Rollercoasters & Aging, A Chocolate Town in PA, & A Wanted Man

Morgan and Eddie have a lot of catching up to do! Eddie recently spent the weekend with his family in Hershey, Pennsylvania for a weekend full of chocolate. But do rollercoasters become less fun as we age? Morgan is still terrified of them. Morgan’s boyfriend surprised her with a trip to the mountains for her birthday. And there was a WANTED man in Morgan’s front yard.  

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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 (00:08):
Welcome to the weekend to everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I know we're all happy that it's Saturday, and Eddie
is joinning me what's up?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Ed?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
So I am you so happy? Oh dude, I love
the weekend. You know. I live for the weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
You don't live for each day. You just live for
the weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
No, every day is like four more days, three more days, baby,
And then when the weekend comes around, I'm so freaking excited.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
But do you count down to Friday because Friday there's
still work, or do you countdown to Saturday?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Now, Friday is the finish line, like I can see
the finish line.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
So I love Fridays, even though most of Friday is
still taking up by work.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't even mind working on Fridays because of the
I know that it's going to end at a certain
time and we're going to be able to just like relax.
I can't even stay up late. I love standing up late.
So the idea of stand up late on a Friday,
even though almost every Saturday we have a game or
something to go to at eight in the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
So that'll hurt a little bit because I stu to
wake up somewhat early. But the fact that I can
just sleep, go to sleep whenever I want on Friday,
I love that feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
But as a parent, do you actually get weekends because
you guys have so much going on?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
No? No, but I can. I can just relax and
go with the day.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
You know, you can just be a dad versus being
a dad and an employee.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, yes, all that stuff, Like yeah, yeah, weekdays are
like packed of the first half of the day is work, work, work, work, work,
and then it's like dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, We're
weekends is like what do you guys want for dinner?
Like that's the first thing in the morning. Like on Saturday,
I'll be like, first, do you guys want Breakfast's? Like yeah?
And I like if they want like eggs and bacon
or whatever on the griddle, like we'll do that. But

(01:37):
I'm always like, what do you guys want for dinner?
You want me to like grill something you want to do,
ribs you want to do? Like and that they get
excited for that and they know there's football all day
and yes, we probably have games and stuff, but at
the end of the day, we're just gonna grill by
the in the backyard with like a little campfire, and
it's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
And that's your hobby, is cooking. You love to cook?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I love it?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
So is that why you also love Saturday? Because you
know that you get to make a fun meal?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, And there's no pressure because like if you're gonna
if like my wife's like, hey, will you do burgers
tonight on Wednesday, I'm just like.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I have to do that.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I have to do burgers. And then like so what
if like work runs a little late, and then like
I'm rushing back from a practice and gosh, it's already
like six thirty and I gotta get burgers ready. It's
a pain. Yeah, but Saturdays are never like that.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know, it's really hard to cook for myself.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I cannot imagine having four children's mouths to feed and
be like dang, I I not only because that'll be sometimes.
I don't know if you ever do this where the
day will have been so busy, I'm like, it's fine,
I don't I don't need to eat, or I'll just
have a snack.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't need to eat.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know you know what I mean, Like you get
so much to the back under I'll like grab a snack.
I'm like, let me just grab something on of the fridge.
It's like thrown together. But I feel like when you
have kids, especially when they're younger, maybe as they get
older they become snacking and what, but when they're younger,
you always have to feed them.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
We have to feed them, and we have to be
consistent on the feeding. Especially for our adopted kids. Uh,
they're there, there's some kind of trauma there, and not
to be serious about it, but like.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
There's we have to do take that serious security.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, and if it's not consistent, there's a then we
start getting some weird reactions. But they're not to say that.
There aren't days where we're like, you know what, we're
doing cereal for dinner, like or like we're just gonna
do breakfasts you want like waffles, put them in the toaster,
you know, and that's what we're doing for dinner. There
are definitely days like that, but Morgan, you have to

(03:25):
understand that, like if the day's long and we're like, hey,
you know what, let's just get McDonald's or Chick fil
a for dinner. That is sixty dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah for us, Yeah, well minimum.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
And most of the time my wife's like, it's okay,
I have salad at home, like, so that's just five
people and it comes out to like sixty if she eats,
it's seventy five bucks for us to like, screw it,
just order a pizza. Screw it, let's just get Chick
fil a. It's expensive. So a lot of times I
don't do the screw it.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
So it's either expensive or cost time.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, there's no there's no in between. But I'm totally
down with the sandwiches. I'm totally down with like the
just put waffles in the.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Do you pack kids lunches? Do you guys do that
for your kids?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
My wife does. It depends that the kids are all different.
So like some love lunches because they get to make
their own sandwich. There's we have one of our boys
like loves waking up before everyone else. He's the early riser.
He loves making his overnight oats the day before. He
loves making his own sandwich, packing his own meal, like,
that's just what he loves. He doesn't like the school food.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And then there are two other ones that just like
I don't want a sandwich, like I want the lasagna
they have at school today or the pizza they have
at school today. It's just funny the way they're all different.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, it's also funny because school lunches, I remember that
you would find ones that you really liked, you kind
of try them all, and then there'd be ones that
are like, I definitely want to bring my lunch today,
or others were like no, no, no, I want this pizza, don't.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
What do you remember from your school lunches, Like, what
was your favorite?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Remember the square pizzas I love the best.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Those were the best.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
But then they also started adding this round pizza that
was definitely a frozen pizza, but for some reason it
tasted so good, but there was.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
No vegetarian one. So I'd always pick off the pepperonies
because that's the only way that I could eat it.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
But did you make sure and get every single one?
Because ours, I remember, were little square pepperonis. Do you
remember that?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
They were square pepperonies. You should have seen me. It
took me like ten minutes every time, But I loved
that pizza.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Me too, I know exactly what you're talking about, and
it was the I looked forward to that pizza exactly
me too, I think Morgan my senior year of high school.
I ate pizza, that pizza, a Hawaiian punch. How am
I still alive? That pizza, Hawaiian punch and a Hershey's
bar or a Twix. It was either it was either

(05:40):
Hershey's almond or like twigs that I would buy every
single day. And that was my lunch, you know.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
And we can blame lunchables for that because lunchibles are
the ones who introduced.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Adding a piece of candy into their lunches. So we
started to believe that lunches should include candy.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Man, we've ever thought about that.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
That still gets me today. If I eat dinner, I'm
just like, all right, down with dinner. I need something sweet?

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Same ye on the exact same. I'm like, it's not
finished yet.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, I think it's lunchable as fall, honestly, if I
really think about it. But I mean, most of the time,
my parents, like bless them, they packed me lunches because
I was a vegetarian at eight, so most of the
meals I couldn't eat. The only ever one I'd not
eat for but I couldn't eat the chili, which is
so funny. But in Kansas, they'd always serve chili with cinnamon.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Rolls and I love school.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, that was the combination, very big thing in Kansas.
And I still if I make chili, I'll make cinnamon rolls.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
What do you chili with? You get the beans obviously, yeah,
and then what's your protein?

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I mean, beans are protein, so if you do a
bunch of different beans, you got the protein.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
So yeah, I guess I was just thinking you need
the ground b or whatever.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, well you get added protein if you got all
of that. But they obviously school lunch did not have
a vegetarian chili. So I would skip lunch just to
get the cinnamon roll.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
And it was good.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
But besides that, yeah, I always got peep and j's
and lunch bowls. My parents were trying to find things
to feed me.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
About it.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Who was the lunch packer?

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Most of the time, it was my dad.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Your dad was a lunch packer.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Uh huh. He was also the same one.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
But it was funny by the time, like he would
always make meals and it's and I look back on
this now, you think like, how you're still alive. I
made it so hard on my parents because I didn't
eat meat. So my five meals consisted of mac and cheese,
grilled cheese, cheese, quesadilla cheese, pizza, anything with cheese. Sometimes
my dad would literally give me macarone cheese with mashed potatoes,

(07:36):
and bread with butter, like I never like, yeah, that
was the food that I for, like dinners when I
come home.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
So how did you heat it up? Did you use
a microwave? At school?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, those were dinners. Lunch was always either lunchables or
a peep and J.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Would you do a grilled cheese?

Speaker 3 (07:51):
No, none of I never got the delicacies. It was
always those they had to save for dinner because that's
all they could feed me.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
So, but he would always make those, and sometimes he'd
be like, okay, pantry, go go find something in the pantry.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I'm done.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, there are days that was one of his days,
so would he. My mom would pack my lunch, not
not in high school, but like elementary middle school. Obviously
in high school I would do my own, but uh,
and I had like a little cooler yep, like it
was like a little ice chest. Cooler or whatever. But
my mom would write little notes. Yes, on napkins. Would
your dad do that?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
My mom would, So it's funny, like my dad would pack,
but my mom would always write little notes.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
That was like the weren't those so freaking cool to find?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
They were the best part of my days.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
And we acted like oh cool whatever, never deal. But
like my mom would ride just like have a nice day.
I hope, like everything's good today whatever. Like I loved it.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yep, those are my favorite too.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
They used to make these little cards that were specifically
for lunch notes, and I want to say they had
like a little character on them, and you would like
pop them open and there would be like the writing.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
That's funny. You know, I've never seen that in my life.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
I just really remembered these like little lunch cards and
they would always I got so tag that I had
like a little critter on them, and then her note
would be in them and it would make me so happy.
But yeah, like the little lunch notes for my favorite.
I know little things that we have kids whenever they
make lunch.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I never make their lunch because I'm always at work,
but I think my wife does little notes for them.
I think she does. Yeah, I've never we never talked
about it. This is really the first time I've even
thought about that.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
You should start.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Stinking them in because they're also at the age and
hour they're going to remember.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
I mean, I don't think my parents are doing that
until maybe middle school, high school age.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, you're right, I start. I'm thinking middle school is
kind of when I remember the note, maybe even to
thinking like this is embarrassing, like hide it a little bit,
you know, like my mom's writing me. Know they're gonna
make fun of me.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
But now we're in our thirties forties and we treasure that.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I know.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Is that wild?

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah? And that's that's funny you say that because these
are conversations I have with my kids a lot, like
when they're embarrassed about things, like, guys, you're going to
miss these moments. And I get it, you're embarrassed, you're embarrassing.
You feel like it's like we're embarrassing or whatever, but
like you're going to really miss this time, Like you're
going to go back and look at this time and
be like, oh, that's cool when my parents did that whatever.
But other kids you're not gonna remember that stuff.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
They're just not going to most of it.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
They won't, but there's going to be those things that
they'll when they're having a random conversation yep, like this,
and they're going to look back and.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Say, oh my gosh, they get that. Yeah, And it's
such a cool feeling to know that you were loved
in such a big way. Yes, you know, I don't know.
I feel like that's what makes.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
You take it for granted when you're a kid, like
you even think about they're kind of annoying like fans, like,
oh they're always on me, but like they we were
their life.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Which makes it to you know that now especially.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I feel it all the time.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yes, how is things going with the kids? Do you
have give me an update for each kid?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Uh? You know, like it's just it's just always up
and ups and downs like always. I think this what
we're dealing with recently is we went to Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, which I want to hear about.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Which was awesome, and I took we took them to
the amusement park there, it's called Hershey Park. Well, you
took the whole fan, the whole family came on the trip.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Which never happens. Yeah, so much fun. And so we
went to the park and I kind of like both
my wife and I both just kind of like lost
it because everyone was just being selfish. We have a
seventeen year old, a twelve year old, an eleven year old,

(11:19):
and a six year old, and I understand that they
all want to do different things, but we are there
as a family, and if we are doing a little
ride for the little boys, everyone else needs to just
you know, deal with it and come with us on
the little ride. If we're going on a scary ride,
the little one has to just kind of like understand
that we're doing the scary ride and that's just how

(11:40):
it's going to be because we don't want to break up.
And like, all right, see you guys, I'm going with
the big boys. You go to the little boys and
we'll see you guys at six o'clock. Like we were
gonna do that. We're gonna go experience this park together.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, you're as a family.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
And everyone can ride every ride. Even the little one
could ride the scary one if he wants to. If
he doesn't, I'll stay back with him, no big deal.
And wait. Yeah, and so so everyone just started complaining
like just oh, it's stupid. Oh why does it want
to go on this ride? Oh why is he such
a baby? Like don't be a baby, come on this right,
and like we're like, you know what, we just were

(12:13):
like so upset. We're like, you guys are ruining this trip.
And everyone was just being so bratty, like so bratty,
and like I'm hungry, I'm not hungry, and like, well,
whoever's not hungry, don't eat, and whoever's hungry eat And
it was just kind of like we'd hit a moment
that kind of bled into the week really because like

(12:34):
we got back and I was like, stuff needs to change,
Like we cannot be acting like this. And so that's
just kind of what we've been dealing with, just everyone
not being so self centered and think about everyone else
a little more, you know. And even even when it
comes to like chores around the house, people are like
I didn't do that, so why do I need to

(12:56):
pick that up? Like, and so this week we're like
we're not doing that anymore. We're done. We're done, We're
done with this whole Like, no, he did that, so
he has to pick that up. We're actually all going
to do it, like everyone's gonna do it. If you
see something that shouldn't be there, you're going to pick
it up even though you didn't put it there.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Do you feel like that's just part of them aging though,
and they're starting to get their own personalities, yes'derstanding of
who they are and what they believe.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, but they just bully each other whenever, like saying
like in the roller coaster, like, oh, he's so scared,
does want to read this roller coaster? And it's just
like where's the empathy? Like understand that he's scared of
the roller coaster?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, and you know what, I will tell you that
still happens when you get older.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
I got bullied in riding roller coasters by my older
sister when I went to Disney three years ago.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I know I did. Did you do it though?

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:40):
And I cried, okay full time. Yeah, my whole body was.
I was literally like trembling because I don't like roller coast.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Let's take a break from talking about the parenting. Let's
talk about roller coasters for a little bit, Okay, because
I want to talk about this.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, Okay, tell me about.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Don't have time you need to break. No, okay, we got.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Like give me like a punchline and then we'll go
to a break and we can keep talking.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Okay, all right, like right now, yeah, yeah, okay, I'll
give you a punch of line. Roller coasters, I don't
know if I can do them anymore. I don't know
if I.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Can do roller coasters any one may have to do
with Eddie getting older. So we are going to take
a quick break and we're going to get into this.
All right, Eddie, why can you do roller coasters?

Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's it's a mix of a lot of things. Like
my body, yes, like just the jerking back and forth,
My neck hurts like all that stuff. It's I don't know,
my body's just getting a little too old for roller coasters.
But you know what, I will do it until like
I can't move my neck anymore. Like I love roller coasters.
But what's happening lately is the my brain takes over

(14:40):
and the fear of like dying on the roller coaster
kicks in. I know that it's not going to fall
off the rail. But every time, like when we were
at Hershey Park, I would look, we would get in
the carts or whatever and I would look at the
rail and be like, how do we stay on this?
Like I can't understand the engineering of how, Like we

(15:03):
don't just fly upwards whenever we go straight down. And
then before you know it, we're on it. We're going
and it's flying, and I'm like, I don't understand this,
Like what if? And then I look at the roller
coaster on like across the way and they're stuck as
it's going up, like they've been there for like five minutes.
Oh my gosh, what did we get stuck? So my
mind just is I don't know, man, my mind just

(15:23):
goes haywire on roller coasters now, thinking that this thing
is not gonna like my buckle's not gonna stay intact,
or like whatever was locked on around my chest is
now gonna come loose and I'm going to die. Like
the days of me putting my hands up, Morgan are over.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You remember your hands up a single time?

Speaker 1 (15:39):
No? And I used to love putting my hands up.
I'm my hands my knuckles are white because I'm squeezing
every bar so hard.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Okay, so let's break this down further.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
When's the last time before this that you had ridden
a roller coaster, uh.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Disney World, Disneyland, Disneyland in uh in California.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Which was how many years summer? This passes time? Yeah,
and you were fine?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
No, same, okay, same.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
When's the last time you wrote a roller coaster and
didn't have this thought?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
I would say ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think it's you becoming a dad.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
I'm worried about the family.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think as a parent, corrects me completely if I'm wrong.
But as a parent, you you will take over worst
case scenarios because you have to plan for that. You
have to know how to handle any scenario, right, that's
your job.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, I'm responsible for them.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
So maybe in general things have become more a little
bit more worst case scenario where I have to think
about what could possibly happen, versus.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Just living in this moment.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
I understand that.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
I think you're right. You're right, that's probably the root
of it. But I have to understand that that's not
going none of that's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
No, But I'm never gonna say that, because like things
have happened on your lid.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
I know, I know, and I did say that while
we were Hershey, Park, I was like, guys. One of
the boys didn't want to. He's like, I'm a little
scared of this one dad, And I'm just like, hey,
what's the worst that can happen? And I started thinking like, well,
actually we could die.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Granted that's very like Unicorn moments that that happened.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I can't be like, yeah, no, that's never going to happen.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
But as with all adrenaline things, there's always a chance
something goes wrong, but the likelihood is slim.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
So but I get it, like I get the fear
based saying like.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
I've been you cry.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh, I've been afraid of roller coasters. I with a kid.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Why are you crying?

Speaker 3 (17:29):
I don't like the stomach drop feeling. It's not the
roller coaster itself.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
That's the worst.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
I hate that feeling of just like your whole body.
You can do nothing about it, You're just suspended in air.
That makes me literally want to like crawl into a
hole and.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Never come out.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
And so when those happen, and my sister bowled me
into riding a twenty foot roller coaster that had a
twenty foot drop, and we're getting to this drop.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
The whole time I'm in a lot.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
It doesn't, but you know, because that's like one foot,
so it's twenty my feet probably two, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
They say it's a twenty foot like just straight down, okay,
so whatever that means.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
But they we get this whole ride.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm into anticipating this drop, right, and then I'm sitting
So I'm sitting there and my body's shaking and I'm
like ready for it. And we get to the drop
and it's happening and I'm screaming and tears are rolling
down my face and we get done and my mom
like touches me, and I'm just like vibrating, like my
body is not doing well.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
And I was like, okay, Taylor, I did it. Please
leave me alone. I don't want to ride any more
roller coaster. It's like I'm done.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
But she still would give me a hard time for it,
and I still do like it's it's a good thing
because she encourages me to face my fear.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
But there's moments where I'm like, just leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's a good balance. Yeah, you need that, you need
that push to say face it.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, but no one needs a roller coaster, Like we
don't need a roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
But it's good to face your fears. I understand, like
tackle them and be like I did it.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
I understand that. But like some people just don't like
roller coasters, and we shouldn't pressure anyone that doesn't like
roller coasters to ride a roller coaster. You know what
was interesting wasn't my brother. We met my brother out there,
and because he lives in Pennsylvania, it was just an
hour and a half away.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
So he love you guys, had a whole family weekend.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, it was just it just worked out that way,
you know. Like they they said I can invite my
family if I wanted to, and I said, of course,
so brought them and then I was like, well, my
brother lives an hour and an hour away, Like let
me call him see if he wants to come meet
us there, and they're like, yeah, they gave him a
ticket to he showed up, and so I was legitimately thinking,
like wait a minute, he just had a stroke, Like

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can he ride rides?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Know, he had a stroke a year over a year ago,
and so you know, I called my sister who's a
nursing and it's like, hey, just stupid question, but like
can my brother like ride rides and she was like, no,
like he can't. He can do little rides, but he
can do really coasters and it's funny. It's like okay,
And that's before he got there, And then when he
got there, I was like, hey, bro, you want to like,

(19:51):
like what do you think And he's like, no, dude,
like I can't, there's no way. I think it's just
a blood pressure thing.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, it's funny.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's funny that you mentioned that because so my boyfriend.
We ended up talking about this on the podcast. It's
his story. He had a stroke when he was thirteen.
He did, and he had to have two brain surgeries,
who got like a piece of his brain removed. We
went to Disney World and he wrote everything and I
was like, I just don't feel like this is he
loves rollercoasters.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Maybe maybe it's a time thing, you know where like
it happened so long ago that.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
He was told he wasn't supposed to. Oh dude, but
he loves them.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
And he's like, I you know, I'm fine, Like he's
a miracle in a lot of ways. He's never supposed
to walk, talk anything again, and he did, and I'm like, Okay, well,
are we like pushing the boundaries here by like doing
things we shouldn't And he ended up being fine, but
every time he rode one like he didn't realize it,
but my heart was just like, okay, is it over yet?

Speaker 1 (20:44):
You were having my feeling too, literally.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Like I was having more exciting about that than writing
roller coasters.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, because you.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Just don't know, because it is. It is not You're
not supposed to. It's a known thing. Even me with vertigo,
I'm not supposed to.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Be writing them.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Did you ever feel anything with vertigo?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
No? I just got lucky.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
But there were moments where I was like, okay, is
that about to happen.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
I took a lot of drama. Mean I was. I
was drugged up on dramamine.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
That helps the vertigo.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
It just helps the disneyness, which I think helps my
like anxiety with the vertigo.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
But yeah, so we were two people who should not
have been on majority of those.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Right, What is your ideal roller coaster? Like, just the
best one that you would enjoy? Like you don't like
the upside downs? I'm assuming Oh no, no, no, no, you
don't like the big drops? No?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
The only one that I really love is Guardians of
the Galaxy at Disney World.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
That one's legit.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Did you write that one?

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah? But that one just goes straight down, but that's weird.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
No, it's inside. So that's also the thing which is interesting.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Were the Guardians of Galaxy just false?

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh you're thinking of the Disneyland one. There's two Zeperon ones.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay, hold on, let me think. I thought I went
to the disney World one.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Disney World one is a coaster inside, okay, and you're
like rotating around planets.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Okay, I remember that. I remember that. That's the one
I like because you don't know what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, because it's almost like a mine game, you know,
like half of your fears always come it's a mine.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Oh it is. That's definitely my fear.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's like exactly so when you're in the dark, you
can't see what's happening.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Okay, I do remember that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
It's enjoyable because I love Marvel, I love Guardians. Yeah,
so that one I can do, like, no fear. I'm
excited about it, but I don't know what it actually
looks like.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
And I think that's majority of why I can do that.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, that is fine when you really do. The worst
is when you're climbing and you can see the whole
world from up there, and then you're like, we're about
to drop, literally and it's not going to feel good.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Let me tell you. So when we did go to Universal,
because we went to the new Epic this last.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Trip, Oh this was Universal.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well, so we've done Universal and we were at Disney
Tap so we did both.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
But that Guardians one is at Disney World.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
But at Epic they have.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
A coaster which is the one that somebody recently passed on,
which is super sad. This is the one we rode.
Mind you, I didn't realize what this coaster really was.
I knew it was a coaster, but I thought it
was like a tame one. I'd be fine. So we
rope drop. You know what rope drop is where you
like run as soon as the park opens, you run
to a ride.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah. Yeah, you're trying to beat the line and get
in line.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
And so you got there before the park opened and
wait at the gate, yes, and then as soon as
it opened you ran the road.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
I went to this one because this is supposed to
major one.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
And you knew that the line was going to be
super long if.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
You waited exactly. So we're there. We get there and
I'm like, we get strapped in and I looked at
my boyfriend. I was like, this is a rollercoaster.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I didn't agree, and he's like, Morgan, you're the one
who took us here. I was like, hu, I didn't
put you hundred together until right now, and like before
I knew it, we were off and the whole time
I just had tears running down my face, like shaking
on and we like got back into my boyfriend's like
are you okay? I was like no, I'm really not,
and he was.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Like, okay, let's let's get you to the safety.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
For a little bit.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I needed a break for like twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's fine. That's how you started your day too.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yes, I was so dumb, so dumb.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
So see when we went to Disney. We went to
Disneyland over the summer, I took we took our our
six year old. He was like, he had no idea
about roller coasters, and he was just like, let's go, baby,
let's go. And he got the Incredible and Credit Coaster,
which is like the Incredibles and like, I think I've
showed you that. Have I show you that video?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:06):
And so like it scarred him for life. Now now
like that's his impression of a roller coaster and he
doesn't want that again. And so the whole time we
were at at Hershey Park, he's just like, is as
fast as another one? Cause I don't want to do it.
Somehow we talked him into going on another roller coaster,
another a big boy roller coaster, and he was like

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I don't okay, okay, I'll do it. He sits down,
he gets strapped in and he's like, I don't want
to do this. I don't want to do this. I
want to get out. I'm like, buddy, you're gonna be okay.
It's like, no, damn serious, I don't want to do this.
I don't want to do it. How he starts crying.
He starts crying, and then we take off and he goes,
this is awesome. And it was amazing because it went
from like so scared to like yes, and as soon

(24:49):
as over he was like, I want to do it again.
I'm like so cool. It's so cool because I thought
we scarred him for life.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, handy had panic, as I know, he.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Was crying and tea, but then like its shifted to like, Okay,
this is so cool.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, it's so crazy how that happens. And it's also
hard with coasters because I feel like you have to
really walk this fine line of when you first let
him do it, like are they ready for this or.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Are they gonna And our guideline was like they're saying
he's tall enough to do it, so let's do it.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Well you would assume, but it's so tough. Everybody's different. No,
everyone's different, you know, but everybody has those like traumatizing
experiences and it's like it either goes one way or
the other. Yeah, and my whole family besides me and
my dad, really they're coaster nuts.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Like your dad doesn't like roller coasters.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
No, him and I both got like the dizziness nausea,
which also like.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Adds another to that part.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yeah, so like him and I both just don't feel
good when we ride coasters on top of me also
having the fear. But my mom, sister, one of my
other sisters, they like go nuts, like they'll do the crazy,
they want to do the crazy drops, the crazy like
Jurassic Coaster, which is the most insane one that I've
been around.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
That's that universal.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah, that's like a month's here. It goes back and
turns and ups and down.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
I was gonna ask you about backwards. What do you
think about backwards? That might be my worst, that might
be my least favorite.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
It caused me so much anxiety. And there's one that
we rode that that you literally shoot up because it
was like one of the new ones. Again, I'm trying,
I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
You're trying. Good for you, You're trying new things.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
This coaster goes up, it ends, It's like a horror pight.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I hate that and it goes all the way to
the ends. So so, there was one called the Jolly
Rancher Remix at Hershey Park.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Wait, it was everything candy everything.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Oh my gosh, Morgan, you would love this place. Everything
was candy. Everything was a Twizzlers, Twizzlers something, the Hershey
something bar like the Jolly Rancher Remix, the the Reesus whatever, like,
everything was candy themed.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I didn't even know this place like it, and I
knew about Hershey's School. Yeah, I didn't realize there was
this whole amusement park all this stuff around it.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
And Hershey Pennsylvania, and the whole town is it's just
based around chocolate, like the original chocolate factories there, which
is now just headquarters, like corporate headquarters. They don't really
make chocolate at that at the original factory. Yeah, but
it's still there and it looks like the original factory.
And all the street lamps are made of Hershey kisses

(27:16):
like everything. All the street names are named after Hershey
Bar like it's just the coolest place ever. But let
me tell you about the Jolly Rancher remix. Y Rancher
remix freaked me out. So you go, like you start
off like you said, it backs you ups, it loads
you all the way to the highest top ever and

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to where it stops, and you get to see you
see the whole part from up there, and it drops
you forward and you go down all the way down.
You hit a loop to loop into another loop to loop,
and then you go to the end of the other side,
and then the other side stops and it loads you
and you're gonna about to go backwards and redo it remix,
and and then once it lets you go. It's the

(28:00):
same thing that you just did, but backwards, dude, I
wanted to die. I'm like, get me off of this
thing now.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
And you used to be a big.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Loved it, but now you're just I don't know, man,
it's just like I still enjoy Like I'm still like
that was pretty cool, but the trauma that my body
just took and my mind like it's not worth it anymore.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
You're like, I don't really know what's happening to me.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
It's funny like you it's almost like you switch places
with your son. Yeah you know what I mean, Like
you loved him, he hated him, Now he loves him,
and you're.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Like, I am man. That's just like maybe life.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Maybe just transferred it to him, Like enough you can
take this maybe.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
But yeah, it was interesting.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
The favorite parts about Hershey besides, I guess.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
The chocolate, Like it's it's chocolate. Everywhere you go there's chocolate.
Like the hotel we stayed at and you walk in
and smells like chocolate.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
The shampoo is smells like chocolate, the soap is chocolate scented,
like everything like that. You check in the hotel and
they give you Hershey bar like like it's just part
of what they are. Like if you go to a restaurant,
you know how they give you a mint at the earth,
Like when when you pay no, you get Hershey kisses.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
That's so funny.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Every restaurant you go to has something chocolate covered.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Like the higher town of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Is like this, Yeah, it's not that big. The town's
really not that big.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Is this a town that they created?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Okay, so is it in and like outside of a
bigger town.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Okay, that's twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I'm made up because it's like it's like Disney World.
It's own a little area.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's like it's like the way you think about it
is like, so they decided to make a chocolate factory there.
If you're going to work at the chocolate factory, you're
going to live in this town. So everyone that lived
in that town worked at the factory. So and then
you start looking at it like all right, so that
the factory drives this town. So then the factory, the

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chocolate company makes a golf course and that's where you
guys can play golf. And then they created the amusement
park back then for employees for them to do stuff
on the way weekends. So that's what they would do.
And so the whole town is just built on people
that worked for the chocolate company.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
That's cool.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
It's kind of a generational community. When did Hershey, I
guess start, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I mean the school was nineteen nineteen, I believe.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Let me see when was Hershey created. Let's see ninety
or no, eighteen ninety four, Okay, so eighteen ninety four founded,
and it just learned.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
So much about like just that they said. What I heard, ooh,
what I heard was they're making a movie. They've already
shot the movie on Milton Hershey. Okay, and kind of
how this empire started. Yeah, and it's supposed to be out,
like I don't know, in a few years. But that's cool.
I'm excited about that.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
The real life Willy Wonk.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
He's the real life Willy Wonka.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
I mean, that's what this sounds like. Yeah, it's no
different than like Walt Disney. You think of Walt Disney
and what he created, correct, Like he was this very
just special human being that's Milton Hershey.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Correct, and just the brand Hershey just kind of it
screams your it screams childhood like a Hershey's Bar, a
Hershey's Kiss, like all that s'mores, like you know, you
got to have a Hershe's bar and smores. All that
stuff is just like it's so I don't know. When
I got there, I'm like, this is my place.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
I love that your family there too, just for that
whole experience, and your brother not just like your family,
but also your.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Brother, the whole family. Yeah. And what's funny too, is
I didn't think they were. So it's around Halloween time,
so they had a bunch of like Halloween decorations, and
they go really big on Halloween. I'm thinking like, well,
that's cool. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's normal. But
I started thinking like, well, that's exactly why, Like they're
so big on Halloween because there's a big time a
year for them.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, candy, candy.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
It's a huge time of year for them. So like
they treat Halloween like Christmas.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
There, Yeah, it probably is their Christmas.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
It's their Christmas, you know, because you.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Associate chocolate with Christmas too, but Halloween it's it's all.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
It's all candy. Yeah, and then then the races turns
into a pumpkin like all of that.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
So would you go back?

Speaker 1 (31:58):
It's it's an interesting place because it's not like on
the way to anywhere.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, you kind of have to go somewhere to get there.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, and like who goes to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Like I don't,
not very often.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, unless you're specifically going to go to for Hershey.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yes, and everything around there is somewhat close. I think
Philadelphia is maybe like two and a half hours away, Okay,
So like it's it's kind of in the middle of different,
bigger cities. So like I can understand people that live
there going there for the weekend, you know, and doing
that kind of stuff. But I don't see a lot
of people traveling across the country to go there, which

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I don't know, I highly recommend.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, but there's a lot of people that love an
amusement park. And I didn't even know this existed. It's
really cool now I might have to go, especially because
I love candy. Yeah, but yeah, I can't have can.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Who doesn't love candy? But I did, I will tell you,
I did kind of burn myself out a little bit.
Like when I got back, I was like I can't
have any more.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
You've got to stop eating excessive amounts of things.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Why hot dogs, candy, You're like ruining it like a
kid with their you know, when you're a drink out.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
All for the first time and vomit and you're like,
I can never have that again.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
I know that's what you're doing. I know, Like the
last day we were there, we were like, let's get it,
let's get some ice cream, and so I got like
a Hershey's some Moores ice cream Sunday and then Morgan.
I thought the price was a little expensive. I'm like,
that's eleven dollars a lot for like an ice cream,
but I know I was eleven dollars. The thing was
freaking massive. It was like four huge scoops of ice

(33:25):
cream with chocolate all over all over it, with gram
crackers in it and marshmallows. Like it was delicious. But
I was like, this is it that You're like, this is.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
The last, this is the last, family, help you eat it?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Or was that yeah? Yeah, I was like I can't
do all this.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Oh my gosh, well thanks for sharing about Hershey.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, it was fine.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
I'm glad you got to do that.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
You all need to go I do.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
I love candy. So I have left to go take
one more quick break and we'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Speaking of trips, I got to go to a little
mountain cabin.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's where my boyfriend took me for my birth.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Was this the surprise? The Ohio, Ohio surprise? Georgia, Georgia?
But what was the hint? I thought the hint was Ohio.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
No, the hint was that was three hours away. Three
hours away, so weird Ohio got different places.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
And then he told me Georgia, okay, And then I
learned that was like a mountain thing.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
How did how did it start?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Like?

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Okay, so what dia did you guys go?

Speaker 3 (34:21):
We left after the show on Friday Friday, and he
told you what he was just like I knew it
was in Georgia, and I knew it was three hours away.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
That's all I knew.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
So he said, we're going to Georgia and it's gonna
be three hours yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
And I was like, what do I pack? He's like
a bunch of comfy clothes, warm clothes. Well, pack games.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
That's all. That's all you need to worry about.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
So we're get in the car. We're like fifteen minutes
from the place, mind you. The whole ride up, I'm
just saying, They're like, okay, I'm pointing to all the
signs and like, is that where we're going?

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Is that where we're going?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Why can't you just enjoy the train surprises? Like why
can't you just sit back?

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I wanted to, but like everything in me needed I'm
so you know me, I'm kind of a little control free, no,
I know.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
And so I was like, well, what are we doing?
Where are we going? What's gonna happen?

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Do you want to prepare your mind for it too,
Like you're probably imagining what's going to be like, but
you have nothing?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, and I had nothing.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
So we're like ten minutes we're driving up and I'm like, okay,
well we're creeping up a mountain and he's like, okay,
you gotta close your eyes. It will not mess you
up because of vertigo. It's like, I don't need you.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
To get sick. Good, good point.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
But he's like, close your eyes. I do, and like
I open him and we're on top of Lookout mountain.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Oh yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah, which is apparently where you can see seven states.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wait, so, so is this
by Chattanooga.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yep, it's outside of So we were just across the border.
It's a rising fond.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, I've been there Georgia. It's pretty legit.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
It was gorgeous and they had created these cute little
cabins that had wood fired ovens so you can make
a pizza. So we bought like ingredients to make a pizza, which,
mind you, different pizzas than normal right now because it
had to be gluten free, dairy free. Oh yeah, because
of all the stuff that I'm doing right now, and
so he like I had thought of everything, but it
was like Eddie was a perfect weekend.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
I want to live in the mountain so bad.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
I know, I know, I get that feeling too when
we go to mountains, especially in a cabin, like I
can do this, Like no, I can do this for
the rest of my life.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
It's so peaceful. It is what beautiful sunrise at sunsets?

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Do you think it'll ever get boring? Though? Like knowing
what your life is now and what you're able to
do now, Like if you want to go out and
see a show, you want to go hang out with
the girls downtown, you're able to do that. But do
you think if you lived in the mountain, in the
little mountain cabin in the middle of nowhere, which is
awesome and beautiful, but you don't have that option anymore,

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do you think you can do that?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I think so, just because I would go on hiking
a lot, and hiking would be a really good activity
for me because I love that. But I do think
there will be moments where I'd go stir crazy, you know,
when you get very like I need to be out
of the house and do things, because I do have
that like innate, but I'm trying to learn.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
You might who knows though, like you might change, you
may not want to crave that kind of stuff anymore.
I think that I become a more peaceful, more patient person.
I'm out there, I.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Agree, because life slows down when life around you doesn't
feel chaotic.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
You don't feel chaotic.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
But then you also realize that we create our own stress. Yeah,
Like we create our own stress when you look at
like whenever you're in the woods, like in the woods
in the mountain, and you think about, like what are
they doing back home? Like moving? We're late for this.
We got to do that where you go back to
the mountain area. We're not late for anything.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
No, And that's the best part. You're on mountain time.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
You're a mountain time. There's no time man like, Oh
what am I late on? Oh? Getting a glass of wine?
Starting a fire? Like, I'm not late for it. See,
we'll do that when we do it.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
I love that part, and that's why I very much
think maybe when I get to retirement age, hopefully that
happens in my life.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Soon, probably sooner than me.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
For one, Okay, so working on it. I would love
for that to Look.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
I know a lot of people tend to go and
do beaches and they go warmer.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
I think people just do different things. That's interesting. I
would do beach for sure, but I like it. I
like them both.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Yeah, there's just I've been peaceful about not having a
lot of noise around you, and I really think it's
in general. I like you mentioned, I think I'm getting
to that point in my life where I just want
things to slow down.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
That's good, you know, I'm mean very healthy. I think
we have lived a very fast life for a long time.
Like you know, I joke about about retirement and everything,
but when my wife and I sit down and we
really just talk. I always tell her like I'm ready
to Like I'm ready, like we've been moving so fast
for so long, like even just our marriage, Like we've

(38:29):
just been moving fast. Yep, that like I'm ready to
slow down.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Well, it's even you you think that you get to
a point you're like, Okay, well if we do X,
y Z, then we can do this finally, or then
you get to that point you do it and you're like, okay,
well let's do this so we can get to this.
It's always like you're always trying to plan for the
next thing to come. There's never just this moment of
like living in the now and what's happening. And I've
really tried to focus energy on like here, right now,
what's happening today. But that's so hard to do when

(38:56):
you have a job and you have to pay bills
and you have this tire thing that you've created. You know,
going and living in the mountains right now is not sustainable, right,
This is not a life that I can actually have
right now.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, And that's sad though, because that's not good.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
You though you probably could, like like if you really
wanted to, you could probably sell everything you'd have to
have some kind of income, but it could just be
working at the corner store like down the hill down
the mountain, you know, or somewhere in the mountain town
like you could.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I have thought about this.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
You could totally do it, because.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
I've also thought about just like packing up remy Hazel,
and I've even told my boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Like, would would you just move.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Across the water, like just you know, a little town
in Italy where we can just like work at a
coffee shop and hang out there?

Speaker 1 (39:48):
You could?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
And I love that idea.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
If everything honestly goes to crap, I think I would
do one of those two and just for.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
A little while it goes Yeah, but why why wait
for that?

Speaker 2 (39:59):
I don't know. I just I don't. I don't know
that I'm there yet.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
I think I still have more to accomplish, and I
think that's what keeps me hanging on.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Do you wish? See this is so interesting because like,
do you wish that you could be more like screw it,
let's just go Yeah? See, I don't because I feel
like I would just get myself into so much crap
I'd eventually get out of it. But I mean, like,
like gambling. No no, no, no, no no no, Like

(40:29):
I used to be like who cares, Like, let's just
let's just stay out till the sun comes up. Yeah,
and then you're like next day, you're like dand I
should not have done that, Like I'm exhausted, you know
what I mean. Like, so there's always like I used
to love just doing stuff on a whim, but the
thought of like the next day or like going to

(40:50):
work the next day or preparing for whatever, like the
real the reality is like, Okay, we need to be
a little more responsible.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah, but see if you do, you pass up and
move to the beach and you work on a fishing charter,
a lot of responsibilities besides making sure you're on that
fishing charter.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
No, but there still is just smaller, smaller exactly, you know.
But you don't have kids, And now I'm I'm screwed.
Like I have kids, I cannot bring them all on
the boat, like I can't. Hey, you could, I could.
I don't want to uproot them from their life now,
I know, because that would be just stressful for them.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
But there's always that you could.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
I could, Hey, I can leave my family and go
We're not talking about.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I don't know. I don't want that for you.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
I could, Hey, you could, Like, I don't know. It's
just it's a weird thought because like we all could,
but that it's the fear of like I mean, I
wouldn't have my family here, like like you you went
to Italy, your family would be in Wichita. You never
see them, Yeah, because you're in Italy now.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
I know.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
But it's like that thing where I just I really
like think about because listeners were always calling and be like,
what would you guys do with the show in I
really think for like a brief couple months, if everything
were to just blow up one day, I'd be like, Okay,
this is the moment. I'm gonna go hang out in
the mountains for a while, or like go over to
Europe and hang out there for a little bit, you

(42:12):
know what I mean, Like I really think that would happen.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Yeah, But until that happens, I don't know that I would.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Do you ever wish Why do you ever wish that
it blew up so you could do that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Because I don't want to volunteer my own life.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Why though, but why you see there's something here, there's
something Yeah, there's.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Something left to accomplish, Like you know that there's more coming.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
I know. But the fact that we both would wish
for things that just force us to do what we
really want. Why not just do what we really want
versus wait for something to force us to do what
we really want.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Because that's n.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
No, because we're responsible and we're stress balls. That's like,
that's what it is. We're like, no, we have to guys.
Everyone depends on.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Us, Like we have to make money.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
We got to have to make it out of my
live in a house. We have to, like I get it,
but we don't.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Well we're not. What aren't they called like vagabonds?

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Were you like really good at doing that where you
can just like up and leave and go. And I've
never really had that in my body, Like I have
I have to have.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Because your mind says you need a plan for it.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
I need to have an organized situation. I need to
be like calculated.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
But you're also gifted with the idea with the capability
of getting yourself to an okay place wherever you are.
I know, you know what I mean. Like if you
left and you're like, I'm just gonna go live in
Italy you would figure it out. You would figure it
out somehow, and you would make enough money to have
a place to live and all that. So you're equipped

(43:45):
with that as well, but you're also a little not
able to do that because you're like, I can't do
that right now for whatever reason. Aren't we weird?

Speaker 2 (43:54):
It's very weird.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
We're very weird. It's weird.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
But you know, maybe maybe one day at all happens.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Just whenever it all goes down, we'll see it.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
All blows up.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Okay, I had I had a few stories for you,
but I want you to choose one, and that's what
we'll end up.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
Okay, Okay, So A is a wanted man, two is
a reckless cop.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
What gary.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
A projector screen? Those are all clues to what the
stories are going to be about. So you choose.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Oh I got you, Okay, sit again.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
A is a wanted man, two is a reckless cop,
and three is a projector screen.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
It's to the wanted man.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Okay, So my boyfriend, thankfully.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
He's a wanted man.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
God no, no, he's awesome in most my art for me,
he's taking that off of.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
My plate because I'm sure lovely. It's great experience for me, Well.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
You sit on the porch and your lemonade watching him
cut your grass.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Fart.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
But I was about to take Remy for a walk.
I was like looking out the front door and I
was about to take her. I have to put her
on a shoulder right now because she tore a ligament
in her knees. She can't walk, So I was like
getting her all prepped to go, and as I'm doing this,
I just see this, like whosh, this guy runs into
the yard and he's like front her back, front yard, okay,

(45:22):
And he's like having an intense conversation with my boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
And I'm like what just going on? So I like
run out front and I'm like hey, and this guy's
like yelling. He's like call nine one one. Somebody needs help.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
There's people following me and like saying all these kinds
of things, and he's like give me your phone, and
my boyfriend's like, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
I'll call nine on one.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
So he like calls nine one one and puts it
on speaker and they're both talking and then some other
lady drives into.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
The driveway and is like is everybody okay? And he's
like yelling and we can't tell if somebody's hurt or
if he's hurt, or all we.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Can figure out is there's an emergency somewhere, right. This
is how urgent he is. And so my boyfriend's talking
to the nine one one operator. He's standing there just
like very you can tell just something is very No,
that's not me.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Is that your stocking?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
That's always we don't eat, remember, And this is all happening,
and then the guy just runs off. He runs towards
the backyard of our neighbor's house, jumps a fence, oh crap,
and keeps going. And my boyfriend still talking to the
nine one one operator, and the operator like finally starts
to put pieces together and was like, was this guy

(46:31):
wearing a cameo hat and had like this shirt on.
My boyfriend's like, yeah, that's him. And she was like, okay,
well he's wanted for something that happened on the street
over and my boy friend is like for for what exactly,
And she's like, well, I can't disclose that it's an
open investigation.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
And I'm just like, well, where is he running in
the yard where?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
So she like hangs on the phone and then we
never hear anything again, never and mind you, I still
went on my walk. I went into a different street
because I didn't go back to that street.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
He didn't follow he went. So, so what was he
saying though to your boyfriend? Like? What was what were
the things he was telling the cops?

Speaker 2 (47:11):
He was very erratic.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
He started off when he ran up to Initially he
said because my boyfriend told me this. After he ran up,
he's like, call nine one one, somebody needs help, and
so and he was like, but like trying to get
my boyfriend's phone. And at first my brother was like,
are you trying to steal my phone and run away?

Speaker 2 (47:25):
You know, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
He's like, I'll call And so my boyfriend like tries
to calm him down and was like, I'll call nine
one one. He dials and the guy's standing there. It's
on speaker and he was just standing there while he
was running.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
No, and so he's like describing.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
He's like, people were coming after me, and there's some
people over there that aren't okay. I'm assuming there's drugs involved.
It would be my guess the way that he was
kind of acting. And so what we gathered is either
that somebody needed help or somebody was following him, and
so we don't know if there was an altercation that happened. Yeah,
and that's what happened on the street over and you

(47:59):
know that's where the people were start following him.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
And so the lady that stopped, like what was her
involvement in it? Or nothing?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Just nothing? I think, just saw commotion.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Why would you even stop?

Speaker 3 (48:10):
You know, there's always he would you see commotion and
you're like, I want to know what's going on?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
No, you don't ever stop when.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Yeah, probably you're driving.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
You see a dude just run up to another dude
and he's like erratic. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
So she she's like, I don't know. I was just
I'm making sure everybody's okay. And I start running right, so,
like I'm standing out here and he runs off and
he had just yelled again to my boyfriend like people
need help. So I'm like, okay, So I start running
because he's pointing to the park. There's a park over there.
I just like take off and I start running to
the park. I'm like, well, needs help.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Why are you to see?

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yeah, I'm like, let me figure out what's going on,
because this guy clearly is it makes sense helping us
figure it out.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
If somebody actually needs help, we want to help. And
so I'm running and my that's when my boyfriend figures
out on the phone that he's wanted from the connection.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Do not go there.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
And I'm like, people need help. He's like, I don't
think so, and he like it was just the craziest.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
And the span of five minutes this all goes down.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
And we still don't know. We don't know what happened
with the one man. We don't know what actually went down.
There still could be a man you can't.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Drive around or anything, like I'm the king of driving
around when there's something going on my neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
No, I mean I was walking in the neighborhood, so
I would have thought that, like if there is ambulance,
but nothing, nothing.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Came, huh. So you know, to be fair, the wanted
man label doesn't mean that he's like a murderer. No,
that just means that they were looking for him for something,
something happened, somebody had already called and said hey, my
whatever or this this happened, and he's wearing this.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Yeah, So it could just be as much as an altercation.
Sure it could have been he could have like tried
to steal something, Yes, it could be anything.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
But what is he talking about that somebody needs like help?

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
That's weird, man.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.
And it was like all in our front yard.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
I've never had the feeling of of that, like somebody
in trouble going through my yard and like that, because
I've heard stories, I've seen stuff. I saw like a video.
I think I talked about it on air. I saw
a video on like Twitter or something of a guy
just like not even like a quarter of a mile
away from my house where the chopper video was showing

(50:19):
these guys a stole a car and they were jumping
through everyone's backyard. And like I've always thought about, like
can you imagine you're just like in your living room
and you're like, what's somebody just run back in my backyard? Yeah?
Like who are you?

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Where'd you come from?

Speaker 1 (50:31):
So the other day I would see, like two weeks ago,
there was a helicopter like flying above my house like
in circles, and it was doing that for like thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
For sure looking for somebody.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
For sure looking for somebody because we have a lot
of woods in our backyard, and so like I'm ready
to go, Like for the first time, I'm just like
lock all the doors, nobody go outside, and I'm standing
by the door with like a gun, like I'm ready.
Like soon as that guysides to jump in my backyard,
like I got.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Him, you're gonna do that?

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Isn't the right yea, yeah, don't go anywhere. Call the cops, honey.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Oh see commotions involved.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
That's a crazy story.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah, it was a wild moment.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
So did you so question you saw your boyfriend in
action and something something like, I don't know, emergency situation. Yeah,
how do he how did he grade?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Oh? He's he's like the most patient guy ever. So
it's I'm cool, collected.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Very much like I want to help you, but also
like let me figure out what's going on, how I
can help you, and then also concerned for me because
I was running.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Running towards the problem. Morgan, your back over, so.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Very protective but also very like calm, and I'm like
I turned into a radic.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
I was like, something's going on. He said, yeah, breathe,
We're fine. We'll figure it out. Like, yeah, he's he's
a very patient man, which I need. So yes, okay,
we're going to jump over to some listener Q and
as anything's for joining, Thanks Morgan, thanks for sharing about Hershey.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, it was fun and a lot of good conversation today.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
It always is.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
It always is not a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Well by everybody, and follow Eddie on Instagram, social media everywhere.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
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Speaker 3 (52:15):
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Speaker 2 (52:21):
Bye everybody.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
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