The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits with Abby: PART 1

Episode Date: May 20, 2023

In this podcast, Morgan and Abby admit the last time they felt like the worst person ever + they talk about the things they hope to do in their lifetime. They spill some tea from the iHeartCountry Festival about the guys on the show and they discuss some hyped up things they don’t understand and of course a little therapy session about grief.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Happy weekend. Morgan here. It's the best bits. We're bidsing it up as kickoff Kevin just said us who came into the office. What's up, Abby? What's up? You're excited to be on the best bits this weekend? Of course.

We got some things to talk about. We're going to like kick it off with something that it's kind of dark, but more just like I felt like the worst person ever. Oh, geez. I know. I've had a lot happened in my life recently, so we just got to get to it. Okay. You ready for this?

Yes. All right, here we go. So coming at number seven, we got an update from Eddie on his no parenting Sunday situation, how that's going, if they're going to keep doing it, and that whole thing. And it just brought up for me, I felt like the worst cat owner ever. Now let me tell you why. Okay. So I got back from our I heart country festival in Austin.

I was exhausted. And I napped all day Sunday and Hazel and Rumi were kind of mad at me, which are my dog and my cat. And they're always mad when I get back from somewhere because they're like, you left us, you abandoned us. And they were kind of mad at me, but, you know, over the day they came back around. You know, I was feeding them, life was good again. Well, that night, I thought Hazel was still mad at me. This is the first time I had, like, full on left Hazel, and, like, somebody had to stay

over, and Remy was there. It was, like, the first time for all of that. And so I just really thought she was mad at me. And normally she's out and about, but she wasn't. So I had put something in the pantry before I went to bed, and I closed the door because my pantry's always closed. I did not realize Hazel followed me in there. Oh, no.

And so I go to bed like normal, and I'm not thinking anything of it because I'm like, oh, she's just mad at me. And she doesn't typically sleep with me at this point. I've tried. She doesn't want to sleep with me yet. She just normally wakes me up. That's the only time I see her. But so, like, as I'm going to bed and all this is happening, me not seeing her as pretty normal. And then I wake up the next morning.

And I go and, like, open up the bedroom door or, like, go and open up her window to let her look out and I'm not seeing her in the room that she typically sleeps in. I'm like, where is she? I look under the bed. She's not under there. I'm like, okay, maybe she's downstairs. So I go downstairs to start, you know, making their food or whatever. And she's not on the chair that she typically sits in. I'm like, where is this cat? And all of a sudden I walk into the kitchen and all I hear is this faint, you know, like so faint. And I'm like, oh my God. And I open up the pantry door out bust hazel and she's like this freaking woman locked me in the pantry all night. Oh my gosh. She was probably so confused. Oh my God. This poor cat was probably meowing at me all night.

I was so tired. I slept so hard. Like did not hear anything. I think she, she had tried to jump up on my like recycling bins and stuff. Things were kind of scattered in there. And she had peed on the paper towels, which like my fault. My fault. Like girl pee where you need to pee. That's my fault. and I know she made commotion and I just did not hear it. Remy didn't even hear it. Like Remy had, I don't think, slept much over the past weekend when I was gone. She doesn't sleep very well when I'm not there. And so I think she was knocked out.

Like, nobody moved. And so when I went into the pantry and as soon as I saw her bus out, I just collapsed onto the floor. And I just started crying. I was like, Hesel, I'm so sorry. I swear this does not normally happen. I did not realize. And she's become a little shadow. Like she follows you in the kitchen because she loves food.

Like this cat loves food and she will shadow you in the kitchen. And I just did not think twice about it. And oh my God, when I tell you, like I cried in that entire day. I felt so horrible. And she was fine after like she ran out and she just kind of looked at me like, what did you just do? And she doesn't normally eat overnight anyway. So that was fine. But she obviously didn't have her litter box and she didn't have water.

So I'm like for like seven hours this poor cat was trapped in this pantry, not knowing what was going on. And when I just tell you, I felt like the most horrible person in life, I did. I'm sure you did. But I mean, that's like an honest mistake. It is. But like this is a living, breathing thing we're talking about. Yes. And I am, you know, I call my mom.

I call my dad. I was like hysterically crying. This is at like 4.30 in the morning, mind you. Like right before I'm heading into work. Oh, my. And I'm like panicking. And I'm calling them and I'm like, well, why are we getting woken up? And I'm sobbing.

I feel like this horrible person. And they're like, Morgan, it's okay. Like, did you learn a lesson? And I was like, yes, I learned a lesson, but I didn't want to learn this way. Like, this is terrible. So I felt like the worst cat in a rough my life. But it's all, see, you'll never do it again. You'll never do that again, right?

Oh, my God. I have checked every time I go to bed now, I check every door. I'm like, where are you? I need to put my eyes on both of you. And I had the same thing happen when I had Remy as a puppy. Wait, this has happened again. I didn't lock her in a pantry. But we had, I lived in an apartment at the time and it was all indoor.

And so when we came in from outside, I would always let her run on my floor to like go to the door. It'd be like her little off-leash moment. And she'd always run there. And for like 30 minutes one time, I had thought she followed me in and she didn't. And then when like 30 minutes passed and I couldn't find her anywhere, I opened up the door and she's just sitting there. Like, yo, you locked me out. Gosh. I have a thing with doors clearly.

Like I'm just, I just am not anticipating. these cute little animals to be my little shadows. So you're just not used to it yet. So that's probably what it is. I'm used to it with Remy. That happened when she was a puppy, like in our first year. But yeah,

this is the first, obviously, three months with Hazel. Okay, no more shutting doors for you. Like, you have to leave them. You know why?

Because both of them get into everything. Like the doors have to be closed. Or my trash would be everywhere. The food would be everywhere. My clothes would be everywhere. They would get into everything. So everything stays closed and everything's put behind those doors and cabinets

because I've also learned Hazel can get into cabinets if she wants to. So like it has to stay close. Okay. I don't know how to solve this. But that's the thing. Like a dog would pry it like Remy, if you put her,

if she was in the closet, what do you think she would have done? Oh, she would bark and scratch and it would have been very loud. Right. Hazel's meows are so soft. I know. And I know she was meowing all night

so I know that's why it was so faint and it just broke my heart. I was like, I swear. And then I like gave her whatever food she wanted for the day. I was like, here,

eat it all. Do you want to go for a walk? Like, I was trying to show like, I swear this never is going to happen again. This shouldn't have ever happened. You know, I bet she found a nice,

comfy spot. She fell asleep, and then she just started meowing when she heard you. I hope so. I do hope she fell asleep. But, I mean,

coming from what she came from, like, come on, Morgan. So I had my moment where I felt like the worst person ever. I'm still recovering from this worst person moment ever.

have one of these. Can you make me feel any better? I'm like, oh, well, I was going to say, I don't think any of mine compare to that. It's okay if they don't compare. I don't want anybody to compare it to that because that was like, oh, but maybe somebody else has like done similar things with their animals. They feel really bad. Oh, I'm sure that's happened before totally. You know, I hope not, but I, you know, I hope for, at least maybe in a similar situation. My only thing that happened is a week that I felt bad was I got a to go order and it was just like you go up to the window to get it and they were like, do you want a receipt? And I'm like, yeah, so I can put a tip on it. And they're like, oh, we don't like have that. We don't have

you like sign it. So I didn't give them a tip. I felt really bad because I always liked a tip. On the teard order, where was this place at? Was it local? Yeah. Well, it was a barbecue at least. Oh, okay. And they don't allow tips. Uh-uh. Not when you, because I just get it from the window outside. Yeah. And I've never seen that. Usually you sign a, you know, the receipt. And they were like, oh, no, don't worry about it. But I'm like, I always liked. I just feel bad. You know, I like to give them a little something. Do you ever, because I work to go for a while. So I will always give something.

It's normally like one to $5 depending on how big the order is. Yeah. But do you ever tip like 20% on $2? I usually do. Or more. Because I mean, it's just me. So it's really not that much anyway. It's usually like $10, you know?

So I, yeah. So we're the same. So it just depends on like if it's a $5 order or if it's a $20 order. Yes. And if they're really nice to me, like if they're like, hey, you know, welcome in. then I give them more. But if they don't even like look at me or whatever, I'm like, okay, you get like a dollar. It's all about the ingredient.

It is. It really is. Because you're probably not expecting a tip because like when I was a server, you know, when someone tipped on a to go order, it was like rare. Like they never did. And I was like, wow, I just put this in a bag. Thank you. Well, and at least my experience as being a to go person at Buffalo Wild Wings, we've made

minimum wage. We weren't below like servers were. Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I do think to go make it, but I don't know that that's everywhere. That was a corporation so it could speak a lot differently than local places. I don't know. Yeah.

I don't know how that worked to go. Because I never, I just was a server. And mine was like $2 an hour. Oh, no, girl. I started as a host and then I was a to go person and then I was an expo and then I was a server. And as I was about to be a bartender, which is the thing I wanted to do the entire time, I went to college. So worked that whole time. Oh my God.

You worked your way up to not be able to do that. Yeah. But I went through every level besides cook at Buffalo. off wings. It's probably a good thing. I wasn't cooking wings because I'm a vegetarian and I would not go over well. I know. That would have been so weird.

Yes, but it's fun to watch them because as the Expo, you would always be the food deliver. Like, you'd always go and make sure everything's getting delivered. And so I'd always get to watch them make the wings. And so they'd always, because at Buffalo they have all these different spins, like the sauces. And so they put them in these buckets and they'd be spinning them. That's how they make the wings on the sauces. No way. I don't know if they still do that.

But that's how they did it then. I didn't know that. Yeah. Because I never did wings. A big giant, like specific bucket for each. sauce and then they dump the how many wings they need whether it's the in bone or the boneless right those are the two different versions

or bone in I said in bone same thing and then they just yeah like pump the sauce in there and they shake them up really hard it's fun to watch that's cool I didn't know that at all the more you know yes and I will still eat at Buffalo Wildwing so I had a good experience there that tells you that that is good

well you still eat at the place you were a server now that's not good so don't Don't say their name. I won't. Like, I get PTSD, basically, when I drive by. Oh, yeah, that's not good. Okay, well, Buffalo Wildlings is safe. Great experience there.

Okay, fair. But yeah, yours definitely doesn't compare to mine. But I appreciate you sympathizing with me. I do sympathize. Yeah. But I think she was fine. I think she forgot about it already because you give her so much love other than that. I hope so.

I know dogs have very short-term memory. I think cats have longer-term memory, though. But she's not holding a grudge. No. Oh, no. She's been loving and wants to hang out all the time. But it did take a few hours after that. She was kind of like, what the?

Is this my life now? And I'm like, no. She's like, I never want to go back there, please. Oh, gosh. Never. But yeah. So it was a traumatizing experience for both of us to say the least. You're not a bad person.

So it's okay. No, but you are watching the animals for me this weekend because I got a wedding. Yes. And I'm so excited to hear how. how it goes because Abby told me the last time she was on best bits she's kind of afraid of cats. Yeah, I was like, oh, fun fact, I'm terrified of cats. Yep. I guess because I didn't like grow up with one in my house. I've never lived with one.

So I'm scared of what they're going to do when I'm sleeping, I think. Well, Hazel doesn't bother you when you're sleeping. But she, if she hears your alarm, she may come in and check on you and be like, you awake, you're going to feed me yet. Yeah, she doesn't do anything at night. But she does have, like, sometimes she'll just start playing with toys in the middle of night or she'll play with cabinets, which is why I told Abby she has to come over and I have to like tell her what this sounds like otherwise she's going to think somebody's breaking into the house.

Yeah, I'm glad you told me. But that's hilarious. But she like tries to get in the cabinets. Oh, yeah. It just sounds like a. It just sounds like somebody's like open it constantly. I would have thought it was like a ghost or something. Honestly, I'd be like, okay, what's happening?

Oh, yeah. This is why I'm preface. I did it to my girlfriend who watched him last weekend when we were gone and she was like, what is happening. So, remind her for me. A lot of, listen, I'm having a lot of learning lessons. with having a new animal in the house. Yes.

So I'm excited to see how this goes for you. Me too. Terrified of cats. I think you may fall in love with cats this weekend, though, because Hazel's awesome. What if I do? What if this is like a life-changing moment for me? I think it might be. Because she's so loving and she just loves people when she kind of opens up that trust.

She may hide from you all weekend. We do not know. I hope not either. But I hope she turns at least a little bit of your scariness away. I would love that, honestly. It would be super cute. Yeah. Okay.

But yeah, I'll keep you up to date. But I'll text you throughout the weekend. Yes. And everybody, make sure, check on Abby. Make sure she's not afraid of anything while she's watching the animals. I know. Oh, we did have Teneal Towns also on this week who was awesome. She did a cover of landslide and I don't know about you, Abby, but like I got chill bumps.

I loved that performance. Loved it because it is so her own. No one else sounds like her. And that's what I love about her voice. It's so, like, distinct. Yeah, and you know, if anybody like is hating on it or anything, like I just want to say a cover is meant to be a cover for a reason. It's not supposed to be the same song. It's supposed to sound different. Right. That would be boring if they all sounded the same. Yeah, like when you cover a song, does it sound the same? Usually when I do, yeah, because I'm not like, not me. I don't have like a super distinct voice, I would say, like to Neal. So mine are probably maybe a little boring. But I think hers is super amazing. But if you were to record cover a song, Yeah. Like say there's a song that you choose and you decided to like record it for an album.

Wouldn't you want to make it a little bit different? Oh yeah. That's like the fun part to make it your own and be like, how can I make it different? Because you don't want it to sound exactly the same. You like it's throwing your own. I feel like you're just constantly comparing the two instead of it being like this is totally different. It's a version of this song. You throw in your own like flare. Yes. Like a great example is fast car that Luke Combs covered on his and it's so good. But it's so different than the original. song. And I love it, but I would, like, I would at this point choose to put on Luke Colm's fast car version. I would too. Oh my gosh. I really would. Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one. His like gives me goosebumps. I don't know why. It just, because it just like brings you back. It just feels like his voice on it just feels so perfect. Mm-hmm. So, you know, cover. If you could cover any song and you're going to record it, what is it going to be? Dang. Oh, that's a hard one. I got to think. I mean, you do the, the heads Carolina, Tails, California, California. No, that is your kind of go-to song.

That is my go-to. I guess I could do that one. I like slower songs. You know, I used to sing landslide all the time too. Really? But now I'm like, I'm not going to attempt that again. Not choosing that one. It has been done the best way it can.

Desperado from the Eagles. Like, that's one of my favorites. I'm going to be honest for one second. I thought he said Despacito. And I was like, I mean, I'm not sure how it's going to go. Despacito. A country version of Desperato. How does Desperado go?

by the Eagles? Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime. The sky won't snow and the sun don't shine. It's harder till the nighttime from the day. I don't think I've heard the song before. Really? I don't think I was exposed to a lot of Eagles music though, so that's probably why. But when you're singing it, it sounds beautiful.

So now I need to look into the song. See, that's what covers do. If you've never heard it before. Maybe you go listen. I know. Like me. Very jaded Eagles player. Wait. Wait, you're jaded?

Like, I just don't understand. Okay, yeah. You just, yeah. But that one is definitely like... Listen, I use a lot of words out of context. Oh, it's like, hold on. And that may not be what jaded means. Which is really funny when you say that because my sister sent me a hilarious article that I'm going to read at the end of his best bits. That is going to make you laugh about the fact that a lot of people have a hard time with the English language. I don't think you meant jaded.

I'm not sure what... I'm very naive. Yes. There it is. That's better. Naive to the Eagles music. I mean you're just like so tired of it. Yeah. Okay, I'm not that.

I haven't even gotten that to that point. I'm just naive. I don't know anything about the Eagles. Yeah. Besides Vince Gill. Isn't that the same one? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. He went and did the band. Yeah, he's part of it. See? Vince Gill I know. Country music I know. The Eagles.

Pretty much every other genre I don't. But yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's fun. I like it. Well, I want to talk about something because she got to

record a new album on a train while she was living on a train for like 15 days and just crazy experience and the way she talked about it was super cool what's something that you hope to do in your lifetime it could be anything in the world it could be as bizarre as crazy as you want it to be what's the one thing that you hope to accomplish in your lifetime i want to like backpack like across the world like oh i feel that like europe i'm saying like don't even have a plan just like fly over there and just be gone like six months Yeah, I would love that. I would love to do that.

Oh, I feel that. What would be the first place you start? I'm going to say, Switzerland. It's so pretty. You know who has a house there? Who? She does not.

She does not. Yeah, she does. I'm so jealous. Right? So you go see Shinaya. Okay, that's right there. And backpack all over. Where would you end?

So I don't even know. Because I don't even want to just stay in Europe. Like, I want to go. all over the place. Every continent. That's what I'd love to do is visit every continent. I'm with you. Like, I would do this with you.

I would genuinely, there are some days where I'm like, can I just quit everything and go travel the world? Yeah. If I could bring Remy and Hazel with me to literally travel the world, I know I can do it United States. Like I could probably find a way to make that work. If I could bring them with me to go travel the world, I would do it in a heartbeat. If somebody gave me a million dollars and said, you can go travel the world with

your dog and your cat. do whatever you need to do, I'd be like, yes, I'm out. I'm, see you later. That is a dream, like a dream. I can't even imagine, yes. So cool. Like, just seeing all the different places. Like, my entire, like, feed most of the time is, like, travel stuff.

I'm like, y'all need to quit that because. That's hard to look at. Is it like wonderlust, whatever is, are you a, what's the, what's the word for like, I did it. I think it's wonderlust, yeah. Like, you just want to. A feeling. You just want to go.

Mm-hmm. My friend that's like, R.H., she bought an, she quit her job last year, bought an RV. and traveled for six months around the U.S. That's so cool. Oh my gosh. She had the best time ever. I want to do that so bad.

I do too. Ray and I often, every time Ray is on, we somehow get on these standards of like how we don't want to like get to a point of retirement and like that's when we do it all. Like we want to do it now.

But you know how hard that is? It is really hard. It's like when do you have the time to do that? Unless you have your job. Right. Yeah. And like you don't want to do that. If you have your dream job,

why would you quit it? Yeah, right? Yes. But somebody gives me a couple million. Let's me travel for a many days. I'm going. Sorry, got to go. I'm going. I'm just putting that out in the universe for both of us.

How are we going to get the million? I think winning the lottery is the only way. I don't know who's going to give us a million dollars. I may have to start playing. Same way lunchbox does and just like, you know, let's go. Oh, my God. Please do. And then you win.

You just start playing. You, oh, man. I went and bought a lottery ticket one time because I didn't get in on like the office one. And I was like, you know what? I just want to go and buy it. And it would be a hilarious story if I ended up winning. winning, but I didn't. And I ended up paying more money that I wanted to. And I was like, I'm never playing the lottery. Never again. That's how they won nothing. Yeah. It was stupid. You think you're going to win the first time? Yeah. That was genuinely my feeling. I was like, but honestly, I was just doing it for the plot. Like, I didn't really actually want to play the lottery. I just wanted to do it to win and come on the show and be like, guys, I won. But nothing? I won zero dollars.

Stupid. Not even five. And I meant to spend $20 and somehow I managed to spend $40. Don't ask me how that happened. I have happened. I have no idea what happened in the gas station. It's like I blacked out when I was, I was like, I need lottery tickets. He's like, oh, here. And then he had already pulled them. And I was like, well, I feel like that's bad luck if I don't buy them all. It probably is. Well, I guess not really because you didn't win. But you know what? Somebody told me that you at least win a minimum of how much you spend. And I'm like, that's not accurate. That's not at all. I was like, oh, I'm going to spend $20 on this scratch off. I have to win at least $20. And I won zero. I was like, they lied to me. Yeah, who told you that?

I don't remember. I really don't. I feel like that's some lunchbox logic. I don't know why I think Scoob is Steve told me. What? Oh, scuba. I'm going to check after this. So I think it was.

We were talking about lottery tickets and he's like, you're guaranteed to win what you spend. There's literally no guarantee on any of it. No, that's not what the lottery is. Otherwise, everybody would be playing because you would never lose. Yeah, because then you just gain money. That, no. Maybe they were messing with me.

Yeah, I think they were. They're probably trying to get you to spend some money. And I'm like, oh, okay, because I believe them. Well, when you're naive lottery players, what do you know? Yeah, I'm just trying to get advice from the guys that know. Right? No, dude, they mess with us all the time. Yep. I think he was. So that's the other thing you and I hope to do in our lifetime is win the lottery so we can shove it in all their faces. Oh, that'd be awesome. I can't wait for that day.

You know, this is like, this is honestly what, it kind of like relates to this. Like, what I really want to be able to do is go through a portal to, like, another planet or another time. Oh, a portal. I hope that happens in our lifetime where the technology to create portals happens. I've always had this theory that basically everything we see in the movies will someday come true. It's just a matter of time. And so, I mean, you see portals all the time into other worlds, to other timelines, to, heck, to go to freaking Australia from the United States. Yes.

And I would just love the experience of that, like, technology being here for people to have such cool experiences and it not cost an arm in a lake. And you just have to, like, go through a portal. And it's, like, so accessible to everyone. Uh-huh. Like, that would be so cool to experience my lifetime. Even if I'm, like, 95, I'm about to hit the grave. That's the last thing you do. Yeah, I'm like, this is on my list to do.

Like, I have to go through a portal. That would be awesome. Right? Well, that does bring me. Why are flights still, like, 20 hours across the world? Do they not have a better system? We can't get on like some supersonic plane or something? I think we have the technology, but it's being used in warfare.

That's true. It's not being used for civilian life. I guess what I'm saying is can we let us use them to please? Right. Yeah, like I don't want to sit on a plane for 20 hours. I mean, you have to know that technology is beyond what we know because like we get like little like bits of it right when they're like, oh, the flying car is here. And like there's somebody that's created the flying car.

I'm like, listen, we're seeing the flying car in the news. I don't want to know what's not in the news. Because I know there's more technology behind that that we aren't seen about and they're not telling us about. Right. You know, because they're finding ways to monetize it. Uh-huh. Make us pay for it. And they probably have to do like safety tests and all that.

Yes. I do want to be safe. Like, don't give me something that's not safe. But like, also let's not keep it to, you know, and try and monetize a crap out of it. Let's just like let people see the world. Right. We only have so much time on this earth. Yeah.

Let's get it moving. We have things to do. It's all a lie. Everything's a lie. I know. I do like that, though, about the portal. Right. Good idea. Portal and traveling, which are, you know, we're on the same wavelength. Yeah. We're there together. Yes. And you know what I really appreciate about us right now?

Is that we both chose things that are not at all work related. Right. Because I've noticed that so many people get wrapped up in the idea of I love what we do. I have so many goals in what I want to do. But like I also have goals outside of my work life. And I want to keep it that way. I would love to most of my goals to be personal because. because work isn't life. And we've been led to believe that work is life. And it's not. So I'm so proud of us right now for sitting here and like of all the things that we could have chosen. We chose two things that are not at all related to that tether of our lives. Me too. That means that we also know we don't want to like work our life away.

No. We want to like live our lives out there. Yes. That we don't see. But like during the week we're just thinking about work. Yeah. But it's like outside of it, you're like, Okay, there's also more to life that you need to also see.

Yes. And prioritize. Exactly. Which is why I'm so proud of us, Abby. Look at us. Go. High five. We're in the studios.

We can actually. No, we're not. Go. We got it. We barely hit it. Look at us. I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him. I said, hi, dad.

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And you and I just had a freaking time. Now, coming out of the number five spot is young listener LJ, who, if you guys remember months ago, called into this show and his mom was surprising him with tickets to the festival. And Bobby's like, well, hey, come hang out with me backstage. age. So he basically had this whole epic weekend in Austin and all those pictures. Like his mom sent me all these pictures that we put up on our website. So they're all up at Bobby Bones.com and anybody can like go relive IHeart Country Festival through LJ, which is pretty cool. I know. He's a really cool little kid and it was cool to get to meet him in that whole family. But I want to talk I heart country

festival because you and I had some funny experiences. Yeah, what in the, yeah, we did. And I say that because you and I were hanging out with the guys most of the time, which is why those experiences were very interesting. Exactly. Anything with them just turns into what is happening. And one of those being that I really wanted to see the bats come out from under the bridge. Uh-huh. And we had left a party. So Friday night, we had two parties that we had to go to. One was like the pre IHeart Country Festival party for like radio people basically and some advertisers. And then another one was for all of the label people and that we also had to stop at. So after the first party, we were walking to the other one and we were right by the bridge. Do you know what the bridge was named? The Congress Street Bridge. Yeah, like the iconic bridge of Austin.

Yes. That's what I'm going to name it. Yeah. And apparently bats come out from there like every night at dawn. Dust. Dust. Oh my gosh. I just had this conversation. The other day I was like, wait, which? Dusk. Dusk. Dawn is in the morning. They come out at night, basically, before as the sun's going down. and I got really excited because we were leaving at the time that that was happening and the bridge was right there. And so Eddie's like, oh yeah, the bats are probably going to come out in like five minutes. I've always wanted to see. I've been to Austin, I don't know, a handful of times now and I've never gotten to see the bats. I'm like, oh my God, we're right here.

Let's go see the bats. So we walk over there because I'm listening to Eddie. Avi, how long did we stand at the bridge for? 45 minutes? Yeah, at least. Yeah. Did the bats ever come out? No, they did not.

But they said that they were about to every five minutes. Every five minutes. We did a TikTok live video because I was like, oh, this is hilarious. And these two, I'm not kidding, you probably every other minute. And there was multiple people standing at this bridge, right? So it wasn't like we're standing there and nobody's there. Right. There were a lot of people lined up.

It was packed. And so every time they'd be like, oh, the bats are coming. Here they come. Here they come. For 45 minutes. I'm sure the people in front of us hated us. I really do think so. I think they were really glad when we decided to leave.

They were so annoying. Lunchpog at one point was like, are we the annoying? one's on the bridge right now. I was like, yes, you have been the whole time. They are always the annoying ones. Let's put that there. That's just how they act. And that, you know, it's funny is what I've noticed. And I love this about my dad. Whenever we go in public, he has like a stage, right? My mom calls it his stage when he's around us girls. It's like he gets up on his stage and he like does all his jokes and he's so excited. That's so cute. And so, and he does it in public too. I think it's a dad thing. And what I'm picking up on is lunchbox and Eddie when they're in public have this stage.

that they like to go on. Yes. And it's a very dad thing to do. I'm not going to tell them it's a dad thing because they're going to be like, oh my God, Morgan's talking about a dad thing. It's endearing. I love when my dad does it. It's hilarious.

But like when these two do it, I mean, you guys are a bunch of hooligans. No, it seriously was like they were doing a skit. I'm not even kidding. And they're in front of a crowd. Like they were like,

oh, you see that? That's the bat. It's literally Beavis and Butthead in real life. I'm not even kidding. It's what they do. The whole time I was like, who are they talking to? Themselves, themselves, the whole time.

So that was the bats. Do you have anything else you wanted to add about our bat experience? No, but they'd be like, oh, there's one right now. And it was just like a regular bird. And then they're like, no, you got to watch for one because it's the leader. And then all the rest will follow. They're like, there's the leader. Just everything about it.

The experience was not good. So next time, if we ever come to Austin and somebody wants to actually help us see the bats let Abby and I know. Yeah. Seriously. We are not going with lunchbox and Eddie. Nope. What else happened? Oh, that second party we went to, they had a candy bar. Oh, okay, yep. It was like a closet full of candy. You can just go in and get anything you want. And they had an ice cream machine. And they had, okay, so I know what I did. I want to know what you all chose. So what I did was I had a little cup. And what we learned was we were in, like, the place that I heart had like rented out for this party was like a like a private bar

that people have to like be out. So now we understand why there's a candy bar there. Yes. It was like an exclusive club. So it makes sense why I have a candy bar. I'm like most bars wouldn't like just put out a candy bar. So I want to know what your choices were in this candy bar. So what I had was peanut M&Ms. I had airheads, Snickers, Twix, KKat. Listen, I had a cup that I put everything in. Kit Katz. I had a sour straw. And then I had. ice cream, which I got from the soft show machine with fudge and caramel on it. And then I had an oatmeal cream pie. And those were my choices from this whole, this whole crazy bar that we had. What a mixture. I did. And let me tell you that oatmeal cream pie saved my life Saturday night,

because we got back from the festival and I had like not eaten anything. And I did not want to go find food. So I got back to my hotel room and that was my dinner. It was an oatmeal cream pie. And the fries. You did get fried. That was Friday night, though. But this is Saturday night. Yes. After a whole crazy day that we had. Like I had two breadsticks, like, on five o'clock. And then when I got back, it was like 12, and I ate an oatmeal cream pie. That was my dinner. And you were probably very excited to see that oatmeal cream pie. Oh my God, I was so happy. I was so happy. Because when you get in late, like, you're like, I'm starving. I want anything. And I had my cup of candy. And you don't want to go find food because you

don't want to like, especially in a new town. You're like, I don't want to go search all over the town for it. Right. So I'm glad you ate yours. What was in your cup of candy that you had? Oh, I had chocolate or Hershey's Kisses. I had Skittles, sour gummy. worms was the main part. I just got, like, my entire cup was full of summer gummy worms. And then remember I put it in my purse? Yes. And then we were waiting for the fries and it, like, knocked over and I just had candy.

The Skittles was everywhere. Yeah, we're everywhere. Okay. And you didn't get ice cream? I didn't, no. Yeah, ice cream. I don't know why I wasn't feeling it. I guess just, like, mixing, like, dairy and alcohol, I don't, I don't know.

Even though I love Bushwalkers, which is dairy and alcohol. I, I don't know me why I do the things I do. I've told you this before. I don't like the things I don't like. I'm really weird. You know, you were eating fries. Did you eat the fry butts? Because I had the fries.

I had nowhere to put them. Oh, my God. I didn't just want to throw them on the street. Oh, my gosh. You didn't even think about it until this moment. That you ate the entire fry. I ate the entire fry in that moment. And you had multiple fries.

We were also all a little intoxicated Friday night. So I guess I didn't care. I was like, I'd just eat it. Yeah. You had the fry butts. I'm so proud of you. Who are you? I didn't want to litter fry butts around awesome.

There would have been a trail of fry butts from the fry place back to our hotel room. And somebody's been like, is that the fry bandit? Like, it was here. Oh my gosh. Wow. I did. That's crazy. You did.

I caught you. Okay. It can be done. Dang. It can be. You just need a little liquid courage. That's true. Also, the guys dragged us into a jazz room, which ended up being really cool.

Uh-huh. It was called the elephant room. Yeah, the elephant room. And we were in, like, this random jazz room after this Friday night. Friday night was really the more fun festivities. Saturday was like work. We were working. Right.

But we were in the elephant room. And it was really cool. It was like, we were underground and there was jazz music playing. That was really, I wasn't expecting that. They're like, you want to go in here and we're like, uh, okay. The best part, though, was when lunchbox texted and asked for it. So at that point, it was Abby, me, Eddie, and scuba. And we were all just hanging out, whatever.

And then scuba or lunchbox texting me was like, where are you guys? And I texted him back. And he showed up. and Eddie in school were like, how did you know we were here? And like, he like played it off. I'm like, dude, guys, I texted him. Yeah. Why do you think on any level that lunchbox would somehow wander into an underground jazz bar? He would never in his life. Never. But this, this is my extra tea to spill. And I want to know if you also had this experience. But I can't tell if lunchbox and Eddie are just like cheap or if they're lazy. And let me,

let me tell you why. Both. So we were all together like multiple times this weekend. And for breakfast Saturday, I paid for my breakfast with lunchbox. And for the jazz room. Oh my gosh. I tried to pay, even though my card like declined because it was like, where are you at? Why are you in the jazz room in Austin?

Which my debit card has never been declined. So that was an interesting experience. But I was going to pay for all of us, not only for our covers, but for our drinks. And at no point in time did the guys ever try and pay in these situations? and on my Uber home, like back to the airport from our hotel. I rode with Eddie and I also paid for the Uber. Oh my gosh. No, I remember when they set the check down and I was just kind of like both,

they acted like they didn't see it. They did the whole like look around. They pulled the girl move on a first date. Yes. I was like, what is going on? And then you were like, oh, I'll get it. But then it declined and then people just sat there because I was going to, but I was like, no, I'm going to see what the guys do.

Yeah. I'm going to wait to see. They did not. Like Eddie didn't at any point in time try and pull his card out. They don't. Why? And so I don't know if it's because they're cheap or because so here's the thing. When we go on these work trips, we can write everything to the company and they pay for

as long as it's like genuinely part of what we're doing. And so I was like, okay, well, this is, you know, like work drinks. I'll just ride it, send it into the company. I don't think they want to send in receipts to get this done. So like, even though they wouldn't have to pay for it, I don't think they want to have to have to send in the receipts. Yeah, it's just extra work. They have to like take a picture of it, go in, fill out the form. So I cannot tell which it liens more of, if they're more just cheap or if they're lazy. They always do that. And you know what they did in Vegas for me? What?

They ordered all the really expensive stuff. And I try to stay within budget because they only give us so much per day. Yeah. You know, they went crazy. Like they were buying like really expensive drinks, like an expensive steak, and then they made me split at three ways. That's rude. Yes. I didn't even bring that up. I don't even turn. Right now.

I know. That's rude. Yes, they were like, so then mine was maxed out, like at my max for just one meal. And I was like, thanks a lot, guys. Like, I'm over here worried about budget, and then they split it three ways so that theirs goes down. Oh. I don't understand them.

I don't either. I'm glad I'm not the only one with this experience, though. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. And that's rude. No, I really, I feel like you should, I feel like you should tattle on them. I feel like that's him spill the tea. Can I do? Is it too late?

No. Listen, call them out. They deserve that. I tried to call them out. This was a rejected, rejected segment. Dang it! My other tea got spilled about lunchbox making me carry his bags. So I already had one tea to spill.

That was a good one. I should have turned mine in too because guess what? He did the same thing. He made me carry his and I got to the venue with him. Are you serious? Yes. He was like, can you go put this somewhere? and I'm like, can you not?

But I was like, my job is kind of to help everybody. So like, you know. Okay, but isn't it mostly to help Bobby though? Yeah. It's not to help lunch walks. Yes, I let it slide. But now that I look back, I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute. You did it to Morgan.

Now he did it to me. Okay. I just, you know, hmm. Now I'm just going to sit here angry. Yeah, I'm going to, can we change a subject. I am trying to get a little mad right now because we're both experiencing the same thing. On a brighter note, not only, like we talked a little bit about our. flight back, but not only did our flight, our flight back from I Heart Country was crazy because

it was Eddie, scuba, me, Kane Brown, his wife, Jordan Davis, Mitchell Timbony. Oh my, my, geez. All on our flight. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I had no one on mine. I went later. You did go later. You wanted to go explore a little bit. But yeah, it was, it was crazy. I've never been on such a star-studded flight before. Seriously. Did any of the other passengers, like, act a certain way? Like, did they try to talk to them? The only interactions I saw happening were with Kane Brown. I saw a lot of people go up to Kane Brown. Oh, they did? What do they say? Getting pictures with him. Wow.

I did see that happen a lot. Interesting. But not the other ones, but it could have happened. I just didn't see it. I just saw Kane pretty much the whole time we were around him when we were sitting waiting for the plane. Yeah. They got there pretty early. Like, shout out to them. They got there earlier than I did. Which is also another funny thing. Scooba wanted

to get there like two hours before the plane. Mind you, this was an early flight, okay? Oh my God. I do not get there. I also have TSA pre-check. I made sure of that. Like, I'm very, that helps me. But we're sitting in the lobby and Eddie and I were like, okay, let's leave at like 6.15. Our flight left at 7.40. It took about 15 minutes to get to the airport. And Scoot was like, no, I'm leaving at 5. And I was like, sir, I'm not getting up to go ride to the airport with you at 5 a.m. and I kind of have a whole other hour of

sleep. And sure enough, they ended up going. They didn't go as early as 5, but they went at like 5.30. and Eddie and I left like 610 and we got there like probably five minutes after them. Oh my gosh. So it did nothing. So this is, you know, TSA pre-check, worth it. Yes. One. And two, if you have TSA pre-tech, don't go to the airport so freaking early.

Right. I saw Scova like shopping. He was like walking up and down shops. Like he's like, I have to make it back on this flight. I'm like, Scova, so do I. Like, we all have to go back. Yeah. Why are something?

It's really funny. I feel like there's like two types of people in this world. There's ones that want to get there like over two hours early and then ones that I mean just right then. Like I don't need much time. I also feel like that's a dad thing. I'm not going to lie because my dad always wanted to go to the airport

early. He's like we have to make sure we have plenty of time. I'm like, we will have plenty of time if we go at this time. That is true. Every guy and my family is always like that. Yep. I think it's a guy versus girl thing. I'm like last minute.

I'm like I only need like 20 minutes. Well yeah. Let me grab a water real quick and then I'll be there. Especially if I'm like in the B group. I don't even need their ride at the time it starts boarding. Exactly. They do like the family boarding too in between so you have plenty of time. Like I don't want to hang out at the airport. What are you guys doing? Like people go and like eat at the airport. I'm like, no, I'll eat at home. And then I'll like come here. Yes, I don't want to like hang out there all day. Some people do though. That's funny though. There's there are. You're right. There are two types of people.

And I would argue that it is a little bit of a guy versus girl thing. So now I'm very curious if there's any women out there who like to get to the airport like so early. Mm-hmm. Because I personally don't know any that I can think of. I don't either. You're like, maybe it's like an international flight. Cool. I'd probably get there early because I'd be a little bit nervous about everything, especially if I've not really done it before.

But domestic flights? What? Yeah. No. I even like, oh, I got 20 minutes right on the dot. Like, this is how long it's going to take me. Right. Yeah.

Oh, that's funny. Two types of people. Interesting. Well, we are going to talk about some fun things. A homeless guy gave Eddie a duck. So Eddie drives a Jeep. ducking jeeps is this whole big thing, which I don't know how he didn't know this because I ducked him, which I mentioned in the segment. Like I ducked him and he threw away the duck.

Like he knew Jeep ducking was a thing. Yeah, what did he think it was? I think Eddie is kind of like Dory and has a little bit of short-term memory loss sometimes. And I think that's part of having kids too. I think there's some things that just leave the bank and they never come back. And so I had ducked him before, which was a funny thing. But it made me think about this because Like most people don't understand the hype about jeeps, and I totally get it. Unless you drive one and you're in kind of the whole vibe of it, what do you care? And why do you're like, why are people waving at each other? And why are they giving each other ducks?

Like, it's so cool to be in it. I love it. I love waving at people and I love when people give me a duck. It's like my favorite thing in the world. Yeah. Hence why I like did a whole spree of like, I did like over Christmas time, I went and ducked a whole bunch of people after I got my first duck. It was like this whole thing. Yeah.

And it became a whole thing. but what's something that people obsess over and you just don't get it? Oh gosh. I mean, because there's a lot and you can list a bunch. It doesn't just have to be one. But I know jeeps are one for some people. They're like, I do not understand this hype. I love my Jeep, though.

I get the hype. Well, I have one right off the top of my head. It is like TV shows that people obsess over that I don't understand. I never get it. You're so funny with TV shows. Why am I like that? I miss every question and trivia on TV shows and movies. Like, I just, I don't understand the hype.

over things. You're not a pop culture person. It would be the better way to describe it. I guess so. Because you don't like TV shows, movies. You don't really like magazines. Do you like spend a lot of time on social media? Not as much as many other people as like people that we work with, obviously. But I feel like in radio you do have to kind of be like pop culture up to date. Like you're relevant to a point on pop culture, but like you're not going to choose it. Right. Yeah. What are other things that people, what are big things that people obsess over? I mean, mine's sushi. I do not. I hate sushi and people love sushi. People really do. They like, are like, oh, sushi. Like, we're going to go to the zoo place. Let's get sushi. I don't get it. I don't either. I don't like sushi. Raman. Raman.

Yeah, ramen's another. I don't know why you pay $15 for a bowl of ramen when you can have it for like 75 cents, made at home. Yeah, because I grew up eating, you know, ramen. Yeah. And I'm like, why do you go there? What's the big obsessive? Like people were suggesting that in Austin. They're like, there's a great ramen place. I was like, not going to go there in Austin. You know, I don't even think I've ever had like fancy ramen. I don't either. I've definitely had the rom. What's like the iconic one in the bowl?

Bowl of ramen? Raman soup. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, the cup of soup. And the white with like orange lettering. Yes. I know what you're saying.

Mm-hmm. I never had that. Fancy ramen. Yeah. Like in a bowl and it's like $15. Mm-mm. Nope. That's a good one.

I just won't. I'm not going to do it. Same way with sushi. Do you like sushi? No. I don't like seafood. I have the, I get the California rolls if they, or I guess that has a crab in it. But I get the veggie rolls if there is. And it's just like cucumber, carrots, avocado. See, I've tried the, I've tried the veggie roll. That's when I tried to get on a sushi cake. And I hate seaweed. I learned. Really? Okay. Not a fan of seaweed. I don't know why. I just like the rice how it's like sticky. That's really so good. Well, and some people say they make them without seaweed, but I've yet to find any without seaweed. So if that ever happens, I will try it. But for now, do not understand the hype on sushi.

I don't either. Let's see. What else is there? There's multiple. I had like so many. And now they're all just like gone from my brain. Short-term memory loss. Dory moment.

Yeah. I guess mine is like shoes. Like the Air Force One and all those that I don't understand the hype. On those. Of what makes them so special? Or like the, what are Kanye's? Oh, Yeezy's. Yeezies. What is the obsession with that? I don't even think they're good looking. Yeah,

yeasies, I don't find very attractive. I do think the Air Force ones are cool. Yeah, those are better. But like, I think it was a Yeezy's. I think I'm just like, I think they're kind of ugly. Sorry. No, I'm with you. I don't think they're cute either. Like, I would never buy a pair. I also like, I love the idea of the red heel, the Louis Vuittons. Yeah, that's. I love the idea of them. But so many people have seen posts and are like, these are so uncomfortable. I'm like, why would I buy something? that I would never wear. I know, because usually things that are popular, they're really comfy. Mm-hmm. Like, you get them because everybody loves them for so many reasons. Yeah, and you're like, okay, I'll pay that much because it's worth it. They're comfortable. But everyone that I hear,

they're not comfortable. Yeah, I think that the Louis Vuitton red bottoms and the easy, I think the reason most people get them is because they're like a piece. They stay something by owning them. Yeah. I don't care. Listen, I'm buying like a $20 dress. That was the best part about this. weekend as I had a lot of people come home at my dress and I'm like thank you it was $20. You're like you didn't have to say that because people would have thought it was probably I know but that was even more reason why I wanted to because I'm like guys like we they don't have to and you and I didn't we talk about this because I was like I went shopping and I saw dresses for like $500 that I loved I thought they were so cute but there is no way in my right mind could

I ever spend that money on a dress. Nope like a one time maybe a few time dress I don't understand. Even like the CMA ones that I wear and stuff, I rent them. That's true because you're like, I'm going to wear this once and then what am I going to do with it? I'm not going to wear it again. Like, of course I love it and I want to keep it, but like not for $700. No.

I'll rent it for $100 and like I look really good, cool for the night. You know what? It's funny whenever anyone compliments things. Like I'm like, thanks, T.J. Max. And I'm like, why do you have to say, why do you have to go there? Like, why do you have to go there? It's like a flex that you're like, I got it for a deal for like 10. listen. I would rather flex that it's for a deal than be like, it's Gucci. Like, that's just not my

energy. Yeah. I'm like, it's from Tarje and this is from Forever 21. Leave me alone. Seriously. It's so funny. Yeah. I think Bobby even complimented. It was like, it looked like a vintage sweatshirt and he was like, oh, I love that. And I was like, thanks, T.J. Max. He's like, you didn't have to say that. Like, I was just saying I liked it. You could just say thank you. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know why I said that either. I think it's just that because most of the time, like if somebody likes it, you're like, oh, like, If you want it, you can go get it. Yeah, I think that's what it is.

I think that's our Midwestern energy because I do the same thing. Yeah. It's very much just like, oh, yeah, like I got it from here. Like, I'm not trying to gate keep my life. I'm just like, here, you like, you like, you like, you like, you don't. That's also cool. Because sometimes you feel weird being like, hey, where did you get that? So I'm like, I'm saving you the awkward asking.

Yeah. By just saying, thanks, you know, Walmart. Or my favorite is like the very girl thing that you do when like you're wearing a dress or something. You're like, and somebody's like, oh, I love your dress. And I'm like, thanks it has pockets. Yeah. We get so excited. We get pockets.

I know. It's so convenient. Yeah, they are. They're very convenient. So that was a thing. And we got started on that from things we upset over. I was trying to figure out where we were at. And this is our timeline of the best bits.

What are other things? Yeah. I got nothing. I don't either right now. I had so many coming into this podcast. You did? I lost all of them. No.

I do not to remember. It's okay. You know what we're going to talk about? one thing that you don't understand. And that is... TV shows and movies. Okay. I'm checking out here.

Because I want to tell you something. So this is coming in because Lunchbox has a new business idea that involves country artists. And I'll just leave that there. I wanted to know. So I just started binge watching a show on Hulu called The Royals. Okay. And it's from several years ago. Like not several.

Probably like six or seven. And it was on E for a long time. I need to know if you've ever watched a TV show and then realize you've already watched it before. Oh, many times, probably. Okay, so this is what happened to me. I, like, started watching Royals on Hulu. It's really good, by the way. Like, I love it. And I'm in the second season. And I had, like, an aha moment. I'd had some, like, deja vu, like, I feel like I know these characters. And then I had, like, some aha moment. And I'm like, holy crap, Morgan, you've watched this freaking show before. And you're just... But you don't remember? No. I don't remember, like, the whole part.

I just remember, like, one very specific piece of it. And it's like I blocked the whole... show from my memory. What in the world? No, a lot of times I do count on like Netflix for saying you've already watched this. Right? To tell me because I honestly think I did that. And I, well, and I wonder if there's just so much to consume that like I've just consumed so much that I can't possibly remember all of these different plot lines or whatever. Yeah. But like an entire show that I just forgot that I watched once upon a time. I started watching it because I'm like, oh, this looks good. I've never seen it. Uh-huh. Oh, that's weird that it didn't even. Didn't even know. No. I don't. I don't. I don't. I.

I was like, I started watching the trailer and I was like, oh, this looks like something I would watch. So you must have. I did watch it. Maybe with the first time you watched it, you were just kind of, it was just in the background. You know, like you were like working or cleaning or, you know. I mean, that's how I watched for much everything. Abby. Well, that's true. But I was like, maybe you just really were not focusing. I mean, maybe. But like, can you recall any like pinpoint of a show that you're like, oh, I definitely didn't realize I watched this before? No, I actually just did this anatomy of a scandal. Have you seen that? Wait, is it called scandal? No, anatomy of a scandal. Oh, that. That's like a dip. It's like a full. Okay. I think, yeah. Well, there's something called scandal, so I know it's like a big TV show.

But I don't know when this one came out because I know I've watched it twice, but I don't think it was that long ago. So I'm like, I'm having issues in my brain. Oh, so like this is like a recent rewatch. It's not like it was like five years ago or 10. This was recent. There's something happening in my brain. Do you like love with yourself?

You're like, oh, I found like a good thing for me. Watch. And you're like, well, no crap. You already watched it. Yeah. I think I watched it when it first came out. But now I need to. Look at when it did.

You haven't seen that, though? I've seen something you haven't. I don't think so. But is it like thriller murder-s? Because listen, those are not my vibe. Anatomy of a scandal Netflix. Let's see. Let's see.

Oh. Oh, is this like, ooh. You would really like it. I feel like I would like it. Oh, wait. But it's 2020, too. So it was last year that it came out. So I probably watched it when it first came out.

And then you just rewatched it recently. Here's is even worse. At least mine had like six years. It's in between. That's weird. Unless I'm having deja vu or something. No, I did. No, I watched it again because I was like, ooh, this looks good.

And then I was like, no, I've seen all of this. Okay, so it's not weird. It does happen. No, I don't think it's our brains, Abby. I think we've just had too much to consume. And we don't realize that we've already consumed certain things. Yeah. But I don't consume very much.

Okay, listen. I consume a lot of life. Unless you want to go to a brain doctor. Might need to do that. Or get more sleep. This does look good though. This looks super interesting. I really think you would like it.

Sophie's privileged life as a wife of a powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface. And he stands accused of a shocking crime. Yeah, don't give it away. Was it Hannah? No, it's so good that I watched it twice in one year. And I want to watch it again. Did you like it the second time? Yes, I loved it.

It was even better. See? And I'm like in the Royals and I'm like, oh, I already watch it. But I'm still going to keep watching the rest of it. It has four seasons. Why not? Exactly. You made me feel better about myself, though, because I really felt like, dang, I'm an idiot.

No, now I feel like an idiot. Mine was, I mean, you gave yourself six years. Fair. And I will say, I did watch something new for the very first time, genuinely for the first time, that I really liked. I love the sci-fi stuff. Like, I'm all about Ready Player One. Upload on Amazon was a great show. I'm like a free guy.

Those type of movies and those vibes are like my favorite of all time. And so on our way to Austin, I watched the first Pacific Rim. And then on the way back, I watched the second Pacific Rim. Yeah. And they were so good. Were they? I loved them. How many are there?

Two of them. There's just two. And maybe they come out with, they ended the second one. Like there could be a third one. And maybe it's close enough. These aren't like super older in the last five years, I think. So I think they could come out with a third one. But I loved them.

They're like right up my alley. Are they like, they reminded me of Transformers, which is another movie series. Like, especially when people. When people question my nerdness, just listen to me right now. I am a huge nerd. I loved these for like the sci-fi experience of them and the way that they like kind of, they were reminded me of Transformers in a sense. And that's one of my favorite movie series.

But so if you're looking for something to watch and you like sci-fi, I don't think Abby's going to be watching this, but if you're out there and you like sci-fi and you like the kind of things I'm talking about and you haven't seen Pacific Rim, like, are they the best of all time? No. but they'll still give you that little itch that you got a scratch for some sci-fi technology action-based movie got you know I did watch two movies on the way and coming back from Austin what did you watch so Whitney Houston on the way there yes you told me that so freaking good so good because it's

you cry what didn't you cry didn't you tell me you were crying from that you're like a little teary-eyed no the guy next to me was crying remember oh I do remember that but you're I thought you were teary like I thought it made you kind of sad well it is sad like her story how it unfolds that she like had such a bright future and then like getting married to this guy and it just went all downhill and drugs and all that so that was sad yeah I mean she was really young she was in her what 48 I think and like she had a daughter and everything like that was sad but I just love movies that have like the music in it like because I love all her songs and so she like sang all of them and it was just that was really good then on the way back I watched deep water horizon

it was about like the oil spill like the BP oil spill like it was very like action like it exploded in the middle of the ocean and they have to figure out how to get real like was it a documentary? Yeah it's based on a true story. Oh okay so I love based on a true story.

Yes like it was so good like I love movies like that that are like real like that's why I can't get into the sci-fi because they're not real. Right like I just I need it to be like a real storyline but this one is really good see you like living in real life I like living in fantasy

That's what I picked up on that. That's the different. Yeah. That is the difference. Okay. We got to give our ratings. What do you give the Whitney Houston movie? Ooh.

Four out of five. Four out of five. Okay. Whitney's. Whitney's. Okay. Microphones. Okay.

And then what about deep water horizon? Yeah, that was, oh, dang. I would say four also. Four out of five. Four out of five. Oil spills. Dang. They were so good.

Okay. Okay. Maybe because I don't watch many movies to like compare it to. really like them like i wanted to go come home and watch deepwater horizon again i do like watching movies on repeat i'm that weird person i'll watch them again okay because that's how i am with bridesmaids you know that movie yeah that's how i am every time it's on tv i will watch it because it's so hilarious i feel like you have to have some of those movies that you just love to put on though if you don't you may be a little psycho you got cover and then

mine's the Halloween that one's weird you still don't understand now yeah yep you got a little bit of in you, Abby, it's okay. It's okay. I still accept you. This is a weird balance. We got going there. Okay. Let's see. The first specific ram, I give a four and a half out of five. Wow. Brain melding. What? Wait, what? I don't know how to explain it. Brain melting is what they got to call it. I know. Sci-fi man. But I have no idea what it's about. And then I give the second one, because the second ones are never as good as the first one. I give it three and a half out of five monsters. Okay.

Yeah. I actually was going to watch one of those on the way back, but I saw the other one instead. The Pacific Rim? Yeah. You used to watch it. I think he was still like it. Really good. Yeah.

It's a little bit more real life than not because it's like it's the idea that an alien species invades and they're like, how would they handle it? Which is kind of crazy to think about because the whole time I was sitting there like, dang, we really don't know what we would do. Oh, see, then I could probably do that. Yeah. Okay, I'll try that. This one you could potentially watch. But I know I give you an assignment and it's like a year later that you finally watch it.

So, hey, I'm not holding my breath. Okay, before the next podcast, I will watch it. Okay. For sure. Deal. I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him. Hi, Dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen. And she says, I have some cookies and milk.

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valuable. And listen, I love Eddie. What in the world possessed him to be like, I have these glass and bottles and they're valuable. I have no idea. I saw them sitting there and I was like, Wait, what is this? Why would he ever think that? I don't know. Did we talk about glass being valuable? I don't think so. Okay.

I think he just thought he had had him for so long. People assume that when something's old, it's valuable? No. I don't think that is, those two do not necessarily go together. No. But I think he did. Interesting. Glass, but glass, okay.

Glass. So his glasses got, not like glasses, seeing glasses, like glasses, like glasses that you'd put drinks in. Yeah. So you got that evaluated. Do you have anything you own that you think is super valuable or could be valuable? Um, you know what I do have is, um, well, my grandpa gave me like gold coins. Oh, yes. About 10 years ago. And so I'm just going to hold on to them. But I feel like, well, they are gold. So whatever the price of gold. We did learn that because Eddie had a silver coin. She's like, it all matters on the price of gold, which is crazy to think about because you could have something now that's not worth anything. But then like 20 years later, for whatever reason, like silver or gold spikes, it could be worth hundreds.

I also have a lot of Barbies. I don't know if those are ever, did we ever hear if those are worth a lot? Did she say anything about that? I think she said it depended on the Barbies. Kind of like the Beanie babies, very similar in that. Like, I had to have very specific things. That's the most interesting about is they also have to be in like mint condition. and they got to have like especially like if you had barbies that are like in the box

and they were a special addition like I think there was like a beanie baby there was like a princess Diana beanie baby and if you had that in mint condition it was worth a lot I know I have that one too I have beanie babies too same trust me my parent storage unit they never got rid of anything that's how mine are like everything I'm like no you never know what is going come of it. And I'm very, I've always given them a hard time, but I'm very thankful for it now, especially because a lot of the clothes are, like, coming back in style. I'm like, mom, what's you got in your closet? Does she still have her clothes? Some of them, yeah? Oh my gosh, because I asked my mom, she's like, but all of that is now back in style. She's like, I wish I would have

it because I could probably wear it. Exactly. So she does still have a lot. And that's why, so that's her excuse now for everything. She's like, it's going to come back in style like 10 years. So just keep it. And I'm like, okay, but we can't keep everything. Yeah, well, I'm running out of space. Yes. So yes, I'm with you on those. What else has. there. Ninja turtles. Is that going to be a thing? You collected Ninja turtles?

Yeah. Like what of the ninja? I watched it, but I never like got into Ninja turtles. Like action figures. I don't know. My brother collected all that. Like action figures. Like wrestlers, WWE wrestlers and Batman and just.

Wasn't there like a G. Yeah, probably that. All of that stuff that I really didn't care about, but we do have it. So. Well, and it's your brothers. So you probably want to hold on to it for a while. I would imagine. Yes.

That makes sense. Yeah, we're probably never get rid of this. Yeah, no. And you shouldn't. I mean, there's certain things that you should always hold on to. And, like, you can pass down. And it's really cool to have, like, generational, like, something to pass down. Yes, that's also the reason that I keep everything.

I'm like, what? Then my kids, they can have toys that I played with. Which is really funny to think about, though, because, like, let's be honest, when we do have kids. They're not going to want them. They're going to be like, I want the new toy. Like, what's the new toy that they just saw on TV? Especially, like, with social media. Uh-huh.

I'd be like, oh, that new TV, I want that. Right. Like, they'll maybe want, like, one doll, but they're not going to want this entire collection. No. Yeah, they'll be like, I want this. I don't even know what's cool right now for kids toys, but it's sure not. Oh, and it changes all the time. We have.

There are some, like my niece is really into Polly Pockets, which is something that I played with, a lot growing up. Polypockets. Oh, my gosh. Do you think that's going to be worth a lot? I doubt it. Well, no, they got rid of mine. I had a whole, Abby, I had probably a collection as big as a table. I loved Polly Pockets.

Yeah. That is all I played with for several years. Like, I loved them. I still to this day, like, if I had that collection, I would probably still play with it. I love Polly Pocket. And I would play all the games online that they came out with or whatever. But yeah, it got accidentally sold in one of our crunch nails. Oh, no.

So somebody all there is having a heyday with my Polly Pocket collection. I hope they're having fun. I hope so, too, because I have really curated a really great collection. Dang. Yeah. Yeah, that was a bummer. I was sad. It was in this very leopard case.

Like, I even had cases for it. That's how many I had. I loved Polypocket. It. Man, I think I have a few. But I don't think I had like a full-on collection like that. That's cool, though. But it's cool to see my niece playing with him now.

I'm like, dang, this is like full circle. It feels like it is cool to watch that. But not very often. I don't think that happens with old toys. I don't think so. But Barbies have stayed around. Ply Pockets did. Furbies didn't.

We had a lot of Furbies. Furbies are weird. They're creepy. They're so weird. Like their eyes. Just the whole thing about them. Do they talk or move? Their eyes did. Remember their eyes were like blank and their kind of like little ears would go.

We always had the big ones that we'd buy, but then we'd always get the little ones and the McDonald's Happy Meals. Oh, yeah, those are cute. Yeah. So we also have all of our toys from the Happy Meals. My mom kept all of those. Really? There's like a bin of our Happy Meal toys. And those actually maybe were something because they're very vintage. That's true. Like what is one, I'm trying to think, what, what's an example of one of the toys? I mean, it was always, it was always relevant to pop culture. So if you think about it. about it, like the mini Furbies or like they had many action figures for different things. It just depended on what was going on at the time.

Like I'm going to have to. When I go home maybe for Christmas or whatever, I'll have to like show some of the bins of things that we have. It's crazy. Do it. Uh-huh. Yeah. See, that kind of stuff is what needs to be brought in.

Not little glass. Sorry, Eddie. I'm just like, I don't know where he got that that would be worth a lot. But hey. Was there something like as a kid that you ever collected and you're like, oh, this is really cool? you look back and you're like, why did I collect that? Okay, this is probably weird. But I used to love to play store, like on a cash register, you know?

And so I seriously collected cash registers. Like, I even got that for my birthday. I got like a legit one for my grandpa. So how many cash registers did you have? I probably have like seven. Now I still have them. Like all different kinds. I had a Barbie one, like, my first one.

And it would like scan, you know? Yeah. Like I would like pretend scan. And it had like money you could put into it. And they just got more advanced. like every year like every year I got a new cash register and we play store yeah and then I got one that was red like Target and then it had the little beep beep I don't know so weird that's funny did you not do that no I love we just played like an invisible it was like grocery store or like um grow ups like where

you're like act like you're married or whatever so stupid yeah you feel on like the playground and you're like I'm married to him like no he's mine and then you have kids like yeah kids too. The little baby dolls would act as the children. Yes. That's hilarious. So like house. Played house.

Yes. Yeah. That's what it's called. Not family. Played house. Uh-huh. But yeah, house more than store though. But I like store better because it's more fun.

I know. And then I also was like a teacher and I had a fake class. So I had like a chalkboard on my wall. And I would always ask my first grade teacher. I was like, hey, can you make like 20 copies of our assignment so I can take it home to my class? And I would like act like I'm a teacher. And I remember getting mad at them, like, for talking.

You're like, shaked to all the invisible things. I'm like, hey, I'm writing you up, John. It was so weird. Like, it's so funny. I was a kid. You just have this, like, imagination. Yeah. I wish we all had, like, that imagination still, though, because it was so fun.

I know. It was just, like, that innocent. Like, you're easily amused also. Like, you don't need technology to keep you preoccupied. Like, I was just downstairs by myself, like, all day, just teaching this fake class. I'm like, you know they answered Julie? That's wrong. How many times do you think our parents were like,

my kid is loose in their minds because like they've talked to all these invisible things. Yes. I think about that a lot. I'm like, man, my parents thought I was insane. You know, hey, speaking of the insane thing, the dream that I have. So I'm assuming you wanted to be a teacher or a cast register like person. I still want to be a cashier. I still do.

I keep saying I'm like at some point in my life. Wait, when you were a server, why didn't you do the to go? I wonder that. No, I was like, why didn't I work at like Target or something over being a server? I would have enjoyed it so much more. I still wonder that to this day. I think I wanted tips. But I didn't get big tips, so it didn't matter.

You know, like I wanted to make the money? Yes, but I go through, but I always do the self-checkout. So that fulfills. You get your little, uh, your little itch scratch. I literally love it. It's so fun. 20 years from now, we're going to see Abby in a Walmart Target store. I just be, that is going to be me.

How are you today? Did you find everything okay? Honestly, like, there's not many times I'd be like I can see it, but I could see. And because I have a red, but you are right now. That doesn't help. So I can go to tar. I'm a target employee. You are right now.

There's photos of me. I would line up all my animals. I love stuffed animals. I loved leopards and I love monkeys. And I had multiples of them. And I would line them all up and I would sing to them. That is so cute. There are picture evidence of that happening.

And I thought that I was a star. Me and my hairbrushed and all my animals. I love that. That's why I want to be a singer. And they loved it. My animals did love it. They thought I was a star. See?

That's all that matters. They did. But I also collected every time we travel, you know, when you, like, somebody comes up with an idea of, like, something you want to get from each place you go. Do not ask me why. I loved playing cards. Like whenever we'd get babysat, I'd always play cards with my babysitters. Like, I'd play war, and I loved card games. And I still do.

I still love word games and everything. But every time we'd go to a place, I'd collect cards from each place. Playing cards? Yes. You just have all these decks of cards? Yeah. And it's from Jamaica or, like, California. And I'm like, I have a whole, like, gallon storage bag of playing cards.

And there's, like, mini versions. And then there's huge versions. and I'm like, why on Earth did anybody allow me to collect playing cards? Why? I don't even know where they are at this point. I'm sure they are somewhere in our storage unit. That is like really random. Like why?

Because it's not like of all the things that I could have chosen to collect. Yeah. Because it's not like they're on display. Like, no. I like to buy shot glasses sometimes, you know. And I used to do like the penny, the smash penny. Yes, those were cool. Those machines were cool.

Yeah, but like playing cards. don't ask me and it became a thing like I'm not kidding you I have at least probably 25 of them from like just different places we'd go yeah and I every time it'd be like my mission I'd be like okay I got to get my playing cards I never play I would never let anybody play with them either like you're like don't mess them up thank you it can't be bent like sorry mom and dad that I made them spend money on these souvenirs that I never used you know what you could do almost at this point you take one from each deck and now you can just put it all into one deck. True.

Or like two because you have like half. So you can do two from each one and now you just have one deck of cards. Full deck and they get rid of all the rest. I mean you could. But now you don't want to get rid of it because you. That's a great idea. That's a way to like salvage those because genuinely they're never going to. I'm not, Abby, there's many ones.

They're the size of my palm is how many. Like what was I thinking? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What are you going to do? Yeah.

Yeah. If you want to. That's a good idea. You had a good idea. Hey, great idea. There we go. I like it. Well, we're coming in at the number one spot.

We had Dan and Shay on the show this week. And they shared a lot of life updates for us. You got any life updates going on right now? You want to talk about? Not really. My brother's birthday is today, May 19th. He'd be 37. And so, yeah, it's just been kind of like hard.

So I was looking at pictures, you know. And the last time I actually talked to him was his birthday two years ago. and so it's just sometimes weird because we've had like so much going on and like so many fun moments that it's like when I am alone and it like sinks in like it's like really hard like I cried a lot last night like my eyes are kind of like puffy and it's sometimes you feel like you're putting on an act you know that you have to be like happy all the time and of course I don't really show those moments on social media and so I just like I don't know just if anyone else is like going through it. It's like it's okay to be happy and have joy and grieve at the same time because,

yeah, I don't know. I mean, yeah, it's super powerful to feel that way. And I can't imagine what that must feel like for you. You know, I'm not even going to try and pretend to know what that's like. But I sympathize and I can see it in your voice and how you're talking and how that feels and I think grief is so much associated with time, but it's like time never really makes it any better. It just puts space in between it. Right. You know, everybody's always like when you, when you grieve something, it's like time heals everything. I don't think it heals anything. I think it just genuinely puts space in between what happened, that you can at least start to like move in steps in a different direction. It's not like you move forward and it's not like you, you

have healed from it. It's like it's always there. You just have space from it. Yeah. Is really more what time does. And I feel like that's probably where you're at. It's like there's space there. But that's also why like the anniversaries and the moments where it comes up and the memories are always going to be hard. And they should be because, you know, my greatest thing that when I when I talk to my mom about like, and it's not anywhere near the same, but like for my mom, it was when she, she lost our family dog last year and we just dealt with the first anniversary of that and you you look at it in a perspective of like how cool is it that I'm so sad because I had something so big of love in my life and not a lot of people get to experience that but it feels very twisted to feel that way right you're

like yeah I should feel so happy that I had so much love and this whole connection and this thing that feels so important. But it's like, I don't want to feel happy about it. I want to feel sad about it. Yeah, it's so weird. It's like you're trying to convince yourself to feel a certain way. Like you're kind of in denial that, but it's like if you don't look at it that way, then you're just, it's going to like eat you alive, basically.

If you don't have a different perspective and know that it was a good thing, then yeah, you'll just be depressed and you don't want, and they wouldn't want that either, you know? Like they would want you to be living and have these good memories and not be sad. And remember the good things about what all of that was. But it is. Grief is like this crazy monster that it could. Like I mean, you know, we see news stories of like people dying of broken hearts and I wholeheartedly believe that. Like you could just allow yourself to kind of drift away if you didn't take care of yourself after grief happens and after you go through something.

Yeah. And like that's why I think my mom visits so much because I know, I mean, like my parents, they're struggling with it, obviously, because they loved him so much. And so I try to give them like as much as I can and like happy and fun moments and memories. Because I know how hard it is. So I think that's why like she visits all the time. She's going to come for CMA Fest too. So. But it's good for both of you guys because it's, you know, there is no silver lining of it. But it is that it's you guys closer to spend more time together and understand the value of life. You know, I think when you, especially as you get older, you just realize that it really is moving as fast as everybody says it does. And you're like, how and how is this already happening? How has this already happened in this moment? And you're like, well, it's not far for me. And you start to think of a whole lot of things. Yes. And so at least it's given you guys the perspective of we need to spend more time together now. Uh-huh. No, that is 100%. Yes. And that's why even like the,

travel thing how it's like oh I'll do it later it's like we take it for granted so much that we have a later it's like we're not guaranteed anything we can't like take our time for granted and be like oh it's okay I'll get to it or you know I'll talk to this person later it's like why don't you treat it like you don't and like call them now you know tell them things because there's a lot of things I wish I would have told him then that I never did and that also really bothers me that's something that bothers me all the time like why didn't I say this why didn't I say this why I didn't I do this. So it's just like a reminder to like live a different way and like focus on what really matters in the moment. Do you ever at least like kind of write those things down so you feel

like you can kind of tell him wherever he may be? Like you know what I mean? Like it's kind of a letter to him. I should write him down. I do that a lot in the car. You know when I'm driving just like out in the country or something like I like talk to him. And what's really weird about that is when I'm driving, I turn it on the classic rock station because he love classic rock. And his favorite band was Metallica and then like a song comes on, a Metallica song. And I'm like, oh my gosh. Like that gets, I'm just like, he's here like listening. It's so weird.

And stuff like that. It's like the signs that Amy talks about all the time. Like that is when I believe in signs. Because I'm like, what are the odds that that song would come on right now? Like I feel like he's like saying, you know, it's going to be okay. So when I think, you know, we joke about the signs and stuff a lot. But I think signs are a way for people who are grieving to feel connected. and that's why like I feel for Amy, I feel for you, especially if you feel those and experience

those because that's your way of connecting to them. Like the physical being of them isn't here anymore. And so you found like a physical thing that is here. That does allow you to connect with them. And I think that's beautiful because it's so cool. We don't understand life. We don't understand how it works. We like to think we do.

We don't. Right. You know? So like if that helps you feel connected to them, especially someone. that you've lost and you love so dearly, who am I to say that didn't happen? You know, like wholeheartedly, yes. And I hope you keep getting the million and one signs that allow you to have those moments. Because I do think it's real.

I think it's very real. Those feelings you get are very real. So, yeah. And I bet he's going to do it even more. He's going to keep playing rock songs everywhere you go. I know. Yeah, it's weird how that stuff happens. It really does.

And like when I went to, where was it? Was it Luke Holmes concert, I think? or Kane Brown one of them they sang simple man a cover of it and that's that was like his song you know it like described him perfectly and so I was like in the moments like that too I'm just like he's here so it's stuff like that that I guess is comforting but it's still sad at the same time because you're like oh I wish he was here it is it is a very grief is very twisted and that's the best way to describe it because it is on on no level does anybody understand grief and what it does to people so Right. You know, I feel for you right now and I, happy birthday to him. I know, happy birthday. I think it's still important to celebrate the happy birthdays and the times that stuff you guys would have done and things that you wish you could have done with him. You still do him. You do them with your parents. And it's like those are the moments he'll be with you and he'll come along for the ride. I know. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what's going on in my life. Just, you know, there's ups and downs. So, but that's life, I guess. You know, it's not always ups.

that's true well you know what but to make you smile and to in this on like a happy note i want to so my sister it's a very known thing that i don't speak very well sometimes i mess up my words it is i'm i mess up my words or i say things the wrong way it's just part of my personality at this point but she sent me an article and i just have to like read some of these with you it says it's the article is 20 people who had a really hard time with the english language oh Could you relate to all of these? Honestly, I just laugh so hard. She's like, she's texting me, texted it to me.

And she was like, I hope this makes you smile as much as it made me. Because she's a speech pathologist, which is the hilarious irony of everything. Oh, that's so funny and ironic. Yes. Yes. And I literally texted her back and I said, these are my people. I feel these people. So somebody tweeted F, what's the name for Rottos?

I'm telling you these will make you laugh. Yes. What did you get to eat last night? And somebody goes, Shrimps camping. I don't know how to spell it. Shrimps camping. Oh my gosh.

Valerious. And said, a German man just came into the pub and tried to ask for col. Of course, I tried to say that. Cutlery, like forks and stuff, but ended up saying, I need some food weapons. And I will now be referring to them by nothing else. This is like a, it looks like a thread from Reddit. maybe it says, I'm at a deptist. De Teteeth, de, teeth man.

Trying to say tentist. These are great. Yeah. And somebody had to write marshmallows for like a grocery store tag. Oh, God. And it says mashamolella. But I think I would do that too, though. Right?

And then this one is, anyone else here like pizza, pizza, pizza, peter, pester. Pizza, triangle food with topping. This is so you. How funny are these? Am I wrong? No, they are definitely hilarious because I can see like this goes on in your brain. But yes. You can't tell me none of this has ever happened for you where you're just like, dang, I forgot that word.

Oh, all that. Yes. And you kind of like, I'm not clever enough to come up with other things. I just forget things entirely. See, that's why I was like, man, these are very clever. I don't, that doesn't come to, I just skip it because I get annoyed. I'm like, you know what I mean? Yep, that's me.

This one is, I forgot what the words expiration date were. and just ask for the statute of limitations on this milk. Okay, that was funny. Did you go to the liquid zoo where you can walk inside? You mean aquarium? Yes. It's an aquarium, not a liquid zoo. I've never heard of liquid zoo, but I like it.

I actually do like that one. I will now use liquid zoo and food weapons my whole life. Oh, man. What's your major communication? This is a text thread. What's your major? Communication is yours. I'm doing biology.

I want to be a pedestrian. A what? Like I want to be a doctor for kids. A pediatristian. Wait. He wrote pedestrian instead of pediatrician. And I was about to say, but you said pediatrist. I was about to say a foot one.

God, the peas really get me, man. This is why I'm laughing. I like these people. Pediatrician is what he was trying to say when he said pedestrian. Pediatrist. And then somebody spelled Quinceau in Google as Q-U-A-S-O-N-D Quasson. Oh, my God.

There's one that's a text one I'm not going to be able to think of. What is it? I don't know. Have you seen it? Which one? But it's like that where... It's like these. Yes.

I love to have tears in my eyes. I'm not going to think of what it is. This one says, meant to say, hold on for a second and give me a minute to a customer. And it came out as hold me for. second. Hold me for a second. I mean, this one's a tweet. Honesty hour.

Last night I couldn't remember the word for trombone, so I said big brass slide whistle. I love people. This is the side of humanity that I love. Fame. Like, it's hilarious. We're not perfect. And we don't know what we're saying.

Oh, my gosh. Is there another one? This one is hilarious. This is from Reddit. and it's somebody writing the question, how do you spell, and they spell, they're trying to spell pharmaceutical, and they spell that

farm, F-A-R-M, A-S-E-W, D-C-K-E-L, pharmaceutical. And the person writes a dictionary isn't helping me. When I Google it, it shows no results. I want to text my mom that I want to try therapy and other natural things before I try pharmaceutical meds. And somebody just responds to the one word pharmaceutical.

But it literally looks like Farm-A-O-A-Digel is what the word spells out to look like. Yeah. This is great. These are my people. They are hilarious. I love them. I'm trying to find this one, but I can't find it.

Okay. What is the relation? Because I may have said it before and I might be able to. Well, that's the thing. It's like when they're saying, I really don't know. I'm really trying to find it. I bet there's a lot more of these and I bet people have had these moments. It's just nobody likes to share them online.

And I'm glad all these people did for the sanity of me feeling connected to. yeah seriously yeah no I can't find it you're gonna find it and just post it on Instagram story we'll make sure we'll make sure we we talk about it

I like it yeah I will yeah any other updates for you life updates I decided so I think it was a few weeks ago I had Eddie on it might have been last weekend and we talked about Bumble Premium and I decided to buy it for a week

No you didn't hold on tell me what's that mean listen I didn't want to buy it because it's so expensive. And then it like popped up and it was like, you can try it for $5 for a week. And I was like, oh, I'll try it for $5. Before I don't want to try it.

It's like $30 for a week. I'm not doing that. But let me tell you, it's more confusing because now I'm just, I have 3,950 likes to go through. Oh, I'm so overwhelmed. What? So it just means you get unlimited? No, you can see who all liked you.

Oh. And then you can choose to like swipe on them. and it's an immediate connection, instead of going to the main page where it's like you're swiping right or left. Yeah. I have 3,950. Hold on. I do have a question, though. When they like you, are they in your parameters or are they just anybody?

Like, do they have to be within a certain, you know, that you want? They still have to be within parameters unless they're using travel mode. Some people, if they bought like full-blown premium, you can do travel mode and you can be anywhere. I don't know why people do that, by the way. Like, I don't understand. But I mean, like in the age range and everything. everything. Like it's still what you're still in my parameters. Okay. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. You're seeing a 30 year olds because I'm trying at least a little bit. I do my age and then like I think it's to like 37.

Okay. I think is what I did and that was like the max. Yeah. But yeah. And like so if I hit on any single one of these, it would immediately connect because they already liked me. So now I have to either decide yes or no. So you have so basically I have a curated, like swipe page. Oh, I don't know if I like that. like that? I don't really know. It feels very overwhelming. Because every time I, like, do a few of them, there's more that pops up. And I'm like, hold on that. Have you been on any dates? No. Oh, you haven't? Listen. Listen. I started talking with a guy yesterday, and I learned that he was living between here and Indianapolis. And I was like, sir, you did not expose. You didn't, not expose. You did not. Okay. What is the word? You did not. No, I don't. What is the, you know,

I'm trying to say. Up front. You didn't like, disclose. Disclose. It was in the same same. You did not disclose this information when I swiped with you. Why do they do that? I don't know. Like you're going to find out later and it makes it worse. Just say it up front. I'm not trying to be somebody's tour guy when they first move here. Yeah, ain't nobody got time for that. I got a lot of X at this point. I'm about to turn 30. I got a lot of I'm like it's hard to find one. I do have a decent amount that I've swiped right on, but like there's just a decent amount that like when I get to the point of talking to them, I'm like, ick. Yeah.

I'm still going through that phase. There hasn't been anybody that's like popped out unicorn-wise that I'm like, this is worth going on dates for. Not even worth texting, honestly. Then it's, yeah. That's good that you know that though, because a lot of people just, you waste so much time just being like, oh, I'll try it out or, you know, or I'm bored. I'll just talk to them.

No. There's one thing I will not do. it is when I am bored or lonely, I will not date to date because I will go on dates because I know that I need to be putting myself out there and I need to like broaden my horizon. But I will not date because I'm lonely or bored because every time I think about that, I'm like, no, because I'd rather be bored and lonely than be dealing with some man yelling at me for who knows what because I decided to date the wrong dude. Boom. Can we just say mic drop on that? Please. Oh my gosh. Same. Or be getting cheated on. You know what? There's a lot of variables on that side. Oh, yeah. I'd so much rather be lonely.

Yeah. And bored. Yeah. Than any of the other stuff that they're wasting my time for. Exactly. So that's why. As of right now, nobody's been unicorned enough that I've been wanting to go on a date. Good.

Well, you know what I mean. I'm not sure. I don't know. I didn't mean good, but I'm glad you're not just going out with everybody. But I believe it is happening soon. Thank you. Believe it. Can you manifest that for me because I'm tired.

I am. you least expect it. Oh, I hate that line. I was going to say, Abby, I'm not to punch in the face. I was sorry. I hate that line. All right. Well, tell the people where they can find you. I hear you, all that stuff. We are finished on Instagram, abbey.com, Anderson 1 underscore, and on Twitter, singing Abby. All the names. I am at Webworld Morgan on all the things. And of course, the Bobby Bone Show, you can follow us everywhere. We got YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. And yes, yes, I oversee all of them. There's a lot of them. But go follow both of those, go to bobbybones.com for some fun photos for my heart country festival and just a lot of

cool content. But Abby, thanks for hanging out with me. I had so much fun. Good luck this weekend watching the animals in my house. Yeah, I'll let you know how it goes. I'm so excited. It'll be great. Hazel's going to make you fall in love with cats. You already love Remy, so it'll be great. It will. I'm going to manifest that. You can manifest that I find a man, and I will manifest that things go great this weekend with the animals. And that I end up loving cats because I've never said that in my life. I have faith. I don't believe in a lot of things. I'm believing in you right now in the fact that you will love cats.

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