May 25, 2021 • 30 mins
This is Amy’s ‘5th Thing’ (a bonus episode). ‘4 Things With Amy Brown’ comes out every Thursday, but on Tuesdays Amy shares emails and answers questions that have been sent in. To send Amy a note for the 5th thing just email: 4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Happy Tuesday, everybody. I am here with Chase for the
fifth thing? What up? Chase? What up? What up? Happy
Tuesdays would already say that I can't remember. We always
start the bonus episode off with a quote, and this
is an episode where I like to go over emails
that you have sent in. It has been so helpful
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when you guys put fifth thing in the subject line.
I love it. It makes my day. It makes me
so happy when I see fifth thing in the subject
line because I can just go right to it and Chase.
Someone sent me a quote for the fifth thing, which
I thought was so cool. I appreciate that as well.
Shout out Wendy. She sent me a whole email, but
I'm just going to share the quote part because I
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think she was just sending me a note about something.
But the quote is from Queen Elizabeth the second and
it is grief is the price we pay for love.
And I thought it was fitting because the first email
that gonna get into is circling back to grief because
I had Ali fallon on last Thursday talking about four
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steps you can do to process grief when it comes
to writing and journaling as a therapeutic process and you know,
I know not everybody is totally grieving right now, maybe
in the same way that I'm grieving. You know, my
dad died gosh was it early April? And then we're
having his memorial this coming weekend. So on Friday, I
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hop on a plane to go to South Texas and
celebrate my dad's life and Chase, I'm going to be
traveling with my dad's ashes. Everything's going to go smoothly.
That's the energy that I'm going to put out into
the universe. I think that's good. That's fingers crossed. Mary's
all already done, like all the research of like how
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we need to do Each airline is different, so she's
going to be flying in on Thursday or something to
fly with me on Friday. So I don't, you know,
just extra precaution with the box or how we're going
to do it, and we're like, what, how, how do
what do we put him in? I don't know. He's
in a really pretty box, but I think it'd be
awkward if I have this pretty box and then people
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are like, what's in the box? So because it doesn't
look like an urn, but stas share will be with
me and then my husband's flying down on a different flight.
He's going through Austin. We're going through San Antonio. We'll
be meeting my sister there and all my siblings, and
then we're gonna do a grave side situation. My brother
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is gonna sing, I'm like, okay, so uh, and then
we're all just gonna kind of like say something. And
then I'm the younger sister, so I don't have all
the details planned out. I feel like my siblings are
handling exactly what's going to happen. But to be honest,
I still don't know if we're like burying him right
there in the box next to his mom, or if
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we're like sprinkling him over his mom my half sister.
I was on the phone with her yesterday and she
was talking to me about maybe divvying up my dad
in case people wanted a piece to take with them
and scatter somewhere else. And I my immediate response was, no,
absolutely not. But maybe that's normal. I have no idea.
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I don't there is no normal. I shouldn't use the
word normal, but maybe that's okay. Maybe it's acceptable to me.
I'm like, no, we need to keep him together, But
I guess if you scatter, it's not really together anyway.
But I was like, what do we do, Like take
a table spoon and divvy them up and you each
get your own little zip block back. I don't know.
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I don't think there's a wrong way to do it.
I think everything different. I think my grandparents were cremated,
and I know both situations were different, and so you'll
figure it out. Yeah, we'll figure it out. I guess
I'll just take him and be prepared to go with
the flow and do whatever we end up doing at
the grave site in Dilley, Texas, where a lot of
Moffets are buried, that where we are from. And I
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put up the I posted finally because I finally got
the Ca Bueno shirts that are we made in honor
of my dad to go towards the scholarship fund we've
created his name to help send kids in rural communities
to college. And I got so many. I mean, Dilly
is not It's like a tiny town in South Texas
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that I felt like a lot of people might not know.
And in the comments section, some of like the pride
that was coming from people that were from Dilly or
had heard of Dilly. They're like Dilly represent shout out,
and so I I loved it so much. Or people
near Dilly in that South Texas area that have driven
through their you know, just no of it. Like there's
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just such pride that comes from that area. And so
I'm excited to go there and we'll we'll go and
like get some Mexican food afterwards, because that's what my
dad would want, is everybody getting together and and eating
at one of his favorite Mexican restaurants down there and
having some margarita's and then going back to San Antonio,
spending the night, and then that'll be that. I don't
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even I didn't even plan to get into all of this.
I don't know why the details matter here for me
to go over, but I guess just sharing what's happening.
Oh back, it was I thought of it because of
the quote that was shared, the grief. Grief is the
price we pay for love, Queen Elizabeth. The second and
the first question that I have for the fifth thing
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that was sent to me about last Thursday's episode was
about the prompt that Ali had sent about processing the
grief the steps, So it was step one that she
was asking about so I'm going to read that now
and then we can go over it. Awesome, all right,
it is from Kira in Maryland. Oh. I love that
she signed where she's from too. That's another thing I'm
encouraging people to do. So four things with Amy Brown
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at gmail dot com is the email. If you've got
something for the fifth thing, put it in the subject line.
You can sign it your friend. Love that Kira did
this too. She signed it your friend Kira from Irreland.
And then give me where you're from, because I love
knowing where y'all are in the country or if you're
in another country. Because we're a little bit international. I
know that I've gotten an email from Canada. All right, Hey, Amy,
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I really enjoyed listening to your recent segment with Ali
Fallon about processing grief as an English teacher. I absolutely
loved her perspective about the power of writing. My question
is about the first step of her writing prompt. She
mentioned starting off by saying, I'm letting go of blank.
I don't understand how to fill in that blank. If
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the grief stems from the death of a loved one,
I wouldn't want to say, for instance, I'm letting go
of my grandma, as I will always carry her legacy
and memories of her with me. How do we fill
in this blank without saying we are letting go of
the person we love now before I get into my
response here, and I even reached out to Ali for
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her response, since these are her prompts and what she
thinks are good for this their corapeutic writing process. But
you know I mentioned a minute ago, like you may
not be grieving the death of someone right now, you
might be having to let go of other opportunities like Chase,
you had a really cool, amazing work opportunity during the
pandemic that came up, and you were moving to New
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York and you're about to start something a little bit
different and then boom, New York got shut down. So
that's an example of having to grieve that. Do you
think you ever properly grieve that? Or if there's other
grief you want to share with us here, like if
you had to let go of anything, Yeah, I mean
I think every time, whether it be losing a loved
one or a scenario that didn't go as planned, I
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think you just kind of moved through grief. And for
me personally, it's just letting go of the grief and
then choosing to move into like just being grateful for
what is or what was is. How for me how
it works. Yeah, Well, so I reached out to Ali
with this, and just so that you know my response again,
I leaned into Ali as the expert here on this,
But when I first read this email from Kira, I
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was like, you know, I answered this with, I'm letting
go of the fact that I thought my dad was
going to live with me for a long time. He
had just moved in with me, uh and spent one
full night at my house before he ended up going
to the hospital and getting put on life support, which
was pretty unexpected. I mean, my dad's health wasn't the best,
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but we certainly did not think that that was where
we were headed. I had literally just moved him into
my home and was planning to have a lot of
you know, talks in his room and just spending time together,
making memories him being around my kids and really enjoying
having him around and in my house. So I I
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put like, I'm letting go of the hope that I
had for that. I'm I'm letting go of all those
things that I had built up in my head. So
Kira and anybody else that might be curious about this,
This is what Ali replied back to me when I
sent her here as email. She said, well, it's different
for everyone. There are all kinds of things that we
have to let go of when somebody dies that don't
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include letting go of them exactly or the memories we
hold of them. For example, I'm letting go of the
idea that my dad would live forever. Or I'm letting
go of the thought that the only way to stay
connected to someone is to be with them physically. This
opens up new ways for me to be connected to
them spiritually. Or I'm letting go of the expectation I
had that my grandma would be there for my wedding,
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the birth of my child, some other significant event. I
need to maybe go back and do this for my
mom because I've been missing my mom so much lately
during this season, and I kind of maybe need to
connect with her on a spiritual level and then also
let go of things that you know, she's not here
for a good one. Okay, just had like a self
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moment there. Um. She also put I'm letting go of
the need to know why he or she isn't here anymore.
That's a good one. Or I'm letting go of the
pain I feel around this loss so that I can
feel more joy, love, et cetera. Or I'm letting go
of the bad memories so I can hold on to
the good ones. That one is definitely something I have
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to do for probably I could have done back when
my mom passed away, but also with my dad, there
was a lot of heaviness leading up to what happened.
We had to call nine one one. It was a
very scary moment. Anytime in my entry way, I often
picture us laying there because that's what we were doing.
And then you know, he was on life support and
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we could have kept him alive for a lot longer,
but we chose to remove him, so that whole processes.
It was like an awful but beautiful thing because yes,
we got to be there, but I just had never
done anything like that before. I'm sure if you have,
then you know what I'm talking about. But that's yeah,
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I need to kind of let go of some of
that stuff, and then even replaying the events in my
mind chase that that I could have done something differently,
And don't you think that's probably the most common thing
for all of us when we process grief, is like
playing it through and what could have been done differently,
what I could have done to change the outcome? Right, Yeah, absolutely,
And it's a it's a huge waste of brain space.
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I mean, obviously, if you're thinking it, you need to
kind of process that for a second. But then you can't.
You need to shut it down because it is what
it is. There's nothing I can do to change it.
So if I get fixated on playing that over and
over in my head, it's not healthy for me at all.
And then Ali wrote this last thing in her note
back to me on this. She said, usually it is
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more about letting go of expectations, wishes for the future,
or ideas that we had about life and death than
it is about letting go of the person themselves. Of course,
we hold them in our hearts forever. So hopefully that
was helpful of in case anybody else was feeling like
Kira and they were like, wait, I don't want to
say I'm letting go of Da Da Da. And it
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may not even be even the death of something like
we've mentioned or someone you don't have to let go
of maybe a dream that you had specifically, you can
let go of the expectations of that dream, because I
get that not everyone's processing death at the moment, but
in case you're using that exercise to process something else,
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you can let go of expectations. So many people probably
grieved big life events last year, like giving birth at
a hospital, maybe without your family being able to be
there with you, letting go of your wedding and the
expectations of what you thought that would look like. Which
weddings are back, by the way, Like, I feel like
we're back in full swing. I'm thankful that we're going
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to be able to gather with my dad at a
funeral I I can't imagine, and we're on the other
side of things where now we'll be able to gather
with family and friends and not be that stressful. There's
some people that literally had to go through funerals during
the pandemic where it was just not what it was
it would have been. Like my mom's funeral, there was
hundreds of people what we called it a celebration of life.
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Like it was amazing. It was so cool the turnout.
I couldn't even my Dad's is going to be very different,
a little more intimate. But what we did with my
mom's and the people that showed up, especially because she'd
been in Austin, you know, since the seventies and just
had you know, friendships from all over for years and years,
and just the other people that rallied behind us and
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showed up like it was an event and it was
awesome and we had it was great. It was It
was definitely a celebration of life. It wasn't somber, but
that would have happened if it was in the middle
of COVID. There's no way we would have that special
memory in that time. And so gosh, for people that
had to go through something like that in a season
of social distancing and no travel and not being able
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to have what you thought you were going to have, gosh,
that's hard. Yeah, And I think, like I just appreciate
what Ali shared because it's even got my mind just
spending and reminding like we just aren't in control, And
for being someone who always wants to be in control,
I really suck at surrendering that. Anyways, that's really great
advice and the way to think through things, because it's
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got my my wheels turning for sure. Yeah, if you
haven't listened to last Thursday's episode and you're wondering about
the four steps that Ali shared and the writing prompts
to help you process, just go back and listen to it.
It's the very first thing Ali fallon. She's awesome. Thank
you Ali. She's on Instagram at a L L y
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F A L l O n at Ali Fallon if
you want to follow if you're really into writing, because
that's what she's posting about all the time. So this
next email is from Alyssa. Dear Amy, I'm a longtime
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listener of The Bobby Bones Show and day one of
the Four Things podcast. I were natural deodorant. To prove it,
shout out it's loyal. I once shared my own deodorant
recipe that I would make at home. I haven't made
my own in a long time because I just prefer
to buy the Milk and Honey one off of Amazon.
But yeah, shout out Alissa, I see you. I have
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enjoyed your podcast on many commutes to and from my
job and have been grateful to take this journey along
with you. Unfortunately, there came a time where I felt
like I could no longer relate as much as I
felt overwhelmed that I could not fit some of the
quote things into my day to day life as a
wife and a mom of two with a full time
job during the pandemic. I thought to myself, how in
the world did she find the time for this or that?
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And I started feeling guilty about what I was not
able to make a habit or part of my routine.
And let's face it, mom gil is already heavy as
it is. After an episode where you gave permission to
take a break from anything that isn't giving us joy
or happiness or peace, I reluctantly decided to push pause
on the podcast for a bit. Please understand, it was
nothing personal. I just felt like it was what I
(15:54):
needed to do at the time. Fast forward to today,
and I am so glad to be back. Opening up
about your past issues and recent struggles has given me
an open mind to say, sometimes I am not okay.
Sometimes I'm not the best mom, the best wife, the
best anything, but it's okay to not be okay. I
feel like your recent episodes focusing on mental health in
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a way that is honest and raw, has made me
more aware of my own feelings. I felt at one
time I was merely checking the boxes to get through
life instead of living them out firsthand. Okay, now this
is me talking here, Chase. I'm gonna read the rest
of the email, and it's like, nice stuff. I have
a hard time when people are like I feel uncomfortable
when I read this stuff out loud because it's like
I'm reading it about myself and it feels weird. But
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here we go. Listening to your podcast may not be
a substitute for therapy or medications when needed, but gosh,
what an amazing tool for the rest of us to
get those positive and genuine reminders that you give us
and a glimpse into what real life looks like for
others who may seem to quote have it together. So
thank you for not always having it together and bringing
on guests who can help all of us. Sort. Oh wait,
(17:02):
I guess it's not as complimentary as I thought. Okay, okay,
I mean normally I would just have Houston edit this album.
We'll just leaping in for fun. I thought it was.
I thought it was about to get really complimentary. I mean,
it is nice, it is nice, but yeah, it's not
like saying okay. Just to recap, she said, thank you
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for giving us a glimpse into what real life looks
like for others who may seem to have it together. Yes,
so thank you for not always having it together and
bringing on guests who can help all of us sort
out life a little bit. Loyal fan and podcast friend
Alyssa ps the Shop Forward needs a special shout out,
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best quality, most adorable clothes out there. My husband bought
me a raised them kind crew neck from Other's Day
and I have been wearing it at home like a uniform.
Also a good reminder that it's hard to raise kind
kids without being kind yourself. Thanks for all you do, Melissa. Um. Yes,
that's what Mary and I love about our four things
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I'm Fine pullovers, speaking of you know, the Shop Forward
and the SQUA and stuff. I'm fine, It's fine, Everything
is fine is basically proclaiming that you're not fine and
it's okay to not be fine. It's okay, and I
want everyone to know that we're all going through different stuff.
But I think it's when you're able to to talk
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about it and not stuff it down. I mean, the
shirt is definitely like a play on that. It's not
like saying, literally, I'm fine, it's fine, everything is fine.
It's screaming nothing. Nothing's fine, but we're good. I mean,
of course there are days that are fine and I
still wear it and it's actually good. But it's a
reminder to just like, yeah, be a okay with not
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being okay well, and this kind of reminds me. I
hope this doesn't get too far off subject, but I
want to suggest I binge watched all weekend Oprah and
Prince Harry's The Me you Can't See on Apple TV
focus on mental health and how like everyone has a
story and we're all just trying to get by. So
I totally would suggest that and throw that out there
for all of you just you know who are thinking, yeah,
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I want to watch it, like it's so good and
it's very very well done. Okay, the me you can't
see it's really good. Apple T Do you even have
cable anymore? Do you stream everything? Dream? Everything? So do I,
But now I'm like spending more and more on every
of whatever streaming platform that comes out, every new app,
every this, and then I'm like, okay, great, now this
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is adding up, but at least I don't have cable
on top of that, but I do have Apple Plus
and I do love it, and thank you for that
suggestion because I want to check it out. That reminds
me of a d M that I got, because I
haven't linked it in my Amazon page, but I'll do
that right now. Someone heard me talking on the Bobby
Bone Show about the Body Keeps the Score, but then
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they were like, I didn't see it on your Amazon
so I couldn't remember if that was exactly what it was.
And I've mentioned it here on the podcast multiple times
as well, but I will add that to my Amazon page,
which Chase or are we allowed to talk maybe even
a little bit about what Amazon is going to start doing?
Or no? Yeah, we probably not. Well, I mean there's
nothing to really talk about regarding me other than I
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didn't know if what they're doing is like public. But
Amazon is going to start doing live. Well, it's Amazon Live.
It's essentially kind of that QBC format, but where folks
would be live streaming talking about some of their favorite things,
and those items was kind of scrolling along the bottom
where you can purchase them as you go. We keep
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joking that Amy can go on and do an Amazon
Live about her favorite bird items, and those bird items
would be scrolling across the bottom. Yes. Yeah, I was
watching my little birds this morning and it was I
was having my coffee. It brought me so much peace,
sin joy, and I love how many people are tagging
me in their bird posts like that makes me so
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happy too. I've bought a lot of feeders in the
last few months, like testing them out, and I have
them scattered around my backyard, but my most recent and favorite.
But if I've posted about another one, I still like it.
I had someone else be like, oh my gosh, I
just bought the other feeder you put up. Well, the
reason why I ended up putting up a different feeder
is that feeder had sold out and so then it
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was linking to nothing. You either had to go to
a third party site or it just wasn't available. So
I ordered another one and I was like, oh, I
like this one, so I'm just gonna link it. So
if you ever buy something that I posted before, it
doesn't mean that you need to go buy the next thing.
It's just like I'm I'm updating it, you know, um,
which I'll add back to body keeps the score I'm
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adding that to the book sections so that way I
get it. I'm the same way I see someone post
or talk about something and I don't write it down
right away, and then I can't remember exactly what it is,
and then I go to their page and I'm like, oh,
I don't see it there, so it must not be
the right one, and it is. The Body keeps the
Score is definitely a good listen if you want to
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check that out or book to read. I actually have
the physical it's so scientific and there's a lot of
information of the physical copy that I used to underline
and highlight and look at, and then I have the
audible to listen to, because that's really the only way
I'm gonna get through a whole book these days. Which
back to Alyssa and her note is like, I'm not
doing it all like at all, and so I'm glad
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that she figured out that that was the case. But
if you've ever listened to my podcast and thought that
I am, there's some things I'm failing miserably at. But
I also have great people around me and alongside of me,
and a lot of this, like the Bobby Bones show,
We're that is such a group effort, and we show
up and we do our thing there my podcast. Shout
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out Chase, shout out Houston, Shannon. We all work on
that collectively and it comes to a spawn the Shot
Forward Mary. The Shot Forward is her baby. She runs that.
And then Mary and I have things we work on
together under the Shot Forward umbrella, like Spawn for Things
and Pimp and joy and all of that. But none
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of that would be happening if Mary wasn't doing everything
in California and meeting with the printers and her warehouse
shipping everything out. So and speaking of the people at
the Shop Forward office, shout out to the whole warehouse,
shout out to Ashley and Bonnie who are with Mary
in the office every day. Let's say you ordered the
Cave boy No shirt for my dad, which it's exciting
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to see that people are really liking that. I think
it's a great Father's Day gift. CA Boyo means that's
good if you have anybody in your life that speak
Spanish or you know. It's just a conversation starter type
shirt too, and it has a cool story because it's
benefiting you know, a dad, my dad, Cliff Moffit, Harvey
Clifton off its scholarship fund, so you'll be giving back.
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But also if they don't speak Spanish, cab boy, no,
that's good. You can teach them. They'll have a new
thing that they can say in another language, ca bueno.
And like if you order that, I don't want you
to picture me at home processing your order and then
going to my closet and putting it in a little
package and then going to the mail box and mailing
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it like that is sometimes I think what people picture
and we're doing all the things. But no, thankfully you
placed the order and it goes through the shop Forward
stuff and then Mary and or Ashley or Bonnie they
get the order and then they print out the label
process that the warehouse gets a notification. However they do
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that and then maybe Mary yells back O cabe bueno
coming in hot, just kidding. They have a more sophisticated
setup than that. But then which shout out to the
warehouse because there are a few Spanish speaking people on
the shop Forward team in the warehouse and they they
approved stamp of approval on the cabe Bueno shirt. And
Mike from the Bobby Bones Show, who helped us know
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for sure that we had to put the accent over
the e, because there's two different ways you can spell
Cape Wino or you can say Cape Wueno. The way
my dad said it was always with a like that's cool,
like cabe bueno good love, that kind of a vibe,
which requires the accent over the e and the q
u e accent. So Warehouse approved, Mike d approved, like
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they and we got their help with it. So anyway,
just shout out to everybody there. And they do work
so hard and they package everything up and then they
ship it off. Sometimes there's a truck that will pick
it up, like a big mail truck that picks up
all the orders, or sometimes Mary literally is loading up
her car with orders and running to the post office
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before they close to get everything out. So I just
wanted to clarify how some of that is going down.
And that's whether you're ordering the new Cape Bueno, if
you're ordering maybe a four things I'm fine, or our
joy Seeker, which is our theme song here at the podcast,
be kind, choose joy, laugh a lot, eat cake or
something pimp and joy, which we do have our our red,
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white and blue, like our patriotic line that will be
launching soon in June to benefit Building Homes for Heroes,
which we do every year leading up to fourth of July.
That way, you'll get your new Red Wine Blue merch
in time for fourth of July and then it all
proceeds go towards building Homes for Heroes. And we've selected
our hero already. We have not announced him, but gosh,
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I mean, all veterans are deserving, but this one just
for sure has been through a lot, and I think
it's gonna be so cool to be a part of
building him a home. That's awesome. That's exciting too. We
only got through two emails. Actually we got through three
because I shared a quote from Wendy at the beginning,
grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth
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a second shout out for that. Normally I try to
get through four emails, but I definitely rambled. That's a
little bit more. But yeah, this is is what it is.
We'll be back Thursday for or four Things episode. Don't
forget to follow along with the podcast. Used to be subscribed.
Now it's follow and maybe rate review if you want to.
I might do a thing where I go through some
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of the reviewed comments. The ratings and reviews and just
randomly pick people to reach out to and send them something.
But I'd have to figure that out, or maybe because
because it's not like I know who you are from
the comment. I mean there's a little it says kind
of who it's from, but I don't have details on
how to contact you. So maybe we do this if
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you rate a review and then your reviews posted, then
you take a screenshot of it, and then you tag
me on Instagram, and then I'll pick some people and
we'll just this will be kind of an ongoing thing.
If you ever do it, that would be amazing, and
then just post it and if I happen to see it,
and it's a random selection type thing, I can't do
(27:54):
it for everybody, but we'll try to just sprinkle it
out every once in a while and I'll just send
you maybe whatever item you would like it. Maybe it's
and I'm fine, Maybe it's pimp and Joy, maybe it's
raise them kind, and maybe it's I need a nap
or whatever I can just send you. You can, like
pick something from the website and I'll go to my
(28:16):
little closet and mail it out to you. Just kidding.
Mary will do it, but it takes a village for sure.
I know that sounds so cliche, but we do have
a lot of cool things going on here and my
Heart team. I gotta give Elizabeth Fozzio a shout out.
And then even with the network, Cat Defata and Lisa Ham,
I feel like I'm accepting an award and up giving
(28:39):
my speech. No awards here, oh which I think you
know tonight or the I Heart Radio Music Awards. And
I'm hosting the Red Carpet for the Nashville Artists, So
if you want to check that out, you can. Sponsored
by Dr Pepper zero. I'm gonna see my brother this weekend.
I need to see if he's tried the Dr Pepper zero.
(29:02):
He loves Dr Pepper and I think mostly does the
diet Dr Pepper, But I think Dr Pepper zero tastes
more like the Dr Pepper, like that's the whole thing.
It doesn't have the diety taste. I'm gonna have to
try that because I like Dr Pepper, but I try
to avoid pop. Now. But you say pop, I say coke.
Everything's a coke. Like I grew up saying coke, even
(29:22):
if I was going to get a sprite or Dr
Pepper or diet coke. It's like I want to coke.
And then some people say soda. Some people say pop
so pop is Kansas, Yeah, We're We're pop. Isn't soda South? Yeah?
Or soda? Some people say soda pop towards My daughter
is obsessed with Fanta Fonta, as she says she loves
(29:45):
pineapple fonta. I don't know, is anybody still listening Easton?
You can leave this part in here too, just see
if people make it to the end. I feel like
I've rembled a lot today. You know, this is just
one of those episodes, all right, Chase, thank you for
hopping on with me. It always helps to like look
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at you while I ram well and talk, so it's
like I'm not talking to myself. And thank you to
everyone that supports the podcast and what we're doing. We
really are a family here. I appreciate you a lot, Seriously.
I hope you'll have a great rest of your day
and we'll see you on Thursday for a new Four
Things episode. Bye.
Happy Tuesday, everybody. I am here with Chase for the
fifth thing? What up? Chase? What up? What up? Happy
Tuesdays would already say that I can't remember. We always
start the bonus episode off with a quote, and this
is an episode where I like to go over emails
that you have sent in. It has been so helpful
(00:25):
when you guys put fifth thing in the subject line.
I love it. It makes my day. It makes me
so happy when I see fifth thing in the subject
line because I can just go right to it and Chase.
Someone sent me a quote for the fifth thing, which
I thought was so cool. I appreciate that as well.
Shout out Wendy. She sent me a whole email, but
I'm just going to share the quote part because I
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think she was just sending me a note about something.
But the quote is from Queen Elizabeth the second and
it is grief is the price we pay for love.
And I thought it was fitting because the first email
that gonna get into is circling back to grief because
I had Ali fallon on last Thursday talking about four
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steps you can do to process grief when it comes
to writing and journaling as a therapeutic process and you know,
I know not everybody is totally grieving right now, maybe
in the same way that I'm grieving. You know, my
dad died gosh was it early April? And then we're
having his memorial this coming weekend. So on Friday, I
(01:29):
hop on a plane to go to South Texas and
celebrate my dad's life and Chase, I'm going to be
traveling with my dad's ashes. Everything's going to go smoothly.
That's the energy that I'm going to put out into
the universe. I think that's good. That's fingers crossed. Mary's
all already done, like all the research of like how
(01:51):
we need to do Each airline is different, so she's
going to be flying in on Thursday or something to
fly with me on Friday. So I don't, you know,
just extra precaution with the box or how we're going
to do it, and we're like, what, how, how do
what do we put him in? I don't know. He's
in a really pretty box, but I think it'd be
awkward if I have this pretty box and then people
(02:12):
are like, what's in the box? So because it doesn't
look like an urn, but stas share will be with
me and then my husband's flying down on a different flight.
He's going through Austin. We're going through San Antonio. We'll
be meeting my sister there and all my siblings, and
then we're gonna do a grave side situation. My brother
(02:33):
is gonna sing, I'm like, okay, so uh, and then
we're all just gonna kind of like say something. And
then I'm the younger sister, so I don't have all
the details planned out. I feel like my siblings are
handling exactly what's going to happen. But to be honest,
I still don't know if we're like burying him right
there in the box next to his mom, or if
(02:54):
we're like sprinkling him over his mom my half sister.
I was on the phone with her yesterday and she
was talking to me about maybe divvying up my dad
in case people wanted a piece to take with them
and scatter somewhere else. And I my immediate response was, no,
absolutely not. But maybe that's normal. I have no idea.
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I don't there is no normal. I shouldn't use the
word normal, but maybe that's okay. Maybe it's acceptable to me.
I'm like, no, we need to keep him together, But
I guess if you scatter, it's not really together anyway.
But I was like, what do we do, Like take
a table spoon and divvy them up and you each
get your own little zip block back. I don't know.
(03:38):
I don't think there's a wrong way to do it.
I think everything different. I think my grandparents were cremated,
and I know both situations were different, and so you'll
figure it out. Yeah, we'll figure it out. I guess
I'll just take him and be prepared to go with
the flow and do whatever we end up doing at
the grave site in Dilley, Texas, where a lot of
Moffets are buried, that where we are from. And I
(04:02):
put up the I posted finally because I finally got
the Ca Bueno shirts that are we made in honor
of my dad to go towards the scholarship fund we've
created his name to help send kids in rural communities
to college. And I got so many. I mean, Dilly
is not It's like a tiny town in South Texas
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that I felt like a lot of people might not know.
And in the comments section, some of like the pride
that was coming from people that were from Dilly or
had heard of Dilly. They're like Dilly represent shout out,
and so I I loved it so much. Or people
near Dilly in that South Texas area that have driven
through their you know, just no of it. Like there's
(04:45):
just such pride that comes from that area. And so
I'm excited to go there and we'll we'll go and
like get some Mexican food afterwards, because that's what my
dad would want, is everybody getting together and and eating
at one of his favorite Mexican restaurants down there and
having some margarita's and then going back to San Antonio,
spending the night, and then that'll be that. I don't
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even I didn't even plan to get into all of this.
I don't know why the details matter here for me
to go over, but I guess just sharing what's happening.
Oh back, it was I thought of it because of
the quote that was shared, the grief. Grief is the
price we pay for love, Queen Elizabeth. The second and
the first question that I have for the fifth thing
(05:28):
that was sent to me about last Thursday's episode was
about the prompt that Ali had sent about processing the
grief the steps, So it was step one that she
was asking about so I'm going to read that now
and then we can go over it. Awesome, all right,
it is from Kira in Maryland. Oh. I love that
she signed where she's from too. That's another thing I'm
encouraging people to do. So four things with Amy Brown
(05:50):
at gmail dot com is the email. If you've got
something for the fifth thing, put it in the subject line.
You can sign it your friend. Love that Kira did
this too. She signed it your friend Kira from Irreland.
And then give me where you're from, because I love
knowing where y'all are in the country or if you're
in another country. Because we're a little bit international. I
know that I've gotten an email from Canada. All right, Hey, Amy,
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I really enjoyed listening to your recent segment with Ali
Fallon about processing grief as an English teacher. I absolutely
loved her perspective about the power of writing. My question
is about the first step of her writing prompt. She
mentioned starting off by saying, I'm letting go of blank.
I don't understand how to fill in that blank. If
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the grief stems from the death of a loved one,
I wouldn't want to say, for instance, I'm letting go
of my grandma, as I will always carry her legacy
and memories of her with me. How do we fill
in this blank without saying we are letting go of
the person we love now before I get into my
response here, and I even reached out to Ali for
(06:55):
her response, since these are her prompts and what she
thinks are good for this their corapeutic writing process. But
you know I mentioned a minute ago, like you may
not be grieving the death of someone right now, you
might be having to let go of other opportunities like Chase,
you had a really cool, amazing work opportunity during the
pandemic that came up, and you were moving to New
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York and you're about to start something a little bit
different and then boom, New York got shut down. So
that's an example of having to grieve that. Do you
think you ever properly grieve that? Or if there's other
grief you want to share with us here, like if
you had to let go of anything, Yeah, I mean
I think every time, whether it be losing a loved
one or a scenario that didn't go as planned, I
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think you just kind of moved through grief. And for
me personally, it's just letting go of the grief and
then choosing to move into like just being grateful for
what is or what was is. How for me how
it works. Yeah, Well, so I reached out to Ali
with this, and just so that you know my response again,
I leaned into Ali as the expert here on this,
But when I first read this email from Kira, I
(08:02):
was like, you know, I answered this with, I'm letting
go of the fact that I thought my dad was
going to live with me for a long time. He
had just moved in with me, uh and spent one
full night at my house before he ended up going
to the hospital and getting put on life support, which
was pretty unexpected. I mean, my dad's health wasn't the best,
(08:24):
but we certainly did not think that that was where
we were headed. I had literally just moved him into
my home and was planning to have a lot of
you know, talks in his room and just spending time together,
making memories him being around my kids and really enjoying
having him around and in my house. So I I
(08:46):
put like, I'm letting go of the hope that I
had for that. I'm I'm letting go of all those
things that I had built up in my head. So
Kira and anybody else that might be curious about this,
This is what Ali replied back to me when I
sent her here as email. She said, well, it's different
for everyone. There are all kinds of things that we
have to let go of when somebody dies that don't
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include letting go of them exactly or the memories we
hold of them. For example, I'm letting go of the
idea that my dad would live forever. Or I'm letting
go of the thought that the only way to stay
connected to someone is to be with them physically. This
opens up new ways for me to be connected to
them spiritually. Or I'm letting go of the expectation I
had that my grandma would be there for my wedding,
(09:31):
the birth of my child, some other significant event. I
need to maybe go back and do this for my
mom because I've been missing my mom so much lately
during this season, and I kind of maybe need to
connect with her on a spiritual level and then also
let go of things that you know, she's not here
for a good one. Okay, just had like a self
(09:51):
moment there. Um. She also put I'm letting go of
the need to know why he or she isn't here anymore.
That's a good one. Or I'm letting go of the
pain I feel around this loss so that I can
feel more joy, love, et cetera. Or I'm letting go
of the bad memories so I can hold on to
the good ones. That one is definitely something I have
(10:12):
to do for probably I could have done back when
my mom passed away, but also with my dad, there
was a lot of heaviness leading up to what happened.
We had to call nine one one. It was a
very scary moment. Anytime in my entry way, I often
picture us laying there because that's what we were doing.
And then you know, he was on life support and
(10:32):
we could have kept him alive for a lot longer,
but we chose to remove him, so that whole processes.
It was like an awful but beautiful thing because yes,
we got to be there, but I just had never
done anything like that before. I'm sure if you have,
then you know what I'm talking about. But that's yeah,
(10:52):
I need to kind of let go of some of
that stuff, and then even replaying the events in my
mind chase that that I could have done something differently,
And don't you think that's probably the most common thing
for all of us when we process grief, is like
playing it through and what could have been done differently,
what I could have done to change the outcome? Right, Yeah, absolutely,
And it's a it's a huge waste of brain space.
(11:13):
I mean, obviously, if you're thinking it, you need to
kind of process that for a second. But then you can't.
You need to shut it down because it is what
it is. There's nothing I can do to change it.
So if I get fixated on playing that over and
over in my head, it's not healthy for me at all.
And then Ali wrote this last thing in her note
back to me on this. She said, usually it is
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more about letting go of expectations, wishes for the future,
or ideas that we had about life and death than
it is about letting go of the person themselves. Of course,
we hold them in our hearts forever. So hopefully that
was helpful of in case anybody else was feeling like
Kira and they were like, wait, I don't want to
say I'm letting go of Da Da Da. And it
(11:58):
may not even be even the death of something like
we've mentioned or someone you don't have to let go
of maybe a dream that you had specifically, you can
let go of the expectations of that dream, because I
get that not everyone's processing death at the moment, but
in case you're using that exercise to process something else,
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you can let go of expectations. So many people probably
grieved big life events last year, like giving birth at
a hospital, maybe without your family being able to be
there with you, letting go of your wedding and the
expectations of what you thought that would look like. Which
weddings are back, by the way, Like, I feel like
we're back in full swing. I'm thankful that we're going
(12:38):
to be able to gather with my dad at a
funeral I I can't imagine, and we're on the other
side of things where now we'll be able to gather
with family and friends and not be that stressful. There's
some people that literally had to go through funerals during
the pandemic where it was just not what it was
it would have been. Like my mom's funeral, there was
hundreds of people what we called it a celebration of life.
(13:01):
Like it was amazing. It was so cool the turnout.
I couldn't even my Dad's is going to be very different,
a little more intimate. But what we did with my
mom's and the people that showed up, especially because she'd
been in Austin, you know, since the seventies and just
had you know, friendships from all over for years and years,
and just the other people that rallied behind us and
(13:23):
showed up like it was an event and it was
awesome and we had it was great. It was It
was definitely a celebration of life. It wasn't somber, but
that would have happened if it was in the middle
of COVID. There's no way we would have that special
memory in that time. And so gosh, for people that
had to go through something like that in a season
of social distancing and no travel and not being able
(13:46):
to have what you thought you were going to have, gosh,
that's hard. Yeah, And I think, like I just appreciate
what Ali shared because it's even got my mind just
spending and reminding like we just aren't in control, And
for being someone who always wants to be in control,
I really suck at surrendering that. Anyways, that's really great
advice and the way to think through things, because it's
(14:06):
got my my wheels turning for sure. Yeah, if you
haven't listened to last Thursday's episode and you're wondering about
the four steps that Ali shared and the writing prompts
to help you process, just go back and listen to it.
It's the very first thing Ali fallon. She's awesome. Thank
you Ali. She's on Instagram at a L L y
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F A L l O n at Ali Fallon if
you want to follow if you're really into writing, because
that's what she's posting about all the time. So this
next email is from Alyssa. Dear Amy, I'm a longtime
(14:49):
listener of The Bobby Bones Show and day one of
the Four Things podcast. I were natural deodorant. To prove it,
shout out it's loyal. I once shared my own deodorant
recipe that I would make at home. I haven't made
my own in a long time because I just prefer
to buy the Milk and Honey one off of Amazon.
But yeah, shout out Alissa, I see you. I have
(15:10):
enjoyed your podcast on many commutes to and from my
job and have been grateful to take this journey along
with you. Unfortunately, there came a time where I felt
like I could no longer relate as much as I
felt overwhelmed that I could not fit some of the
quote things into my day to day life as a
wife and a mom of two with a full time
job during the pandemic. I thought to myself, how in
the world did she find the time for this or that?
(15:33):
And I started feeling guilty about what I was not
able to make a habit or part of my routine.
And let's face it, mom gil is already heavy as
it is. After an episode where you gave permission to
take a break from anything that isn't giving us joy
or happiness or peace, I reluctantly decided to push pause
on the podcast for a bit. Please understand, it was
nothing personal. I just felt like it was what I
(15:54):
needed to do at the time. Fast forward to today,
and I am so glad to be back. Opening up
about your past issues and recent struggles has given me
an open mind to say, sometimes I am not okay.
Sometimes I'm not the best mom, the best wife, the
best anything, but it's okay to not be okay. I
feel like your recent episodes focusing on mental health in
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a way that is honest and raw, has made me
more aware of my own feelings. I felt at one
time I was merely checking the boxes to get through
life instead of living them out firsthand. Okay, now this
is me talking here, Chase. I'm gonna read the rest
of the email, and it's like, nice stuff. I have
a hard time when people are like I feel uncomfortable
when I read this stuff out loud because it's like
I'm reading it about myself and it feels weird. But
(16:39):
here we go. Listening to your podcast may not be
a substitute for therapy or medications when needed, but gosh,
what an amazing tool for the rest of us to
get those positive and genuine reminders that you give us
and a glimpse into what real life looks like for
others who may seem to quote have it together. So
thank you for not always having it together and bringing
on guests who can help all of us. Sort. Oh wait,
(17:02):
I guess it's not as complimentary as I thought. Okay, okay,
I mean normally I would just have Houston edit this album.
We'll just leaping in for fun. I thought it was.
I thought it was about to get really complimentary. I mean,
it is nice, it is nice, but yeah, it's not
like saying okay. Just to recap, she said, thank you
(17:30):
for giving us a glimpse into what real life looks
like for others who may seem to have it together. Yes,
so thank you for not always having it together and
bringing on guests who can help all of us sort
out life a little bit. Loyal fan and podcast friend
Alyssa ps the Shop Forward needs a special shout out,
(17:54):
best quality, most adorable clothes out there. My husband bought
me a raised them kind crew neck from Other's Day
and I have been wearing it at home like a uniform.
Also a good reminder that it's hard to raise kind
kids without being kind yourself. Thanks for all you do, Melissa. Um. Yes,
that's what Mary and I love about our four things
(18:16):
I'm Fine pullovers, speaking of you know, the Shop Forward
and the SQUA and stuff. I'm fine, It's fine, Everything
is fine is basically proclaiming that you're not fine and
it's okay to not be fine. It's okay, and I
want everyone to know that we're all going through different stuff.
But I think it's when you're able to to talk
(18:38):
about it and not stuff it down. I mean, the
shirt is definitely like a play on that. It's not
like saying, literally, I'm fine, it's fine, everything is fine.
It's screaming nothing. Nothing's fine, but we're good. I mean,
of course there are days that are fine and I
still wear it and it's actually good. But it's a
reminder to just like, yeah, be a okay with not
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being okay well, and this kind of reminds me. I
hope this doesn't get too far off subject, but I
want to suggest I binge watched all weekend Oprah and
Prince Harry's The Me you Can't See on Apple TV
focus on mental health and how like everyone has a
story and we're all just trying to get by. So
I totally would suggest that and throw that out there
for all of you just you know who are thinking, yeah,
(19:23):
I want to watch it, like it's so good and
it's very very well done. Okay, the me you can't
see it's really good. Apple T Do you even have
cable anymore? Do you stream everything? Dream? Everything? So do I,
But now I'm like spending more and more on every
of whatever streaming platform that comes out, every new app,
every this, and then I'm like, okay, great, now this
(19:43):
is adding up, but at least I don't have cable
on top of that, but I do have Apple Plus
and I do love it, and thank you for that
suggestion because I want to check it out. That reminds
me of a d M that I got, because I
haven't linked it in my Amazon page, but I'll do
that right now. Someone heard me talking on the Bobby
Bone Show about the Body Keeps the Score, but then
(20:03):
they were like, I didn't see it on your Amazon
so I couldn't remember if that was exactly what it was.
And I've mentioned it here on the podcast multiple times
as well, but I will add that to my Amazon page,
which Chase or are we allowed to talk maybe even
a little bit about what Amazon is going to start doing?
Or no? Yeah, we probably not. Well, I mean there's
nothing to really talk about regarding me other than I
(20:23):
didn't know if what they're doing is like public. But
Amazon is going to start doing live. Well, it's Amazon Live.
It's essentially kind of that QBC format, but where folks
would be live streaming talking about some of their favorite things,
and those items was kind of scrolling along the bottom
where you can purchase them as you go. We keep
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joking that Amy can go on and do an Amazon
Live about her favorite bird items, and those bird items
would be scrolling across the bottom. Yes. Yeah, I was
watching my little birds this morning and it was I
was having my coffee. It brought me so much peace,
sin joy, and I love how many people are tagging
me in their bird posts like that makes me so
(21:06):
happy too. I've bought a lot of feeders in the
last few months, like testing them out, and I have
them scattered around my backyard, but my most recent and favorite.
But if I've posted about another one, I still like it.
I had someone else be like, oh my gosh, I
just bought the other feeder you put up. Well, the
reason why I ended up putting up a different feeder
is that feeder had sold out and so then it
(21:27):
was linking to nothing. You either had to go to
a third party site or it just wasn't available. So
I ordered another one and I was like, oh, I
like this one, so I'm just gonna link it. So
if you ever buy something that I posted before, it
doesn't mean that you need to go buy the next thing.
It's just like I'm I'm updating it, you know, um,
which I'll add back to body keeps the score I'm
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adding that to the book sections so that way I
get it. I'm the same way I see someone post
or talk about something and I don't write it down
right away, and then I can't remember exactly what it is,
and then I go to their page and I'm like, oh,
I don't see it there, so it must not be
the right one, and it is. The Body keeps the
Score is definitely a good listen if you want to
(22:10):
check that out or book to read. I actually have
the physical it's so scientific and there's a lot of
information of the physical copy that I used to underline
and highlight and look at, and then I have the
audible to listen to, because that's really the only way
I'm gonna get through a whole book these days. Which
back to Alyssa and her note is like, I'm not
doing it all like at all, and so I'm glad
(22:33):
that she figured out that that was the case. But
if you've ever listened to my podcast and thought that
I am, there's some things I'm failing miserably at. But
I also have great people around me and alongside of me,
and a lot of this, like the Bobby Bones show,
We're that is such a group effort, and we show
up and we do our thing there my podcast. Shout
(22:54):
out Chase, shout out Houston, Shannon. We all work on
that collectively and it comes to a spawn the Shot
Forward Mary. The Shot Forward is her baby. She runs that.
And then Mary and I have things we work on
together under the Shot Forward umbrella, like Spawn for Things
and Pimp and joy and all of that. But none
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of that would be happening if Mary wasn't doing everything
in California and meeting with the printers and her warehouse
shipping everything out. So and speaking of the people at
the Shop Forward office, shout out to the whole warehouse,
shout out to Ashley and Bonnie who are with Mary
in the office every day. Let's say you ordered the
Cave boy No shirt for my dad, which it's exciting
(23:36):
to see that people are really liking that. I think
it's a great Father's Day gift. CA Boyo means that's
good if you have anybody in your life that speak
Spanish or you know. It's just a conversation starter type
shirt too, and it has a cool story because it's
benefiting you know, a dad, my dad, Cliff Moffit, Harvey
Clifton off its scholarship fund, so you'll be giving back.
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But also if they don't speak Spanish, cab boy, no,
that's good. You can teach them. They'll have a new
thing that they can say in another language, ca bueno.
And like if you order that, I don't want you
to picture me at home processing your order and then
going to my closet and putting it in a little
package and then going to the mail box and mailing
(24:19):
it like that is sometimes I think what people picture
and we're doing all the things. But no, thankfully you
placed the order and it goes through the shop Forward
stuff and then Mary and or Ashley or Bonnie they
get the order and then they print out the label
process that the warehouse gets a notification. However they do
(24:41):
that and then maybe Mary yells back O cabe bueno
coming in hot, just kidding. They have a more sophisticated
setup than that. But then which shout out to the
warehouse because there are a few Spanish speaking people on
the shop Forward team in the warehouse and they they
approved stamp of approval on the cabe Bueno shirt. And
Mike from the Bobby Bones Show, who helped us know
(25:02):
for sure that we had to put the accent over
the e, because there's two different ways you can spell
Cape Wino or you can say Cape Wueno. The way
my dad said it was always with a like that's cool,
like cabe bueno good love, that kind of a vibe,
which requires the accent over the e and the q
u e accent. So Warehouse approved, Mike d approved, like
(25:25):
they and we got their help with it. So anyway,
just shout out to everybody there. And they do work
so hard and they package everything up and then they
ship it off. Sometimes there's a truck that will pick
it up, like a big mail truck that picks up
all the orders, or sometimes Mary literally is loading up
her car with orders and running to the post office
(25:45):
before they close to get everything out. So I just
wanted to clarify how some of that is going down.
And that's whether you're ordering the new Cape Bueno, if
you're ordering maybe a four things I'm fine, or our
joy Seeker, which is our theme song here at the podcast,
be kind, choose joy, laugh a lot, eat cake or
something pimp and joy, which we do have our our red,
(26:06):
white and blue, like our patriotic line that will be
launching soon in June to benefit Building Homes for Heroes,
which we do every year leading up to fourth of July.
That way, you'll get your new Red Wine Blue merch
in time for fourth of July and then it all
proceeds go towards building Homes for Heroes. And we've selected
our hero already. We have not announced him, but gosh,
(26:30):
I mean, all veterans are deserving, but this one just
for sure has been through a lot, and I think
it's gonna be so cool to be a part of
building him a home. That's awesome. That's exciting too. We
only got through two emails. Actually we got through three
because I shared a quote from Wendy at the beginning,
grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth
(26:50):
a second shout out for that. Normally I try to
get through four emails, but I definitely rambled. That's a
little bit more. But yeah, this is is what it is.
We'll be back Thursday for or four Things episode. Don't
forget to follow along with the podcast. Used to be subscribed.
Now it's follow and maybe rate review if you want to.
I might do a thing where I go through some
(27:12):
of the reviewed comments. The ratings and reviews and just
randomly pick people to reach out to and send them something.
But I'd have to figure that out, or maybe because
because it's not like I know who you are from
the comment. I mean there's a little it says kind
of who it's from, but I don't have details on
how to contact you. So maybe we do this if
(27:33):
you rate a review and then your reviews posted, then
you take a screenshot of it, and then you tag
me on Instagram, and then I'll pick some people and
we'll just this will be kind of an ongoing thing.
If you ever do it, that would be amazing, and
then just post it and if I happen to see it,
and it's a random selection type thing, I can't do
(27:54):
it for everybody, but we'll try to just sprinkle it
out every once in a while and I'll just send
you maybe whatever item you would like it. Maybe it's
and I'm fine, Maybe it's pimp and Joy, maybe it's
raise them kind, and maybe it's I need a nap
or whatever I can just send you. You can, like
pick something from the website and I'll go to my
(28:16):
little closet and mail it out to you. Just kidding.
Mary will do it, but it takes a village for sure.
I know that sounds so cliche, but we do have
a lot of cool things going on here and my
Heart team. I gotta give Elizabeth Fozzio a shout out.
And then even with the network, Cat Defata and Lisa Ham,
I feel like I'm accepting an award and up giving
(28:39):
my speech. No awards here, oh which I think you
know tonight or the I Heart Radio Music Awards. And
I'm hosting the Red Carpet for the Nashville Artists, So
if you want to check that out, you can. Sponsored
by Dr Pepper zero. I'm gonna see my brother this weekend.
I need to see if he's tried the Dr Pepper zero.
(29:02):
He loves Dr Pepper and I think mostly does the
diet Dr Pepper, But I think Dr Pepper zero tastes
more like the Dr Pepper, like that's the whole thing.
It doesn't have the diety taste. I'm gonna have to
try that because I like Dr Pepper, but I try
to avoid pop. Now. But you say pop, I say coke.
Everything's a coke. Like I grew up saying coke, even
(29:22):
if I was going to get a sprite or Dr
Pepper or diet coke. It's like I want to coke.
And then some people say soda. Some people say pop
so pop is Kansas, Yeah, We're We're pop. Isn't soda South? Yeah?
Or soda? Some people say soda pop towards My daughter
is obsessed with Fanta Fonta, as she says she loves
(29:45):
pineapple fonta. I don't know, is anybody still listening Easton?
You can leave this part in here too, just see
if people make it to the end. I feel like
I've rembled a lot today. You know, this is just
one of those episodes, all right, Chase, thank you for
hopping on with me. It always helps to like look
(30:05):
at you while I ram well and talk, so it's
like I'm not talking to myself. And thank you to
everyone that supports the podcast and what we're doing. We
really are a family here. I appreciate you a lot, Seriously.
I hope you'll have a great rest of your day
and we'll see you on Thursday for a new Four
Things episode. Bye.
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