The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits: Eddie’s Dad Life Updates & Morgan Challenges Eddie To Do Something For Himself

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

Happy weekend! Eddie was super vulnerable this weekend talking about his life as a dad. Eddie mentioned some things he’s been wanting to do so challenger Morgan came out to convince him of why he needs to make it happen. Then Morgan shares a sweet moment she had on International Women’s Day at a panel she was on.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Behind the scenes with a member of the show. Happy weekend, friends. Eddie is joining me this weekend on Best Bits. Hello, Eddie. What's up, friends? I heard this is your favorite thing ever to do. Oh, you have no idea. When you walk up to me and you're like tippy toe and you're like, hi, Eddie.

I'm like, yes. It's my favorite week of the year or month. How often do we do this? You ask me that, I think, every time. Am I number six? Yeah, you guys rotate. There's six of you to rotate. Six of us?

When are you going to get Bobby on here? I've tried that. Doesn't work? I've asked. You might have to just go to him. I think he's busy. Yeah. He's got a busy schedule.

Also, he has like eight podcasts. So like what is one more that he's going to talk about? You know what I mean? That's true. He truly talks about a lot of things. Yeah, but you know what? I think that too. I'm like, there's no way he can do another podcast.

And then he somehow does it and he has a lot to talk about. What I don't understand is like how he can just talk to no one. Like when he does podcast by himself, sometimes he'll do like the bobbycast all by himself. And it's like, how can you talk to no one for 45 minutes? You've never done that before? No, never done it. Never tried it. And I don't think I can do it because I need interaction.

Yeah. It is tougher to do it solo than with somebody. You ever do it on your podcast? Just you? Yeah, we're all talking about things. If I have something to talk about and say, it's a lot easier. Yeah, but if I have something to talk about and say, I'm like, I'm hungry. Okay.

And I'm in, that's it. But think about telling a story. Okay. Right? Like, you're reading a book to your kids. Imagine that there's no talking back. And you're just reading a story. That's kind of what talking a story.

a story is. What do you visualize while you're talking? I'm just like picturing the story itself. It's kind of like creating a book and you're saying it out loud. So it's kind of like that. Maybe I'll try it. I think you could do it. I did like back in the day like when I was younger, there was a guy named, I think it was

Paul Harvey was his name. You're looking at me like I could tell you, but I have no idea who this is. No chance you would know who that is. But my mom would listen to it and he would talk, he had this little like these little five minute segments and he would tell like some kind of story. But he'd always just say like, so the car was just sitting there. There's nothing better than the sound of, and it's like, that's, this is how he sound like very melodramatic and very spacey, like all the little dramatic pauses and everything.

And I thought like, I guess that's one way of doing it, doing it real slow. Just as the thoughts pop into your brain. that's someone who's actually really good at talking because they're not using filler words. I don't know if you've ever put two and two together, but if you listen to somebody talk, unless they just have so much experience that they've edited the filler worth

out of their speech. But most of the time when people talk slower, like you just saw me take a break there instead of saying, uh, most of people talk slower, you know what I mean? Like I even,

you know what I mean is a filler word. You know what I mean? So for him, he wasn't doing any filler word. No filler. She's just sharing the story and using his brain to like allow it to think and then process and then talk versus most people use the filler words when their brain is thinking. Yeah. That's a lot of it.

But you could do it. I feel like my family talks so much that I have nothing to say. I'm surrounded. I got it. I got it. I'm surrounded by so many people that just talk so much that I don't have anything to say. But let me challenge that. Wouldn't you have more to say because you don't have the space to say it?

Nah. Nah. No. No, but I love having conversations. Yeah. I just have nothing to say for that long without somebody saying a response or like challenging or even just kind of asking questions. You don't think you could talk about the Dallas Cowboys. No.

Golf or hanging out with the boys for 10 minutes. without somebody else talking. Oh, 10 minutes, yeah. I can do 10 minutes. 10 minutes is where it starts. Not 45, though. Once you get 10 minutes, though, you just keep rolling because it keeps going in different directions.

They're like, oh, this story and then this part and let me add this. Yeah, I guess so. If you can do 10 minutes, then home free. Maybe I'll try it someday. I think you should. Just see what comes out. Just see what happens. I'm not going to release anything, but just I'm going to get in my office and just

start talking. You know what helped me one time when I was, oh gosh, this is after. my really, really bad relationship, I got on a microphone and I just for like 30 minutes talked about my feelings. That's pretty good. It was like my release. It never went anywhere. I never shared it. You still have it? No. I'm pretty sure I delete that one. That was, that was evidence of a lot of things in my life. It was more of a release for me. But it felt really good. It was like a audio journal entry, which is kind of like part of what inspired some of the podcast that I do now. I have moments where I do little audio journal entries where I share moments

from my life that are, I feel like I can really speak on. But that's few and far between. Yeah. You know, but there's moments of that. So I guess my point is, I really do like doing this podcast because we can't, I think you're kidding. No, I'm not kidding. No, I'm not kidding.

We've talked about this. It's just the time. It's just the like, hey, do you have like this time to cut out and do this podcast? That's the hardest part. But once we're in here, I love doing it. I love talking to you. And I think we bounce well off each other. and have good conversations.

But also, I have to correct you because I don't come up and say hi anymore. Now I just come up and stand in front of you and look at you and you know. I already know. I just kind of give you a look and you're like, yep, okay, this is best time. Yeah. Which is kind of what everyone does. Like Bobby and I on stage, like you didn't have to say anything. It gives me a look.

I'm like, I got it. You want to wrap the song up. Let's go. Now it's the time. See, this is how long we've all hung out together. All right, tell me about life, though, Eddie. How are things going? How's dad life?

How's individual life? Yeah, life's good. Life is good. It's been a really good mix. Lately it's been a good mix of like family and work and travel. We got to, I didn't get to tell you really talk about the Super Bowl with you, which is kind of cool. Oh, yeah. You can totally talk about it.

I hadn't really talk to anyone. It's weird because like there are a group of dads that I see probably every week at practices or just different, you know, events that my sons have and like I see dads and we're like what's up and usually never purposely hang out outside of these sporting events you're just these I don't have friends like that like I don't hang out with there are okay I'll backtrack there are a couple of dads that I know from my son and his friends like they're they're my son's friends parents and if I like the dad and my wife likes the mom we'll have them over for dinner like we've done that before. That's not very often.

Yeah. You need some you need some dad time. Yeah. Or just friend time. This is why Eddie, every day, we always catch Eddie sitting in a guy named McKitty's office here at work. That's my guy time. This is why you always do this. That's my guy time. But McKitty's different though. McKitty's like a, so McKitty is a, he's an on-air personality on one of the stations here. Big 98, yeah. Big 98 afternoon guy.

He's way younger than that. me. So are you living vicariously through him? No. What's crazy is this is funny. You're going to laugh. But what's funny about kind of how our relationship started was his dad died when he was nine or something when he was a young

young boy. And it started off kind of like as a joke but not really because I would just he would do stuff in life and I would say like your dad probably wouldn't be proud of that. And for me it was kind of like just a funny little joke. But

to him he was like he would get emotional because he's like you're right but my dad probably wouldn't like that and I'm like so we just kind of started that way and I would kind of he would come to me and be like hey my tire is like I'm not joking I know you're laughing but I'm not laughing I'm smiling because I think it's cool that you guys have a connection like this I always love seeing you guys sit together I think it's a cool thing I don't it's not it's not like I'm his dad's age but like I'm older I'm like an older brother to him and like the other day he like man I got a flat tie tire like will you come like look at it and I don't know how to do anything with a flat tire I'm like here I am being the dad you know like and so that's just kind of our conversation it's really like

I'm older more mature he's younger party phase and we kind of just meet in the middle I love this for both of you guys because it's clearly an outlet for you to have some adult dude time that doesn't have a lot of stipulations to it and I love it for him because he's He's getting to have a mentor brother figure in his life. And that clearly is important to him. So I think it's cool that you guys do this. I joke around with you guys because it's funny because we give you a hard time when you always take your breaks and stuff. We go to Whole Foods on Wednesdays.

Yeah. Like you guys have a whole routine that you've set up. But genuinely, I think it's awesome for both of you guys. So you get to have that. It is cool. And he's very just nice and friendly and open to talk about whatever. And I love that. with dads, I was just talking to my wife about this, there is some kind of competition.

Interesting. With just men. I would say with men in general. Okay. Tell me more. Having like conversations with grown men, being a grown man is like there's an underlying competition. There's always like a size me up when you first meet a dad. And it's like, what do you do for a living?

Like that's always the first thing like this is going to establish what I'd think about you and and it's it's just very awkward like this underlying competition where like we can't just be like normal. That's really interesting Eddie because I don't feel like dudes are ever normally like that. Well from like kid from like being a kid competition was always a thing like in sports competition is always a thing when you're a kid like being competitive in sports. then you grow up and then the sports competition, you no longer play sports, some play golf, but then that competition kind of becomes like, how successful am I versus you?

And it's a weird thing. And maybe it's me overthinking it, but I can see it. I can sense it when I have conversations with other dads of just like, okay, maybe like, all right, you're the radio guy. Like you think you're hot stuff.

Like a weird barrier that I always have to break. And so, Maybe that's kind of why I'm very reserved on making friends. Don't get me wrong. They're like a handful of dads that I love and that's not an issue and we hit it off right away. And those are the guys I talked to. Yeah.

But it's really hard to make friends. It's almost like dating when you're older. It's kind of hard to make dad friends when you're a dad. Well, making friends and finding a partner are comparable, right? These are people you want to spend time with. These are people you want to like. You want to enjoy hanging out with. You're going to spend a lot of time with them.

That's the goal. So it is similar in doing that. I'm bum for you, though, that even these dad friends, though, that you don't, like, get to have guys time and hang out with them or have moments of that. And realistically, we don't have a lot of time. I know, but, like, just like for your wife, she should have girls nights and moments of that. She does. She has no problem. She's got, like, a ton of girlfriends.

And they have dinner. And this is why you should also have this. Yeah, she says that, too. I will say, though, that there are a couple dads that are always like, hey, man, like, let's go grab breakfast sometime and like, which is weird because I can't have breakfast during the week. So I'd have to have it on a Saturday morning, which I'm like, yeah, breakfast really doesn't work for me. But they want to get together to talk about, you know, just life, which is really cool. Yeah, and you should be doing that.

So that's definitely on my list. And there's one dad. You're going to start countering it with let's have lunch. Because I think most people can have lunch during the day. That makes it easier. Totally. Kids are at school. You guys can both take a break from work.

You can get away for lunch. Just might be a little bit later, but you can always have a lunch. Yeah. We could have a lunch, which is, I don't know. I think parenting is fun to talk to other parents about because you always wonder, like, am I parenting the right way? Like, how do you do this? Like, how do you deal with this? Well, it's with anything in life that you're going through.

You want someone else to have battle scars with. Sure. You know, you want to trade stories. You want to share the experience with someone because having an experience by yourself is lonely. Totally. So knowing other people are going through some. things is part of the human experience. Yeah, and a sense of like comfort too.

Like, okay, I'm not the only one. Got it. It is. Again, back to like the loneliness side of it. Because even you can have your wife and you have your kids, but there's still loneliness in that. Yeah. If you're experiencing something alone that somebody else isn't having those same feelings

for. So it makes sense. You were going to say there's one guy. Is there one guy that you're a little bit more? No, there's one guy who's been asking, and specifically been asking me. I guess he's just kind of having a hard time with. work life, work family balance. Yeah.

He's not really happy at work. And then he also feels like, you know, he's having trouble with some of his kids and, like, how to do all that. I think it's so cool that he feels comfortable enough to come to me and say like, hey, I'd love to talk to you about this. I don't, I mean, I'm not an expert. I don't know. No, but you love to talk. You're an open space. And I love to talk about that.

You know, like, yeah, I know all about that. I know all about balancing work and family. I know all about dealing. I mean, I have four boys. 17 the oldest, six the youngest. So like I have experience with all of these different ages with boys, not girls, no experience with girls whatsoever. Vastly different life experience. Totally different.

But so I think that's pretty cool. And I'm looking forward to. I think we're going to do it probably in the next couple of weeks where we're going to hang out and talk. And I don't know, see what happens. You know, it's funny you're saying this and talking about this. women are really good about creating community around them. I don't know that guys have as much of an innate desire to do that because I think it's really built into us to have a support system like women.

I don't know that it's as necessarily built into men because they have always been taught to be the provider and take care of things that you guys don't have this innate. Well, I need a village to do this. You know what I mean? Like I do think there's a difference to that experience too. I know exactly what you mean. And I don't think we're built to where we don't need it. I think we do need it.

You do. You're just been taught. You shouldn't. Like we don't need it. Yeah. But when I mean, I'm a total victim of this. Even when I feel like I don't want to hang out of the people, which is most of the time, like, I don't want to go to their house. Like, I don't want to hang out with this family.

Like, I just want to chill weekend. But when I do, I always leave going like, that was nice. And that was fun. we should do that again. So I don't, yeah, I think guys are wired to like, we don't need it. I got it all myself. Like, I don't need help doing this. But when you do talk to another male and they're going through certain things that you're going through and like, oh, you, oh, you struggle with this too?

Like, absolutely. It's, we all need community. We do. It's a part of life. And it's, and it's very much so that it's been driven into you guys to think that you don't or you'll be okay without it. It's not necessary. I think it's necessary for everyone. I think everybody needs help.

I just, I don't think it matters your gender. I think we all need someone to lean on in all different spaces of life, not just a partner, not just a friend, not just a family. I think you need it all to survive. I agree completely. There is a guy that hits me up every year around April. I think it's April. And there's like some retreat. Every April, he emails me and he invites me to this men's retreat.

Okay. Thousands of men go to the mountains and smoke cigars and like talk about just life and God and faith and whatever. And I'm like, no, I'm out. Like I can't. Why does that? I don't know. Hold on. We're going to take a quick break.

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All right, Eddie, I need to know why you feel, no, I can't do this. I don't smoke cigars. I don't drink whiskey. Like, I don't like. And that's your reason. No. That's part of my reason. I, again, from a distance, that just sounds like, it's like when I am surrounded by, like, say I walk.

into a book club with 20 women and I sit on the couch and I'm in the middle I'm like get me out of here this is a very weird feeling okay same deal like a thousand men that I don't know but you Eddie thrive in situations of meeting people I don't know what it is you love meeting I love what I love sitting next to someone in an airplane I love talking to the Uber driver I love finding out more about my server like I love that stuff. Exactly. But a thousand dudes that I don't know weirds me out. It's just because you're, you've been taught to think that that's weird. I don't know who taught me that. Society. You know what I mean?

No, obviously not because a thousand people do this and they have no problem doing it. But that, those are people who've finally taken that uncomfortable stuff and said, I'm just going to try this out. I feel like they feel very comfortable going to that. Probably now. I bet the first time they did it, they didn't. And then I'm like, what am I going to talk about? your life, you're being a dad, how that experience is for you, all the things, dude things,

sports. You can talk about. Dude things. Dude news. Literally. You can also bring tequila if that's what you want to have instead. And I bet there's somebody else that's going to be there that also wants tequila. Can I dilute my vodka?

Yes. You could also do that. I can't, man, like the dudes love to drink. And I don't mind like a little bourbon with ice or whatever, but I'm sipping it, not drinking it. That's fine. And, like, dudes like, yeah, there's bourbons from 1840. I'm like, wow, you're a man.

Eddie, I would challenge you that I think all of the things that you possibly believe about this situation are so much worse in your head. Probably. That when you would go. Because I do like the mountains. Yeah. And I like campfires. And you like hanging out and meeting new people. That's all that is.

The only difference is that you're adding this label of like there's a thousand men, I don't know. A thousand dudes. Which is a thousand people at an airport that you'd love to go and talk to on any given day. It might take me back to, you know, middle school. Did you, I don't know what your town was like, but did you make the jump from elementary school to middle school? And it was like, your elementary school is one, but then you go to middle school and there's six elementary school people there. So, so like you don't know half the people. And you're desperately looking for the one person that you know.

Yeah. Because it's like, and you're stuck on the side of the wall, on the corner of the wall, just kind of like, cool, cool. This is a side of you. This is like the little kid in you that is not loving this feeling. I had to do it in middle school. Like my first day of middle school, very, like, lost. And I found one person that I saw, I'm like, dude, be my friend. I know I never really talked to in elementary school, but like, be my friend because I don't know anyone else here.

Same in high school. Like high school again. It was a bunch of middle schools getting together. And all of a sudden, I'm like, I don't know anyone here. This is so weird. This is the little kid in you that's freaked out by it. Maybe. I just feel like it would be so rewarding for you at the end of the day.

My wife says the same thing. She's like, go. Like, you might like it. And I'm like, I don't want to. What's the worst thing? You're gone for 48 hours? No, no, no. I think it's like a three, four day retreat.

Okay. But say you go 24 hours. And it's not a lock in. Like, they're not, they can't keep me there. Exactly. Say it's 24 hours. You're like, this is a worst thing I've ever done. I have to go. Oh, my kids got sick. I got to go. You want me to go all the way to the mountains and come back like six hours later? Yeah, because I guarantee you're not going to come back. You're so confident.

Yes. I probably wouldn't. I'd probably like it. Yeah. You love socializing. I do. I do. It's just I don't know anything about this. No. Like, look. Change is good. Being uncomfortable is good for you. It would help you. It would help you probably have a new experience that you've been needing. What was it like, let me ask you a question, what was it like when you joined the Bobby Bone Show and you didn't know any of us? It was uncomfortable. But like, do you remember that feeling?

Yeah, I do. It was uncomfortable. And I was like auditioning. We knew each other. Yeah, but we had one lunch at one point in time. I'd met you a couple times. But those are also your people. And typically when you know, like you're with your people, you're going to hang to them versus the one person that you maybe kind of know.

Yeah, I was your dude in middle school. Yeah. And it was uncomfortable. But now look at this. And if I wouldn't have been uncomfortable, where would I be? Not here. Yeah. Being uncomfortable is the catalyst for change.

I know. And I feel so stupid because I preach this to my son all the time. My 17 year old, he's all about like not avoiding uncomfortable situations. But it's easier to do that. It's easier to do that because being uncomfortable also sucks. And it gives you feelings that you don't either want to address or you don't want to feel. And it's hard. I can recognize that.

There's moments where I'm like, I'm not touching that. I don't want to do that. I can't tell you how many times, Eddie, I've had a date lined up and I have to hype myself up and be like, okay, we're going to do this where I'm like sitting on the couch. I was like, I really don't want to do this. Yeah, but has any of those dates turn into something really cool? Yes. And a lot of them haven't. So to my point being, I still get up and do it every time because I know there's always the opportunity for something really cool to come of it.

Yeah. And this is your opportunity for something really cool. and close friendships that you don't currently have. Not on that level, not on that space. No, no, no, no, I don't. I think this is something you have to do. Like I have Bobby and like I have like our guys here. But it's different.

It is different. And you're looking for dad friends and things. These are people that are likely on very similar levels and experiences as you. And having that kind of community is so much different. Having like I love this community. I say they're different. Like my work community, love it. I'm great.

I love coming here. I don't wake up in the morning and hate coming into work. But I also love that I have my group of friends that I get to spend time with outside of work. I go and we go and do fun things. But you don't have a family. You're right. But that's my community right now. I have the family.

So is my family and my community? It's another one of your communities. It's not your only one, though. Because that family takes a lot of my time. It does. But it's also important to you as a human being to have multiple communities. Yeah. for you to feel good because how are you going to keep living in this community with your family and at work and feel whole when there's something missing?

Yeah, I think, I mean, there's definitely something to think about because I think a lot of people are in my situation where you really don't have a lot of time to do anything else other than work and your family. You go to work, you're done with work. It's time to cook. It's time to take kids to practice, time to pick kids from school, whatever. Whatever it may be, before you know it, it's 8.30 and it's time to get everything. everyone ready for bed. And you're like, well, what do we do now? Like, nothing. But, but there are the weekends.

There are, but this is also challenging you. This is a challenge. To restructure. You have a son who is old enough to help. Mm-hmm. That you're, at least have talked about on the show where you've struggled with letting go of some things and allowing him to do stuff, which is hard. I know, I remember being a 16-year-old kid or an ab was not super responsible.

But I also remember my two older sisters spending a lot of time watching me and taking care of me. And I'm sure my parents at one point were afraid, but we're like, well, we have to let go of this and let it happen. We've used him before. But I have four boys and three of them play sports. So like we literally have to sometimes go three different ways. You know, like my oldest son will take one of them to practice. My wife will take another one to practice. And I will take the other one to practice.

So like, that's just kind of where we're at. True. And there's moments in your life while this will happen. Yes. And I can't speak to that, not being a parent. But you can restructure enough to have a weekend away. You can restructure enough to have a lunch with somebody. You can restructure enough to have one night because your wife does it. Like I said, my wife does it. And I have no problem just staying at home with the boys while she does that. And she doesn't have a problem staying at home with the boys while I do it. She does it every time I travel. See? Like, that's part of like, that's part of what we do. So this is just something you have to restructure to see if it's worthy enough of the time for you to go and do it. Like if it's that important. See, I will say, though, that when we do travel, like the Super Bowl, we were gone for a whole week. And me, Kevin, Mike, Reed, Bobby, and Matt Stel came with us on that. Like, we do kind of form a bond.

Yeah. You know, and we do have, like, a good time together. And we do have good conversations because we're outside of the work and my. We're together the whole time. So that does kind of count. It does. To that, but. But you are also still working.

I am still working. Yeah. It's kind of like how Bobby has to challenge himself to do things that are not work-related. Right. You almost have to challenge yourself to have friends that aren't work-related or within your other communities. It's a tough challenge. And I know it's rewarding at the end.

I just, it's a challenge where you're like, man, I'm not even willing to play. Yeah. Even though I do know there's a. reward at the end. You do. And it's like with anything, you have to decide what's actually worth it. You know what I mean? What do I care enough about? I'm like, do I want my rest on Saturdays? It's a thing. Or do I want to go meet or hang out with friends? It's true. Yeah. I mean, there are like one thing I have been wanting to do is go like on a little trip with friends. You know, like even just like golfing trip, Eddie. No, I'm talking about like three of

my good buddies that I know or three of like there's a buddy I have in Wyoming that I haven't talked to I went to college with I haven't talked to him in a long time like we kind of text back and forth once in a while but like I would love to go spend a few days with him in Wyoming like I'd rather do that than go to the mountains with a thousand dudes okay then what's what has stopped you all of these years nothing just just just just finding the time to do it and him finding the time that he can do it yeah that's it just I mean if we can kind of say hey you know what how does march 15th. That's great. March 15th. I will be there. We will do it. And I know that at some point in the near future, we will do that. But that's the kind of stuff I like rather than jumping into the cold,

cold water of hanging out with a thousand dudes in a mountain. Okay. Fair enough. Maybe this is your baby step. Yeah. But I think you just need to do it. Honestly, just do it. You just need to book it. Get it on the calendar and do it. You have to. If, if you, if you, You have had any experiences in the last year that have taught you, like, present moment matters. You can't keep saying yes at some point it will happen. You just have to do it. I know that's hard to do with kids and a family and a whole life that is existing. Part of me, too, though, my personality is never to be the party planner, but to be the party attendee.

Fair, but all you have to do is book a date. Yeah, that's, that's, book a date. Yeah. And I bet he'll start planning the rest. Right? But I think book and the date is kind of is planning the party. Okay, it's my point. It's my point.

It's literally saying this weekend works for me. It's like, I'll give you a small example, playing golf. Like, I have a hard time setting a tea time. Like, a commitment of I'm going to play at eight o'clock today. I'd rather just walk up to the course whenever I'm ready to go and be like, hey, do you have room for one? Yeah, you can walk right up. Like, that's my style. Spontaneous is not a bad thing.

It's also balance. You can have plenty of spontaneity. also having one weekend where you're like set, calendar, dead. Write it down. Goal. I'm challenging you. This also has happened a few times where we've like challenged different things and we get follow-ups. Next time you come on Best Bits, I hope you have at least booked the trip.

I have something for you. Yeah. The next few days, something that I told you I would get you. And it's coming. Corn? I'm not telling you what it is. I'm not telling you what it is. That's the only thing I can make.

I have to be corn. Smoke corn. Nope. I'm not telling you. I don't know if it's corn season yet. You're writing it down. Go. Go hang out with Scott in Wyoming.

And my only challenge is that by the next time you're on Best Bits, that gives you six weeks. Oh my gosh. That gives you six weeks. I can't book something in six weeks. All I'm saying is get it on the calendar and you book a flight. It doesn't have to be in the next six weeks that you go on the trip. Okay. But in the next six weeks, you set and pick a date.

Okay. And you do this. I think it would be good for you. So I just text to my friend Scott and be like, hey man, I want to come see you. When? Now, let's book it. Literally. I got to clear my wife too.

Well, yeah. Like, hey, be like, hey, wife wins a good time for me to leave. And we're going into basketball tournament season. You're always going to have excuses. Oh, this is always something. I hear you, but you're always going to have excuses because life is always going to be busy. You're always going to have something to do. For the rest of your life, because you had four kids, you will always have

something to do. Yeah. Yeah. But you know how necessary it is for you to also have personal experiences, even as a dad and adult? It's necessary. I know. I know because my sole purpose in this life right now is just to raise my four kids. Like in my mind. Like that's it. Yeah. Like anything else is not important. And that's fine. But also this time is just as important for you being a human on this earth and living your life. I agree. And it takes someone like Morgan Hewelsman to tell me this. I have to remind you because I am, I don't have kids, so I can blatantly say there's a reason you need to do this. Right. And I know that's also easier said than done because I am childless.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But. Yeah. That's like when Bobby does like parent advice. Yeah. I can, I can recognize that this is a very difficult ask. But I think it's important for you. It's a good challenge.

It's a good challenge accepted. It's better than the mountain retreat, you know? We found the baby ground. For sure. Okay, we're going to take a break. We'll be our back. I'm going to tell you about some things that happen. Maybe we can get into some Super Bowl stories.

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manager. What the? And then there was me. That's crazy. Not in a bad way. That's awesome. that's great for you. That's just, wow, like good company to be in. In a room of women, there was some dudes that trickled in to, like shout out to them. And it was really good,

Eddie, like, it felt really good to talk to women and it was really cool to be on a panel. We were all different ages. We had one that was, like, kind of more of my mom's age, and then we had middle, and then we had mine.

Like, we had these different ages in it, which also gave us all a lot of perspective. Like, we were learning from each other as we're sitting on the panel. And the reason I bring this up, though, is because at the very end, like, they had asked people in the audience had asked questions, but after we got done, I'm standing, waiting for my car to get pulled up. And one of the girls who was in the audience walks up to me and the other, the CEO panelist, too. And she goes,

I didn't want to ask you a question because I don't speak super good English. And she was like, but how do you wake up every day and be confident? How do you do this? You seem really happy. and we sat there and we had a like a conversation about for like five minutes and she was like oh I have chills on my arms like thank you for saying that but I ended it with also you should speak up do not be afraid because you learned a whole new language like and why would you not want to use it you you did that on purpose I don't speak another language like use it don't be afraid just because somebody might not completely understand you like be confident that you did that and she like gave me this big hug and she had tears of it her eyes and I was just like, what is my life right now that I got to have that conversation with that woman and be on this panel and this life is happening. It's pretty amazing. It was a really cool moment. Yeah.

And I wanted to share that with you. That's really, really cool. And it gives you a little bit of purpose. Like, wow, that's cool that she's, I don't know, she asked me a question, thought I was qualified enough to answer that question. And now it could help her with something in life, which is really, really cool. I do understand what she was going through, though, with not wanting to ask that question. growing up bilingual.

So like the way I grew up was my parents spoke Spanish. Some English, mostly Spanish, but I was taught to learn English. So I understood Spanish because my parents spoke Spanish, but I also went into an American school system learning English. So, and I was always taught. My dad always taught me like English, learn English, learn English, learn English, because this is, you will live you're you're an american like you will be speaking english for the rest of your life and but i was always ashamed that i knew spanish because i didn't really learn spanish you know as far as

like educational wise like but i knew spanish because of my parents so like i i understand the whole feeling of a little bit of embarrassment of like i don't know this language as well as i know my main language but you're right you're right It is badass to know two different languages. It is. And I, one, I do think people,

again, in our society have made that complicated for people, right? I'm sure she's had moments in her life where people have been like,

I can't understand you. And they get frustrated with her or they yell at her or like, tell her to speak. You know, who knows the experiences that she's had

that led it to that. But I just, I think it's so beautiful when two cultures can combine. I think that's so cool. Totally. And I tell my kids that all the time because what's,

funny is my two biological kids, half white, half Mexican, half Hispanic, my two adopted kids, one of them is just fully white. He loves it. His last name is Garcia. He's like, that's right. I'm Mexican. I'm half Mexican. So he says, have you gotten like the heart to tell and be like, buddy? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm letting him roll. I'm letting him just roll with it because at school, I don't know I've ever told you this, but at school they had like a flag day. and they're like, if you have like a heritage that you come from, like a culture or whatever, and you want to carry that flag and represent that flag, you can do it. And he was like, where's the Mexican flag? And he's as pale as can be, blonde hair, blue eyes carrying that Mexican flag while my biological kid was like, oh, like, I don't want to carry that.

So wild. Yeah. It's a weird thing where like my biological kids kind of are just like, well, I don't know. like, well, it's weird being both. Like, what am I? And I could tell them, like, it's so cool to have background and culture. Like, your grandparents are so different. Both grandparents are so different.

They speak two different languages. Like, we make different foods. You know, we come from this place that's very different from the place you live. And I think it's something, really, it's something that I didn't really even understand until probably I was, I don't know, you know, 20, 30 years old. Once I left home and realized that it was cool to have a little, you know, a different background, that was pretty cool. But it took me a long time to realize that.

Yeah, because I would imagine it would come with insecurities because of the way that people speak about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and people believe that it's not okay when you should be one or the other or whatever. When I'm sitting here, I'm like, give me all. Heck, when I went over to Europe and people spoke like five languages, I was like, are you kidding me? I don't even speak another. I mean, thankfully, I do have a little bit of French that I happen to remember. But I was like, you speak five languages. How freaking amazing is that? And how stupid are we to only know one?

Exactly. We shouldn't. We should be bilingual. Or two. And I think a lot of Americans know a little bit of Spanish too because you kind of have to. But like, okay, two languages. Some of these people in these countries, no freaking 10 languages. And it's so amazing. It's incredible. So I think it's so cool, but I knew you liked that moment. That is really cool. Just because it was so important for me to tell her that. I was like, I know I don't have any experience in that matter. But like, please speak up. I don't want you to not to. What did you tell her? Do you remember? So she had asked, she's like, how do I, you know, wake up there. I have really hard moments sometimes where I wake up and I don't want to do this. And I just don't know how to be confident and excited like you are right now. She was seeing one version of me. Of course.

And I told her, I said, just exist in those feelings. Like, don't put them away. Those actually help you in the end. And I know it's really hard when you wake up and you're feeling sad and you don't want to do something. But sometimes you have to feel that to get to the other side. And sometimes when we push it away, it never really helps us in the end. So feel the feelings. And then encourage yourself to keep pushing through those.

And I promise you'll start to be able to push through them more often. if you just learn. It's good. Something to that effect. Yeah. But way to go. To come up with that on a fly. I mean, it was real.

Yeah. It's not like you made it up. But like, yeah. Questions on the fly are pretty hard. They are. But also, it's just something I'm passionate about.

I mean, even sitting here talking with you about things. I love, I'm like Eddie or I'm like Bobby. I'm a challenger. So I love to challenge people. I love to see them become the best version of themselves. Yeah, but you guys are annoying sometimes.

I know. It is. It absolutely is. There's no doubt about it. It's like, let me be me. Just let me be me. That's why I also have moments where I'm like, I get it. Like, it sucks.

I'm not saying that it's going to be easy. But if I can be the one person in somebody's lives to be like, no, do this, I will be. Even if I'm a little bit of a jerk to push you in that direction. At least you acknowledge that. Yeah. But it's necessary for, because I think there's also a side that we want someone to do it for us. We want someone to challenge us. Like a partner in one of the qualities I'm looking for is someone who can challenge.

me and say, no, don't do it that way. Or, hey, let's talk about that before you pursue it this way. Instead of just allowing me to just bulldoze kind of, I think that's where ours comes from. I don't know, I can't speak for Bobby, but that's where some of mine comes from. I'm like, I want to do this for other people and I hope other people do it for me. You know what I mean? Like, you're always a reflection of the things you want. That's what's happening. See, I'm always just like, it's none of my business. Like, she's got it. Unless you come to me and that's for help. I'm not really going to like look at you and be like, hey, are you okay? Like, I do that. I do that to you sometimes. Hey, everything good. Like, you seem a little different.

But for the most part, it's just like, that's okay. Like, they'll figure it out. If they need help, they'll come to me. True. And I don't ever like, you know, never see a stranger on the street. And I'm like, hey, let me help you. I'm going to fix this for you. It's only people in my life that I know when we start to have conversations and I can feel it coming out of me where I'm like, oh, this is my time. Push him. Let's go. Let's do this. Yeah. I just. I just. I just. I just I don't know any other way to be. You know what I mean? That's you.

I just love that we're all different. Like, we're all so different. And there was something I kind of wanted to talk about on the show, but I mean, it'll never happen because we're just so timed on the show. What do you want to talk about? But I've always wanted to talk about how I didn't realize how different people were. Like, really, to the core, how different people are.

You look at the human race. We all the same. We love routine. We love like, love to eat at these times. We love to like do these things on the weekends. Like we all just kind of like to do certain things, right? Yeah.

But when I adopted my two kids and we've had, you know, we've, they've been part of our family for six years now. Yeah, six years. When you look at biological, your genetics versus two other people. people's genetics and how different they are. It's unbelievable. It's so crazy to, I know what my boys are going to be. I don't know what their jobs are going to be. I don't know like where they're going to work,

but I know that one of my boys is not going to be a lawyer. He's not going to be a doctor. He's not going to be anything where he has to go to school for more than like one He works with his hands. He is Uber talented with his hands. He can already fix things. He can already like just create things with his hands. And he doesn't think about anything.

He's not a thinker. He's just watch this. I do this. Boom, bump, boom, boom. I build a home. Like you see that and you're like, and then you got my oldest.

And you're like, well, he can never do that. Like, he'll never ever be able to do that. But he's got a mind that can create so many cool stories that can create like anything. He could rap. He could like write a song. He could tell a cool story and make it really funny. Like unbelievable. My other one?

No chance. Couldn't tell a story to save his life. Yeah. But you start looking at these things where you're like, wow, like we are all so different. We like, I don't. know, I feel like putting them in school is so hard because, like, school is such a generic. Yeah, it's kind of a one size fits all. Everyone's going to take these classes.

Everyone's going to take these tests. But, like, one cannot do that as well as others can. And, like, it's so sad to me that, like, I look at some of my kids, some struggle with school so hard and it's not their fault. They're just not built that way. They're not built to do school the way that the government or whatever, the school officials think that that's how it should be. But other ones thrive in it. So like, I don't know.

I think it just came to me the day when I just look at them and like they're all so different. Isn't it weird too when you do look at that and you see all these like you look at your four kids. They're four different little human beings that are going to grow up to do four different completely different things. and then you look at people when we share things and everybody seems to have an opinion of how you should live their life and it should be the way that they live their life and you look at that and you say

but we have vastly different experiences so why should we live the same life why should I do it the way that you did it just to make you feel better but we had different experiences that would dictate that that shouldn't happen I think so much of our understanding of people

is understanding that we're different And I think a lot of people lack that ability to recognize. Totally. I never thought about it. I really just thought like, oh, we're all the same. Like, we're all kind of. And there's the thought, too, of just like, if I wanted to become a lawyer, I can become a lawyer.

Like, if I wanted to be a doctor, I could become a brain surgeon. I don't think that's true for me. Like, I could try my best. I can try my hardest. And maybe, like, I could probably be some kind of brain surgeon. But I don't know if I would be good at it because, but I don't know. But I'm good at what I do now. And I did not try to find this job.

I did not try to say, I'm going to be on a radio show with all my friends and we're going to talk in the morning and we're going to do this. Like, I never said that. I never planned that. But I'm able to do this. Sometimes I think like this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Well, then it starts coming in the question of your calling, your destiny, the fate. Are you on the right path? Those kind of different conversations.

But that's what I'm saying. Like, I know what my boys are going. going to do. Don't know how they're going to do it, who they're going to do it with or whatever. But I know that he is meant to do X. That one's meant to do Y. That one's meant to do Z. Like, you could just see it in them from the day they were born.

Like, from the day they were so young. Have you not also had to also parent them each differently because of that experience? Yeah. So differently. Yeah. Before it was really easy to like, oh, well, I did this with that one. We're just going to copy paste. But again, again, like you even look at our show.

Look at Lunchbox. How different he is than I am. You know, or Bobby, how different Bobby is from you or Amy. Like everyone is just so different that it like we all get along somehow, which is really cool. Like we all get along. But we're all so, so, so, so different. And Bobby's never going to think the way I do. I'm never going to think the way he does.

And we're never going to think the way lunchbox sounds. It's just so interesting to me. I just love that about us. Yeah. It's part of the cool human experience to know that you get to be different, that you get to choose your own path, that life happens the way that it's supposed to. All of those things kind of collide and create one beautiful mess of an experience that you're going to live throughout the course of however long you're here. It's weird. It's also weird.

Very retrospective of you to go in and very very. psychological like you were having a moment. It was definitely a moment. And it too comes from school a lot because some of them struggle with school. Like really, it's really hard for them. And I feel so bad for them. And I want to tell their teachers like, it's not for them. Like school is not for them.

I do wish there was some version of, I did go down a rabbit hole at one point with the education system and why schools were created, what that looked like, how that started. and it's fascinating. Honestly, the industrial revolution of creating the schools to really create these marketplaces and yada, yada, yeah. That's history.

But it is crazy that we've evolved in schools of what we're learning in a way, but it's still kind of the same structure that they created decades ago. Yes, yes. So we've never thought, hey, we should probably reall this a little bit.

Yeah. I do wonder certain things in life Why we don't rehaul them Why we don't look at something and say hey Because it's hard It might be too much work That too You know maybe we don't have the resources

Like to do all that But yes there is something Oh my gosh Do we have time? Yeah you can keep going As long as you want this day here There is there is something that they do in Nashville And it's called like I don't know

Something Biztown And all the schools can participate in it But it's a fake city in a big warehouse. And they do a fake city. There's police officers. There's firefighters. There are businesses. There are restaurants.

There are hospitals, doctors offices, a radio station, a TV station. There is everything. It's like a little city. Okay. And so you get your class to go that the school has to sign them up. And they go and it's like, all right, what do you want to be? like, I want to be a nurse. Okay, cool.

Then you're going to go work at the hospital. What do you want to be? And my son said, I want to be on the radio. So he ran the radio station. They just did this like two, three weeks ago. And they teach him about like, all right, so you work at the radio station. How does the radio station make money? They sell advertisements to that restaurant over there.

So you have to go to the restaurant and you have to ask the restaurant if they would like to buy. And then they all start with like $10. Okay, wait, hold on. This is so interesting to me. It's amazing. It's fascinating that they do this. Are there people in this place, like adults that are working there? No, they're not working.

Well, they work. I mean, they, there are adults supervising. Okay. But they let the, and they teach the kids like, all right, each, there's an adult in every building. Got it. So they have a supervisor for kind of each space. Correct. For the restaurant.

So, like, when you go work for the restaurant, they tell you what your job is, what you need to be doing. But your son, when he had to go to the restaurant, asked, he was talking. he was talking to another student. Mm-hmm. Got it. That was told that he's going to come and ask you if you want to do advertisements. That means that they'll say your name of your restaurant on the radio station. Got it.

And then once he makes the sell, he goes back at the radio station and writes a little script and he's like, go eat at whatever, Italian restaurant. And then he plays a song and everyone can do requests or whatever. But they give them $10 and like everything costs money. Like, so you just made a dollar from that, from that restaurant. restaurant. So now you have to spend a dollar. Do you want to hire? Like, do you want to hire a salesperson instead of you going all the way out there? Like, yes, I don't want to sell anymore. So he hired a salespeople that cost three dollars. And so vice versa. Or you want health

insurance that costs a dollar. And he'll go to the doctor's office. He bought health insurance. It was amazing. It's like monopoly kind of in real life. To teach them about real life and experiences. Real life. How to go to a bank and like you can borrow money, but it's going to cost you to borrow money. Wow. Pretty amazing. I did not know this existed.

And what I loved about it was to see, because my son came back and told me like, well, I was like, what was everyone? Like, your friends. Everyone was pretty much what their dad did. Funny. Or their mom did. You know, like he has, he has like his friend, his dad's a builder in town. So what did he do?

He's a construction guy. Like, you know, my son was a radio guy. Yeah. There's a... You do what you know. A girl, her mom was a doctor. So she was a doctor. Like, I think it's just so cool.

Like that, and they did it for like three days in a row. I was wondering if they continued it to really have the full experience. They did. Wow. They did. That's really interesting. I was like, man, that should be school for some people. Yeah.

Well, it also should just be part of everybody's schooling to really understand, especially in high school when you're getting to the point of understanding like what's after. Because so many of us got out of high school. we're like, okay, I guess we're going to college, more school, and then you still learn just more advanced things that you learned in high school. And then you start to be like, oh, well, what am I supposed to do? I don't know. I haven't done anything. How am I supposed to know what I'm going to do? Oh, do you remember getting your first job and like trying to figure out like, oh, what are benefits? Like, what do I get? Well, my first job was working at Buffalo Wildlings as a hostess.

And that was a Wild Wild West experience for me because. No pun intended. Truly. I, like, I was 16 years old. I got my first paycheck. I'm like, what's happening here? Let's blow it. What do I do with this piece of paper? And it was, I mean, that was so eye-opening for me. And I was adamant.

It was funny. My parents were like, well, Morgan, you do like four sports and you're in school. How the heck are you going to have a job? I was like, I don't know, but I need to have a job. You need money. And they were like, okay, but just so you know, this isn't going to be easy. I was like, well, I need to do it. And it was.

It was really hard. And I were at 16 years old, started working, like, immediately. It was like my 16th birthday. It was like, okay, time to get to do it. job. And I was like, why? Why did I do that? That's because you're a worker. I was. But like, I look back on that. I'm like, dang, Morgan, could I have been a little bit lazier? Yeah, no, no, no. Again, that's not your style. That's not Morgan. That's not. But do you remember your first job and being like, what is happening to my life? I was a lifeguard. I was a lifeguard.

And like, yeah, when I got my first paycheck, I went to the guitar store and bought a guitar. So you blew it. My, my, my check was $400. I bought a $350 guitar. And then I'm like, dang, I only have $15 left. What did you do at the last 15? I don't remember. Got Waterburg or something. I don't know. I got lunch. That's funny.

We're so stupid. And then all these times, too, I'm like, where was my mom and dad? Like, why didn't they not tell me, like, don't go buy a guitar? Oh, I'm pretty sure my parents tried to tell me a bunch of things and I didn't know. Probably. That's probably the real story. It was not what was happening. Okay, Eddie, well, I could keep you here forever.

I already have fun. Oh, that was fun. We got to go into some list of questions. This is my favorite time. My favorite time of every six months. There it is. I mean, I had, like, random things that was so much better. So I'm really glad it worked out that way.

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