Scuba Steve’s Disney Christmas & Morgan’s First Christmas With Her Boyfriend

Scuba Steve and Morgan candidly talk about the holidays and the things they plan to do with their families. Morgan details the first holiday with her boyfriend and Scuba Steve is excited about going to Disney for Christmas. They talk about Morgan’s “excessive” Christmas decorations, and Scuba Steve’s holidays as a kid. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The best bits of the week with Morgan art one,
I hang a scene with a member of the show.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Happy holiday weekend. Everybody Scooba, Seeve is joining me. What's up, Scuba?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Happy holidays, Happy holidays.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
How does the instinct song maybe Christmas and tap Holidays
chrismis because we are in Christmas weekends. This has just happened.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
It just happened. Yeah, it was. It was an amazing time.
And how did you get to Orlando.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
In the spirit of the holidays? Though we are not
with each other, No, this was free recorded just to
give you guys a new con But right now right
which you're in Orlando. Yeah, we could zoom technically.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I guess we could. We're on zoom right now, but at.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
This moment in my break, I'm not paying attention to anything.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah. Same, Yeah, I'm checked out exactly.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
But I do want to know what your plans are
for the holidays.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So my plans we've already had the holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
So what we did was you're technically still in it,
so what would you be doing right now?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
So we went to Orlando, do the whole road trip
there with the kids. We don't fly because it's the holidays.
And it's like a pain in the ass to fly
and far of a road trip, it's like ten hours.
It's long. It's not bad going down because you're excited
and you're all pumped and your energize and you're wide awake.
Coming back it feels like for it ever, because you're
like tired and you spent the whole time chilling, and
then you don't want to go back, so you're.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Like, yeah, you have the scaries going back to works
exactly for a long holiday fun break exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
You're like, oh, we have to go back to work.
I don't mind it. But it's also like ah, yeah,
so and then but going down is always fun. Yeah.
Because of that, it's quick to quick ten hours. Plus.
We travel in the van because we have three kids
that are under seven, and we're traveling with like presents
and all that kind of stuff. So just easier to
road trip it.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Do your kids are you in a van that's like
where they can kind of move around a little.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Bit while we're driving, so they're in their seat belts
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, that's funny about that. This is why I.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Asked the night is different though we moved around a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, because it was really funny my parents. I can't
remember what type of van it was, but it's one
where you had like little TV's in then there's a
little couch and like a little thing in the back.
It was like, yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
We had a Chevy Astro back in the eighties. There
was a big ass van where it was like basically
I don't know what it was like a traveling van.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Almost yep, that's exactly what it was. Because we would
go on road trips all the time and there was
four of us girls, so we needed the space. But
my dad would yell at my sister and I notoriously
because we'd be running around and one time he got
pulled over. Because my sister, do your kids have they
ever caused you to get pulled over?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
No, they don't because they stay in their seats and
their buckle and they're like afraid to break the rules.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's fair.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, I went with a DVD player in there, so
we like flipped the screen down. They're all like just
watching Disney movies and they're like super pumped, or they're
sleeping or singing songs or asking questions. Right now, they're
all in the question phase.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
What is it like to road trip with a bunch
of kids as a parent.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's kind of awesome because I've trained my kids not
the pea a lot. So we'll only do three or
four stops max the whole way down, and so we're
pretty good at that when we stop. Whenever we stop,
it's usually the gas food pee back on the road.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Okay, but do you because I learned my boyfriend doesn't
normally have snacks on the road.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh, we have snacks. My wife packed snacks.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Like he gets in Matt gas stations along the way.
We do that too, but see I do that, but
more than anything, I really bring like a whole bag
of snacks with me to begin.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, we do like a core because when you go
to gas station stuff. My kids are used to eating
fresh fruits and stuff things like that. So my wife
packs apples and bananas and blueberries and cut up strawberries
and raspberries and all those things. And like their little
drinks which like these little occult drinks and like yogurt drinks,
things that you can't get into the gas station. But
we still go to the gas station and get like
crap snacks.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, I gotta have a mixture both.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah. Yeah, because they're kids, and I also I'm like
a kid at heart, so I want the crap snacks too.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay, this makes me feel better because he had never
heard of like a snack bag before, and I was like, oh, yeah,
maybe our family, I mean, my dad loved to pack
that was trashy food that we would eat growing up,
So maybe that was just like the random thing.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
But yeah, we had the base.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's the only one.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, we had the base. But I love going into
a gas station and just like a new gas station
and we trying to find the big ones where it's
got like a big truck stop, like a BUCkies. Like
I hate BUCkies. You hate bus Oh my god, it's
so anxiety ridden and it's so packed and it's so annoying.
We can't stand BUCkies.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do you hate it because everybody likes it?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
No? I hate it because it's it's it's just too much.
I don't need, know Walmart on the side of the road.
I just I just want like a nice, big gas
station with like ten pumps.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, I'm out, Okay, let's do this, this will be funny.
Top three best gas stations of all time.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
So seven eleven is like the king of gas stays,
Like you can't it's hard to find seven eleven on
road trips, but like in general, like where you live,
seven eleven is superior to everything because of the Slurpees
and because of all their like taketos and all their
foods that are in the little rollers that keep things warm. Yeah,
and they have the best snacks and then we have
like a two for six deal or something, and they

(05:01):
have the best cooler of all because I love going
to the coolers and seeing all like the random ass
sodas and waters and drinks and stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, all about that. It's most gas stations though, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
You have a seven eleven like started it though, got it?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
The King that's number one.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
And then next to seven eleven on a road trip though,
I like the fly the Flying J whatever it's called.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh yeah, I think it is Flying J.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, because they got a big huge they usually they
usually have like a built in like a Windy's or
a subway or a Popeyes or something, and they have
a lot of snacks and a lot like so many
like cool different water bottles and cool different sodas and stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay, I'm digging this list so far, so they're good.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
And then the third one, but.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
You don't have my favorite yet, so I'm on my
I'm seeing if it may make it number three.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
The third one, I'm trying to think, like something cool
and regional and different, because like you have like the Valero's,
you got the map Co, you got Chevron, you got Shell,
like all the basic ones. But like I feel like
there's always one one. I'm trying to think in my head.
Cumberland Farms is always pretty good too, but there's one
I can't think of, and I'm trying to envision when

(06:07):
we stop and go through it. It may just be
some like random ass place that doesn't even have a name.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Could be like a mom and pop gas station. Yeah, yeah,
I do love those.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Those are good too because they always have like great
random beef jerkys.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
And like local things, local foods or things to look at.
I get really fascinated with local ones totally.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
As you get into Florida, they have like really cool
it's like a roadside of attraction stops where it's like
you can feed a gator and they got oranges and
they got bowled peanuts, like all kinds of cool stuff
in Florida.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Da Gator will also get in your boiled peanuts. Hell yeah,
oh yeah, okay, so maybe like mom and pop.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Mom Pop will be my third. Okay, what are your
top three?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, my number one is Quick Trip. Quick Trip was
my jam. I grew up on it, the QT right QT.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh they'retty good to yeah, yeah, I get you on that.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I grew up on it. They have supreme hot chocolate.
It's almost one of my favorite chocolate or so okay,
other places.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
They got those in Georgia. I think QT like a
lot of those.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
You have a few on the Oushirds of Nashville, but
they're not in anything like that, and they always have
really good food and I feel safe. And then bathroom, quick.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Clean, bathroom clean. Bathoms are key exactly yeah yeah, because
sometimes a flying jay is scary because you got truggers
and they're like showering and stuff, and it's kind of
weird a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Those are always weird. I see like somebody coming out
like with a towel or something like that. Something weird
happened back there. And then number two would be similar
to Quick Trip, but quick Shop, I don't know what
that one is now, so might be regional, okay, looking up,
but it has like I can see the four little
color dots on the sign, and a lot like Quick Trip.

(07:34):
It's almost like Quick Trip's younger sister quick and it
starts with k k w ice k oh gotcha? Okay,
you see it?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
A quick sack? No, no, quick shop, A quick shop.
I found the website. Yeah, quick shop?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, does it have a red blue and like a
little like.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, almost, it's like Kroger looks like Kroger's symbol a
little bit. Yeah, quick Shop is good too. I've seen
those before. Yeah, yep.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
So that's our second both regional. I think I really
grew up on both of those. And then third was
gonna be mom and pop really because I love exploring
a mom and pop gas. Yeah, so, but it's hard
because you know, a mom and pop could also be
a little sketchy. You might need a key to get
in a bathroom and.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
On the outside. Yeah, and that was a little sketchy.
And they have someone doing drugs in there, something that
can people over the wall exactly.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, But so I think I'm gonna go at number
three cases cases? Yeah, is that they have yes, and
they I grew up on their pizza. They have really
good pizza. They're known now for their breakfast pizzas. Okay,
and I had one of the best breakfast sandwiches there
when we were on our road trip this past summer.
But I grew up on it. It was right by our

(08:38):
high school growing up.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
And everybody, I've never seen cases before.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Really yeah never If you see one on your road trip,
I need you to stop at a case.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Okay, right one. I just looked up at a two
point four rating, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
It might not be good, but the ones that I've
been to and the ones I grew up on were
really good. Okay, So Supreme Gas stations. I like our
little lists there that we just did.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, yours are random and then kind of like brought
in memories of like, Okay, I do no cutes. He
cuse he's good cheap.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I would go into a QT every time before a
softball game, and I would get a giant laffy tavvy stick.
I'd get ranch, some flower seeds, and a gatorade. Oh yeah,
every time, and they knew me on the corner. Okay,
continue your holiday story.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
So we get to I love dear ailment. It's the best.
That's when we get into top three gas stations. How
hell else will we get there?

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Well, and a lot of people are probably road trippoons,
So if you're of any of these three, yeah, stop,
let us know what you think.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Hell yeah, okay, So get to Orlando. We check into
the hotel and then so Christmas Eve was always at
my grandparents house. But now my grandfather's passed like ten
years ago, and my grandmother just passed two years ago.
So now that house is gone, we don't have that
tradition anymore, which kind of sucks, you know what.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's what's really sad. I feel like when you see
the traditions go away, because like I lost both of
my grandparents on my dad's side, and we used to
also spend Christmas Eve with that whole family.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
And all the aunts and uncles and everyone comes over.
You you probab like fifty people into like a thousand
square foot house and you're fine with it.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
We were always in the basement. Yeah, this basement was
not like it wasn't like I played poker with both
all of my uncles and my dad. Yeah, and that
was like our game. But I think about that often
and now it's just gone. Yeah, it's not the same.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
So you try to create new traditions. And they're my grandparents.
So for my kids, it's great grandparents. And I never
saw I think I saw my great grandparents like a
blip of my life too, so it kind of makes sense,
I guess. But then grandparents, so like they only have
two grandparents because both of the dads passed away a
long time ago, so they don't have grand grandfathers, so
they have just the grandmothers. And one of them was

(10:42):
in San Francisco, which we're not at, and then the
one in Orlando. But she lives with between my sister
and brother because she was living with my grandmother taking
care of her for the last ten years. So there's
that whole like that weird thing of like where does
mom go? And so she comes here sometimes for a
few weeks or a month or whatever. So like the
tradition of going to a grandma b this house doesn't exist.
So now we started last year for the first year

(11:04):
where we would go out on Christmas Eve to dinner somewhere,
so that way, because it mostly it'd be up to
my sister to do it all, and I know how
much of a pain in the ass it is to
cook everything and first get everything prep cook and then
the cleanup, and it's such a pain in the button.
And then it shouldn't really be put on her. So
I was like, let's just go out somewhere. Let's find
somewhere fun every year to go out and like go
eat dinner somewhere. And so last year we did one.

(11:25):
It was a place called quarterson on Eyedrive. It was fun,
but it was like a nightclub that turned It was
like a restaurant that turned into a night club like
a couple hours later. And they didn't have a kid's menu,
and it was like such a pain in the ass,
and like everyone in my family hate spicy foods and
it was like Latin inspired they so they didn't have that,
and they didn't have their full menu. They gave us
like a special menu, which I was like, we would
have spent so much more money if you just would

(11:46):
have given us the regular menu, because we saw what
they were feeding everyone else at like smaller tables, and
I'm like, you guys lost out on such a big
a bigger bill by dolling it down to like four
or five items that all sucked, by the way, so.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
It really did not work that one. So you try
in a different restaurant.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yes, so we're not going back there. I'm sure it's
great if it was like because it looked it was fun,
looking like as a club a vibe because we walked
around you can see the club behind the restaurant and
it was like rainforest cafe type club.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
It was hello cool, but listen, I would love a
rainforst cafe club. I crushed a Rainfort cafe.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I know. So I was like, all right, this
is pretty cool. If we were it was a bunch
of adults. We have like nine or ten kids like
that are like twelve and under. So it wasn't where
there's no club vibe. And then they put us up
on like this like high table when everyone's sitting at
high chair. It's it was so inconvenient and not the best.
So the first year was like kind of rare. So
this year we made it a point too. I was like, hey,
let's find somewhere different. And last year when we were

(12:42):
in Orlando, we went to a place called Don Chulos,
which is like a steakhouse in the Swana Dolphin Hotel
and it sounds yeah, so if you were at Disney property,
there is a lot of different Disney hotels. But on
Disney property there's three hotels, The Swan, the Dolphin there
og but around like the seven eighties, and then the
New Swan Suites. But so they're Disney hotels, but they're

(13:04):
owned by Marriott Bonvoy, so they're part of Disney and
everything Disney. They're right by Disney Boardwalk if you know
where that's at.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
But they're kind of like Springs, Disney Springs area.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Maybe like five ten minutes from there. Okay, this is closer,
are No, this is closer. This is almost right across
the street from I believe MGM Studios, which to everyone
else's Hollywood Studios, but I still called MGM because the
park the park, yeah, the theme park, and it's right
next to the Boardwalk, which is also close to Epcot,
so kind of in that area. So it's in Disney property. Okay,
but it's really cool. The hotels are they're pretty sick.

(13:37):
So when we were there last year, it was Don
Shula Steakhouse, which Don Shula was the coach for the
Miami Dolphins. Like back in the seventies, and so I
was like, oh, I saw they had private rooms. I
was like, Oh, that'd be sick to have her own room.
What does that take? Like what, like, what do you
Because there's like there's three or four adults fading in
so we can afford it. And so I was like, oh,
So I emailed the lady and she goes, oh, I'm

(13:58):
so sorry, we just closed down don Shula and we're
in the middle of renovation. That emailed her like months ago,
like in March. She was but we're renovating to Bourbon
Steakhouse Michael Mina's. And I was like, oh, Michael.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Mina's Bourbon Bourbon Steak yeah, which.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Because they have one here at the GW And I
was like, oh, I've been there a couple of times,
like still a steakhouse and still don't have to do
the whole cook for Christmas and all that stuff. So
I was like, what does it take to reserve a room?
She gave me all the breakdown and everything, and I
was like, oh, we can totally afford that. And so
we rented a room at Bourbon Steak at Swan and
Dolphin Hotel and because I have bondboy points. We then

(14:32):
rented a hotel that same night. So on Christmas Eve,
had dinner at Bourbon Steakhouse with the whole family in
a private room, and then I got to drink or
I will be drinking a ton of old fashions and
then we're crawling upstairs to our room and yeah, yeah,
so we're doing that. So went to drive anywhere or anything.
And then the next morning we wake up and we're
on Disney property for a Christmas day.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Okay, so you guys are going to be in the
parks for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
So we're not going to be at We're not going
to the park on Christmas, but we're staying in it.
We're at Disney prop like a hotel. So we went
to the park for one day. I got the hookup
for my sister's friend, and I was like, I was like,
I just want even if you could just walk us in.
I want my son, who is like so much in
the dinosaurs. I want him to be able to go
on the dinosaur ride at Animal Kingdom, which I don't
know if you got to ride that when you.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Were there, I don't. I don't think we did because
we were only at Animal Kingdom to ride Avatar for
a split second, okay, and then we left.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Gotcha. So they had a whole dinosaur land that they've
been slowly taking away, and they're building I think Encanto,
and they're going to put Indiana Jones.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
You were mad about this when I was telling you
about all the switchovers.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yes, And so February the ride's gone. We're not going
to be there. We're only going to be there in December.
And I was like, man, can you like just walk
us like on the back lot, just to I just
want my son to ride that ride one time because
he loves dinosaurs so much. I've been talking about it
for years. And then I found out they're going to
be removing the ride in February. I was like, oh
my god, I just want him to see it once.
I don't I don't care if like literally we literally
walk us there, we ride it, and you take us off.

(15:53):
I don't want to. I don't need to see the
rest of the park. I've been there a million times.
Just want to ride that ride. And so my sister
just hit me up the other day and she's like, Hey,
I got the hook up from my friend and it's
gonna be I can get I can get five people in,
and I was like, oh my god, yes, it's excite.
So it'll be my sister and myself and then her son,
who's like like my son loves to hang out with
her his cousin. And then I'm thinking about bringing my

(16:17):
five year old because she loves rides and she's tall
enough now, and so I was like, I was like,
I think I'm gonna bring her too because she's like
all into it because we went to the zoo recently
and I don't know if you've been to the Nashville Zoo. Yeah,
you know that one where it's like that.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I was also drunk when I was okay, well, do you.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Know how they have the carousel out. Yeah, they have
that ride that's like one hundred feet up in the air,
like shoot you all the way backwards and you shoot forwards.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
I rode that. Okay, that was drunk.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well, my four year old wrote it, and so I'm like, whoa,
you wrote that, and she wanted to keep riding it
over and over and over. I'm like, well, you could
definitely ride the dinosaur ride. Yeah, so she's coming too.
So the five bus will go and my wife my
wife has no interest in going. She doesn't like the crowds,
and she'll stay back and watch the two year old
and hang out with her. So the five bus are
going to go to Animal Kingdom and do all.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
That and you're but not on Christmas Day?

Speaker 1 (17:00):
No, the twenty third is he even open.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
On Christmas Day?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Ye, it's open. Disney's open twenty four to seven seven,
but three sixty five.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
And Disney is hell a packed on Christmas, really so packed,
but mostly Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Me. I guess it shouldn't, but it does.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, but people are if they're in town. Like a lot
of people go to Orlando, Like Orlando is one of
the top three destinations for New Year's so people will
come before and they'll do Christmas and do the whole
the hotel thing and all that, and then like, kind,
we're doing the hotel and you get the whole experience.
But then they'll go to Disney. Mostly everyone goes to
Animal I mean sorry, Magic Kingdom on Christmas because it's

(17:36):
like it's the board. They do all the Mickey Christmas
Day all right, yeah, and usually they.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Broadcast it did really cool for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh, it's super all the parks are Christmas, but Magic
Kingdom is like the ultimate Christmas park because they have
the Mickey's Very Merry Christmas in the evenings. So yeah,
so everyone goes Magic Kingdom, and then the next will
probably be MGM because of Toy Story and all that stuff,
and then Epcot because they have around the World drinking
and they have their own holiday at all the different spots.
And the Animal Kingdom is probably fourth, so I'm hoping

(18:05):
it won't be that crowded. And even if it is,
we're only My only goal is to make sure we
get on one ride.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, otherwise everything else is fun at that point.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Whatever happens happens.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
And and I'll probably buy a Lightning Lane because we're
there and we got free tickets, so why not.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
And then I made reservations for a restaurant and for dinner,
so yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Okay, Wait, I want to hear about the restaurant. We're
gonna take one quick breakk dive into this, all right. Okay,
so Disney restaurant. Which restaurant? Did you get a reservation port?

Speaker 1 (18:33):
So I'm pulling it up right now. It's at Animal Kingdom,
but I'm also going to keep checking it to see
if I can get an earlier time, because I got
six pm and the park closed at seven. So I
kind of want to be like, maybe it's actually a
good idea.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I was gonna say it's actually good because then you
can be in the park when nobody's in there because
everybody's already had to leave.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
True, and then we can kind of chill and maybe
pop on a rye. We'll see. So I made reservations
for let me find it.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
So you guys are going to get to be there
the whole day with this hook up.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, so Simon is going just to be on that ride.
You got to hang out in the park. I'm assuming
the park was sold out and that was why you
needed the hookup.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
No, no, it's not sold out. I just don't want
to buy I didn't want to buy it.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
It's also really expensive, probably too well.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, it's like for if we were to do just
me and my son, that's like almost three hundred bucks.
And my wife's like, we already spent enough money to
get here and we had the dinner at Bourbon Steak
and all that stuff, so she's kind of like, eh,
so I made a reservation for It's called Yak and Yetti. Okay,
it's like one of.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Their like around Mount Everest, maybe, I.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Think so, Yeah, because the Yetti Expedition Everest. Yeah, so
I think that one.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, Okay, that sounds fun.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, And so then I also made reservations for because
I was like, if we don't get to go to
the Dinosaur Land, I made reservations for us to go
to the t Rex Restaurant, on which she would Yeah,
and I think we're still gonna go there. Anyways. I
made that reservation for this week as well. And then
we always do because this is what happened last year
and we found out about the Steakhouse. We always do

(19:55):
an adult night out where all of us adults we
go out and go to a restaurant that we usually
go to the Boardwalk and they have like a dueling
pianos and they have jelly rolls and all that. We
love a dueling piano bar, right, and are they so
much fun?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
They are my favorite thing to go into, especially once
you've had like just enough cocktails. Yeah, the party's flow
and everybody's having a good time and they're just like
people are seen along.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, I'll have it Tim Tim Bucks and you're like,
oh do also do I'm still standing Nel John and Pattle.
Brian's on Universal City Walk was like the spot we
used to go to back in the day, but they
have one at Disney, so we made a reservation for
adults not hour. We're doing Todd English as Blue Zoo,
which is at Swan and Dolphin. It's like a sushi
restaurant slash fish restaurant. So we always start off with
the dinner reservation. It's like me, my wife, my sister

(20:40):
and her husband, my brother and whoever he's dating maybe,
and then my little sister. She's usually single, so she
rolls out. We all just we uber and then we
use my sister's service story Big Nannies where they watch all.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, what happens with the kiddos.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, one of her nannies from her business, her company
watches the kids and help out my mom because it's
a lot of kids. And her oldest who's like I
think fourteen now, so she's also kind of responsible. But
it's nice to throw another like certified adult in the
mix who's like certified CPR and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
because it's like eight to nine kids. But when then
we uber and we go out have dinner and we

(21:16):
just get slamm drunk and we come back around like
ten to eleven, like not too late.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
This is so fun. I love this idea of a
non traditional Christmas. It's fun.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
It's so awesome because it's different and unique and not
like the whatever we normally do, and so it's kind
of like there the expectation is that really isn't an expectation.
It's just kind of like do random stuff and have
fun versus like the traditional of like which would we
I did enjoy as from our childhood, but if my kids,
our life's been kind of upside down and all over
the place and lived in different cities from my oldest
So it's kind of like there isn't really a tradition.

(21:47):
It's just kind of like whatever.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
You guys will get to a place of doing traditions
at home eventually when like all the kids are kind
of getting older or no, I.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Don't know, because we don't have family here in Nashville,
so there really isn't like a tradition because there isn't
like in Orlando, there's a tradition because we all everyone
lived there and even when all my aunts and uncles
moved to Charlotte, they would still drive down because it's
like a six hour drive and they would come down
and they would do like a Disney trip. But then
also of course to Christmas with us. So there was

(22:14):
always that tradition. But now it's like everyone's so far away.
Orlando is ten hours away and west coast that's a
full flight, or if you drive, it's like three four
hour drive. They drive several days. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah,
you would fly for sure.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Maybe this is your guys's tradition.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, so yeah, we spent Orlando for the holidays, and
then the summer is always San Francisco trade off.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Does it feel weird that like the two vacations that
you use are always around family time? Uh?

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, but it's also kind of like we don't mind
it though, because we don't get to see family at
all throughout the year, so for us, it's a vacation.
And both the cities they live in are our fun cities,
Like Orlando is super fun because it's the theme parks
and you're near the beach, and then San Francisco is
San Francisco. And then we usually squeeze la in in
some way too. So it's like, you know, they're they're
fun places to go. There's always something to do.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, so at least you have other things to keep
trying and do new things and stuff you. Yeah, but
I was just thinking about that as you were saying it,
because I'm I imagine that's hard for a lot of parents,
where your vacations become now spending time with family versus
like once upon a time you had vacations where you
didn't have a lot of abilities or yeah, you could
go and try different places and do new things, which

(23:23):
you still can with kids, but you just have more requirements.
I feel like as you you know, are having your
own families with you and trying to see your family
if you especially don't live in the same city as them.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, it's also really important for the kids to see
their family. And usually in the summertime, we always do
a week somewhere, like whether it be Hawaii or like
this year we're gonna go to Disney and do like
the whole like like full on Disney. We haven't done
it with them because now they're older, because they'll be eight,
five and three, So we're doing like a full week
when they get out of school this summer, we're going

(23:56):
to do like the whole like stay out of Disney
Hotel and do like the parks for a couple of
days and then do like all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, so it would be really fun. But yeah, I
also imagine that's hard to like fit that in then
with your other family trips.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, because then we do that and then we come
back and then turn back around and immediately pretty much
fly to San Francisco and drop them off, and then
I'm here solo again for a month and do the
whole thing.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
You've figured out your ways of doing it.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, it seems like, yeah, yeah, what about you for wichitas?
What are you guys going to do?

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh? We uh well cut listen. Hey, the Quick Shop
has really good corn nuggets.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Corn nuggets and that what is that corn nuggets?

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Oh my gosh, I love a corn nugget. They're fried.
It's like it's like cream corn and a fried ball.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Oh I love cream corn.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
That's exactly what it tastes like. And QT has those
they quick Trip Trill Sorry, Quick Shop shop Okay, Quick
Shop did I don't know that they still do? Okay,
but I was mad because I had several restaurants in
Wichita that used to have them. They all stop selling them.
Quick shops started to I don't know if they still
do though, Okay, like one of those, I don't know
if it's a dying breed, but I found some at

(25:02):
a really divey dive bar out like twenty minutes from
my home town. Yeah, and I found corn nuggets there
and they bomb.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
That sounds awesome because I love cream corn.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I know, And honestly, if I could bring them back
to you to like get you to try them, it
would be awesome. But I think they'd be so bad
by the.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Time I want it back to you. Yeah. Yeah, they
would not be the same texture.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
No, I guess you could air for them again. But yeah,
they're so good Scuba. If you ever see corn nuggets
on a menu, get them.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay, it's very rare.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
I found them even one time at a random menu
in Iowa when we were roach tripping back and I
was like, we should stop their dang it, they're not open,
but it's gonna stop literally for the corn nugget. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Iowa makes sense, I guess, because they are they like
the Corn State or something or is it Nebraska?

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Corn Huskers would be Nebraska. It might be Nebraska, but
he got the wheat fields and all of them are
kind of we're in there too. It has a lot
of corn. Yeah, but no, his mom comes here for
the week. By the time this is aired, we will
have spent the whole week with her. She helped us
to a bunch of Christmas baking.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Where did she come from?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Florida? Okay, I don't know. It's the top of my mind
right now. He's told me so many times, and still
my brain is fried. And at the end of the week,
you'll know he flies. She flies out of Tampa, Tampa.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
So she's probably Tampa clear Water. Yeah, I think so,
Sarah Sota somewhere around there.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm pretty positive. Okay, listen, my brain is cooked at
this time of the year.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I got you.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, thank you, and h Then yeah, we're driving to
Road Trivenie, Kansas. It'll be his first time in Kansas.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh wow, Okay, he's never been. He's met the family obviously.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Driven through, but yeah, this will be his first full
Kansas experience. And yeah, he's met the family.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
I saw him do the pledge of Allegiance, said Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, we're trying to cook up another thing that we
can do. I'm not sure what it's going to be
this time, now that he's onto us. Yeah, yeah, of
course we may try and get something else on other
family members. Okay, this one maybe coming. We're a big
brank family.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah. I love to distress with each other, as you should.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
So yeah, we'll play games. We always do Redhouse on
our Christmas.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Eve, like a really good bread right, oh yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Bread and the cinnamon butter honey.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah. And they do the peanuts too, right, like in
the big barrel whatever. You throw them on the ground.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Now you can't throw them on the ground, but yeah,
they you can't throw I don't know. And something changed COVID.
COVID changed shit, I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Maybe unsanitary to have other people's germs on the floor everywhere.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, but it's still it was unsanitary back then, I know.
But I love changed.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
I was one of the ones eating the peanuts. I
still do now. They give you your own individual bags
and you put them. They give you a little bucket
on the table.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
I would try it. I would throw it on the ground.
See what they say, I think you.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Still could, but the point was that not five hundred.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
People that came then all throw on the ground.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So but we always do that for
christas Eve because we don't like to cook either. On
the day Christmas, we always cook so that day and
we play games. It's always like a fun I love
like Christmas Day because it's just we open some presents,
we eat really good food, and then we play games
the rest of the day and make fun cocktails. Yeah,
that's like the whole It's my favorite Christmas Day.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
You guys are drinking.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh yeah. I think this year we're going to make
every time. I think this year we're gonna do a
little competition. Each couple has to bring a designated signature
shot bank for everybody else is going to be. Well,
I don't know what the shot is gonna be, but
I bought the shot glasses. They're little ornaments.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
That's pretty cool. That's awesome, like where they go in.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
I just figure out what that'll be fun. And we
like to get my dad a hard time because he
doesn't drink a whole lot, but he'll get a little
crazy on christmasause he likes to give everybody rum chatta
a fireball, so we already has his shot. We know
what's coming there. Yeah, but we thought that'd be a
fun little thing. But yeah, besides that, I'm going to
show them around Wich Shot, show them all the different

(28:42):
restaurants and fun places to hang out.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
So it'll stomping grounds to high schools, went to middle school,
elementary school, throw a few little.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Distre he'll meet some of my childhood friends. We'll do
Chris New Year's Eve with a lot of my childhood
friends and the ones who are actually there the night
that we met. Okay, cool, So this will be their
first actually time getting to hang out with him.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, for a little more like than a second.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, then being like you should talk to him?

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah yeah. Yeah, so now it's like, no, you should
talk to him.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I'm gonna need you guys to get to know him. Yeah. Yeah,
it'll be fun.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm just really excited to relax more than anything.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Oh my god, yeah, I went to check out.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I need that.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, we all get burnt out of the end of
the year. I think all of us is just kind
of like, I just need a second so not to
not do anything.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I need to think about nothing. Yeah, that's exactly what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh yeah, we're.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Gonna take one more quick break and we'll be right back.
I had that sounded weird. That's a better one, right,
We're going to take a quick break. Oh yeah, I'm
seeing your nail polish on your pink and red. I know.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
My daughter had her birthday and she got a nail
polish and then I got home from work and she
was like, can I paint your nails? And then like
I have a second I was like, I was like no,
and then I was like who gives a crab? She's
five now, and like like who cares. Yeah, that's a.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Trend right now, some guys wearing nail polish on their fingers,
like for fashion.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, yeah, so she these are like like cheap like
Disney Kid ones, so like it easily washes off. So
like that night, I went in the shower and I
think four of the nails came off.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
So that's why you currently have two.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, exactly only two left. Night These two were holding strong.
This one actually came off, but I guess like dyed
in my fingernail, so it's like stuck that color. And
she painted them like all different colors.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
She's like, actually nailolish because they look like Marker a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
It's nail polish, but it's like kid nail polish. So
it's probably like the like or it doesn't you know,
whatever it is, or it's anti I don't know what. Like,
I guess it's safe enough to where if she were
to drink it, she'd be okay, kind of thing. I
don't think there's I shouldn't but like it's not poisonous
or like has that all the chemicals and crap.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
In like more water based maybe?

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, like when I would smell nail Paul he went
on a nail song and you're like like like, oh
my god, I have a headache. That's like I couldn't
smell anything. Okay, So she's painting my nails and then
and then uh, yeah she did them like blue and
yellow and pink and red, and.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Were they for each of the Disney princesses? Is that
what it was?

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, it's like a pack where it's sky like Jasmine's
purple and bells yellow and like so on and all
down the line.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
I need that.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, it's actually pretty cool. Yeah, I'm like and I
get it's like a dress as like they're with the
nail polishes in and the top has their face on it.
It's like really really cute.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Okay, I love this, So I feel like I need this.
My workfriens gonna be like what are those come from?
But I want your hot take because you are part
of my Harry Potter fandom. Yeah, what do you think
of me having one four Christmas trees to a Harry
Potter tree.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I think the har Potter tree is really cool because
you're into it. So it'd be weird if like you
were a poser and you did it and you've never
seen it. Oh yeah, like what are you doing? Like
you're just trying to be cool and you don't even
like you don't even know it, So I think they'd
be dumb. But because you are a Harry Potter fan,
I think it's really cool. And because you have the
time to like put up all those different trees, like
the mean like time like like me, like when I
get home, it's like I have to like watch these

(31:56):
kids and do all this stuff for you, Like your
extra time is like it's for you were able to
do that, so like you have more me time. So
I mean I love Christmas, so I wish I had
more capacity to do more with Christmas. Like this year,
we finally just put up our lights outside and we
just did a couple of gloves and some strings and stuff,
just to make the kids happy. Because at first we're like,

(32:16):
I'm not even gonna put it lights aboutside, We're not
going to be home. But I was like that it's
like screwing the kids out of Christmas.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah, get me, screwgede all year.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
But we already did the inside the inside the day
after Thanksgivving, we were putting up with the tree up
and did all that stuff. So we have the inside
has been decorated for a long time. It's just what
we didn't do the outside quite yet. So I would
love I think it's okay because I would do the
same thing if I had four trees, so I don't
have a problem with it. I think the Harry Potter
tree is super cool because I would if I had that.
I would just only do that, right.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I mean, I didn't really think to even do it
until this year, so but then I was like, well,
th I have other trees, but I really like this one.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, you should do it.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
And even scuba has a golden snitch on the top
of it.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh oh, it is so cool for the quidditch match.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yep, yeah yeah, and the cup is not like all
the ornaments are on there are all themes, They're all
the thing. And I walked by that tree daily and
I get excited just to look kind of the game
even though I put it together.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, were in the Harry Potter because even thing three
or four years ago, uh, Pottery Barn came out with
the Harry Potter line. Yes, and so I took my
wife up with the whole set. We have the plate
like the glass plates and has all like hufflepuff down
the Slytherin. We have the glass plates, I got the
coffee mugs, I got the glass cups.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well house, are you in? I'm a Slytherin that tracks Yeah,
Like I think I would have guessed that.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
But I wanted to give you the da out because
my coffee cup is a Slytherin cup. And then like
we have like all the plates and with like you know,
all that stuff. And then we had the cups. We
got the quiddage golden and whatever you call it, the
golden snicks. Yeah, we have that. It's like it's like
a candy jar you open it up and has candy inside.
And then I got the huge tray and like where
you put everything on it. It's like leather and it
has like the whole Harry Potter map and everything on it.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
It's really really cool.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, what's crazy about those two because a lot of
our ornaments and that golden snitch shopper came from Pottery Barn. Okay,
that's what inspired this. I saw those. My boyfriend actually
saw an Instagram reel of like some of the ornaments
that are the whole cruxes. Yeah, I think I'm saying
that right. Oh yeah, horn cruxes are whole cruxes.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
I know hor cracks.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I know the whole cruxes sounded weird and.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I don't know what it is now.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I don't know how it smelled. If it's an R
and L that's in that like middle piece. But those
the seven of them, and he was like, we need these.
I was like, wall, what about a Harry Potter tree? Yeah,
and he loved it, but all because of Pottery Barn.
But what's crazy about him? Is there a limited edition?
Like some of those things they don't bring back.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
No, they're gone. Like it was hard. It was even
hard to get what I got because I even ordered
more and they were like, oh sorry, we're sold out
and there's no back order, there's no restock. It's that's it.
It was done. So that was it. And we even
have on our tree. I guess we have a little
bit Harry Potter. I have what's it called Hogwarts. It's
a Hogwarts ornament, but it's one that you plug into
a light bulb and so it lights up the Hogwarts

(34:53):
castle on the tree. It's really cool. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
One of the ones we have is a sorting hat
and you press the button and it like liked up.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh cool.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
See those are cool.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, yeah, they're fun. Yeah. The ones that are like
they're like interactive.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, you have a so you have a smidge of
a Harry Potter tree. What house is your wife in?

Speaker 1 (35:08):
I believe she is. What's Harry Potter? He's a that's gribbonfin.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, I'm I'm Gryffindor. My boyfriend is a hufflebuff.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Huffle puff.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
He was like, I was almost a griffin, that's what
that's what puff would say.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Loser, so funny.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I was like, I'm pretty sure, I might teeter on Slytherin,
but I was mostly a Gryffin door. Yeah, yeah, I
was arkor yeah that tracks. You also like the color
green though, too, so yeah I do.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
I like green and blue, so I guess I could
have been raven Claw. Raven Claw.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
That's kind of funny, is I never really hear of
a lot of people being a raven Claw. You hear
grif Door, you hear Hufflepuff, you hear Slytherin, but you
really don't hear raven Claw.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
No, you really don't. It's almost forgotten.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I mean it's kind of even forgotten in the movies.
So also, you don't really mention it a whole lot.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
They really don't.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah, the fact that there's four schools and you really
just know about three or three.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yeah, it's like it's the forgotten School. I'm sure they'll
make a movie better.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
No, I oh, there there's a series coming out. It's
a pretty cool series. Okay, I think it's no, No,
it's the books over again. Oh, okay, there are a series. Oh,
all new actors everything.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Well, I think I saw it because they were being
casting for that. I saw a year ago or so. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yeah, I'm excited to see it, but also nervous. I
really love the originals.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, but you know they're always going to try to
beat it because of the theme parks, so they need
another reason to keep everything like somewhat current.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Can I tell you one of my mad things about
Epic Universe?

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, what's up? Because I haven't been yet and I
won't be going for a while.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
So, well, it's that the Harry Potter Ride. I really
wanted it to be about Fantastic Beats.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Okay, so there's no representation of that at Epic.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
So apparently there is, and we didn't end up going
it because we since we were only there for such
a limited time, we really just focused on rides, not
really the shows. Yeah, apparently there's a circ like kind
of in a circus tint A show that features him, okay,
which would have been really cool to see. I didn't
realize it at the time.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
News Commander, Right.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah, I love Fantastic Beace too.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
It's such a great freakin' film.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
It's so good, and that's why I was bummed. I
thought the new ride, I get it, like the the
Cirk Show is probably really cool, and everybody said.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
It was what makes sense to all the animals and stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, but I'm like, how cool would be to have
a ride with a bunch of fantastic beasts, Like you're talking,
you can't make or ride out of those three movies.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, which maybe they will at some point because they're
expanding and they're building a universal and I think Houston
or Dallas or something.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, but they already had two parks that had the
original Harry Potter stuff. Again with this one, why couldn't
you do Fantastic Beasts?

Speaker 1 (37:39):
I know, Yeah, that would have been kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
And that's what I anticipated. It was so cool because
of how cool that ride and the whole setup is
that they created. It's amazing, and that like at least
took away some of my disappointment. Yeah, but I really
wanted it to be News Commander and like fantas I
wanted the animals to send me on the ride.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah. Yeah, I guess they're they're thinking, is the circus
makes sense because it's like the circus and the animals
and that whole thing. So from their visionary side of things.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
It does. But for my creative one loving fantastic Beasts
and two I just feel like like Monsters was a
cool ride and epic, and I feel like they could
have really done something cool with Fantastic Beasts as a ride.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, and maybe they will when they because they're building that.
Like I I said, it's somewhere in Houston's here Houston
or Dallas, I forget where, but they building a whole
universal park and so maybe they could do that.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Is there one on in LA too?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
But yeah, but it's super small. Okay, Yeah, there's one
in Hollywood. Yeah, right there in Burbank area. We s
have anal passes. And I pitched myself for my rock
show to do a broadcast and a giveaway. Yes, uh
for Marty Graus, so I did Hollway Horneites. But my
my pitch was too late and he's like, ah, I'm sorry.
It takes a lot longer. And there's more. There's more

(38:48):
like steaks within it as far as like all the
different companies and production companies that it's a lot of
it's a large approval process and Marty gral is a
little easier because it's just live performances and they're like
Marty Graus, so they get approved quicker. And I and
then he gave me the heads up, like, hey, send
it in by November. So I sent it in November,
my pitch of everything, and so so I hopefully hopefully
it works because then I get to do a whole

(39:10):
week of giveaways and the grand prize if somebody gets
to go to Universal I think for three days, four nights,
and I get to go there and broadcast from their
radio studios while I'm there. Oh cool. Yeah, So I'm
hoping at all. I'm not helping it will It's gonna
work out. It will, which will be some time like
in February, March or April, or will we go out
there or I go out there and broadcast and do
the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I'm so jealous that hopefully trying to work on that
for the other show, I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
So I was like screwing out my own show now
and I found the contact and so I was like,
I'm gonna I'm spearhead this myself.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
I love this.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
And then I got Afternoons. So then they're like, all right,
well it's a it's a more of a you know,
night nights is fine, but like Afternoons is obviously more
of a drive time position. So it's like, all right,
So now take my pitch seriously. And I had a
good pitch and I sent it off and so yeah, hopefully,
hopefully it will. It'll work out, and I'll be broadcasting
laugh of Universal next year in twenty twenty six. Yeah
you will, Yes, I will.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
And I'm going to be so jelly, but also very
proud of you because I thank you and I know
you've been wanting that for really long.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah, for like twenty years. I didn't want to broadcast
because I used to always when I lived in Orlando.
I was the guy that had to stay back because
this is back when technology isn't what it is now,
and I have to run the board while everyone else
is at Universal or Disney having the freaking time of
their life, staying at the hotel, going to the parks.
And I had to run the freaking board, which is fine.
I was young and I had to pay my due,
so I get it, but I'm like, twenty years later,

(40:27):
I want it. I want to do it. I want
to be the one I gets to do all this stuff,
and so now we'll finally be my time.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
So I love this. It's going to happen. It'll happen.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Oh yeah, And then I'm sure somewhere in there, because
when you go then you're part of the media stuff.
And then I'll get to go to Eby Universe, so
I'll get to go see the new Fast and Furious
ride where they took out ripbrid Rocket, the one they
go straight up and which kind of sucks. I love
that one, but it's a new ride, so it'd be
kind of fun to see that.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
It's cool to see the new rides. At least then
you can have a judgment ever better than the last one.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Totally, and hopefully that can like let them bring me
into the old Nickelodeon studios and I get to do
like a tour of that.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
This keeps evolving and keeps snowballing.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Oh yeah for you.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah, but this is I think this is one of
your New Year's resolutions too, to make it happen.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
And I've been commenting like crazy on all of their posts,
and Universal has been responding to my comments.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Okay, they've been.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
They've been like they don't respond to many people, but
they've been responding to me. Like I talked to them,
h him about something I forget what it was. And
there's something about an et ride and they respond all
my stuff, and I'm like, oh my gosh, we're interacting.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Ah, that's a big deal. Remember me, I did write
the et ride when we were there. I think I
told you that.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, my favorite.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yeah, it was a fun experience.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Yeah, it's definitely old school.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
You think of Rainforest Cafe because that's what it smells like.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Yeah, yes, it smells with the Rainforest Cafe inside there.
But I love it because it's so old and like
it's such a nostalgic ride. So it means so much
to me because it's such a cool spot.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, it was a throwback. I had a vague memory
of like watching it as a little kid and I
was like that guy was creepy.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Then I was on the ride. I was like, they're
still creepy, but they're kind of cute now. And it
was like a weird full circle moment sitting in front
of my living room TV watching that movie and.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Then being on the ride. At the end, he goes
goodbye Margan and they say even so funny.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
My boyfriend liked him. He's like, did his her names?
And I was like, yes, they asked our names. At
the beginning. I didn't think they were actually gonna use.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Yeah, of course there's a whole purpose for him. What
would they ask for your name?

Speaker 2 (42:21):
They never do on any other ride, So I think
that's one. Yeah, he like was so thrown off. He's
like that thing just said our names. I'm like, yeah,
it's pretty legit.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
But the only other one that does something similar to that,
and probably a newer version of it, is did you
go on Monsters Inc? When you were at Did you
went to disney Land? Right? Yeah? Did you go on
the Monster's Inc. Ride at California Adventure?

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I think we did, okay.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
And at the very end there's that lady who's always
like Magma's Atowski.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
And at the end she's there and there's somebody sitting
behind her like in like a like a box. Yeah,
And I'm sure it's not their voice. It's like they're
speaking at our microphone and they'll like say stuff like hey,
watch your kid, and I'll talk to you. And it's
not like it's not it's not like a repeated thing.
It's actual conversation. And you're like what She's like, Yeah,

(43:04):
I'm talking to you. You're like, oh my gosh, she's
talking to me.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
It's kind of like the turtle talk with yeah crush, yeah,
because somebody's seen everything that's happening in commenting. Yeah yeah,
making comments. It's funny.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
It's really cool, Like.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Even as somebody who wasn't a kid, I was sitting there, like,
look back in school, somebod's yelling at me.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah, this is really cool. You in the front round
with the same Jude hat. You're like, well that's me.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, Like who You're looking around trying to be like
where did that come from? Totally Yeah, speaking of monsters,
I don't. I really just watched my boyfriend's team now
with football, but he was showing me that they did
a Monsters Inc. Football game. Did you see this?

Speaker 1 (43:41):
I saw where they like it was kind of how
Nickelodeon does their broadcast the Antel game thing.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I think this is a new version,
I guess the new partnership or whatever. And they did
Mic Andsoli. So there's all these videos on Mike Andsoli,
like running and they're supposed to be mimicking what the players.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Are doing happening on the field. Yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
So then they'd like drop a ball if it gets
dropped or whatever, and it's just really funny to watch.
I was like, if the games were like this every week,
I'd probably watch more.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah, it's way more entertaining, even for an adult. It's
really cool.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Yeah, that was making me happy. Okay, anything else you
want to add before we jump out of here.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
No, I think it's about it. We're gonna try to
go to a or landa Magic game as well while
we're there, But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, never been to an NBA game?

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Oh really, My NBA games are my absolute favorite.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
That would finish my trifect or squad. I don't know whatever.
Then Imber of all the professional games, okay, yeah, yeah,
that's the only one I haven't done.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
It's one of the best because indoors and on a
basketball so much for fun to me.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
I have a I have this desire to go to
a New York Knicks games.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
A massive square garden.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Yeah, that'd be sick, mostly though, because of how to
lose a guy in ten days?

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Okay, and so not because it's a massive square garden.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
No. Well, yeah, it's cool. It's like also cool to
see all those pictures and stuff from that particular venue,
But how to lose a guy in ten days is
where I first even heard about the New York Knicks. Okay,
you know, and that's all that's been in my head.
That's really And then what's ironic is Ron Baker, who
played for the Witch Trust State Shockers, ended up playing
for the next Okay, he does it anymore, but he

(45:04):
did for a while. And so I was like, oh, yeah, okay,
New York Nights. That's why I'm going to see what time,
Yeah that will be them. I don't know when, but
I'll go and see a game.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
And it's New York so it's like fun, cool city.
So there's more to do than just that too.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
And you're yeah, well, because there was one time where
I was like, I could go to like a Memphis
Grizzlies game or Atlanta and see a game to like
cross it off the list.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Do the one you really want to do.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
That's what I'm thinking of Memphis Grizzlies. I know, I
don't have a desire of a team.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
I just really want to go the experience. Yeah, don't
do Memphis. That team should be in Nasville. By the way,
I shouldn't even be in Memphis. It's such a ridiculous.
I know, it's so stupid when they went to Memphis.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
I think Memphis used to be a pretty happen in city.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah, like in nineteen thirty.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, well when did they go there?

Speaker 1 (45:41):
No, it was the dumbest thing. They were in Vancouver,
which is kind of weird because Vancouver is like a
big city. There were the Vancouver Grizzlies, which made a
lot more sense. Yeah, and now they're the Grizzlies in Memphis. Like, okay,
they moved there. I think like maybe it was like
their early two thousands and everyone's like, they're going to Memphis.
I never even heard of Memphis. I remember when it happened.
I was like, what Memphis is it?

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Because they had a specific arena that like fit that
or I feel like that because it's always something to
do with the lobbying and politics and all that kind
of crap, and they feel like Memphis was a basketball town.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Memphis has been. I mean, it's it's cool. We go
there sometimes for some like Saint Jude stuff and and
Elvis is there, but it's like you go to Memphis
and you're like, this is like a ghost town.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Yeah now for sure.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Yeah, it's been that way for like the last fifteen
years has been a ghost town. So it's kind of like,
I don't understand why there's an NBA team here, m.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Hm, So just bring them on a couple of hours.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, put it in Nashville. What the hell. There's way
more happening here in Nashville than there is Memphis, and
you'd be able to sell out the freaking games called Grizzlies.
Kind it's just changed the name.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
It should be completely.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, the should drop the at this point. Like when
Seattle SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City, they became the Thunder
because because SuperSonics doesn't make sense there. So it's kind
of like that's fair.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, you just drop it all.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Yeah, you just called something else. She's be called Nashville Guitars.
I don't know, national picks, national picks, yeah exactly, Yeah, something.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
That sounds weird. Yeah, but it goes with the basketball team.
There's pick plays, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Or they can call it music City because like the
Golden State Warriors, they're not called San Francisco Warriors, they're
called Golden State Warriors, so you could be called Music
City something. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Yeah see I'm on board now. Yeah, bring all the
professional teams I'll be there. I watched a lot of sports,
but I'll be at all the games.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Yeah we got hockey. Yeah, hockey is a really big
sport here in the South.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Hey, I did go to those games and they were
in the playoffs. I had the time of my life.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
It's fun. Hockey is fun, but it's also kind of
like I've never really been a hockey eye because in Florida,
no one cares about hockey, and then California, no one
cares about hockey. And I moved here and I'm like,
people care about hockey. I was like, where outside of
Canada or the North, who gives a crap about this sport?

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Yeah, people love it. And the playoffs, man, they were packed.
That was a cool experience. And again yeah, just like
not being someone who like really is familiar with a
lot of that stuff, I will be a number one
fan in the stands, Okay, I just have a great time.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Yeah, those environments.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Are so fun to me and it's kind of cool,
Like I remember I used to go to La King's
game and those were fun because like at the very beginning,
they like it would get dark and the lights just
shut off and they play Metallica d like, oh my god,
I play Metallica. It's like it was this whole themed
out intro and it was hardcore. It was really cool.
It gets you hype, get super hyped, and it's cold
in there, so you don't really get sweaty or hot

(48:17):
or anything, so you bring a jacket. It was kind
of like interesting.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
See okay, well, petition to bring every professional team to Nashville.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Yeah, no, and missing baseball and basketball.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Right bringing a professional basketball and a professional baseball team
to Nashville.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yeah, I don't see whether why it doesn't already exist.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Well, maybe it did not give us worse traffic, but okay,
tell the people where they can find you.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
You can find me. The handle of where you will
be locating my stuff is Scuba Steve Radio, s C
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Instagram and on TikTok, and I'm also still on X.
I rarely post there. I also have threads, but I
haven't posted there, and god knows how long.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
You're not automatically post from Instagram. No, you know you
can automatically post for me.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yeah, I means that automatically set it up and I
don't automatically switch it. I don't I don't feel like
doing it right now.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
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Enjoy the rest of your holiday break. Stay safe, happy holidays.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Oh yeah, that's the best bits of the week with Morgan.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
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