June 19, 2025 • 31 mins
Welcome back to the Friday diary - this time from Memphis and Nashville
This week's ep is an adventure to Tennessee (Memphis and Nashville). Mum and I had a girls Elvis trip which was unreal, then i headed to Nashville for a day of music exploring the Johnny Cash museum and Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come
to from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,
so I'll share with you what's going on in my world,
from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health discoveries,
to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay Beaches. Come with me
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as I share my adventures with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hello, pod Diary. For you, this pod diary.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Will feel a little bit It is the week that
was in America, but I've done a little bit of
travel in the last week. I got back at midnight
last night from Nashville. I also went to Memphis. Met
Mom in Memphis, and we did I want to call
it a mother daughter birthday celebration. So I got in
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exactly a month before Mum's birthday next month month, and
then that same date is exactly three months before my
birthday because we were both born on the fourteenth. She
was the fourteenth of July and I was fourteenth of September.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So we got in.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We met at Memphis Airport, and I just want to
check if there's anything else I going to tell you about.
Before Memphis By the way, because this is a week
catch up. I think I told you I put a
diary up. I also filmed an exciting audition that all
happened since we last spoke, so I don't want to
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miss anything for this update. I feel like I need
my phone here because I'm completely.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Like the photo. It's like a photo diary.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It just gives me a really good guide of it,
even though I've written a whole substack on this. Anyway,
since we last spoke. I recorded it right before we went.
We Boss and I went to the Month and Son's
concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Holy mac Deaf the best
live performance I've ever seen, And you know me, I
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love a live gig. I love a performance. I've seen
some of my favorite artists over the years, but this
was hands down the best. The passion, the energy, like
I cried for about half of it, Like it was
that the feels, oh, and like the great thing about
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Momfter's sons is there's like songs that are like you
get so excited about and like everyone's dancing around and
going mental for and then there are songs that are
like really mallow and heartfelt and you know, bring up
the feels and everyone goes super quiet for them, like
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it's so beautiful to experience all of those things. So
we went to the gig at the Hollywood Bowl. I cried,
I got a bit of merch because I'm mad for
a bit of merch.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And it was just on flipping.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Their support act was I believe It's good neighbors and
they do that song home and which was really fun
because as we walked in that's what was playing as well.
We had really great seeds. I had just to be honest.
As soon as the tickets went on sale, I was
stalking the tickets daily and I was watching to see
if there was a price hike or decrease. And then
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when Boss got back from Australia, I was like, let's
just check, and we went. I just went to like
faux book them essentially, and I was able to see
like there were nearly no spots at all in the
entire of the Hollywood Bowl next to one another, and
I was like, shivers, we got to pull this trigger now.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So we pulled the trigger.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
They were an investment, but they were unreal, and we
sat together and there were surprise fireworks at the end.
Oh so good, Like ten out of ten, all the
bangers in there, all the faves like Little Lionman, the Cave.
The Cave is what they closed with the fireworks coming out,
but then also so much stuff off their new album
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Rush Me Up. I highly recommend if you're listening to
this and you see that they're touring near you, because
they're about to do a whole railroad tour as well,
definitely get tickets because the passion is just like none other,
none other, and also being at that iconic location. Even
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at the very start, Marcus Mumford was like this is
the best. He's like, this is my favorite place to
perform in the whole entire world. I think he might
drop the F bomb in there as well. So that
was unflipp and real loved it, loved it, loved it
so much and just oh So. That was Thursday night.
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Then I worked Friday. Friday night, I had a meet
with my agent in Australia and then Boss my me
dinner and literally went to bed, got picked up at
four am in the morning to get a six am flight. Two.
You can't go fun fact, you can't go LA to
Memphis direct.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Do you have to go La Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Or I don't know where it was, but I went
to Austin is where I had to go. So I
had to go La Austin, which is Austin is in
the state of Texas, and then Austin to Memphis, Tennessee.
So I've never spent any time in Texas. I'd love
to one day, but I was like, oh my god,
to stick another state of America. I've figured out before
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I record this, I've visited six states in America so far,
and there's something like fifty two, isn't there. So I've
been to New York, California, Hawaii, Florida, oh seven, Tennessee
obviously I've just got back from and if you include
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Texas because of the airport six, that is six oh
hang on California, New York, Florida, Hawaii, Tennessee, Texas six. Anyway,
it was.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The flight was fine. Sorry was getting sidetracked. The flight
was fine.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It is just there's a time difference, so they're on
Central Time in Tennessee, which means they're two hours ahead
of us in LA. And the travel day ended up
being about six and a half hours. And that was
a good run, as in like you can spend twelve
hours flying there ten hours flying there, like it's a hike.
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So a friend of mine, Freddie if you ever listened
to this, said to me, if you're going to go
to Memphis, He's like, because you're going so far for
a really short amount of time, try to tack on
another day and do Nashville, which is what I did
now full I'm not going to go into crazy depth
in this diary because on Monday, I'm bringing out a
Memphis Nashville special. So I will go into all the detail.
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What was great about it, what was it all the things.
I'll just be like completely honest with you about it all.
I'll give you a bit of that now as well.
But I must say it was so good to tack
on Nashville because it felt like a whole other adventure.
And I spent a day in Nashville, and then I
flew out last late last night, so it was like
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a big travel couple of days. But it was so
I think it was really worth spending that extra day
in soaking up Nashville because I've done New York in
two nights before you fly, and you've got two nights
New York and you fly jet straight back. I think
I prefer like tacking that extra day on, like having
a little bit more to just ground yourself and then
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coming back. And yeah, I think I think that three
nights is my sweet spot when I go away as
a postal, two nights is like you just get your
rhythm and then you leave.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think I figured out that that's what how I
like to travel.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Anyway, So Mom and I met, and like I said,
it was a month before her birthday of the day
I got in and a month to three months before mine.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So we and we just wanted to explore.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So Beiale Street is like famous like music strip for
the blues, right, and so we went there. We explored it,
lots of like touristy attraction y spots and we went
out for dinner there at a place called Blue City
Cafe and it's in the middle of Beale Street. It's
unreal though, really great food. I got ribs, Mum got
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gumbo and like collard greens.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
They love greens in the South.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I gotta say the food overall, the food in Memphis,
like if you just aren't too worried about like like
as a nutritionist, I had to kind of be like
this is okay, you're traveling. The food was incredible, do
you know what I mean? Like it was all that
Southern food, Like I had biscuit one day, I had
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ribs and beans. When I went to Nashville, I had
hot chicken, and everything comes out with like hot honey.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Oh so good.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So I would say, like it's definitely a foodies paradise,
maybe not a health foodies paradise. Like there was no
Whole Foods in Memphis that I could see. The Trader
Joe's was over half an hour away, So it's definitely
more of a foodies heaven than necessarily health foodies heaven.
But I did find I was able to find some
really good coffee. So good, right, So we went to that.
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We did Bill Street the first night and then just
kind of like meandered on back and then the second
day was kind of like we all all that we
had planned for the second day was Sun's Studio, which
is the famous recording studio set up by Sam Phillips
and it's where Elvis kind of got his big break.
He went in at eighteen, paid the like I think
it was something like four dollars to record a song,
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which was that famous song as known for which is
it's alright, mama, and then there like secretary, she was
like said to Sam Phillips because he wasn't there that day,
she was like, oh my god, you gotta hear this kid.
He's amazing. But Sam Phillips was trying to get away
from pop so he was like, na, not having it.
But he bought Elvis in a year later to be
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a vocalist for a band he was putting together, and
that's when everything kind of turned around for Elvis. But
also Johnny Cash wrote there. Jerry Lee Lewis, which is
great Balls of Fire wrote there as well, so it's
like incredible. And before Sam Phillips passed away, he donated
one of the recording microphones and he said, my only
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stipulation is that you don't hide this behind glass, like
let people touch it, hold it, feel the energy of it.
And like there's still sticky marks on the floor from
where Elvis was like would stand and record, So you
like literally get to stand where Elvis stands, You get
to hold the mic that Elvis sang into really fucking
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kol same with like Johnny Cash. It was less of
a note to Johnny Cash, even though I think he's
done more records.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
With Sun Studio than Elvis.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Maybe I don't know, but heavy into music, so worth
it twenty buckos and it's got a little coffee shop
attached to it and a great gift store.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Highly recommend.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And then the next day was our oh, and then
that afternoon Mum really wanted to go to the Civil
Rights Museum, which is called the Lorraine Hotel. It's where
Martin Luther King was shot. I also really love Otis reading,
and I really wanted to explore a bit more of
the music culture in Memphis, and so I went to
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Stacks Music Museum. I believe it's called the Music Museum
of American Soul Music. And it was unreal. I didn't
understand that I went to a really unsafe area though,
and I did a little Google when I got home,
and like, I think there were four shootings in the
last forty eight hours or something in the area I
went to. Because my uber driver Legit was like, honey,
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you've got a gun. And I was like no. She's like, honey,
you're gonna need one. And I'm like what, And she's like,
You're gonna need a gun around here, And I was like, oh,
my god. So anyway, I get into the museum and
it shuts and I'm waiting for my uber and it
says twelve minutes. And that literally the security guard and
the person running the museum that they stood with me
because they're like, oh, no, you cannot stand to stand
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out here alone. So they stood with me. It was bright,
it was like five pm. It was bright daylight, and
they were like, nah, we're staying with you. So they
stayed with me while they waited for.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The uber driver.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So there were a few moments where I was like,
oh wow, and it felt Memphis, I will say, felt
very deserted, like there's no one on the streets. There's
no hustle and bustle. There is in Beale Street like
that like music Celebration Street, but that street is like
one hundred meters long. It's very small and short. So
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just fascinating, and I think I would just say, like,
definitely research the area you stay if you go to Memphis.
And then the next day was Graceland Day. So Graceland
is kind of like in its own area outside of Memphis,
which it actually had a cool little vibe too, of
like shops and good foodie spots around it as well,
and graceland. I would say, if you go give yourself
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the whole day. We got there at eleven and stayed
till it closed, which was five pm, and we got
we saw everything that we wanted, like fully everything, but
that last kind of like half an hour, we were
a little bit in a rush because we were like
like we can't miss the plane. Blah blah blah planes.
Sorry plural, but Graysun was incredible. I would say his
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grave is like super emotional. Basically before he passed away,
he had set that area up as his own meditation spot,
so he's fulling into like numerology crystals, like he would
wear a tiger's eye gold ring and then he had
a fire opal gold ring socurl. But where when you
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get to his meditation area, which is where he's buried.
I believe his grandmother Minnie, his mom is married Gladys
Gladys Love he's his mum's name, and then his dad Vernon,
and then Lisa Marie is buried there and her son Benjamin.
So there's a lot, like it's quite sad, like there's
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a lot of feeling and emotion and everything that comes up,
Like I was like, oh my god, like it just
all you want is cry.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's really so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But like the feeling there and the energy is just
like like really hits you. And as soon as like
you go from because you tour his whole house at Graceland,
Pierce the Jungle Room, it was my fave or going
to way more depth on the full Memphis and Nashville
episode that will come out on Monday, but the whole
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house is like quite fun and you can imagine where
he would have like sat and had dinner and chilled
with his buttos and all of that kind of thing
and written music. But there when you get to the
memorial section and where he's buried, is just like a
wave of emoe. Like it is like like I'm even
like controlling myself right now because it's like a tidal
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wave of emotion just like washes over you, over you,
and you're like, oh my god, this is so sad
but really beautiful at the same time. So if you
are an Elvis fan one hundred percent, go to Graceland,
like one hundred million percent, I would say go to
Graceland Sun Studio. If you're into music in general and
you love like otis Redding. Isaac Hayes one hundred percent.
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Go to Stacks Museum as well. Just be super aware,
hyper aware of the area. I felt super safe at
Graceland and pretty fine at Sunsserea. We walked in Sunstreio.
Did that's downtown? We walked there, but like you probably
wouldn't walk there at night. I would say, but yeah,
just be I would say, like, be aware of that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I believe Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't know too much about the states and politics
on that, but I believe Memphis is blue, but Tennessee
is red.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So Graceland ten out of ten, absolutely amazing. We get
back to the hotel that oh. We actually had beautiful
ribs at a place right near Graceland called Marlow's, And
the whole cafe is like a diner.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's all themed around Elvis.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So if you want to enjure day like in amazing
Elvis mode, go there and like I got a whiskey.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It was five dollars fifty.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
The food, living, and expenses in Memphis is cheap, much
cheaper than Nashville, definitely cheaper than LA but really cheap.
So your expenses in Memphis would be Graceland. I think
tickets are about seventy five bucks a pop, and you're
a calm in your flights and even ubers aren't expensive
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because Memphis, like to get from the airport to like
anywhere in Memphis is like twenty five minutes and it's
like twenty bucks in an uber, so it's not crazy.
So I would say spend your money on like saying,
in a nice area and you're a obviously your combat
your flights and your Graceland tickets, all the other tours
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like twenty bucks like Stacks and Sun Studio.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Else.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, So that was Memphis mum, and then went on
to Chicago. Fun fact, she was meant to get a
train that something got derailed, so she didn't get the train.
She came back to our calm because I was flying
out the next morning. She didn't call it well because
my phone goes on do not disturb at night. This
was all happening at like eleven pm at night. Anyway,
I'm like facetiming Matt, and I can hear someone. It
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was like a lock box where you had to put sorry.
It was like a code box where you had to
like dip a code to get in I think ours
was like five nine three two or something anyway, and
she's trying to do this code and I'm like, oh, Boss,
someone must be locked out of their apartments. Because that
was like a motel, it was all linked. I was like,
I can hear someone trying to get into their house.
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And I was like, fuck, they sound close. Imagine if
they were trying to get into my apartment. I'm on
my own this stage. And for sure, the two we
were staying on a place called Millionaires Row and it
was where all the millionaires back in the Victorian like
Heyday would live. And I was like fuck, and it's
definitely haunted. And I was like, fuck, it feels very
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like someone's trying to get into my apartment. Like I
could hear them hitting like beep, trying to do the code.
Right next minute, all I can see is the door
handle being trying to be open. I'm like, oh my god,
I'm about to get murdered. I might face on my boss,
might face, I might boss. Someone's at the door. Someone's
at the door, and I can just see the handle
going and I'm like, oh my god. And then finally,
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after a couple of minutes, Lauren Lauren.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It's mom.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
My name is Lauren, even though I get called Lola,
and I'm like, oh my god, mom washed, So I
open it. She comes in like a tornado out, like emotional, running,
like beside herself. The train's being canceled. I was like, okay,
calm down, sit down, what needs to happen. She's like,
I need a book a flight out. I need a
book a flight out. And I was like, okay, sit down,
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you look a flight out. What do I need to do?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You need a call train and get and get a refund.
I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So it's fucking eleven thirty pm. I'm on the phone
to Ammarak or whatever the effing train company is called,
trying to get her a refund. Oh my goodness, the
Adventures of Wendy I tell you. Anyway, she got herself
a flight. She got a flight for the next morning.
We have to have another call with like the people
that she booked the train through, and her travel agent
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will be across that. Anyway, Anyway, we got there, and
then what I did was I actually got a bus.
You can book this bougie bus service called von Lane
from Memphis to Nashville three and a half hours, beautiful,
like obviously acrossing like beautiful forest land, lots of rivers
and waters. I'm hoping one of them was Mississippi River
river because I obviously like that's where I was.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I was like, is this the Mississippi? Is this?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Anytime we covered a big body of water, I was like,
is this Mississippi. So I'm gonna have to do research
to see if I legit did cross the Mississippi River.
That is one thing I would have done if I
had more time in Memphis. I probably would have got
to see the Mississippi River and just chilled there and
you know, soap that up. But we definitely didn't have time,
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and my trip was very much one of a musical
themed adventure. So then I got to Nashville at about
lunchtime and I straight away it was pit singing down
with rain like full torrential. So I straightway they drop
you at a hotel and I just walked up the
hotel concercution. I was like, Hey, I'm trying to find
the Johnny Cash Museum.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Well, actually I started off I was going to go
to the country a country music Hall of Fame and
museum and I got there and I had a little
weely suitcase and I was like hey, and they're like,
you cannot come in with this. You've got to call
this number and they'll look after your suitcase for the day.
And I'm like at a cost and they're like yeah,
and I was like, oh f that. So I was like, Okay,
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I'm just gonna walk to concierge of the hotel where
I got dropped off and I'm just gonna ask them
to direct me to the Johnny Cash Museum, which I was,
to be honest, a bit more pumped for anyway. And
so I was like, can you tell me how to
get to Johnny Cash Museum. They're like, yes, here go
and I was like, my house, please borrow an umbrella,
I promise or return it. And he was like, of course,
gets me an umbrella. And then then I start walking.
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Has made me a map and everything, and he's like miss,
miss miss and I'm like yeah, and he's like let
me store your suitcase. I'm like you sure, and it's
like yes, please let me take your suitcase. So I
was like, oh my goodness, he just solved all of
my problems and not for a don't like I didn't
need to pay. I think they just presumed I was
stowing at the hotel anyway, so I was like, I'm
going to keep I'm still going to hire tailor to
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Johnny Cash because that was kind of my priority. Anyway,
get there are amazing, like a five minute walk, not
even it was insane. The Johnny Cash Museum. If you
like Johnny Cash, you have to go. I know when
Boston I went to OHI last year, I think he
must have had a house out O High as well,
because there's a lot of Johnny Cash memorability there and
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I think we passed one of his houses because there's
like big sign up. Anyway, I digress. Johnny Cash Museum
is incredible. There's so it's like a much smaller version
than a regular museum. It's like probably five rooms. I
didn't know who was an actor and he had his
own talk show called the Johnny Cash Show, so it
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was just like a celebration of his life. There's a
lot of stuff from his house there. The absolute kicker though,
when you leave, it's like this room all dedicated to
his cover of Hurt and Oh my Goodness, and like
the chair from the video clip the chairs there, they're
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like the bronze of his head is there, and it's
all from that video clip, and that video clip hits
you in the heart to the point that I got
to the end of the tour was watching the hurt
video clip crying and I was like, oh my god,
I have to go read and like more positive part
of the tour so that I can walk out and
not be balling my eyes out. But incredible. If you
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like Johnny Cash HUNGI Pete do that.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Do that tour.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
And it's just off Broadway, which is like the main
tourist drag of Nashville. And then I just had to
walk around Broadway for a bit because I was like,
this is like, you know, the Times Square of Nashville essentially,
and there's like music in the middle of day just
coming out of every bar, and there's like whiskey bars,
and there's everyone's wearing cowboy hats and cowboy boots. You
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can buy cowboy hats, you can buy cowboy boots. And
I didn't get any of it because I was like, oh,
and this is something that I want to share with Boo,
with Bossachngo. But I did get a cool little souvenir
from the Johnny Cash Museum. I bought this cool Johnny
Cash patch because Matt and I loved putting patches on
our jackets, so.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That was unreal.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And then I made my way back to the Country
Hall of Fame and Museum and it was like by
this stage, it was three point thirty maybe three forty five,
and they're like, just want to be really honest with you.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
This is shutting at five. And I was like, can
I do it?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And they're like, yeah, we just need to let you
know though, and they're like, do Dolly Parton first.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I was like, okay, So I go up.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's like a two level museum and there's a special
Dolly Parton exhibition on right now. That was really cool,
kind of like not crazy big, but really cool. If
you're a Dolly fan, you'd love it. And I love
that they had a lot of scripts from her movies
there and props from her movies, and yeah, it was
really really cool, and like all her costumes, tiny little waist,
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that little thing, but and like there's a banjo and
there's all glittereds and spangled stuff from like all the concerts.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Really really cool.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Then there's an Education Center and there was security there
and I was like, oh, can I go in. She's
like yeah, And there's a whole education center because it's
also a not for profit, I believe. And there's a
whole Taylor Swift section, very fascinating, and it's like little
classrooms where people got to learn about the history of music.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Very cool. And then the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Level for the top level is all the history of music,
specifically country music, and there is just like so it's
so cool. It's just like that top level. I loved,
love love loved, and it was very much like he
There was a whole nother like Johnny Cash section, June
Karta section, little bit of elvest one of his Cadillacs is.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
There, very very cool.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
There was that that Jerry Lee Lewis guy was there again,
the Great Balls of Fire guy. And there was another
like replica of Sun's studios there as well, or Sun's studios,
so you got to see like more of the cool
stuff that it was made there.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that was unreal.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh my gosh, I've already hit twenty five minutes. I'm like, really,
that's so much to cover, so much to cover.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But it was.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And then the next so then you do all of that,
and then you go down to the next level and
it's all current musicians. So that was very much like
Tata Ry and Shelton, Chris Stapleton. There's a whole Luke
Holmes thing going on there right now. There was Oh
my god, so much what's that guy's name, Morgan, what's
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his name Morgan Wallen. There was a whole post Malone
section because we know he's gone. More country vibes of
late more Tata I put it all up on my
story as you saw if you saw it, Cody Johnson.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
There was just like a lot of like kill kill
kill kill new.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Music as well, and then for me, the highlight was
actually the last bit, which is the rotunder. I didn't
even know this exists, but basically it's this special sphere
that like the way sound sounds in it is like amazing,
but it's literally the Hall of Fame bit and that's
where there are.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Like plaques of.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Anyone that's been inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame on the walls and like totally made a wish there.
There is a wishing well there as well, and it's
so beautiful and that feels very like magical and special,
and that's the end of the tour, at the end
of the museum, and that was effing cool. And then
I just quickly went to this place and was meant
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to have famous chicken sandwiches, which is really chicken burgers,
let's be real, called Hattie Bees, and I got that
and then high tailed it to the airport and that
was my adventure. And then today I go back to work,
and then tomorrow is Juneteenth here, which is a massive
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public holiday, and then you've got so this diary will
come out essentially tomorrow for me, but yeah, you don't
need to know that.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't know why I overshare.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And then Monday's episode will be a full blow black bloh,
you know of like good food recommendations for Memphis, food
recommendations for Nashville. Just in the time that I had there,
how I got from A to B, Like just so
that if you decide to ever do that kind of
a trip, it's a good trip to do together, I
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would say, because you're in Tennessee and so you're getting
to see a lot if you go to both places,
especially if you're doing kind of that for me was
like obviously very much a music culture trip, you know,
so I highly recommend, loved it, good amount of time.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Three nights away.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Three nights away, like I said at the start, is
like my total sweet spot.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
But that's going to come out on Monday. The Monday
that just went.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Was with Western and Wade, the co creators of the
Codependent Pilot. I'm going to promo that really heavily on
my end tomorrow I think tomorrow or today, I think tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And so if you've missed that, it's just I haven't
promoted it because I was traveling in a way. But
I'm going to get go heavy with that on socials
so you can get to see because we filmed that
whole interview in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Very cool, very fun. Okay, So that's that's that update.
I bought my decor cards in here. I'm just going
to do a little shuffle and pull a card because
I love that we have that ritual now on Fridays.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But I hope you like that update.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Little adventure time a bit of an adventure time for me,
and I didn't want to miss telling you about Mumford
and Sons because it was so good and I got
so I cried, so I cried the next day telling
Mat about it, like that's how good it was, and
a few people the yogrest Ye had been to and
I was like, fucking how good is his voice? And
he's like everyone was like, he's just the best. When
I say he Marcus Mumford King also extremely handsome, Boss Snows,
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don't worry. Like if I'm watching Mumft and Sun's tiktoks
at nights, Matt's like, you're watching your boyfriend. I go, yeah, absolutely,
you better believe it all right. I've pulled three cards
Past Present, Future. Card one Contemplation Time spend time alone,
meditating upon what you truly desire. Card two Today Treasure Chest,
an unforeseen windfall of new abundance comes to you.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Now. I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Card three Future, which can be today an hour's time, tomorrow,
a week, whatever feels right for you. Your prayers and questions
are being answered by synchronistic events. Notice them in order
to increase their flow synchronicity. And then there's one card
that's just popped out here. It's a friendship card. Make
a date for play a play day with one or
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more friends. I know I need to do that because
I need to text my friend today. Underneath it, the
bottom of the deck is break free, try different ventures
and experiences and as a way to grow and learn.
Top of the deck is oh my favor card. Soulmate
relationship and new romance with spiritual bias is here for
you now. So take whatever you like from that reading.
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I will speak to you very soon, because obviously I'm
about to record Monday's EPP which is all about Memphis
and Nashville. So it's a bit of a Tennessee themed
pod and to a guide for if you ever are
traveling there, and it will be food, tours, experiences, the
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absolute works. All right, hooru, you're the best buye
Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come
to from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,
so I'll share with you what's going on in my world,
from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health discoveries,
to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay Beaches. Come with me
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as I share my adventures with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hello, pod Diary. For you, this pod diary.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Will feel a little bit It is the week that
was in America, but I've done a little bit of
travel in the last week. I got back at midnight
last night from Nashville. I also went to Memphis. Met
Mom in Memphis, and we did I want to call
it a mother daughter birthday celebration. So I got in
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exactly a month before Mum's birthday next month month, and
then that same date is exactly three months before my
birthday because we were both born on the fourteenth. She
was the fourteenth of July and I was fourteenth of September.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So we got in.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We met at Memphis Airport, and I just want to
check if there's anything else I going to tell you about.
Before Memphis By the way, because this is a week
catch up. I think I told you I put a
diary up. I also filmed an exciting audition that all
happened since we last spoke, so I don't want to
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miss anything for this update. I feel like I need
my phone here because I'm completely.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Like the photo. It's like a photo diary.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It just gives me a really good guide of it,
even though I've written a whole substack on this. Anyway,
since we last spoke. I recorded it right before we went.
We Boss and I went to the Month and Son's
concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Holy mac Deaf the best
live performance I've ever seen, And you know me, I
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love a live gig. I love a performance. I've seen
some of my favorite artists over the years, but this
was hands down the best. The passion, the energy, like
I cried for about half of it, Like it was
that the feels, oh, and like the great thing about
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Momfter's sons is there's like songs that are like you
get so excited about and like everyone's dancing around and
going mental for and then there are songs that are
like really mallow and heartfelt and you know, bring up
the feels and everyone goes super quiet for them, like
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it's so beautiful to experience all of those things. So
we went to the gig at the Hollywood Bowl. I cried,
I got a bit of merch because I'm mad for
a bit of merch.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And it was just on flipping.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Their support act was I believe It's good neighbors and
they do that song home and which was really fun
because as we walked in that's what was playing as well.
We had really great seeds. I had just to be honest.
As soon as the tickets went on sale, I was
stalking the tickets daily and I was watching to see
if there was a price hike or decrease. And then
(03:24):
when Boss got back from Australia, I was like, let's
just check, and we went. I just went to like
faux book them essentially, and I was able to see
like there were nearly no spots at all in the
entire of the Hollywood Bowl next to one another, and
I was like, shivers, we got to pull this trigger now.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So we pulled the trigger.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
They were an investment, but they were unreal, and we
sat together and there were surprise fireworks at the end.
Oh so good, Like ten out of ten, all the
bangers in there, all the faves like Little Lionman, the Cave.
The Cave is what they closed with the fireworks coming out,
but then also so much stuff off their new album
(04:05):
Rush Me Up. I highly recommend if you're listening to
this and you see that they're touring near you, because
they're about to do a whole railroad tour as well,
definitely get tickets because the passion is just like none other,
none other, and also being at that iconic location. Even
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at the very start, Marcus Mumford was like this is
the best. He's like, this is my favorite place to
perform in the whole entire world. I think he might
drop the F bomb in there as well. So that
was unflipp and real loved it, loved it, loved it
so much and just oh So. That was Thursday night.
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Then I worked Friday. Friday night, I had a meet
with my agent in Australia and then Boss my me
dinner and literally went to bed, got picked up at
four am in the morning to get a six am flight. Two.
You can't go fun fact, you can't go LA to
Memphis direct.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Do you have to go La Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Or I don't know where it was, but I went
to Austin is where I had to go. So I
had to go La Austin, which is Austin is in
the state of Texas, and then Austin to Memphis, Tennessee.
So I've never spent any time in Texas. I'd love
to one day, but I was like, oh my god,
to stick another state of America. I've figured out before
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I record this, I've visited six states in America so far,
and there's something like fifty two, isn't there. So I've
been to New York, California, Hawaii, Florida, oh seven, Tennessee
obviously I've just got back from and if you include
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Texas because of the airport six, that is six oh
hang on California, New York, Florida, Hawaii, Tennessee, Texas six. Anyway,
it was.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The flight was fine. Sorry was getting sidetracked. The flight
was fine.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It is just there's a time difference, so they're on
Central Time in Tennessee, which means they're two hours ahead
of us in LA. And the travel day ended up
being about six and a half hours. And that was
a good run, as in like you can spend twelve
hours flying there ten hours flying there, like it's a hike.
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So a friend of mine, Freddie if you ever listened
to this, said to me, if you're going to go
to Memphis, He's like, because you're going so far for
a really short amount of time, try to tack on
another day and do Nashville, which is what I did
now full I'm not going to go into crazy depth
in this diary because on Monday, I'm bringing out a
Memphis Nashville special. So I will go into all the detail.
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What was great about it, what was it all the things.
I'll just be like completely honest with you about it all.
I'll give you a bit of that now as well.
But I must say it was so good to tack
on Nashville because it felt like a whole other adventure.
And I spent a day in Nashville, and then I
flew out last late last night, so it was like
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a big travel couple of days. But it was so
I think it was really worth spending that extra day
in soaking up Nashville because I've done New York in
two nights before you fly, and you've got two nights
New York and you fly jet straight back. I think
I prefer like tacking that extra day on, like having
a little bit more to just ground yourself and then
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coming back. And yeah, I think I think that three
nights is my sweet spot when I go away as
a postal, two nights is like you just get your
rhythm and then you leave.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think I figured out that that's what how I
like to travel.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Anyway, So Mom and I met, and like I said,
it was a month before her birthday of the day
I got in and a month to three months before mine.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So we and we just wanted to explore.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So Beiale Street is like famous like music strip for
the blues, right, and so we went there. We explored it,
lots of like touristy attraction y spots and we went
out for dinner there at a place called Blue City
Cafe and it's in the middle of Beale Street. It's
unreal though, really great food. I got ribs, Mum got
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gumbo and like collard greens.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
They love greens in the South.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I gotta say the food overall, the food in Memphis,
like if you just aren't too worried about like like
as a nutritionist, I had to kind of be like
this is okay, you're traveling. The food was incredible, do
you know what I mean? Like it was all that
Southern food, Like I had biscuit one day, I had
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ribs and beans. When I went to Nashville, I had
hot chicken, and everything comes out with like hot honey.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Oh so good.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So I would say, like it's definitely a foodies paradise,
maybe not a health foodies paradise. Like there was no
Whole Foods in Memphis that I could see. The Trader
Joe's was over half an hour away, So it's definitely
more of a foodies heaven than necessarily health foodies heaven.
But I did find I was able to find some
really good coffee. So good, right, So we went to that.
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We did Bill Street the first night and then just
kind of like meandered on back and then the second
day was kind of like we all all that we
had planned for the second day was Sun's Studio, which
is the famous recording studio set up by Sam Phillips
and it's where Elvis kind of got his big break.
He went in at eighteen, paid the like I think
it was something like four dollars to record a song,
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which was that famous song as known for which is
it's alright, mama, and then there like secretary, she was
like said to Sam Phillips because he wasn't there that day,
she was like, oh my god, you gotta hear this kid.
He's amazing. But Sam Phillips was trying to get away
from pop so he was like, na, not having it.
But he bought Elvis in a year later to be
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a vocalist for a band he was putting together, and
that's when everything kind of turned around for Elvis. But
also Johnny Cash wrote there. Jerry Lee Lewis, which is
great Balls of Fire wrote there as well, so it's
like incredible. And before Sam Phillips passed away, he donated
one of the recording microphones and he said, my only
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stipulation is that you don't hide this behind glass, like
let people touch it, hold it, feel the energy of it.
And like there's still sticky marks on the floor from
where Elvis was like would stand and record, So you
like literally get to stand where Elvis stands, You get
to hold the mic that Elvis sang into really fucking
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kol same with like Johnny Cash. It was less of
a note to Johnny Cash, even though I think he's
done more records.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
With Sun Studio than Elvis.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Maybe I don't know, but heavy into music, so worth
it twenty buckos and it's got a little coffee shop
attached to it and a great gift store.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Highly recommend.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And then the next day was our oh, and then
that afternoon Mum really wanted to go to the Civil
Rights Museum, which is called the Lorraine Hotel. It's where
Martin Luther King was shot. I also really love Otis reading,
and I really wanted to explore a bit more of
the music culture in Memphis, and so I went to
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Stacks Music Museum. I believe it's called the Music Museum
of American Soul Music. And it was unreal. I didn't
understand that I went to a really unsafe area though,
and I did a little Google when I got home,
and like, I think there were four shootings in the
last forty eight hours or something in the area I
went to. Because my uber driver Legit was like, honey,
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you've got a gun. And I was like no. She's like, honey,
you're gonna need one. And I'm like what, And she's like,
You're gonna need a gun around here, And I was like, oh,
my god. So anyway, I get into the museum and
it shuts and I'm waiting for my uber and it
says twelve minutes. And that literally the security guard and
the person running the museum that they stood with me
because they're like, oh, no, you cannot stand to stand
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out here alone. So they stood with me. It was bright,
it was like five pm. It was bright daylight, and
they were like, nah, we're staying with you. So they
stayed with me while they waited for.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The uber driver.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So there were a few moments where I was like,
oh wow, and it felt Memphis, I will say, felt
very deserted, like there's no one on the streets. There's
no hustle and bustle. There is in Beale Street like
that like music Celebration Street, but that street is like
one hundred meters long. It's very small and short. So
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just fascinating, and I think I would just say, like,
definitely research the area you stay if you go to Memphis.
And then the next day was Graceland Day. So Graceland
is kind of like in its own area outside of Memphis,
which it actually had a cool little vibe too, of
like shops and good foodie spots around it as well,
and graceland. I would say, if you go give yourself
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the whole day. We got there at eleven and stayed
till it closed, which was five pm, and we got
we saw everything that we wanted, like fully everything, but
that last kind of like half an hour, we were
a little bit in a rush because we were like
like we can't miss the plane. Blah blah blah planes.
Sorry plural, but Graysun was incredible. I would say his
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grave is like super emotional. Basically before he passed away,
he had set that area up as his own meditation spot,
so he's fulling into like numerology crystals, like he would
wear a tiger's eye gold ring and then he had
a fire opal gold ring socurl. But where when you
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get to his meditation area, which is where he's buried.
I believe his grandmother Minnie, his mom is married Gladys
Gladys Love he's his mum's name, and then his dad Vernon,
and then Lisa Marie is buried there and her son Benjamin.
So there's a lot, like it's quite sad, like there's
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a lot of feeling and emotion and everything that comes up,
Like I was like, oh my god, like it just
all you want is cry.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's really so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But like the feeling there and the energy is just
like like really hits you. And as soon as like
you go from because you tour his whole house at Graceland,
Pierce the Jungle Room, it was my fave or going
to way more depth on the full Memphis and Nashville
episode that will come out on Monday, but the whole
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house is like quite fun and you can imagine where
he would have like sat and had dinner and chilled
with his buttos and all of that kind of thing
and written music. But there when you get to the
memorial section and where he's buried, is just like a
wave of emoe. Like it is like like I'm even
like controlling myself right now because it's like a tidal
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wave of emotion just like washes over you, over you,
and you're like, oh my god, this is so sad
but really beautiful at the same time. So if you
are an Elvis fan one hundred percent, go to Graceland,
like one hundred million percent, I would say go to
Graceland Sun Studio. If you're into music in general and
you love like otis Redding. Isaac Hayes one hundred percent.
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Go to Stacks Museum as well. Just be super aware,
hyper aware of the area. I felt super safe at
Graceland and pretty fine at Sunsserea. We walked in Sunstreio.
Did that's downtown? We walked there, but like you probably
wouldn't walk there at night. I would say, but yeah,
just be I would say, like, be aware of that.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I believe Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't know too much about the states and politics
on that, but I believe Memphis is blue, but Tennessee
is red.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So Graceland ten out of ten, absolutely amazing. We get
back to the hotel that oh. We actually had beautiful
ribs at a place right near Graceland called Marlow's, And
the whole cafe is like a diner.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's all themed around Elvis.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So if you want to enjure day like in amazing
Elvis mode, go there and like I got a whiskey.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It was five dollars fifty.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
The food, living, and expenses in Memphis is cheap, much
cheaper than Nashville, definitely cheaper than LA but really cheap.
So your expenses in Memphis would be Graceland. I think
tickets are about seventy five bucks a pop, and you're
a calm in your flights and even ubers aren't expensive
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because Memphis, like to get from the airport to like
anywhere in Memphis is like twenty five minutes and it's
like twenty bucks in an uber, so it's not crazy.
So I would say spend your money on like saying,
in a nice area and you're a obviously your combat
your flights and your Graceland tickets, all the other tours
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like twenty bucks like Stacks and Sun Studio.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Else.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, So that was Memphis mum, and then went on
to Chicago. Fun fact, she was meant to get a
train that something got derailed, so she didn't get the train.
She came back to our calm because I was flying
out the next morning. She didn't call it well because
my phone goes on do not disturb at night. This
was all happening at like eleven pm at night. Anyway,
I'm like facetiming Matt, and I can hear someone. It
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was like a lock box where you had to put sorry.
It was like a code box where you had to
like dip a code to get in I think ours
was like five nine three two or something anyway, and
she's trying to do this code and I'm like, oh, Boss,
someone must be locked out of their apartments. Because that
was like a motel, it was all linked. I was like,
I can hear someone trying to get into their house.
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And I was like, fuck, they sound close. Imagine if
they were trying to get into my apartment. I'm on
my own this stage. And for sure, the two we
were staying on a place called Millionaires Row and it
was where all the millionaires back in the Victorian like
Heyday would live. And I was like fuck, and it's
definitely haunted. And I was like, fuck, it feels very
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like someone's trying to get into my apartment. Like I
could hear them hitting like beep, trying to do the code.
Right next minute, all I can see is the door
handle being trying to be open. I'm like, oh my god,
I'm about to get murdered. I might face on my boss,
might face, I might boss. Someone's at the door. Someone's
at the door, and I can just see the handle
going and I'm like, oh my god. And then finally,
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after a couple of minutes, Lauren Lauren.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It's mom.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
My name is Lauren, even though I get called Lola,
and I'm like, oh my god, mom washed, So I
open it. She comes in like a tornado out, like emotional, running,
like beside herself. The train's being canceled. I was like, okay,
calm down, sit down, what needs to happen. She's like,
I need a book a flight out. I need a
book a flight out. And I was like, okay, sit down,
(18:53):
you look a flight out. What do I need to do?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You need a call train and get and get a refund.
I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So it's fucking eleven thirty pm. I'm on the phone
to Ammarak or whatever the effing train company is called,
trying to get her a refund. Oh my goodness, the
Adventures of Wendy I tell you. Anyway, she got herself
a flight. She got a flight for the next morning.
We have to have another call with like the people
that she booked the train through, and her travel agent
(19:21):
will be across that. Anyway, Anyway, we got there, and
then what I did was I actually got a bus.
You can book this bougie bus service called von Lane
from Memphis to Nashville three and a half hours, beautiful,
like obviously acrossing like beautiful forest land, lots of rivers
and waters. I'm hoping one of them was Mississippi River
river because I obviously like that's where I was.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I was like, is this the Mississippi? Is this?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Anytime we covered a big body of water, I was like,
is this Mississippi. So I'm gonna have to do research
to see if I legit did cross the Mississippi River.
That is one thing I would have done if I
had more time in Memphis. I probably would have got
to see the Mississippi River and just chilled there and
you know, soap that up. But we definitely didn't have time,
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and my trip was very much one of a musical
themed adventure. So then I got to Nashville at about
lunchtime and I straight away it was pit singing down
with rain like full torrential. So I straightway they drop
you at a hotel and I just walked up the
hotel concercution. I was like, Hey, I'm trying to find
the Johnny Cash Museum.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Well, actually I started off I was going to go
to the country a country music Hall of Fame and
museum and I got there and I had a little
weely suitcase and I was like hey, and they're like,
you cannot come in with this. You've got to call
this number and they'll look after your suitcase for the day.
And I'm like at a cost and they're like yeah,
and I was like, oh f that. So I was like, Okay,
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I'm just gonna walk to concierge of the hotel where
I got dropped off and I'm just gonna ask them
to direct me to the Johnny Cash Museum, which I was,
to be honest, a bit more pumped for anyway. And
so I was like, can you tell me how to
get to Johnny Cash Museum. They're like, yes, here go
and I was like, my house, please borrow an umbrella,
I promise or return it. And he was like, of course,
gets me an umbrella. And then then I start walking.
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Has made me a map and everything, and he's like miss,
miss miss and I'm like yeah, and he's like let
me store your suitcase. I'm like you sure, and it's
like yes, please let me take your suitcase. So I
was like, oh my goodness, he just solved all of
my problems and not for a don't like I didn't
need to pay. I think they just presumed I was
stowing at the hotel anyway, so I was like, I'm
going to keep I'm still going to hire tailor to
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Johnny Cash because that was kind of my priority. Anyway,
get there are amazing, like a five minute walk, not
even it was insane. The Johnny Cash Museum. If you
like Johnny Cash, you have to go. I know when
Boston I went to OHI last year, I think he
must have had a house out O High as well,
because there's a lot of Johnny Cash memorability there and
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I think we passed one of his houses because there's
like big sign up. Anyway, I digress. Johnny Cash Museum
is incredible. There's so it's like a much smaller version
than a regular museum. It's like probably five rooms. I
didn't know who was an actor and he had his
own talk show called the Johnny Cash Show, so it
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was just like a celebration of his life. There's a
lot of stuff from his house there. The absolute kicker though,
when you leave, it's like this room all dedicated to
his cover of Hurt and Oh my Goodness, and like
the chair from the video clip the chairs there, they're
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like the bronze of his head is there, and it's
all from that video clip, and that video clip hits
you in the heart to the point that I got
to the end of the tour was watching the hurt
video clip crying and I was like, oh my god,
I have to go read and like more positive part
of the tour so that I can walk out and
not be balling my eyes out. But incredible. If you
(23:02):
like Johnny Cash HUNGI Pete do that.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Do that tour.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
And it's just off Broadway, which is like the main
tourist drag of Nashville. And then I just had to
walk around Broadway for a bit because I was like,
this is like, you know, the Times Square of Nashville essentially,
and there's like music in the middle of day just
coming out of every bar, and there's like whiskey bars,
and there's everyone's wearing cowboy hats and cowboy boots. You
(23:27):
can buy cowboy hats, you can buy cowboy boots. And
I didn't get any of it because I was like, oh,
and this is something that I want to share with Boo,
with Bossachngo. But I did get a cool little souvenir
from the Johnny Cash Museum. I bought this cool Johnny
Cash patch because Matt and I loved putting patches on
our jackets, so.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That was unreal.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And then I made my way back to the Country
Hall of Fame and Museum and it was like by
this stage, it was three point thirty maybe three forty five,
and they're like, just want to be really honest with you.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
This is shutting at five. And I was like, can
I do it?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And they're like, yeah, we just need to let you
know though, and they're like, do Dolly Parton first.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I was like, okay, So I go up.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's like a two level museum and there's a special
Dolly Parton exhibition on right now. That was really cool,
kind of like not crazy big, but really cool. If
you're a Dolly fan, you'd love it. And I love
that they had a lot of scripts from her movies
there and props from her movies, and yeah, it was
really really cool, and like all her costumes, tiny little waist,
(24:35):
that little thing, but and like there's a banjo and
there's all glittereds and spangled stuff from like all the concerts.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Really really cool.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Then there's an Education Center and there was security there
and I was like, oh, can I go in. She's
like yeah, And there's a whole education center because it's
also a not for profit, I believe. And there's a
whole Taylor Swift section, very fascinating, and it's like little
classrooms where people got to learn about the history of music.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Very cool. And then the.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Level for the top level is all the history of music,
specifically country music, and there is just like so it's
so cool. It's just like that top level. I loved,
love love loved, and it was very much like he
There was a whole nother like Johnny Cash section, June
Karta section, little bit of elvest one of his Cadillacs is.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
There, very very cool.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
There was that that Jerry Lee Lewis guy was there again,
the Great Balls of Fire guy. And there was another
like replica of Sun's studios there as well, or Sun's studios,
so you got to see like more of the cool
stuff that it was made there.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that was unreal.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh my gosh, I've already hit twenty five minutes. I'm like, really,
that's so much to cover, so much to cover.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But it was.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And then the next so then you do all of that,
and then you go down to the next level and
it's all current musicians. So that was very much like
Tata Ry and Shelton, Chris Stapleton. There's a whole Luke
Holmes thing going on there right now. There was Oh
my god, so much what's that guy's name, Morgan, what's
(26:17):
his name Morgan Wallen. There was a whole post Malone
section because we know he's gone. More country vibes of
late more Tata I put it all up on my
story as you saw if you saw it, Cody Johnson.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
There was just like a lot of like kill kill
kill kill new.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Music as well, and then for me, the highlight was
actually the last bit, which is the rotunder. I didn't
even know this exists, but basically it's this special sphere
that like the way sound sounds in it is like amazing,
but it's literally the Hall of Fame bit and that's
where there are.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Like plaques of.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Anyone that's been inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame on the walls and like totally made a wish there.
There is a wishing well there as well, and it's
so beautiful and that feels very like magical and special,
and that's the end of the tour, at the end
of the museum, and that was effing cool. And then
I just quickly went to this place and was meant
(27:24):
to have famous chicken sandwiches, which is really chicken burgers,
let's be real, called Hattie Bees, and I got that
and then high tailed it to the airport and that
was my adventure. And then today I go back to work,
and then tomorrow is Juneteenth here, which is a massive
(27:45):
public holiday, and then you've got so this diary will
come out essentially tomorrow for me, but yeah, you don't
need to know that.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't know why I overshare.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And then Monday's episode will be a full blow black bloh,
you know of like good food recommendations for Memphis, food
recommendations for Nashville. Just in the time that I had there,
how I got from A to B, Like just so
that if you decide to ever do that kind of
a trip, it's a good trip to do together, I
(28:17):
would say, because you're in Tennessee and so you're getting
to see a lot if you go to both places,
especially if you're doing kind of that for me was
like obviously very much a music culture trip, you know,
so I highly recommend, loved it, good amount of time.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Three nights away.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Three nights away, like I said at the start, is
like my total sweet spot.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
But that's going to come out on Monday. The Monday
that just went.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Was with Western and Wade, the co creators of the
Codependent Pilot. I'm going to promo that really heavily on
my end tomorrow I think tomorrow or today, I think tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And so if you've missed that, it's just I haven't
promoted it because I was traveling in a way. But
I'm going to get go heavy with that on socials
so you can get to see because we filmed that
whole interview in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Very cool, very fun. Okay, So that's that's that update.
I bought my decor cards in here. I'm just going
to do a little shuffle and pull a card because
I love that we have that ritual now on Fridays.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But I hope you like that update.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Little adventure time a bit of an adventure time for me,
and I didn't want to miss telling you about Mumford
and Sons because it was so good and I got
so I cried, so I cried the next day telling
Mat about it, like that's how good it was, and
a few people the yogrest Ye had been to and
I was like, fucking how good is his voice? And
he's like everyone was like, he's just the best. When
I say he Marcus Mumford King also extremely handsome, Boss Snows,
(29:49):
don't worry. Like if I'm watching Mumft and Sun's tiktoks
at nights, Matt's like, you're watching your boyfriend. I go, yeah, absolutely,
you better believe it all right. I've pulled three cards
Past Present, Future. Card one Contemplation Time spend time alone,
meditating upon what you truly desire. Card two Today Treasure Chest,
an unforeseen windfall of new abundance comes to you.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Now. I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Card three Future, which can be today an hour's time, tomorrow,
a week, whatever feels right for you. Your prayers and questions
are being answered by synchronistic events. Notice them in order
to increase their flow synchronicity. And then there's one card
that's just popped out here. It's a friendship card. Make
a date for play a play day with one or
(30:38):
more friends. I know I need to do that because
I need to text my friend today. Underneath it, the
bottom of the deck is break free, try different ventures
and experiences and as a way to grow and learn.
Top of the deck is oh my favor card. Soulmate
relationship and new romance with spiritual bias is here for
you now. So take whatever you like from that reading.
(31:01):
I will speak to you very soon, because obviously I'm
about to record Monday's EPP which is all about Memphis
and Nashville. So it's a bit of a Tennessee themed
pod and to a guide for if you ever are
traveling there, and it will be food, tours, experiences, the
(31:21):
absolute works. All right, hooru, you're the best buye
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