the vet,

(01:53:11):
I thought she had a she does have a mass. Yeah.
I was like, I'm worried this is cancerous whatever. I
found out from my vet that it's trauma related, Like
she ran her body, she ran into something. And Remy
is clumsy sometimes and runs into the table or the
couch because she likes to late under them. Yeah, and

(01:53:32):
they're like, this is trauma related. And when trauma happens
to your body or like a and I say trauma
meaning like a force, it's your body in a way
that it's not used to these. It happens in pets,
and it happens in humans same same way as that.
It literally just it's like these um I think she

(01:53:52):
called them like fatty cells or something. Yeah, and they
literally like attract to that area and create a mass.
It's not anything, it's just a mass. And it's because
your body went through a trauma. That's so interesting to me.
So like your body went through a trauma in that moment,
it hits something very and it has to be like

(01:54:14):
the most perfect spot. Yeah, which is really strange because
it has to be this area that enough things are
accumulating or whatever. Like she explained it so beautifully and
I cannot but she said, it happens in humans and
in pets. They're very similar. And how it happens, it does.
It's crazy. So the human body, did you what do
you want to feel it? No? I felt it before.

(01:54:34):
I remember that you remember it, yeah, because you were
very concerned because when something's on your chest as a female,
for sure, me know men can get breast cancer too.
But I was terrified, like I would cry and I
was like, oh my gosh, something like that. Just it
was not great. What And then yeah, when I went
back six months later and they told me, I wish

(01:54:55):
I could remember what the name of the stern, like,
it's not protruding sternam, it's a prominent sternham. I think
that's what it's called. And obviously you weren't born with that.
Because this happened, I've never noticed before, Like I just
randomly noticed it, so very well could have happened before
the accident, but I noticed it right after, like a
month later, and when I asked the doctor, she said

(01:55:16):
something like that could cause it. So it all ties
back to me hitting the building. You get a small
injury from I have a prominent Sternham and I will
always remember the show every time. You will never be
able to officially, yeah, physically going to be a part
of you. I don't think I've ever told anybody, Like
Bobby doesn't even know that. Nobody knows that. That's funny.

(01:55:38):
I've always been nervous to tell because so my mom
was like, if something ever happened to you, and like,
you know, I did get into a bad accident, they
could claim that as a pre existing condition. Because right
now I'm fine, like it's no big deal. But since
everything's recorded, you kind of have to be careful what
you say. I get that, and it's been three years,

(01:55:59):
so I'm not bad for you, you though, I mean, yeah,
it could be yes, but yeah, I get it. I
totally yeah. She was like, my mom's a core reporter.
I don't have I ever shared that before, and so
she hears all the things. So she was like, just
be careful, like what you say, you know, you just
want to be careful. But yeah, I don't think I
ever told anybody. So, yeah, I got an injury. You
rushed it all out on the line before before you left.

(01:56:21):
You're life heard. Yeah, this is what happened to me,
and I will live with it forever. It's never gonna
go away. And what was your number one? The satan
jew thing? Did you put it? You just said it? Then? No,
that was I put that. I was going to put
that at too, but since we were I mentioned I
put it five. My number one was when Bobby called
me to tell me I got the job, because I

(01:56:43):
remember I was upstairs in a studio recording a show
and I had my phone on silent because I'm in
a studio and you typically turn her phone on silent,
and I just happened to look down and I had
I just missed a call and it said Bobby's name
on it, like call her ID popped up and I
was like, why is Bobby calling me? And I call

(01:57:07):
him back and I was like sorry, he was recording
a show, and he was like, I just want to
be the one to tell you, like, you got the job.
I tried holding it together. He was like, I don't.
We don't want to tell anybody yet because I want
to let the people know who didn't get it. We
haven't told them yet. But I wanted you. I wanted
to be the one to call you and tell you
got it. So like, just keep it in for a

(01:57:28):
few more weeks and all this, and I was like,
can I tell my mom? And he's like, yeah, she
could tell your mom. So I was like okay, Um,
I'm trying to get off the phone with him, like
before you freak out. Yeah, And so I was like
just don't. I don't want to cry on the phone
with you, Like just let's hang up now. UM. So
I call my mom and she doesn't even hear She
just hears me crying. I just like was bawling and

(01:57:51):
all I said was Bobby, just call. She's like, did
you get the job? He's like yes, and she starts crying.
And what's funny is there's like this giant window and
so people can see me and they're probably like, why
is she crying? But I couldn't tell anybody why I
was crying, so I just was trying to run out
of there. So I just like left. I was like,
I can't be here because people are gonna wonder what's

(01:58:12):
wrong with me, and I can't tell them what's wrong
with me, and I can't lie, Like it's just going
to be so awkward. So it definitely created a thing.
But in this I had the same reaction because I
was part time at that time of being a phone screener,
and I had the same exact reaction when he called
me to offer me full time, because he really went
to bat for me for that, like he saw how
hard I worked, and he was like, I really want
to he created the position for me. I don't know

(01:58:33):
if I think I'm a lot to sure that he
created this position for me. This position was not existing.
It was, you know, to write his commercials and liners
and the countdown and maybe everything else I'm doing. Like
he created it specifically for me, and it will always
be thankful for that and I will never forget that.
But I just get emotional when I get phone calls
from Bobby. They always end up in me crying. I mean, yeah,

(01:58:57):
all good reasons, but also fair because it's a big
deal and you got a really huge deal, big job
that a lot of people wanted. So yeah, and I've
shared briefly before. I'm not going to drag I'm sure
we talked for league two hours now. But before I moved,
like before I got the job, I had just moved
to Nashville, And when I moved to Nashville, I didn't
really have a job lined up. I was working a

(01:59:18):
job that was like six hours a week, and then
I was able to get something a little more. And
I was living on an air mattress and somebody's basement
out of a suitcase because I didn't have a place
to live yet, And then I had just found a
place to live, and then I had Right at that time,
the Bobby position became available and so I applied and
then I ended up getting that job. So it was

(01:59:38):
just crazy how everything lined up. Like, yes, it was
awesome I got this specific job because this was a
dream come true, but there was so much more behind
it that I was like, I think I could actually
make it in this town. Like because at first my
parents were like, what's your backup? Like, how long are
we giving this? You know, we had just had that
conversation and then the Bobby Show opened up. I applied

(02:00:01):
and I got it. So there's just so much more
to it. And that's why I've told Bobby before, like
whenever I put my two weeks in, I was like,
I just appreciate everything you've done. And I mean it,
like he's changed my life. Like I wouldn't have been
here for this long. If I wouldn't have gotten that job,

(02:00:21):
I may have went back home. Yeah, so it was.
It was really awesome. So that was definitely my favorite
moment was just getting the call that I got the job,
and look at you. Now you're about to do an
even bigger job. And I know, like people are like,
going from the Bobby Bone Show is hard, right, it's
the dream job. But I think this is just continuing
on your dream. Yes, the show was a part of

(02:00:42):
your journey, and now you're headed to something just as
big and just as fun. And it just looks different
to people who aren't in the industry. Yeah, people are like,
why are you leaving? Like they're so confused, and I'm like,
I understand. I was like, but just for me, personally,
I want to I want to learn more and I
want to grow more. And that's that's why right at

(02:01:04):
Artist Relations, it's going to be so cool to see
you in this role that it is just that like
it's really working with artists, and I think you're going
to cultivate and help them so well. So I know
everybody's going to be excited to watch you. And I'm
excited personally to see what you do because I know
you're gonna be awesome about it. Yeah, I'm excited. I
like waited because I got the offer and I didn't

(02:01:27):
tell you until like the night before. I was going
to tell Bobby because I don't want you to have
to hold onto that I had only known for like
I think a day, and well, I had to wait
for the official offer. I got the official offer like
hours before I told you because I was like, I
don't want her have to sit with that, like, because
I wanted to tell everybody and I don't want you
to feel like you'd hold a secret in so Yeah,

(02:01:49):
because I texted our email and Bobby and I was like, Hey,
can I talk to you tomorrow? And there was one
time I did that to him and he wrote Morgan
BASSENGELM was like, what does she need to talk to
me about? So I don't want to put on anybody
of I waited till after our emailed him. I waited
like a little bit and then n I sa you
my text. You're the only person on the show though, No,
so well yeah, but we're not. We are best friends

(02:02:13):
before the show anyways. So yeah, our friendship continues on.
And you guys are you're still going to see Hillary
in lots of my posts because I'm I'm always around.
She's not going anywhere. We met before the show, yes,
so people don't realize that we've bet before the show.
That we are friends before the show, we're friends after
the show. This is just part of our fun little
friend journey. Was getting to work together, which was really cool.

(02:02:35):
Yeah it was fun. But I'm so proud of you
as a friend, as a co worker, as everything. Thank you.
It's going to be crazy. This is like my big announcement.
I've never haven't announced it yet, so I know, okay, Well,
I will let you all listen to rejected segments. Hillary
and I forgot we were going into a segment. I
know it. Well, it's funny because like, rejected segments is

(02:02:57):
number one, but this is also like number one personally.
You know, it's just all weird at but we're gonna
make it flow so you'll can hear the rejected segments
from the show this week. This is my rejected segment.
I'm rejecting Hillary leaving me. But it's fine. I've said
it's fine a lot today. I think it's a sign
that I'm not fine. I don't know. I know, we'll
talk about it later, yea. So we have plenty dinners

(02:03:20):
and lots of life to live together, so I'm not
worried about it. But congratulations, I'm so happy for you, y'all.
Make sure you congratulate Hillary. Follow her so you can
keep up with her all the things. I'll share that
with you after this segment right here. Number one. Okay,
it's time for a little behind the scenes segment called
rejected segments. So these are segments that I said, now,

(02:03:42):
we probably shouldn't do that on the air. Lunchbox suggested
a business as Mr Readings by Lunchbox. People will pay
him money to scratch tickets and in return they get
his as MR Audio. So what ASMR is. It's like
sounds but really loud like they turned them. It's not

(02:04:02):
loud in your ears, but it amplifies quiet things and
it's supposed to relax you. You can pay a one
time fee for one recording, or you can do a
monthly fee. And he actually did some audio. Oh okay, thish, Okay,
here you go. We're just gonna scratch lottery take it.
Just feel that. So it couldn't make money. He's problem

(02:04:32):
as he does it creepy. They don't make these like
do you like that? Do you feel it's it's just
for the sound, but because he's whispering, he makes it creepy.
Feel right, No, that's not what AMR is right, but
he's on the right track. Um, that's a rejected segment. Okay,
rejected segments. Eddie sent one in with the header I

(02:04:57):
feel like I'm cheating on my wife and I read that,
I was like, oh, this is gonna be juicy confession.
And so this is mostly about true crime shows. Yeah,
I love true crime murderer shows and she doesn't. She
can't stand the side of them. So when she's not
in the house or she's out running errands, I start

(02:05:19):
watching these and then when I feel her car pool up.
I hear the noise and I look out the windows.
She's here, and I start panicking looking for the remote,
and then I changed the channel real quick. It sounds
like those when people do with dirty movies. That's what
I'm saying. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. It's
because she'll be mad you didn't watch it with her,
or that you're embarrassed to be watching them. No, I
just know that she's gonna be walking at any minute
with the kids, and I'm gonna be like, I can't

(02:05:40):
have like a dead body in a river or something
on TV. And should you have been doing some housework
or something? Maybe I should have been working on the
laundry as well. Rejected segments. Raymundo wanted to talk about
how he's offered forty dollars at a party to do
something and he turned it down. Ray, what were people
offering you money to do? Yeah? This one dude was
all hammerd and he wanted to know, since he thought

(02:06:02):
I was so light and I was a lot smaller
than him, if he could put me on his shoulders.
And he said in return he would pay me forty dollars.
So pick up the small guy. Yeah, and he wanted
to take a picture and probably make fun of me
on Insta or something like that, and I just as
a man, I was like, I just can't allow myself
to do that, even if it is forty dollars. Ray
is five six, yes, yeah, and so Ray didn't want

(02:06:25):
to be laughed at for being small. Would you guys
have allowed it for forty dollars? Yes, me too, yeah,
forty bucks yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. But also we're
not five six, so it's a yeah. But you're also
rejected segments. Lunchbox just wanted to talk about let's all
admit that things we're hiding from our significant other, and

(02:06:48):
I thought I'm going to reject that because all of
us are going to get in trouble if we do
this segment. Thank you, and it sounds interesting, but it's
not worth the one bit to come home. And she's like, oh,
you've been hiding this was he did he give an example? Well?
Was he going to use himself? Well? His example wasn't himself.
His example was a widow was shocked to discover her
huband's secret hobby after and stash after death, and so, oh,

(02:07:11):
I get that taxidermy critters It wasn't that that was
super interesting. He just wanted us to talk about secrets
we're keeping. And I thought, you know what, for the
for the health of the show, let's not do that,
and our lives at home, we probably won't do that.
Do you know they sell a little taxidermy mice and
they dress them up really cute and like Batman costumes
and they're real. Yeah, and they put yeah, I mean

(02:07:33):
like on Etsy or something everything, but it's a real
It was a real mouse, and it's like dressed up
to look all cute and you can order it. I listen.
I grew up in a house with a lot of
animals in the wall. I know, I have a dead
buck or whatever. Yeah, do you want a mouse now?
They came from a trap, I know. And then finally

(02:07:54):
here's our final rejected segment. Rejected segments. Eddie wanted to
come on the air and do a whole set about
how Morgan needs to pay him and pay him now
because he's mad. So it's yeah, I love that you're
bringing this up. Go ahead. She's asking me to do
these videos. I guess she's trying to get endorsements for
certain products and she's doing these personalized videos, and I

(02:08:14):
know I've done it for Bobby, but it's not in
my contract to help someone else make money. And so
I've done two for her, and I've kind of hinted
at the fact, like, hey, we keep doing this, you
can't have to cut me in on some of this
endorsement money. And she just laughs, whatever, Eddie, And I'm
dead serious. It's just kind of part of the job here.
But but it's not though. But if Morgan's making money,

(02:08:34):
the company's making money, the show's making money, Vanettie's making money. Yes, yes, overall. Yeah,
you get to keep your job because the show is
making money. How come you don't request money from Bobby? Yeah,
I see, That's what I'm saying. Bobby does it sometimes
and I'm like, hey, I'll let it slide to the videos.
Do you ever make for me? Rarely it's glumped in
and other stuff. You're the video guy, and it's the
endorsements of the show. That's your job. I get it.

(02:08:56):
You do get paid for doing that. It's from the company.
I'm sure it's somewhere actually in your contract. Just saying
that the makeup company wants to cut me in a
little bit on those videos. I mean, see, that's why
we didn't do the segment that's totally dumb. Well, I
didn't get any I know you've said you've been killing it.
They we've actually used yours, which is why who knows
you can win Employee of the Month next month? Oh okay,

(02:09:18):
so far you're the front runner. All right. That is
rejected segments. Thank you everybody rejected segments. It's the best
Bits of the Week with Morgan number two, all right
till I feel weird and I'm like not ready to
say this last bye because this is weird. I don't
like that. And you are on the show for a

(02:09:40):
few more days after this podcast swayer and people listen
to it. Your last official day is next Wednesday, So
it's not exactly a goodbye, but it is a goodbye
that I this is the last time you'll get to
be on Best Bits and feels weird to me. I know,
like I don't like the feeling right now. We need

(02:10:02):
to point these things out. I'm like, oh, I know,
but we're gonna We're leaving it on a happy, positive
note because this is all good things. Yes, tell the
people where they can keep up with your life as
you go through this new fund stage. I am still
on Instagram, Hillary two else Hillary dot Borden and then
or Twitter is just Hillary Borden. You're still there. People

(02:10:24):
can still hang out with you on social media. You're
still going to see her on All of Mine, which
is at What Girl Morgan and so she's not going anywhere,
but make sure you reach out to give her a
huge virtual hug and congratulations because it's very exciting and
very awesome. Yes, I'm very excited about it. I love
you so much. Love you if I keep doing always

(02:10:46):
being supportive, I mean always you always have my support
of everything, and I'm just very proud of you. Thank you.
I love you. I love you. I don't want to cry,
So we're just gonna leave you to wrap it up. Yep, Okay,
has something to eat now? Yeah, this is it. I
love you, I love you all. Goodbye, Bobby Bones. Hey,

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