The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits with Lunchbox: Morgan & Lunchbox Talk About Their Vacations & They Fight Over Morgan’s Fly Story

Episode Date: September 9, 2023

Morgan and Lunchbox almost ran into each other unknowingly on vacation, and they share details from their trips. Morgan was almost on the news, and Lunchbox admits the one thing he would change about his life. Plus, Lunchbox shares an update on his acting career, and Morgan has an interactive movie recommendation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This weekend, Lunchbox is joining me. Lunch, what's up? Man, it's rough coming back from vacation and I have to come in on a Saturday. Like, we go on vacation, you feel all relaxed and you work all week. And like, oh, finally the weekend, I can relax. And they're like, nope, got to be here on Saturday to do Best Bits of Morgan. Okay. It's like you're running joke to say we do this on a Saturday, but we do.

don't. Just so everybody knows we're recording this right now on a Friday. So it's after the show. We just got done and this is what's happening. Man, my watch says Saturday, September 9th. Well, they're probably going to believe me more than you, but that's just a story for another day. We got a lot of things to talk about today, okay? Yeah, like what? So can we talk about that? Yeah, let's do that. All right. So Ray Mundo shared about his free cruise that he got and whether it was a scam or not. We finally got like all the details of everything that happened. But I want to talk about something. lunch, I've realized there are two types of friends in a friend group, right?

Like, there's two types of them. The good-looking ones and the ugly ones. Okay, that's one way to put it. But I was more thinking the one who always makes the plans and the one who always shows up with said plans. Okay. Do you feel like you are the one who always shows up or the one who always makes plans? Well, I'm going to tell you what, it's different. We were in different stages of life.

So it varies on who makes the plans. but like when I was younger, I would always say, yo, going to Sixth Street, yo, going to this bar. Or if, you know what I mean? Like I was 50-50. I'm not always making the plans, but you're not, I'm not going to rely on other people to make the plans all the time. But at this age, with kids, it's more you'll like once a week if you're going to eat at a

restaurant and you're going to sit on the patio and the kids are going to run around, you'll text other families and be like, hey, we're going to be at this restaurant if you want to come. You'll get that text from another family once a week. and you send it to other families once a week. So it's kind of 50, 50. Okay, because the reason I bring it up is I feel like 90% of the time I'm the one that's like initiating plans.

I feel like I'm the intentional one. Like a lot of people make like loose plan. Like, oh, I want to see you. Let's get together. Whereas I'm like, no, we're doing this. Seven o'clock, be there. Yeah, like usually, I guess usually it's the moms that do it. Every once in a while the dads will do it.

Because like we have a little group in the neighborhood. You have a dad group? No, no. I'm saying there's a group of families that hang out. out in the neighborhood. And a few weeks ago, I was just like, man, we haven't done anything in a while. Like, nice weather. Anybody up for a backyard hang tonight?

And one of the moms was like, oh, my gosh, did a dad just initiate the hangout? And I'm like, okay, rude, but point taken. I don't feel like that's common. So, you know what? Proud of you. Yeah, I was like, all. Cool, let's do it. Like, let's have everybody over in the backyard.

And so people came over in the backyard and the kids ran around and we ate dinner. And it was great. So. I do feel like you're also a social person. since that probably helps. I'm pretty social, so I like hanging out and chilling and doing whatever. And yeah. Yeah, you don't strike me as somebody who just wants to like chill at the house all weekend. No, and my wife always says, you know, the kids do like being home too. They don't mind being at the house. I'm like, okay. And she's like, we don't always have to do something. And I'm like, yeah, I know.

But she's like, it's okay. Okay. Well, that's why I wanted to know because I definitely think people fall under one. Like there are people who just like to be a part of everything. And you need both friends to make a friendship work, right? Because you have to have the people who want to show up. But there's always somebody who tends to initiate things more than others. So are you, like let's say you haven't talked to a friend in a while. Maybe you don't have friends that you don't talk to for a month. Are you one that will initiate and text and be like, hey, how's it going?

Or do they initiate and text? Hey, how you been? On texting, it's a little bit both. I'm a terrible texter. Oh. Like I don't like texting unless there's a reason for the texting. Okay. But you don't mind reminding people that you texted them because the other day you texted me and I saw it. That's because I had a question. I needed an answer.

I know, but a few hours later I get emphasized this text and I'm like, oh, sorry. I was. Because I knew you forgot. It had been like three and a half hours. I was like, oh, he totally saw this and forgot. Yeah, I was busy doing this or this, a little bit of that. And then you emphasized it. I'm like, okay, I can take a hint. You want an answer. But I needed an answer. was like on a time frame so I needed an answer. Yeah, you're right, you're right. Whereas like when I'm just talking to people, no, I don't typically do that. Okay, okay, they didn't respond, whatever.

Gotcha. I just wondered. I was like, wow, man, she really wants me to answer. Yeah, I had a time frame. But like normal texting, no. And I also just don't really text that much. But like when I was driving home back to Nashville from Kansas, I like texted like three different of my friends.

Like, hey, we haven't caught up in a while. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Hold on before I left. It was before I left. I was like, hey, we haven't caught up in a while. I'm driving on the road if you want. want to call and catch up while I'm driving. There you go.

Now I'd like to hear that. You had to wait for the rest of the story. Well, I know your reputation because I've been in the car with you where you check emails while you're driving. So I know that you sometimes practice. We were at a stoplight when I checked that email. So no. You like to exaggerate stories.

I don't exaggerate anything. And I'm sorry, I'm a really busy woman. I have to check emails all the time. No. No, no, no, no. And I was at a stoplight. But yeah, no, it was to have him call and I caught up. I had like an hour and a half long conversations with eat the

each of those friends because we needed to catch up. That's beautiful. That is beautiful. I like to try and initiate there, but I am a really bad texture. But where I thrive in our friendship is I make the plans. There you go. So. I thrive at being famous and people hanging out with a famous dude.

Oh boy. We're going to get on this tangent. No. Nope. We're not because we're going to keep it concise. You told me you got to keep it concise today. We're doing good so far. We're moving on to BBC Cinema Club review.

Man on the moon. Yeah. Yeah. You're looking at me like, like, what happened? No, no. here's the thing. It was very interesting. And I have to remember, this was, I mean, I think Bobby said it during the segment,

but I have to remember there was no social media back then. Yeah. So I was thinking, while I was watching, I'm going, okay, so if this dude comes out and just, you know, Andy Kaufman comes out and just reads a book to the entire crowd for the whole two hours until they all leave or until he finishes the entire book, why would people, people in the next city go see him. But now I realize he could do that stuff because there was no social media. So now I believe maybe I'm crazy or it may be the exact opposite.

People would see that and be like, I'm not going to pay for tickets to that. Or it would be I'm going to buy tickets to see what he does at his show next. It's probably the latter. People are naturally intrigued just by nature. You know what I mean? Like if you hear something happens, you're going to be like, I want to see what's going to happen next. You're not going to be like, oh, that seems horrible.

I'm not going to go. It's like we like watching train wrecks. You're right. Because I thought the, I told him lippeda, hey, you know, he's not talking about Tony Leptie. He was hilarious.

Like that part, hilarious. I get why that guy was funny. Yeah. The Andy Kaufman part, I don't really get why he's funny. Yeah. I mean,

most of the movie I was. pretty bored. But the second half, like when it got like sad, I was like, okay, well, that's a turn of pace that this movie wasn't going. But it actually, it made me think about something, which is why I want to talk to you about this. If you could see your life from start to finish, would you change anything? Well, I would never, ugh, see the finish? No, I don't want to do that. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, you see, hold on. It's just a hypothetical question. If you could see your life from start to finish. and you can only like if you change one thing you can change multiple or you change nothing

would you change anything the only thing I might change is I wouldn't have gone to economics class of all the things to they why would you have not gone to economics class see that's I'm glad you asked because you thought it was a stupid little little tangent I don't feel like it is no it was because I went and tried out for the real world old slash road rules. I drove to college station, Texas when I was in college, and I auditioned.

There was an open call, blah, blah, and the lady loved me. I knew it. Like, I was sitting at a table. She reached across it. Thanks for coming. shook my hand. I was like, oh, she's calling me. No doubt. Like, I'm moving on to the next round. No doubt about it. And so I drove back to San Antonio and I had a 5 p.m. economics class. And so I was like, oh, I'm back in time. Might as well go to class and I go to class and when I got home on the caller ID there was Eric Code 323 and I asked my roommate Clay I was like hey Clay who called you from 323 and he goes I don't know anybody and my brother was had moved in at that time because he had gotten a job after he graduated college so he was sleeping on a mattress on my bedroom floor shout out to my brother uh and I was like hey Joe who

called you from the 3233 he's like I don't know who that is and I Google 323 L.A And you think that was your missed opportunity for a callback? Oh, it was for sure. But I'm like, why didn't they call my cell phone? Why did I give them that stupid number? Would I run out of class and answered it if I, if I'd have seen 3, 2, 3? Yeah, because it probably would have said Los Angeles. Maybe it didn't have that technology where it would have said Los Angeles.

Now it says the city. Yeah. But so that was my one thing I would change. Everything else, I don't think I'd change it. Like, I mean, I dominated life. But if you change it, that one decision and say you did end up on real world. It would have changed the course of the rest of your life. Correct. I understand that.

And you would be okay with that? Like you would maybe be okay not be married, not having the three kids that you have, maybe not being on the show. Yeah, I mean, I would be doing something else. I would have probably married someone else. Yes, I'd have different kids. But that was my dream. That was my goal, you know, to do that.

So that's the one thing. Besides that, I dominated life. Like, I didn't miss out on anything. Like, we crushed it as kids. I mean, we did so many things. we caused a lot of havoc in our neighborhood. We, we were, we kidded it up like kids kidded up. It was awesome.

I mean, that's a pretty big shift if you were to change that for your life course. Like, I used to want to go to Kansas University of Kansas. You know, like I wanted to be a Jayhawk. But I didn't go because I didn't have the grades to get in. And then out of state tuition. And like my going into my senior year of college, I applied to Kansas and I got in, but I'd have been a sophomore again because of transfers of credits and all that. And I was like, it ain't worth it. That's not. So I could. But I was, because that's always

where I wanted to go. And I didn't do it. And I'm like, I'm glad I didn't do it. Because my life turned out pretty dang good. But man, that one call though, because of stupid economics, man. I mean, like I said, pretty major shift change. If you were to go back and change that one thing. That's what I'm saying. That one thing. That one economics class. It's like a focus point in your life. had you changed that moment in time, it would have changed everything. You know, you can go back and change little moments and it might not change much.

But that for you would be like, okay, new course correction. Correct. Yeah, that's wild. I don't think I would change anything. I just don't. Like, I think... You don't think you would change

graduating high school early and... No. I don't think so. I mean, I graduated high school and college early and I went through a whole crap ton of things that I wish I hadn't. But I don't think I would change him because I just don't think I would be where I am right now if none of that would have

happened. Yeah. And, you know, maybe if I see like the rest say, you know, say I see that I don't get married or maybe I see that like I choose not to have kids and maybe like later on I'm like, oh, I wish I did that. Maybe that happens later on. But like at this moment, Morgan right now, I don't think she would. Okay.

You know what I mean? Yeah, I get it. And I mean, my kids are great. It's cool. but I'm just saying that dream of being on it. See, this is why I asked. I just wanted to know. When you have dreams, man, it sucks when they don't happen.

When they don't come true. Like, one of my dreams was to meet, rest and peace, Bob Barker. Like, I said it on the show. Like, as a kid, I would watch the Price is Right and I was like, that is the coolest thing ever as people go up and shake his hand. And I was like, I can't wait to do that. And then he retired and then he died. So I never did it.

But once Drew Carey took over, I was like, I would still want, hey, Price is Right. listen, I'd still, let me tell you. I'd still be like, come on down! You're the next contestant on the price is right. Well, that's not, if you're the contestant, you wouldn't say that. But yeah. No, that's what I'm saying.

I would love for them to say that to me and have me, come on down. All right. Well, I feel like you could. I feel like you just, like, buy a ticket to the show and go. I think tickets are free. Oh, okay. Well, you got to get your ticket. You just got it in the audience for a few days.

I know. I mean, I would do it for a month just to get my name called. I feel like you could. I feel like we could make that happen. Didn't we talk about that for a hot minute? Yeah, hot minute and then it disappeared. Oh, well. Let's not bring it back up.

Okay. Sad memories. I'd change that. Okay, well, on that note, we're going to take a quick break. I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him. I said, hi, dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen. She says, I have some cookies in milk.

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And listen now. Hey there, folks. Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes here. And we know there is a lot of news coming at you these days from the war with Iran to the ongoing Epstein fallout, government shutdowns, high-profile trials. And what the hell is that Blake lively thing about anyway? We are on it every day, all day. Follow us, Amy and T.J. updates throughout the day. Listen to Amy and TJ on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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or wherever you get your podcast. We came back from vacation this week, and Bobby shared a story about a flight got canceled, and then he got a first class to get in his wife didn't. So that was like a whole story, and I feel like it could have potentially ended up on the news with everything that was happening. But the reason I say that, what?

It could have ended up on the news. Yeah, you just never, because like those stories, we've seen those stories were like, if he would have taken the seat, Instead of giving it to his wife, we've seen the news stories about how, like, that's the whole thing. No, no, the news stories, I think you, I don't think you understand what the news stories are. The news stories are, like, let's say a woman. Or like a kid, yeah, but like.

No, no, no, you haven't let me. I know what you're talking. I post all the news stories on the social media. It's like a woman is sitting in 2B and some other woman sitting in 2A and the woman in 2B says, oh, can you move so my husband can sit there. So it's like... Well, that, but there's also been one about a husband and wife, and he sat in first class and she didn't. I don't remember that, but...

Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of, like, first class stories like that. Well, why does the guy have to give the... It's just so annoying, but go with your question. I'm not going to... I'm not going to derail us, but I'm just going to be like, why does the man that always gives it up? What if the woman was offered the ticket, would she have to go, oh, husband, no, you take it?

No. Everybody would be like, no, it's okay for the wife to sit there, but if the husband does it, it's so rude. It's like, shut up already. Like, why? Why is it so rude to the husband to accept the benefit, but the wife can accept the benefit? Makes no sense. Let me ask you this. If you get a free first class ticket, would you then pay to have the other person be first class with you?

No. You know how expensive it is to be first class? I mean, I don't because I've never rid of class class. It's like triple the price. I've never even looked if I'm being honest at first class tickets. Oh, it's not a lot of it. If you go to maybe it's Delta, I don't know because I usually just fly Southwest. I'm going to say I fly Southwest.

I don't even have classes. That's what I'm saying. but if you go to one of those other ones, it says, like it lists all three prices right away. Like it's like first class, main cabin, or trash that gets on last. And it's like, can you imagine me in a person that always gets a five first class? Let me sit here and think. Yeah, I can imagine it.

Like, feels pretty wild. Feels pretty awesome. You're like, yeah, give me the expensive one. Oh, my buddy Ryan, because he travels so much for work, he gets first class and he has all these perks at hotels. Like, he lives the life of luxury. He can go in the clubs. Private rooms at the airport. I mean, everything.

It's unbelievable. Yeah, I do know if you're, like, good at traveling and, like, you pay attention to points and everything. You can't figure some things out. Yeah. And what's cool is I don't travel enough. So whenever I go to, like, a Marriott, I use his number. Oh, and then you get all the perks. Yeah, I get all the perks.

Like the free cookie. Isn't Marriott the one that does the free cookies? Not sure. Don't remember. I guess Hyatt. I don't know. There's one of them that does a free cookie. I don't know.

but he's got a rewards number so I get upgraded for my hotel room and like you get it pretend you're boogey yeah and then sometimes like if I'm going somewhere and I've you know hooked him up with my I've used his number enough he'll put it and I get free rooms you really have things figured out don't you yeah you just like go through and figure you you use your friends and they use you like you you barter with each other that's the whole point of life man I thought you're about to say that's a whole point of friendship I was going to say I feel like we have more to talk about no no no I'm just saying it's a cool it's a cool it's a cool little scheme. It's a perk of friendship. Yeah, that's what I mean. That's what I'm trying to think of the

word. All right. Interesting. Well, I was, I was almost a news story. There was, we were driving back to Nashville and there was a fly in my car. And, you know, you know, like the first 30 minutes, you're like, this isn't too bad. You're like, it's fine. It'll exit itself at some point, right? No, this fly stayed with us for four hours. No, my question is, hold on. Did you roll down all four windows? Hold on. Wait. Okay. So I had my dog and my cat with me. And every time the fly landed on my dog, she was like trying to chase it. And I had the cat in the car and she's just chilling underneath my seat. But anytime I'd roll down the window, she'd just start meowing like crazy because it hurt her little ears. So like I couldn't keep the window open for very long, but I'd try. Hold on, hold on. You only

opened one window? Well, because it'd be like, right, I'd only open the one that where it's next to it. See, that's, because it was so loud, I didn't want to hurt her ears. I understand. But you want to know why it's hurting her ears. You have to open two windows. Well, I do that sometimes. Like, full one, you have to like crack another one. Exactly. And that's what you're doing. It wouldn't hurt the cat's ears. Well, I did that after the first time. After the first time. I've never met a rookie mistake. You haven't even let me like, finish the story. Well, hold on. The fact that you, we're in the middle of the story. Oh, okay, sorry. The fact that you didn't just roll down all four windows for about five minutes, that fly would have been gone. But go ahead, go ahead and tell me your story.

Okay. Also, okay, it started with one window and then it eventually moved to all four windows. But keep in mind, we were going 80 on a Okay. So there's a lot of pressure happening in that car. So regardless, I put it down on the windows. The fly never left the car. It did not matter. It would not get out of the car, okay? And at one point, it landed on my dog, and I tried to help her, and I, like, had to swerve.

Oh, my gosh. Yep, I almost ended up on the news. Do you see what I mean by you and you're driving? You are a distracted driver. I'm not a distracted driver. Yes, you tried to pat the fly. Who has a fly in their car? It was in there for four hours.

You tried to pat your dog. I wasn't patting my dog. I was trying to swat the fly out of the car because it was on my dog. See, guys, this is case in point when I say that Morgan can't drive and that she gets distracted. She checks her emails. Okay, lunch. If you had a snake in your car, what would you do? I'd pull over.

Oh, you would. A snake? So you're telling me you're comparing a snake to a fly. I'm saying, I'm just saying. What would you do? You never know what you would do until you're in a situation in the car. I've never heard of anybody being scared of a fly. I was scared of the fly.

I was annoyed by the fly after four hours driving with it. A snake is a fearful. Oh my gosh. I'm going to die. A fly is, oh, that's annoying. You're not going to die from a gardener snake that's probably in your car. How do you know it's a gardener snake?

You can't look at it. Yeah, they have certain colors. You just hear. If you hear a little rattle rattle, then yeah, you're probably going to die, but not likely. I mean, guys, tell me I'm crazy. I guess I'm talking to you guys right now. They're listening.

Would you not just hit all four windows down for about five. minutes, that fly would be sucked out of there. I did. No, no, you didn't. You said I'd rolled down one, hold on. And then rolled it up and then when it moved to another window, I rolled it down. You weren't listening to the story because I said I started with one and eventually made my way to have all four down. No, you did not. Yes, I literally told you

that in the story. You're not listening. No, you've changed the story once I started giving you a hard time. No, no. You didn't even let me finish the story before you started giving me a hard time. I'm standing by my story and my philosophy. Anyway, if you saw a snake in the car, yes, you would pull over but guess what, you'd freak out and you'd probably swear when you first saw it because you didn't know it was in there.

Yes, but a fly is not the same as a snake. A fly after four hours of driving with it, it's pretty freaking annoying. And until you've been in that situation, don't you drudge anything. Don't worry. I'll never be in that situation because I'll roll down all four windows immediately and that fly will be gone. Oh, yeah, that's what you think. I guarantee it. But you know what?

Some flies, they like to stick around and hang out with you. No, then your car must stink. No, it's because I had two animals in the car. That's not true. I got three animals in the car every day. I don't like telling you stories. That's what I've come to the conclusion. Because first of all, you interrupted my story.

And second of all, you didn't even listen. And third of all, you feel like you know what you would do in every scenario. But you don't. That's not how life works. No, I do. It does. No, you don't. That's why you tell me a story so I can give you my opinion and advice. You always think we know how things are going to happen.

And then they happen. And then, you know, like that was not what I wanted to do in that scenario. I understand that. But no. I'm not a distracted driver. And you know what? I haven't had an accident. That doesn't mean you're not a distracted driver.

Of all the times that I'm on the road, I drive back and forth. I've driven home. By the end of this year, I will have driven home three different times. I've never had, that is 20 plus hours on the road. Whoa. You don't drive that much. You fly all the time. So don't talk to me like that.

When we first moved here, I drove home all the time. Okay, but I'm saying if somebody's actually a bad driver, they would have more incidents, lunchbox. I don't have any incidents. I'm a good driver. Okay. You just got mad because I had a bad. because I had a brand new phone, which you didn't even tell the full story when you talked about that one?

You wouldn't even let me hold it. I had a brand new phone that did not have a case on it. And no, I would not let you hold it because I don't trust you with a brand new phone with no case on it. Yeah, because I'm going somewhere in the car. I'm sitting there and said you would hold it and look down at the phone. That seems safe. Because why would I trust somebody with a $1,000 phone that doesn't have a case on it? What's safer? Me holding the phone or you holding the phone while you're driving and looking down at it?

Just... Okay, I was looking at a map. So don't say I was looking down on it doing the thing. Fine. You were looking at the map, but what is safer for me to hold the map and tell you which way to go or for you to look down to the map while you're driving? It's not safer for me because I would not have made all the turns. I'm telling you, I'm a very visual person. I have to look at a map.

If I say this next right, you're going to take a right. You wouldn't know to take a right at the next right? Which is why typically my phone sits in a holder. I understand that. But because it was a brand new phone without a case on it, it wasn't in the holder. And my hand was being held where the same. screen in my car is, so it's not like I was looking down. No.

You and I remember this trip very different. Yeah, I know, because you like to paint a beautiful picture. I left you here and I was not giving you a ride. That's fine. It's why you still have to ride your bike to work. That's right. It's good for me. I'm moving on from this before I actually get angry with you.

Yeah, be careful. There may be a fly. You may turn this podcast all upside now because there's a fly. I'm going to get you back with a snake and you're going to hate your life. I didn't, there's, a fly is not, you're not scared of a fly. You understand that. I was annoyed by a fly after four hours. You know what I'm annoyed by? You sit with a room. You sit in a room with a fly for, for four hours and tell me you don't get annoyed. I just open the door and let it fly out. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you're so smart. You're so smart.

Thank you. You're so smart. You're so smart. You are right. You are right. You are right. Not every scenario. Okay. 99%. 99%. I got 99 problems and a fly ain't one of them. August happened this week and it was not you. Well, it would have been me, but... No, it wouldn't. Nope, no, it wouldn't. Okay. Nope. That's fine.

We're going to talk about some random questions. I don't know if you can tell about lunchbox and I bicker like brother and sister very often. I'm very covering. You're bickering. I'm mad because you didn't let me finish my story before you started interrupting. No, you didn't. All right. I would like to play the tape back.

Go ahead. Let me hear it. You started talking before I even got through the story. You didn't even know. the fly was in there for that long. You didn't know any of the details. No, you did. You said I was in there for four hours and I was like, you didn't just roll down all four windows? That was my, that was it. I had a question in your story. So when something like, I just want you to admit that you because you did. I probably not. You did. Put a pole up. Put a pull up. I'm not putting a pole up.

I probably did. I brought a lot. I want to ask some questions of what kind of person are you because I feel like it kind of reveals your personality. Okay. Do you take the trash out the night before or the morning of? Morning of what? Like the morning of trash day. What do you mean take it out? Set the trash on the curb. I have an alley.

No, never have to take it out. It just sits there. You're not normal. Why do you have to? You just roll out the question. It just sits there. You never have to take the trash out? No.

Like it just sits there. Like I have an alley behind my house. Well, most people have to roll out their garbage can to the end of the driveway. No, I understand. I'm not, but I'm just saying, that this question doesn't apply to me. It hadn't applied to me in 10 years. Okay. Since we moved here, I've had an alley. At both of the places that you guys have lived?

Well, the first one where Ray and I lived, no, it was just a, like, what do you call it? Like a townhome complex or whatever. And the garbage can just sat out there like by the, like I didn't have to roll it back to the house or anything. And then where we live, our house, we just, it's in the alley, go put the trash can in. And boom, you just. So yeah, there is no taking it out the night. before or the night after, which is great. So you never miss trash day. You never had to be like, oh, dang it.

I forgot to put the trash out. The trash people come through the alleyway? Yeah. I feel like that's a really little space. Oh, it's tight, but it's legit. Okay. Well, I always put it out the night of, but lately it's been the morning of and it's been chaotic.

Yeah, see, the morning of just like, it worries me. You forget. Well, see, just having to do it. It would, I guess you would have to sit your, I mean, my, a clock, like, oh, it's tomorrow's trash day. And the morning of, ooh, what if they come early? Because do you know what time years people come? No, they come at all random times.

It's never consistent. That's the scary part. But they typically never come before I leave for work. So I can always at least get it out. What time, or what day is your trash day? Tuesdays. Okay. I think mine is Thursdays.

Really? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I do know nationally we're all on different days. That's how they get to all of them. Yes. That's why it's just like, I'm like, it's just out there, don't have to worry about it. It's like one less thing.

you have to worry about, which is awesome in life. Mark that off the list. That's fair. Well, I have to take my honor every Tuesday. Yeah, don't get a scene. Don't get mad to me. I'm so annoyed with you. You don't ever have to take your trash out.

You don't go with the questions. I'm not annoyed with you on that one. I didn't want to lie. I didn't want to lie to the listeners. I didn't want to lie and say, oh, I take it out every night the night before. I'm going to ask you to lie. I know. I'm just saying, listeners.

See, I'm honest with you. Do you cook food or do you order takeout? We do both. We cook most of them. Oh, we cook most nights. But then there's some nights it's just like, oh, we're so tired and whatever, got busy. And all the kids like, oh, let's go to a restaurant. So we'll order takeout.

Okay. I would say it's about 72.28. Very specific. 72%. Yeah. Or 72.3%. I feel like I'm the same. But I'm more so cook food.

But I just like, it's really hard cooking food for a person by themselves because ingredients always go bad. Yeah. You always have too much. So in those situations, I have to then order food because then I don't want to go buy more food that's going to go bad. Well, you could, that's what you can do, which is cook it, freeze it, then heat it up. Yeah, I do buy a lot of freezer food, not like already made, but I buy a lot of, like,

fruits and veggies that are frozen. And that helps. But I don't know. I feel like freezing food is sometimes weird for certain things. Well, I agree. It's like, oh, cook a big casserole, eat half of it, and then freeze it. And I'm like, is that really weird? That seems weird.

I don't know. I know it's probably not. It's probably just in my head, like the texture of food, but. Yeah. I'm just not, and I'm also not huge leftover guy. Yeah. And my wife's like, I don't understand how you don't like leftovers. I'm like, because like when it's fresh and hot, it's so good.

Like warming it up, it's like one bites hot. One bites cold. One bites warm. One bites luke cold. You never know what you're going to get. Yeah. And it's like, ah. So it just doesn't taste the same.

So I get you. What about do you wait to see a new movie or watch it right away? Oh, wait. I mean, I don't see movies. You don't watch new movies anymore? I very rarely watch a movie. I mean, I watch movies for the cinema club and that's pretty much it. Because it's just not a lot of time to sit down and watch a movie.

I was going to say it may be the result of having kids. When a new movie comes out, I almost watch it immediately. As soon as I see something new on one of my streaming platforms, I'm like, I'll watch it. Oh, I don't even know. I thought you were talking about going to a theater too. that too. Like I'll go to theaters for movies. I can't tell you the last movie I went to in the theater. Might have been Fast and Furious 9 or whatever.

10, whatever we went to Mike D's birthday, like a year and a half ago. I actually think that might have been like two or three years ago. Oh, was it? Yeah. Oh, well, then there you go. I think that's probably the last. I think so. Maybe I went to one other one, but I can't remember it. It's just, it's hard.

The timing of doing a movie. and like I don't want to pay a babysitter so I can go to the movie. That's fair. It seems kind of crazy. Do you take your kids to the movies ever? No. Too young still?

I think we're on that, the brink of being able to take them to movies. Now the youngest one is one, so I don't think he could go to a movie. When you're the youngest one, you tend to just get carted around regardless. Oh, trust me. He gets carted and he gets, hey, we're just going.

Like when we went on vacation, we were doing stuff and I was like, hey, let's go. That's why I feel like I'm very go with the flow Because I'm the youngest And I just got brought everywhere And I just had to deal with it I'm going with the flow too Because I'm the youngest

Yeah I'm the best I do feel like it comes with that territory You just kind of were used to You don't even know it like subconsciously You're just really good with like Going with whatever's happening Because you drug along everywhere Yeah

It's cool It's cool He's got a good attitude some days He gets that bad attitude from his mom I mean that is a kid That's being a kid Do you like to work out in the mornings Or the evenings

Ooh, like if I'm going to go for a run, I would rather do it in the morning just to get it done so I know I've got it done instead of it being 2 o'clock and it being super freaking hot. Yeah. I don't ever, like if I'm going to go for a run, it's never at night because the kids are home. The only thing I do at night is if I go play a soccer game, that's it.

But everything else has to be morning or afternoon. I'm with you. If I could work out every morning, I would. I obviously don't want to get up at 3.8. and go workout before the show. But if I could, I would be a morning workout person. Yeah. I used, like in high school, I used to go, because I ran cross-country, I'd go run before

school. So, I mean, I'd put in six, seven, eight miles before I went to class. Is that why you were sleeping in class? Oh my gosh. That first period? Yeah. Good night. I mean, I was.

It's like you do workouts to be more awake, but they end up making you more tired. Yeah. I mean, well, because you're sitting there. Like, if you're doing stuff, it's fine. But when you just sit down, you're in this boring class, you know, and I'm like, the U.S. history. The typical sleep where you sleep, keep nodding your head and you're throwing it back trying to wake up. I hate that.

I hate that. In high school, I used to, when I knew I was going to go to sleep, I would just put a piece of paper on my desk and then put my hands, you know, over the top, and I'd put my forehead on my wrist and sleep. Like you're playing seven up, but not really. Yeah, but then my, that way the piece of paper would. would catch my drool. So then you couldn't show what was happening? Well, no, just because I didn't want to, you know,

roll out on the desk. So I just put the piece of paper down and then in the notebook paper would soak up all the drool. The fact that you're passed out hard enough to be drooling is. Oh, I can, I was a good sleeper. Well, yeah, I've seen you. I've seen you sleep on airplanes. You're knocked out in two seconds flat. Legit.

Like you could talk to you and two seconds later you look over and you'd be passed out. I mean, I remember sleeping in high school and just being like, oh, man, it's so awesome. And I wonder if teachers like, what are you doing? I wonder that about you a lot. Just normally. Like, what am I doing? Yeah. What are you doing?

Okay, we did have Ashley McBride stop by the show and she was really awesome. She mentioned something during her glam sessions about how she watches these old TV shows. And it's kind of part of their routine. What TV show have you been loving lately? Anything? Um, geez, what have we watched? Anything new besides Survivor? and reality TV shows.

Oh, we're watching Big Brother right now. That's a reality TV show. Oh, sorry. Like, I can already plan on you saying all of those, so I already know that. We're still trying to finish succession. That's the one we're still trying to get through. What season are you guys on now?

We're on the last, I believe it's the last season. Okay, you've made some headway since you were last on the podcast. Yeah, so it just takes a while. It's like, it's hard. But yeah, I think we're trying to get succession done. That's it. That's all we've watched. Okay.

I mean, and after Succession, we'll hit Ted Lasso. Oh, you're still almost in the new season of Ted Lasso? No. Oh,

that one's great. Because we want to finish Succession. Yeah, you don't want to jump into another show, but then Big Brother started it and my wife. Oh my gosh. Bless her soul, but she's obsessed with Big Brother.

Like, I like it, but she's obsessed. Yeah, that's her. It's her vibe. It's her vibe, but it's like,

gosh. But you are obsessed with a whole lot of reality. No, but she likes watches the, the live feeds and I'm like like so she already knows what happens before we watch the show

and I'm like she likes to be ready that seems to and then she watches she has some podcast she listens to oh she's like all in about where some guy literally watches the feeds the whole time he doesn't go to sleep or something because he breaks down every hour

of what went down on the live feeds or he has people to do it and give him a recap I don't know but she listens to that dude and I'm like you are out of control. Oh yeah. She loves it. She's obsessed with it. A little too much. Like she might need to go to rehab. Oh, don't say that. No, really? No. It can be an addiction. She's enjoying something, you know? No, no, no. You can enjoy something, but there's going too far. I don't think she's there yet. If she was like trying to find all these people in real life, like, you know, going after, I'm like, hey, we got to go visit Los Angeles because they're here.

Oh, no. Then I think you're there. I think she just loves it. It's probably like a guilty pleasure for her. Yes, I think that's what it is. It's rough, though, man. But I enjoy the show. It's really corny. The corny factor is so annoying. Like, they make it so corny and they do these graphics sometimes. And the theme this year where they're trying to do these universes and tie everything in.

It's like, none of the night, they had this game where these BBS couples met in BBS. But what we're going to do is we're going to say these BBS couples met. and we're going to write letters as them. And then there's going to be a word in the letter and you have to find that word in the picture. It's like, why didn't they just say, the word is dog, find the dog in the picture. Why did we have to go through the sogging dance of

they met in the BBS house back, you know, seasons before? But we're going to switch their partner and make them, you know, what if they would have got together with someone else? And it's like, just say the word is, you're going to look for clown shoes in the picture. You would like them to be a little bit more concise is what it sounds like. It was like, cool. I mean, it was just so confusing.

And then it was just there's going to be a word underline that word. You're going to define it in A, B, or C. Cool. That would have been so much easier just to say that instead of having to write these love letters and, ah, stupid. Tell me how you really feel. No, please. I was kidding.

Really stupid. I know how you feel now. What are you watching? Not happy with that. Well, not too, that you would watch because one of them is a very emotional show and your wife felt like you watch those. Yeah, she didn't like to have feelings. It's Virgin River. They had just dropped the fifth season. And I mean, you would think like, you know when shows tend to like fall off after a few seasons? You're like, okay, it's not good. Yeah. Every time they get me.

I don't know what Virgin River is. Never heard of it. It's basically this nurse who moves to this small town Virgin Ridge Road that's like, it looks like it's kind of an organ. And it's on this big river and there's shootings that have happened. There's. So it's Yellowstone. No, it's like a nurse. It's not like cowboys or anything. But it's like this nurse who moves there and like they have all these really complicated kind of storylines that fall in it. But it's really good. Like right now. Where do you watch it?

It's on Netflix. I probably won't watch it, but I'm just for people. Like last night I was watching it and I really needed to go to bed. But they keep each episode, they leave you on like a little cliffhanger. So then you got to start the next one to see. Oh, I hate those. But it's so good. It gets you.

It gets you going. Yeah. But then it costs you sleep because you can't go to sleep because you need to know what happens next. I'm like, ah. It did. I'm running out a low fuel right now. I feel you. It's okay.

It's okay. watching a Star Wars movie, which I know you're going to judge me for it. Wait, a movie. Or sorry, TV show called Asoka. And it's really good. Okay. It's about a Jedi. And like,

I don't know who to, like, I don't know what a Jedi mean. I know. Like, it's Jedi, the one, like the little robot,

one RTD2. No, the lightsabers. You know the lightsabers? But they, they concentrate on people that aren't Luke. Yeah. Oh yeah.

Like, we had just had a Mandalorian series. That was all about a Mandalorian and baby Yoda. Wait, wait, what is a mandolarian? Is that a person? There are different characters in this universe. It's not an object.

I really thought Mandalorian was the spacecraft. They fly. Oh, no. You're talking, are you talking about Harrison Ford's? Gosh, what is it called? What is this? Hold on. Stealth bomber.

No, it's, they do have a plane in Star Wars. Why can't I think of it right now? I have no idea. No, what is it? Why isn't it just like pulling up? It's because Harrison Ford like flies all these regular plays. So what's it called? Mandalorian is a person?

Mandelorian is a person and that's a TV show. But right now it's so good. Yoda is the original kid, dude, right? He's the little green guy? Yoda. And then there's... So then he had a baby? The Millennium Falcon.

So then he had a baby? No, he didn't have a baby. It's called the child. The Mandalorian is a bounty hunter. And so he goes through and he's bounty hunting in all these different planets. So it's like dog the bounty hunter? Definitely not. Definitely not.

But he's a bounty hunter on all these different. different planets and he has to find this gift that he has to then give to somebody else to make the money. Well, when he finds it, it's the child and it's baby Yoda who you find it has a name later in his whole story. But that's Mandalorian. This is Osoka, which is like a Jedi. So Mandalorian goes and finds baby Yoda and then Yoda's like, oh my God, I'm a dad. I didn't know that one night on 6th Street. He's just called baby Yoda because he's the same creature, but he's actually not related to Yoda. He has his own story. He's just the same creature. Well, that's a relief for Yoda. He's like, dang, I don't.

want to pay child support. So he doesn't have to, they don't act like father and sons. I feel like I'm concising a lot of things in Star Wars and it's not going to make any sense. But yeah, I'm trying to explain. So Yoda does not act like a father figure to baby Yoda. No.

Got it. Yoda's not even alive, at least not in, the storylines are complicated. But in Mandalorian, Yoda is never involved. Okay. People just called him baby Yoda because for the several first few episodes,

he didn't have a name. Got it. And then he had a name and now he, but yeah. Got it. Okay. Okay. But Asoka is a new Star Wars TV show and it's really good.

All right. We've spent way too much on Star Wars. We lost half our listeners. No, we did it. There's a new movie on Netflix, though. Would you watch this? I didn't even realize when I, like, turned it on. It was just like a rom-com. That's why I thought I was watching, but it's an interactive movie. So you get to choose. Oh, no. How, like, each way the actor goes and what she does, and you get to see how it all plays out, like how you would choose for it to play out. No. You would watch it? No, because I just want a movie. I don't want to have to, like, choose your own adventure books, because then you know what you're going to do? What? You're going to do one scenario and then the next day you're going to go back and have her do the other thing because you want to see how that would end.

I'm not watching a movie three times. Yeah, it's true. You can go back and watch. That's what they want you to do. But it was fun to watch how I would have chosen for it to play out. Like if I was in her shoes, this is how I would have maneuvered it. It was fun watching that, like play out in a movie. So have you gone back and said, oh, you know what?

I want to try the other way. Oh, yeah, I did it while I was watching it. See, I knew it. But hold on. I did my whole storyline first. Right. And then you go back. And then it says, do you want to end the movie or do you want to go back?

So you could end the movie. No, see? I just wanted to go back because I wanted to see what else was going to happen. That's what I'm saying. So you watched it twice. But I watched how I, oh, I think I was like three or four times. But they were like, it was like they would just pick up from where they left off. So it wasn't like, I think in total is maybe two hours.

It wasn't like super long. You know what I mean? I see what you're saying. Okay. But yeah, so you want to watch it? No, I'm probably not going to watch that. It's called Choose Love on Netflix, though. So if you're looking for an interactive movie.

I'll probably not watch that one You can tell your wife You can tell your wife I like it Not probably not gonna watch that one No I'm not gonna tell my wife about that one Don't worry Okay

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Apparently, Nintendo is looking for a new Mario Voice, so we had Mario Voice auditions, and it made me think about your acting adventures. Is there any new updates? No, no new updates, just kind of rolling or wrong, just trying to get better, polish my craft. Are you still doing your online acting class? Yeah.

Still having gotten an in-person actor class. No, it's hard. I mean, you know, it's a class vote. And then also, I'm just, like, it's hard with three kids to go to an actual acting class, like, in person. Like, I can do it late at night when we do the Zoom. It's cool because the kids are in bed. It's just, it's tough. That's fair.

Okay. Well, I just wanted to see if there was any. To be or not to be. Say hello to my little friend. Now you're just impersonating. No, I'm doing acting. You're impersonating other characters. I don't like when you say that.

No, I don't know what's happening. Maybe. Sad. Okay. See, pretty dang good. Well, cut to more commercial. Nah, give me an Oscar. Okay.

We did also share the sounds from our vacation and I want to talk about our vacation. Yeah, let's talk about it. So that's what's coming in that number one spot. Okay. Well, you want to talk about yours first? You made it to the number one spot? Well, not really. Well, but you're in it.

Well, yeah, I'm always in it when I'm here. I'm always in the number one spot. I'm always in. in it. I know. I just say you can't complain this out because you're in it. Okay. I mean, your vacation, you drove right by me and didn't say hi. That was kind of rude. Yeah, lunchbox and I found out afterwards that we passed right by each other. Like, we miss each other by like a day at the same place in the same national park. Yeah, that's right. Which is kind of crazy because that's kind of hard. Like national parks are massive. Yeah, the Rocky Mountain

National Park. And you went in the same entrance as me. Yeah. Because when you came down that road, you had to go right, go down, take a left and you turn and go up back up towards it. We were saying in an Estes Park and you were saying somewhere close to I was saying a Rocky Mountain or YMCA of Estes Park. Yeah. YMC of the Rockies. YMCA of the Rockies. Yeah.

And she drove right by it. It was on her left hand side. She went down into Estes Park, hit that right, then had to hit the U-turn left and then go back up over to the entrance to the National Park. That same place we drove in. She took a picture next to the sign. I asked my wife, hey, do we want to take a picture next to the family, the sign? And she said, no.

And so we didn't get the same picture. It would have been pretty funny if we had the same exact picture. It would have been funny. We did, listen, like, I, we hit six states and we did four national parks. And, I mean, I spent like 50 plus hours on the road. I'm a little road warrior at this point. Dang. But lunch was so worth it.

So we went, we went from Wichita to the Badlands National Park. I don't know what that is. I don't even know what Badlands means. That's in, it's called Badlands. You know, they're Badlands. I don't know why it's called that. But it's in South Dakota. Okay.

And it looks like a Star Wars movie, which was really cool. Great. Here we go. I'm back to Star. Everything is back to Star Wars. That was my only comment. But what is, like, what is badlands like tattooing? Like it's just rolling hills or what? Oh, no.

It's like, it's like, it's like desert and there's all these different colors. And it like, like, there's a pinnacles entrance. And they look like these little teeny tiny pinnacles just all like vast. What are pinnacles? Like little, like, think of an icicle. Okay. The best way I can describe it. Like up down and they're skinny.

Okay. But there's, they're like these little like skinny beutes. I don't really. What is a but? game. Like a landscape that's like straight across and it comes down. It kind of looks like a pyramid without a top. Okay, got it. Does that help?

Kind of know. I'm trying really hard to. It's like this full like really like kind of desert landscape and like it's just you don't see. It's very vast and very open. Got to watch a sunset there in the bad lands, which was insane. Like crazy to watch it come down and over all these like cool colors. over these brutes. Okay, butts. Boots. Boots.

I don't know. I don't know. Okay. I was calling geysers geysers. So I'm not doing great. And then we went to Mount Rushmore and that was, you know, cool. I've seen it. I never need to see it again. Really? It wasn't worth it. Like it's cool. I'm glad I got to see it. Is it small? No, it's how small. It's huge. Do you drive right up to it or do you have to hike to it? You can drive and see it. You don't necessarily have to park and walk up to it. But we parked and we walked up to like. Can you like reach into their nose?

No, no, no. No, no, no, no. You can get close to it. Like, if you want to keep walking all the way up, you can get close up there, but you're not going to be next to the statue. Okay, so I didn't know like if you could stand and put your head in their nose, like you're coming out of their nose or you put your head in their mouth. No, no, no, you cannot. It is, it's cool to see. And we looked at the history of it and like how it all came together. It was very a forward thinking for the time, right? But like, does it still look like them? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like the structures have held up amazing. But. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. I mean, this may be stupid. stupid question. No. I have no idea about Mount Rushmore.

Is it just carved into the side of a mountain? Yeah. Okay. It was literally like a statue that was just built. No. A sculptures took it and like that's why it's so crazy is like for that time and you see all these old. If you go into like the history part of it, there's all these old things that they were

using to create those sculptures, which is wild. Yeah. Okay. So that's why it's like so cool part of history. But like I'm much more. I like nature made, not manmade things. Yeah, I got what you're saying. Yeah.

So like I saw it. Cool, I got to see it now. I don't have to ever go back. Okay. And then so we left there and we headed over to the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park and drove from the east entrance to the west entrance. Okay. Did you camp?

We didn't camp. But we did stay at Henry's Lake State Park in Idaho, which is on the other side. Because like it's Wyoming, Montana, Idaho literally all right next to each other in the west entrance of Yellowstone. Okay. I did see, I think I saw Wyoming. Yeah. when I was at the Rocky Mountain National Park. They were like, if you look this way, you can see, I think it was Wyoming or Idaho.

I don't know. And so I saw it. And I'm like, oh, I definitely can tell where it starts. Like it's like, how am I supposed to know what I'm. Hundreds of miles away. No, no, it's like, it's there because you're on top of the mountain. But I'm like, I don't know which one. Like where does it start?

Like, but I saw one of those states. Yeah. You saw it. You just didn't go in it. That's funny. And loved it. Like loved Yellowstone. We got to see a whole crap time in wildlife.

in Lombar Valley, which that's where we saw wolves and elk and antelope and definitely a lot of bison, but like just cool experience getting to see Yellowstone. And that's how like I had my fun fact of Yellowstone is a super volcano, which I did not know, did not realize that whole parks that's on a literal volcano that can erupt at any moment. Oh, it could still erupt? Oh, yeah. Like they think it's going to happen in the next hundreds of years. That makes me sad.

Okay. Yeah. Crazy. So go see it soon. You know, you never know. I'll be. I'll get there tomorrow. And they have a lot of geysers.

that I like to call geysers. What is it? What is it? They just shoot out lava? No, they shoot out like hot steaming water essentially. It's showcasing that like there is something underneath the surface. Okay, so don't get close. No, and it smells like sulfur because there's all these like thermal areas too where it's just like steam coming off and it's sulfur.

Okay. So it's not like it looks like, oh yeah, you can sit in a salt. No. Sulfur. It smells terrible. But I couldn't smell all. My parents were telling me that. That's funny.

Okay. So got it got experience like all of Yellowstone. Did you see any idiots getting close to the animal? are getting close to the geysers. Yeah. People are just dumb. Like, you should listen to warnings. Yeah. So, yes, we saw plenty of that.

And then we went from Yellowstone National Park down through Grand Teton National Park, which was my favorite part of the whole trip. I would live in Jackson Hole and go to the Teton's all the time. What are they? They're a mountain range. The Teton's are a mountain range.

Oh, got it. But Grand Teton National Park is, like, very underrated compared to Yellowstone. because Yellowstone leads into Grand Teton. But Yellowstone gets all the pub, but Teton's the beauty. Yeah, like I loved Yellowstone. It was beautiful, but Grand Teton is like where it's at. It's just, there's so many cool lakes, like glacier lakes and stuff in there that are just really cool to see.

And I just loved it. Jackson Hole is like my favorite place like on Earth now. Got it. And I would go back there in a heartbeat. I'd love to go back for like a Christmas snowy time. Oh, God. It would be so cold. It'd be so much fun.

You can go snowmobiling in Grand Teton. How cool would that be? I don't know. I've never done snow anything. But I have to imagine it's pretty cool. That has to be awesome. I mean, well, that's what I, like, when people are like, I'm in, I was in Colorado, I went to California, then Colorado. And when I'm in the mountains, and I'm like, dang it in like two months, this is going to be covered in snow. Like I'm just looking around going, people come here to ski.

It's like. That's so awesome. But I'm like, where do they ski? Because I've never been skiing. I'm like, there's trees everywhere. Like, where do you ski? Did you not see it on the mountain? They kind of carve out a little like.

Never saw it. thing you never saw the like never saw it never saw it and i was like huh it was interesting and my wife's like no no they don't they cut out a little like you'll see and i'm like so that's a ski lift thing she goes no that's a power line i'm like oh so i never saw a ski lift thing um you may not have been close enough to like the ski area well no people like stay at the ymca and the rockies to go skiing but i'm like where do you ski i mean i guess they drive somewhere yeah yeah you drive somewhere I don't, I think you can ski in the Rockies, but not, I have no idea. I don't know anything about skiing, so I didn't know, but keep going.

Yeah. No, that was good. So then we went from there and drove to Estes Park where we stayed and we had our bear encounter. That was going to be my sound of vacation. What was your bear encounter? Well, okay. So we got in late at Estes Park like 10 p.m.

We were unloading our car. And my dad's like, Morgan, do you hear that? There's some grunting going on. And I was like, I don't. I don't know about that, dad. There's like a river down there. I don't think that's grunted. And sure enough, like 30 minutes later, we're all loaded in.

And all of a sudden we just hear this loud crash. And we're like, okay, that's strange. But none of us, like, get up. My dad gets up and kind of looks around to see what's going on outside. And 30 minutes later, I get a message from our Airbnb host who are like, hey, you may have just heard this, but a bear knocked over the commercial trash can that's outside of your guys's place. there's a bear on the property.

We're not sure if it's still there, but just be bear aware. And I'm like, Oh, be berry aware. Yeah, they say be berry, very careful. Bear aware. And that was my bear encounter.

I never got to freaking see another bear, but the bear knocked over our in one. So you didn't see the bear. You just heard it. I heard it. And I wish I would have gone outside and looked for it. But probably a good thing I did it.

Who knows? They were really close to us. But like lunch, this isn't like a regular trash bin. This is like a commercial grade trash bin. that's metal that it knocked over on its side. That's pretty cool.

And I had the picture of like the trash can that got knocked over, but that was my close bear in common. Did you see any bear prints, bear tracks? We did see bear feces. Bear scat. Yeah, that's what my dad called. Yeah, scat. Because we, my kids took a little class at the YMCA and they taught them all about the

different animal scat. So everywhere we went, they're like, oh, dad, oh, that's a, that's squirrel scat. You guys were talking about poop your entire vacation? That's deer scat. Oh, wait. That's a, that's moose scat. You know, they elk scat.

They were, I mean, scat, scat, scat, scat. And then they would go poop and they'd be like, da-da, look at my scat. And they love that. Of course that was their favorite part. But then they learned about tracks, right? Yeah. In one of the classes at the YMC,

the YMCA had everything. This YMCA, the Rockies, was fantastic for kids. And it was beautiful that it was kind of off-season. So we pretty much had the place to ourselves. It felt like. So it wasn't like packed? No, no. So we go outside our cabin, right?

and my kids said, oh my gosh, Dad, look at this track. Let me see it. You tell me what this is that was outside our cabin. Well, that looks like a bare foot. That is a bear foot. That sure does. And that looks like a fresh one too. Yeah.

So wait, did you guys not see bears either? We didn't see a bear. But look at that footprint. I don't. I mean, that is a bear. They're massive. I mean, it was like, holy. crap. Did you want to see one? Because I wanted to see a bear so bad. I tried so hard. I was

looking everywhere. I really wanted to see a bear. And we didn't. That was our only bear encounter. Yeah. I mean, we didn't see any bear, but that was the one bear track we saw. And I was like, this weekend you need to post that your barefoot. Okay. I will post it. I'm like, yo, was there a bear outside my cabin or was there a bear outside my cabin? There was. You post your barefoot. I'll post the trash getting that the bear knocked over. Yeah. And then I mean, I almost got killed by the elk. I mean, I talked about that. But it was that. My heart was beating so fast.

I love that. I love the encounters with wildlife. Except for, except for when it's like me and him and he's like six to seven feet away. And they tell me I'm supposed to be 75 feet away from them. I mean, yes. But like that's also purposely. Like if you can, if you have a choice, you should stay far away. But if he decided to charge right then, guess what?

Yeah. I'm elk food. But guess what? Your story would be that you died from an elk. that's not cool. That's, and be like, oh,

this idiot got too close to an elk. That's what the new story would be. And I'm like, no, literally I was just sitting out there and the elk came walking up to me and I was like,

oh, huh, but it was awesome. But they're so cool. Like, it's so cool to see magical creatures like that just out in the wild living their life.

Yeah, and the reason, like, what's crazy is my kids, like, we wanted to do something where it wasn't just go see family because it was our first time

ever doing that. Yeah. We're like, I don't know if we can do this. All right, cool. And I'm going to save you the gross stories. You can go to the sore losers podcast and listen to the gross stories about human scat.

Yeah, I don't need that. Yeah, you don't need that on this. So I'm just telling you, if you want to laugh about some human scat stories, sore losers podcast from this past Wednesday, I mean, I go into detail about the things that were happening. Because we had a diarrhea bug. Okay. You said you weren't going to go out. No, no, but I'm just going to tell.

That's all I'm saying. And then I'll tell you the stories that come along with that. Excellent. But we were just, the YMCAA Rockies, the only reason we chose there is our neighbors across the street, she had gone as a kid with her family. And now she takes her kids there. So she loves it enough. Yes.

And so we were like, okay, that sounds cool, you know. And then we happened to talk to another late. My wife did talk to another. She's like, oh my gosh, I've been there and our kids loved it. And we're like, all right, let's go. So we went on a hay ride. like the horse carried and had the hay and we went and they take us through the in the mountain and then we come to a fire pit and we roasted marshmallows.

It said we were going to make s'mores, but we just roasted marshmallows. There's no chocolate or graham crackers. They're just marshmallows. So I don't know if that's their version of the smore or if. I think they just missed out on the rest of the smores. Yeah. And so that was awesome. And it was great.

They had a roller skating rink. they had everything you could mini golf. I mean, it was just, it was fantastic. And then we went into Denver for a few days and we went to the zoo, awesome zoo, great zoo. Went to the Children's Museum. Their

children's museum is baller. I mean baller-rific. Let me show you the playground that they have at the freaking, what is it called? The Children's Museum. You are in true dad mode and I love this for you.

no, no, look at that thing. Holy crap. But, like, you realize you're showing me pictures of a playground from your vacation. No, no. And I love this for you. The children's museum was legit. Like, they had climbing stuff. They had a fire truck inside.

It was a nice museum. So did your kids love it? Loved it, except for the playground. My three-year-old, he goes up and he's like, I want to go up on that. And she's like, oh, can you stand up next? Oh, it looks like you need to grow this much before you're allowed up on that. Oh. And get ready.

In three, two, one. Meltdown City. Because my three-year-old is scared of nothing. And so he's like, that I have to be a certain height. I can go climb up that, no problem. Was that his first, like, interaction with, like, not being tall enough? First time ever not being tall enough. And it was like, ouch, it hurt.

It hurt. Oh. So, yeah. So we had to do some adjusting in me and him. had to go do playing the sand and the water and he got over it eventually. But yes, it was sad. And then we went to a Colorado Rockies game, their first Major League Baseball game. My five-year-old was into it.

He had never heard of the Rockies before that night, but he was a diehard Rockies fan. And it was awesome. And my aunt lives in Denver, so we saw her for a couple nights. And it was great. So you did see a little bit of family. But this was your first major one with that. We didn't rely, like, just go straight to us family members' house and just stay there the whole time. We did a couple nights there at the end.

as we came back into Denver. So do you think moving forward, you guys might like stay with this? Oh, we hope to. So yeah. So we went and saw family in California. Then we did the Estes Park four days by herself

and then a couple days in Denver with family. So it was, you know what I mean? But we didn't go only to family where we just stay there the whole time because my wife wanted to go see her cousin in California. So it's like, all right, we'll go to California,

go to the beach. And we went to the beach. Are you more of a beach here mountains? Oh, mountain. Get the beach is stupid. The beach is stupid. I hate the beach. I don't get the beach.

It's too, hot. I'm the same way. I don't want to just sit on the beach. Like if you're going to take me the beach, like take me out into the water to do something. Like you get sand all over you, sand all over your clothes, all over your shoes, all over everything. It's really weird.

I don't know. But yeah, it was a great vacation. We had so much fun. And my kids, I mean, I'm going to tell you what, we kicked their butts and they, uh, they didn't complain. So rate your vacation. Give me a rating, rating system. Oh, I'd say an eight.

Eight out of ten? Yeah. What's your, your rating system. 8 out of 10. No, but like the 8 out of 10 what? Hikes, 8 out of 10 mountains out of 8 out of 10 piles of scat.

8 out of 10 piles of scat. That's what I was looking for. Okay, I was like, what moral? I was like, okay, got it. Okay. I give mine a 10 out of 10. And I give it 10 out of 10 trash cans. So no vacation can be better.

So far? That's been... No, no. But you're saying that is going to be the greatest vacation of your life because 10 out of 10 means nothing can top. it. Okay, fine. Nine and a half out of ten. Okay. See? That's what I mean. It was just awesome. I know.

We saw so much and experienced so much. And I guess you could have another vacation this 10 out of two. I was like, why are you putting that on me? I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen in my life. I don't know. But for now, like, truly, like I want to go back to, I would live in Jackson Hall. If I could, I would live in Jackson Hall. You can. That's how much I love. You can do whatever you want. You're a free woman. I can't do this show.

Right, but you can get a job in Jackson Hole. Yeah, I don't know about that. It's pretty. town. That's true. Like I don't think I can survive. But we did drive through like we drove through Colorado. Oh, we went on some train. It was like some old train.

It was like a train loop around a mountain. Oh, that was probably pretty. It was cool. But it wasn't necessarily a loop. It was like we went up and literally came back down the exact same way. So you saw the exact same thing. I thought we were going to go around the mountain. So we drove.

drove two hours to go do that. And I'm, and we looked at it and we're like, you know, I would, if you're in the area, you have some disposable income because it was quite expensive. And you have a train like lover, like kid lover or you get it. But otherwise, no. Otherwise, not really as cool as I thought. But I mean, it was all right. Okay.

What about your top three things from vacation? We'll end it on that. Oh, the, the, the, the, wildlife, the mountains. No, like, give me a one, a two, and a three. Oh. You want me to let you think for a second? No, I mean, I don't need to think.

I don't really think about a lot of things. Number three, see it my aunt. Judy was awesome. That was fun. Number two, just the mountains were fantastic. And number one, just the animals, the wildlife that we got to experience was super cool. Like right outside the cabin, there was three deer and we just sat there and watched them nibble on grass for like 30 minutes.

and there was a baby deer and like a bug was getting on it like a fly and it would jump around like a dance flies are annoyed and my kid it's a dancing deer it's a dancing deer

and over and over again so we like had a dancing kind of deer outside of our window it was really fun so the kids love the wildlife too and did I show you the big elk we saw? Yeah remember we compared elks oh that's right that's right we showed

a picture because we both saw bull elks Yeah. I think my top three, number one would be the Teton's and Jackson Hole, that experience. Yeah. Number two would be seeing the wildlife in Lamar Valley and Yellowstone. That was just insane because we were also there at sunset and that just, there's nothing like it. And then three would be the badlands. Okay.

Which was insane. Also did not look real. Oh, and the weather. Oh, it was great weather. It was like a little chilly in the morning and at night, but during the day it was like, perfect. It was like 75 and then you wake up at the morning. It was like 45. It was like, this is awesome.

Yeah. So we were in the same, you could tell we were in the same area because we had the same weather experience. Like one day we set the alarm and we went outside and watched the sunrise and it was like, wow. It was just peaceful. Isn't it cool to watch like sunrise and sunset and areas like that that are so scenic? Yeah.

And like I had, I mean, it was chilly enough where I was wearing pants on a jacket. Yep. It was like this is. And shed layers during the day. Yeah. Oh, for sure. For sure. So it was a great vacation.

It's great. Oh, and I need to add that I got to try all this huckleberry. Did you try anything Huckleberry? I don't know what that means. It's really big in the mountains. It only grows in the mountains and they can't mass produce it. Like it can't be commercially grown. So it's really,

Huckleberry is a very big thing up there. I brought back like Huckleberry vodka and like all these different huckleberry things. It's really tasty. I don't think that was Inessa Spark. I think that may have been where you were in the green. I saw it. I saw it Nessa Spark. Well,

I mean it must not have been. I don't think it's as common. I was like I didn't hear anybody talk about, hey, I'll be your huckleberry. It was up at the Alpine Tundra Cafe that we talked about that you and I were both at. There's Huckleberry things in there for you to buy. Oh, didn't look.

We don't buy stuff at gift shops. Kids try and I said, no, we don't need that crap. Get out. Yeah, I feel like you guys would end up buying a whole lot of stuff. Exactly. I'm like, they're looking and say, oh, dad, I need this. Nope. They let them want, oh, daddy, can we get the snow globe?

No. They'd come back with everything. Yeah, I was like, no, we don't buy crap. Well, if you guys go back there, try some Huckleberry. Oh, that's what my wife's like, oh, we got to go back next year. I'm like, why would we take the exact same vacation next year? No. Well, if you go back in that area up in the mountains, maybe you go to Wyoming instead or Montana.

Get some huckleberry. I'll be your huckleberry. Don't do that. They probably think you're creepy. Okay. All right. Well, you can find me out WebGour Morgan on all the things. Lunchbox.

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