November 25, 2024 • 34 mins
Thanksgiving week means family time! Morgan thought this would be a great time to bring on her parents to talk all about her childhood. She asked them questions about what she was like as a child, and what (if any) of her personality has stayed the same. Her mom shared why she stopped Morgan from auditioning for American Idol, and her dad gives his real perspective on having four daughters (& no sons). Plus, Morgan asks her parents why they've never pressured her to get married and for some parenting advice.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's Thanksgiving week, so it's a very special episode of
Take this personally. I'm bringing on my parents, mom and
dad aka Terry and Jeanette, my.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Mom and dad him Morgan Morgan.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, I want to talk to you guys as being
my parents and what it was like with me as
a child, but not only that, as you guys raised
four daughters and now you guys have three dogs, so
great parents all the way around. But what was it
like for you guys having four daughters and raising four
daughters and both of you guys were working parents.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Busy? It was.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It was very busy most all of the time. Guys
were all involved in all kinds of things activities, school activities,
from cheerleading to sports, to volleyball to softball. So we
were busy, busy, busy lives and of course both of
us working.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It was. I just remember being very very busy all
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And dad being a dad of four girls. That's often
a question I get asked as your dad probably hated that.
Did you hate having four daughters growing up?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, it was not.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
As bad as you think could be, but you know
it's definitely different, right, And you're talking about how busy
our lives were. You know that the two older daughters,
you know, played a lot of sports, and you and Taylor,
you know, we got drugged all the sporting events. So
while they were doing their sports, I'd have to go
contain you to somewhere in some type of sporting events.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So it's absolutely always busy with all.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Four girls, Mom, do you recall and Dad may remember
this too, but when you found out that like I
was the last one and I was also a girl,
do you remember Dad like being like, dang it, I
really wanted a boy. You know how they do the
gender reveals and you see the dad's being really upset.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, they didn't do gender reveals when we were expecting
you and Taylor or any of you girls for that matter.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And I think he wanted a boy.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But by then we'd had Taylor and she was two
about two, and we were enjoying that a lot, So
I don't think he was very surprised, and I don't
think it was any sort of disappointment.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We were like, okay, another girl. We know how to
do this, and we were excited.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So yeah, after me, you know you're going to be done.
And I often get asked to you why I have
two middle names. Do you guys have the logic behind
the two middle names.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Oh, you don't have the name that I wanted to
give you. So I lost that on that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Too, on all of them, I thought you had some
of them.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Okay, I'll love you clarify the story.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So, when your older sister, Taylor was born, I wanted
to use the middle name of Elizabeth because that was
that's my grandmother's name, and I wanted to pass that
name down. We had not passed down any of the
family names yet, and so I wanted to name her.
We wanted the first name of Taylor, and so it
became Taylor Elizabeth. Well, Elizabeth Taylor was still, you know,
(03:22):
someone everyone could was familiar with at that point in time,
and I was like, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It sounds like it's backwards for Elizabeth Taylor.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So I love the name Lee spelled L E I
g H. So we decided to name her Taylor Lee
Elizabeth to separate them. And so then when you came
along and you were a girl, we we we had
decided on Morgan if you were a girl, but we
had not decided on the middle name, and I wanted
(03:50):
it to be Lane and Dad wanted it to be Nicole,
and so we decided since Taylor had two middle names,
that you should have two middle names, so it became
Morgan Lane Call and.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Neither one of those were the names you wanted. Dad.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, like I said, I wanted to be in Nicole.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
However, we did talk one time and naming you shouldny
because as a viction, I twain back when I told
your mom, and she's cringed and where did that come from?
So that didn't win out either.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Mom, you didn't know who san I Twain was.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Like, yeah, but she was just coming on the scene
I think, and she wasn't not like everybody did in it,
so it was kind of an unusual name.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So yeah, I tried, well, I mean, and that ended
up being one of my favorite country artists of all
time and.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The first concert ever that you country concert that you
went to.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I do still remember my first concert very well because
I touched and I Twin's hand and she had her
leopard outfit on. That was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You were never going to wash your hand again?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, and did I because I don't know, I can't recall.
All I can remember is like seeing her on the
leopard outfit and I remember Dad like raising me up
to touch her hands.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Because she did the walkaround thing, and you got yeah,
and you were so excited.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You're never gonna, never gonna wash your hand again. You
were super, super excited.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Your girls loved Shanaya and you sang into the the
her brush microphone to her music constantly.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
She was one of my favorites. But that was because
of you guys. It's another reason why Brooks and Dunn
is also one of my favorites, because that was another
one you guys listened to. And Riba so we also
had a dog named Reba ye, so you wanted you
wanted a Reba McIntyre and Shanaya in the family.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That's a pretty big catch music fan for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yep, you got some of them. Speaking of singing into
a microphone, Mom, that was a thing on the Bobby
Bone Show because you decided to tell Eddie and Lunchbox
about the story when I really wanted to be a
singer growing up and wanting to try out for American
Idol and you did not sign the permission slip for
me to do so, would you like to make a
(05:53):
statement on this particular topic.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That was about the time American Idol had the Shebang
guy that was on and who became notorious as someone
who couldn't sing, but they used him publicly and lots
of spots, and all I could think of is our
young daughter, who has talents for lots of other things,
but not necessarily music, being on Key wanted to be
(06:19):
on American Idol. And I recall weeks, months, years of
not only vacations where when.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We would be on cruises, that you would.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Do the karaoke and I would have to go out
in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Why would you be going out in the hallway? You
were embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Let's just say you inherited your dad's tone deafness is
the nicest way I can put that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Not by choice, I know if you would have much
preferred for that not to have been the case.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
But anyway, so and I just didn't want to see
you get hurt. And there was this huge talent show
that was happening at the school, and you were so
excited and you wanted to do all the things, and
I was just really afraid that, just the way kids
can be, that you were.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Going to get hurt in the whole process.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
When you ask about the American Idol application, I just said, well,
you're a minor and I have to consent and I'm
not going to sign it, which made you really mad.
And so you packed your suitcase and said you were
going to run away from home. And I think you
got to the corner maybe and came back.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So do you remember that day, packed up all.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Your monkeys and that suitcase too.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This is this is my stuffed animal phase when I
used to sing to all my stuffed animals. Yeah, same phase.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
She would line them all up first and then sing
to all of them.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So you were crushed and you were hurt, and you
slammed the door many times, and you were upset.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
With us, and it was hard.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
But I think gently after that, I tried to encourage
you have a talent show at school. I think I
think I won that, and I think you won that
talent show Red high Heels Kelly Pickler, Yesy Pickler song.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But then I gently encouraged you to We're an incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Writer and really liked to be around people, but also
to be on stage, to be telling new stories, writing
new stories, or writing whatever that might be very creative
in that sense, but you really enjoyed being kind of
in a public way speaking. And so I said, what
about interning for the Cake in Wichitah? And so you
(08:25):
proceeded to do that and for a couple of summers,
and you said you didn't want to go back to Cake.
You'd done it for a couple of summers, and you
had one summer left before you're going to be leaving
for college, and what about radio show? I do something
different in the media. And so you began with the
Jennings and Tommy cast trying to ask them if you
(08:45):
could do an internship with them. And the way I
recall it, they told you repeatedly on many occasions that
they didn't have an internship program. And on a Sunday afternoon,
Tommy said, you called and just he said, this little
tiny girl from high school and she wanted an internship program.
When I told her we didn't have one, and she said, well,
meet me there and I'll help you create one. And
(09:05):
so you did, and then you interned for them both
that summer, well, I think the next summer for a
little bit before you left for college.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I think it was a couple months that I
was there, and.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
So fast forward all back to the American Idol application,
but fast forward onto k State done in three years,
and I'll never forget that March phone call that we
got that you said, well, I have something to tell
you. You of course, were studying and going to get your
degree in broadcast Journalism with an emphasis in digital, which
(09:39):
was the first graduating classroom kase State where they'd offered
that degree, and you were super excited and said that
you had something to tell us. But you had been
telling us all along that year, very vehemently, that you
were going to move to Nashville, regardless of anything and everything.
(10:00):
You were making connections through your sorority, through one of
the sponsors, trying to already make connections in Nashville, and
that you were headed to Nashville. So when you called,
you said, well, I received a phone call that I'm
going to tell you before I tell you what it
was about, that I'm not doing this. And so Tommy
and Brian Jennings had called and I heard me was
(10:21):
looking for their first ever digital program director for the
Wichtaw market. And you said, and they offered me that position,
but I'm not going to take it, do you recall
it that way?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
No, I don't recall any of this. No, my memory
has gone out the window.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So I said, well, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And you didn't want to talk because you were determined
to go to Nashville, and so you said, I'm not
doing this, I'm not coming back to which I told you, guys,
I was moving to Nashville. And so we chatted and
we talked, and we talked a lot about an opportunity
in a smaller market that could turn into something that
(11:04):
might be bigger, and to just get your.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Foot in the door in that whole field, to get.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Some experience and that that could lead to something else,
rather than going to a huge market like Nashville and
trying to find your way. And you did not want
to hear what we had to say.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But then became the negotiations.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Do you remember that we negotiated because she wanted a puppy,
and so we negotiated that if she would come home
and try it for a while, I think it was
six months to a year, we agreed to.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That we would she could get a puppy.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's you remy so kicking, screaming, not very happy with us.
She accepted the position at iHeart in Wichitah as their
digital program director, and then moved back after graduation from
k State, and I think it was in September.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Of that year. It was about ten months. If you're
talking about moving to Nashville, it's about ten months into
that job.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Ten months into that job, then came home and said
that and all backup.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You enjoyed what you were doing. You threw yourself into it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You were at country concerts, you were out at the
big bar that had brought the country artists in.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, club Rodeo, be bopping around taking pictures, interviewing.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I mean, you threw yourself into that job, and I
think enjoyed it. I mean, still not wanting to be
in Wichitab, but I think you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And also got Remy. Rescued Remy as a puppy.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
When you were volunteering at the Kansas Humane Society and
she came in, So that was meant to be. But
you threw yourself into that and clearly loved what you
were doing. So about ten months into it, the Opportunity
Nashville had inquired about you and they flew you down
to Nashville to interview you. For the Cluster station group
(12:51):
of stations, and the rest is your story what happened
from there. But that's the beginning of the American Idol
the very last note or chapter in that book of
that whole story of you, of you, what you wanted
to do, and then the American Idol application was that
(13:12):
you hadn't been on the show very long.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I will never forget.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I was walking through the house and listening to the show,
and I heard Bobby talking about your American Idol application.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I heard Bobby say, well, let's just have you seen
the song?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And the mom was right, and I.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Sat down in the chair. I think I fell down
into the chair.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I sat down the chair and I put my head
in my hands on like, this is not happening, This
is not happening. And I remember you singing the song,
and I remember Bobby's response being.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, Morgan, I think your mom gave you good advice.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So it wasn't wrong advice, and as it should have been,
because I know you. You know now with the path
that you're on, it's clearly the path that you were
meant to be on, and you don't have a horrible,
horrible voice. But given the dynamic and how where American
I was in all that timeframe. It was just a
(14:09):
mom's protective advice about not getting hurt well.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And I would like to add too, to the story,
there was a lot of pieces there that I don't remember.
It's funny how you guys would remember things and recall
things how differently than I would, just because of my memory.
But I did not want to move home. I loved
you guys, and I loved Wichita, but there was a
big part of me that thought if I moved home,
I would never leave. And that's why I didn't want
(14:36):
to so very strongly. I had seen so many people
move back home and never leave, and I didn't want
to be part of that. I wanted to be the
person that moved away and chase streams and did the
things that I said I was going to do. So
as you guys hear that story, and you guys probably
felt that way, like why does she want to move
(14:56):
back home? Why does she want to be here? It
was it was because I didn't want to be one
of the statistics that didn't get out of their hometown.
And so I was still confident that it could still happen.
But the longer I stayed in Wichita, the more I
thought that was possible.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, you didn't stay long I didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Does that make it? Does that make it a little
bit better that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think I knew that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I think I knew that you wanted more than what
you thought Whichita had to offer. I just also know,
as long as we've been in Wichita, there are so
many opportunities that have launched people, much.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Like your career.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I think it was it was hard to try to
get you to understand that because you were ready to
just take the world on kind of thing, and so
you didn't want.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
To wait, and you didn't want to do all those
other things. But I'm really glad you did.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Not only did you, I think, really learn the business,
but I think that you you were able to really
have some great opportunities in a smaller market that that
were that were important for your growth.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So I'm glad it turned out the way that it did.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, they do say your parents are always right. You
weren't wrong. It was just, you know, a little frustrating
in the moment as I was, I was feeling out with.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Tears and a lot of like, oh, please listen to us,
and a lot of worry. I think as parents we
were really really concerned.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And yet yet at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
When you went to Nashville and they made the job
offer to you and we were moving you within ten days,
two weeks, I remember, although it was crazy and it
was busy, and it was kind of shocking and it
was hard that you were leaving, we were really proud
of the way that you.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Had done it, like that I had decided to take
the job and actually move.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, and that you had gotten yours a little less
than a year's worth of experience, but experience under your belt,
and we felt much better about it at that point.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Look, you did the same thing in Nashville with the
clutter stations. Yeah, able to blow the market up here
too before the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So that was how many months doing each was?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Ten months? Each job was ten months before the show came.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
So you know, I truly believe it.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It happened in a way that was the best for
you as far as you're learning and your growth. And
I think that experience in Wichita and the experience you
had working for the cluster in Nashville was critical.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
To your job to learning all of it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I felt like you kind of got that knowledge and
that really helped you down the road.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So we're super proud of the way you've done it
in what you've done.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Thank you guys. Well, we'll talk to that a little
bit more, but I did want to ask to what
was it likes as kid Morgan? What was I like
for you? Guys? Personality wise?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You're definitely h on wheels.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, yeah, I think we still have.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Some of those pictures.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
We'd go to a hotel room and you were jumping
from one bed to another the other all the time.
I think of a picture you jumping on the coffee
table to the couch, constantly in motion, all right, everywhere
you went this day. I love watching you play softball.
If anybody's ever played catch with you, you have one of
the strongest arms I've ever seen. I have a little
(18:10):
personality like you can smoke it into a mid for sure.
So yeah, it was really fun to watch you play
softball when.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
You grew up.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That was my little tomboy side for you. Since you
didn't get a boy I was. I had the softball side.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
What about you, mom, what what characteristics have you seen
me as a kid that maybe me as an adult still.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Has tenacity is probably the number one for me. Decide
to put your mind to doing something, and.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
If you don't know how to do it, you're gonna
figure it out. Somebody tells you to watch out.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You're really gonna do it. But you.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
But you just had this belief in yourself at such
a young age that I think is unusual, and you
just it didn't you.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You went through some.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Really difficult things in high school, and I think it
taught you that you had to believe in yourself regardless
of anything else.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And I think you carried that with you through.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Everything you did and that you have done and learned
that that you are the person that you are and
you make your own life. But I think those were
some really hard lessons for you and super hardest parents
to watch all of that having happened. But it was
a little like this like never say never because watch
(19:26):
out here she comes kind of thing with you. I mean,
from sports, you were that always that even the tiniest
one on the softball team to volleyball being you know,
one of the shorter ones on the team, to whatever
you did, you gave it one hundred and ten percent
and it and it didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And when you were cheering and you were flying in.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
The air, it didn't matter what anyone else had to say.
As far as when you watched you, we knew internally
there that yes, it did matter, but you eventually tufed
it out, grew up and realized that that you're the
only one that knows. I mean, it doesn't matter. Yes
it hurts, but it doesn't matter what other people say.
You knew who you were and you knew what you
(20:06):
wanted to do. Watching you grow up, I think having
had three older sisters also kind of had an impact
on you wanting to make your.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Mark from the very get go. From being little, you
always were the one to just have this this zest.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And energy for life. No matter what it had to bring,
you were ready to take it on and do it
with every ounce of who you are and what you
had to give. So it's been fun. It's been a ride,
but we couldn't be more proud. And we knew we
knew one thing, and that was that you would find
what it was that was going to make you happy.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
We did know that, and you have.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I'm going to cry right now, Okay, Well, now that
we've heard about baby Morgan, I want to know your guys'
perspective when you realized, like, yes, I joined the show,
but I was having a very public life life. What
was that like for you guys as parents as you realize, oh,
everything's out there, she's talking about all kinds of things.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well, since I'm very much an avid the listener prior
to even being on the show, it was kind of
interesting to see that my daughter is out there in
public life now, and you know, then seeing you on
the all the social networks and the comments and stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
But it'd be tough.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Amazing what people say you know about people they don't
even know. But it's interesting, that's all I can say.
And you've handled it very well from the time you've
been on the show, and I know we've talked about
it several times of course the years and stuff, but
I'm very proud of how well you've handled it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You also get asked a lot of times at work
about your daughter, who's on the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I do.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It's a amazing lot of people do hand me up.
Matter of fact, they've even been at the gym and
I've heard somebody go by and say it's Morgan's dad
talking by it's kind of crazy. So but no, it's
been really good and Morgan, you've done a great job handling.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Both sides of it. And I enjoyed listening to the
show even today.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I actually get it from clients a lot of times
and they're like, you were Morgan's mom, like the Morgan
that we listened to on the Bobby Bone Show in
the morning. And I'll say yes, and they're like, oh
my gosh, that's so cool and so and what's crazy
is it's it's usually the parents that are taking their
kids to school and their kids are listening to it
(22:33):
and and and so then of course the parents get
involved in it and stuff. So I have lots of
clients that make the connection and and when I see
them or talk with them, they last how you're doing,
and that they heard you guys on the show and
how much they love the show, and they heard you
talking about something in particular.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So yeah, it's it is fun. It's fun to have
that kind of.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Just common denominator that people want to talk about because
a lot of the parents, so these kids that the
parents that I work with, they grew up listening to
the show, or remember listening to the show as kids
and teenagers and stuff, and so they then now their
kids are listening, and then now they have this like
Wichita connection. So I a lot of times will get
people say, how's Morgan doing?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And you know, heard her on the show the other day,
and so yeah, I get that a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Have you guys, ever been embarrassed by something I have said?
Or have I always shared something that you didn't know
and you heard it on the show for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't think I can say yes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Today.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Meant I was listening to your podcast.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
You had Eddie on there, and he called me at
work one day and asking for a picture of me,
and it was one, buddy, It's mean back when I
was probably maybe on twenty five or thirty, and you
were talking to Eddie about me having.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
A mustache, and which I had when growing up. I'm
all live. I remember Eddie gone her it looks like
a porn star.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Oh my goodness, gracious, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Okay, so that moment. But I've never shared anything that you,
Grace didn't know. I've told like stories about my drinking.
I've told stories about me sneaking out.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
They probably were things that we didn't know.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
But with the age you are now and obviously the
maturity and stuff, I think we just look at each
other and go, you know, kind of thing like it
was what it was, Yeah, Like it's so long ago,
and just I think as you look back on those times,
especially with now how much time has passed, I.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Think we look at those things as well. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
We didn't know that about Morgan, and we kind of
chuckle about it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Probably because the weight of what you went through and
what you had to deal with in high school, you know,
to think that we are so proud and we know
how terribly difficult that was, and we're so proud of
you that I think I think we on that we
just kind of nod our heads and say, okay, I
mean because you went through something so difficult that it
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kind of puts it all into perspective.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well, that makes me feel a lot better because I
always share things sometimes and like, dang, kind of hope
my dad weren't listening during that moment.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
There are many days either if Terry has time to
call me at lunch and needs to talk to about
something or when he comes home at the end of
the day, he'll say, did you listen to the show
yet today?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I'm like, oh no, why.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So there are those moments and he'll say, well, we're
gonna talk about this and I was like, oh, I'm
like did you know that?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And he goes, no, go I didn't either, So so
we kind of have to do that catch up thing.
But it doesn't happen too terribly often.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh that's funny. I didn't know that that happened. I mean,
Dad always calls me when he hears stuff, but I
didn't know you guys had that same perspective too.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Or he'll say did you see your post? Or did
you hear talk about this? Or have you listened to
the show today?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
So you guys have always also been really good for
me and the fact I'm thirty one, I'm not married
and I don't have kids. But you guys have never
been the parents that were like, okay, Morgan, time to
get married. Where's the kids, where's the grandchildren? Why aren't
you guys like that? Like why did you guys choose
not to put that pressure on me?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Like I always said, the time is going to be
right for you In these days fall in your lap
to be the right person. It's going to happen. It's
when you at least go un expect it that it
will happen. The best I can say, it will happen, and.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You can't force it to happen if you haven't met
the right person.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And you don't want it to be that way.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I think we're both really proud of the fact that you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Don't need someone else to make you happy. You've made
a life that you're that you've made yourself happy, and
we think that's a great gift that you can give
to someone else when you meet the right person. Certainly
we want that to happen for you if that's something
that you want, but there have been a lot of
other things that I think that you've been focused on
and wanted to accomplish. And yes, while I know that
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will someday be a part of your life, I think
that you were enjoying a part of your life as
much as you possibly can. And like Dad said, when
it's the right person, it'll happen, and we know that
so and gosh, having raised four girls, I think we
both feel really strongly that there's no reason to rush
any of that when the time is right and when
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all those things fall into place.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You'll know it.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You guys went through some times with some of my
ex boyfriends in particular, some of them were super crazy.
So was there a period there where you're like, dang,
we really hope she stops dating.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Well, I can tell you the one time that I
had was woke up in the middle of the night
and somebody was driving through the front lawn trying to
tear up all the grass, and I run out the
front door my underwear trying to.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Chase him down and got drugged down the street.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah, predict three instance, and had strawberries all over my body.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That was probably one of the worst incidences. Yeah, he
was definitely crazy and this kid was and uh so, Yeah,
but looking back now, Dad's reaction wasn't clearly probably the
right choice. But high school antics from some of these.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Boys we just laugh about.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I mean, from them putting what in.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Our pool, the lobster and our.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Posters in our pool, just ran wrapping our pool furniture
to to pitchforking the yards and oh.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, mark my Christmas moods and mountain on top of
each other.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So you've had you've had very very interesting friends that
think they're quite comical. We only had the one really
really bad, immature, bad apple kind of situation where he
tried to destroy our front yard.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, and if you know my dad, he is very
particular about his lawns. So I don't know if it
was as much that somebody was like creeping in our
house as much as he was really bad somebody was
tearing up his yard.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I think it was first the yard and then the
realization that that's who it was.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, he was the icing on top, and then the
third was he's lucky he didn't lose an arm in
that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But yeah, he was so angry and just kind of
a knee jerk reaction out of being awakened from bed
with that sound in our front yard. So yeah, there
have definitely been times, but excluding that when we probably
wrote most of them off, at least now at the
stage in our life, I can say we wrote most
of them off as.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Being just high school kids and having fun. For the
most part, we knew so many of your friends.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I mean they were at our house at the pool,
you know, and good kids.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And so we look.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Back now and kind of chuckle about it, so except
for the one.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Okay, Well, I will make you guys stop talking about
all the things right now. But I do want you
guys to give parenting advice. You guys are incredible parents.
You guys have raised me in a beautiful way, and
I have a beautiful life because of how amazing you
guys are. And you guys also have been married for
how many years?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Remind me, get come on, give me the.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Number thirty four, four thirty somewhere in there.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Thirty three, thirty four. You've been married a long time,
You've had four daughters that you've raised. What is one
piece of advice at this point in your life that
you would just give anybody younger, like, what is something
that holds true to you and has maybe held true
over the course of time.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I think for me looking back, and I don't know
that I always I know I didn't always do this
the right way.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
But it's be supportive, you'll chuckle, Be supportive.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Of their dreams, but yet give them good advice.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Gently kind of guide them.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And you know, try to guide them, try to encourage
them in other ways, really look for their strong suits
and encourage them to go that direction.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
But I think we truly raised.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
All of you girls with the idea that there isn't
anything you can't do, and that's very true, and so
I think that helps you find your way. And I
think of the same breath you knew we had super
high expectations of grades and the way you handled yourselves
and trying hard and doing the best you can and
being team players when you were playing sports, and just
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all those kinds of things, And so I think it's
just a combination with a nice balance of that freedom
of being able to do all those things and make
a lot of your own decisions and mistakes in us
being there to help catch those mistakes and help figure
out how you get out of it and how you
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Again and what you learn from it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And you having sisters I think helped you. Guys kind
of all shared in that. But I think just not
taking anything to the nth degree, you and Taylor in particular,
dealt with some extremely difficult situations with school and bullying
girls that I hope have grown up to have tremendous
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remorse over what happened. But I think that you together
learned somebody else doesn't get to tell you who you
are and what's important to you. And I think those things,
as difficult as they were, I think they made you
both much much stronger.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And I think you're.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Able to see past smaller issues that don't become bigger
issues because of what you went through.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So we're super, super proud.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Of all of that.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
So it's just try not try to always be there,
be supportive, listen more than talk your parents, yeah yeah, yeah,
and and love them along the way and try to
enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
You got to give your give your kids room to grow,
don't hold them back and try to confine them to things,
and give them room to make mistakes, knowing they're going
to make mistakes, right and hopefully they're going to learn
from those mistakes.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
And that's allow them to grow. Yeah. And I felt
like the same with them.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
What my parents of me, They didn't you know, they're
not harping on me about what time to come home
and all that kind of stuff all the time. So
I wanted to sure my kids the same way. At
the same time, wanted to know where they were and
things like that nature, but that is allow them to
make mistakes and say, hey, what did you learn from that.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
What do you can take away from this?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
So okay, those are good pieces of advice. I appreciate
you guys coming on. And how do you feel about
your daughter interviewing you guys? Now feel o great?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
This is good. It be fun, be fun.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
It's nice to see you in your in your element
and doing the experience what you are doing and when
you do these podcast interviews.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So well, thanks for coming on, Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Mom
and Dad, you guys are the best. Thank you for
coming on.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Well, that's it for the first episode with Mom and Dad.
I hope you guys learn some more about me. They
have been the most incredible parents for me over the
course of my lifetime. I have not only learned so
much from them, but they've also just been a constant
source of support and love. So hopefully you guys also
saw a little bit of that too. Also, sorry about
the audio. We recorded this at almost midnight on a
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Saturday night to get a fun little episode in and
both my dad and I were feeling a little bit sick,
but we pushed through it, so hopefully it was okay
and all. So Mom and Dad were sharing one microphone
because you know, barebones over here. We're still working on
developing the studio eighteen episodes in, but hopefully you guys
still enjoyed it. I am so happy that you're here.
Thanks for listening. I love you guys. Talk to you
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next week.
It's Thanksgiving week, so it's a very special episode of
Take this personally. I'm bringing on my parents, mom and
dad aka Terry and Jeanette, my.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Mom and dad him Morgan Morgan.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, I want to talk to you guys as being
my parents and what it was like with me as
a child, but not only that, as you guys raised
four daughters and now you guys have three dogs, so
great parents all the way around. But what was it
like for you guys having four daughters and raising four
daughters and both of you guys were working parents.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Busy? It was.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It was very busy most all of the time. Guys
were all involved in all kinds of things activities, school activities,
from cheerleading to sports, to volleyball to softball. So we
were busy, busy, busy lives and of course both of
us working.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It was. I just remember being very very busy all
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And dad being a dad of four girls. That's often
a question I get asked as your dad probably hated that.
Did you hate having four daughters growing up?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, it was not.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
As bad as you think could be, but you know
it's definitely different, right, And you're talking about how busy
our lives were. You know that the two older daughters,
you know, played a lot of sports, and you and Taylor,
you know, we got drugged all the sporting events. So
while they were doing their sports, I'd have to go
contain you to somewhere in some type of sporting events.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So it's absolutely always busy with all.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Four girls, Mom, do you recall and Dad may remember
this too, but when you found out that like I
was the last one and I was also a girl,
do you remember Dad like being like, dang it, I
really wanted a boy. You know how they do the
gender reveals and you see the dad's being really upset.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, they didn't do gender reveals when we were expecting
you and Taylor or any of you girls for that matter.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And I think he wanted a boy.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But by then we'd had Taylor and she was two
about two, and we were enjoying that a lot, So
I don't think he was very surprised, and I don't
think it was any sort of disappointment.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We were like, okay, another girl. We know how to
do this, and we were excited.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So yeah, after me, you know you're going to be done.
And I often get asked to you why I have
two middle names. Do you guys have the logic behind
the two middle names.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Oh, you don't have the name that I wanted to
give you. So I lost that on that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Too, on all of them, I thought you had some
of them.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Okay, I'll love you clarify the story.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So, when your older sister, Taylor was born, I wanted
to use the middle name of Elizabeth because that was
that's my grandmother's name, and I wanted to pass that
name down. We had not passed down any of the
family names yet, and so I wanted to name her.
We wanted the first name of Taylor, and so it
became Taylor Elizabeth. Well, Elizabeth Taylor was still, you know,
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someone everyone could was familiar with at that point in time,
and I was like, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It sounds like it's backwards for Elizabeth Taylor.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So I love the name Lee spelled L E I
g H. So we decided to name her Taylor Lee
Elizabeth to separate them. And so then when you came
along and you were a girl, we we we had
decided on Morgan if you were a girl, but we
had not decided on the middle name, and I wanted
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it to be Lane and Dad wanted it to be Nicole,
and so we decided since Taylor had two middle names,
that you should have two middle names, so it became
Morgan Lane Call and.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Neither one of those were the names you wanted. Dad.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, like I said, I wanted to be in Nicole.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
However, we did talk one time and naming you shouldny
because as a viction, I twain back when I told
your mom, and she's cringed and where did that come from?
So that didn't win out either.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Mom, you didn't know who san I Twain was.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Like, yeah, but she was just coming on the scene
I think, and she wasn't not like everybody did in it,
so it was kind of an unusual name.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So yeah, I tried, well, I mean, and that ended
up being one of my favorite country artists of all
time and.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The first concert ever that you country concert that you
went to.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I do still remember my first concert very well because
I touched and I Twin's hand and she had her
leopard outfit on. That was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You were never going to wash your hand again?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, and did I because I don't know, I can't recall.
All I can remember is like seeing her on the
leopard outfit and I remember Dad like raising me up
to touch her hands.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Because she did the walkaround thing, and you got yeah,
and you were so excited.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You're never gonna, never gonna wash your hand again. You
were super, super excited.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Your girls loved Shanaya and you sang into the the
her brush microphone to her music constantly.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
She was one of my favorites. But that was because
of you guys. It's another reason why Brooks and Dunn
is also one of my favorites, because that was another
one you guys listened to. And Riba so we also
had a dog named Reba ye, so you wanted you
wanted a Reba McIntyre and Shanaya in the family.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That's a pretty big catch music fan for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yep, you got some of them. Speaking of singing into
a microphone, Mom, that was a thing on the Bobby
Bone Show because you decided to tell Eddie and Lunchbox
about the story when I really wanted to be a
singer growing up and wanting to try out for American
Idol and you did not sign the permission slip for
me to do so, would you like to make a
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statement on this particular topic.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That was about the time American Idol had the Shebang
guy that was on and who became notorious as someone
who couldn't sing, but they used him publicly and lots
of spots, and all I could think of is our
young daughter, who has talents for lots of other things,
but not necessarily music, being on Key wanted to be
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on American Idol. And I recall weeks, months, years of
not only vacations where when.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We would be on cruises, that you would.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Do the karaoke and I would have to go out
in the hallway.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Why would you be going out in the hallway? You
were embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Let's just say you inherited your dad's tone deafness is
the nicest way I can put that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Not by choice, I know if you would have much
preferred for that not to have been the case.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
But anyway, so and I just didn't want to see
you get hurt. And there was this huge talent show
that was happening at the school, and you were so
excited and you wanted to do all the things, and
I was just really afraid that, just the way kids
can be, that you were.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Going to get hurt in the whole process.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
When you ask about the American Idol application, I just said, well,
you're a minor and I have to consent and I'm
not going to sign it, which made you really mad.
And so you packed your suitcase and said you were
going to run away from home. And I think you
got to the corner maybe and came back.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So do you remember that day, packed up all.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Your monkeys and that suitcase too.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This is this is my stuffed animal phase when I
used to sing to all my stuffed animals. Yeah, same phase.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
She would line them all up first and then sing
to all of them.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
So you were crushed and you were hurt, and you
slammed the door many times, and you were upset.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
With us, and it was hard.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
But I think gently after that, I tried to encourage
you have a talent show at school. I think I
think I won that, and I think you won that
talent show Red high Heels Kelly Pickler, Yesy Pickler song.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But then I gently encouraged you to We're an incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Writer and really liked to be around people, but also
to be on stage, to be telling new stories, writing
new stories, or writing whatever that might be very creative
in that sense, but you really enjoyed being kind of
in a public way speaking. And so I said, what
about interning for the Cake in Wichitah? And so you
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proceeded to do that and for a couple of summers,
and you said you didn't want to go back to Cake.
You'd done it for a couple of summers, and you
had one summer left before you're going to be leaving
for college, and what about radio show? I do something
different in the media. And so you began with the
Jennings and Tommy cast trying to ask them if you
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could do an internship with them. And the way I
recall it, they told you repeatedly on many occasions that
they didn't have an internship program. And on a Sunday afternoon,
Tommy said, you called and just he said, this little
tiny girl from high school and she wanted an internship program.
When I told her we didn't have one, and she said, well,
meet me there and I'll help you create one. And
(09:05):
so you did, and then you interned for them both
that summer, well, I think the next summer for a
little bit before you left for college.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I think it was a couple months that I
was there, and.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
So fast forward all back to the American Idol application,
but fast forward onto k State done in three years,
and I'll never forget that March phone call that we
got that you said, well, I have something to tell
you. You of course, were studying and going to get your
degree in broadcast Journalism with an emphasis in digital, which
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was the first graduating classroom kase State where they'd offered
that degree, and you were super excited and said that
you had something to tell us. But you had been
telling us all along that year, very vehemently, that you
were going to move to Nashville, regardless of anything and everything.
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You were making connections through your sorority, through one of
the sponsors, trying to already make connections in Nashville, and
that you were headed to Nashville. So when you called,
you said, well, I received a phone call that I'm
going to tell you before I tell you what it
was about, that I'm not doing this. And so Tommy
and Brian Jennings had called and I heard me was
(10:21):
looking for their first ever digital program director for the
Wichtaw market. And you said, and they offered me that position,
but I'm not going to take it, do you recall
it that way?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
No, I don't recall any of this. No, my memory
has gone out the window.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So I said, well, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And you didn't want to talk because you were determined
to go to Nashville, and so you said, I'm not
doing this, I'm not coming back to which I told you, guys,
I was moving to Nashville. And so we chatted and
we talked, and we talked a lot about an opportunity
in a smaller market that could turn into something that
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might be bigger, and to just get your.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Foot in the door in that whole field, to get.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Some experience and that that could lead to something else,
rather than going to a huge market like Nashville and
trying to find your way. And you did not want
to hear what we had to say.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But then became the negotiations.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Do you remember that we negotiated because she wanted a puppy,
and so we negotiated that if she would come home
and try it for a while, I think it was
six months to a year, we agreed to.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That we would she could get a puppy.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's you remy so kicking, screaming, not very happy with us.
She accepted the position at iHeart in Wichitah as their
digital program director, and then moved back after graduation from
k State, and I think it was in September.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Of that year. It was about ten months. If you're
talking about moving to Nashville, it's about ten months into
that job.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Ten months into that job, then came home and said
that and all backup.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You enjoyed what you were doing. You threw yourself into it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You were at country concerts, you were out at the
big bar that had brought the country artists in.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, club Rodeo, be bopping around taking pictures, interviewing.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I mean, you threw yourself into that job, and I
think enjoyed it. I mean, still not wanting to be
in Wichitab, but I think you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And also got Remy. Rescued Remy as a puppy.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
When you were volunteering at the Kansas Humane Society and
she came in, So that was meant to be. But
you threw yourself into that and clearly loved what you
were doing. So about ten months into it, the Opportunity
Nashville had inquired about you and they flew you down
to Nashville to interview you. For the Cluster station group
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of stations, and the rest is your story what happened
from there. But that's the beginning of the American Idol
the very last note or chapter in that book of
that whole story of you, of you, what you wanted
to do, and then the American Idol application was that
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you hadn't been on the show very long.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I will never forget.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I was walking through the house and listening to the show,
and I heard Bobby talking about your American Idol application.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I heard Bobby say, well, let's just have you seen
the song?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And the mom was right, and I.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Sat down in the chair. I think I fell down
into the chair.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I sat down the chair and I put my head
in my hands on like, this is not happening, This
is not happening. And I remember you singing the song,
and I remember Bobby's response being.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Well, Morgan, I think your mom gave you good advice.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So it wasn't wrong advice, and as it should have been,
because I know you. You know now with the path
that you're on, it's clearly the path that you were
meant to be on, and you don't have a horrible,
horrible voice. But given the dynamic and how where American
I was in all that timeframe. It was just a
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mom's protective advice about not getting hurt well.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And I would like to add too, to the story,
there was a lot of pieces there that I don't remember.
It's funny how you guys would remember things and recall
things how differently than I would, just because of my memory.
But I did not want to move home. I loved
you guys, and I loved Wichita, but there was a
big part of me that thought if I moved home,
I would never leave. And that's why I didn't want
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to so very strongly. I had seen so many people
move back home and never leave, and I didn't want
to be part of that. I wanted to be the
person that moved away and chase streams and did the
things that I said I was going to do. So
as you guys hear that story, and you guys probably
felt that way, like why does she want to move
(14:56):
back home? Why does she want to be here? It
was it was because I didn't want to be one
of the statistics that didn't get out of their hometown.
And so I was still confident that it could still happen.
But the longer I stayed in Wichita, the more I
thought that was possible.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, you didn't stay long I didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Does that make it? Does that make it a little
bit better that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think I knew that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I think I knew that you wanted more than what
you thought Whichita had to offer. I just also know,
as long as we've been in Wichita, there are so
many opportunities that have launched people, much.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Like your career.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I think it was it was hard to try to
get you to understand that because you were ready to
just take the world on kind of thing, and so
you didn't want.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
To wait, and you didn't want to do all those
other things. But I'm really glad you did.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Not only did you, I think, really learn the business,
but I think that you you were able to really
have some great opportunities in a smaller market that that
were that were important for your growth.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So I'm glad it turned out the way that it did.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, they do say your parents are always right. You
weren't wrong. It was just, you know, a little frustrating
in the moment as I was, I was feeling out with.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Tears and a lot of like, oh, please listen to us,
and a lot of worry. I think as parents we
were really really concerned.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And yet yet at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
When you went to Nashville and they made the job
offer to you and we were moving you within ten days,
two weeks, I remember, although it was crazy and it
was busy, and it was kind of shocking and it
was hard that you were leaving, we were really proud
of the way that you.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Had done it, like that I had decided to take
the job and actually move.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, and that you had gotten yours a little less
than a year's worth of experience, but experience under your belt,
and we felt much better about it at that point.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Look, you did the same thing in Nashville with the
clutter stations. Yeah, able to blow the market up here
too before the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
So that was how many months doing each was?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Ten months? Each job was ten months before the show came.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
So you know, I truly believe it.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It happened in a way that was the best for
you as far as you're learning and your growth. And
I think that experience in Wichita and the experience you
had working for the cluster in Nashville was critical.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
To your job to learning all of it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I felt like you kind of got that knowledge and
that really helped you down the road.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So we're super proud of the way you've done it
in what you've done.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Thank you guys. Well, we'll talk to that a little
bit more, but I did want to ask to what
was it likes as kid Morgan? What was I like
for you? Guys? Personality wise?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You're definitely h on wheels.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, yeah, I think we still have.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Some of those pictures.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
We'd go to a hotel room and you were jumping
from one bed to another the other all the time.
I think of a picture you jumping on the coffee
table to the couch, constantly in motion, all right, everywhere
you went this day. I love watching you play softball.
If anybody's ever played catch with you, you have one of
the strongest arms I've ever seen. I have a little
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personality like you can smoke it into a mid for sure.
So yeah, it was really fun to watch you play
softball when.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
You grew up.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That was my little tomboy side for you. Since you
didn't get a boy I was. I had the softball side.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
What about you, mom, what what characteristics have you seen
me as a kid that maybe me as an adult still.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Has tenacity is probably the number one for me. Decide
to put your mind to doing something, and.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
If you don't know how to do it, you're gonna
figure it out. Somebody tells you to watch out.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You're really gonna do it. But you.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
But you just had this belief in yourself at such
a young age that I think is unusual, and you
just it didn't you.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You went through some.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Really difficult things in high school, and I think it
taught you that you had to believe in yourself regardless
of anything else.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And I think you carried that with you through.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Everything you did and that you have done and learned
that that you are the person that you are and
you make your own life. But I think those were
some really hard lessons for you and super hardest parents
to watch all of that having happened. But it was
a little like this like never say never because watch
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out here she comes kind of thing with you. I mean,
from sports, you were that always that even the tiniest
one on the softball team to volleyball being you know,
one of the shorter ones on the team, to whatever
you did, you gave it one hundred and ten percent
and it and it didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And when you were cheering and you were flying in.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
The air, it didn't matter what anyone else had to say.
As far as when you watched you, we knew internally
there that yes, it did matter, but you eventually tufed
it out, grew up and realized that that you're the
only one that knows. I mean, it doesn't matter. Yes
it hurts, but it doesn't matter what other people say.
You knew who you were and you knew what you
(20:06):
wanted to do. Watching you grow up, I think having
had three older sisters also kind of had an impact
on you wanting to make your.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Mark from the very get go. From being little, you
always were the one to just have this this zest.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And energy for life. No matter what it had to bring,
you were ready to take it on and do it
with every ounce of who you are and what you
had to give. So it's been fun. It's been a ride,
but we couldn't be more proud. And we knew we
knew one thing, and that was that you would find
what it was that was going to make you happy.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
We did know that, and you have.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I'm going to cry right now, Okay, Well, now that
we've heard about baby Morgan, I want to know your guys'
perspective when you realized, like, yes, I joined the show,
but I was having a very public life life. What
was that like for you guys as parents as you realize, oh,
everything's out there, she's talking about all kinds of things.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Well, since I'm very much an avid the listener prior
to even being on the show, it was kind of
interesting to see that my daughter is out there in
public life now, and you know, then seeing you on
the all the social networks and the comments and stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
But it'd be tough.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Amazing what people say you know about people they don't
even know. But it's interesting, that's all I can say.
And you've handled it very well from the time you've
been on the show, and I know we've talked about
it several times of course the years and stuff, but
I'm very proud of how well you've handled it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You also get asked a lot of times at work
about your daughter, who's on the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I do.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It's a amazing lot of people do hand me up.
Matter of fact, they've even been at the gym and
I've heard somebody go by and say it's Morgan's dad
talking by it's kind of crazy. So but no, it's
been really good and Morgan, you've done a great job handling.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Both sides of it. And I enjoyed listening to the
show even today.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I actually get it from clients a lot of times
and they're like, you were Morgan's mom, like the Morgan
that we listened to on the Bobby Bone Show in
the morning. And I'll say yes, and they're like, oh
my gosh, that's so cool and so and what's crazy
is it's it's usually the parents that are taking their
kids to school and their kids are listening to it
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and and and so then of course the parents get
involved in it and stuff. So I have lots of
clients that make the connection and and when I see
them or talk with them, they last how you're doing,
and that they heard you guys on the show and
how much they love the show, and they heard you
talking about something in particular.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
So yeah, it's it is fun. It's fun to have
that kind of.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Just common denominator that people want to talk about because
a lot of the parents, so these kids that the
parents that I work with, they grew up listening to
the show, or remember listening to the show as kids
and teenagers and stuff, and so they then now their
kids are listening, and then now they have this like
Wichita connection. So I a lot of times will get
people say, how's Morgan doing?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And you know, heard her on the show the other day,
and so yeah, I get that a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Have you guys, ever been embarrassed by something I have said?
Or have I always shared something that you didn't know
and you heard it on the show for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't think I can say yes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Today.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Meant I was listening to your podcast.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
You had Eddie on there, and he called me at
work one day and asking for a picture of me,
and it was one, buddy, It's mean back when I
was probably maybe on twenty five or thirty, and you
were talking to Eddie about me having.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
A mustache, and which I had when growing up. I'm
all live. I remember Eddie gone her it looks like
a porn star.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Oh my goodness, gracious, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Okay, so that moment. But I've never shared anything that you,
Grace didn't know. I've told like stories about my drinking.
I've told stories about me sneaking out.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
They probably were things that we didn't know.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
But with the age you are now and obviously the
maturity and stuff, I think we just look at each
other and go, you know, kind of thing like it
was what it was, Yeah, Like it's so long ago,
and just I think as you look back on those times,
especially with now how much time has passed, I.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Think we look at those things as well. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
We didn't know that about Morgan, and we kind of
chuckle about it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Probably because the weight of what you went through and
what you had to deal with in high school, you know,
to think that we are so proud and we know
how terribly difficult that was, and we're so proud of
you that I think I think we on that we
just kind of nod our heads and say, okay, I
mean because you went through something so difficult that it
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kind of puts it all into perspective.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Well, that makes me feel a lot better because I
always share things sometimes and like, dang, kind of hope
my dad weren't listening during that moment.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
There are many days either if Terry has time to
call me at lunch and needs to talk to about
something or when he comes home at the end of
the day, he'll say, did you listen to the show
yet today?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I'm like, oh no, why.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So there are those moments and he'll say, well, we're
gonna talk about this and I was like, oh, I'm
like did you know that?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And he goes, no, go I didn't either, So so
we kind of have to do that catch up thing.
But it doesn't happen too terribly often.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh that's funny. I didn't know that that happened. I mean,
Dad always calls me when he hears stuff, but I
didn't know you guys had that same perspective too.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Or he'll say did you see your post? Or did
you hear talk about this? Or have you listened to
the show today?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
So you guys have always also been really good for
me and the fact I'm thirty one, I'm not married
and I don't have kids. But you guys have never
been the parents that were like, okay, Morgan, time to
get married. Where's the kids, where's the grandchildren? Why aren't
you guys like that? Like why did you guys choose
not to put that pressure on me?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Like I always said, the time is going to be
right for you In these days fall in your lap
to be the right person. It's going to happen. It's
when you at least go un expect it that it
will happen. The best I can say, it will happen, and.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You can't force it to happen if you haven't met
the right person.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And you don't want it to be that way.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I think we're both really proud of the fact that you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Don't need someone else to make you happy. You've made
a life that you're that you've made yourself happy, and
we think that's a great gift that you can give
to someone else when you meet the right person. Certainly
we want that to happen for you if that's something
that you want, but there have been a lot of
other things that I think that you've been focused on
and wanted to accomplish. And yes, while I know that
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will someday be a part of your life, I think
that you were enjoying a part of your life as
much as you possibly can. And like Dad said, when
it's the right person, it'll happen, and we know that
so and gosh, having raised four girls, I think we
both feel really strongly that there's no reason to rush
any of that when the time is right and when
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all those things fall into place.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You'll know it.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You guys went through some times with some of my
ex boyfriends in particular, some of them were super crazy.
So was there a period there where you're like, dang,
we really hope she stops dating.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Well, I can tell you the one time that I
had was woke up in the middle of the night
and somebody was driving through the front lawn trying to
tear up all the grass, and I run out the
front door my underwear trying to.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Chase him down and got drugged down the street.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah, predict three instance, and had strawberries all over my body.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That was probably one of the worst incidences. Yeah, he
was definitely crazy and this kid was and uh so, Yeah,
but looking back now, Dad's reaction wasn't clearly probably the
right choice. But high school antics from some of these.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Boys we just laugh about.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I mean, from them putting what in.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Our pool, the lobster and our.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Posters in our pool, just ran wrapping our pool furniture
to to pitchforking the yards and oh.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, mark my Christmas moods and mountain on top of
each other.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So you've had you've had very very interesting friends that
think they're quite comical. We only had the one really
really bad, immature, bad apple kind of situation where he
tried to destroy our front yard.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, and if you know my dad, he is very
particular about his lawns. So I don't know if it
was as much that somebody was like creeping in our
house as much as he was really bad somebody was
tearing up his yard.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I think it was first the yard and then the
realization that that's who it was.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, he was the icing on top, and then the
third was he's lucky he didn't lose an arm in
that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But yeah, he was so angry and just kind of
a knee jerk reaction out of being awakened from bed
with that sound in our front yard. So yeah, there
have definitely been times, but excluding that when we probably
wrote most of them off, at least now at the
stage in our life, I can say we wrote most
of them off as.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Being just high school kids and having fun. For the
most part, we knew so many of your friends.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I mean they were at our house at the pool,
you know, and good kids.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And so we look.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Back now and kind of chuckle about it, so except
for the one.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Okay, Well, I will make you guys stop talking about
all the things right now. But I do want you
guys to give parenting advice. You guys are incredible parents.
You guys have raised me in a beautiful way, and
I have a beautiful life because of how amazing you
guys are. And you guys also have been married for
how many years?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Remind me, get come on, give me the.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Number thirty four, four thirty somewhere in there.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Thirty three, thirty four. You've been married a long time,
You've had four daughters that you've raised. What is one
piece of advice at this point in your life that
you would just give anybody younger, like, what is something
that holds true to you and has maybe held true
over the course of time.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I think for me looking back, and I don't know
that I always I know I didn't always do this
the right way.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
But it's be supportive, you'll chuckle, Be supportive.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Of their dreams, but yet give them good advice.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Gently kind of guide them.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And you know, try to guide them, try to encourage
them in other ways, really look for their strong suits
and encourage them to go that direction.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
But I think we truly raised.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
All of you girls with the idea that there isn't
anything you can't do, and that's very true, and so
I think that helps you find your way. And I
think of the same breath you knew we had super
high expectations of grades and the way you handled yourselves
and trying hard and doing the best you can and
being team players when you were playing sports, and just
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all those kinds of things, And so I think it's
just a combination with a nice balance of that freedom
of being able to do all those things and make
a lot of your own decisions and mistakes in us
being there to help catch those mistakes and help figure
out how you get out of it and how you
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Again and what you learn from it.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And you having sisters I think helped you. Guys kind
of all shared in that. But I think just not
taking anything to the nth degree, you and Taylor in particular,
dealt with some extremely difficult situations with school and bullying
girls that I hope have grown up to have tremendous
(31:47):
remorse over what happened. But I think that you together
learned somebody else doesn't get to tell you who you
are and what's important to you. And I think those things,
as difficult as they were, I think they made you
both much much stronger.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And I think you're.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Able to see past smaller issues that don't become bigger
issues because of what you went through.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So we're super, super proud.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Of all of that.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
So it's just try not try to always be there,
be supportive, listen more than talk your parents, yeah yeah, yeah,
and and love them along the way and try to
enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
You got to give your give your kids room to grow,
don't hold them back and try to confine them to things,
and give them room to make mistakes, knowing they're going
to make mistakes, right and hopefully they're going to learn
from those mistakes.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
And that's allow them to grow. Yeah. And I felt
like the same with them.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
What my parents of me, They didn't you know, they're
not harping on me about what time to come home
and all that kind of stuff all the time. So
I wanted to sure my kids the same way. At
the same time, wanted to know where they were and
things like that nature, but that is allow them to
make mistakes and say, hey, what did you learn from that.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
What do you can take away from this?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
So okay, those are good pieces of advice. I appreciate
you guys coming on. And how do you feel about
your daughter interviewing you guys? Now feel o great?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
This is good. It be fun, be fun.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
It's nice to see you in your in your element
and doing the experience what you are doing and when
you do these podcast interviews.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So well, thanks for coming on, Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Mom
and Dad, you guys are the best. Thank you for
coming on.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Well, that's it for the first episode with Mom and Dad.
I hope you guys learn some more about me. They
have been the most incredible parents for me over the
course of my lifetime. I have not only learned so
much from them, but they've also just been a constant
source of support and love. So hopefully you guys also
saw a little bit of that too. Also, sorry about
the audio. We recorded this at almost midnight on a
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Saturday night to get a fun little episode in and
both my dad and I were feeling a little bit sick,
but we pushed through it, so hopefully it was okay
and all. So Mom and Dad were sharing one microphone
because you know, barebones over here. We're still working on
developing the studio eighteen episodes in, but hopefully you guys
still enjoyed it. I am so happy that you're here.
Thanks for listening. I love you guys. Talk to you
(34:13):
next week.
Host
Morgan Huelsman
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