The Bobby Bones Show - SUNDAY SAMPLER - The Nashville Podcast Network (2-9-25)

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

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, 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.

Hey, it's Amy, and we are back with another Sunday sampler. It's clips from some of the podcasts that came out this week on the Nashville podcast network. On the Bobby cast, Bobby sat down with comedic legend Tom Green. Tom talks about how he pushed the envelope when he hosted Saturday Night Live. He talks about the bum bum song, his new documentary that's out about his life, and so much more. On my podcast, Four Things with Amy Brown. I sit down with my dermatologist and we talk about skincare myths. The truth. behind beauty sleep and how often we should be showering and even washing our hair. Also, whether stress can cause hair loss like for real, for real, and collagen supplements. Are they any good? This week's episode of In the Vets Office is all about cats. Dr. Josie is joined by one of her former vet school classmates and friend Dr. Bean, and they're answering all kinds of things like, should I be worried about hair balls? Why is my cat peeing outside of its litter box? And what does making biscuits really mean? So we're going to get. started with that one. Here's a clip from this week's In the Vets Office with Dr. Josie.

You're listening to In the Vets Office with Dr. Josie Horchak. I have a lot of clients that say, okay, I can't get my cat to stop jumping on my counters. What do I do? So I mean, my cat does not jump on the counters. She's perfect. So I think it's, you know, it's a training issue. I think you'll try to obviously discourage it when they are jumping up. The kind of couple tricks that I'll recommend to people. Cats in general are very tactile. They base a lot of their decisions on how things feel. So putting like double-sided tape on a countertop or like aluminum foil. Sometimes saran wrap also works. They hate how that feels. So they'll usually jump on and immediately jump off. And so the hope is that they just learn that they just don't jump up there

because it feels weird for them. And it's like dogs where you start, if you start them young as a kitten, hopefully they don't develop that bad habit. With all behaviors, cats and dogs start a young, trim their nails young if you can. Yeah, get any sort of behavior issues kind of sorted as early as possible is going to be your best way to get it sorted. Yeah, I mean, I do get it. I think, you know, your cats are going into their litter boxes or peeing and pooping. And then if they're like walking across your kitchen counter, it's probably not the best thing in the world. So that is fair. Zalda doesn't jump on your kitchen counter at all. No. Wow. You were a strict cat, daddy. I mean, I would say I'm not, I,

I'm not tempted by their tricks. You know, cats and dogs, I see them begging for food. I see them asking for extra things. You have to be stronger. You have to be stronger. Totally. I think having some structure is a really good thing. Sets you up for success.

What do you think about keeping cats on flea, tick, and heartworm prevention all year round, especially my clients will say, my cat doesn't go outside. They're indoors only. Do I really need to do that? This is a tough one. Don't lie to us. I know. I'm going to be very honest.

I think, you know, if you go to your vet, your vet is probably going to recommend this. Is my cat on flea and tick? She is not. I kind of explain this to people, hey, it's all about how you manage risk and how comfortable you are with risk. Can I say that it's impossible? Your cat will get fleas if they're indoor only. It's not impossible. I've definitely seen cats get fleas when they're indoor only.

Is it likely? Probably not likely. So if you are a person that you want no risk, you want to make sure you're covered, then I would definitely stay on flea and tick. If you're somebody that's like, you know, a little ambiguity is fine. I can manage it if it comes along, then you may not have to put them on flea and tick. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. Also, too, like depending on where you live, like Bean is in downtown Chicago and a high rise.

It gets very, very cold there in the winter. I feel like you don't see as many fleas like down here in the south and Nashville. we see so many fleas. And I think if you have, like, cats and you have dogs in the house or other pets, you know, if they're going outside at all, then having them on prevention makes a lot of sense. But, yeah, if you're in, like, New York City or Chicago and you're living on the 20th floor, the risk of them not being on prevention is pretty low. Yeah.

Pros and cons with each side. I think if they have, like, a skin disease, I'll always recommend being on flea prevention, at least for a month or two, just in case cats. A lot of times you will not see fleas on a cat. They groom themselves so, so well. And so I've had cases where we work them up for allergies or other causes for itching and scratching. And you do special diets, you do medications, you spend it send them to a specialist. And it was just a flea a little bit along.

And it's like just put them on flea prevention initially to see if it works. Because that's such an easy fix for kind of what I would call a stupid problem. Yeah. And can save people a lot of time and money. It's funny how you say that like dogs will see them come in with fleas. and it's so obvious. They're crawling in fleas. And then a cat comes in and they are so meticulous.

They've like plucked each tiny little flea off. And so you don't always know. Oh, no. And usually you never know. Usually you don't see them. That's why I think always if we're having a skin problem, start of flea prevention is always a smart idea. Yeah.

It's like 20 bucks and maybe 30 bucks now and covers your bases and can definitely save you a lot of time and money if that's what it is. Okay, what do you think about my favorite thing in the entire world, which is when cats make biscuits. This is everyone's favorite thing. I love when they're in the bakery. No, she, uh, now, it's, it warms your heart when a cat decides for the first time that they want to make biscuits on you.

It's like they have decided they love you. They care about you. And that's why I like cats more than dogs. I feel like a dog. Most dogs. You give a treat. They love you forever. A cat, you really have to work for them to love you.

And when they love you back, it is like nothing else. It's like you won the lottery. You've been chosen. Yeah, you have been chosen. And so when they make biscuits, you know, I think there's a couple theories out there. I think some one time I read that as kittens, they do it to like stimulate milk production in their mom. So they just, you know, maybe they feel like you're a parental figure. They love you.

They're comfortable. They want to kind of get a nice comfortable spot going because I feel like sometimes my cat can make biscuits for like 20, 30 minutes. Really? And I'm like, and I say, we get enough biscuits. We have too many biscuits. Now we made too many. Who's going to eat all these biscuits? Exactly.

That is crazy. 20, 30 minutes. I didn't know that. Oh, she can go. I've seen cats can go for a long time. Wow, just working away in the bakery. Just making biscuits. Oh, there's nothing cuter.

Oh, I love it. I need you to send me a picture of Zalda making biscuits. I have videos. I'll show you after this. Is she on your chest making them? Yeah, like on your chest on your abdomen, on your back, like, wherever they want to do. Cats do whatever. Do whatever.

I wish I could have a cat. I, as everyone knows, I have three dogs, and my husband is, like, deathly allergic. I would have to literally get rid of him in order to have a cat. I mean, I love him. I love your husband, but I mean, I like cats a lot, too. So I don't know. I'd have to think about it for you. It depends on the day.

Some days I'm like, get out. Give me the cats. I will say there, one thing that we haven't talked about is there's a diet out there that Purina makes clear. Live clear. Yeah, something like that. And the cats eat it. And one of like the main sources of allergens in cats comes from their saliva and their dander.

And it's supposed to kind of like change that so that if you do have allergies, you're less allergic to the cats. I've had some owners say it works. I've had some owners say it works. Yeah. I always with owners, you know, we don't have any studies. We don't have any like research that proves this, I think. But I've had owners try it and they think it works and they're happy with it. So, hey, if it works, great.

Yeah. Definitely worth a shot. I think the big thing for me is like if you know you're highly allergic, you probably shouldn't get a cat. because then you're just going to have to end up rehoming it. If you already have the cat and you're experiencing allergies, great. This is a great option to try. Live, clear, Purina. Look at us.

We're plugging. Someone sponsor us. Someone sponsor us. Who do you hear from? Is it somebody, an executive at MTV? Do they call whomever is now managing you're representing you? How quick does all of that happen? And what's like the board?

I don't know, you walk into a business room, like the cliche thing. There's all these chairs. They offer you the big deal you've been waiting for. Like, what really happened? I've got a pretty hilarious story about that. I don't know if I'll see if I can paint the picture properly. So, well, first of all, what happened was I was, the show was now kind of popular in Canada, enough that I got invited on the one talk show we had in Canada.

At the time, it was called Mike Bullard was the name of the host. He just passed away. Rest in peace, Mike. He was a very funny guy. He kind of gave me a. did me a solid there, he'd have us on his show. And I'd go on and do some, you know, goofy thing that I probably, you know, like I was talking about earlier, I probably, you know, regret doing, but, you know,

it was, you know, I'd go on with bags of milk and, you know, milk comes in bags in Canada, which is strange. But anyways, I'd pop milk bags and milk would fly everywhere and the microphone would break and all this kind of stuff. But his manager was there, who's from Los Angeles, also since passed away. He's in the documentary. His name's Howard Lapidus. And he represented Jimmy Kimmel, who was not, you know, he was on radio at the time, and Carson Daly, who was on TRL, and Norm MacDonald,

and also Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla, who were doing Loveline on MTV. So Howard was in the MTV universe and he brought the show there and that's kind of how we got the initial meeting to do the pitch of the show. So they saw the few tapes that he showed them. And then they flew us, well, they flew me down to Los Angeles and probably 27 or 28 years old. And put me up in the Mondrian, okay, which is the most Los Angeles feeling place to be. is sort of modern, you know, artsy hotel. Furthest thing from Ottawa. And it's right beside the House of Blues, which is no longer there,

but the House of Blues, they had these pitch meetings every year for MTV. And they'd bring all the producers and writers in to come out, and you stand in front of the MTV executives. And the top executive there was Brian Graydon, who I did not know who anyone was, but he was the one who ultimately signed the show. And so they had told me they had seen four or five, or they had seen a bunch of our tapes now at this point.

And they had sort of directed me play this one, this one, and this one. You're going to come out, you're going to play these four tapes, and then talk a bit about the show. And so there's this thing I used to do, which again, I put it in the documentary, so I should probably not be embarrassed to say it. but I used to kind of for a gag, I would suck milk out of cows udders. You know, it was just a gag. It was just a gag.

But, and they said, don't play that one, though. Don't play that one. So I just was such a idiot, I guess, that I, you know, they literally told me to make a VHS tape and put this tape on where you paint your parents' house, the one where you love the crutches and you're falling down on the street on the crutches, and the one where you go in the pharmacy and try to, by condoms.

Play those three. But don't play the Cowder one. And I was so sort of sure that, no, we need a gross out one, you know. We need to have a balance here, you know. It's very important to me that we have a balance. So I still put that one on the tape. And I came out and I did my big speech. It was actually like quite, it wasn't complete idiocy.

Like it was thought through. Like I did say in the speech, you know, in the pitch, you know. you know that this is shot on home video cameras and looks raw and it looks rough and because I'm a skateboarder and skateboarders are doing this now and like this kind of thing and it'll be relatable and so I really did kind of try to explain why it looked the way it looked and then I played everything and then I played the cow letter thing and of course the room just went nuts because it's disgusting right and funny it's really funny you know dressed as cap Captain Kirk or something like that, squirting milk all over my face.

But then I had brought a backpack with me, and in the backpack, I had a couple of cans of shaving cream. And I just, for whatever reason, decided after I do that, I'm, you know, while everyone's freaking out about the cow utter sucking, I'm going to lie down on the boardroom table in front of everyone and spray shaving cream all over my face and scream that I want to be on MTV. So I did that. And everyone's going, what the hell's this kid doing? And I took the shaving cream, and I walked up to the guy who looked like he was in charge,

and I put some on his face, and then I just walked out. That was Brian Graydon, and then I just walked out of the room, and the guy who had been kind of coaching me to do the pitch, said, you know, called me and he was laughing and said, you put shaving cream on my boss's face, but they called the next day, and they picked up the show. The next day. Yeah, yeah, and I remember going down the elevator with Howard Lapidus,

and he said, that was the craziest best pitch I've ever seen. I didn't ever pitched anything before. I didn't know what a pitch was, but naivity, I guess, kind of as good sometimes. And then they literally, I was moved to, they got me an apartment in New York City, and we moved down to New York, we took all our tapes, which were hundreds and hundreds of tapes,

and immediately they began sort of working and packaging these tapes, and they built a studio for us in Times Square, right beside where they do TRL, and that was it. The first 10 episodes were just old clips from the Canadian show repackaged with the new studio. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th.

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You're kicking it with four things. With Amy Brown. Do you spend a lot of time learning about the gut? And is that something you recommend? Obviously, you have topical things and different treatments for your patients, but sometimes do you have a conversation of, okay, what are we eating? Absolutely. A hundred percent.

It wasn't actually covered that much back in the day. when we were in med school, because they were looking at the body as different systems. You know, you have skin, you have gut, you have your kidneys, your liver. But now there's an emphasis on how you can tie this all together. And research has shown that there's certain foods that are pro-inflammatory for certain conditions.

So for example, let's say someone has rosacea, which is run into the cheeks. We know that there are certain foods that can make it worse. Alcohol, caffeine, so anything like coffee and so forth, spicy foods. And this varies on the person. So each person may have a different response. I have some patients who have acne.

And if they eat, let's say, a lot of sugars during Christmas time, they will break out immediately. We're learning more about dairy. Dairy is still kind of like in flux. Some people have maybe an intolerance to gluten to certain types of diets. So I think it's important to know your body, and the best way to do it is actually, for example, cut out alcohol for three weeks or two weeks and see how your skin responds. You'll be surprised. Cut out certain types of sweets, you know, and you will see a difference in your skin. As a doctor, do you have strong thoughts about alcohol?

Because I feel like earlier in the year, I know it's still only February, but I believe it's early January. The surgeon general came out talking about how there should be a warning. label on all alcohol for cancer. I know that's not your specialty, but when it comes to aging, because like we've always heard, well, one glass of wine a day keeps the doctor away or it's good for your heart. And looking at the body as a whole, do you find that heavier drinkers tend to look older than they are? You know, when you drink alcohol, it actually causes a lot of oxidation.

Oxidation leads to inflammation. inflammation is honestly what causes all these issues. So for example, when we look at patients, let's talk about heart disease. Let's just go out of the skin, go to the heart for a second. Heart disease is actually a form of inflammation. It is nothing different than perhaps what's going on with rosacea with your face. Now you can argue that certain types of alcohol like red wine, for example, may help for people with heart disease because it thins your blood out. So if you drink alcohol, you're less likely.

to clot. So therefore you're less likely to have a heart attack. But that's like maybe a glass of wine here, you know, here or there. But yes, heavier drinkers put a lot of stress in the liver. And the liver is what's responsible for clearing all the toxins. And if we're not careful, over time, your liver becomes less efficient. When you're younger, I mean, you can do whatever you want to and your body can respond. Down the road, it's like if you get injured, it takes longer to heal. If you have a cut to skin, if you're like 10 years old versus 50, big different the healing time, the scarring. That's why, as I have aged, one margarita with my friends, you know, on a Tuesday night,

Wednesday impacts me or maybe a Friday night. But I'm just giving an example of, I wake up the next day feeling way different than I did if I had a margarita a long time ago. Absolutely. Same thing with sleep. Before, you might be able to be up and work late. Next day still be functional. So I look at this as you have to know your body well.

you have to like listen to it if you listen to it if you understand what it's telling you and you soul cues you can actually kind of adjust things and perfect yourself because it's all about health and wellness in my mind so you mentioned sleep let's pivot for a second to that beauty sleep like is that a real thing so you hear like oh got to get my beauty sleep it was just sort of a saying back in the day but yeah there's definitely something to it absolutely and you we see it in the skin immediately because people who don't sleep get dark circles. You're already seeing that inflammation forming. You are in real time looking at that person and you can identify their skin doesn't look fresh.

Sleep has a way to regenerate your body. That regeneration is important for cell turnover, for good skin tone, good health. In fact, let's have a hair loss for a second. There is a type of hair loss called telogen of fluvium, which is due to stressors. Hair loss due to stress. Now, what's the stress from? Lack of sleep is one of the things. So if you're working hard nonstop, if you're under stress, chronic stress we're talking about,

not acute stress. It takes a toll, aging. If you look at people who eat well, sleep well, take care of their body, they actually do substantially better in terms of their blood work, and their overall skin health. and hair health as well. So simply adjusting how much sleep you might be getting could be step one. Easy things. Yeah, which I mean if you're stressed though, sometimes it's not easy to fall asleep.

Fair enough. But then there's things that you can do that can be ways to mitigate that stress. Like, for example, go for a little walk. Sometimes if you go for a walk, and this would be a run. I know people say do a little bit more physical activity. Go for a walk for 15 minutes, walk like three miles per hour on the train. and a mill three and a half miles per hour, you'll feel better. Your mind will be more clear.

Your thoughts have become a little bit more crisp. You're more centered. And then your body will kind of take itself out of this flight and fight response. The problem is that we are bombarded by so much all the time. Social media, this, that, text messages. So you never give your time, you never give your body time to recuperate, to heal. So what you're doing is that if you do certain activities, you can actually take your body out of this whole like fight and flight response.

And that's what, unfortunately, the role has become, becoming more responsive as opposed to proactive and how I can take care of situations, more not responding to each stimuli. We're going to do it live. We are the one, two, three, so are losers. What up, everybody, I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. So I give you the sports facts. 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. Ray was a wild on E with Brooke Burke I never saw that one I did see singled out

That was a good one with Ginny McCarcy That was a fantastic show Dude Brooke Burke would travel the country In a bikini and show you all these tropical places And you'd go That's why I'm going to college Because I'm gonna retire and go there Well I'm 40

Still haven't gone there Watch that shit in high school And you're like man that's all I want to do Make money travel do this Brook Burke's just got bikini body all over your TV, dude. Is that the same chick that was Dancing with the Stars? Dude, she was more big on Wild

on E than Dancing with the Stars. I know, but is that who she was? I don't know. I was a fan when Bones was on it, I've never seen it since. Or before. I think another girl that was on Daisy Fuentes, that chick was hot. Dude, Wild on E! And you know what? I never saw a girl out of bikini like that other in spring break or then when I moved to the west side of Nashville

and the whale tails. Because I went to a school in Chicago. I didn't see bikini for 15 years, but I watched it every day Wild on E, and I thought that's what Life's was. Found out real quick. You got to go on vacation to see that. I used to watch Real World, and I thought, that's what life is. That

is what it is, dude. It kind of was. It kind of was badass. In college. When you could go to the bars. I'm telling you, the first time I went to a bar, I was 18, and I went to Bob Populars, and I'm telling you, a brawl broke out where people were breaking pool cues over each other's backs. And I was like, this shit is what life is about. This is living. This is what I've all the

stories I've been hearing about on the TV and movies. And then I go out the next time and there was no fight. Go out the next time. There's no bra. And I'm like, oh, so it's not exactly like TV. One of my first bar experiences, South Beach got us into a bar in Texas State on the square there. Yeah. And he goes, hey, dude, I got a, what was it, gift card? He goes, but there's still a couple dollars on it. And he goes, you can scan it and we'll get all our drinks and then we'll bounce. And so at this point, my life, dude, I didn't know you do bad stuff. Bad stuff ends up happening to you. Guys, you can't do bad stuff like this.

Carmel will get you. So we go in there, we go to this bar and kiss what? Casey goes, South Beach goes, oops, delete that. South Beach goes, hey, but I know the bartender. I know the front desk person. I know the valet. I know this. He knew everybody at the bar.

He got all me and my boys in. We weren't 21. We go in, there's a back door. One of us got in. one of us just came in right past the ticket taker. No cover. Everybody else paying five bucks. Bro, we got into a table, spent $200 in drinks, gave her our gift card, and we were all out of there.

Didn't pay a dollar for drinks. That was my first bar experience. I think bar bad karma got me probably for the next year of my life after that one. Why? I don't know. I mean, how can you jump on a tab and not expect that to come around and bite you in the ass? What do you mean jump on a tab? You said you paid with the gift card.

gift card had $2 on it so it scanned so she was able to hold it and then we bailed before she came back Oh So when she went to actually run it run it for $210 It failed It declined We were long gone

Damn So Green Parrot If you are still open On the square I would love to pay that $200 back They may have foreclosed They may have went bankrupt I'm a check

But still owe it As far as I'm concerned We need to pay that back it was in 2007. Maybe if you just go back and say, I had a tab. I need to close out my tab. They're like, what was the last name? I'm like, oh, it's from 2002.

Dude, they pull it up? It's a bunch of those, hey, what's the bitch shot? The what? Oh, kamikazis. No, no, no, no, the one. Livendrop. No, the thing that's like the weakest alcohol, it's just sugary.

Oh, it's like lemon dropper kamikaze. Those are the big. But it's not an actual shot. It's a bottle that's just made, oh. Oh. You would know. You're the bar guy. Rum,

vodka, White Walker, sugar. I don't know. You're talking about a shot? No. The bottle? The bottle.

Pacifico, sweet, rum, sugar. Uh, I mean, I know now it's like whipped cream. There's a whipped cream.

A green parrot, 124 North LBJ Drive, San Marcus, Texas. Do they serve food? Yeah. It's still open, bro.

Guys, let us know. love to pay that back. Best bar on the square since 1982, man. Malibu. It's on Malibu, dude. Dude, they're going to pull up the bill

and it's going to be 12 Malibu shots. It's called The Dirty Bird Green Parrot. SMTX on freaking Insta. It's shitty Saturday, $3.50 cent lemon drops. Right there on their Insta, dude.

I don't think Nephews is still open, but we'd go to nephews. And there, didn't sneak in. Oh, yeah. Hey, Green Parrot, they got a hottie. They got a hottie who's serving drinks. Probably her mom.

God damn. Dude, we go to nephews in South Beach because all these Texas State kids, they're just there like kind of to show off. Nobody's there at a bar to really drink because people pre-gates. There we go. Green parents got some ladies there. If you're in Sam Marcus, stop by there on the square, there are some hotties in there. Hey, hear me on this one.

I'm hearing you. College, it's about the pregame. Nobody's really drinking at a bar. So South Beach taught me this. Yeah, because you can't afford it. Right. So we go to Sanctuary Lofts, get tanked with Billy, and then we'd go to nephews,

and South Beach would go get a glass that had a little bit of cranberry juice or a little bit of vodka still in it, and then he'd go in the bathroom and pour it from the faucet, so it looked like you had a full drink, but it was really somebody else's glass and it was all watered down,

and you just fake like you drink it. He taught me you don't really drink at bars, you just fake it. And that's how you save money. So Billy'd be out of there, man, I had a $150 bar tab. That's crazy. Go back and play blackjack on the computer,

lose another grand. We're like, oh, man. I'd never lied about it. But South Beach, be like, yeah, dude, we had a bar tab too. It was crazy. Dude, me and Beach didn't pay a damn dime for an hour and a half talking chicks

with water in our cup that we filled up in the bathroom sink. Smart. It's sort of like... But then they needed a drink. Then all of a sudden, me and South Beach don't even know where the bar is. Oh, wait.

What? Is it over there? It's there. Point me in which direction that is. Hold on. Dude, every time. Going to grab the wallet. South BJ, did you want to bounce? And there's literally nowhere else to bounce.

It was the last place open. No, no, man. We'll stay here. We'll say, which bar are you girls at? And it's like the, like, there's obviously the bar. We just play dumb for the next five. And then we're like, all right, we're never going to land these chicks. We're not dropping $50 on drinks for them.

Yeah, that's a tough one, man. It's sort of like when, in Austin, I think it was the library or it was copper tank. or not copper tank um aquarium copper penis or i think it was library library was great dude dude i don't know if it was like nine to ten maybe it's nine to ten bm they had two dollar long island ice teas or some shit like that deadly so you would go in there and you would slam five long island ice teas in that hour 10 bucks and you would be absolutely housed housed and you would have to buy drinks at another bar because you had five long island ice ice ice That sets you up for the next two and a half hours of stumbling around 6th Street.

I mean, that is the way to do it. You go early. You're the first one at the bar and it's $2. Long Island Ice Tses. Let me suck that down. Dude, I wish I had found that place. I remember the one time there was some, was there a popular place? It was kind of like Japanese.

They had sake bomb. I mean, I'm sure they were different places where people get the sake bombs before the bars. Probably yeah, probably any sushi restaurant. It wasn't the one with the, was it the one with the sharks in the floor? Oh, Quah. That's pretty expensive, dude. They might have been. I went to Qua with a chick and I'm like, all right, man, I'll get us some shot.

Was it Quah? Maybe. Or was that airplane thing? It was all on West Sixth. Yeah, Quah may have been it, man. Okay, so let you say it was Quah. And I had 20 bucks and I go, okay, perfect, man. I can probably buy each a couple shots.

That'll buy us some time. Dude, I gave it a $20. bill and two shots, and that was it. Oh, that's it. One shot is $10. You were like, oh. Dude, the chick is a, what, man, you only wanted one drink up? Like, yeah, you know, I got work in the morning, but it was awesome hanging out with you. I was like, damn it, why did I get a shot?

I should have got something that went slower. It's like. I hung out with her for 10 minutes, and I was walking back. Hey, boy, that was good night. You know what I got to get up early. That's like, I mean, here's the thing. I was spoiled rotten because I knew bartenders at every bar. You did.

I never paid. for drinks. Never paid for drinks. You didn't hear when we first moved. Yeah, I know, even here. I met bartenders, never had to pay for a drink. I don't know what it was. Your dumbass was back there serving drinks and I'm like, guys, guys, this is hilarious. Little than I know, you can actually

get pretty big trouble over that. Yeah, probably. Right. I mean, that bartender probably, I mean, if the manager would have walked around the damn corner and I'm sitting there slinging, like, what the... You did it every Saturday. What the hell were they thinking? Lunch, give me a vodka, man. And lunch you give me just a vodka. I'm like, could you've put a mixer in here, you jackass.

Anyway, here's a styro pump of nothing but vodka. Awesome, dude, I'm going to go die in the alley. I'm not sure what bar we went to, but it was what on West 6 that I never went to. And I was like, hey, boys, I'll get a round of drinks. And it's me, Garrett, Greg, Jacob, and I go up and I get

six or whatever. And it was like $30. And I came back up. These are $6 a piece. You hadn't seen prices? And they're like, we've been paying that for our whole lives. And you had to buy one round and you're freaking out.

I'm like, I didn't realize it was. so expensive. How did you guys ever go out? I don't dress up. So I kind of get excited when I have. Well, you dress over because you're the anchor of New Channel too. Everyone, this is the face of Nashville, Nikki Birdhine. Welcome, welcome. If you watch the news. I mean, I do not watch the news, but I love the news because of you. I have you go right there. Yeah. Yeah, but you dress up every day. I do. Yeah. So it's almost like when I'm not at work, the second I get home, my clothes just, I feel so ever stimulated. So I take off my jewelry. I take off my bra. and take off like all and I'm like sweats so this is yes this is me what is your routine um in the

mornings you mean like yeah okay I actually am very strict about my routine because sleep is so important to me and I go to bed we'll start there I go to bed at about 7 p.m. before my daughter does my husband puts her to bed and I wake up at about 240 and I am out the door 40 yes in the morning yes so you're in bed by seven 30? Seven o'clock. Seven o'clock. Is it hard to make yourself go to sleep at seven? No.

Aren't you tired all the time? Not at seven, but I didn't get at like 9.30, but I also sleep to like seven. Yeah. It's kind of. It's the same. But no, it's not. You get less. 2.30?

Yeah. Why 2.30? Because I have to be at work at 3. You have to be at 3? Mm-hmm. But you don't come in ready. No. So I do.

Do you pack your bag the night before? Pack everything the night before. It's all sitting by the front door. I shower the night before. So literally when I wake up, all I have to do is brush my teeth, wash my face, put on my my skin care and get dressed and I'm out the door. And I mean, I'm probably up and out the door in 10 minutes. Okay.

And get to work and then I do my makeup there. Yeah. No, I snooze for half an hour. You do? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So you wake up it too. Yeah.

I start the process then. But yeah, I'm not out of bed until like 245. Does it wait just enough? No. You would think it. I guess because we've been together for so long, he's probably used to it. How long have you all been together? We've been together.

We've been like we started dating in 2007. Okay. Michael and over 2008. See? But we've only been married 10 years. Same. 10 years. Because y'all just had your 10 year.

Yeah, September. What did y'all do for it? Went to Cabo. So fun. It was really fun. Just y'all to or Andy too? It was just us too, but then my sister and her fiancee went, you know, because when you've been married that long, you're like, you can hang for so long,

but then you want another couple. Like you want friends. I'm like, Michael and I have talked about everything. We always have things to talk about. And we always have ongoing conversations. but it's like, yes, it is so nice to have friends to hang out with you. Yes. We know every little bit about each other.

We'll be each other's travel companions now. Because you're my neighbor. Yes. And it's just so good because not only do we get along so great, Justin Michael get along and our daughters are the exact same age. Totally perfect. And we're only child moms. It's perfect.

I know. We're so lucky. It's God saw both of us. And he was like, that's a good match. I'm like, but you're like my favorite. Ditto. I'm like literally how I not been better friends with you before? Because I've known you for so long.

But like, I've never like, now we're like, oh my God. I'm obsessed with you. Ditto. I feel the same way. Okay. Great. When you said Justin and Michael get along, like, it is true. My husband knows this. So I'm not like talking bad about him. He doesn't like a lot of people. Why not? But I think that's a good quality. Like I love everyone until you like prove me wrong. You know, and I usually do get taken advantage of quite a bit because of that. Well, yeah. I mean, I'm just like, I love everyone. My sister calls me the collector of stray cats because I always just, I'm like, yes, the more the merrier come in. And I'm trying to learn boundaries better. But my husband is the opposite.

He's like, no, I don't like that person. But he actually adores Michael. And he has said that multiple times. He's like, that's a great guy. And if Justin says that, then like, you're, you're in. Okay. Yeah. Well, I'm glad.

We didn't even know how tight cut thread this was. But I'm so like, split through the cracks. It is. I mean, it's a good thing. He is so nice. He is. He is selective of his people. Well, you know what, that's good.

I think it is. He conserves his energy. Yeah, he does. I have been a chronic people pleaser my entire life. Same. But not anymore. I'm working on it too. I had a life coach.

I hired a life coach when I was 38 years old. Really? And then I have done extreme therapy measures to get to the root of my issues, which is I'm a high functioning codependent person. Which means I walk into a room, not anymore. And I need to make sure everybody's happy and everybody's happy with me. And like if you are not, if your vibes are off and if you're not like feeling my vibes, then I'm going to like, fix it. I'm going to be like up in your face, getting to know you, wondering what's going on, getting to the root of your issue, trying to make you happy to make sure that you walk away feeling

happy and that you love me. I feel like I'm like that a little bit. But it finally warm me out. Yeah. It's exhausting. I'm getting better at that. I definitely used to be like that, especially with TV news because when people would send me mean comments, I would like try to convince them like, no, no, no, like I'm a nice person. Like you would like me. Because people are coming after you. They're awful. I mean, I'm sure you get it too. No, not. like you. I mean, everyone gets it. If you have any sort of online or on air, like any sort of public persona, like people

are going to attack you. Do you get it on the regular? You know what? Since I became a mom, it's been a lot easier. Really? Yes. What do people used to say and why are they nicer now? I think they used to say things like mostly about my appearance, you know, like, you

always remember the mean comments. Like somebody called me lunch lady arms. Lunch lady arms. I had fat arms. And of course, like that's your, you know, everybody has their own thing. Like, of course, my arms are my insecurity. and I know that's ridiculous and stupid. We all have our things.

We all have our things. And I recognize. Lunch lately arms, though. What are, is that awful? And then one guy sent me a tweet that was like, I can't. The fact that someone married you is shocking. The fact that someone impregnated you is shocking. And the fact that you have a job being on TV is even more shocking kind of thing.

Like, people say really mean things. One lady told me I was going to help because I wore a sleeveless dress on TV. So my old instinct back in the day would be to like convince these people. people to like find their profile and message them or email them back like almost like shaming them at first for making them feel bad about that and then convincing them like no i'm a nice person like you would like me so you would shame them first and then convince them yeah almost almost make them feel bad about like you're you're a jerk for thinking that because they are yeah or not jerk for saying for saying it anyway you can think whatever you want right for taking the time to write you a mean comment to

someone they don't know to make me feel bad it's totally a jerk that's a jerk yeah because they're one sole purpose in that wasn't for change to hurt your feelings. It was to hurt me. Right. And so my purpose in doing that was to make them see the error in their ways and then convince them like, oh no, you, I'm a nice person. But it's not about me. It's about them. Right. And I don't really care anymore. Yeah. I know. Not my problem. I know. I had this situation come up the other day where somebody actually like did something intentionally to hurt you. Just to like, yeah, to like take something away from me. Who do I need to fight? Well, I'll tell you later. Yeah. But I was like, oh my God. And then I was like all pissed and I wanted to like fight them in my head but then I was like you know what not my issue

no not my problem and not my bag of demons that I'm gonna carry around if I'm if someone's gonna go out of their way to try to like take something from someone else for no other reason then they just don't want me to have it that's not making them get anything no then I'm like okay that's not my problem it's not it's not my problem that that's what you're going to spend your time doing yeah that's exhausting yeah it's like have you listened to Mel Robbins let them oh I know Mel Robbins Is she not changing the world? She's changing the world. Give people the idea of let them.

Let them is a book or I listen to audio tape. It's just about letting people have their thoughts, their feelings about you, about anything. Their opinions about life. Or even like the little inconveniences. I love the example that she gave that she was checking out at the grocery store. And the lady checking out was being so slow. And she was getting annoyed. And she wanted to like complain.

And then she was like, let them. Let this clerk be slow checking people out. because me getting frustrated and bitching about it and doing anything, it's not going to speed her up. Let me instead figure out how to deal with this anxiety and why I feel this way and then respond in a better way. It's so simple and so profound. It is.

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But right now, here's the best movies we saw in the last month from Movie Mike's movie podcast. I needed to laugh. And that was provided to me by one of them days. And beginning of the year comedies are hit or miss. Because they put those ones out in January that they're not sure whether they're going to like do well at the box office or kind of flop. And then they can just be like, oh, it was a January flop. Oh, well, I would say as a whole, any movie that comes out in January, which is known as a dump month for movies, is hit or miss. But primarily, it's usually a comedy that's like, I don't know if it's going to be funny or it's a horror movie that I don't know if it's going to be scary.

But when it came to one of them days, it was really fun. It also did really well at the box office. I laughed the whole time. At one point it was what, like certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes? Is it still a really high score? It got really good reviews and was also funny. So it had a good critic score and a good audience score, which is rare. And the movie is about two best friends.

One of their boyfriends spends their rent money on a get rich quick scheme. And then they have like eight or ten hours to make that money back before getting evicted. So it's a really simple plot. drops right into it, and there's a lot of just, I felt like it had good writing. It wasn't all physical comedy. I mean, Kiki Palmer and Siza also had, like, incredible comedic timing. Crazy that Siza, this was the first time acting, did a really good job in it, and then also was about to do the Super Bowl with Kendrick Lamar.

She can really do it all. Yeah. I really enjoyed this one as well. I rated it a four out of five. What did you give it? I give it a 4.5 out of five. So close to perfect, which is really high for a 90-minute comedy. Listen, it was also the perfect length.

I don't need my comedies to drag on because I feel like at a certain point you just start like kind of regurgitating things or making them like, it also just like wasn't necessarily believable. But like then you start really dragging on. Also got to say, Maude Apatow, so funny in it.

Oh yeah. She's the person who moves into their apartment complex. Yes. Yeah, I felt like right as this movie was wrapping up, I found myself to think, okay, this needs to wrap. Oh, and it was over. Yeah.

Right when you're like, all right, you can't really make any more jokes, you can't drag this out. It's like, okay. The comedy movies that always go on a little bit too long, I always think about, speaking of the Apatow's, Judd Apatel. Every Judd Apatel movie goes about 30 minutes too long, especially like Super Bad, 40-year-old Virgin. He does love a two-hour.

His film's really equivalent of when people on TikTok are like, I have to make this video a minute to get into the creator fund to make money off of it. That's Judd-Apital's movie. He's like, I've got to make this two hours long. His inability to edit himself is wild. He hasn't made a movie in a while, though. I feel like he's going to do one with all of his daughters at this point. He only has two.

All of his daughters and his wife, which he's pretty much been putting in every. I guess he's already really done that. Yeah, they've been in everything. Yeah, since like funny people, I remember them being. The kids are making money now. He doesn't need to keep making. She's doing euphoria, movies. They're good.

The nepotism is strong in that family. So that's your best. For my best, I'm going to go with the Brutalist. And I think it's because... Very different end of the spectrum of films. It's the one that I was a little hesitant going into just because it was three and a half hours long, which is a long movie.

That's a flight. Oh, it is a flight. I am now a fan of the intermission, which I thought I wasn't going to like. I thought, you know me, I don't like stopping down while watching a movie. I want to go all the way through. If I have to go pee, I'll go pee real quick and I'll come back.

But I thought the idea of taking a... break and then coming back to it was going to offset me a little bit. But it actually like reset me. Yeah, you got up and walked around. I was like, I'm going to go walk around. I'm going to go get a drink. I'm going to come back and feel refreshed. And it was about an hour and 40 minutes into it.

And then we had a whole hour and 40 to go. I think it was also the fact that they included the 15 minute intermission in the runtime. So that 335 was also including the 15 minutes. I thought it was going to be 15 on top of that. Oh, I guess I did too. and I really didn't calculate the time after we got out because it was just long in general. Which then it would have been like 450 plus the 10, 15 minutes of previews. Then I was like, man, that's going to be like four hours and 10 minutes at the movies.

But I feel after watching this, I am more inclined to any movie that decides to embrace the intermission. I don't think people will really embrace it a whole lot because of that break. I think movie theaters have a hard time because then you have all the people coming out and then they get busy again. but I think they want to get busy again, right? Because the line to the concessions got so long after it. People getting a second round, refreshers. But I also don't feel like a typical theater chain is set up for an intermission. Yeah, we saw the bell court.

Smaller theater. So there's only a couple movies showing. I think it would be harder in a big theater like for Captain America, for everybody to exit and go to the lobby. I think it would overwhelm some people because I think right now, even when we get there sometimes during peak hours, we're waiting 10 to 15 minutes to get popcorn. Don't even get me started on the time that that person complained and I almost got in a fight in line.

Yeah. People get, they get so impatient. People are doing their best. They're doing their job. It's not their fault that the person, true story in front of you, ordered $80 worth of snacks. A lot of snacks. There's literally one person. They can only get so many popcorns.

They can only get so many drinks. And then if you're like, this line hasn't moved. I've been here for 20 minutes. Then get here 20 minutes earlier next time. I don't know. People need to relax in line. So I don't think that an intermission would be good at a regular theater because then everyone's going to stand in line for that long. And then they're going to be like, well, now the movie's starting and I missed it because I took this intermission.

Yeah, I feel like it's kind of the recess vibes of like trying to wrangle everybody up after recess. Like, come on in, come back inside. Oh, I'm still on the swing set. Fair old children. Yeah, running around. And then you have people maybe who would like, I want to go watch another movie and they sneak into another movie. I enjoy it. I don't think

I don't think there are going to be that many three-hour movies that warrant an intermission. It's very rare that we get one. It's usually one a year that we go to, if that. Like last year,

Oppenheimer. I feel like Avengers... It was actually the year before last. Oh, it's 2020. Hang, I'm still living in 2024. I know. It was two years ago. I know.

So I would like to see more intermissions. I think it would give some people because it is a daunting task. Like the Brutalist, even though I enjoyed it, it's not one that I'm going to recommend to people because seeing three hours and 35 minutes is like, I don't want to go to that. But I think- It did eat up most of our Saturdays. Yeah, that's what it was.

And we were like, well, Saturday's over. That's it. It's cashed. Yeah. It's gone. But I really enjoyed it. I'm glad we spent the time to watch it. I'm still not rooting for it to win best picture.

I still am leaning on wanting the substance to do really well. But now I can appreciate a little more. This is all the talk on social media right now is everybody talking about looking for jobs, applying to jobs, not finding jobs. It is the hottest topic I think I've seen in the last few weeks. And that's why I'm bringing on one of my really good friends, Paige, who is an expert in this field. When I say expert, the expert of all experts, Paige, how are you? I'm so good. I'm so excited to be here.

And you're right. I am a little bit of a subject matter expert in the career. job hunting space. What do you think is happening right now? Because you see online, there's all kinds of people who are like, I cannot find jobs. Nobody is hiring. What is your kind of take on this, what's going on in the job market right now that you're seeing? It's really interesting because there's 8.1 million jobs on the market right now. And the unemployment rates, not bad. It's around 4.1, 4%. It hasn't changed much in the past year. So we haven't seen huge inflection. And So it's interesting because there's actually more of a demand in the current market in the U.S.

than there is supply, which is interesting. Let me digress. So I want to start back from the pandemic because I feel like everything still stems from the pandemic. Naturally, because that was such a weird time in our life. Yeah. Well, you had all of these layoffs and then you move forward. PPP loans were granted. And so people started to hire again.

And everyone started to leave their jobs to get back. better ones. It was called the great resignation. People were offered these insane salaries. I'm talking like hundreds of thousands more than they've made before. So of course, no brainer. Let's leave. And so now when these loans have dried up and people realize, oh, I've got to pay those back. Now we have layoffs happening. The tech industry was hit really hard in that space. And then you're coupled with some unsettling things in the market. You add an election year on top of that. businesses aren't for sure what legislation is going to impact their business. So they hold their coins tight to their chest. So it's an interesting market. There are jobs out there. But the reason

why it's hard is that there's been a lot of things that have happened over the past couple of years. And I think people don't realize that all of the time is there was so much change so fast. So one of the things I always say is if someone's offering you an incentive, same salary and it's too good to be true. Believe them. Take a look at organizations and how they responded to the pandemic. If they were doing a ton of layoffs, how did they respond to that? Layoffs can be make business sense. It's not necessarily always a bad thing, but how do they recruit from that? What does that look like? What's their sustainability look like as an organization? How long have they been in the game? All of these things are really important when you're looking for a job.

And this is why I have you on Stacey, because I think your story is so cool because it's really easy to get a job when you're done with college or get a job out of high school and you stay in it for 20 years. And you never look at other options. You never explore past what you think you're supposed to be doing. And you went a complete opposite direction and did something that was not even something that was in your mind at the time of you doing any version of college or studying. I have always been the type of person that if you put something in front of me, I'm going to go after it. And it's like, get out of my way because I'm going to either, you know, succeed or fail sort of thing. I just think, again, I started just thinking about, you know, I love being able to impact people at the hospital patients, like getting them back on their feet. But I just again was like going, there's just something, some little piece of missing.

And so it's always like, and I say a lot of like cliche things. but I'm like, you're never going to know if you don't try. And yeah, it was a little scary, but at the same time, I go, I got this. But if I don't got this, I left the hospital on good terms, I can always go back. And I always have an A, B, and C plan. Or I joke and say this, but I go, say none of this works out for me. I like candles, so I can start making candles. Like, you always figure it out.

But I think that that's what's hard for a lot of people is just to, put that all to the side and just truly go after. And I know it's, I mean, it's easier said than done with a lot of things. But I just think the unknown is something special sometimes. And I am a big believer in that. I'm just like, hey, just give it a shot. So it's, it's truly really cool. And I remember the conversation my husband and I had. He was just kind of saying, hey, like, he supports everything and anything that I do. But he was telling me, he was like, hey, just hang on for a few more months just for a steady two-week paycheck as you kind of like transition and everything. And I looked at him and I said, I love you and respect to you, but I got this. I got this going back. I didn't know

COVID was going to happen. So it's just crazy. It's crazy to me. And signed out on that too, why he was like, hey, let's hang on a little bit more. So he was also starting his own business and insurance. And so then two entrepreneurs and then COVID hit. It was a little scary. Thanks for listening to this week's Sunday sampler. New episodes are out weekly, so go check them out. The Bobbycast, Four Things with Amy Brown, Soer Losers, Movie Mikes, Movie Podcast, Get Real with Caroline Hobby, in the vets office with Dr. Josie, and take this personally with Morgan Hewelsman.

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