The Bobby Bones Show - SUNDAY SAMPLER - The Nashville Podcast Network (12-22-24)

Episode Date: December 22, 2024

In this weekly series, we share highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- In The Vet's Office with Dr. Josie (no episode this week), Take This Personally with Morgan Huelsman, The BobbyCast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers, Movie Mike's Movie Podcast and Get Real with Caroline Hobby.  You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts.  You can find them on Instagram: -The BobbyCast- @BobbyCast -In The Vet's Office with Dr. Josie- @DrJosieVet -Take This Personally- @TakeThisPersonally -4 Things with Amy Brown- @RadioAmy -Sore Losers- @SoreLosersPodcast -Movie Mikes Movie Podcast- @MikeDeestro -Get Real: @GetRealCarolineHobbySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We added two new podcasts in the vet's office with Dr. Josie and take this personally with Morgan Hulsmann. You'll hear a clip from these episodes in just a bit and subscribe to those if you like them. Love them. On the Bobbycast, I sat down with Hunter Girl. Talk about what life was like before she hit it and before American Idol and the origin of her stage name.

Really love to be around her and all the cool stuff she does, even outside of music. But we're going to get started here with In the Vets Office with Dr. Josie. They had Doug the pug on, Doug the OG celebrity dog, millions of Instagram followers. So Dr. Josie talked with his owner Leslie about how famous Doug got, the rise to fame, the DMs he gets. Funny episode. Here we go. In the Vets Office with Dr. Josie.

You're listening to In the Vets Office with Dr. Josie Horchak. How did this all come to be? So I used to actually work a few buildings over on Music Row. I went to Belmont and that's what moved me to Nashville and I had dreams of working in the music industry and doing marketing and PR and like graphic design and branding and stuff for bands. And so I got a job doing that at a small record label artist management company and I got Doug when I was a junior at Belmont. In college. in college. And so I was going to work on Music Row and then I would come home and I had my dream pug who loved getting dressed up and loved doing activities with me around town. And it became this

kind of tradition where I would get home from work and go out around Nashville and take pictures with him. This was in the very beginning of Instagram. I think this was 2013 when I started posting him. And so I just did it for fun on my personal Instagram. I mean, no one even really had, like my friends didn't even really have it. It was mostly Facebook at that time. And I would post him and say, Doug the pug doing that Doug and I, blah, blah, blah. People just wanted to see Doug. So if I posted anything on my personal Instagram that wasn't Doug, people were like, where's Doug? We're like, we don't really care. They just wanted to see Doug. And so I started getting a little more creative and doing, I started getting a little more creative and doing, you know, things that

were on trend, like holiday type things or if a famous artist was coming into Nashville, I would like play off that. And big Instagram pug accounts that had all these followers at the time, when they would take our photos and post them and tag us, they would get so many likes. And it was this rush of like, whoa, like, that's so cool. cool, a photo that I took and a concept that I came up with and the styling and everything. Like, people are resonating with this. They like it. And again, this is very condensed, but I ended up switching my account from me to just Doug and putting more effort and time into it. And he reached 100,000 followers on Instagram, which was insane and huge and amazing at the time. And we had a little party.

And I was just honestly a very fun. hobby. It got me, brought me a lot of joy and it brought other people joy. And I would be lying if I didn't say that at that time, I saw it being something like what it is now. I had this gut feeling to pursue it. And so I actually, when he hit 100,000 followers, I put in my notice to quit my job. Wow. And people thought I was crazy. I kind of lied to most people and said, I'm starting my own graphic design business because I didn't want to be like, so I have this dog that has an Instagram and I think he would make a really cute stuffed animal. But it happened. As soon as I put my notice in for that job, at that 100,000 party, we had a pug balloon left over. And Rob and I were just dating at the time

and he was on tour. And so all by myself, I went to Dragon Park in Hillsborough Village, which was right by my old apartment and I tied the pug balloon to Doug. And again, he doesn't care about anything. So he was all about it. He was running around the park with this pug balloon attached to him. And I sent the footage to Rob and I said, can you put a cute song over this? Can you put like, people let me tell you about my best friend. Like, let's make the pug balloon his best friend. And I posted it to Doug's Facebook, his Instagram, and then I made him a Twitter because I was like, what would a band need? Like if I were to help one of my artists at the label, what would they need? And so I put it on all these things and I had a logo for Doug and I took it

very seriously. But that night, I posted it, did anything of it. I woke up and I looked on Facebook. He had 3,000 likes at the time on Facebook. And the next day he had like 15,000. I'm like, what happened? And I looked at the video and had 20 million views. Wow. And this is the 100K party where he's running around with a pug bullet. Yes. Like right after that party, I took a little video with a leftover balloon. And I was like, whoa, all of a sudden it was real. Okay. You know, and by the end of that week, he had a million likes followers on Facebook. Doug was like, my mom just quit her job. I got to go to work. He was like, let's go. And so it was this crazy feeling of like, I felt very ready for it because I had already kind of set it up for success, but for it to actually happen and for me to have

the free time to do it. So Rob luckily got home from tour right around then, and we just started making videos. I mean, every day we were coming up with like, let's dress dog up as Harry Potter and call him Harry Pugger or, you know, all these popular TV shows, The Locking Dead. I dressed him as a zombie and we were crazy people running around Radner Lake with our dog, dressed as a zombie. dressed as a zombie and like, but we didn't care. It was just this very exhilarating time. And within a few months, we had a book deal. And later that year, we were going on a book tour all over the world.

We went to London. Did he hit his first million followers that year? Oh, yeah. So he, on Facebook, went from 3,000 to a million within like a few weeks. Okay. On Instagram, Instagram's a harder platform to grow. I think it took a little longer, but honestly, Justin Bieber posting, he posted two pictures of Doug.

His label actually hit us up and was like, hey, remember the Justin Bieber era of like, sorry and what do you mean? It was like the best era. Take me back. And he was like on the Calvin Klein ads. They asked Doug to be a part of a countdown for how many days until what do you mean. Okay. And so I took pictures of Doug wearing Calvin Klein's and that's a little sign that said eight days,

what do you mean? And Justin posted two of those photos and tagged Doug. We went up like 100,000 followers in a day. I bet. And it was, it's just still so crazy to even look back on that and to see what it is now. And just it's been the most amazing fun ride. And Doug loves every second of it. One thing that you said that I just feel like sitting here talking with you is I feel like there's Instagram influencers and TikTokers where you're like, okay, this is like their job and you can kind of tell.

Like it just seems so organic and you just enjoy. I mean, obviously he's like your child. So you enjoy doing it. He loves to do it. And like that just really translates, I think. Thank you. On his page. This is why he's so successful.

I really appreciate that. I feel like obviously social media has changed exponentially. We've been doing it full time for almost 10. 10 years. And it's changed so much. And I think every day I have to make the conscious choice and Rob as well to do it because we love it. Right. Because we would have a completely different approach to social media with Doug if we were doing it just for the followers and the clout at this point. And so it's honestly become so much more laid back and we're a lot happier because of it because we're just sharing, like, literally what we want to share.

What you're doing anyways? Yeah, we feel like we have nothing else to prove at this point. Right. And it's just, like, truly for fun and to, like, we still have so many big dreams, obviously. But his happiness and our happiness is, like, most important. Of course. Why one word hunter girl? Why, I know, and I've heard the story, you know, you're the only hunt.

Oh, whatever the version. You were the only hunter in your class, if you was a girl. But as a stage name and one word, like all that came together and you decided on it, when, why? Just because that's what everybody called me growing up. And my last name is Walkenowski. 11 letters, pretty rough. But I feel like that just part of me, especially right now. And like, hey, hunter girl, like, how are you doing?

That's what my pa would call me. And so whenever I come up on stage and have the name that a lot of people, people called me when I was growing up. It kind of always just reminds me of home. That's how I feel when I think of it. Did I don't say anything to you about just going by one name weirdly? Were they like, are you like, are you sure you want to do this? Uh, like, I think somebody had like mentioned it. They're like, do you want to do Hunter, Walkenowski? And I was like, I think I want to be, I think I'm going to be Hunter Girl. One word. And they're like, that's cool. People will remember it. Awesome. They were like, just go for it. People do remember it. I remember going, oh, this girl's

got one name. I don't even know what it was about. I was like, this is cool. Like, that's how I was, but again, I was checking out the show out of interest, but you never know who they're going to keep on that show. I watch them edit people and like keep people in, but only to cut them out later, but they'd already been eliminated, like, for drama. So Hunter, though, is your name. I remember, I'd know the answer,

but I remember asking you this in the same way, like, what do I call you? Your friends call you. My friends call me Hunter. Like my Paul will still, he still calls me Hunter Girl, just because that's what he always did. But my friends call me Hunter.

and but on stage it's like I kind of get to separate myself a little bit. It's like the like Hunter going home and in her PJs, but whenever I'm on stage I get to be Hunter Girl. What I would like for you to go back and talk about just for a second, when you talk about writing with veterans, which is how you and I ended up together that night. We were doing some veteran stuff at the Opry together. Yeah, explain like what that is.

So I started writing with veterans when I was about 17. Why? Why would you write? with veterans. My grandpa was in the service and six of my great uncles and I just got involved and I was just volunteering and singing songs for the people that were writing the songs with the veterans and so it's always been something like meant a lot to me and just seeing how much it like it affected my family too. And basically what we do is we get in a room with a veteran and we write their story about whatever they want to talk about, whether it's like something in the service or

somebody they miss or anything and it's kind of therapeutic in a way for them to get to tell their story and honestly like whenever i've been in that room it's like you know i'm lucky enough to write a song every day but this is their first time that they get to feel that whatever like it just makes me remember just how like how good songwriting is for the soul and i've written with gold star kids and gold star families and so i've been doing that consistently since i was about 17 and still do it i'm i had one a few weeks ago really yeah yeah This is Julian Edelman, host of games with names. On our latest episode, we got comedian, Blake Anderson from Workaholics and The Hilarious.

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I am sitting on my bed next to my dog with my computer. I've been looking at emails. Tomorrow is my mom's birthday. Or it would be her birthday if she was still alive. But I think I just got a little emotional as I I was prepping for the episode because I thought, well, in honor of her birthday, maybe I should share one of my favorite things that she would make, which was cherry berries on a cloud. And it's not a recipe she came up with. It's just something that she was known for making.

Like she was really good at making it. People would request it. I would request it. Her friends for showers or any type of event or gathering. People would be like, Judy, can you bring cherry berry on a cloud. And she would and it's so good. And I just went into my email and I searched, you know, Judy Cherryberry and things popped up. And it just took me down memory lane because there was this email that my sister had sent out. Because Ben and I were married for years and years in years. Let me think here. Almost 17. We lived in Austin some. We lived in North Carolina. and then we were back in Austin, and then we've been in Nashville the last almost 12 years. So when we were in North Carolina, because Ben was in the Air Force, I guess we were going back to

Austin for a visit. And my sister sent out this mass email to everybody. And it was like, the Browns are back in town. And she is the queen of hospitality. And she was inviting everybody over and saying, hey, bring whatever you can or just bring yourself. It doesn't matter. Judy's going to make Cherryberries on a cloud. We're going to grill out and everyone's going to have a good time. And I was looking at everybody on the email. And even my sister's husband and then Ben and I aren't married anymore, but we're still close and our families are close. But all of those relationships came from my mom and her friendships that she made. And I was just thinking how special it was that we would all gather together. And I'm getting emotional because I miss that. I really do. But I'm about to be with my sister and

her family for Christmas. And I know we're going to be gathering around the table. We're going to be cooking and hanging out. And it's going to have that same vibe. It's just not exactly how I saw it. although Ben will be in Colorado at the same time, ish, we kind of overlap. So the kids will be with me some and then they'll go be with him. And I wonder if we'll all get together. I could see him coming over because he's friends with them. And I have gratitude right now for that. I have gratitude for these memories of gathering and keeping it simple,

just inviting people over. And my sister's like, don't worry about anything. bring your kids everyone will pitch in and help i've got cribs if you've got babies and they just were all about hosting and community like when we were living in austin i just remember that so much my mom cooking my dad cooking my sister cooking and it looks a little different now that my mom and my dad are gone and ben and i are divorced my sister is still really really really good at that and inviting people over and having extra chairs for people to pull up around the table. And I guess my point here really is.

I'm going to link the, or copy and paste the cherry berries on a cloud recipe and the show notes. Because if you have to go anywhere this holiday season, take this. It will be a hit. It is so good. And if you ever just have some time

and you want to reminisce, type in keywords into your email. I mean, I was going all the way back to, I think it was 2010 or 2011 that I saw that email that my sister sent out to everybody. And I copied and pasted that and I sent it over to my sister so that she could reminisce. But then I had to go find the actual recipe. So then I had to Google or search inside my Gmail, my mom's name and the cherry berry recipe and it popped up so I copied that and I'm going to drop it in the show notes but then I started

looking at emails from my mom and that's probably what got me emotional alongside the fact that it's her birthday tomorrow and she's not here but I had sent her this email of this little garden I was growing because I wanted to make fresh salsa and I took a video and I emailed it to her and she said she said back let me tell you what she said here cute she goes what's really in that planter i said cayenne tomato and cilantro you don't believe me and she said amy tomatoes get huge are you starting your garden with seeds you don't have to you can buy tomato plants and that will be much faster and i said mom i started with seeds i will transplant them to separate pots when they get three inches tall it's a salsa garden did you watch my video, I'm not scared I'm being patient. When it's time, I'll get to make salsa for Ben,

smiley face. I said my first sprouts came in today. I just noticed about 20 minutes ago and I got so excited. And I don't even know that version of me that decided to make a little salsa garden from seeds. We're going to 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. Y'all, it's Sisson. I'm from the north. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashville with Beezer, my wife. We do have a farm. It's beautiful. A lot of acreage. No animals. A lot of crops, hopefully soon. Corn, pumpkins. Rye, I believe. Maybe a little fescue. To be determined. Over to you, coach. And here's a clip from this week's episode of The Soar Losers. Right, tell me, how'd that Christmas party go, man?

You missed out, I told you, it was networking. I know. I was going to go. Then the wife informed me we had Christmas caroling with the neighborhood, and we were getting together with other families, and we were going to go Christmas caroling. Sometimes you realize, hey, I just got to network. For the good of the sore losers, and I realized that.

Bayser even said before I went, I can't believe you're going to this. Because it was an hour and a half drive from where I live. Yeah, it's at a higher-ups house, which is weird. It's not easy to get to. And they do it at 5 o'clock. And I don't know if they understand what 5 o'clock means. It means grid lock traffic. So if you want to get there right at 5 o'clock, you've got to leave at 3 o'clock.

If you leave any later than three, it's going to take you an hour and a half. Proceed. And I get there, and when I say networking, it was me, the two big bosses, and Robin from MediaBase. Robin still works here? Yeah. She looks great, too. Excuse me? Mm-hmm.

I had no idea. Stuff she does outside of here that you just don't see her doing, I guess. She deals with songs, artists, media base, ratings. rankings, rankings, songs climbing charts, getting credit for playing live performances,

etc. I mean, that means she works from home because I mean she has not been around in eight years. Correct, FTW. That's awesome.

From the home. FTH, from the home. Okay. And that's it, dude, it's us at an Indian circle having a powwow. That is how you

promote the sore losers. And I mean, it's just, when it's just you and the brass in the kitchen, dude, you have no choice.

So literally, it was just four people? Yes. For how long? Because I got there so early. It was my fault. It was nothing on the party. It was a... What times you get there?

Right at five. And it's one of those where they were on the couches. And so I didn't really want to... I just pulled up a chair, dude. You didn't want to sit on the couch in between two of them? I just pulled up a chair, dude. Hey, if we're going to network, let's network, baby. I told Bezor before I left the country, I said,

going to network. I act kind of like I was going to war. I was like, I'll be back. After my tour, I'll see in a couple hours. But yeah, that was the start of it. Then we're in the kitchen, dude. And what caught me off surprise, or I didn't even mention, the parking situation. So because it's a city and it's a very, very expensive place to live,

they don't have the biggest driveways. Yeah, and the driveway is right on a busy road. Truck ain't fitting in that driveway, so you park in the neighborhood over. For not a quarter, eight. eighth of a mile. For half of a football field, you're literally walking on the road. Yeah. And bro. And there's no streetlights.

I'm running on the road because I didn't want to walk in the grass. Well, then a car starts coming. So I go into the grass, and it looks like other cars have gone into the grass as well, and it might be muddy. So there were probably mud on my shoes. I walk into the party, and there's nothing but white carpet. So what do you think I did? Because it'd been raining. Yeah.

Took your shoes off. So I look at the party host. The brass, they all had their shoes on. I just couldn't risk walking on that carpet and making shoe prints when I'm trying to network for the sore losers and I'm just dirtying up the place. I took off my shoes. Why was that a mistake? Bro, every time I tried to network and conversate with somebody, I was a foot shorter than everybody because everybody wore their shoes except for me. That leads me to my next story.

Dude comes walking in. Looks like he's from Chicago, New York. Got a scarf. Big time city. Everybody was dressed up and looked good. But did he have a scarf? No, he had just long black jacket? Buttoning up. Good shoes, good jeans. What's it look like? What is his hair? Slick back? He looked like Falcon. Oh. And, but you knew he was important. And I had already, dude, I'd talk to every brass there.

There was no more brass left. So he's a baldy, huh? I didn't even talk to Abby. I don't even know who the baldy, I don't know who this guy is. There's people, this company don't even know. There was a Brunit check. I go, Morgan, who's at? Oh, she works for Premier. No, I don't know. Never seen her. Who is that blonde? How do you even know her? And why are you guys so friendly? Oh, she's great. She was at the last Christmas party.

I don't know. I've literally never seen her. And we work in the same building. Got it. And so then this dude comes in. He looks important. I've talked to everybody. Abby, I see every damn day I'm not talking to you.

So what did you talk about with the brass? When you're sitting in that little circle, the powwow. Did you do your high, low for the day, or your rose or your thorn? No, I was trying to think that's what it was. It was, she's from Kentucky, and she goes, Oh, yeah. I hope the Vols win on Saturday. because the one lady, not to get too much in the weeds,

the one lady just got a divorce. And her husband, ex-husband, was a huge fan of the Vols. And so I was being funny and I was like, hey, screw the Vols, let's root against the Vols this Saturday, being on her side. Just being funny, I'm a Vals fan. And then the Brass jumps in and goes, yeah,

actually, I want the Valls, let's go, we want Tennessee. And I go, aren't you from Kentucky? And then she goes, I just go for the pregame, but she goes, I'm more. of a basketball girl and she said, I love the pre-games. And then we talked about Rupp. And I said, I was at Rup and oh, the mystique, the aura of Rup. And I was like, have you ever been there? She goes, honey, I ever been there? I've been there a hundred times. And I said, I want to go for a

game. You know what? Maybe you and me go for a game sometime. That's called networking, baby. Honey, that's called networking. So that was just one of the things we talked about. When you said, Me and you should go to a game time. What did she say? It was all just laugh and joke. It was a Christmas party. Am I and the brass going to go drive to Kentucky and go to Rupp Arena sometime? Maybe. But anyways. I've heard Rupp's old and it needs improvements. Dude, it looked good.

But I moved to the kitchen and here comes another brass. There's so many brass around, dude. Hey, which one got divorced? Oh. Oh! But I knew that already. Oh! But it would have been bad if I got caught off guard and I didn't get a heads up about that.

Yeah, that'd have been bad. So then the dude walks in. and I go right up. I'm not, I chill in the glass room with Abby. I'm not trying to be like, hey, Abby, how's it going? I've talked to Abby about everything. I'm good. So she lit, Abby's like calling me over.

I'm like, ha, hi, totally dissed her. Abby, I see you every day at work. I'm going to network with this dude. I go, hey, how's it going? He goes, hey, are you, Ray? Yeah. How are you? What's your name?

He goes, Bob. And he goes, you were sore losers, right? What? Dude, I just about fell out. Not only did he know my name. He knew about sore losers. Tell me more, Bob. So Bob runs everything.

The volume, Colin Cowher, Dan Patrick. If they go somewhere to Fountain Blue, he runs it. If they're at the pool, he runs it. He's all over the country. They'll go do events, 600 people pop up, boom. He goes, sometimes the crowds are wild for Stephen A. Smith. He runs it. Dremont Green runs it.

The volume has Jeff Teague and some other NBA guys. That Jeff Teague guy, he's pretty funny. Runs it. He's always there. advice, ads, marketing. Who was the other show? He said, Dremont, getting on a mic right after he gets a technical. It's amazing. He said that show's, that volume blowing up.

He goes, you guys are blowing up. Great talk with him. What all did he say? Everything. He was just talking, and I said, I used to listen to Colin Cowher. That must be so cool. It sounded more with the sports shows. I was trying to think of the one other one that is huge.

Oh, Ocho Cinco is on a show with, you guys are yelling at your trucks right now. Ocho Cinco has a show with Shannon Sharp. Yeah, I think you're right. That one. And he said, blowing up. Dude, the fact sore losers was mentioned in the same sentence as Ocho Cinco, Draymond Green,

Shannon Sharp, Colin Cowherd, and Dan Patrick. Blowing up! What else did Bob say about? SOR losers? Not much. But the fact that he knew the show and then put us in the category of sports and he said,

blowing up! This is Julian Edelman, host of games with names. On our latest episode, we got comedian, Blake Anderson from Workaholics and The Hilarious This Is Important Podcast. Let's go. We did beat them in improv. You had an improv against the team?

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a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation. There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes. Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're watching the latest season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, you already know there's a lot to break down. Georgia accusing Kelly of sleeping with a merry man.

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On a recent episode of the podcast, Money and Wealth with John Hobriant, I sit down with Tiffany the budgetista Aliche to talk about what it really takes to take control of your money. What would that look like in our families if everyone was able to pass on wealth to the people when they're no longer here? We break down budgeting, financial discipline, and how to build real wealth, starting with the mindset shifts too many of us were never, ever taught. Financial education is not always about, like, I'm going to get rich. That's great.

It's about creating an atmosphere for you to be able to take care of yourself and leave a strong financial legacy for your family. If you've ever felt you didn't get the memo on money, this conversation is for you to hear more. Listen to Money and Wealth with John O'Brien from the Black Effect Network on the I'd Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever. You get your podcast. Are you ready, Hillary?

I'm excited. I'm excited to get a talk with you on a microphone. Not that I haven't talked to you in a long time, but this is our first official talk on a microphone since you left the show. Yeah, it's been almost three years. I was thinking about that today. I was like, this is the first one I've been behind a microphone in almost three years. And the last time I was was probably the last best bits.

But you had mentioned how Tyler is your first boyfriend. And now, like, potentially going to be your fiancé. But what's that been like for you, he's your first boyfriend and you weren't dating before that. Is there like any part of you that thinks about that and that kind of situation? Yes. I was, yes, I have thought about it. First of all, when I was never, you know, part of the reason that happened dated was I feel

like if I liked a guy, they wouldn't like me back. So it wasn't like a choice. Part of it was, but part of it wasn't. It was just people just didn't like me. So I always saw something was wrong with me. Okay, I liked you. Well, you know what I mean. There were, I'm 99.9% sure, even though I have only known you my adult life, that there

were people that liked you. You just probably didn't feel that back. So they never pursued it. Or they didn't tell me. Yeah, that's possible too. Yeah. You're beautiful. So I can guarantee that there are people that liked you.

Yeah. Maybe. They just didn't tell me. Okay. So maybe there have been missed opportunities, which is fine. because I'm happy where I'm at. Yeah. But yeah, no, I've always felt like, okay, something's wrong with me.

If I'm not, nobody likes me. Nobody wants to be in a relationship with me. Something's wrong with me. And I'd have strangers on the internet tell me something's wrong with me too. So that didn't help. True. Yeah, they definitely let me know. They're like, something's wrong with you.

Like, are you, you know, normal? I was like, no, I'm fine. You're perfectly normal. Yeah, I'm just not finding someone. Your timeline was just different. My timeline was different. And it was definitely worth the weight of waiting for waiting to find him. Like he is, like you said, just a gem of a human.

Yeah. He's precious. Well, do you feel like, do you still have those feelings now or did once you met him, did that all kind of quiet itself? It did. It quieted itself. I mean, I, you know me. I struggle with self-confidence issues and things like that.

So that stuff has remained. but the whole, it was like, it was different. It was, I do feel like I'm worthy enough and, you know, good enough for someone. And so I feel very secure in that. But within myself, I definitely still have, you know, the doubts and self-confidence issues, all those things. You want to talk about that a little bit? Because mental health is part of this podcast. Yes.

And we talk about those things a lot. So where do you feel like you're at kind of right now? in your life with your, I guess you can say self-loved journey. Do you feel like you're on a better path? Or do you feel like you're kind of stagnant? Where are you right now? I feel like I'm in a good place now. I think a couple years ago I'd had a not,

I was not in the best place, which was right around the time. It was right before I started dating Tyler. But I'll never forget, we were at a dinner. I know you're going to remember what it was. It was a Valentine's Day dinner. And at the point at that time, I was still single. And I just turned 30. And I just was having so many self-doubt issues.

And I've dealt with that my entire life. Like honestly, ever since I was in elementary school, I've dealt with self-confidence issues. And didn't know it at the time. As I've gotten older, I've learned a lot about anxiety and things like that. And I know that's, you know, what I was dealing with. But yeah, a couple years ago, I remember I was just in not a great place. I didn't like myself.

I've always struggled with weight and, you know, how I view myself. My body issue. Yeah, body image issues. It's a great way to put that. So at that time, I was really dealing with a lot of those issues. And I've definitely always struggled with body image issues. And that's always probably been one of my main things that I've struggled when it comes to myself in self-confidence issues.

And yeah, a couple years ago, I just, I was dealing with, with those things. And I feel like I can talk about, like, I feel like it's kind of probably like trigger warning type of stuff for some people. But I definitely do feel like I had like eating disorder type stuff. I mean, I would, there were times that I would make myself throw up or I wouldn't eat, like I would starve myself. And I kind of had dealt with that a little bit in, you know, my early 20s. And I was doing fine. And then for some reason, a couple years ago, I just was having some issues and just not loving myself. I was turning 30 and I was not at all where I thought I would be in my life. And I think that had a lot to do with it.

It was turning 30 and realizing I'm not married. I don't own a house. They don't have kids. I'm not at all where I thought I would be in life. And I was also making career changes. So everything all at once. Everything was changing at once. And I was not feeling good about myself.

And so a couple years ago, yeah, I just was not in, I was in a very dark place and just not feeling good about myself. And we were out that dinner. And I don't remember what was said. Something said. And I just started bawling my eyes out at the dinner. And we got up and went into your Jeep. And you and Jody were there. And y'all said, we're not leaving until you tell us what's going on.

And I remember, I was just crying so hard. I couldn't barely speak. and I was just so embarrassed because I'd never, I do need to say, I'd never really admitted to anybody that I did all of that stuff and, because I was embarrassed. And nobody knew that that had ever happened that I was doing, you know, making myself sick, not eating, things like that. Nobody knew. And I finally was able to open up to y'all about that.

And I will never forget that night of just sitting there for, I don't even know how long, just crying and just, I don't think many words were said. It was just y'all being there and being able to cry to y'all and admit this is what's going on in my life. And I'm, I have these bad habits again. Like I had them before and I got past it. But it's happening again. And I feel alone and I feel stuck and I feel like, what do I do? So I remember being able to talk to y'all about that that night.

Hey, it's Mike D. And this week on Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, I shared my. top 10 underrated movies of the year. And these are a lot of movies that aren't sequels, aren't remakes, aren't superhero movies. So if you're somebody who says, man, everything's a remake these days, I have 10 movies that maybe you missed in theaters. I think they are underappreciated. More people should have seen these. They should have performed better at the box office because I think they're all good movies that you can watch at home now. So here's what I had as my number one pick, but be sure to go check out this full episode to hear the entire list.

Right now, here's just a little bit of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. At number one, my most underrated movie of 2024. I have my old ass. So good. Which I gave a four out of five. It has a pretty decent audience score. Like, great. 89%.

But I think this one comes down to the box office, had a budget of $3 million, which is wild that they made this movie for $3 million. But it only made $5 million. That's $2 million net, though. It's better than being in the red. I just think that it is, hard to make a fresh coming of age movie at this point.

And I love the formula. I could watch the same coming of age formula in any amount of movies, and I would still enjoy. There's just something special about it when done right. And this one, the twist was that she takes some mushrooms. She sees her older self, which is Aubrey Plaza. She tells her all this stuff about her future and kind of gives her advice on what to avoid. And then puts her phone number in her phone, and she's able to convince her. communicate with her. My only thing was, I wanted more Aubrey Plaza.

It was cool to see Aubrey Plaza and more like, I mean, she was still her like dry comedic self, but a little bit more of an emotional role. There was a scene in this movie where I damn near cried. Yeah, I think you did. Like, I think it was, there was a span of movies there. I think this one and the wild robot we watched back to back, I believe, and both times the movies, like, I almost cry. I look over and I'm just like, and I did not expect to go there because there's just the moment where it's like, oh, man, all this stuff that have been building up and building up. Yeah. There's a lot of fights between her younger self and her older self, which I would question things that I would be telling my younger self.

And there's a moment that just hits you right in the gut. And then it just like, oh, man, I just kind of sat with it. What's the number one thing that you would tell your younger self sitting here now is a 33-year-old. I always have to remember how old you are. It's very difficult for me. I don't know how cliche this is, but like stop carrying what people think. I think that kept me from doing a lot of things that I enjoyed younger because I was worried about how they would be perceived by other people. And at that time, I didn't realize that those other people would not matter when I was older.

Like, look at this room now. Like, all these things that I embraced now were things that I hid back then. And I think all the things about me now that I enjoy actually about myself, I was ashamed of probably 15 years ago. and I it's hard to say to imagine me like being cool but I had a feeling of like I need to be cool because I was so uncool that I didn't want to come across of like putting anything against me because there was already a lot of things held against me I felt like like I was overweight I had bad skin my teeth are messed up there were just things I felt that kept me from being cool and I was like I just can't show any other weakness I think that would be it for me

I would just not care about what anybody else thought and just like the things I like Like, what would you tell yourself? Mine's also cliche. And mine would be to like stop worrying about the boys that didn't like me. Like I just was like no one's ever going to like me. I'm going to be single forever. I felt that too. And I was so young, but I think, I think when you're in high school and it's like you have those couples and like ever, I never had a boyfriend.

You were my first boyfriend. Sam, you went on. first girlfriend. Dates. Like, I liked people. I talked to people. But, like, no one ever really fully liked me. And I just used to think, like, I'm ugly.

No one's going to like me. And honestly, in retrospect, I think I was just, like, too smart. I think I intimidated people, like, not to toot my own horn, but I think I just was, like, unapproachable because I was really smart. I've oddly been thinking about this lately is I always felt that it was people not giving me a chance. And when I look back on myself there, I think I just didn't respect. myself enough. Like, I didn't put enough effort into myself to attract anybody. I thought it was all about looks, but I think it was how I treated myself and probably the energy I put out. That was really

what it was. And I just thought it was, like I said, just people not give me a chance, but I thought about like, what I even want to be with me then? So maybe that's the advice I would give to myself, like, hey, working yourself a little more dummy. Yeah, I think I would tell myself to stop stressing because I met you when I was 24. That's, that is still so young when, and, and, retrospect, I met you when I was 24. I was married to 27. I don't know. I think I just was like, oh my God, I'm going to be alone forever. But like those things feel so big when you're younger. Yeah. They feel so monumental. When you're younger, you want to get older. When you're older, you want to be younger. I think if I was more specific about my advice, I think it would be that

you're on your own timeline. Yeah. Like nobody else is really looking at your timeline, even though to you feels like, I'm so behind. How am I not at this point of my life yet? When really nobody else cares about what's going on with you. And in the end, it doesn't really matter, like, what age you are when you hit these supposed milestones that you're supposed to hit. I think I would also, I would warn myself not to like several of the guys that I liked. I think I would be like, don't waste your time. Don't. Just don't. Just delete his number. Even more specific advice, I would have told myself to like to get into coding more to like pay technology more.

I would have told myself to purchase real estate at the age of like five. I would have invested in like TikTok or something. I would have invested in Bitcoin. Exactly. I'd have bought it when it was so cheap. It would be millionaires now. Millionaires, I tell you.

I would have bought stock in Apple. Would it have been as value? I guess back then. I feel like the time would have to buy it would have been like the 80s whenever they were first launching. It was like dirty. I don't know if they were public by that point. It's not according to what. one of the characters in the Nicholas Sparks book did.

But all right, that is the list. It was not someone who grew up watching One Tree Hill. And now I feel like I need to go back and binge that because after like reading your book and then deep diving you and then I deep dived One Tree Hill. And that show is like that's like an amazing. That show like shaped our generation. Like I'm 41 and I feel like I don't know how I missed watching it. Probably because I didn't watch a whole bunch of TV growing up.

But that was like. I know, I know, right? That was like the show that shaped our, like, our minds, I feel like. I feel like that and Friday Night Lights. It's like one tree. Yeah. Lights. We're the one.

That was a big one, too. Yeah, the others felt like they were, as much as we love Gossip Girl in the OC. They were very. They lived in that Beverly Hills 902 and O zone of, it's such a rare population of America who, live like that, but the kids that live like us kids in one tree hill and the kids that lived like the Friday Night Like kids are vastly more. Sorry, my sentences aren't working today. They'll come together eventually. But there's so many more of the population that that lives like that and things like that and experiences life just in a small town like that. So I feel like we really

kind of cornered the market on just reflecting. back to teens in America what what their life was and they felt seen and you should go back and watch it. You definitely should. It would be fun. I need to binge it. I love a good show. I have a five-year-old daughter and all I watch is like Disney and now she's into watching YouTube kids and all these families just make their own YouTube videos and I'm like, oh my God. I literally, it's torture to watch it. But it's I need to watch like real, real content. And that's shows were great you know that's when the storylines were good they lasted a long time it's just yeah and what a life you've lived bethany okay so now that i'm like diving into your book i literally

you're such a good storyteller first off because thank you i am so in the story with you when i am reading this i feel like i feel like i'm like in your actual brain walking Like, it's just, it makes so much sense. Like, it's, you always wonder, I'm from Waco, Texas, and we had David Cresh and the Branch Divideons. We actually, oh boy, yes, that's right. Of course you did. We had a cult in our town.

And there's been like lots of other little pop-up cults that lots of families join and they're integrated into the city, but it's definitely always been like cult. So there's a lot of culty vibes in Waco. So I've always grown up with- Interesting. Yeah, I've always grown up with a big understanding of cults, but I always wondered, how does this happen? Like, how does...

That's so unusual, but maybe it's not unusual. I haven't, I'm not a researcher, but it seems strange to me that in a town like Waco where it's known for being the center of this massive cult event, that others would pop up, so many others would still pop up in that region that like people didn't quite learn. And the lesson, I guess. That is wild. It is wild. And there's some other, I don't know if they're called cults. What do you call them a focus group or like a, what is the other word you use for, that's not cult, but it's like a control group. Yeah, high demand.

High demand group. Yeah, which that is what a cult is. It's the definitions are interchangeable. high demand group think i love the group think because i actually was talking to my friend we're in georgia and i'm we're saying with some friends and we were talking about just faith and how people can have all sorts of rules with it like so i have some friends right now who i consider really great friends who are like not practicing yoga because they feel like that is sacrilegious then I'm like and you can probably find all of these spiritual practices to back it.

But at the same time, like, I personally have had so many spiritual experiences that I have it had myself that it's like, I know I have to trust my own intuition and not other people's advice. What might be good for someone or what might someone might feel like is their path. That does not mean it as my spiritual path. And I love that I feel like that's sort of the point that I'm getting from your book is yes, someone can have a spiritual idea and that can truly be their road. But like, if it does not align with you and if it is not your internal guidance system, like really you need to examine that and really take note of why are you doing something just because someone is telling you to do them

if you don't really know why, right? Yeah, it's huge. We do so much in our life and we don't ask why? Why do I do this? I am very neurodivergent. My tendency is to examine things. And so I appreciate that not everyone's brain works the same way that mine does. It's taken me a while to get to that point. I used to be so frustrated that people seem to think I was overthinking things all the time and people thought I was, you know, pushing too many buttons. And I was like, oh, that's because that the neurotypical brain, most people's brains aren't endlessly curious about the why. And so I try and leave space for that. Just everybody's brain works differently, you know, but for me, I just, I don't know how you can go through life, not asking yourself, why, why, why?

because even when I was in this group, it's the why that got me in, but it's also the why that got me out. Like, it's just the most important question I think you can ask yourself with everything. Why do I eat this? Why am I, I'm getting married? Why do I walk down an aisle? Why do I need to keep my room clean? Why do I need to walk my dogs? Why do I pray?

Why? And follow it all the way. down. And I think, I mean, some roads just keep on going. I don't, I don't know that we'll ever arrive at the answer, but you certainly can arrive at like new layers of understanding of yourself and other people. Sorry, I didn't mean to go on a tangent. But yes, you're right that one of the main points of the book is nobody else can live your life for you. You have to move with the God of your understanding at the pace that you're at. And you also can't condemn or judge other people for the pace that they're at and where they are.

You didn't grow up as them. You don't know their life. And you don't know how God is speaking to them or planning to speak to them. You just don't know. This is Julian Edelman, host of Games with Names. On our latest episode, we got comedian, Blake Anderson from Workaholics and The Hilarious.

This is Important Podcast. Let's go. We did beat them in improv. You had an improv against the team? Yes. We would pull up their schools, would be there with signs for, us is competition. What you would win is a bottle of gold shlogger. James Fester threw it out of a van

because he didn't want us drinking in. For more games with names, visit the IHeartRadial app or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of IHard Media, and I'm kicking off a brand new season of my podcast, Math and Magic, stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. Math and Magic takes you behind the scenes of the biggest businesses and industries while sharing insights from the smartest minds in marketing. Coming up this seasonal math and magic, CEO of Liquid Death Mike Cesario. People think that creative ideas are like these light bulb moments that happen when you're in the shower. It's really like a stone sculpture.

You're constantly just chipping away and refining. Take to Interactive CEO, Strauss Selnick, and our own chief business officer, Lisa Coffey. Listen to Math and Magic on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. On paper, the three hosts of the Nick Dick and Poll show are geniuses. We can explain how AI works, data centers, but there are certain things that we don't necessarily understand. Better version of Play Stupid Games, win Stupid Prizes. Yes. Which, by the way, wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time.

I actually thought it was. I got that wrong. But hey, no one's perfect. We're pretty close, though. Listen to the Nick, Dick, and Paul show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and hosts of the podcast, a slight change of plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change.

We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes. You can have opinions, you can have like a strong stance, and then there's your body. having its own program. Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, folks, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes here. And we know there is a lot of news coming at you these days from the war with Iran to the ongoing Epstein fallout, government shutdowns, high-profile trials, and what the hell is that Blake lively thing about anyway? We are on it every day, all day. Follow us, Amy and T.

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