July 26, 2025 • 46 mins
Lunchbox is celebrating his 44th birthday this weekend! He admits the thing he hates most about getting older. Plus, he has big family news to share and it’s a tough one. Then, Morgan shares why she wants to see a bear IRL so bad and how she plans to make it happen.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I hang a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's Up Everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Happy weekend, Lunchbox, the birthday boys joining me?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Was that birthday boy?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well, my birthday was yesterday, so happy belated birthday to myself.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, but like you get the whole weekend when it's
your birthday, sometimes people celebrate the whole month.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I know that's true, and I got yesterday, and then
my mom's birthday is on Monday, so happy birthday, hat
box and yeah, just do I look different?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
No, I'm just tired because it's Saturday and I have
three kids, that's the answer.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Did you do anything fun to celebrate?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We went to dinner, the kids jumped on me a
bunch and said, hir birthday. And I mean, they're more
excited than I am.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You're not excited about your birthdays anymore?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, no, Morgan, because I don't like that word. You
know what I'm talking about, And every birthday I have,
it's like I'm getting closer and closer to that and
I don't like that what word?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh death?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What I just said, I don't like that word.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, you're so far from death. I don't know why
you relate that to getting older.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, what do you mean? Why you That is what
happens when you get older, you get closer. You're in
your forties. But it doesn't matter. Okay, it doesn't matter.
Like I used to think forty year olds forty four
year olds, I thought they were ancient.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, that's sure. You probably did, like I.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Want to go back to being twelve years old, Like, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Go, okay, but do you feel ancient?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No? I mean Wednesday night, we did have a soccer
game and it was humid, like ninety percent humidity, and
I may have lost ten pounds. And at the end
of the game I told my team, I was like, hey, guys,
I'm forty three. I don't know how I'm gonna do
this at forty four because there's only a few days away.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Do you think you'll ever retire from playing CODs like
the soccer games?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Eventually I'll have to, But I mean right now, no,
I really hope not. I love it. It is so fun.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then you're as old as you feel. How old do
you feel? I have no idea anything about how your
body is doing things.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
How old do you feel? It's different because I can't
stay up till three in the morning every night like
I used to.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, so you're not in your early twenties, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I used to be able to go to bed at
two o'clock, get up at six o'clock, no problem. Now
I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's eleven o'clock. I better
go to bed and I better get my you know,
whatever amount of sleep on the week. So that has changed.
And I used to think, how do my parents fall
asleep on the couch. My parents fall asleep on the
couch all the time, all the time. And now I realize,
(02:45):
I mean, he can go fall asleep on the couch
so easily.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, being an adult is kind of exhausting.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Also, my dad he worked, he did repairing the model
He owned his own business where he'd repair in the
model houses. So he works in the Texas heat all day.
And I didn't realize how exhausted he had to be
every day when he came home.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
My goodness, Yeah, that heat will zap you so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And he would just fall asleep like that on the
couch and he'd be out like you couldn't move him.
And I was like, man, but I realized how hard
my dad worked.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, yeah, you get to stay in the ac all day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
No, not all day. I go home and kick my
kids outside.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay, well I'm saying for your job.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You'd be in the ac. All right. I get to
sit in the ac. But it's mentally taxing trying to
keep up with all you fools.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh it's mentally taxing.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, yes, because you guys I had like fools, and
I had to put you in your place, and you
argue with me and I'd like, I'm crazy, and then
I had to tell you, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
My gosh, so that's where your exhaustion comes from, not
heat exhaustion, but mental exhaustion.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, okay, and then just you know, just having three
kids is exhausting, like it's so fun, but it is.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, So then do you feel forty four or do
you feel like maybe you're in mid thirties?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I have no idea. Sure, mid thirties, okay, because.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You're you always are. What do they say? You're as
young as you feel. So if you don't feel forty four,
then you're probably like thirty three.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah. I mean, weird things happening to me, like having
surgery on my foot because I had glass in it.
That made me feel eighty.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But okay, but you had glass in your foot, you
didn't have surgery on your foot because you were having
like a bunion.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Like my knee. It swelled up like about a month ago,
my left knee and it was just like swollen for
like three weeks. And I had to go and get
an MRI. And guess what they found?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
What they find?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Nothing? So they gave me a steroids shot in my knee.
That was weird.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, that that makes you a little bit older, joins
are a little stiffer. Did they fix the problem?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah? Now it seems to be fine, doesn't swell.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And how is your foot after your surgery?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I've never felt better.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Were these both on the same leg?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah? Left foot, well, left side of your body? Just
going through it this year, I guess so. And what's
weird is they prescribed oxy for me?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I told my wife I don't even pick that
up from pharmacy. We ain't playing with that stuff. We
ain't playing with it. And I took one step after
surgery to get in the wheelchair to wheel me out
to the car. So I was like, huh, Oxy, I
don't need nothing. It feels one hundred times better. The
pain was when I was walking with glass. You can
cut my foot over all you want if it feels
this good.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Really, it was that significant.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, better immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's a gap that they did because they obviously had
to go in to get the glass out.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Is that healing now?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah? And apparently I was supposed to make a follow
up appointment and I never did.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You should probably do that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah. My wife failed to tell me because I was
under anesthesia, and so when I came out, I guess
I was kind of groggy, and she goes, I told
you when we were in the car, and I'm like, really,
that's when you're gonna validate that you told me. Come on, now,
that's not a very good medical professional if you're asking me.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You did send me a picture after your surgery and
you were laying in the bed with your hospital gown.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You had a little net.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
On your head.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, ad me wear a hair net and all your
kids were surrounding.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They pushed the wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Did they have fun with you being in the hospital?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Was hilarious. And what we did is we tricked the system.
Though we tricked the system, How did you trick the system.
This is what they say. They say, you have to
have someone drive you there and back and they have
to be there the whole time. Okay, my wife does
not want to sit in that lobby with three kids
for however long it's going to take. So she dropped
me off and then when they called she came back.
(06:29):
Well that makes sense, no, no, no, But they said they
had to be there the whole time, Mike, And how long.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Were you in searchy for?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You don't know, like when you left got home.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't know, Like I know that I was there.
They called me back, they come over, Doc says, Hi,
they mark my foot, they do all this stuff, and
I don't know how long it took to take an hour,
and then they injected my IV with some stuff. And
I mean I remember being wheeled down the hall. They
hit the button to automatically open the two doors. We
(07:02):
took a left in the hallway, woke up and recovery.
Never I didn't even make it to the room like
where they were doing surgery.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's unusual.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I feel like normally they knock you out when you're
on the table so they don't have to pick like
a limp body up.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, no, No, I was in the bed so they
could already surgery.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, I thought you were still in the wheelchair.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
We were talking about the wheelchair with chairs on the
way home.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And so I have no idea like what time I
got Well, you know what I could do. I guess
I could look at my phone and see what time
the picture was taken.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, because you're still in the hospital bed.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Are your kids? So I mean that would that would
give me a little bit of an indication. I think,
let's see.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well, I also texted you later, so I don't know
if you sent me that message later that day. Did
you send me that from the hospital then later?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Okay? So the picture was taking at two point fifty
one PM. Okay, I reported to the hospital at one,
so it's two hours.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, that's not too bad, right, But it's the only surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You've ever had. No, I've had my right ankle scoped,
had a hernia when I was a kid, baby, I
had my wisdom teeth out. I don't know if that
counts a surgery.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I mean you get put under for wisdom teeth.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Anything else.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I didn't know if you've.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Had like good like experiences with surgery, because the only
surgery I've ever had is wisdom teeth. Yeah, So hearing
you talk about this and getting wheeled back in stuff,
I've never had any of that.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah. And I mean you know how they wake you
up as they hit the bottom of.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Your foot to like tap and like try and gently.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Get you to Yeah. And I remember when I got
my wisdom teeth out. My dad took me. It was
my freshman year of college, and he took me and
I the guys like count and talking. I was like,
you're just talking to if I was. And then all
of a sudden, I feel bam, bam bam on the
bottom of my foot and I see my dad hitting
(08:56):
the bottom of my foot, and I'm so out of it.
I'm like, what the are you doing. I start trying
to kick my ey stop and he goes, well, you
got to walk to the wheelchair so we can go home.
And so I just got him walked the wheelchair and
I'm like, whoa, You're supposed to have someone watching you.
And then we went home.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Your dad was messing with you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, he was supposed to wake me up, but I
mean I was like, oh my gosh, and I remember
just getting back and getting the car, laying it out
in the back seat and drooling everywhere, and then going
home and sleeping and having dried blood and stuff all
over my face.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It was awesome, man, you liked that I had when
I got my wisdom tea. Now I lost ten pounds
because the like you said, don't mess with oxy, I
was on lower tabs and I was so sick from them,
like kept throwing up.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I want to eat like it was horrible oo.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And then I ended up back in the hospital because
I had lost ten pounds in like two days.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yikes, that's not good.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, no, it was not a pleasant experience for me.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah that sounds rough, and I mean that's what it's
like to be forty four though, that's what's been going on.
But yeah, it's one day in and so far. Oh good.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Did you get some cheesecake?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah? I got cheesecake.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Lunchbox isn't like icy.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't really like cakes, cupcakes, any of that crap.
The cheesecake cheesecake, big fam Gosh, guys, do you understand
how good cheesecake is?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Do you just like og cheesecake or what do you do?
Different types of I can just take o G. I
don't need anything like adding cherry to it, the.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Little cherry on top. Yeah yeah, a little drizzled cherry, whatever, strawberry.
You'll take that. But but I don't need like Oreo
chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake. Nah. So good though, that's
just fake.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
What do you mean that's just fake?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's just like It's like when you go to the
ice cream store and they have peanut butter brittle, salt
caramel upside down pineapple. It's like, what, no, can I
just get?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Like? Okay, but you and I is like one of
our favorite Italian restaurants in town.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Cocoas Oh I plays good.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They have homemade cheesecake. I don't know if you've ever
had their cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, you need to one. All of them are good.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They have og one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But my favorite dessert in Nashville is their chocolate eruption cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It is to die for.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
So see, nothing is to die for, to be honest
with you, that's pretty close.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I no, no, no, no, no, no no. Yeah. So yeah,
what else is new?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
What else? Man?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We got a lot more updates to get through, but
maybe we take a quick break and won't come home.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
We won't take a break. Yeah, I mean Saturday morning,
May we go stretch our legs? You know kind of Oh,
may I.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Stretch your joints since apparently you're an old man? Now?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Oh man? And I was you need a walker? Do
you need to get your wheelchair?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't need a walk or a wheelchair, like, I'm
still walking normal. I just need to I really need
to work on my posture.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I thought you've been trying to work on your posture.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Have you actually done anything to work on I don't
try to work on your posture. I'd say I'm gonna
work on my posture like I want, like there has
to be like a back brace that I can wear
that'll make me stand up straight.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
They're supposedly a sports bra. I got super popular after
Taylor Swift was wearing it. So I would imagine I'm saying,
you're not gonna wear sports bruh. I know, but I
would imagine there's something similar for dudes to do.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh maybe just because I feel like there has to
be something medically that can help me stand up straight,
sit up straight, and it'll help my posture.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Isn't it weird when you start doing your posture though,
because like when you do straighten it, you're like, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
God, like that hurts already. Yeah, sitting so weird for
so long. Like yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got
to train your muscles and I'm like, gosh, that hurts
already in the lower back area, the lower lumbar region.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, and you were going to look into more stretching
because you couldn't do the challenge.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Flexibility has been it's been my issue my whole life. Yeah,
have you done anything with that? I did do some
stretching for a little while. I did some massages.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Did you actually do anything after the Needs Defeat challenge
because I know you were really looking up a place
to go be stretched by somebody.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, No, I really didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
End up doing it. You just got really serious that
day and then no.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, I kind of like when I'm at my house,
I'll do one, two, three, nine, ten to my feet,
my toes and a couple of things. Then that's pretty
much it. But I really I do need to be stretched.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You need some more yoga in your life.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yoga is the I'm gonna tell you what. I've run
a marathon I've done so much running and all yoga
is the hardest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's because you don't have any flexibility more.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And I knew the hot yoga that is like woo.
And you want to know what, you know, who's a waterfall?
This guy? If you want to see someone sweat, like
if you could be like I could win a sweating
competition like.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Everybody could in hot yoga.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, no, no, I sweat so much just any I like
when I'm playing soccer, it's like a freaking waterfall. Like
my whole shirt down to the bottom is just drenched.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Okay, all right, waterfall.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't know. I'm just I sweat a lot. But
yoga it is so hard.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But hot yoga I feel like loosens up your muscles
even more.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So why do some one who's.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
More less flexible? It makes yoga easier. Yeah, because if
you were to.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Just go into a yoga room minus the hot part,
I think.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You would really need it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh really well, because the steam and hotness like really
kind of relaxes you a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And like your muscles, there's nothing relaxing about it. I
mean they're like breed through your nose. I mean ten
seconds in I'm like, I mean, and I'm just like,
oh my god, and they're like, oh, just float to
the front of your mat, and I'm like, I can't
even pick up my leg I gotta drag it because
I can't stretch it that far.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I still need to come with you and your wife
to hot yoga, mostly because I just want to witness
you doing hot yoga.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh no, because they say other people aren't looking at you.
Bull crap. Everybody looks at you, probably you and hot
yoga yap yah, because I'm a hot mess. I mean
they learn looking at this person, going why did this
guy sign up for a class?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But you're the people who need it more than other.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I mean, there's the people that can put their legs
backwards and then pull it back over their head and
I'm like, okay, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
When my boyfriend and I went to our first hot
yoga class together, I had done like one of the
pretzels and he just looked over.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Like what the yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Its old face was just like completely mortified.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So I mean, I mean the teachers always like whenever,
whichever teacher whatever, I guess they're called teachers or yogi's
or whatever they're called instructors. There you go. They always
come over like ten times in the class. Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, I'm good man, I'm good. Don't worry about me. Yes,
probably take that break. All right, let's say your break.
We'll be our back.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So you and the family have a new dog.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We do have a new dog. His name is Chase.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And why is he named Chase?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Because he likes to play Chase.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And the kids named him.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
The kids named him. A lot of people are mistaken
and they think Chase is on the case Paul Patrol,
and my kids want to reiterate that it is not
because of that. It's because he likes to play Chase.
Do your kids like Paw Patrol though, Yeah, okay, yes,
they like Paul Patrol. But we he got it from
mac Metro Animal Control Center or something. I don't know, yeah, AC,
(16:07):
I had never heard of it. I thought the Nashville
Humane Association was the like.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So Nashville Humanus Association is like one of our shelters,
but m ACC is our animal.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Control I thought in shelter.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, that was my fault. And so some lady was
fostering him and she put it on the whatever page.
I don't know what page. My wife was on neighborhood Facebook,
I don't know, and it was like, hey, I've been
fostering this dog, but we're gonna have to take it back,
you know what I mean. And I So she was
the one that found him, and so we went over
(16:42):
and met him, and he was real kind of shy.
But then we went in her backyard and he was
running around. He had he loved sticks. He loves sticks,
so the kids were giving him sticks and then they
would chase him and he runs and runs and runs.
And then we went back the next day and we
took him for a walk and then we got back
in the backyard and chased and chased and chase. And
(17:04):
then when we got him, my youngest son wanted to
name him butt cheeks, and my oldest want to name
him Chase, and my middle one he was indifferent.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
He didn't care butt cheeks or Chase.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes, and so we decided we would name him Chase
butt cheeks box.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I wondered if butt cheeks was going to become the
middle name as soon as you said that.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah and so, but no, But now my my youngest
has kind of stopped calling him butt cheeks.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Okay, so now he's just Chase.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well no, no, I'm i aspologized. My middle child wanted
to name him.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Bubbs, bubbs, So he has three names.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, it's it's Chase, butt cheeks, bubs box.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What an interesting name for that little guy?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because he I don't know, why do
you want to call him bubbs?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Where'd you get that?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah? I probably saw something on TV. You guys were
watching at.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Some point, yeah, something, who knows, I'm not sure. But they, yes,
they and let me tell you, they are in love.
They love this dog and they lay down there on
the dog bed with him, and they they want him
to sleep and hit their room. But right now he's
still kind of scared to go in their room. I
don't know why. I mean whatever, he'll get there eventually,
(18:23):
but yeah, I mean they they take him on walks.
They I mean, they want to play with them, like wet.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
He likes the kids house, He loves the kids, loves
them good.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
They get a little scared because he nips, nah, nap,
because he's a puppy. He's playing, he's playing. But they
don't get that, and they they cry a little bit,
but we're getting over that. We're kind of learning. We're learning.
But he hadn't been nipping as much the last week
or so, so I mean we're getting there. But yeah,
(18:54):
he's he's pretty fantastic. He was like thirty pounds when
we got him, but we got him a month ago
and he's put on five pounds. He was found he
was a street walker. He was him and two other
puppies were found on the street. And so now he's
got a home and yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And he's a mostly black dog.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Uh yeah, he's got like one little piece of white
on his foot, and he's got a couple of random
white hairs.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Just kind of everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But yeah, you know, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I'm really glad you guys adopted a black dog because
there's the black animal effect. Like a shelters most of
the time, all black cats, all black dogs, they are
least likely to get adopted.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I heard this before I knew that that was happening,
and I feel so sorry for those dogs. I didn't
know that exists. You know, I can't believe which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I love a black dog.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I think they're so cute. Well, I'm gonna tell you what.
This guy is so black you can't barely see him
in pictures.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, we get him out of black blanket.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Well, I didn't even see his eyes because he's so black.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You have a little white spot. And that's the only
way that you know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
It's it's wild. Like it's like you take a picture
and you can't even see where his face is. Like
it just seems like a black blob.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Okay, And the question a lot of people were asking,
I have already known the answer to this, but do
you guys still have walto.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Who?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Uh, do you want me to share?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Would that make it easier for you?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Hm? Oh m hm.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
So Lunchbox and his family lost Waldo late last year
and he had a really hard fight.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
He tried really hard to.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Stay along, but.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It was really hard on Lunchbox. Waldo was his guy.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, it's it was that was tough.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And the kids loved him.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, and they really wanted you to get another dog
because they loved you guys having a dog in the house.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, And I just I wasn't ready. And then even
when we got a new dog, still hard. I felt guilty.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's easy to feel guilty because you feel like you're
replacing them, but you're not. I think every dog that
you ever get in your lifetime kind of holds a
different piece of your heart.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, because I mean it's just tough. I thought I was.
I mean, I thought, you know, six minutes later, I'd
be able to talk about it without getting sad.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But I don't think you'll ever. I mean, I think
Waldo was really special to you.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, because I had Niobi and Waldo, and Niobi passed
away two days after I brought home my first child.
That was tough. And then we had Waldo for all
three and he was like their best friend and that
was hard. Like it, I mean that was really tough.
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Like it was like a week before Christmas and oh man,
it's just weird. And like I haven't told it. I
didn't tell anybody, like nobody knew, but Morgan, like Scooba
is like even Hans me the other day, He's like, oh,
(22:37):
so Waldo's got a buddy, and I was like He's like,
I had no idea, and I'm like, yeah, I haven't
really said anything. Like like a lot of people post
on like because like I did for Naobi, like on
Instagram or whatever, but I just I never could do it.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I think there's a little bit there where you don't
want to believe that it's real. Yeah, and I think
posting makes it real.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, And that's I mean right. And so it's just
and I you know, just going back through the pictures
it makes me sad and just so it's like what
do you do?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So it's it's just a weird thing, but it's tough.
And I got rid of all of it, is like
beds and everything because I felt like when we get
a new dog, we should start over, because I don't
want him to have to, you know, use Waldo's beds. Weird,
(23:36):
which is I don't know if it anything makes sense,
even like dog bulls. I got new dog bowls because
I felt I didn't feels right for him to eat
and drink out of Waldo's bowl.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I don't think there's any right or wrong feeling of
any of it. I think you do what feels right
for you, and I think Waldo was really special for you.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I think it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Hard no matter what.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You could have waited five years lunch and I think
it still would have been hard.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, And my wife was like, ah, do you sure
you want to get a new dog? But I mean
I told her, I was like, I miss when I
open that door, the dog there to greet me. Like
I was like, I love that. Like so she's allergic
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to dogs, so I had to wait also for her
to be ready, and so when she found this dog,
I was like, yes, and it's great. And the dog
chase is great because he's thirty pounds, thirty three pounds,
thirty four pounds whatever. The kids can walk them like,
they can hold the leash and they don't get dragged
(24:46):
everywhere and they can and he was potty trained, he
was great trained. He's pretty much leash trained, so he's
I don't know how he's all that when he was
living on the streets, but he's just really perfect and
he has a lot of energy. And the kids throw
the ball for him, throw the frisbee for him. And
that was the That was the fun part, is going
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to pet Smart and letting them pick out toys and
just they were going crazy buying every toy in the
in the world, and that was a lot of fun.
That was that was the their excitement of that was
pretty freaking cool. Because we got them. We ended up
actually getting him on Father's Day, not on purpose. It
(25:31):
wasn't like a Father's Day present. But we went to
the mall because I have my new iPhone because I'm upgraded,
because I couldn't even use my old iPhone. I couldn't
like the ear piece. I couldn't hear anybody, so I
had to have speaker all the time.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You used it to the ground, yes.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And so we hooked up my iPhone all that and
then we were like oh and we got the text
saying from Max saying we could, you know, go to
the foster person his house that day and get the dog.
And so we're like, oh, we should go do some fun.
And we're like, ah, what do you got? We haven't
had fun. We want to do some fun. We want
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to do something fun. And we were like, well, why
don't we go to the pet store and pick out
some stuff. And they're like for what and I'm like
and they were in the car, they were in their buckles,
and we're like, for the dog. You know, we're the
dog we're gonna get today and they're like which one.
I'm like, well, the one we went and saw here.
(26:30):
See are you kidding me? Are you kidding me, and
they all unbuckled, jumped down our seat, let's go, let's go.
Are you serious? Are you serious? And it was just
like it was such a great moment and it was
so exciting, and so yeah, it's been fantastic. It's been fantastic.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It felt like at that moment probably made you feel
like this is the right time, and they were excited,
and yeah, gave you some more.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And I knew they were excited. I knew they wanted
a dog because they are dog crazy. When they see
a dog in the neighborhood or someone walking their dog,
they always want to go pet the dog.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Well, and you raise them around dogs, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And I've always been around dogs. I've had dogs my
whole life. My wife has not had dogs her whole
she never had dogs.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I realized she was allergic.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Well, I mean, I think they say a lot of
people are allergic to dogs.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I don't know, does she ever have like any visceral
reactions or is it just kind of more She'll have
sniffles here and there.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Have sniffles here and there. But I'm like, that could
be Paul and there could be dust. I mean, I
don't know, but I mean I'm but it's working out great.
And as you can go back to this clip, I
didn't even get emotional, so it's great.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well I didn't mean for you to get emotion.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I wanted to ask me before, Hey, is it okay
if we talk about Walno, And I'm like, oh, yeah,
I can talk about Waldo and I mean, just you
introducing it, just I don't know, like it's just weird,
Like I don't know. Like I was talking to my
dad the other night because when I was really young,
when I was two, three four, we had a dog
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named Ralph, and when we moved to our new house
at the end of my kindergarten year, Ralph just wandered off.
He was at that point couldn't really see, he couldn't
really hear, and we put up signs and we looked
and my dad and I were talking about the other night,
(28:28):
and I was like, I got a question for you.
Did Ralph really wander off? Because I was like, I
was talking about it with my sister and she was like,
I think he really wandered off. Well, it turns out
Ralph's a girl. I forgot about that. They named him Ralph,
but it was really a girl because I think my
brother they were gonna name Ralph. I don't know. I
(28:48):
don't know why they named it Ralph. And it was
a girl. I forget the name. But my sister was like,
the way they put up flyers and how much we
looked for that dog, I don't think they were like
messing with us. And so I was talking to my
dad about it. I was like, oh, yeah, you know,
we had the conversation the other day about how I
was like, and then we came to the conclusion that
(29:11):
that Ralph really did wander off, and he was like, no,
Ralph really wandered off. And then we started talking about
it and he goes, now I'm sad, and I'm like, oh,
I mean it's been forty years. Forty years and he
got so sad on the phone. But this so when
you brought it up, I was just like, oh, yeah,
I can talk about it, no problem. And oh man,
(29:34):
that was tough.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I think when animals impact you in a certain way,
I don't know that it ever gets easier.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Like, I think, right, you find new animals to love
and you make space in your heart.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But like.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
My like, I think about my mom losing our family dog.
It's been three years and she's still to this day
like that hurts her. Like I think about the cat
that I had before Hazel for eighteen years of my life,
I still get sad. I don't know that you ever
fully get rid of that sadness. You just find more
ways to love. And you found Chase, who's in time
(30:10):
gonna take a piece of your heart too. But it's
different ways that you connect with different animals for sure too.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
So yeah, and like it because I mean, like the
first time I ever saw my dad cry is our
dog growing up, Nicki. Her back hips had gone out,
and so we were gonna put her down. And I
was in college my freshman year, and so I came
home for the weekend and I was pissed at my dad.
(30:38):
I was like, he doesn't care, like he's doing this,
Like I cannot believe he's putting, you know, making this decision.
Like she was in a wheelchair, Like she had a
wheelchair for her back legs. So my parents did everything
they could, and they would let her have that wheelchair
and take her up to the park and let her
run around with her two front legs and the wheelchair
propped her legs her back legs up so she can move.
(31:02):
And I mean when my dad was out in the
backyard digging up a hole, I've never seen him cry
and he was ball ball. Yeah, so yeah, I mean,
(31:26):
I mean it's weird. It's just a weird, like right now.
I didn't think I was get that talking about Nikki
Geez Louise.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, we won't keep talking about We're gonna take
a break.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, let's say forty four, let's sing Happy Birthday.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And I don't ever want to make you cry. But
I did have a lot of asks about Walter.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Loved Waldo and you posting about Waldo, so I think
they were curious.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, that's where it came.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
No, no, no, he didn't mean. I mean like I literally said,
I didn't think I was gonna. I didn't cry. I
almost cried. I got like I got, as my son says, Dad,
My my eyes got a little like water in them,
but they didn't come down my cheeks. Okay, I saw
I'm still tough.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Technicality. Yes, okay, we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We'll be back, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
We're gonna talk about some fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Fun stuff, Yeah, very fun dip.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I I've had fun dip. Have you had fun fetti dip?
Why not? Because you don't really.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Like, I don't know what fun fetti dip?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Have you ever had like funfetti cake?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah? I think that's what we It's like confetti cake, right, Yeah,
that's what we had for my son's seventh birthday.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, you can turn into kind of a dip.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, really good. It's weird, man, my oldest turned seven. Gosh,
that's just weird.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's exciting though. Is it crazy to think that you
had a kid seven years ago?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yes, it's crazy because he was six weeks early and
just I still remember it and it's just like and
it's the stupidest cliche, but it goes by the in
the blink of an eye. And I also back to
me getting older. I don't like my kids getting older
because they're like becoming like like different. You know, like
(33:05):
my five year old and three year olds still love
to wrestle. Me and my seven year old we used
to wrestle all the time. He doesn't like to wrestle
as much.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
No, he's getting to the par where he's like, dad,
don't be embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, things like that and it's like, man, that's just
so crazy, Like, I hate it.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I know you're not doing well with the getting older thing.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
No, I don't do good. I'm not. I don't do
well with the getting older, do not. I mean, I'll
be the first admit it.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So you and your son are a week apart in birthdays.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, and then my mom's three days after me. A
lot of July birth well yeah, yeah, she's like twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Okay, lots of July.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And here's what's crazy. You want to hear something crazy. Yeah,
Ray's friend Justin Yeah, same birthday as me.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That is funny.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oscar Favela, I don't know who that is, my buddy
from college. Same birthday as me. He's a year older,
Amy Romer now Amy Davis. Same birthday as me, same
wedding anniversary as me. We went to middle school and
high school together.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, so we always text each other, Happy anniversary, Happy birthday,
same In't that wild?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
It is crazy? It always funny.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I feel like my birthday is pretty common to I
feel like a lot of people's birthdays fall on mine. Yeah,
because it's we're like New Year's babies. Ah, And that
makes sense. I wonder what yours are Thanksgiving babies.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Maybe I have no idea. I just say it was
wild that I know that many people that are my
friends that have the same birth Oh, Sydney who used
to be our intern and phone screen or whatever, same
birthday me, Sidney de Golli. I mean that's wild.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
So yeah, there's a lot of listeners too that'll comment
and say you go share a same birthday.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Well, listener's different because I don't know them. These are
people that are in my personal life and I text
Happy Birthday on the same day as me. So weird.
It's just I mean, I'm like, I cannot believe I
know have friends that have the same birthday as me.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Okay, speaking of getting older, we're not gonna talk actually
about getting Yeah, but something that I want to see,
you know, before I'm so old is a bear in
the wild.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Have you ever seen a bear in the wild?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah? Really, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I've been to Yellowstone, I've been to the Tea times.
I've been to Gallenburg, I've been to Maine. I've been
to all the places where you should see bears.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Do you know if I've ever seen a bear? No, Okay,
do you know who's tried to see a bear?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Me, here's a cold place you can go North Carolina.
That's where I saw a bear. Okay, and Alaska.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I've been to Alaska, never saw a bear.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, that's weird. I can't believe you've never seen a bear.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I've been to every location that you wouldn't naturally see
a bear. But let me tell you so my.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Even it in Gallinburg. You didn't see a bear.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
And I was in the freaking smoking mountains. Like I'm
not in the cities of these places. I'm in the
mountains of these places, and I still can't seem to
find a freaking bear that's wild. So on my lip
my big bucket list of things I want to do
in my life, like really nearing the top besides my
safari in Africa is there's I think it's called I'm
gonna totally butcher this name. Kalami National Park in Alaska.
(36:14):
You have to take like you fly into Alaska, you
take a ferry, you take another seaplane and you get there.
But this is where all the bears eat the salmon. Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I think it's a Rogers National Park.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Rogers. No, it's called it has.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
It starts with a k oh Man I have.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I have a friend that is I think there's a
there's several national parks in Alaska though, yeah cat my
National Park and Reserve. And the reason is because it's
so like remote to get to it. And but this
is where you know how you see pictures of bears
eating salmon.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, I'm trying to think. I saw someone one of
my friends was just in Alaska and they had so
many bear pictures and I just, oh, here it is.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I mean, I think you can also go to all
of Alaska's he bears.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
It's our old intern Stevie and she look at all
these bears.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah okay, she was there. That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
That's the spot because it has like the iconic waterfall
oh Kamana.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah okay, yeah, well see I saw this one, it
says Brooks Camp. I thought that was the name of
the park. Well I didn't read the name of the
park below it. Yeah, they were probably it is. Yeah,
so she has it and she owned Mike, look at this.
That is so cool.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That is on my list, Like that's all I want
to see you And you watch them from like a platform,
so you're safe.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
But you can just see all these bears.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's incredible. Alaska is the coolest place in the world.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
It really is. Everybody talks about Hawaii, and I love Hawaii.
Hawaiian a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I think you would love Hawaii, But Alaska rivals it so.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Hard, which is ironic because they're like different types of
seniors scenery and stuff. But genuinely, for my favorite state,
it rivals it.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah. My friend Jimmy and Amy, they live in Alaska
right now. They're traveling visit. They're traveling nurses and so
she just started so she has to work in one
location for three years before she can come traveling, and
so they chose Alaska because when Jimmy started out as
a traveling nurse, they were in Alaska and they loved it.
My problem is so much snow. They have to get
(38:20):
up on the roof and shovel the snow off the roof.
That's like multiple times.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I don't think to live there, No, but I would
love to be close enough that I could visit often.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, well there's no plint.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I mean we're Washington or Portland.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Okay, move that'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
I just want to live in the mountain.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
You wouldn't want to live in Portland. You know why
you Wantand I'm gonna tell you why you wouldn't want
to live there. You are so far from everything.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's a whole city.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
No, what I'm saying is your family is seven hours away.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
My family's eleven hours away right now.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
No, No, I'm talking plane ride. You would not be
able to drive from Portland to oh, yeah, Wichita.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, that's probably much longer drive.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
That's what I'm saying. Like everything is so like even
a flight is a long ways away.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That is the only problem with living up there. I know.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Well, or I could live somewhere in Colorado or the Titans,
because just be out west, I feel like you're closer
to all the mountains. In general, it makes it easier
to fly to like an Alaska or Hawaii. When you're
all the way over here, it makes it really difficult
to go visit the West, and I love the West.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, I'm looking up how far how long it takes
to drive? Well, it's only twenty five hours and nine
minutes from Portland to Wichita, one seven hundred and fifty miles.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, just a long way.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
That's a long way. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
But anyways, that's why that's like really near, like to
see a bear man in the wild in general, but
that I want to go to that National park.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah. We were in North Carolina and when came in
the driveway, that was so cool. Were you like, did
you see it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Were you standing out? Were you inside? And you see
it in the.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Garage and then you just kind of back in and
then you start looking through the window.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
My Okay, So my sister's husband's parents, so my brother
in law's.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Parents, thank you. I was trying to my sister's husbands
brothers parents.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
They live in like near Pike's Peak in Colorado, and
they have like a cabin kind of out there, and
they always have bears on their like camera footage and
moose and all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
And I just think it is the coolest thing.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
No, no, it's so cool until they get a hold
of you. That's the only Yeah. I just want to
see them right right, Like I'm scared, like I don't
know if I could live in that environment, like where
they could come in my yard. That is just freaky.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It is, but like so cool too, but so.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Freaky, like you're outside playing catch ands like raw w
that's but just to see it for like a minute, cool.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, that's all I need in my life. God, Or
like see him on the camera, like you get a
notification from your ring camera's like you open it, this
is a bear walking by.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Now, that might be a good time to have a
ring camera, is if you could get a bear on it.
But any other reason you don't need a ring camera.
It's so stupidness.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Okay, well, what's your thing before we get out of here?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
My thing?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
What? Why?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Is something you want to do in your life?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Like that's kind of high on your bucket list or
I'm trying not to reference.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Uh jeez, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
You've never thought about this something that you really want
to do?
Speaker 1 (41:32):
No, I really haven't, because I'm just telling you, I
never thought about traveling in my life, So I don't
really know what i'd want to do. Doesn't even have.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
To be traveling maybe, Well, I feel like for you,
it's probably be on a reality TV show, like something
that you want to accomplish to.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Be on Survivor. But realist, I mean, that's just so hard,
so that I mean that is one but like, I
like whitewater rafting, but I've been, but I would like
to go more. Like that's fun. There's something called the
there's a river Okay, Okay, it really doesn't help me,
(42:10):
but yeah, yeah, I'm here. Maybe it starts in Portland.
I don't know where it starts.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
The Colorado River.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
No, no, no, no no. And you you, like, I
don't know if you canoe or you wrath down it
and you sleep on the river bank, and then you
get back in it your boat and you go the
next day more and then you camp on the freaking
water on the shore. I think that would be awesome.
(42:37):
That would be such a cool The Rainier maybe try that. Yeah,
I don't know. I mean there's oh, maybe that's not it.
Then I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Uh, the Carbon River.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
No, I never heard of that. Okay, I don't know
something like that. I like, but I I just I
haven't really thought about something like that. Okay, I never
really because I don't know what all is out there,
and that's maybe my fault. I should maybe start looking
into it. Yeah, and like where could I go? What
can I do?
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Social media is good for is that you can see
so many things in places where you're like, oh, I
want to go visit there.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah. Like last year when we went to Iceland. It
was cool, but it was too much driving, A lot
of driving.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I love it driving though, No like road trip style.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, but it was like you get out, you do
a hike, you're there for like an hour, then you
get in the car and drive three hours, and then
get out you're out for an hour, drive three hours.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Oh see, I thrive in that environment.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
No, no, no, Like I wish I was more of an
outdoor like an experience outdoors person where I went on
like a ten mile.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Hike, oh, versus like the short little one. Yes, I
think you could easily do a long hike.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
I understand, but I don't. I didn't. I didn't don't
do any research or anything either. I don't have the gear.
I don't have any of that. You're just weighing it, Yes,
I'm just kind of winging it. I was a normal tourist.
I would love to like prepare for something like that
and do like a ten mile hike and camp onto
the stars of Iceland on top of a freaking waterfall.
That's cool, But just walking a mile looking walking back
(44:14):
to the car, and driving three hours.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Fine, Okay, next time you go somewhere where there's potential hiking,
let me know and I'll find you some cool hikes.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
I'm good at this.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah, okay, all right, I got you. Yeah, I'm just
not going. That's the other thing is my wife's like,
you know what, you plan this part of the trip
and I'm like yeah, and then you don't plan it. No,
I just plan I book a hotel and then that's it.
And she's like, why Doug, you were going to plan it?
And we get in a fight and she's like I
was like I did.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Okay, you gotta take a little bit more initiative.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
But this is where I can help you is I'll
help you find some cool hikes if you guys, go
and do it.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
I'm not a planner, is the problem.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
But you can be in that situation. You don't have
to be in other ways, but you can be in
that situation. Yeah, and you show me because that's how
you see cooler things.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
She was like, we were trying to figure out a
train to take somewhere when we were in Ireland, and
I was like, she goes, I thought you researched. I said, well, yeah,
there was a I looked and there was a train
right outside the hotel. Okay, but it just wasn't the
right one.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Okay, next time you guys plan a trip, just let
me know. Yeah, it will help your marriage a little bit. Okay,
because then you'll have something planned.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
You're right, I mean I should, but I just I
have no idea.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
I like putting together things for people to do. It's
just easier for me when I've been there, so I
can like go off experience.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
But I'm really good at researching. Because she would love
she loves just laying on the beach. Me and I
want to do stuff, but then I don't research.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
I'm then you don't have anything to do.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
And she's like, okay, well we're not going to do
anything correct, Okay, we'll at least help you find a hike.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yes, something, something outdoorsy. That's what I love. I love
outdoorsy stuff.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Okay, I'll help you next time.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
All right, we're going to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
We're going to go answer some listener questions, so make
sure you check out part three.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Here in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Oh, that wouldn't answer That wasn't listening questions.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
No, there was just If there's enough of one thing,
I'll put it in part one so we can actually
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yeah, yeah, hit the hard stuff first. Now let's go
for the easy stuff. Okay, like happy birthday to you,
all right, we'll be.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
You really quick.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
No, happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, lunchbox, Happy.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
Birthday to you.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Have you ever thought about being a singer?
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Shut up?
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Bye everybody. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other
two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all
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listener questions for next week's episode.
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I hang a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's Up Everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Happy weekend, Lunchbox, the birthday boys joining me?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Was that birthday boy?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Well, my birthday was yesterday, so happy belated birthday to myself.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, but like you get the whole weekend when it's
your birthday, sometimes people celebrate the whole month.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I know that's true, and I got yesterday, and then
my mom's birthday is on Monday, so happy birthday, hat
box and yeah, just do I look different?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
No, I'm just tired because it's Saturday and I have
three kids, that's the answer.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Did you do anything fun to celebrate?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We went to dinner, the kids jumped on me a
bunch and said, hir birthday. And I mean, they're more
excited than I am.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You're not excited about your birthdays anymore?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, no, Morgan, because I don't like that word. You
know what I'm talking about, And every birthday I have,
it's like I'm getting closer and closer to that and
I don't like that what word?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh death?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What I just said, I don't like that word.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, you're so far from death. I don't know why
you relate that to getting older.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, what do you mean? Why you That is what
happens when you get older, you get closer. You're in
your forties. But it doesn't matter. Okay, it doesn't matter.
Like I used to think forty year olds forty four
year olds, I thought they were ancient.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, that's sure. You probably did, like I.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Want to go back to being twelve years old, Like, let's.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Go, okay, but do you feel ancient?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No? I mean Wednesday night, we did have a soccer
game and it was humid, like ninety percent humidity, and
I may have lost ten pounds. And at the end
of the game I told my team, I was like, hey, guys,
I'm forty three. I don't know how I'm gonna do
this at forty four because there's only a few days away.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Do you think you'll ever retire from playing CODs like
the soccer games?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Eventually I'll have to, But I mean right now, no,
I really hope not. I love it. It is so fun.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then you're as old as you feel. How old do
you feel? I have no idea anything about how your
body is doing things.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
How old do you feel? It's different because I can't
stay up till three in the morning every night like
I used to.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, so you're not in your early twenties, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I used to be able to go to bed at
two o'clock, get up at six o'clock, no problem. Now
I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's eleven o'clock. I better
go to bed and I better get my you know,
whatever amount of sleep on the week. So that has changed.
And I used to think, how do my parents fall
asleep on the couch. My parents fall asleep on the
couch all the time, all the time. And now I realize,
(02:45):
I mean, he can go fall asleep on the couch
so easily.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, being an adult is kind of exhausting.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Also, my dad he worked, he did repairing the model
He owned his own business where he'd repair in the
model houses. So he works in the Texas heat all day.
And I didn't realize how exhausted he had to be
every day when he came home.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
My goodness, Yeah, that heat will zap you so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And he would just fall asleep like that on the
couch and he'd be out like you couldn't move him.
And I was like, man, but I realized how hard
my dad worked.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, yeah, you get to stay in the ac all day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
No, not all day. I go home and kick my
kids outside.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay, well I'm saying for your job.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You'd be in the ac. All right. I get to
sit in the ac. But it's mentally taxing trying to
keep up with all you fools.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh it's mentally taxing.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, yes, because you guys I had like fools, and
I had to put you in your place, and you
argue with me and I'd like, I'm crazy, and then
I had to tell you, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
My gosh, so that's where your exhaustion comes from, not
heat exhaustion, but mental exhaustion.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, okay, and then just you know, just having three
kids is exhausting, like it's so fun, but it is.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, So then do you feel forty four or do
you feel like maybe you're in mid thirties?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I have no idea. Sure, mid thirties, okay, because.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You're you always are. What do they say? You're as
young as you feel. So if you don't feel forty four,
then you're probably like thirty three.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah. I mean, weird things happening to me, like having
surgery on my foot because I had glass in it.
That made me feel eighty.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But okay, but you had glass in your foot, you
didn't have surgery on your foot because you were having
like a bunion.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Like my knee. It swelled up like about a month ago,
my left knee and it was just like swollen for
like three weeks. And I had to go and get
an MRI. And guess what they found?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
What they find?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Nothing? So they gave me a steroids shot in my knee.
That was weird.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, that that makes you a little bit older, joins
are a little stiffer. Did they fix the problem?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah? Now it seems to be fine, doesn't swell.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And how is your foot after your surgery?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I've never felt better.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Were these both on the same leg?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah? Left foot, well, left side of your body? Just
going through it this year, I guess so. And what's
weird is they prescribed oxy for me?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I told my wife I don't even pick that
up from pharmacy. We ain't playing with that stuff. We
ain't playing with it. And I took one step after
surgery to get in the wheelchair to wheel me out
to the car. So I was like, huh, Oxy, I
don't need nothing. It feels one hundred times better. The
pain was when I was walking with glass. You can
cut my foot over all you want if it feels
this good.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Really, it was that significant.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, better immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's a gap that they did because they obviously had
to go in to get the glass out.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Is that healing now?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah? And apparently I was supposed to make a follow
up appointment and I never did.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You should probably do that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah. My wife failed to tell me because I was
under anesthesia, and so when I came out, I guess
I was kind of groggy, and she goes, I told
you when we were in the car, and I'm like, really,
that's when you're gonna validate that you told me. Come on, now,
that's not a very good medical professional if you're asking me.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You did send me a picture after your surgery and
you were laying in the bed with your hospital gown.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You had a little net.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
On your head.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, ad me wear a hair net and all your
kids were surrounding.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They pushed the wheelchair.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Did they have fun with you being in the hospital?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Was hilarious. And what we did is we tricked the system.
Though we tricked the system, How did you trick the system.
This is what they say. They say, you have to
have someone drive you there and back and they have
to be there the whole time. Okay, my wife does
not want to sit in that lobby with three kids
for however long it's going to take. So she dropped
me off and then when they called she came back.
(06:29):
Well that makes sense, no, no, no, But they said they
had to be there the whole time, Mike, And how long.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Were you in searchy for?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You don't know, like when you left got home.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't know, Like I know that I was there.
They called me back, they come over, Doc says, Hi,
they mark my foot, they do all this stuff, and
I don't know how long it took to take an hour,
and then they injected my IV with some stuff. And
I mean I remember being wheeled down the hall. They
hit the button to automatically open the two doors. We
(07:02):
took a left in the hallway, woke up and recovery.
Never I didn't even make it to the room like
where they were doing surgery.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's unusual.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I feel like normally they knock you out when you're
on the table so they don't have to pick like
a limp body up.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, no, No, I was in the bed so they
could already surgery.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, I thought you were still in the wheelchair.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
We were talking about the wheelchair with chairs on the
way home.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And so I have no idea like what time I
got Well, you know what I could do. I guess
I could look at my phone and see what time
the picture was taken.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, because you're still in the hospital bed.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Are your kids? So I mean that would that would
give me a little bit of an indication. I think,
let's see.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well, I also texted you later, so I don't know
if you sent me that message later that day. Did
you send me that from the hospital then later?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Okay? So the picture was taking at two point fifty
one PM. Okay, I reported to the hospital at one,
so it's two hours.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, that's not too bad, right, But it's the only surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You've ever had. No, I've had my right ankle scoped,
had a hernia when I was a kid, baby, I
had my wisdom teeth out. I don't know if that
counts a surgery.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I mean you get put under for wisdom teeth.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Anything else.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I didn't know if you've.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Had like good like experiences with surgery, because the only
surgery I've ever had is wisdom teeth. Yeah, So hearing
you talk about this and getting wheeled back in stuff,
I've never had any of that.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah. And I mean you know how they wake you
up as they hit the bottom of.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Your foot to like tap and like try and gently.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Get you to Yeah. And I remember when I got
my wisdom teeth out. My dad took me. It was
my freshman year of college, and he took me and
I the guys like count and talking. I was like,
you're just talking to if I was. And then all
of a sudden, I feel bam, bam bam on the
bottom of my foot and I see my dad hitting
(08:56):
the bottom of my foot, and I'm so out of it.
I'm like, what the are you doing. I start trying
to kick my ey stop and he goes, well, you
got to walk to the wheelchair so we can go home.
And so I just got him walked the wheelchair and
I'm like, whoa, You're supposed to have someone watching you.
And then we went home.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Your dad was messing with you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, he was supposed to wake me up, but I
mean I was like, oh my gosh, and I remember
just getting back and getting the car, laying it out
in the back seat and drooling everywhere, and then going
home and sleeping and having dried blood and stuff all
over my face.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It was awesome, man, you liked that I had when
I got my wisdom tea. Now I lost ten pounds
because the like you said, don't mess with oxy, I
was on lower tabs and I was so sick from them,
like kept throwing up.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I want to eat like it was horrible oo.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And then I ended up back in the hospital because
I had lost ten pounds in like two days.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yikes, that's not good.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, no, it was not a pleasant experience for me.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah that sounds rough, and I mean that's what it's
like to be forty four though, that's what's been going on.
But yeah, it's one day in and so far. Oh good.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Did you get some cheesecake?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah? I got cheesecake.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Lunchbox isn't like icy.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't really like cakes, cupcakes, any of that crap.
The cheesecake cheesecake, big fam Gosh, guys, do you understand
how good cheesecake is?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Do you just like og cheesecake or what do you do?
Different types of I can just take o G. I
don't need anything like adding cherry to it, the.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Little cherry on top. Yeah yeah, a little drizzled cherry, whatever, strawberry.
You'll take that. But but I don't need like Oreo
chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake. Nah. So good though, that's
just fake.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
What do you mean that's just fake?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's just like It's like when you go to the
ice cream store and they have peanut butter brittle, salt
caramel upside down pineapple. It's like, what, no, can I
just get?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Like? Okay, but you and I is like one of
our favorite Italian restaurants in town.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Cocoas Oh I plays good.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They have homemade cheesecake. I don't know if you've ever
had their cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, you need to one. All of them are good.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They have og one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But my favorite dessert in Nashville is their chocolate eruption cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It is to die for.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
So see, nothing is to die for, to be honest
with you, that's pretty close.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I no, no, no, no, no, no no. Yeah. So yeah,
what else is new?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
What else? Man?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We got a lot more updates to get through, but
maybe we take a quick break and won't come home.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
We won't take a break. Yeah, I mean Saturday morning,
May we go stretch our legs? You know kind of Oh,
may I.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Stretch your joints since apparently you're an old man? Now?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Oh man? And I was you need a walker? Do
you need to get your wheelchair?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't need a walk or a wheelchair, like, I'm
still walking normal. I just need to I really need
to work on my posture.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I thought you've been trying to work on your posture.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Have you actually done anything to work on I don't
try to work on your posture. I'd say I'm gonna
work on my posture like I want, like there has
to be like a back brace that I can wear
that'll make me stand up straight.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
They're supposedly a sports bra. I got super popular after
Taylor Swift was wearing it. So I would imagine I'm saying,
you're not gonna wear sports bruh. I know, but I
would imagine there's something similar for dudes to do.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh maybe just because I feel like there has to
be something medically that can help me stand up straight,
sit up straight, and it'll help my posture.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Isn't it weird when you start doing your posture though,
because like when you do straighten it, you're like, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
God, like that hurts already. Yeah, sitting so weird for
so long. Like yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got
to train your muscles and I'm like, gosh, that hurts
already in the lower back area, the lower lumbar region.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, and you were going to look into more stretching
because you couldn't do the challenge.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Flexibility has been it's been my issue my whole life. Yeah,
have you done anything with that? I did do some
stretching for a little while. I did some massages.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Did you actually do anything after the Needs Defeat challenge
because I know you were really looking up a place
to go be stretched by somebody.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, No, I really didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
End up doing it. You just got really serious that
day and then no.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, I kind of like when I'm at my house,
I'll do one, two, three, nine, ten to my feet,
my toes and a couple of things. Then that's pretty
much it. But I really I do need to be stretched.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You need some more yoga in your life.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yoga is the I'm gonna tell you what. I've run
a marathon I've done so much running and all yoga
is the hardest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's because you don't have any flexibility more.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And I knew the hot yoga that is like woo.
And you want to know what, you know, who's a waterfall?
This guy? If you want to see someone sweat, like
if you could be like I could win a sweating
competition like.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Everybody could in hot yoga.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, no, no, I sweat so much just any I like
when I'm playing soccer, it's like a freaking waterfall. Like
my whole shirt down to the bottom is just drenched.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Okay, all right, waterfall.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't know. I'm just I sweat a lot. But
yoga it is so hard.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But hot yoga I feel like loosens up your muscles
even more.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So why do some one who's.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
More less flexible? It makes yoga easier. Yeah, because if
you were to.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Just go into a yoga room minus the hot part,
I think.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You would really need it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh really well, because the steam and hotness like really
kind of relaxes you a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And like your muscles, there's nothing relaxing about it. I
mean they're like breed through your nose. I mean ten
seconds in I'm like, I mean, and I'm just like,
oh my god, and they're like, oh, just float to
the front of your mat, and I'm like, I can't
even pick up my leg I gotta drag it because
I can't stretch it that far.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I still need to come with you and your wife
to hot yoga, mostly because I just want to witness
you doing hot yoga.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh no, because they say other people aren't looking at you.
Bull crap. Everybody looks at you, probably you and hot
yoga yap yah, because I'm a hot mess. I mean
they learn looking at this person, going why did this
guy sign up for a class?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But you're the people who need it more than other.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I mean, there's the people that can put their legs
backwards and then pull it back over their head and
I'm like, okay, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
When my boyfriend and I went to our first hot
yoga class together, I had done like one of the
pretzels and he just looked over.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Like what the yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Its old face was just like completely mortified.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
So I mean, I mean the teachers always like whenever,
whichever teacher whatever, I guess they're called teachers or yogi's
or whatever they're called instructors. There you go. They always
come over like ten times in the class. Are you okay?
Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, I'm good man, I'm good. Don't worry about me. Yes,
probably take that break. All right, let's say your break.
We'll be our back.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So you and the family have a new dog.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We do have a new dog. His name is Chase.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And why is he named Chase?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Because he likes to play Chase.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And the kids named him.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
The kids named him. A lot of people are mistaken
and they think Chase is on the case Paul Patrol,
and my kids want to reiterate that it is not
because of that. It's because he likes to play Chase.
Do your kids like Paw Patrol though, Yeah, okay, yes,
they like Paul Patrol. But we he got it from
mac Metro Animal Control Center or something. I don't know, yeah, AC,
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I had never heard of it. I thought the Nashville
Humane Association was the like.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So Nashville Humanus Association is like one of our shelters,
but m ACC is our animal.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Control I thought in shelter.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, that was my fault. And so some lady was
fostering him and she put it on the whatever page.
I don't know what page. My wife was on neighborhood Facebook,
I don't know, and it was like, hey, I've been
fostering this dog, but we're gonna have to take it back,
you know what I mean. And I So she was
the one that found him, and so we went over
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and met him, and he was real kind of shy.
But then we went in her backyard and he was
running around. He had he loved sticks. He loves sticks,
so the kids were giving him sticks and then they
would chase him and he runs and runs and runs.
And then we went back the next day and we
took him for a walk and then we got back
in the backyard and chased and chased and chase. And
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then when we got him, my youngest son wanted to
name him butt cheeks, and my oldest want to name
him Chase, and my middle one he was indifferent.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
He didn't care butt cheeks or Chase.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yes, and so we decided we would name him Chase
butt cheeks box.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I wondered if butt cheeks was going to become the
middle name as soon as you said that.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah and so, but no, But now my my youngest
has kind of stopped calling him butt cheeks.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Okay, so now he's just Chase.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well no, no, I'm i aspologized. My middle child wanted
to name him.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Bubbs, bubbs, So he has three names.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, it's it's Chase, butt cheeks, bubs box.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What an interesting name for that little guy?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because he I don't know, why do
you want to call him bubbs?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Where'd you get that?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah? I probably saw something on TV. You guys were
watching at.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Some point, yeah, something, who knows, I'm not sure. But they, yes,
they and let me tell you, they are in love.
They love this dog and they lay down there on
the dog bed with him, and they they want him
to sleep and hit their room. But right now he's
still kind of scared to go in their room. I
don't know why. I mean whatever, he'll get there eventually,
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but yeah, I mean they they take him on walks.
They I mean, they want to play with them, like wet.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
He likes the kids house, He loves the kids, loves
them good.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
They get a little scared because he nips, nah, nap,
because he's a puppy. He's playing, he's playing. But they
don't get that, and they they cry a little bit,
but we're getting over that. We're kind of learning. We're learning.
But he hadn't been nipping as much the last week
or so, so I mean we're getting there. But yeah,
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he's he's pretty fantastic. He was like thirty pounds when
we got him, but we got him a month ago
and he's put on five pounds. He was found he
was a street walker. He was him and two other
puppies were found on the street. And so now he's
got a home and yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And he's a mostly black dog.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Uh yeah, he's got like one little piece of white
on his foot, and he's got a couple of random
white hairs.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Just kind of everywhere.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But yeah, you know, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I'm really glad you guys adopted a black dog because
there's the black animal effect. Like a shelters most of
the time, all black cats, all black dogs, they are
least likely to get adopted.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I heard this before I knew that that was happening,
and I feel so sorry for those dogs. I didn't
know that exists. You know, I can't believe which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I love a black dog.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I think they're so cute. Well, I'm gonna tell you what.
This guy is so black you can't barely see him
in pictures.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, we get him out of black blanket.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Well, I didn't even see his eyes because he's so black.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You have a little white spot. And that's the only
way that you know.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
It's it's wild. Like it's like you take a picture
and you can't even see where his face is. Like
it just seems like a black blob.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Okay, And the question a lot of people were asking,
I have already known the answer to this, but do
you guys still have walto.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Who?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Uh, do you want me to share?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Would that make it easier for you?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Hm? Oh m hm.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
So Lunchbox and his family lost Waldo late last year
and he had a really hard fight.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
He tried really hard to.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Stay along, but.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
It was really hard on Lunchbox. Waldo was his guy.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, it's it was that was tough.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And the kids loved him.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, and they really wanted you to get another dog
because they loved you guys having a dog in the house.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, And I just I wasn't ready. And then even
when we got a new dog, still hard. I felt guilty.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's easy to feel guilty because you feel like you're
replacing them, but you're not. I think every dog that
you ever get in your lifetime kind of holds a
different piece of your heart.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, because I mean it's just tough. I thought I was.
I mean, I thought, you know, six minutes later, I'd
be able to talk about it without getting sad.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
But I don't think you'll ever. I mean, I think
Waldo was really special to you.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, because I had Niobi and Waldo, and Niobi passed
away two days after I brought home my first child.
That was tough. And then we had Waldo for all
three and he was like their best friend and that
was hard. Like it, I mean that was really tough.
(22:16):
Like it was like a week before Christmas and oh man,
it's just weird. And like I haven't told it. I
didn't tell anybody, like nobody knew, but Morgan, like Scooba
is like even Hans me the other day, He's like, oh,
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so Waldo's got a buddy, and I was like He's like,
I had no idea, and I'm like, yeah, I haven't
really said anything. Like like a lot of people post
on like because like I did for Naobi, like on
Instagram or whatever, but I just I never could do it.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I think there's a little bit there where you don't
want to believe that it's real. Yeah, and I think
posting makes it real.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, And that's I mean right. And so it's just
and I you know, just going back through the pictures
it makes me sad and just so it's like what
do you do?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So it's it's just a weird thing, but it's tough.
And I got rid of all of it, is like
beds and everything because I felt like when we get
a new dog, we should start over, because I don't
want him to have to, you know, use Waldo's beds. Weird,
(23:36):
which is I don't know if it anything makes sense,
even like dog bulls. I got new dog bowls because
I felt I didn't feels right for him to eat
and drink out of Waldo's bowl.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I don't think there's any right or wrong feeling of
any of it. I think you do what feels right
for you, and I think Waldo was really special for you.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I think it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Hard no matter what.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
You could have waited five years lunch and I think
it still would have been hard.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, And my wife was like, ah, do you sure
you want to get a new dog? But I mean
I told her, I was like, I miss when I
open that door, the dog there to greet me. Like
I was like, I love that. Like so she's allergic
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to dogs, so I had to wait also for her
to be ready, and so when she found this dog,
I was like, yes, and it's great. And the dog
chase is great because he's thirty pounds, thirty three pounds,
thirty four pounds whatever. The kids can walk them like,
they can hold the leash and they don't get dragged
(24:46):
everywhere and they can and he was potty trained, he
was great trained. He's pretty much leash trained, so he's
I don't know how he's all that when he was
living on the streets, but he's just really perfect and
he has a lot of energy. And the kids throw
the ball for him, throw the frisbee for him. And
that was the That was the fun part, is going
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to pet Smart and letting them pick out toys and
just they were going crazy buying every toy in the
in the world, and that was a lot of fun.
That was that was the their excitement of that was
pretty freaking cool. Because we got them. We ended up
actually getting him on Father's Day, not on purpose. It
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wasn't like a Father's Day present. But we went to
the mall because I have my new iPhone because I'm upgraded,
because I couldn't even use my old iPhone. I couldn't
like the ear piece. I couldn't hear anybody, so I
had to have speaker all the time.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You used it to the ground, yes.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And so we hooked up my iPhone all that and
then we were like oh and we got the text
saying from Max saying we could, you know, go to
the foster person his house that day and get the dog.
And so we're like, oh, we should go do some fun.
And we're like, ah, what do you got? We haven't
had fun. We want to do some fun. We want
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to do something fun. And we were like, well, why
don't we go to the pet store and pick out
some stuff. And they're like for what and I'm like
and they were in the car, they were in their buckles,
and we're like, for the dog. You know, we're the
dog we're gonna get today and they're like which one.
I'm like, well, the one we went and saw here.
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See are you kidding me? Are you kidding me, and
they all unbuckled, jumped down our seat, let's go, let's go.
Are you serious? Are you serious? And it was just
like it was such a great moment and it was
so exciting, and so yeah, it's been fantastic. It's been fantastic.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It felt like at that moment probably made you feel
like this is the right time, and they were excited,
and yeah, gave you some more.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And I knew they were excited. I knew they wanted
a dog because they are dog crazy. When they see
a dog in the neighborhood or someone walking their dog,
they always want to go pet the dog.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Well, and you raise them around dogs, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And I've always been around dogs. I've had dogs my
whole life. My wife has not had dogs her whole
she never had dogs.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I realized she was allergic.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Well, I mean, I think they say a lot of
people are allergic to dogs.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I don't know, does she ever have like any visceral
reactions or is it just kind of more She'll have
sniffles here and there.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Have sniffles here and there. But I'm like, that could
be Paul and there could be dust. I mean, I
don't know, but I mean I'm but it's working out great.
And as you can go back to this clip, I
didn't even get emotional, so it's great.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well I didn't mean for you to get emotion.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I wanted to ask me before, Hey, is it okay
if we talk about Walno, And I'm like, oh, yeah,
I can talk about Waldo and I mean, just you
introducing it, just I don't know, like it's just weird,
Like I don't know. Like I was talking to my
dad the other night because when I was really young,
when I was two, three four, we had a dog
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named Ralph, and when we moved to our new house
at the end of my kindergarten year, Ralph just wandered off.
He was at that point couldn't really see, he couldn't
really hear, and we put up signs and we looked
and my dad and I were talking about the other night,
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and I was like, I got a question for you.
Did Ralph really wander off? Because I was like, I
was talking about it with my sister and she was like,
I think he really wandered off. Well, it turns out
Ralph's a girl. I forgot about that. They named him Ralph,
but it was really a girl because I think my
brother they were gonna name Ralph. I don't know. I
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don't know why they named it Ralph. And it was
a girl. I forget the name. But my sister was like,
the way they put up flyers and how much we
looked for that dog, I don't think they were like
messing with us. And so I was talking to my
dad about it. I was like, oh, yeah, you know,
we had the conversation the other day about how I
was like, and then we came to the conclusion that
(29:11):
that Ralph really did wander off, and he was like, no,
Ralph really wandered off. And then we started talking about
it and he goes, now I'm sad, and I'm like, oh,
I mean it's been forty years. Forty years and he
got so sad on the phone. But this so when
you brought it up, I was just like, oh, yeah,
I can talk about it, no problem. And oh man,
(29:34):
that was tough.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I think when animals impact you in a certain way,
I don't know that it ever gets easier.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Like, I think, right, you find new animals to love
and you make space in your heart.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But like.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
My like, I think about my mom losing our family dog.
It's been three years and she's still to this day
like that hurts her. Like I think about the cat
that I had before Hazel for eighteen years of my life,
I still get sad. I don't know that you ever
fully get rid of that sadness. You just find more
ways to love. And you found Chase, who's in time
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gonna take a piece of your heart too. But it's
different ways that you connect with different animals for sure too.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
So yeah, and like it because I mean, like the
first time I ever saw my dad cry is our
dog growing up, Nicki. Her back hips had gone out,
and so we were gonna put her down. And I
was in college my freshman year, and so I came
home for the weekend and I was pissed at my dad.
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I was like, he doesn't care, like he's doing this,
Like I cannot believe he's putting, you know, making this decision.
Like she was in a wheelchair, Like she had a
wheelchair for her back legs. So my parents did everything
they could, and they would let her have that wheelchair
and take her up to the park and let her
run around with her two front legs and the wheelchair
propped her legs her back legs up so she can move.
(31:02):
And I mean when my dad was out in the
backyard digging up a hole, I've never seen him cry
and he was ball ball. Yeah, so yeah, I mean,
(31:26):
I mean it's weird. It's just a weird, like right now.
I didn't think I was get that talking about Nikki
Geez Louise.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, we won't keep talking about We're gonna take
a break.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, let's say forty four, let's sing Happy Birthday.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And I don't ever want to make you cry. But
I did have a lot of asks about Walter.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Loved Waldo and you posting about Waldo, so I think
they were curious.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, that's where it came.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
No, no, no, he didn't mean. I mean like I literally said,
I didn't think I was gonna. I didn't cry. I
almost cried. I got like I got, as my son says, Dad,
My my eyes got a little like water in them,
but they didn't come down my cheeks. Okay, I saw
I'm still tough.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Technicality. Yes, okay, we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We'll be back, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
We're gonna talk about some fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Fun stuff, Yeah, very fun dip.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I I've had fun dip. Have you had fun fetti dip?
Why not? Because you don't really.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Like, I don't know what fun fetti dip?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Have you ever had like funfetti cake?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah? I think that's what we It's like confetti cake, right, Yeah,
that's what we had for my son's seventh birthday.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, you can turn into kind of a dip.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, really good. It's weird, man, my oldest turned seven. Gosh,
that's just weird.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
That's exciting though. Is it crazy to think that you
had a kid seven years ago?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yes, it's crazy because he was six weeks early and
just I still remember it and it's just like and
it's the stupidest cliche, but it goes by the in
the blink of an eye. And I also back to
me getting older. I don't like my kids getting older
because they're like becoming like like different. You know, like
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my five year old and three year olds still love
to wrestle. Me and my seven year old we used
to wrestle all the time. He doesn't like to wrestle
as much.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
No, he's getting to the par where he's like, dad,
don't be embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, things like that and it's like, man, that's just
so crazy, Like, I hate it.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I know you're not doing well with the getting older thing.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
No, I don't do good. I'm not. I don't do
well with the getting older, do not. I mean, I'll
be the first admit it.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
So you and your son are a week apart in birthdays.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, and then my mom's three days after me. A
lot of July birth well yeah, yeah, she's like twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Okay, lots of July.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And here's what's crazy. You want to hear something crazy. Yeah,
Ray's friend Justin Yeah, same birthday as me.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That is funny.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Oscar Favela, I don't know who that is, my buddy
from college. Same birthday as me. He's a year older,
Amy Romer now Amy Davis. Same birthday as me, same
wedding anniversary as me. We went to middle school and
high school together.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, so we always text each other, Happy anniversary, Happy birthday,
same In't that wild?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
It is crazy? It always funny.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I feel like my birthday is pretty common to I
feel like a lot of people's birthdays fall on mine. Yeah,
because it's we're like New Year's babies. Ah, And that
makes sense. I wonder what yours are Thanksgiving babies.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Maybe I have no idea. I just say it was
wild that I know that many people that are my
friends that have the same birth Oh, Sydney who used
to be our intern and phone screen or whatever, same
birthday me, Sidney de Golli. I mean that's wild.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
So yeah, there's a lot of listeners too that'll comment
and say you go share a same birthday.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Well, listener's different because I don't know them. These are
people that are in my personal life and I text
Happy Birthday on the same day as me. So weird.
It's just I mean, I'm like, I cannot believe I
know have friends that have the same birthday as me.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Okay, speaking of getting older, we're not gonna talk actually
about getting Yeah, but something that I want to see,
you know, before I'm so old is a bear in
the wild.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Have you ever seen a bear in the wild?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah? Really, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I've been to Yellowstone, I've been to the Tea times.
I've been to Gallenburg, I've been to Maine. I've been
to all the places where you should see bears.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Do you know if I've ever seen a bear? No, Okay,
do you know who's tried to see a bear?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Me, here's a cold place you can go North Carolina.
That's where I saw a bear. Okay, and Alaska.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I've been to Alaska, never saw a bear.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, that's weird. I can't believe you've never seen a bear.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I've been to every location that you wouldn't naturally see
a bear. But let me tell you so my.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Even it in Gallinburg. You didn't see a bear.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
And I was in the freaking smoking mountains. Like I'm
not in the cities of these places. I'm in the
mountains of these places, and I still can't seem to
find a freaking bear that's wild. So on my lip
my big bucket list of things I want to do
in my life, like really nearing the top besides my
safari in Africa is there's I think it's called I'm
gonna totally butcher this name. Kalami National Park in Alaska.
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You have to take like you fly into Alaska, you
take a ferry, you take another seaplane and you get there.
But this is where all the bears eat the salmon. Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I think it's a Rogers National Park.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Rogers. No, it's called it has.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
It starts with a k oh Man I have.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I have a friend that is I think there's a
there's several national parks in Alaska though, yeah cat my
National Park and Reserve. And the reason is because it's
so like remote to get to it. And but this
is where you know how you see pictures of bears
eating salmon.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, I'm trying to think. I saw someone one of
my friends was just in Alaska and they had so
many bear pictures and I just, oh, here it is.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I mean, I think you can also go to all
of Alaska's he bears.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
It's our old intern Stevie and she look at all
these bears.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah okay, she was there. That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
That's the spot because it has like the iconic waterfall
oh Kamana.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah okay, yeah, well see I saw this one, it
says Brooks Camp. I thought that was the name of
the park. Well I didn't read the name of the
park below it. Yeah, they were probably it is. Yeah,
so she has it and she owned Mike, look at this.
That is so cool.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That is on my list, Like that's all I want
to see you And you watch them from like a platform,
so you're safe.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
But you can just see all these bears.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's incredible. Alaska is the coolest place in the world.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
It really is. Everybody talks about Hawaii, and I love Hawaii.
Hawaiian a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I think you would love Hawaii, But Alaska rivals it so.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Hard, which is ironic because they're like different types of
seniors scenery and stuff. But genuinely, for my favorite state,
it rivals it.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah. My friend Jimmy and Amy, they live in Alaska
right now. They're traveling visit. They're traveling nurses and so
she just started so she has to work in one
location for three years before she can come traveling, and
so they chose Alaska because when Jimmy started out as
a traveling nurse, they were in Alaska and they loved it.
My problem is so much snow. They have to get
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up on the roof and shovel the snow off the roof.
That's like multiple times.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I don't think to live there, No, but I would
love to be close enough that I could visit often.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, well there's no plint.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I mean we're Washington or Portland.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Okay, move that'd be cool.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
I just want to live in the mountain.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
You wouldn't want to live in Portland. You know why
you Wantand I'm gonna tell you why you wouldn't want
to live there. You are so far from everything.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's a whole city.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
No, what I'm saying is your family is seven hours away.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
My family's eleven hours away right now.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
No, No, I'm talking plane ride. You would not be
able to drive from Portland to oh, yeah, Wichita.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, that's probably much longer drive.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
That's what I'm saying. Like everything is so like even
a flight is a long ways away.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That is the only problem with living up there. I know.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Well, or I could live somewhere in Colorado or the Titans,
because just be out west, I feel like you're closer
to all the mountains. In general, it makes it easier
to fly to like an Alaska or Hawaii. When you're
all the way over here, it makes it really difficult
to go visit the West, and I love the West.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, I'm looking up how far how long it takes
to drive? Well, it's only twenty five hours and nine
minutes from Portland to Wichita, one seven hundred and fifty miles.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, just a long way.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
That's a long way. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
But anyways, that's why that's like really near, like to
see a bear man in the wild in general, but
that I want to go to that National park.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah. We were in North Carolina and when came in
the driveway, that was so cool. Were you like, did
you see it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Were you standing out? Were you inside? And you see
it in the.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Garage and then you just kind of back in and
then you start looking through the window.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
My Okay, So my sister's husband's parents, so my brother
in law's.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Parents, thank you. I was trying to my sister's husbands
brothers parents.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
They live in like near Pike's Peak in Colorado, and
they have like a cabin kind of out there, and
they always have bears on their like camera footage and
moose and all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
And I just think it is the coolest thing.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
No, no, it's so cool until they get a hold
of you. That's the only Yeah. I just want to
see them right right, Like I'm scared, like I don't
know if I could live in that environment, like where
they could come in my yard. That is just freaky.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It is, but like so cool too, but so.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Freaky, like you're outside playing catch ands like raw w
that's but just to see it for like a minute, cool.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, that's all I need in my life. God, Or
like see him on the camera, like you get a
notification from your ring camera's like you open it, this
is a bear walking by.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Now, that might be a good time to have a
ring camera, is if you could get a bear on it.
But any other reason you don't need a ring camera.
It's so stupidness.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Okay, well, what's your thing before we get out of here?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
My thing?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
What? Why?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Is something you want to do in your life?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Like that's kind of high on your bucket list or
I'm trying not to reference.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Uh jeez, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
You've never thought about this something that you really want
to do?
Speaker 1 (41:32):
No, I really haven't, because I'm just telling you, I
never thought about traveling in my life, So I don't
really know what i'd want to do. Doesn't even have.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
To be traveling maybe, Well, I feel like for you,
it's probably be on a reality TV show, like something
that you want to accomplish to.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Be on Survivor. But realist, I mean, that's just so hard,
so that I mean that is one but like, I
like whitewater rafting, but I've been, but I would like
to go more. Like that's fun. There's something called the
there's a river Okay, Okay, it really doesn't help me,
(42:10):
but yeah, yeah, I'm here. Maybe it starts in Portland.
I don't know where it starts.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
The Colorado River.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
No, no, no, no no. And you you, like, I
don't know if you canoe or you wrath down it
and you sleep on the river bank, and then you
get back in it your boat and you go the
next day more and then you camp on the freaking
water on the shore. I think that would be awesome.
(42:37):
That would be such a cool The Rainier maybe try that. Yeah,
I don't know. I mean there's oh, maybe that's not it.
Then I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Uh, the Carbon River.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
No, I never heard of that. Okay, I don't know
something like that. I like, but I I just I
haven't really thought about something like that. Okay, I never
really because I don't know what all is out there,
and that's maybe my fault. I should maybe start looking
into it. Yeah, and like where could I go? What
can I do?
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Social media is good for is that you can see
so many things in places where you're like, oh, I
want to go visit there.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah. Like last year when we went to Iceland. It
was cool, but it was too much driving, A lot
of driving.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
I love it driving though, No like road trip style.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, but it was like you get out, you do
a hike, you're there for like an hour, then you
get in the car and drive three hours, and then
get out you're out for an hour, drive three hours.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Oh see, I thrive in that environment.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
No, no, no, Like I wish I was more of an
outdoor like an experience outdoors person where I went on
like a ten mile.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Hike, oh, versus like the short little one. Yes, I
think you could easily do a long hike.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
I understand, but I don't. I didn't. I didn't don't
do any research or anything either. I don't have the gear.
I don't have any of that. You're just weighing it, Yes,
I'm just kind of winging it. I was a normal tourist.
I would love to like prepare for something like that
and do like a ten mile hike and camp onto
the stars of Iceland on top of a freaking waterfall.
That's cool, But just walking a mile looking walking back
(44:14):
to the car, and driving three hours.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Fine, Okay, next time you go somewhere where there's potential hiking,
let me know and I'll find you some cool hikes.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
I'm good at this.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah, okay, all right, I got you. Yeah, I'm just
not going. That's the other thing is my wife's like,
you know what, you plan this part of the trip
and I'm like yeah, and then you don't plan it. No,
I just plan I book a hotel and then that's it.
And she's like, why Doug, you were going to plan it?
And we get in a fight and she's like I
was like I did.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Okay, you gotta take a little bit more initiative.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
But this is where I can help you is I'll
help you find some cool hikes if you guys, go
and do it.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
I'm not a planner, is the problem.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
But you can be in that situation. You don't have
to be in other ways, but you can be in
that situation. Yeah, and you show me because that's how
you see cooler things.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
She was like, we were trying to figure out a
train to take somewhere when we were in Ireland, and
I was like, she goes, I thought you researched. I said, well, yeah,
there was a I looked and there was a train
right outside the hotel. Okay, but it just wasn't the
right one.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Okay, next time you guys plan a trip, just let
me know. Yeah, it will help your marriage a little bit. Okay,
because then you'll have something planned.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
You're right, I mean I should, but I just I
have no idea.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
I like putting together things for people to do. It's
just easier for me when I've been there, so I
can like go off experience.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
But I'm really good at researching. Because she would love
she loves just laying on the beach. Me and I
want to do stuff, but then I don't research.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
I'm then you don't have anything to do.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
And she's like, okay, well we're not going to do
anything correct, Okay, we'll at least help you find a hike.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yes, something, something outdoorsy. That's what I love. I love
outdoorsy stuff.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Okay, I'll help you next time.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
All right, we're going to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
We're going to go answer some listener questions, so make
sure you check out part three.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Here in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Oh, that wouldn't answer That wasn't listening questions.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
No, there was just If there's enough of one thing,
I'll put it in part one so we can actually
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yeah, yeah, hit the hard stuff first. Now let's go
for the easy stuff. Okay, like happy birthday to you,
all right, we'll be.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
You really quick.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
No, happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, lunchbox, Happy.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
Birthday to you.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Have you ever thought about being a singer?
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Shut up?
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Bye everybody. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other
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