The Bobby Bones Show - Sunday Sampler- The Nashville Podcast Network (12-17-23)

Episode Date: December 17, 2023

In this weekly series, we share highlight clips from the past week of five podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- The Bobbycast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers, Get Real with Caroline Hobby and Movie Mike's Movie Podcast.  You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts.  You can find them on Instagram: -The Bobbycast- @bobbycast -4 Things- @radioamy -Sore Losers- @soreloserspodcast -Movie Mikes Movie Podcast- @mikedeestro -Get Real- @carohobbySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me. Clivert Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits,

my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, the Clifers Show. This is a place for raw, unfills of conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated.

So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok podcast network on TikTok. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I bowed. I will be his last target. He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your girlfriends.

Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe, on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I got you. And I'm Ago Wadam. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot.

But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar. of, you know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts. If you love 90s country, this would be fun. Welcome to the Sunday sampler. You're going to hear some highlights from some of the different podcasts that came out. We're going to launch some new podcast soon as well. I think you're going to like on four things with Amy Brown. Amy talked with Camille Alston, who founded NB Goods, which specializes in She's Apparel and Gifts.

And she used to manage Kelsey Ballerini and Brett Eldridge. And then she was like, I want to do something. I want to follow my heart. So hang out for that. The Bobbycast is all about 90s country and just been very lucky through the hundreds of episodes to have names that are massive now, but were also massive in the 90s. You know, Reba, Clint Black, Shania, Billy Ray Cyrus, John Michael Montgomery, talking about, well, their biggest tits, but what it was like in country music in Nashville

back in the 90s. So we'll start with that here from the Bobbycast. If you want to hear the whole thing, go check out the Bobbycast. And we'll hear from Caroline Hobby and the sore losers all coming up as well. So away we go. What was happening in your life that had you feeling these feelings to create this dynamic music, you think? I think it was an excess of alcohol. There was probably some, I hate to even say it.

It was a pretty rough time. So it was a very, excessive alcohol, I'll just leave it to doubt. But were you, when you say excessive, did you know it was a problem? problem or were we just partying too hard i was actually working it was like part of my job i always had a rule i said okay i'd go play the first set completely straight straight up could you play a set straight and feel good yeah i felt really good i always felt like the first set was like probably my most correct and then um the second set like in between the break i might um take a little puff and then go up to the second set and i feel looser that's probably the best set of the night but by the third

set, I'd have a puff, possibly, unfortunately, maybe a snort. Unfortunately, like then came, like, it was part of people partying would send me drinks. And some of those drinks would be on fire. Some would be like double shots of who knows what. I don't know what. It takes the lighted drink up and then blow it out and drink, but I would do that. So by third set, we was Rock a Pretty Hard, four set, I was probably legally drunk. and unfortunately Keith Whitley was from my neck of the woods up there in Kentucky

I was a huge Keith Whitley fan and when he died it had a big impact on me like I can't finally get to this point where my dream's about to come true but yet I have some issues so him him having his issues

and dying did it do you feel like it was that kind of a mirror? He saved my life. I mean, there's no other way to say it. He saved my life because my manager, Jack McFadden, was Keith Whitley's manager. And he was like a son to Jack. And Jack at that point, I was on his roster, but he'd never seen me play, never heard my music, didn't know exactly what it was that I did, but he knew it wasn't exactly straight up country. And Jack had managed Merrill Haggard and Buck Owens and Keith Whitley. And tragically, On May the 9th, and again, this is 1989, May the 9th,

Jack was going to take me to Sony Records. For the first time, Jack was going to take me anywhere. And again, I don't think he'd even heard any of my songs, but we had an appointment. So I came down on the 8th. Tragically, Keith Whitley passed away on the morning of the 9th. And the meeting was canceled, obviously. And I drove back home to Huntington, West Virginia,

and played I'm no stranger to the rain over and over and over and over and over and over. I've got played it a hundred times between here and Huntington. And it just had a huge impact on me. And luckily in 19 and 91, when I realized that, hey, Cyrus, you're about to get your chance. You got the album that everybody seems to really believe something. Well, they told me, said, man, hang in there. This is about to happen. And I stopped at a bridge down here on the harper somewhere and threw all my stuff into the river.

And I said, I can't do this and not be at my very best. I've worked too hard for this month. Do you mean your actual stuff or drugs? Cocaine. Got it. The damn devil ass cocaine. You were cold turkey to. I pulled over and threw my damn cocaine out.

Would you have considered yourself an adjunct? or someone who, and I come from a massive family of addiction. So were you an addict or were you someone who just enjoyed it, but could also if you needed to stop, stop? I don't think I could stop stop, especially on alcohol because I drank since I was a kid. And I ain't had a beer since. Like, I mean, I had to stop everything,

except I did say, you know what, having a little puff every now and then if marijuana helps me. it's medicine to me and so I kind of allowed myself to say okay if you get rid of these two devil alcohol and the cocaine you can keep a little bit of the marijuana because that's kind of your medicine

and you never look back no wow the fact that you stopped drew a line and stood at that line says a lot about who you are

deep down like you and I think it shows itself over and over again with the things you're able to achieve. Like, here's the line, this is my goal, this is what I'm going to achieve, and I'm not going to cross this. And that was a massive step. To me, I guess I'm surprised in a way, not at you,

but when you hit so hard and you're on and you are a superstar now, that when you have all, every resource, everything's available to you again, available more than it's ever been to you, by the way. You have money, you have fame, you have, you still didn't get back into it.

No. That is, that is amazing. I don't want it around me, and I don't even want to be tempted by it, because it never goes away. Sometimes I joked. I joked with my little girl, Noah, a couple weeks ago, came to see me. She said, where are you at, Dad? I said, down on the banks of the harpeth.

What are you doing? I said, looking for my cocaine, I threw away in 91. She laughed really hard. I know, it's a horrible joke. But she knew the story. So being able to joke about it a little bit, but I never knew anybody. anything good come out of cocaine. Whenever you were young, teenage years,

because just being a kid and watching, you were just ripped, like muscles on muscles, tank top, muscles, and muscles. Like you had to have been some sort of athlete, like crazy athletes. Honest, Noah showed me a couple weeks ago, this thing of 30 years ago, I made my first appearance at the Grammys

and lost five. A few people can go from nothing to losing five Grammys in one night, but I was very, I know, I know, I was very grateful that moment. I knew I wasn't going to win one, so I wore a t-shirt that I cut the sleeves out of. It said, John 316. It's floating around out there somewhere. I see the picture in my head right now. Yeah, and it's embarrassing to say, but oddly, yeah, I did look more like a linebacker than, and, and, and, um, but the, the point was, see, I was going to be a professional baseball player

up until I was 20 years old, 19, 20 years old. And as things started happening, oddly enough, this jacket, and you'll see if I turn around in this video with Snoop, I took a silver sharpie. I wear a leather jacket, but I'm in this full circle moment, and Noah had said to me, and she showed me that video, Dad, look at you, John 316, and I wore the shirt because I knew I wasn't going to win a Grammy,

but I wanted to say, thank you, God, for allowing me to persist. and pursue this dream and not give up because I'm here now and I wanted to say thanks, knowing I wouldn't win and get to stand up and say thank you, God, for this moment.

So I wore that shirt as that reason. And Noah said, well, you can do it. It's 30 years later. And so I took a silver sharpie and I wrote John 316 on the back of my leather jacket. I didn't wear it in here,

but it's in the video. I'm going to wear it this weekend in Vegas. And I think there's a lot to that, knowing that somewhere along the line, you know, you just got to remember what this journey's all about. Cast a row of things, little fool for your soul, man, life ain't always pretty, but hey, it's pretty beautiful things. Laugh for little more things. Tighten up your core, man. Said E.K.

E.K. You're kicking it with four things. Hey, it's Amy Brown from Four Things with Amy Brown. And here's what we talked about this week on my podcast. I went to get my car washed at like an actual car wash place. And I went inside and there's all these knickknacks and candles. I'm like looking around. I'm not even sitting down.

I end up like looking at everything. So I decided to go sit down. Well, right after I sit down, they're like, your car's ready. So I'm sitting down for not very long at all. And I get up. And my friend that was with me was like, you're just sitting on a penny and they grabbed it. And I said, was it heads up? Was it heads up? Yeah, it was heads up. Oh my gosh. That's my mom. And my friend was like, oh my gosh, it's so true because hours before that I had read them a poem that my sister had written called Lucky Days, which is about pennies. And when we were little, if there would be a heads up penny, my mom would pick it up and give it to me or my sister and say, it's your lucky day. My sister's poem is about, like when my mom was, you know, similar to your dad, she had the cancer, then she was in remission,

and then it came back, and then, you know, you kind of, it's this roller coaster. And we'd finally hit the end of the ride to where the doctors are like, there's nothing more we can do. So my sister was with her at that appointment, and they were at MD Anderson in the parking garage and went over to the car, and there was a penny in the parking lot. And my sister bent down to pick it up and looked at my mom and said, how's this a lucky day? but then her poem had I should read it to you You're like friends with my sister

Yeah I know You y'all probably She's a nine on the enneagram too So Also just separate from all this It's been such a joy To get to know your family I didn't even think really about that component of it

Like when we agreed to do the show When they first called us about the show I had no idea of the connection I just thought it was the show And then as they were explaining it I was like oh I know Amy They're like oh you listen to body bones I'm like, no, I literally know her.

And so then like getting to know Christy and Ben and like, I don't know. And now like they carry some of the stuff at the shop in Pagosa and like, I don't know. Root House? Yeah. Yeah. See, that's like, that's connection. Yeah. That's.

And I really, I was like so jealous when you guys were on vacation last week. I was like, can I be part of the family? Well, and so it was when I got back from Hawaii that, which we went because my sister's son, my nephew, is doing his freshman year at University of Hawaii. So we thought, well, if he's only going to be their freshman year let's like make this happen and go. So we all went kids and all.

It was great for the cousins to all experience that. But we were on Waikiki and our parents, when they were still married, took me and my sister to Waikiki. And the hotel we were at was two hotels down from the pink hotel where we stayed with our parents. Yeah. And my sister and I went over there one morning and my sister has this blessings book and, you know, she read a blessing while we were there.

And like our parents were all over it. Like it was great. And I woke up every morning while I was there when, down to the beach by myself and watched the sunrise and took my journal and like felt my parents and kept in that that's when I started really being like show me signs yeah I want to know like you have to ask for you have to ask for them and so that was that week and it was on Sunday we got back from Hawaii on Friday so it was Sunday that I got the penny I was sitting on a penny so and then earlier that morning I had read this okay about the penny and again the something we're doing kind of

has to do with the penny so here you go lucky days by Christy dozer my sister her. Shiny Penny on the sidewalk. Little brown-eyed girl holding Mama's hand. She bends right down to pick it up and cups it like gold sifted from the sand. Her eyes look up and her mama looks down and says, it's your lucky day. If these are lucky days, then I want to save them up and cash them in for when things don't go my way and count them all as blessings and my not enoughs. I want to pay good to the bad and hope to the mess. Lucky days. Shiny Penny Penny on the parking. lot. Grown girl open in mama's door. Frail mama bends down to pick it up. Her body too weak for treatment no more. The prayers went up and the memories came down. Girl says, how's this a lucky day?

If these are lucky days, then I've been saving up. I want to cash them in today because this is hard stuff. I want to pay good to this bad and hope to this mess. Somehow, lucky days. But sometimes lucky is going home, home to that eternal place, where pain's no longer something you own, where you sing of amazing grace. Girls lie by their mama's side. That bright morning, she flew away, and their eyes tear up and God looks down and says, it's her lucky day. Yes, these are lucky days. If you look close enough, you can catch a glimpse of grace somehow, even in the hard stuff. When that dirt road ahead is not what you planned. Get down on your knees and pray for pennies. These are your feet. These are are the lucky days. There's good and the bad and joy in the mess. These are the lucky days.

That's so awesome. And then I sat on a penny. Heads up. And it was like, okay, thank you, mom. Yeah. I love that sentiment of like saving them up, you know, because like, I mean, I certainly, we've talked about a lot about the highs, but there's some rough days, you know, like, owning a business, just stuff will happen or like, I'll get a bad review or something. and I got to like draw back into that reserve of like a great day that happened or even like with my dad. My dad did not wear jewelry ever like to the point where so my mom didn't want to change your last name when she got married. And so my dad didn't like wearing jewelry so he didn't want to wear a wedding ring.

It wasn't like a creepy thing. Like he just really didn't like wearing jewelry. My parents were married until the day he died. And when we were cleaning out of stuff, I found a necklace and it was a zodiac symbol. And it was like something my grandmother had given him because my grandmother was obsessed with jewelry. and I never saw him wear it. I never saw it ever, but I took it. I wore it every single day. And every couple of months, there would be like a thing where I'd be like thinking about my dad and then like the necklace would fall off or like the clasp would break or like just all this weird stuff. And then like three months ago I got into a car wreck. I got rear-ended by a 18 wheeler. But the one thing that happened is that when I got to the emergency room, they're like, oh, you need to take off your jewelry. to do the x-ray, and I realized that the chain had broke, and I had lost the pendant, and it was gone.

So I thought maybe it's in the truck, and when I got back home, before they towed the truck, I, like, went looked in it, and I went back to, like, where the accident happened and where I got out of the car, and I couldn't find it, and it just, like, racked me. I've never had, like, a material attachment to something like that, but it was this thing that was, like, it was a real lesson. And it was just like, that didn't matter to my dad.

You know, that's not my dad. And although it's like so horrible and it felt so emotional after a couple of days and by, I was like, it's okay. Like, I didn't do anything wrong. It's not like I was careless with it, you know, and I had to like let go of it. But it was just like another one of those moments with him. A win is a win. A win is a win.

I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball. to college football or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes,

creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So, if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be.

Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. She plays stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And Rule 2, never mess with her friends either. We always say that, trust your girlfriends.

I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends... Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care, so they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed I will be his last target.

He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I got you. Everyone, I'm Ego Vodom. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman,

Saturday Night Live, and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best. advice ever. I went and had lunch with him one day and I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was

based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know,

the cat, just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's do it live. We are the one, two, three,

So losers What up everybody I am Lunchbox I know the most about sports So I'll give you the sports facts My sports opinions Because I'm pretty much a sports genius What up y'all

It is Sisson I'm from the north I'm an alpha male I live on the west side of Nashville With Beezer my wife We do have a white picket fence At the apartment complex Soon I'm gonna have 2.5 kids

And yes sadly I will die of a heart attack When I'm 72 years old Here's a clip for on the last podcast. It's like Forrest. The one time he wanted to go to Woodstock. Ray, these are random stories, but I like him. He wanted to go to Woodstock 99, bro.

Okay. Hey, kid, I'll go with you. We graduated high school. You know what? We're going to take a break, and I'm going to tell you the story. Because this story's going to be long, and it's hilarious. Kid, you care if I roll with? Hey, he was on the trip.

Woodstock. Woo! Keith, Keith was there, and we'll tell you all about it right after this. It was me and one girl in three cups. No. So Forrest and I graduated, Class of 99, Anderson High School, Austin, Texas. And we decided to go on a baseball trip. It was me, Forrest, Robin, who's Forrest's little brother, Forrest Dad, and No Teeth Keith.

Kid, let's go to Chicago. There's two teams there, one side. city. And he was like, okay, I want to go to Woodstock 99. So he had made plans with these other group of people to go to Woodstock in New York. And so he was going to go after our trip was over, the baseball trip. And we drove to Houston, to Arlington, to St. Louis, to Cincinnati, to Chicago, to Milwaukee, back to Chicago, and watched seven baseball games. in seven days.

Had the same plan in high school. Never did it. It was our second trip of such an adventure. Kid, let's embark. And so he was like, I want to go to Woodstock. And everybody starts canceling on him because no one's going to, no parent is letting their kid go to Woodstock 99. So we were at my grandma's house in Chicago, my mom's mom.

and when Forrest's mom is on the phone and says, I'm not going to let you go. You're not going to Woodstock. Forrest loses his shit. Calm down, kid. And Keith is, kid, it's okay, you know, kid. I know you really want to go, but... You'll always remember your first.

But your mom, you know, your mom doesn't want you to go and, you know, sometimes you just have to... And he's like, no, F this. storms out of grandma's house in Chicago, suburb of, it's called Markham, not the nicest area of Illinois. Capriene Green. It's the south side of Chicago, okay?

South side. And he just storms off, dude. Out, gone. Get back here, kid. He's never been to Grandma's house. Get back here, you motherfucker. And he decides just walk and walk. and he's gone for an hour.

He's gone for two hours. And we're like, okay. Kid, I'll search all the playgrounds. All of a sudden we get a call at my grandmas. It's Forrest's mom. Forest is lost. He went walking out of the house in Markham and walked for two hours, but he had no idea how to get back.

So he had to use, this is back in the day, kid, what kind of landmarks are you seeing? Because meanwhile, back to mama. So, he had to use a pay phone to call his mom in Austin.

His mom and Austin had to write down some stuff he was by. She had to call my grandma's house. We had to go find forest. Do you see the green river? And we get him back to the house. And his dad's like,

You really want to go to Woodstock? He goes, yes, I want to go to Woodstock. Get in the call, kid, have you been shot? So the next morning, we drove to the Greyhound Station in Chicago, and we dropped Forest off. And he went to Woodstock, 99, in New York. Bus is heading out. Hurry and get over there, kid.

Here, take this grilled cheese sandwich I made for you this morning. Remember, Lady Lucy, Lucy Tidy Kid, if they see a tent, pitch it Kid always stay till the closer One time I saw the Beatles Have fun at Woody Stock He went

He went to Woodstock No, no, no. He had nothing, man He had clothes and a bag And some money He's still alive? And that is it. Bro, everybody else canceled on him. So he went by himself.

Sometimes you want to do stuff that bad. Hey, he went to Woodstock 99. Two days in, he was out of money. Bro was out of money in two days, Coach,er. Like, he's in New York without any money. And he said it was miserable. He said it was awesome for the first two days, and then it was miserable. Because he had no trying to get home.

Trying to get home. Trying to eat, trying to survive. But he did it, man. That dude went to Woodstock. Buy him damn self. Kid. On a Greyhound bus. Find a prairie dog hole and shit in it.

Get yourself a gunny sack. Here's one quarter. Buy yourself a Coca-Cola kid. Hey, it's Mike D for Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. And each week I give you spoiler-free movie reviews of movies you should watch and movies you should avoid. and this week was quite possibly one of my most controversial reviews. I'm talking about Leave the World Behind on Netflix, which is a movie.

I still think you should check out, but you should listen to this warning before you do so. So here's just a little bit of my review of Leave the World Behind on Netflix. Let's get into it now. A spoiler-free movie review. Today we're talking about Leave the World Behind, which is on Netflix. It's also in theaters. This is a review that I've been waiting to do. And when I say that, it's because either I was so passionate.

about a movie and loved it so much. I can't wait to share it with you. The other reason I said that is because I was so infuriated by a movie that I cannot wait to tell you about it, which is this one? This is the one I was infuriated with because I love movies about the end of the world. One of my favorite genres I think about the end of the world all the time. My most reoccurring dream is the world ending of things coming from the sky and I've had that in my life since I've been like 13 years old torments me. So I love movies about the end of the world. movies that do it well, let me say. And that is exactly what this movie is about, and the cast is amazing. The one and only Julia Roberts, Ethan Huck, Mahershala Ali, those three actors combined alone should make it just all out enjoyable. And then you have Kevin Bacon thrown in there, who I feel is the X factor in that casting because maybe if it was 80s, 90s Kevin Bacon, I'd be like, oh yeah, it's going to be great. But now when I see Kevin Bacon cast in a movie, I start to question their decision. The movie is based on a book, and I know that. I'm going to get it to some things I didn't like about it, and people are here to yell in the comment saying,

it's based on a book. If it's based on a book, they should have fixed the things while making the movie that the book got wrong then. But it's also from the executive producer and director of Mr. Robot, which lines up perfectly with the material we have here in this movie. So what it's about is Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawk are married. They're living in the city, and they decide they want to go away for a weekend in a really fancy Airbnb. be. They're spending a weekend away with their kids enjoying life. They're out on the beach one day. And this giant ship just comes onto the beach where they are. And it's really weird. But they think nothing of it at the time. And then some other weird things happening with their cell phones

networking, with the Wi-Fi being down. And this movie just starts to create all of these weird elements and all of this mystery. And then they get a knock in the middle of the night. And it's Mahershala Ali's character who is the actual owner of the home, and he gives him a story on why he shows up on their doorstep. So this one I have to be very careful with, because I don't want to ruin it for you, because I will say at the start of this, that I was still highly entertained by this movie. I would even say oddly entertained by it, because, again, I love movies about the end of the world, and then you have Marislelea's character who is there with this daughter, so you have them two coming together with Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts, and their two kids.

What this movie did very early, I would say in the first 30 minutes, so I don't think this is spoiling anything. But I realized that the movie had bitten off more than it could chew. And it just hit me that I knew that all the little things it was setting in place. It was never going to be able to deliver on everything that I wanted as far as answering all the things. It reminded me of one of my favorite shows of all time, Lost. People either love or hate that show, mainly because at the end of Lost, you don't get all the answers of what happened on the island. I am on the other side of that, that I loved Lost. And I believe that it was more about the journey than the destination with Lost. They had such

great characters that I bonded with and I felt like I went through a lot of things through the course of that show that even though the finale was what it was, I found that the journey getting there, I enjoyed. In this case, with this movie, that's two hours and 20 minutes, almost two and a half. There were so many things going on and so much mystery being built that it never really fully satisfied me. Throughout the movie, they are trying to figure out why all of these catastrophic and weird events are happening around them. There's also a lot of tension between all of the characters, primarily between Julia Roberts' character and Mahershal Ali, of her not fully trusting him for some odd reason and him kind of having this dark hidden past

that he's not being fully upfront with them either. So there's a lot of of back and forth between just characters not trusting each other, but also them trying to figure out why they don't have internet, is it just a blackout, is it something bigger? And throughout the entire movie, there's just all these things just getting bigger and stronger and bigger and stronger until you wait for it for the big thing to finally happen and it's fully revealed exactly what is going on here. And I would have to say that I have never wanted to know the ending more while watching a movie. This was one that I was like, I got to see it through. to the end just because I need to know how this movie ends. So credit to them for hooking me in

and creating all this mystery to really make me want to finish a movie, which is really important with a Netflix movie right now. They're so focused on their completion rate that this is a movie that will get you to want to watch the entire movie. That being said, it felt like it was doing an impression of M. Knight's Chamelon mixed with Jordan Peel. Those are two directors who do a movie like this really well of creating some big mystery and then there's going to be some overarching theme or overarching message that the movie was trying to convey. It never really had its own distinctive style that I was just kind of craving. It really tried to do it through the use of cinematography. Now, if I have to give this movie just gold stars for it, it's because of how great

it looked visually. That is really what had me suck in in this movie that I found myself saying a lot throughout it is how did they get that shot? Because it's not even that it's a full on bad movie. In its own right, it's still an entertaining movie and probably did what it's set out to do. So based on entertainment value and also based on the fact that you did have a good cast here, the acting was actually on point throughout this entire movie. But being what it is, I give leave the world behind three out of five blackouts. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football,

or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports. entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast, it's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't

always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So, if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that, trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same

prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, thought how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves.

Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ago Wodam. My next guest, you know from Step Brothers Anchorman, Saturday Night Live,

and The Big Money Players Network, It's Will Farrell Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, My dad gave me the best advice ever I went and had lunch with him one day And I was like, and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot I don't know what that means But I just know the groundlings

I'm working my way up through And I know it's a place that come Look for up and coming talent He said if it was based solely on talent I wouldn't worry about you Which is really sweet Yeah He goes, but there's so much luck involved

And he's like, just give it a shot He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat, just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to thanks dad on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. This week on Get Real Podcasts, I have an incredible female entrepreneur, Tori Gerbig. She literally started selling clothes out of her

house to make some extra money. It grew into millions and millions and millions of dollars. She is the founder and CEO of Pink Lily and she encourages women to claim their power and their confidence and do what you love. She makes her dreams of reality and she is such an encouragement to everyone listening to this that you can make your dreams or reality. This was such an amazing podcast. She has such an extraordinary bandwidth for life and just such an inspired person. And she also is a mom of three. She does it all.

Tune in now and hear Toree Gerbig. I am just so excited to be here with Tori Gerbig, who is the founder, the CEO, just the absolute total machine, incredible woman, wife. mother, entrepreneur, your bandwidth for life is extraordinary. Like, talking to you, I already know I'm like, I'm just, I can't wait to hear what's in your brain because you can do so much and you have done so much. And I know that you encourage others to do these same things that you have done. But there is a special breed of people like yourself who can literally take an idea like you did

of starting a clothing line online and starting it out of your house for like $300 and then turning it into what? Is it $141 million in sales you made last year? I mean, not all people can do A to be like that. So it is incredible to talk to you, Tori. How are you? I'm great. Thank you for having me on here today.

Do you just go? Is that what happens? Do you just get an idea and start? Talk to me about this vision because a lot of people love clothes. a lot of people start little side hustles. Not everyone becomes this massive empire. Yeah, absolutely. So it really wasn't even honestly about clothes as much in the beginning of more of what can I sell online to get out of debt.

My husband and I honestly didn't have a lot of money at the time. We combined, I believe, made $50,000 in government. salary, that's him and I both did it together. And of course, we had a mortgage. We had student loan debt that was higher than that. We had our one-year-old and I was like, we were drowning. And so we started selling things online, eBay, Etsy, you know, just monogram things, monogram scarves, accessories, whatnot. And it really transitioned into clothes whenever I started a Facebook group and it was more accessory focused in the beginning. But also, I just saw a gap that there wasn't anything great that was also affordable that you could get at your local stores. You know,

it was very expensive in the market or very cheap. You know, there wasn't like this mid-level great items that you could get for 30 or 40 bucks in the clothing world. It was like hundreds of dollars name brand stuff or, you know, stuff that's going to fall apart. So whenever I started a Facebook group in 2013, it really quickly transitioned to close because all of the the members in there were like, can you get this? I would love this. I would love tops that helped me feel more confident. I would really love to see more, you know, things that are inspirational for, you know, designer styles, but not really with that price point. So it kind of transitioned into, to offering something for the customers that I had

that helped them feel confident, but also didn't break the bank. Because I feel like Pink Lily is really in a league of its own. The other people that might compare and tell me if I'm totally awkward, would it be like Forever 21? H&M, what's the difference there? Because if I'm going to shop cheap, it would, besides pink, not the pink light's cheap, but like if I'm going to show affordable, I would think what would be the competitors? Would it be like an H&M or Forever 21 or is that just a, is it? The difference with H&M and Forever 21 is the mass production that they do. So you're going to see so many people wear in the same exact item, whereas with us being more of a curated boutique

and, you know, our own ideas for the most part. And then we also limit. how much we bring in and we don't overproduce. Like, you're going to have very, like, you're going to stand out. You're going to wear something and you're not going to, like, worry about going into a party or to a concert and seeing a ton of people wearing the exact same thing. So while the price point might be very similar to the H&M, the Zaras of the world, we're not mass producing the way the level that they are. So you're going to be able to, like, have a unique piece.

Okay. I love that. So kind of talk to me about how this thing grew. You started it and it started in your house and then it grew and grew and then you finally quit your job and you were open to make like $50,000 and you made like a million or something. Yeah. So our first year, we launched January 2014 from our house. I had no idea how to launch a website.

I had just graduated college a couple years prior and like we did a little website, but I was like, I'm not a website person. So my husband did it. It was like $1,500 to get our website going in the back end and filing all that. I pretty much was handling what I was buying to sell, doing the selling, the marketing, and he did all the back end work for it, getting that business license up, all the things that I just didn't really want to do. And so when we launched in January, we were like, you know what, we would love coming off

that Christmas and seeing like kind of what we sold on Etsy and eBay, we would love to set a goal for $50,000 in revenue. If we sell $50,000 in revenue, we could probably pay about $10,000 off of credit card debt and reinvest and grow more into a product assortment. And it's just a side hobby, you know, something that we would just do on the side. And then from there, within the first seven months, we hit a million dollars of revenue.

How does that feel? What does that feel like? Your goal was $50,000 and you hit a million? I mean, what is going on internally when that happens? Yeah, we were actually still at my house, too. Like, we were not even, like, we were packaging orders on our dining room table still at that point when we hit the million dollars in revenue.

So that was crazy. I just left my job in April. Everyone tried to talk us out of it, especially my husband when he left in July. They were like, you cannot just quit your job for this little side hustle that's only six months old. Like most businesses don't make it past three or four years. Like, do not do it.

Don't leave your insurance. Don't leave your benefits. All those things. But you said, no, I don't care. I'm doing this anyway. What is inside of you guys? My parents thought we were crazy. They were like, you had a one-year-old and not,

soon after I ended up pregnant with my daughter and they're like, you cannot do this. But what was guiding you? Like, how did you have the confidence to do that? Like, how did you know, like, you had so much on the line. You had so much at stake. You got a kid. You're pregnant. You have debt.

You are in a job that's paying you. Not great as interns. Like you said they made like $25,000, $35,000 a year, which, I mean, is a lot of work for a little pay. But like, what gave you the confidence to take this leap of faith? because I feel like this is the moment that so many people won't do. And this is the moment that changes the course of your life. Are you going to walk in your calling and alignment with what you know you're capable

and called to do and what you can do or are you going to play it safe? And I feel like so many people hit this spot, but they won't take the leap. And you're even having all these people telling you're crazy, don't do it. All your trusted, most confidant closest people to you're saying, don't do this. how did you know to do that? Like, how did you know that this is what you're supposed to do when you had so much at stake? I think based on, like, where the sales were going, you know, every month it was growing and also knowing myself and how hard of a worker I am and how important it is for me to always do better than before.

I trusted that I wasn't going to let it ever go backwards. And same with my husband. We were very hard workers. We always had, you know, two jobs throughout college to help. support ourselves. And I also knew that if it didn't work out, I have a degree to fall back on, and I do have experience in the marketing and sales world. So I was like, life is too short. We're going to just do it. And it was absolutely terrifying, you know, waking up every single day saying, look, if I don't hit this amount in sales, like, I have no money coming in. So, you know,

it was just, I think that's what drove me the most, though, because I am a very, like, I set goals for myself and I knew that every single day I had a goal to hit and I would exceed those goals and I worked really hard to do it. So it was terrifying that it also ended up being the biggest reward in my life, you know, aside for my family and my marriage, it's, you know, right there behind it with, you know, change the whole trajectory of our life. Thanks for listening to the Sunday sampler. Man, we couldn't do these podcasts without you. It's been a great year. Let's do another one. We got some new episodes coming out even during the break. We have some new shows coming out next year too. So thank you. Check out the Bobbycast. Four things with Amy Brown. Soor losers. Get Real with

Caroline Hobby and Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. Subscribe, right review. I know everybody says that, but it really does help us. We'll see you guys. Bye. A win is a win. A win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok's podcast network on TikTok. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed, I will be his last target. He is new. not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your

girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ego Vodom. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Yeah. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.