The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits: Epic Universal Excitement & Core Memories From Childhood

Episode Date: April 12, 2025

Happy weekend! Scuba Steve joins Morgan to geek out about Disney and things happening down at Universal’s new park. Then they talk about what’s happening with his kids and school right now, and they dive into their own core memories from childhood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Behind the scenes with a member of the show. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the weekend. It's part one. Scoba Steve is joining me. What's up, Scuba? Hey, so is this the first one that plays or the second one that plays? The first one that plays.

I was going to say something that was a follow-up from the first one that we recorded. No, can't do that. I know it's all, it's weird. You have a weird schedule, so I got to fit you in where we can fit you. Okay. What if for this weekend? can only. We flipped it and put Q&A first, and then we did this one second. And then when they hear this, they'll go, oh, that's why the Q&A's first, because he's telling the story.

That's the follow-up to what they recorded first. No, that's not worth. No, you can't break the format. You can't break the format. You've got to be fluid. We're in radio. People like consistency. Yeah, but sometimes you got to like change it. No, if there's anything I figured out about our listeners. But this makes sense, though, but the listeners will understand if you had to flip it. Okay, we're missing a lot of conversations to be had right now. Okay, all right. Sorry, listeners. You'll have to give the story in about a month and a half my next time I'm on the best bits. What? It was a follow-up to something we already talked about? Yeah, well, yeah, it's okay. It's fine. It's cool. It's all good.

Oh, my God. You're stressing me out, man. I'm not stressed out. I'm always stressed out. Okay, well, that is a problem. Yes, yeah. Anyways, we didn't get to talk about one question, which was Chandler in California, who wanted us to talk about Epic Universe in... Oh, yes, Universal. Whoa.

She was like, which Epic Universe section are you most excited about? I think my kids are excited about the How to Train Your Dragon Side. Mm-hmm. I'm really excited to see the Mario side because it's the first, like, really big, expansive Mario world because they have the one in Hollywood. And it's a really, I mean, it's cool, but it's a smaller portion of, it's almost like a food court sample size of what it can be. Don't they have one in Japan. Japan, they have one too. I don't know how big theirs is.

I feel like theirs is probably really cool. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, because that's where it was made. Yeah. So, like, they like made it all out there. So this will be the first, the first big one for America. Yeah. I'm so excited to go see it.

I wish we were one of those shows that did the broadcast because they always invite shows across the country, especially art. We would get the, we would 100% get the invite because it reached a large population that travels to Orlando and is thinking, ah, should I go to Epic Universe? Well, I listened to Steve or whoever at the By Bone Show, and they were there and they had a great time. I'm going. Anyways, I digress. I wish we could do that. Because they would do that.

We would do it. You and I would go and we'd geek out. Oh, my God. Yeah, because Disney, whenever time they open up a new ride or they're them in for a particular holiday, You know, whether it be, I think Christmas is a big one or the Not So Scary Halloween. They always invite shows to go there and broadcast for a couple of days. And they put you up in a hotel and then you get to go to the parks and you get cool, fun access. And you talk about it and it's so much fun because you're there.

But I don't know. That's a dream of mine to be able to actually be able to do one of those. I still think we should try and make it happen. I know. The Epic Universe one is coming up though because that's like now. They're opening up, I think, May 23rd or the end of May. Oh, man. And it looks so cool.

Yeah, it does. The one I'm so excited about is Ministry of Magic. Oh, okay, that's the... That Harry Potter one. Yes, because they're expanding that. It's going to be even... It's going to be three worlds now. That's so cool.

And I'm so excited because when I went to the other ones, I totally geeked out. I could have spent a whole weekend just hanging out in Harry Potterland. Doing both those back and forth, even islands and Universal. Yeah. Exactly. So now I'm like, oh, I got another one to go check out. So I'm really excited about that one, but I'm with you. The Super Mario one looks so cool.

It's going to feel like you're in a video game. Exactly. Yeah. That's the whole, I think the whole object is because they have those tunnels that you go through and the tunnel that you go through into the Mario world is that green tube that you see in the video game. So it really makes you feel like you're immersed yourself into. And they do a great job, too, of putting things up high enough to where it feels like you're not even in Florida anymore. You're in whatever land that they put you in because everything's just so high in the sky.

And the architecture is amazing. I'm also excited for the, what do they call it, the one with all their villains like Dracula and Frankenstein. So they have, I think it's villain world. Yeah, because for me, I always loved Halloween Horn Nights. and so to get a tamer but also really cool Dark universe. Dark universe. Yeah, to get that year round that's pretty freaking cool and also genius. And also when they do Halloween Hornights, it's probably going to be insane in that part of the theme park.

Yeah, and then the other part is Celestial Park, which is probably going to be super cool and just super like pretty and fancy. Celestial. Oh, that looks kind of like, that reminds me of old school islands of adventure, which had this kind of like, had that kind of a vibe to it. I wonder what's going to be in there. I know. I don't know what exactly they're going to put in there, but it just to me looks like it's going to be the busy one. Like it's going to look pretty. You're going to feel really cool in it,

but then you're going to go to the others and they're going to be like the fun. Maybe that's the entrance one where you walk in. Like, you know, there's always like a Main Street USA type thing. That could be the entrance to the park because there's only four worlds. It's a step into a lush green world where thrills, entertainment, dining and shopping lead all who enter on an exhilarating journey of discovery. Yes, I hear dining and shopping and I hear entrance or like kind of like a city walk extension type thing,

which is going to be really cool, I'm sure. But yeah, the tent of world's going there all really. cool. I'm excited for any one of those. I know. I want us to be able to go, hey, but we talked about, you know, my little selfish moment. Yeah, you being friends of somebody at Disney. Yeah, so maybe this is our moment. So I need to know what are your top three that you'd want to be friends with? I don't know.

At Disney. I need a top three because I have to pitch the top three. Yeah, let me see. Well, because all the Marvel ones are in California. Yeah. But they always do some sort of crossover at Disney World. They may have a, you never know. Yeah. What do they call them? Well, I also love. Star Wars. Okay, Star Wars, they have Star Wars there, yeah. I would love to, let me, hold on, let me make sure I'm saying the name, because Princess Leia would be cool, but I don't think they dress up as Princess Leia anymore.

No, they do that one girl, um, yeah. Yeah, what's her name? Star Wars, I'm Googling. It's having Rogue One, and then it'll be that main chick in there. She's awesome. Jen Erso, but they also do one with, um, what's the latest Star Wars one, like the newest, sort of newest movies. Sorry, guys, we're Googling. That's okay. We got Star Wars. No, is it the last Jedi?

Maybe. I thought it was, oh. You know who I'm talking about the girl. She's Burnett. I'm talking about Natalie Portman. No. The queen from the one, two, and three. Oh, here she is.

The Rise of Skywalker, and her name is, why can't I think of it right now? Oh, her, yes. Kylo Ren? No, Colorado is the bad guy. No, Colorado is a dude. Yeah, her name is, what is she? Ray. Ray.

Gosh, I could not place that. And Ray is also in Rogue War II, isn't she, or that's a different girl? No, different girls. They look very similar. They do. They both have Burnett hair. and they have similar kind of very pretty faces. Very pretty faces, yeah.

I would love to be Ray. That'd be really cool. Okay, and they definitely have Ray. I've seen her there. Yes, so have I. So have I. Ray is one. I think Ray's one.

And we're going to focus on Disney World because Disneyland is a different kind of experience. It's easier to get to Disney World for us too as well for travel and then the connection and everything. Yeah, so Ray would be number one. Okay, Ray one. Two would be Cinderella. Cinderella, okay. Classic. Okay, that's pretty, that's super classic.

Yeah, I love a classic. And then maybe three would be Chubaca. Chubaca? You're not tall enough for Chewbacca. You can be Chubacca's kid. I could be a EWalk. We could create an EWalk. Yes. So you'd be an EWalk then.

Yeah. So you're one of the little EWarks. Yeah, I don't think they have those, though. So I'm going to have to be... Not think they do. They have Chubaka, but I don't think they have an EWalka. No, you can be Chubac as like a kid. It'd be kind of cool.

They made you do a kid Chubaka. It's like his child. What would you sound like? It's like, he's louder. How do it again? I messed it up. I messed it up. I messed it up as I was doing it. or you could be they could put you in the R2D2 suit

I was R2D2 in a play there you go see you're short enough you can get in there they definitely have R2D2 I know let me think on the third one you can be R2D2 and I could be C3PO that'd be pretty awesome Which is amazing that'd be really cool right I mean come on We can also double whammy Yeah go over to Universal and oh my gosh yeah

We promote everything boom boom boom boom boom We just do it all that'd be really really cool I know okay okay I'm manifesting this for us we go. But I'll get back to you on my number three. Okay, yeah. For sure, Ray and Cinderella. Ray, Cinderella and then TBD number three. Okay, cool. I can get the ball rolling with those two. Those are obviously there. They exist. They're like quintessential to Disney. Okay, all right, cool. Yeah, those are my first one. So we might have our first way of making this happen. Yeah, yeah. Okay, all right. I like that. And then we can totally geek out. Anyways, how's life? How's dad life? What's going on?

Dad life is busy. And now we're in the state of education and all that because it's kind of changing. a little bit. So we're worried about public versus private. So that's my wife's biggest stress right now is figuring out what we want to do. And I like the public school system in the sense of I went there. And I understand there are problems and there's pros and cons to anything in life. But I like where he's at now because he goes to a school where English is a second language. There's a lot of kids that speak Spanish or other languages. And I like it in a sense that it's really cool to see him. He learns really fast. And obviously he speaks English. So he gravitates to it faster and quicker. And it's cool to see where he'll tell me stories of where he teaches other kids that are in his class and he helps them. So not only is he learning it, but then he's double learning it because he's then teaching it to other kids who are asking him for help

that he, that are friends at his table or whatever. So it's really sticking in his head because he learns it and then teaches it, which is, you know, I think my studies have said that that's the way to really understand information is to take it in and then tell it to somebody. So he's a really good at math and reading and writing. He's like, we'll sit there. He's seven years old. He'll sit there in our bedroom while we're waiting for everyone to take their showers and baths and he's down there in his notebook and writing a story about the bird came to my house

the bird sat down and his name writing a story and I'm like oh my gosh this is so cool so he's really great at it and so I worry by taking him to a private school if he will then lose that because there it's a little different it's even smaller classrooms and most kids are all on his level or higher

or in the same space so I worry that would be a thing but then I also worry about where we are in the state of where things are where there's a lot of funding being pulled from public schools and then it's being put into private schools where they don't really need funding because they get people pay to go there. Yeah, a lot of money. Yeah, there's no point to give something money that already gets money from the people who go there.

And the people also who go there, they donate money. They donate money. And they do charities and events to get even more money. They don't need more money coming that way. The money needs to go to public schools where they don't get any money. It comes from us so we can, I like to pay for it because I know it's paying for my kids' education and other kids education. So I have no problem with my tax money going to pay for a school system. That's what it was there for and I'm okay with that. So that's my biggest struggle right now with the kids is what do we do? Do we do we just, we have to just succumb to it. And be like, well,

this is what they're doing for the next few years. We have to just send out a private school or do we say, now screw it, we'll suck it up, tough it out. But then I don't want it to be at the expense of my kid. But I also feel like crap because the other kids are going to be even further behind because of funding and the way things are. So yeah, you guys have a whole situation happening. right now. I really think for parents. Yeah. I've been seeing that happen. And we live in a state, Tennessee. I don't want to get too much into it where you don't really have a choice. So they just make the rules for you. You just roll with it. So, okay,

cool. Whereas before I lived in a bubble and it was a little different. And it was more thought about the people who are the constituents. We are the country. And it should be of our best interests. And some things are and a lot of things are not. So that's the crappy part right now. We're at as parents. And some people don't understand because they don't have kids and I get it. But you have nieces and nephews or your friends have kids and I have my sisters are in the public education system and I know a lot of what's happening and it's yeah it's heartbreaking it sucks really does for educators I feel for kids I feel for parents like it's a yeah crazy time right now yeah because it's just common sense and education and and knowledge is power and when you hold knowledge

from people you take away people's power to learn and to understand and have perspective in life and you know and even before all this standardized testing was crap because kids had to learn into a test. So it was all about memorization, which is great, but you're memorizing a test to pass a test to get funding. So there was some broken stuff in there where really it should be, kids should be taught things that they should just be taught not to a certain test. Yeah, you can test the kids and make sure there's certain things you have to work into their curriculum and make sure they understand the basics of the ABCs and all that crap. I get that. But like to, but to make the whole curriculum to be about, like in us in Florida, we had this thing called the

F-CAT. I don't know if it exists anymore, but it was like a Florida standardized test where the teachers pretty much spent the majority of their time making sure they passed that test because if their class got high numbers, they got, you know, incentives and the school got incentives, which is fine to a certain degree. You should teach those things, but it became the only focus was making sure we pass that test versus other things in school that we should have been learning and focused on, which we did, but it was a much smaller focus for us where the larger focus was passing the standardized testing, which wasn't fair for the teachers. So I could see that whole thing being like, well, there's a a system flaw.

Well, then that's why you take it and you look at it and you fix it. You don't just eliminate it. You don't just smother it. It's a lot easier for us, apparently, to just get rid of things and start brand new instead of just learning to adjust and navigate and change things to be better. Yeah. Yeah. It's a wild time right now.

Yeah, it really is. I hate that that's what's happening. But hopefully, I'll just hope that good things are going to happen and the kids can stay in the public education system and it keeps going good because I also had a public education but speaking to the standard I testing side of things that's why so much of my memory sucks because all I did was memorize everything for a test so you had a version of that in Kansas yeah I don't remember what it was called okay but like we would just always and so much of our testing was like comprehensive so you'd have to memorize all these things and then you'd never use it again yeah

so like I'd memorize to get my A yeah yeah and then came up and That test. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And then I'm moving on to something new. So, like, my whole, like, memory was never, like, keeping things to retain the information. Yeah. It was keeping it.

So I could pass a test and then move on. And then move on. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So that's how my brain works now. That's why half the time I suck at easy sure. I'm like, I know I learned that. Yeah.

But I did not retain it. I erased it. Yeah. Like, critical thinking is so much more important. And education on where we started and where we are and where we can go is important. Music is important. Music is completely, my son, the school he goes to now, they have a. amazing, awesome, fantastic music school area with all these instruments and a whole hall and

everything. And they don't have a music class because they don't have a music teacher. So they have all these things just sit in there. And they have an art class, which is cool. And thank God they at least have that. But we're at Music City. And they don't have a teacher. And if I were someone that was extremely music, like if I was a songwriter or something and my kids went there, I'll like, I'll volunteer my time once or twice a week just to give these kids, these things that are just collecting dust. You're like, man, like little things like that are so important. I think for kids' brains.

You have a lot of educators that don't want to be in that field right now. I know. It sucks. That's very much what's happening. Yeah. And it's sad. Yeah, pushing out good people who really want to make a change. And at some point, you just get so burnt out by it.

You're like, I just can't do this anymore. And it's not good for their mental health. And they're like, well, this really sucks. I fought as long as I could. And I feel like they're just letting go because what are they going to do now? Yeah. And they have to go and change jobs is something that they don't actually. want to do but yeah exactly yeah they can actually make money and yeah my uber driver was we had an uber

driver about a few weeks ago we were coming back from somewhere and he pointed to some high school he goes oh i used to teach there and i was like oh yeah because i taught chemistry there and i was like yeah he came from lebanon uh not lebanon in the city but Lebanon the country came from Lebanon over here and he learned english by watching tv and from his parents and all these things and he got his you know he got his master's degree he does doctorate like he's super super smart and he was teaching there he's like but it wasn't worth it because the pay sucked and the kids didn't want to learn and everyone's dicking around on their phones and no one's held accountable for anything and the school is just kind of falling apart and he really tried to but there's just he's like but it's not worth the money

he goes i make more money driving you around than i did teaching kids and he goes but i loved because i loved because i loved you know educating the future of america but it just wasn't set up for me to continue doing it and i was like damn that's that sucks and he was a smart dude and i was like talking about this is this is a this is somebody you need in the public school system this is somebody who really truly, and we even told him like, hey, dude, I know it sucks, but private school's hiring. So you should definitely look at that and they'll pay you more and you can continue to educate kids. But he's seen the more like want to help kids who really like really needed to the help. And I was like, and I understood that.

But yeah, I was like, dang, dude, you lose people like that, you know? I know. That's what blows. Yeah. Okay, we're going to take a quick break. I know. That's a downer. We'll come back at a higher note.

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Woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day, and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.

It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah. It would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot in luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. You can have opinions.

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But today now, obviously, it's like 100%. They believe everything. But at first, it was just like, you got to go get a real job. There's an economic component to communities thriving. If there's not enough money and entrepreneurship happening in communities, they fail. And what I mean by fell is they don't have money to pay for food. They cannot feed their kids. They do not have homes.

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Well, yeah, we'll do our absolute best, yeah. We're going to try. I want to know something from you because I have recently learned from somebody new in my life who's telling me that I use an old school word very frequently. Okay. That they haven't heard until I started using it all the time. And I use bamboozled a lot. A bamboozled.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I've been bamboozled. I'll be like, don't bamboozle me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's become a very significant part of my language for some reason. Can't tell you where, when, how are why. Yeah, okay. But it's an old school word that is now in my new language of today.

Do you use any old school vocabulary terms? There was a time when we used to use the word buffoon, like buffoonery. Or buffoon, that's some buffoonery. Oh, you buffoon. I feel buffoon is kind of like, I don't even know what the root of it is, but it's such like an old, like time classic term. That is. And you know, are you the one in reason why we started doing buffoon or, what is it on the show?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boller or Baffoon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I couldn't remember the other side of that. Baller or Baffoon. That may be one of those things where I texted lunchbox. Like, hey, say this. It's possible.

You got inserted onto the show. Yeah. Isn't it weird, though, how words like will come and go in life? And you're like, oh, I haven't heard that one for a long time. and then it just becomes part of your language again. And then some of them you're like, oh, there's a reason why that one's gone. Yeah. Like, there's several ones where I'm like, yeah, we don't say that one anymore.

No, I don't. Shouldn't even say it back then, but some people did, you know? And look at both of ours, both starting with bees. And a bamboozled buffoon. Bamboozled buffoon. I have this like OCD that if my shoes are untied, I just have to tie them. I can't tie them the way I like to tie them. My wife ties them for me.

So also pivoting on a Bobby Bowen Show segment, things that you can't do as an adult, but you should know how to do. And for me, it's tie my shoes. You don't know how to tie your shoes. So I can tie my shoes, but my wife ties them for me. The factory tie, you know, the factory tie has like this like, it's not here because it came undone.

But the factory tie is like that where it's like a loop looking thing. Oh, she knows how to do the factory tie? Yes, she can do the factory tie? So I'm always like, can you tie my shoes for me? And in public people are always like, what the hell? How old are you, sir? You have three children? You can't tie your own shoes?

Can your kids tie their own shoes? I was going to say, did you teach your kids how to tie their shoes or did she? She did. Well, I can do like the old school way where you do like the bunny ears, like the loop swoop pull or whatever. I can do all that. That's no problem. But I like him as the factory tie that she can do that I can't do. I don't think anybody ever taught me the factory tie.

I don't think anyone teaches you that. You have paint or fingernail polish on your fingers? Oh, yeah. My middle child, my daughter, it was a day of me saying a lot of nose. And then at the end of the day she was like, can I paint your nails? And I was like, I said, no. So, so many things. And I was like, all, fine.

So I put my hand out. and she started painting my nails and she just takes and just mashes the crap out of it and your nails and it was the full nail and now it's like starting to fade and I just wanted to show her that like I kept it on

to be like see I kept it on you did it for me and here it is. So you're telling me you could keep fingernail polish on but lunchbox can wear a bracelet I'm just making sure. Exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah

that's exactly what you thought is what happened yes I don't care you and she made me a bracelet one time and I've worn it because it's just like it doesn't really matter who cares and I saw some guy here in the building I went to give him like daps He saw my fingernails

And I was like oh no he's gonna say something And he goes you have a daughter huh I was like yeah I have two he goes I've got one as well And so he's like So it's like an understanding of like You just kind of do whatever who cares It's so true

I'm pretty sure I put my dad through the gambit of things Whether it was like dressing up as princesses Or having tea time Oh I also always put on shows Okay I would always put on the clothes like my new clothes I'd come home If my mom went and like bought me some new stuff

I'd come home like dad sit down I have fashion show And I'd like Show him all my clothes. He just said, like, that's cool. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. I just know now, though, looking back, he's like, what am I doing?

Why? But then he looks back now and goes, oh, now I know why I did it because those moments you cannot get back. And once you say no or you've gone away from it, then it becomes a point of they get older and they become adults and they don't really care anymore. And it's a different kind of dynamic and relationship. And I think having those small little moments when their kids is so important to try to embrace it and be there and be present and really enjoy it. Oh yeah, because it also means so much to the kids. Yeah, yeah. The fact that I remember that my dad would sit on the couch when I was like, let me do a fashion show.

So you remember it. So it's a core memory for you. It is. Like my wife and I would go to some things and like, oh, this is totally a core memory kind of day because of what happened or what we did or whatever. Like to us, it's just another thing or another whatever. But for them, it's like, oh, my God, I remember that one time the fashion show or I painted your nails. Or we chopped down that tree or whatever it was. So yeah, so I look through life that way now.

What do you think are your core memories? Like your top ones. I have a lot of bad ones. Okay. Core memories are good. That are good. Okay. Because I'm thinking like inside out and she preserves a really precious core memories.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is like we have to focus. And you do have bad core memories. Yeah. That's true. Yeah, yeah. But I'm thinking inside out where she literally like stops the bad core memories and she just focuses on the good core memories. So like what's one or two that come to mind for you?

I think one of my great core memories is, I think one, just being a kid and being able to go outside. and us rollerblading or riding bikes in our cul-de-sac playing 500, you know, the football, like, 200, surprise box. You ever played that? Yeah, like those kind of things. And just playing in our cul-de-sac and being kids and all those memories, like, collected into one core memory. Another one which kind of led me into, I think, was the inception of me being interested in being behind a microphone was when I was, I think I may have told the story here, but I don't know, is my brother, he played baseball.

and I played baseball, but I didn't pursue it nearly as long as he did. Like I stopped that thing after like first or second grade. I'm like basketball. I don't really care about this. My brother, though, he played. And there's four of us and my grandfather was into it. And he would take us all there to watch my brother practice or play basketball. I mean, sorry, play baseball, the games.

And we'd all be there. And in the middle of this place, this was Central Winds Park and Winter Springs, Florida. If anyone is listening, I was like, oh, I know where that's at. It's in Orlando. And they had like four baseball fields. And in the middle was just like massive looking silos. tower looking thing and it had windows all around it and up there and no one ever went up there but they had a scoreboard every field had scoreboards and it had a PA system it was fully hooked up

to be almost like a real game with everything going it was really nice fields they were brand newish and i remember seeing that silo and i was like i said man no one's ever up there but no one ever keeps score and it just it just bothered me that we never knew what the score was or many balls or strikes or outs or what ending it was it always irked me and i'm like god there's got to be some way to get to this to connect to it. I wonder where it is. And I think this is just my personality always is like just ask questions later and figure out yourself kind of thing.

And don't act like you don't know what's going. I just just go. So I noticed at the bottom of the silo is a concession stand. And then around the backside, there's a door that I've never seen open. I've never tried it. So I was walked up to it. And I pulled on it and it opened. Then I was like, oh, and I see stairs.

And I'm like, oh, I bet those stairs go up to the top where everything's at. So I go up the stairs, walk up to the top. And as a kid, it feels scary and eerie and creepy. And you're like, oh, my God, I'm supposed to be here. But as an adult, you're like, you just go up there to do your thing. But no one ever went up there. No one ever did anything. So I go up the stairs.

I walk up there and I look around. Oh, my gosh, it's all of the booths for each of the games. And in each one of those things that has a little microphone where you push a button on it, you can like talk into it like, you know, now batting. And then there's a little thing next to it with all the little buttons to change the scoreboard. And so I walked up there one day. And I was like, oh, my God. Well, there's my brother's field.

and the game had just started so I was like oh screw it and so my brother was batting first because he's like one of the best so usually start with him and I just I didn't know it worked because I have no idea so I pushed the button they go now batting and I said his name and his number and then all of a sudden people were like looking around

and then I put the score up and I followed his balls and strikes and this was like midway through the season and then I came down at the end of the game because then I did the whole thing I did the I did everyone's walk out I kept the score and everything and I felt the energy of the game changed because now parents can see the score.

Parents can see how many balls and strikes and what ending it is. And there's interaction. There's somebody talking and saying something and all the other games are super quiet. And then it's one of those things where you don't, like radio, you do the show,

you walk out. Like, did anyone hear that? Did that even happen? Yeah, like it may not have even existed. Yeah, yeah. It may just be only be in my head because I was like 10, 11 years old.

And I walked down the stairs and I come down. And also, too, it's like, my grandfather wasn't like, where's Stephen at? He wasn't worried about it. No, he wasn't. Or maybe you heard my voice over it and he's like, ah, it's pretty cool. Just let him be.

Let him be, yeah. So I come down and it's like one of those moments where everyone's like standing around there and they're all turned around and I'll go, yeah. And I was like, what? Like, that was so cool. And then someone was like, dude, how old are you? I'm 11. He's like, oh my God, can you do that for our game?

And I was like, well, my grandpa, we have to go. I'm just here for my brother's game. And so then I did all my brother's games for the remainder of that season. I would go up there and I would announce him and I would do the score and everything. and I was like, this is so freaking cool. That was your first. That was you planting a seed that would involve microphones. Exactly, yes.

Yeah. And now, fast forward to now I'm looking at where we are currently. And I've always wanted to. I thought it would be so cool. But we don't live in a town where there is an NBA team. I could do other sports or even baseball. We don't know. We have a minor league, but not really major league.

No, but you could totally get in with the minor league. I guess we could. Yeah. But I've always wanted to do the PA announcing for either baseball, Or for basketball. Basketball would be really cool. Yeah. Baseball would be cool just because it's the full circle moment.

But I think basketball would be unreal. That's my real. That's my huge love. And then Orlando Magic, you know, that guy was my inspiration because he was so animated and so awesome. And he just got the news after 36 years. The team's been around from day one. He's been there since the start, 89, that he is retiring. And they now are no longer going to have a voice person for the Atlanta Magic.

And I was like, oh, my, I saw the video of like them retiring him. giving him a jersey. His name is Paul Porter and he had been doing this since day one. I'm like, oh my God, to me, there's an opening in Orlando to be the PA guy. I don't live there. But like, man, that'd be so cool to be able to announce for the Atlanta Magic, my favorite team and to do this. But they're not doing it anymore. No, they're still going to have something. They're going to have somebody. You know how the process goes. They probably have somebody in line that's been the backup. But you said they weren't going to do a voice. They, there was something. Oh, that he was retired. He's retiring. They're not going to have a voice for the time being.

Yeah. So, so. So, so. So, so. So he said, he was going to do a voice. He's retiring at the end of the season. Paul Porter, so at the end of the season, he will be done. If they go to the, they do the playoffs and however far they go, he'll do it. I know. I just know how this crap works. There's already someone in line. But you're always going to be mad if you never, if you didn't try it.

Yeah, it's true. It's a good point. Yeah. Because there is always the 1% chance that you do beat everybody out. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I just know how logistics of the politics that it may not happen. But you can't focus on that. Okay.

Because if you, somebody else gets hired and they stay there for 30 years, you're never going to have a chance. but at least when you did have the chance, you took it. Yeah, that's a good point. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't know? Is the reality?

Yeah, probably. But there's also the reality that you could get it. I know, yeah. And then I'd move there and do mornings in Orlando and have this Orlando magic gig on the side and then go to Disney and stuff. It'd be pretty cool. Yeah, so I don't think you don't apply. Okay.

It's like lunch walks with, yes, he didn't get the in game thing, but like he tried it. He did. Yeah, it's true. He did. And now at least he knows that he did put an effort in for it. But now I need to find that the gig's not posted anywhere yet. He just announced it. Yeah.

So either the Orlando Magic. If you hear me, reach out. I'm wearing black and blue shoes right now. Or NBA, somebody in the NBA. Or somebody in the NBA. It's hearing listening to this as anything. Please give me a chance to at least put together a demo or go there. I'd love to go there and do like a audition, like just do one quarter.

I think it starts with a demo. Well, even if they wanted to be like, hey, what's see what it's like. It's just for chits and giggles. Have them do a preseason game. And I do the intros at the very beginning. and I do one quarter, and if I'm good, they can keep me throughout the whole game. It's like, hey, that was great, or we're fine, we're good,

and they bring in the other guy that they want to do it, do it. But I would love to have the opportunity to do that. Do it. Yeah, it'd be awesome. If you see it gets posted or if somebody hears, you have to apply. You have to. Yeah. But this is a no-brainer.

I know, it is. It'd be so freaking cool. Do it. So cool. Okay. Next best bits, I want to know if you found the job posting. Anything about it. Okay.

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or wherever you get. It's your podcast. While you were talking about that, it reminded me of, like, my, the first core memory that popped up in my brain, because you have so many, right? Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is the one that popped up for me. My parents took me to Maui for a vacation, which Hawaii beautiful.

It's the only time. It's the only time I've been in my life. Oh, wow, okay. This trip. And I'd love to go back. How old are you? I was in, like, eighth grade. Oh, okay, so young.

I knew, though. You knew you're going to Maui. We're going to Hawaii. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I remember a lot of it. But this particular moment, they woke us up at the buck crack of dawn.

Like one of those ones? Why are we awake? So early right now. This is vacation. It was like 5 a.m. The sun wasn't even out. And we pile in this rented Jeep. Okay.

The tops off. This is where I fell in love with jeeps, by the way. Okay. And I'm like, what are we going to do? We did the road to Hana. Oh, nice. Okay. In a top-down Jeep for the entire day.

Luke Bryan had just put out his spring break album. First one. Okay. And so we're jammed. to Luke Bryan's new album. Top down. Top down. And the mountain, like hills, mountains, what do you call?

In Hawaii? Yeah, you're on the mountainside, basically. Yeah, you're in these teeny tiny roads. And you're seeing all these beautiful places. Yeah. And I just remember that entire day being like, I don't think anything will ever live up to this moment. It's funny how it started so crappy.

You're like, ugh. He's you get up. It's like, by way, Morgan, you're not driving or doing anything. It's just sit in a seat. Literally. And I'm going to be all doing all the driving and everything. Yeah. And I was so, like, grumpy.

And then I got in the car. I was like, okay, by the end of the day, I was exhausted. But I said, this is the coolest thing I've ever done. Yeah, because it's beautiful. It's so pretty. Oh, my God. It's so cool. The whole road and everything about it.

It's so lush. And there's so many adrenaline moments because you're seeing crazy things you've never seen before. Also, some of the roads are wild. You're going to die. Yeah. Pull to the side while another car comes. Yeah. It's like, it's in the bridges are narrow.

While there's like a waterfall coming down. It's pretty damn cool. It's like out of a movie. It really is, yeah. You reminded me of that when you were talking about theirs. But I have to let Scoba Steve get out of here. We've had a crazy, crazy week on the show. Make sure you go check out part three, Scuba.

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I see that the meat in the middle and the buns on the outside. There's a strategy here. I'm your buns to your best bits. And the buns, to me, are the best part. Okay. I agree as well. I love a bun, you know? Yeah.

But I was at McDonald's. I used to, we used to, go a quick one before we go, when I used to work there, my favorite thing in the world would to do was to take just the bread, like the buns, and put it through their little heater thing. Yeah. And they come out, they're so soft and warm. I would eat just the bread by itself. So delicious.

A little buttery bun. Yeah. See, I'll put mayonnaise in the middle of it. Or they're special sauce and eat that too. Ooh, it's really good. It's just special sauce and bread. Yeah, yeah. Really, it's all it was.

It was good. You would eat it because it's, no, me did it. I know. I would. And I'm laughing because I've made some really bizarre sandwiches because I don't eat me. If people look at me like I'm crazy. We have to come up with alternatives. Yeah.

Yeah. I've come up with some wild things. What's like the most wildest concoction you come up with because you don't eat meat? The one that people never, every time I make, they always think I'm crazy is like a, it's a bagel egg sandwich, but I put jam on it. Oh, yeah, jam is really good. Yeah, jam is really good. Yeah. Jam is an egg is just top tier.

Oh, it's really good. But every time I do it, people are like, you funky. No, it's good. Just try it. Just hear me out. Hell yeah. There's a spot in East Nashville. You've been to it's called Hearts.

Yes. They have their bagels are really good, and then they have a sandwich where you can put the jelly in it. Oh, my God. It's so freaking phenomenal. Yeah. And if you have like a local spot that does it, it's even. Oh, yeah. Those are my best one.

Okay. But also I will do a, everybody makes fun of me for this one. I make, it's literally just a tortilla and I put like sour cream and chive and shredded cheese and then I roll it up. That's it. That's pretty, okay. That's all right. I know it sounds crazy. Yeah, but I bet it's good, though.

But I also recently made it healthier because I take Greek yogurt. Okay, nice. And I put ranch seasoning with it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I create like a Greek yogurt ranch dip. Okay. And now I put that on it and then I put the shredded cheese.

I don't know if that's healthier because you got the ranch seasoning, though? But the ranch cheese is like five calories. Oh, okay. The great yogurt is like 15 grams of protein. That's true. But what about the preservatives and the chemicals they put in the ranch powder? Let me have this. I actually make it healthier because I put rat poison in it.

In all fairness, it's healthier than like the sour cream and chives that I was doing. It's a swap. Okay, okay. We've swapped. A little swap, yeah. Get out of here. I'm trying to be happy. All right, I gotta go.

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But I was hoping that by doing that it'd make people want to subscribe more because like, screw Steve. and then they would be like, no, we should do more subscribing. I did get a few of those. Counterintuitive, there you got, boom. We did, but did you at least resubscribe? Yeah, resubscribe, yeah. Since I said that, I resubscribed.

Okay, so you just did it for the... Just for the bit. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just making sure. Also, go follow Scoobo Steve at Scoobestee Radio. Yep. At WebGourl Morgan, at Bobby Bone Show, all the things.

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