The Bobby Bones Show - Morgan & Amy Recap Cruise Life & Amy Recalls Marathon Memory 

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

Morgan and Amy share all the details post-cruise! From their favorite parts and to things they missed, and even the drink they both finally had a pretty martini bar after years of planning. Plus, Amy recalls the time she ran a marathon and how it impacted her life. Morgan’s been thinking a lot about her past and the “roles” she has played in people’s lives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, hello. Time for our best bits. And we are in post-cruise territory. Oh, gosh. Okay. So, we need like recaps on what happened because this was your first cruise. We need to talk about it. Well, I guess I did go on a cruise when I was in eighth grade.

Okay. But does it count? Do you feel like different life? Definitely probably doesn't count. But we did. It was same. I think the same voyage. Really? The same...

Yeah, Nassau. I don't know that it was Bimini, but... Do you remember that cruise very much? I mean, I remember getting off in Nassau. I remember, you know, the meals, like everybody gathering together to eat. And getting my hair braided. Yes, I saw so many people walking back with braids. I was like, I did that one time. Very much regretted it.

But as an adult, with very fresh memories. It was so fun. It was so much fun. I love to be at sea. Your favorite moments, the things that you enjoyed. I mean, it was obviously really cool to meet that many listeners and some that have listened for 20 years or longer. And then some that were kind of not new listeners, but not hardcore.

Like some hardcore, but some just like country music. And yeah, okay, we know who y'all. and so it's like that and everything in between. There's a couple from like the Austin area, I know Texas, and I cannot think of their names right now, but I would know their faces. And it was just so fun like getting to talk to them. I'm using them as an example right now because there were several people.

I mean, there was like individuals on a walk, but I feel like I would run into them a lot and they just were there to have a good time. And I love that everybody got to escape and sort of like we were on our own little bubble in the ocean. Because the world is really cuckoo right now. It is the best part about being out on a cruise ship. I feel like you get to beyond just a typical vacation, right? Because you go to a resort, you still have access to all your normal things that you need. But you go on a cruise ship and you're kind of secluded.

You can't really do anything about it. And we still have our phones. You can be as connected or not connected as you want to be. but I don't know. I'm just, I've thought of that couple multiple times because they were just on vacation living their best life together. And I was like, oh, that'd be fun to like be on a boat. And we met a few couples too that were younger.

One of them was even on their honeymoon. That was their honeymoon trip together. Oh, I didn't meet that. I don't think. This for your guys's honeymoon and they had been saving up for it. They had so much fun. And it was interesting talking to them because like them, they didn't pay for the Wi-Fi package or anything.

So they were completely cut off for an entire week. and they just enjoyed themselves so much. We stumbled upon them one night when lunchbox and I were going back to our rooms and they were just sitting in the chairs together and they were both reading on their books and they were just adorable. I love that.

That reminds me, speaking of chairs, I met a mother and a son that were there and they were in chairs one night, like watching one of the concerts, just laying out on the deck. And that was something they did. Like the other siblings weren't invited. Nobody else was invited.

It was like their special mother, son. trip and that they while they were there they signed up for next year so they're going to do that so it wasn't yeah it was like couples individuals girlfriends um like just groups of friends um so many variations of different people yeah i think the average age too i mean you had yeah 30 year olds to eight year olds i think the average age was like 60 but it felt younger than that but maybe just because a lot of people i'm getting older so 60 doesn't seem that old to me. So, because if I were to hear, there's a point in my life, if I heard the average age was 62,

then I'd be like, oh, wow, that cruise is full of older people. But I think because I'm getting older, even looking around, you wouldn't have thought it was an older cruise. Well, and it was a no kid cruise, which also adds to that layer. True, no kids. But there was somebody with a, did you see her? She was with the walker. Yes. She was partying it up.

Lucille. Lucille. Lucille. Okay, you got her name. Living her best life. And so many people that would be line dancing. I met this one couple from North Carolina and the wife had been taking line dancing lessons since last April. Not to prepare for the cruise or anything. It's just something she's been doing for fun with their girlfriends.

But it really came in handy because there was so much line dancing on the cruise. And she knew all the dances. Oh, that's fun. I know. Then she got to relive it while she's on a cruise ship. That's fun. Yeah. And to your point of.

about Lucille, she was hilarious. She came to the karaoke competition every time and she was up. At one point, the first night, she was creating the whole party. She was dancing, everyone was dancing around her. The second night I saw her, I was like, oh, you love to dance. So I went over to her when one of the songs was happening and she got up and we started dancing together. And then soon enough, there was just this huge, you know, one of those dances where a circle forms around somebody in the middle. That's what was happening with Lucille. She was the life of the entire party. And I saw her actually at the airport. I walked up to her. She's like, oh, hey, dance partner. And I was like, hi. And that's how I finally learned her name. And she was so funny. She's like, I loved my jacket on the ship, you know,

just I partied too much. I was having too much fun. And she was so cute. Yeah, I will never forget her. I did not thank you for giving me her name. So many people, it's like, oh gosh, there were so many people to get their names or sorry, probably got their names, but to remember. And I'm already the worst with names. So I feel bad about that. But there you would recognize people yeah like by the cane or by their outfits or their hairstyle or there was in the we had the one girl call in she was like I was the one in the old miss sweatshirt yep and that's how I would always I mean I would recognize her face at this point but at first it was easy to spot her because of her sweatshirt so much so that when she called in she was like I'm the one in the old miss sweatshirt

it was like yeah and so now in my head I know exactly who she is it's funny how we use those identifiers there was one guy that was in the karaoke competition and I'd called out for him and I did this thing where if they didn't show up, I'd count him down. And I was starting to count him down. And he came from the sushi restaurant, which was like two floors above where the karaoke competition was. He's like, hey, I'm up here eating sushi. And the rest of the trip, he became known as sushi guy.

And so he sent me a message after like the trip ended or whatever. He was in the finals. And he was like, I think my wife is going to call me sushi guy for the next six months of my life. And that's how I recognize him. It was funny. Like, I feel like I saw a whole bunch of. people a lot of times and then there were some people I didn't even meet. I know. Is that weird?

When someone sent me a DM, they're like, oh my gosh, you left already. I didn't get to meet you and I'm like how, how? Because I feel like we met so many people all the time, whether it was at specific events we were doing in the elevator, walking up and down the stairs while eating. Like I just feel like there was so many opportunities. I don't know. But I guess, yeah, the ship is bigger than you think and people are so spread out doing so many different things that, yeah, you weren't, even though it felt like we were all in the same place.

I guess when we would do, when we did like the set sail thing, that was cool. Like where everybody comes out onto the pool deck and the boat takes off. It's like the set sail party. And that was a cool moment. everybody's out there, but then at that point, then everybody scatters and hard to. And I don't even feel like everybody's all up there for that because everybody's just excited to be on a ship.

The first thing I do when I get on a cruise ship is walk around. I'm trying to figure out where everything is, figure out what options are for restaurants, where's the shop set? Let me figure out where I'm at. And I still don't know where I'm out on the boat. Even though I do that, the first thing I do when getting on a ship, even by the last day we were leaving, I still was going the wrong direction. I still couldn't figure out where I was in relation to the boat.

So I can't imagine just how many people were in different places that I never ran into because I never got to that part of the boat. Yeah, like one night I got lost and I ended up in the spa area and I was like, what? There's a spot and the employees were having a meeting. And there was like 75, you know, massage therapists or something. It felt like Matt. And I'm like, who are these women and where did they come from? and I mean, I assume there maybe were some men in the mix, but it was predominantly women. And I had never seen them, nor I didn't even know that spa section existed.

Did you get any spa treatments? No, I did go and sit in the sauna one day. I went and worked out one day. They had a sauna? Yeah. And it was such a pretty sauna because it was out. It looked out to the ocean. So you just sat there.

You're heating and you're just watching the waves. Oh, that's crazy. It was really pretty. But that was the only one. I wouldn't have done that because I wouldn't have wanted to sweat off my spray tan. But I know. And I needed it that day. because I really enjoyed the soft serve machine.

That's my favorite thing about cruise shifts is that there's unlimited soft serve just whenever you want it. Did you eat any of the soft serve? You never indulged. No, was that up on the top deck? There was one at the buffet with like, you could do chocolate, vanilla, swirl.

And then there was one that was strawberry by the hamburgers and hot dogs area. Oh, I didn't see that. And it's available all the time. Okay. I did go late night, one night, to get food up there, but I didn't see the,

Oh, dang. Amy. It's like my favorite part about cruising is that you just have 24-hour access to free ice cream. Oh, I miss that. That was a good one. But I also just, it's crazy, too. We were talking about, like, how you get lost in there. There's a whole underground, too. There's back passageways of things to go and the cruise are all the way down at the bottom where there's things that most of the time you don't even go to those areas of the ship. Is that that crazy, too? Yeah, I went down there to take a shortcut and there was a whole different cafeteria and eating area, like sort of like for the staff, but it was full blunt. Like when I say cafeteria, I guess I'm picturing it, you know, like at Lubies or something like a whole salad bar, a whole buffet. But it was strictly for the employees. So that's how many people they're feeding. It's like there's the cooks for the upstairs and then there's entire kitchens for. their only job is to cook for a staff.

Isn't that, that's so wild. Like cruise ships to me are just, I sit on them and I'm like, we're on a floating thing that's in the ocean, somehow staying up with all of this equipment, all these people. And we're just all out here pretending like we've known each other for a whole week. It's a wild experience cruise ships are. Yeah, I liked it, though. Did you have any least favorite things with the cruise? When I drank too much. That was not it.

No, I was so sick. I don't know if it was a combo of what. And I'll also just take responsibility that the type of martini that we were having that Ray's wife introduced me to, leachy, but Scuba Steve says it's lychie or something. Whichever way. The L fruit. It's this, that's a kind of fruit, I guess. And it was kind of weird because it looked like an eyeball. Did you get one?

I didn't get one, but I drank some of Laura's. Okay. It's really good. And the fruit does look like kind of an eyeball. It's really like squishy and interesting. That was really weird, but yummy. And the drink, like, I don't know. I think they were just making them strong.

I am not really sure. They were tasty. And we were so busy too, though. I think I need to probably, I probably should have found this self-serve machine because I think I also just wasn't eating as much as I normally do. Yeah. So it's a combo of that.

Well, Ann, you don't drink much like that anymore. No, no, no. So it was fun. And it was fun to just kind of, yeah, detach from the world for a little bit. And the ride to the airport was brutal. And then when I got to the Nassau airport, I was waiting in line to check our bags. And I looked at Eddie and I was like, watch my bag. I have to go throw up.

And I went and I did. And I feel like people were like, oh gosh, stay away from that girl. She's sick. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, it's just alcohol. We are good because after I threw up, I was feeling so much better. So much better. Did you eat anything at the airport to soak up some of the remains of the alcohol? Well, it took us so long. Eddie and I both have TSA pre, but when work booked it, they didn't put us on there. Which there was no line in the TSA free. Not a, not a person. And we would have been through and had plenty of time to chill, maybe go get something to eat.

because we didn't have it, we were in the longest line ever. And we had enough time. Eddie and I got separated, though, because he got taken back to a room in customs. So then I didn't see him until we got to the gate. But even to get to the gate, I only had time to go to the little store. And I bought cheese crackers. That sounded like crackers just sounded good, you know? Yeah. And what, oh, oh, nutter butter. Those are the two things that sounded good. Just like something, like a cracker. Yeah. But one was salty and one was sweet. Those felt safe to me. I don't know. Eddie walked on with a greasy pizza and I was like, I don't know that that's for me right now. But you have to go with whatever sounds good when you're hungover. Honestly, it used to be for me. I'd always get this Taco Bell potato griller thing. And it was the only thing that could solve my hangover problem. Anything else I tried to eat, it never worked. But whatever your craving is always your hangover cure. I've realized. Like your body is telling you exactly what it needs in that moment. and some people need a greasy pizza or a greasy burger. I needed my Taco Bell Griller and you needed cheese and crackers and nutter butters.

Yep. So that's what I had on my flight. And then we got to Atlanta and we had to book it to our next flight. And so then when I got home, I finally was right. I ordered a salad. I was like, oh, greens, protein, rice. Cleanses from my body. Oh, well, we did do something.

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but we had planned always to go sit at a bar during happy hour and have a drink. And we did technically accomplish that on the cruise. We did do that. Although I think I got a phone call about my daughter during that. So I feel like Ray captured it on video or somebody did or a photo. It was definitely Ray. Yeah. And you and Bay looked like y'all are there talking.

And then you can tell I'm on a serious call. And I did take it right there at the bar. You did. But we were before that moment. We were all having martinis and sitting at the bar. So we half accomplished it. Yes, we did. It only took us four years in a cruise, but we got there. Yes. So I wanted to at least applaud us for that because there's a few things that we accomplished on this cruise. But anything else that comes to mind, anything you were surprised about by the cruise? The theater is really big. Like the concerts in there were very cool. Yeah, just how like the shops and the store, how big it is in the restaurant. Like, yeah. Like, got in the different part, like the casino, oh my gosh, that's probably my favorite part. I'm not a big gambler, but like I've gone to Vegas so many times and I will go and not even touch a blackjack table or any gambling at all. And, you know, our hotel, like our room, like I have to walk through the casino to get to my room. And I'm never tempted to stop. Well, let me tell you, I had such a good time playing blackjack on the boat that come Vegas in September, I'm,

probably going to have to play blackjack when I get there because we had so much fun. Lunchbox was like my coach and we were winning. I mean, maybe that's why I had so much fun. It's because we were winning. It definitely adds to it when you lose for sure. It makes you never want to go back in there. But we kept winning. It was crazy.

I mean, of course, we had some losses, but I was still up and I'm like, this is weird. Like is Blackjack different at sea? It just feels different. It does feel a little different. And it was such a fun atmosphere in there. something about the casino and everyone kind of feeling like they knew each other innocence. The dealers were nice

and fun. The dealers are so much fun. At the end of the day they want you to win but also them win which is a funny experience. I'm with you. We spent more time in the casino but that's also because I was with lunchbox most of the time and that's where he wanted to spend time and I was like I you know I'm good I don't need to spend money I was

spending other people's money not my own. I'm really bad about like if I've ever gone into a casino before, I'll give myself $25. And you can't do a lot with $25, but once I lose it, I'm out. And that's typically how I play. But there was Shelley and Damon, the listeners who kept giving, every time I'd lose, they just give me more money. And I was like, please stop making me lose your money.

I'm going to keep doing this until crabs. That's where I finally, craps, crabs, crabs. Definitely craps. Crops. Not crabs. That was where I finally started to have some winnings. And Blackjack in the tournament, but that was all fake. It was just a house's money situation.

Right. So it didn't count. But it would have been baller if I did actually put in $1,000 of money and win the $1,000. Yeah, pretty legit. How much did you end up walking away with? I won a few hundred dollars because, I mean, I put in a hundred total and then walked away with, yeah, 400 something. Oh, yeah, that's a big one. And you cashed out.

You have it out. I have the cash. It did better than me. That was, that's another. side to it is the casino shuts down when you go into port. It only, the casino is only active when you're out into the middle of the ocean, which I find really interesting too. Yeah. That's why I had to go back down and get my other chips because I cashed them out and they were like, oh, by the way, we're going to be, once we port, we're

shut down. We're not open tomorrow. And I was like, oh my gosh, I have more chips in my room from last night, be right back. And I went, I cashed them out and then I went up to my room, got more chips, cashed those out. And then I was good. that was all from the same winnings or different. Well, that was the chips in my room were from the night before. Okay. So total. You think you wanted about 400.

But it's all, everything I was playing off of was from my original investment. And original investment. Yeah. That's some, the lunchbox terminology there when it comes to the casino. Dangerous language. I know. Okay. Well, Cruz, we feel good.

We feel recapped. Yeah. Are you ready for next year now that you've had this one under your law? Yeah. Especially now that I know what to expect. and kind of all know how to pack better. I just didn't know. Now I'm like, okay, no, I got it.

Have a little more grip on it. Does this make you want to go on the Alaskan cruise more or less? I still want to go on the Alaskan cruise. I just feel like it would be a very different vibe. It is as far as close. You think you know how to pack for this one now, but clothes are different for Alaska. But similar demographic, I would say.

The Alaskan crowd is typically a little bit on the older side. I don't know why that is, but I think just appreciation of nature and... Yeah, maybe. I don't know why. And maybe it's not... Maybe. It's not one you maybe take kids on.

Yeah. A different environment, but everything else as far as the cruise ship itself, same. Same. Yeah. So I didn't know if it further pushed that along. Like you're like, I have to make that happen now or you're just kind of same. I need to call my sister and be like, are we going to do this or what? Because I also really want to go to Paris.

I feel like... I got to get some trips under my belt. I feel like you just have to make it happen. I know. You just kind of make the call. I know. Well, we only have two times a year where we can really take trips. So it's like summer or Christmas.

And then Christmas is hard to do anything because we have our family traditions. But you have two vacations a year. And I think you should take them this year fully. Well, I know. But the Christmas one isn't just as simple as like, okay, well, maybe do Alaska then or do Paris then. It's more of like the summer one. I need to figure that out. I don't know.

I'll call my sister. I, at least one of them, you have to go somewhere you've never been. Yeah. That's what I would encourage you to do. For sure. Thank you for the encouragement. I think this is the year you make it happen. I think, yes.

I do think I'll go to Paris this year. That one's like, that's the itch, the one you have? Yes. They often say, too, that the place you long to go the most is the one like that will bring out the best version of yourself. Like, if you ever really longing to go somewhere for a long period of time? Oh, well, then that's probably, yeah, Paris for me or somewhere in Spain for me. The Alaskan cruise, we just want to go on because that's what our mom wanted to do.

Which I highly encourage. I think you will love it. But, yeah, as far as your personal, how you feel, I think Paris has been one of those for you for a long time. And maybe there's a reason. Got to book it. find that version of me. My girlfriend and I that we did the Paris, Barcelona, Belgium trip together. Yes.

We talk about it often. It's, I mean, every time we see each other, something from that trip comes up to our mind or will be doing something and it reminds us. It was that felt like one of those trips that you're never going to forget. You know what I mean? Of course not. And you could go anywhere, but something about that one in particular. And maybe that's what's going to happen with you. And that's why your body's like pulling you to go.

Yeah. Do it. Yeah, I guess I just need to. Yeah, I'll figure it out. I believe in you. I will. It's going to happen. It's just like there's so many schedules to like keep in mind and to figure out. But it's on the, I don't have a vision board for this year, but it's on my mental vision board. Okay. Well, I'm like a physical one. I'm going to push you even harder and say there's always going to be things to figure out. But this has been something that you've wanted to do for so many years. Yeah. And I think this is the year. You just have to say, I'm going to do it. And it's going to do it. And it's going to. to happen. Okay, I'm going to do it and it's going to happen. There we go. Okay. I feel like Amy and Paris will be a moment. Oh, I know. You'll have your Emily and Paris moment. I mean, maybe a little I mean, maybe you find like a job there. Maybe there's something to have. I don't know. You know, like maybe you fall in love with bakery. When I was over in Paris, I fell in love with the baking a lot. And I thought a lot about, oh, maybe I go to like baking school, cordon blue. Crescents. Yeah. And bake. and then I just work in like a chocolate factory for the rest of my life.

I do think about that sometimes. Yeah, I mean, sometimes it would be nice to just escape everything, but I have to be realistic. I'll probably just go for five to six days and come back. That attitude, yes, that might be what happens. Okay, we're going to take one more quick break and we'll be right back. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl.

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Everybody's doing good. I love how I went immediately to ask about the animals. Sorry. How are your kids also? I feel like everybody is doing good right now. I guess the main thing on our calendar is track season is beginning for Stevenson. So he's very pumped. And he's really trying to improve his time on the mile, which he has done.

Have you started running with him? Is that a thing yet? No. No. I ran with him when he was fundraising for Haiti a few months ago. But I did one mile. And on the app, he had an app tracking every mile because he did a half marathon. The mile he ran with me was his slowest.

He was like, Mom, this is the mile I did with you. And it was like way slower than everybody else's. So do you feel like it'll encourage you to run more or run no more? I just don't think I'm a runner. I'm a, I used to be a runner. But I just don't think my body is made for that. I have started stretch classes at the stretch lab. Okay. Stretch lab.

Which is a specific place. My body and maybe my ability to run or just feel more agile and flexible. And why did you start going to classes for this? Did you not feel like at home was added? I guess I'll call it a session. I don't know that it's a class. But so I bought, I signed up for three months to go like twice a month or something for three months. I could go once a week, but I was like, honestly, that's going to be hard for me to do.

So I gave myself a goal of every other week and then I stretch it home in between. I really just am using it as a Kickstarter because I need to start stretching more at home before and after walks and even just when I wake up or if I'm watching TV or doing something, like just making sure I'm being wise with that time. And of course, I don't have to stretch the whole time, but I just find the older I get. Like, I'm really starting to feel it. And so I go in there and they kind of assess, like, where I might need to focus my attention. And then they help give me stretches and then they help.

And one of the things that is impactful is creating the resistance. So they want you to, like, push against them with, like, 20% of your force and then release. and they'll be able to push a little bit further after you release. And you can do that sort of thing at home, like in the doorway, like using a wall or the doorway, like I just said, as your resistance and then release. And so just learning things like that that are going to help keep me strong. So do you feel like this is a little bit from your, because you've always had the low back injury. Yeah, I have low. Yeah, my low back has always been weird from running, like when I ran a marathon in college.

I hurt my right knee and my, because I was overcompensating, then my left foot. So those two things have always caused me issues. And never fully broken, you never had surgeries or anything, right? No, I just, pulled all the things. I don't even know what I did, but let me tell you, I should not have even completed the marathon, but I had put in so much training that I wanted to finish it. And my mom and my boyfriend at the time were meeting me like every four miles. They would go to a different checkpoint.

And my mom would give me a leave. I'd pop more pills just so I could mask the pain enough to cross the finish line. Why did you train for a marathon? What was behind that? Did you love running once upon a time? I mean, yes, I used to run. I thought I loved to run. I mean, I ran cross country in high school.

Okay. I also think I looked at it as a way to force me to exercise. And I, so some of that probably was unhealthy because I was using it as a tool to, or was like an excuse of like, oh, well, yeah, I'm a runner. So I need to go run five miles or six. But also that's how I had girlfriends. That's how we would bond and hang out. Like, we would go for runs. some of my sorority sisters, like, that's what we would do to like, I mean, of course we would go out afterwards, but it was, that's where we would talk and catch up because we would talk the entire time. And one of my sorority sisters, Lauren, signed up for the marathon training at Texas A&M. Because every year A&M would take a group to a marathon in Austin. And she was like, I'm going to do this. She ended up dropping out. But I was like, well, I'm just going to stick with it because.

I've already done it. And the guy I was doing at the time, he thought it was really impressive. And I was like, yeah, it is, isn't it? Had to stick with it at that point. So then I did it. And then I was so miserable afterwards that I was horrible to be around. He broke up with me. Not because of that.

No, no, no, because of that. I was horrible to be around. I was in so much pain. My body got, I don't know if it's like the acid. There's something that releases with the running. I was so swollen. and just retaining so much water. The lactic acid buildup.

There's something that my body did not respond well to the marathon. So the furthest I had run before the marathon. So a marathon is 26.2. The furthest I'd ever run was 20 miles. And our coach said, that's all you need. If you can do 20, you can do 26. Like it's 75% mental after that. As long as you've done 20, your body should be fine.

Well, I went into the marathon with my body already not fine. I had been water jogging a lot. Which one is water jogging? I would get, there were groups of us in our training group. If you couldn't hit the street, hit the pavement. If you had any injuries, we would meet at the pool at A&M and put these harnesses on. And you're in the water and you jog. And you jog for a certain amount of time.

And that's basically your distance. And you're working the same muscles as you would if you're running. So you could essentially train in water and then take it to land and be. Gosh, being on pavement was hurting you, right? And so is that why you were water jogging? Yes. Yeah. But I was giving my joints a break through the water jogging. So that way, I mean, it would have been far worse if I had just kept training on the pavement. Anyway, I should not have run the marathon. But I did. I have this t-shirt still to prove it. You can't ever get rid of that t-shirt. No, I cannot. And a metal somewhere. But I really was swollen and I couldn't walk. So none of my clothes were fitting. And I carboloded like crazy before it.

So I, of course, and then I wasn't, I went from running a ton to not running at all. So I kept to carbot loading. So like, I don't even know like where I thought. I was like, oh, maybe I'll lose weight doing this marathon. I gained weight. Which for me at the time in college, that didn't feel good. So I think I was unhappy about that. I couldn't walk.

Like he would drop me off. We were neighbors. So he would pick me up for classes on campus and then drop me off close to. to wear and then he would go park and walk because I mean obviously on college campuses you walk a ton yeah I was in my pajama pants limping to class miserable like not nice and I mean not not meaning to be yeah you were going through things obviously the what's the word I was irritable yeah because I felt so uncomfortable and I would have broken up with me too I do not blame him at all one bit we ended up eventually getting back together, maybe a year and a half or two years, a year and

a half after maybe. Okay. We got back together, but that. It didn't. Did it not last then either? I had other issues. And then he broke up with me again. Looking back, I'm like, I don't blame you. Have you seen this guy at all since in any way she performed? Yes, yes, because he's married to a girl we both know he's married to her sister. That's. That's. That's wild. Small world. So if you guys ever like had a conversation about that time? Yeah, I saw him at a concert.

We were in Austin for something. And I was right after my mom died and he came up and said, hey, it was really sorry to hear about your mom. And I was like, yeah. But that's the first time I'd seen him since we were working up. That's crazy. That he was, he came back in your life. He was only there because of that mutual friend I'm talking about.

And so that was interesting. But that was such a lot. long time ago. Like it doesn't even feel like he's got a family. I have a family. Like it's not, it wasn't, it's just one of those more of like I'm embarrassed how I acted. I mean, he probably hasn't even thought twice about it. But it's sort of when you're the one getting broken up with and later in life, you think of, I mean, I had two relationships in college that meant a lot to me. He was one of them. So obviously you think those are your college relationships those count more than like high school. And while they weren't that long, it was just.

just we tried to get back together. And then I was like, oh, nope, I guess this time it's not the marathon and something else. And it was. I had stuff I needed to work through. I wasn't healthy. I was thinking about this the other day because somebody on the, this happened on the cruise. Some girl had come up to me and she was like, hey, we went to college together. And I was like, what year?

And I was trying to put all the pieces together. And I didn't know her. But we had like one mutual friend. And later on, I got a message from another listener on the ship was like, hey, do you know this girl? she's like really, she's sharing a lot of information about you and like saying that you weren't kind to her in college. And I was like, we didn't even go to school together. We already confirmed to this. Like that we had different times. And then I was like spiraling. I was like, man, if you think about your life and just all the people that you pass in your life and all the people you interact with, all the relationships you've had and even just strangers, even moments in time where somebody was part of your life for a few months rather than years or whatever. And you just really think about that concept of you never know. know the part you played in somebody's story. And that was like a moment where I was very much like trying to go through my file in my brain of like, did I did something happen? Am I missing something?

That I do something. And I never, I didn't know this person at all. I've never met her up until that moment. And but it at least had me spiraling in that direction, you know, to be like, did I? And it is. It's wild the roles you will play in somebody's life, whether they're small or significant. And you don't know until you maybe cross paths one day again or you never cross pass. But for somebody it was a huge moment and for the other person it was nothing. Yeah. It's crazy to think about that. Yeah, are different people we've worked with over the years or like I think even in this

company or being in Austin and then people, I don't know. Yes, you're right. It's like high school, college, career, different careers, encounters, maybe have. you were acting during a certain season or if it was a small encounter maybe one day or a season that was maybe six months or a year like it was definitely times I'm not proud of how I acted or behaved and there's probably some people that I definitely owe an apology to for sure I won't I don't know if I'll ever see them again yeah well and that's the thing you don't know their perception of me might be very different then yeah because you you meet them at different

of your life. So who you were then is probably a different person than now. And I think where the lack of that comes from is if you meet somebody again and they're the same person, you're like, oh, okay, that's just, that's who you were. That's okay. But I think for most people, that's not the case. You know, they grow and evolve and life changes them. But it's, it was just funny. It had me, like, in a rabbit hole of just thinking about all the people I've encountered in my life and all the moments where maybe I was a villain, maybe I was a hero, or maybe I was nothing, you know, of like where, where did that impact somebody along the line? And now I'm thinking about you and your ex-boyfriend and how you had like this,

these two moments. And now he's kind of like an acquaintance in a way. I mean, not really. I haven't seen him. I mean, even seeing him that first son that was years ago. I mean, that was probably 2000. My mom died in 2014. So I probably still haven't seen him in a decade.

But I mean, I'll see him on our friends Instagram or whatever and be like, oh, that's crazy. Yeah, they're family now. because, you know, and I think you can also romanticize the past some too. Like for me, I was so heartbroken when we broke up that I probably romanticized what version he was to me because I was so devastated. Yeah. And it was so perfect. But again, I get it. And I am thankful that I have had growth and I'm not stuck in that.

I think a lot of that time in my life was very insecure, which also would lead to being misunderstood a lot. Because sometimes when you're insecure and you might be quieter, it's bitchy. And so I definitely had those moments, but those in eating disorder era for me. So I was very preoccupied. Well, we had Jody Messina on this week and she mentioned something like that about being out. an award show and how she was very just insecure being in a room of a bunch of women like Faith Hill. Oh yeah. She said she didn't even want to leave her dressing room. Yeah. And how it could have likely been perceived that she was being mean when she was just afraid to be in that space.

And it's just it's a, it's a funny like retrospective way of looking at things and seeing just a role that you play in a lot of things and what you were like in those situations. And this is one of those where you had a really unique one where you can look at it and look at the Marathon. Oh, my God, I was crazy town. Yeah. And all of those. Probably didn't work out the second time because I've told this story on my podcast with Kat and she loves to bring it up from time to time. But like he had made eggs one morning. And I wasn't eating egg yolk at the time. Yoke. She also says I say egg yolk weird, which I do. And I, it was, you know, the early 2000s. I was only eating egg whites. And I freaked out. Like not at him, but it was like I didn't know what to do. Like I almost like it's like paralyzed me because it was all mixed together.

And I was, I clearly needed food. I think I was hungry. But when they were mixed, I was like, what do I do? And I was so restrictive. And my brain couldn't. It's like my lid flipped sort of, you know, describe like the front part of your brain. And if you look at that prefrontal cortex as like once it lifts up and flips, like if you have kids that sometimes you're like, why are they being so irrational right now? They're not understanding what their lid maybe is flipped.

And there's no rational thinking when the lid is flipped. And I think that because I was in the throes of my eating disorder, my lid flipped over not knowing how I was supposed to eat these eggs now. And I was panicked and freaking out. And I think that's when he was like, okay, this is not how I would have lived my life. I don't want to fight over egg whites and egg going. We weren't even fighting. Like I wasn't mad at him. It just root my attitude.

It ruined the morning. Like whatever we had the rest of the day, like we were at his family's place in Texas. And I think I just ruined the vibe. Like total buzzkill. But I have compassion for that version of me too because I was doing the best that I could, I guess, at the time without the proper tools at all. none. I feel like at that moment, somebody probably should have checked me in somewhere. But even he didn't know. Like, it's not like I was being vocal with him. Like, as an adult now, I can look back at, I wasn't even 25 yet. So my underdeveloped brain, because now we know the brain's not even developed

until 25. So in my young 20s, having an eating disorder and trying to rationalize my behavior, it's not, I'm not going to be able to make it make sense. I can't. So I have compassion for that version of me. And I'm thankful that I have healing and that there is hope and healing in that because I had it when it came back after my mom died in my marriage too. And I got restrictive again. And I'm sure there wasn't the Egg White episode. But there was probably another something similar that my husband had to deal with.

But I think as you're married, that's the difference. Like I was able to, I felt safe with this partner that I had. I wanted to tell him about it when it returned after my mom died. We had conversations. That's the difference. Like, young brain me, I wasn't having conversations with my boyfriend. I'm like, oh, this is actually what's happening. I have an eating disorder.

He didn't know, you know? No, at the time, it was just about achyotes. It was hidden. I felt shame. I was, you know, I felt like, why can't I just be like normal girls who'll just eat an egg? I don't know. Or at that point, maybe a, a. gritle or something because I felt like normal girls they could just go through the drive-thru.

And, you know, because I think that's what he had that morning. And then like, I was like, no, I'll make eggs at the house. And he was like, okay, well, I'll do it for you. But he had picked up McDonald's. Anyway, good times. Can anyone else relate to this? Yes. Yes. Again, hey, it's back to being the story you played in other people's lives. And it's an interesting, it's just something to to think about in retrospect. And I sometimes wish there was just a button I could press and kind of play memories and say, how did I forget that memory completely? Is that like something I blacked out?

Was that something I need to remember? Do I owe somebody an apology? Right. Or it's like something comes up. Like now I'm thinking about him. And I was like, he was just an overall awesome good dude. And then if I were to come up with him, which probably has not been the case, but like if someone were to be like, oh, wow, okay, you know Amy or you whatever.

He might be like, yeah, she's freaking crazy. Right? And I'm like, dang, I really need to like make some of those situations better. What do you mean she's crazy? Well, one time, I made her eggs. He probably does think about it. If he ever makes eggs now in his life, it's probably like, there was that one time, man. I hope not.

Oh, well, thanks for being here this weekend, Amy, talking about all kinds of random things. And it was a good cruise recap. And if you want to, remember, you can come on the cruise next year, top shelf, countrycruise.com. You can get your cabin and come hang out with us. If there's another martini bar, you know. might find us there. I mean, I'll probably at that point.

You'll have a year to recover. Yes. At that point, I will be able to. But I'm going to need a limit. We'll have somebody watching you this time. We'll have people watching both of us. I think that will be a good thing. Okay.

We're jumping out of here. We're going to go answer some listener questions in part three if you want to check that out. Otherwise, this is where we leave you. Amy, where can, are you good over there? Yeah, I was trying to read my bottle, but I realized I just opened up a little suja drink lemon cayenne pepper suja. pepper suja juice thingy and I was like oh what is in here and I was trying to read the ingredients and I cannot because I need my readers. I can rate it for you. I helped I helped Eddie.

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