Speaker 1: It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two. Well,
Speaker 1: what is up y'all? It's the last Best Bits regular
Speaker 1: Best Bits edition of the year and this weekend I
Speaker 1: am bringing on Amy to wrap up our normal twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two year. What's up? Amy? Hey Morgan? Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. Yeah, it's hard to believe it's already even
Speaker 1: every time this pops around because we have you know, what,
Speaker 1: do you have eight people on the show you rotate with? Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much, And I'm like, has eight weeks really gone by?
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's just I feel a little representative
Speaker 1: of this year. It was super fast in my opinion,
Speaker 1: it does. I feel like it just keeps flying by
Speaker 1: like crazy. And I love it though, because at this
Speaker 1: time of year is definitely my favorite. So I'm ready
Speaker 1: to get home, ready to spend some time doing absolutely nothing,
Speaker 1: and we're just going to dive into this so we
Speaker 1: can talk about all the Christmas things which is coming up.
Speaker 1: So I don't want you to reveal too much yet, Okay.
Speaker 1: Coming in at that number seven spot, we had Blake
Speaker 1: Shelton on the show, and he's always super hilarious in
Speaker 1: his view, was really awesome talking about his new TV show,
Speaker 1: why he's leaving the Voice, and what he still gets
Speaker 1: excited about in his career. But that's not what I
Speaker 1: want to talk about. What I actually would like to
Speaker 1: talk about is food. Okay, because it's Christmas time and
Speaker 1: lots of food, I can do that. So what is
Speaker 1: your favorite dishes to have around Christmas time? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean Thanksgiving. I feel as though it's always the mac
Speaker 1: and cheese recipe. But my family does the same thing
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving as we do for Christmas, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the same foods, the exact same mac and cheese stuffing,
Speaker 1: the traditional Christmas meal, at least in my family. Some
Speaker 1: people do something totally different Christmas and Thanksgiving, but we
Speaker 1: do the same, so ours is kind of the same.
Speaker 1: We do very similar dishes, like they're all mostly the same.
Speaker 1: But there's one thing my mom makes every year, and
Speaker 1: it's a homemade red velvet cake and she only does
Speaker 1: that at Christmas time. Only at Christmas time unless it's
Speaker 1: like my sister's, like thirtieth birthday, like some special occasion.
Speaker 1: It is a Christmas time treat. Something we do do
Speaker 1: because we go to Colorado for Christmas and the salt
Speaker 1: Lick is a super famous barbecue place right outside of Austin.
Speaker 1: I was expecting that to be ice cream. No, I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I think there might be a brand
Speaker 1: of ice cream that's something like that. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're pulling that out of nowhere. But salt like barbecue.
Speaker 1: They ship and some people don't know that they ship,
Speaker 1: but we ship it to Colorado and that's something we
Speaker 1: typically enjoy Christmas Eve and so that's not that's something
Speaker 1: at least a little different that I can offer you
Speaker 1: up is barbecue. And then every holiday's season, well Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and Christmas, we always do Tamali's too. Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: not a traditional item at least on your guys as
Speaker 1: a typical menu. Why Tamalies, I think it's because my
Speaker 1: dad's from South Texas. He's no longer with us, but
Speaker 1: it's something he started doing. He would always have friends
Speaker 1: that would make them, and he would want to support them,
Speaker 1: and he would buy them. And he would just show
Speaker 1: up with all these Tamali's and they freeze really well,
Speaker 1: so you can keep them in the freezer, buy a
Speaker 1: batch Thanksgiving freezome, eat them all throughout, and then buy
Speaker 1: another batch come Christmas freezome and then you have them
Speaker 1: all throughout. So and I'm a big I eat tamali
Speaker 1: with ketchup, which some people might find that to be
Speaker 1: very weird, but don't not get till you dry it, okay.
Speaker 1: And what is it, Tomalie? Is it like wrapped in
Speaker 1: a tortilla? Is it kind of like a burrito? What
Speaker 1: is it? Husk? It's wrapped in a husk, but it's
Speaker 1: a corn. I don't know. I've never made them, Morgan,
Speaker 1: but it's like a I don't know if there's lard involved.
Speaker 1: Maybe there is, but it's like this doughy corn thing
Speaker 1: that gets and then you stuff it with either pork
Speaker 1: or you can have chicken, or you can do a
Speaker 1: black bean and halapino for yourself since you're vegetarian, or
Speaker 1: you can do you know, cheese and haalepeno whatever. I
Speaker 1: was just thinking, is it look kind of like an enchilada?
Speaker 1: I was trying to picture it, Tomalie, Yes it is,
Speaker 1: but it's not wrapped up in a tortilla, Okay, So,
Speaker 1: but yes, it could be that shape, but you know,
Speaker 1: like a corn husk like that? What it looks like
Speaker 1: it's folded up and then and you actually eat the husk. No,
Speaker 1: you open it up and eat it's on the inside. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is fascinating. You never had it, Tomali. No, I've
Speaker 1: never had it, Tomalie. I mean, you know. And somebody
Speaker 1: eat those. Somebody get this girl from Tomalie's fat. I
Speaker 1: do need some. So we have our red velvet cake.
Speaker 1: We also have my mom makes this is like the
Speaker 1: one time a year that she really bakes. Other than that,
Speaker 1: she doesn't bake throughout the year. She's too busy working.
Speaker 1: So the Christmas time I love when it happens. And
Speaker 1: she makes the red velvet cake that is like four layers,
Speaker 1: huge red velvet cake, all like perfect homemade icne. But
Speaker 1: then she also makes a poppy seed bread with homemade
Speaker 1: iccene as well. That's to die for. And these are
Speaker 1: this is the only time a year I get to
Speaker 1: have both, and I eat so much. I eat like
Speaker 1: every loaf that she makes of all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's so good. So those are like the two. But
Speaker 1: now I want to have tomalies and poppy seed bread
Speaker 1: and red velvet cake. Well, I looked up the definition
Speaker 1: of the Tamali and it says here Tomali's are a
Speaker 1: traditional Mexican dish made with a corn based dough mixture
Speaker 1: that is filled with various meats or beans and cheese.
Speaker 1: Tamalies are wrapped and cooked and corn husks or banana leaves,
Speaker 1: but they are removed before eating. Okay, so you kind
Speaker 1: it right. I pretty much had it right. I can
Speaker 1: picture them, but I just like, I've never known how
Speaker 1: you eat them because I've always seen the corn husk
Speaker 1: and it always confused me. Well, you're not the first one, asset.
Speaker 1: There is someone that on Google they say, are you
Speaker 1: supposed to eat the corn husk on the tamali? I
Speaker 1: mean it can't be that bad for your right, it
Speaker 1: says first roll of thumb here when eating Tamali's is
Speaker 1: don't consume the wrapper. Corn husks are not meant to
Speaker 1: be eaten. Upset your stomach. Okay, So don't be in
Speaker 1: any of those man. Okay. Well, I want to get
Speaker 1: into more Christmas time coming up, but we're going to
Speaker 1: keep moving along. That'll be coming, so we're not giving
Speaker 1: away too much yet. We had at number six rejected segments,
Speaker 1: and you were on the rejected segments for the first time,
Speaker 1: like all year well, I think ever, I for years
Speaker 1: we've been doing rejected segments, and to be honest, I
Speaker 1: get a little jealous if you know you don't make
Speaker 1: the list, like you want to make the list, even
Speaker 1: if it's for something terrible that you came up with,
Speaker 1: because it's in a way it's making us segment eventually
Speaker 1: because it's rejected. So I don't know, even though it's
Speaker 1: a rejected segment, it's kind of fun that it popped
Speaker 1: up well, and I like giving a little behind the
Speaker 1: scenes here. We've talked about before on this podcast how
Speaker 1: we all have to send it in show prep. Everybody
Speaker 1: sends in personal prep, and we send it news stories
Speaker 1: and that's kind of how Bobby decides what we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about. But we don't know what gets chosen
Speaker 1: until it happens, or it never happens, and so on
Speaker 1: the best bits. I'll share rejected segments sometime, But what
Speaker 1: is a segment thinking just in your past year and
Speaker 1: I'm putting you on the spot here that you sent
Speaker 1: and you're like, dang, this is gold, but it didn't
Speaker 1: get chosen. Oh gosh, I know I'm putting you on
Speaker 1: the spot because there's sometimes I'll send something now like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so good and it doesn't get shows. I'm like, dang,
Speaker 1: maybe so that could Yeah, I've really I mean, this
Speaker 1: is on the spot, so I would have to think
Speaker 1: about it. If you have one, you could share it
Speaker 1: and then I could think of it. Do you have
Speaker 1: one that you sent in that you wish would have
Speaker 1: gotten played? I mean there are like but I've also
Speaker 1: what I've turned in the best Bits too, is just
Speaker 1: like all of my personal reject acted segments. So the
Speaker 1: things we end up talking about are things that didn't
Speaker 1: make the show, and so it's like best Fits is
Speaker 1: personal Morgan rejection basically, oh really, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: half of the conduct that comes in, and then I
Speaker 1: make up kind of other pieces of content, but I
Speaker 1: have learned that I've just used them, so they're not
Speaker 1: totally they're rejected from the big show, but not rejected
Speaker 1: from my podcast. Well, oh okay, I sent in something.
Speaker 1: I just started to look through my prep and I
Speaker 1: was kind of shocked that this didn't get selected. I
Speaker 1: don't know that it would get rejected because it's bad,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, maybe it wasn't good enough. But
Speaker 1: it's a pro tip for people. Maybe you don't know this.
Speaker 1: If you have anything Lululemon, they will exchange anything, even
Speaker 1: if you've haven't had it for years, and they'll give
Speaker 1: you a brand new one if there's a quality issue.
Speaker 1: And I learned this tip from my daughter. She heard
Speaker 1: hurt at school that if there's any pilling, you know
Speaker 1: the little balls that form on sabby, like even the
Speaker 1: tiniest amount, that you can go in if you have
Speaker 1: a pair of leggings and say hey, there's pilling right here,
Speaker 1: and if they're indeed it is, then they'll say, okay,
Speaker 1: go grab a brand new pair of leggings. And she
Speaker 1: took a pair of mine from my closet because I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I don't really believe you. This can't
Speaker 1: really be true. And I said, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: a part of this. You can go in because I
Speaker 1: was sort of embarrassed. And she went into Lula Limon
Speaker 1: and she did it, and she came out with a
Speaker 1: brand new pair of leggings. What, yeah, I have so
Speaker 1: many with that. I mean, I've just bought like, those
Speaker 1: are my favorite leggings to work out in, and so
Speaker 1: because they're not cheap, so they and I then I
Speaker 1: got curious and I looked it up and let me
Speaker 1: see what I also submitted with the prep when I
Speaker 1: turned that in. Because I was still shocked, so I
Speaker 1: googled Lula Limon's policy and it says that they have
Speaker 1: a quality promise. If our product doesn't perform for you
Speaker 1: will take it back and they stand behind the performance
Speaker 1: of their leggings and yoga gear. So you can claim
Speaker 1: this quote unquote warranty by bringing the leggings and proof
Speaker 1: of purchase to your local Lulu Limen store where they
Speaker 1: can issue and exchange for a brand new pair. So
Speaker 1: did you have the receipt for that? Still? How did
Speaker 1: you show proof of purchase? Didn't? So that's that's that's
Speaker 1: from their website. But we I'm just saying we did it.
Speaker 1: I So, I don't know. You may have to have
Speaker 1: proof of purchase, but if you have the lu Limen
Speaker 1: has the logo, then you know you bought them from
Speaker 1: a lu Lulu Limon store. I mean, yeah, try saying
Speaker 1: that fast. Yeah, I mean is there a limit? I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I guarantee you, Stashier, I'll
Speaker 1: go do it for you, though, She'll take five in
Speaker 1: That girl is not scared. Yea, I need a stash
Speaker 1: here in my life because I'm like, no, it's okay,
Speaker 1: I don't want for whatever reason? Why does that make
Speaker 1: us feel like embarrassed or weird to do that when
Speaker 1: it shouldn't right? But it isn't that funny? Don't you
Speaker 1: think that would be something interesting to talk about that
Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners would want to know about. Oh,
Speaker 1: although I get that not everybody has a Lulua Limon
Speaker 1: in their area, or that you know everybody is buying
Speaker 1: Lulu Limon, but still just something fun to know in
Speaker 1: case maybe you do get a pair for Christmas, just
Speaker 1: know if they start to pill or do anything that
Speaker 1: you're not happy with, then go grab yourself a brand
Speaker 1: new pair. Oh heck yeah, and they're expensive, so it's
Speaker 1: a great protex yep. Okay, see there was gold. So
Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all, there's little bits of goal just sitting
Speaker 1: in our prep somewhere that we might not have ever shared,
Speaker 1: and you may never hear it, but we heard one
Speaker 1: of them, and I'm glad he shared it. I had
Speaker 1: to include those on the Best Bits this weekend because
Speaker 1: everyone is loving Stevenson's radio show they may not be
Speaker 1: very long clips, but everybody is kind of campaigning right
Speaker 1: now for Stevenson to have his own radio show, his
Speaker 1: thirty second radio show. Yes is Stevenson or I love it?
Speaker 1: And you know what's crazy is by the time he
Speaker 1: gets older, if he just kind of keeps doing this
Speaker 1: over time, he's going to have some radio skills that
Speaker 1: he could put on a resume. Right. No, and this
Speaker 1: is his idea. It's not like I go to my
Speaker 1: kids and say, hey, will you do this for the show.
Speaker 1: I was recording in my podcast room and then he
Speaker 1: sat down on the mic and just started talking, and
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, this is cute. So then I call
Speaker 1: Scoopa Steve and I say, hey, I think we had
Speaker 1: something here, and Stevenson recorded it. He said we could
Speaker 1: use it, so if you want to have some imaging
Speaker 1: made from Steve Sikes who does all our Bobby bones,
Speaker 1: but you know yea, And they turned it around like quick.
Speaker 1: The next day we had imaging and I played it
Speaker 1: for Stevenson. He approved it. It was awesome, and so
Speaker 1: then it debuted and then for the second episode that
Speaker 1: he did, episode two of The Stevenson Show, he started
Speaker 1: took it a little more serious. He was more free
Speaker 1: flow the first time that I said, of this something
Speaker 1: you want to do, and he was feeling a little
Speaker 1: bit shy about it suddenly because it was feeling real
Speaker 1: to him. So he wrote out what he wanted to say,
Speaker 1: gave himself a script, gave himself a script, and he
Speaker 1: read it, and I was just very proud of him.
Speaker 1: And then he said, well, I don't know, you're playing
Speaker 1: the whole bit. Yeah, I'll play in the In the
Speaker 1: best bit's part two, they'll hear the whole bit, so
Speaker 1: people will hear what happened. But I was like, oh, dang,
Speaker 1: both of my kids are hustlers. They are hustlers. I
Speaker 1: love it. Though. They're learning, like grinding early on, and
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. What else is going on with life?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? How are like the kids doing?
Speaker 1: How just going? We are ready for break? That's how
Speaker 1: we are doing. This has been one heck of a
Speaker 1: year for them too, So I'm excited that they're going
Speaker 1: to get some downtime and to be able to be
Speaker 1: with their cousins and to just relax. And you know,
Speaker 1: Stevenson's still twelve. We's to live in the good life.
Speaker 1: But you know, Seshira just first semester of ninth grade,
Speaker 1: her first semester of finals and the pressure of high school.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for her to get that downtime. And
Speaker 1: then I think, as parents too, we are so busy
Speaker 1: during the school year when it comes to kids, and
Speaker 1: so quite honestly, I'm thankful we don't have to drive
Speaker 1: them to school. Everybody want to pick them up from school.
Speaker 1: Everybody I want to worry about homework. We don't want
Speaker 1: to worry about studying. So I feel like everybody just
Speaker 1: gets to exhale. There's a normal life stuff that you
Speaker 1: get to sort of hopefully take a break from. But god,
Speaker 1: the mom stuff too, and what comes along with having
Speaker 1: kids that are in school. It's like, okay, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure teachers feel the same way having a Christmas break,
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know how teachers do it, honestly,
Speaker 1: but my kids are doing great, and I feel as
Speaker 1: we're all looking forward to twenty twenty three and what
Speaker 1: it has in store, and we're going to do vision
Speaker 1: boards all together over the break. That'll be fun. What
Speaker 1: do you anticipate will be on your vision board? Good question.
Speaker 1: I haven't really I don't. I sort of when I
Speaker 1: get the magazines out and we start cutting, I sort
Speaker 1: of just see what speaks to me, or I'll probably
Speaker 1: think of some words that I would have put on there.
Speaker 1: I think I have a lot of fear that I'm
Speaker 1: working through because of the unknown, and so I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I put a bunch of boards
Speaker 1: on there that help combat that. Fear is okay to have,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to live in that. I want
Speaker 1: to counter it with something knowing that I don't have
Speaker 1: to be scared for the future and I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about it, and so probably stuff that will
Speaker 1: remind me of that, and then some career goal stuff.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, I put Delilah on my board. You
Speaker 1: know Delilah, Yeah, Lia, some people know or some people don't. Um,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, And I just you know, she just always
Speaker 1: had such a great or has she still does what
Speaker 1: she does such a great way of connecting with her listeners.
Speaker 1: And so I'll continue that that goal of creating more
Speaker 1: connection and more community by doing you know, a four
Speaker 1: Things live tour. We did the live in which at all,
Speaker 1: but I so I want to make sure I put
Speaker 1: that on my vision board, So I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: let let that go because there's fear in that too,
Speaker 1: you know, putting yourself out there, you know, trying and
Speaker 1: just doing stuff. So we'll see what happens. I love that.
Speaker 1: How many years have you now done a vision board?
Speaker 1: Two for sure, two in the last two years, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure I've done some in previous years, but two
Speaker 1: in a row, so this would be the third year
Speaker 1: in a row. Have you ever done one? Okay, I haven't,
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm asking do you feel like it
Speaker 1: has actually like kind of helped you kind of whether
Speaker 1: it's manifest or just kind of align your goals with
Speaker 1: what well in the new year, Like, do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's really benefiting you in that way? Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, I just think it's a fun way to
Speaker 1: process what you hope things could look like. I like processing.
Speaker 1: That's helpful, and it's a it's an activity to do,
Speaker 1: whether with girlfriends or if you want to get your
Speaker 1: kids involved, and then it gives you that visual so
Speaker 1: you can look at it. It It doesn't mean you don't
Speaker 1: work towards it. You have to. It's not like I'm
Speaker 1: just suddenly gonna you know, be Delila and an all
Speaker 1: fairness manifesting is a very real thing for some people,
Speaker 1: like they just say, and it kind of starts to happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're working towards something, and so in having a
Speaker 1: reminder of those goals and what they are, what you know,
Speaker 1: a mindset that you want to have, and so that's
Speaker 1: that's what it is about for me, and I would
Speaker 1: encourage you to do it. I mean, you have some
Speaker 1: fun girlfriends that you can invite over and just have
Speaker 1: some wine and put on a fun movie and do
Speaker 1: your vision boards. No, I like this. I'm just getting
Speaker 1: all the things because I've never I've never done one before. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's say you do do one's do do do do?
Speaker 1: Let's say you decide to make one. What's something you
Speaker 1: would put on there? Definitely there will be some career
Speaker 1: things on there that are already kind of in the works.
Speaker 1: I just want those to finalize and kind of come
Speaker 1: out and start to happen. And obviously, love, I would
Speaker 1: love to like have love in my life, whether it's
Speaker 1: more relationships with girlfriends or a serious relationship with a partner,
Speaker 1: just love in general that would always stay on there,
Speaker 1: and another one is like a growth growth thing for me.
Speaker 1: I had a ironically a TikTok I watched, like everybody
Speaker 1: always kind of jokes and they're like, dang, this TikTok
Speaker 1: is attacking me. But there was one that pops up
Speaker 1: on my feed and I was like, oh, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: haven't thought or heard of that in that way before.
Speaker 1: That really made me think about something just in my
Speaker 1: past relationships and things I've gone through, and the fact
Speaker 1: like basically because I've been in a nutshell, what I'm
Speaker 1: What I felt was this therapist was talking about how
Speaker 1: if you've been through a B and C, your body
Speaker 1: will live in basically like constant fight or flight mode
Speaker 1: and you won't realize that that's happening. And they started
Speaker 1: listening off all these ways that you live in fight
Speaker 1: or fly, and I was like, holy crap, that's me.
Speaker 1: Like I've genuinely been living my life in fight or
Speaker 1: flight and I didn't even know it because of past
Speaker 1: trauma things that I've gone through in relationships specifically, And
Speaker 1: so next year will be to definitely try and break
Speaker 1: out of that fight or flight. I think I've started
Speaker 1: to I can kind of feel it, you know, when
Speaker 1: you can feel like your life kind of changing, you
Speaker 1: feel things or happening. Yes, something's going on, and I've
Speaker 1: felt that, but I do feel like in the next year,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping I can kind of like genuinely break out
Speaker 1: of that entirely. And so, but that was new that
Speaker 1: just happened in the last few days where I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I really need to like dive into this and look
Speaker 1: at this a little bit more. And so I think
Speaker 1: that would be on there too, and more volunteer work
Speaker 1: for Rimy and I because she is loving being a
Speaker 1: therapy dog and that is so rewarding for both of
Speaker 1: us and it just fills both our cups. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think those would all be on there. And I
Speaker 1: think that, yeah, if you can work on getting out
Speaker 1: of that, if you realize that your brain was stuck
Speaker 1: in that, it's gonna be so freeing you'll start to
Speaker 1: process of differently. Yes, And I'm scared because I know
Speaker 1: it's going to be like really terrifying because I think
Speaker 1: I've gotten into that to protect myself because of how
Speaker 1: much pain I've gone through. But yeah, I gotta get
Speaker 1: out of it. Gotta get out of the pain. And
Speaker 1: it's a weird it's a weird thing. I think it's
Speaker 1: just a little part of me because I don't think
Speaker 1: I've been living in pain for a while. I just
Speaker 1: think it's been inside of me and just kind of
Speaker 1: sitting there. It's like a little angel on my shoulder
Speaker 1: that's just kind of been hanging out for a while.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating what our brains can do to protect us,
Speaker 1: and they're doing it without It's not like you tell
Speaker 1: your brain, oh, okay, I would like to protect myself today,
Speaker 1: so send me into fight flight or freeze please. Your
Speaker 1: brain is just doing it. And so the encouragement though,
Speaker 1: in the beauty of it is you know you can
Speaker 1: rewire your brain. So but you have to put in
Speaker 1: the work. Yes, And it's just another thing to add
Speaker 1: to my to do list of things I need to do.
Speaker 1: You need to put a big brain on your vision board.
Speaker 1: I do how to do list. It'll be like laundry, vacuum, also,
Speaker 1: work on your brain, a little bit of classicity. Let's
Speaker 1: do all these things. So I think those did I
Speaker 1: did I spark anything that might be added to yours?
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, I need to add this, I would
Speaker 1: add another movie for acting in some way. I guess
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be another movie, but maybe if
Speaker 1: the Holiday Harmony movie from this year gets a sequel,
Speaker 1: there would be part two, yes, and I would assume
Speaker 1: it would come next Christmas, so that means filming would
Speaker 1: maybe be in May. So I don't know. Am I
Speaker 1: putting Holiday Harmony Part two on the vision board or
Speaker 1: just really any auditions or putting myself out there for
Speaker 1: different things. And part of that is trying to also
Speaker 1: move past the some of the fear that I have.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, well I can be proactive. I think
Speaker 1: there's some times in my career where I've been very
Speaker 1: reactive and passive and just like okay, well if this
Speaker 1: comes to me, dada, but really putting myself out there
Speaker 1: more and putting things into different buckets. So I'm trying
Speaker 1: to visualize a lot of different buckets and if I
Speaker 1: can do certain things. But I mean I have my
Speaker 1: family bucket. That means I want to deposit things in
Speaker 1: there too. It's not just all career buckets, but a
Speaker 1: bucket for myself because you know, I want to deposit
Speaker 1: there as well. And yeah, I see different buckets, and
Speaker 1: one of those buckets would be acting in some form
Speaker 1: or fashion. You know what I was just thinking about
Speaker 1: hearing you talk about your daughter a little bit ago,
Speaker 1: and you talking about the fear thing that you're working through.
Speaker 1: I think it's really cool to see and the just
Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't know what just caught on
Speaker 1: for me that when you were talking about all of it,
Speaker 1: that you you know, you chose your daughter when you
Speaker 1: made the adoption process in a way when you guys
Speaker 1: were going through that, and she is so fearless and
Speaker 1: she is so putting herself out there, and it's almost
Speaker 1: like you have this tiny human in your life. She's
Speaker 1: not tiny anymore, but this tiny human in your life
Speaker 1: who's teaching you that while you're working through that, and
Speaker 1: you're seeing her do that every day, and now you're
Speaker 1: working through that to make sure that you can do
Speaker 1: that every day almost with her. Yeah, No, it is neat.
Speaker 1: I think I have my own little living inspiration. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: this kind of combination of just how everything works out,
Speaker 1: and it's cool to see kind of the full like
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm witnessing kind of this full circle
Speaker 1: moment for you that something not only was it going
Speaker 1: to impact the rest of your life in multiple different ways,
Speaker 1: but in such a very vulnerable and personal way for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the kids are gifts to me. For sure. I have
Speaker 1: learned more about myself and becoming their mom than I
Speaker 1: ever could have, you know, not yea in our life,
Speaker 1: and I would I didn't think that. I thought, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure parents say this a lot, but especially
Speaker 1: in the adoption process and different things that you may
Speaker 1: well you actually you may encounter some different struggles with
Speaker 1: biological children. But I know for sure my experience with
Speaker 1: adoption has stretched me and grown me. And you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: because I've been willing to go there, I've had to
Speaker 1: face some stuff from my childhood that you know, and
Speaker 1: things I needed to work through so that I could
Speaker 1: be a better mom to them that they needed to be.
Speaker 1: And I don't know without them, I don't know that
Speaker 1: I would have gone there. So I love their gift. Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to show from an outsiders perspective that I
Speaker 1: think it's really cool what's happening. Thank you getting to
Speaker 1: see a witness it's pretty awesome. We also had four
Speaker 1: king in Country on the show week and they were
Speaker 1: so good and their interview was really fun, but more
Speaker 1: than anything, their performance of Little Drummer Boy, which just
Speaker 1: it will put you in the Christmas spirit immediately. And
Speaker 1: if you it's it's kind of going viral on our
Speaker 1: Instagram right now, and if you want to go and
Speaker 1: watch the full thing, it's on our YouTube page at
Speaker 1: Bobby Bones dot com. But Amy has a special kind
Speaker 1: of connection to for King and Country, and I want
Speaker 1: you to share that because I think you got to
Speaker 1: talk about a little bit in the interview, but not entirely. Well,
Speaker 1: I well, I'm friends with their cousin and so we
Speaker 1: our families hang out, and I've known for a long
Speaker 1: time how crazy talented they are. Their whole family is
Speaker 1: insanely talented. It's the cousin also talented. Yes he he's
Speaker 1: no longer in a band, but he was. And then
Speaker 1: their sisters Rebecca Saint James, she's like a super successful
Speaker 1: Christian artist. In fact, Joel and I were talking after
Speaker 1: the performance and he's like, I used to be her roadie,
Speaker 1: Like I was her road guy. I was doing everything
Speaker 1: for her. And that was before they realized they were
Speaker 1: going to eat and form a band and go try
Speaker 1: to do their own thing, and he showed that they're
Speaker 1: working on a really cool movie about their family. They
Speaker 1: just have a very very interesting life and they are
Speaker 1: solid people from if you happen to be a fan
Speaker 1: of them, if you're wondering, well, are they really as
Speaker 1: awesome as they seem? The answer is yes, they really
Speaker 1: really are. And I'm thankful to know them and their
Speaker 1: family and that you know that they made their way
Speaker 1: to the States from Australia, because I mean, what a
Speaker 1: gift that they have. And yeah, that in studio performance
Speaker 1: probably is one of the top performances we've ever had
Speaker 1: in all the years that we've been doing this, you know.
Speaker 1: And I got introduced to for King and Country when
Speaker 1: I first moved to Nashville and we had one of
Speaker 1: the pop stations here does a suicide prevention concert and
Speaker 1: it was the first year they were putting it on,
Speaker 1: and all of the acts were obviously coming to perform
Speaker 1: for free, and Working in Country was one of them
Speaker 1: on there, and I was doing social media for the
Speaker 1: event and taking photos and all that stuff, and I
Speaker 1: remember watching them performed and it nearly stopped me in
Speaker 1: my tracks. Never heard of him before in my life,
Speaker 1: first time experience. There's multiple different kinds of artists that
Speaker 1: came and performed at this like charity event, and they
Speaker 1: were my favorite by far. And ever since then, like,
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed watching their journey, I've enjoyed seeing the collaborations
Speaker 1: they've put out with. I know they have a collap
Speaker 1: with Dolly, Yes, Like that's how talented they are that
Speaker 1: Dolly was like, I want to work with you. And
Speaker 1: it's just really cool to see because that was kind
Speaker 1: of the beginning of their career when they had come.
Speaker 1: They were still smaller at the time, but he still
Speaker 1: had I'm not sure which band member, what his name was,
Speaker 1: but he still had the little microwave instrument. He was
Speaker 1: still using that that was still like and I see
Speaker 1: microwave intriment. That's obviously not what it is, but that's
Speaker 1: what everybody likes to call it online because it sort
Speaker 1: of looks like it looks like a microwave. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: And that's Joel playing that. Yes, and he had that
Speaker 1: and so like, they've stayed true to so much of
Speaker 1: their roots and just a cool experience to see them
Speaker 1: like now in studio also as well, performing even more
Speaker 1: better than when I first saw them perform, So like
Speaker 1: just totally crazy, and I want to know too. Any
Speaker 1: that you are cool with sharing, but do you have
Speaker 1: other like special connections to artists that we don't really
Speaker 1: know about because you're obviously not going to post about
Speaker 1: them all the time if they're your friends or you're
Speaker 1: hanging out with people, and you don't have to share
Speaker 1: them if you don't want to. But I figure out
Speaker 1: to give a little behind the scenes of maybe Amy's life.
Speaker 1: There's some, but yeah, I don't. Some that are sometimes
Speaker 1: occasionally a text with someone that is like very famous
Speaker 1: or to my childhood self or my younger self, and
Speaker 1: now we're in this space so it's like, oh, well
Speaker 1: this is interesting and that felt weird, but I won't.
Speaker 1: And then others that are rising stars that I feel
Speaker 1: as though one day I hope they knock get out
Speaker 1: of the park and have so much success, but we'll
Speaker 1: be able to think back early on in our friendship.
Speaker 1: One that comes to mind as Britney Spencer. I met
Speaker 1: her at a grocery store and we became friends. She
Speaker 1: was the only one. She worked at a natural food
Speaker 1: store where she made juice, and I would go in
Speaker 1: most every day and want to get beat juice. And
Speaker 1: I liked beat juice, lemon and ginger, and she always
Speaker 1: made the perfect ratio. Her combo was spot on. It
Speaker 1: always tasted really good because you get too much ginger
Speaker 1: and like, ah, it's it's a lot. So I got
Speaker 1: to know her that way, and I would always come
Speaker 1: in and she would know. She'd be like, I got
Speaker 1: you at me, I'm gonna make it. And then she
Speaker 1: never revealed that she did music. I had no idea
Speaker 1: she was an artist or even thinking about trying to
Speaker 1: be an artist. And then just the relationship evolved and developed,
Speaker 1: and we started following each other on Instagram and we
Speaker 1: started DM ing, and then she came up to me
Speaker 1: at the grocery store one day. Actually we hadn't been
Speaker 1: following each other yet because I didn't know I didn't
Speaker 1: know her Instagram yet. She came up to me and said, Hey,
Speaker 1: just wanted to you know, I'm not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to make your juice anymore. I'm hitting the road. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do some background singing for some people, So
Speaker 1: I'm going on tour as a background singer. And I thought,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I had no idea what you've even singing?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, give me your Instagram, like let's
Speaker 1: keep in touch. And so that's what we did. We
Speaker 1: started dm ing and then that evolved into from background
Speaker 1: singing to the next thing note to her now doing
Speaker 1: her own thing and having songs and singing with Marion Morris.
Speaker 1: And Marion Morris played at Bridgetone Arena a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago and Brittany opened for her and for Brittany,
Speaker 1: Marin was one of her idols, like completely Look, so
Speaker 1: Brittany is pinching herself all the time. And Brittany is
Speaker 1: a huge blessing to our family too, because you know,
Speaker 1: my children are black. I'm white, Brittany's black. My daughter
Speaker 1: has hair things that I will never understand because I
Speaker 1: can't I'm don't have the same type of hair at all.
Speaker 1: And so Brittany will come over at you know, at
Speaker 1: the drop of the hat and be like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: got you. We can fix this. She hooks me up
Speaker 1: with different hair people that she In fact, we have
Speaker 1: an appointment tomorrow with the squirrel Jade that Britney hooked
Speaker 1: us up with. Brittany took my daughter to Lizzo. She
Speaker 1: just makes she is involved with making sure that she's
Speaker 1: present and especially my daughter's life, because I think it's
Speaker 1: important for to have someone that she can talk to
Speaker 1: you about certain things that her white mom is not
Speaker 1: going to understand at all whatsoever. And so Britney has
Speaker 1: been a gift and it's just kind of cool that
Speaker 1: it started at the grocery store years and years ago.
Speaker 1: And I even did that in Nicole kidmin event not
Speaker 1: too long ago. And I had no idea when I
Speaker 1: booked it that Brittany was going to be seeing the
Speaker 1: performer for the night, not even opening it, and Nicole
Speaker 1: had hand picked her for the evening. She had said,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was talking to some people about
Speaker 1: the flow of the night, and I had been with
Speaker 1: Nicole sort of all throughout the day because we had
Speaker 1: an afternoon thing we had to do and then the
Speaker 1: thing at night, and I some of the people that
Speaker 1: were putting it together said, oh yeah, Nicole said specifically,
Speaker 1: we need to get Britney Spencer for this, and so
Speaker 1: then I got to hang out with her like a
Speaker 1: work thing, and that was a really cool moment being
Speaker 1: backstage before she went out. I felt like I was
Speaker 1: grinning ear to ear and watching someone really, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe this. Look at you. You used to
Speaker 1: be making my beat juice, slim and ginger a situation
Speaker 1: and now she's up there at which speaking of songs
Speaker 1: and writing, um, you know my podcast Outweigh, which is
Speaker 1: released every Saturday that's dedicated to eating disorder recovery or
Speaker 1: body image issues. Brittany and I co wrote the song
Speaker 1: that plays at the beginning of that episode, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: she came up with the melody, and then Stashier and
Speaker 1: Brittany and I wrote it together, and it's like, I
Speaker 1: won't let my body outweigh outweigh everything that I'm made of.
Speaker 1: And then there's this first where we could talk about
Speaker 1: missing out on family meals around the table because what
Speaker 1: grandma made is bad and we're not able, and it
Speaker 1: I just I love that we put that song together
Speaker 1: and it that's that's my story about Rising Star that
Speaker 1: I hope she just blows up and is amazing. But
Speaker 1: some of the bigger ones, I don't know. It's weird
Speaker 1: sometimes if they send a text, but it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm you know, hanging out with them. Well, what I'm
Speaker 1: hearing in these two things is that you are now
Speaker 1: a songwriter and you Brittany and Nicole kim and are
Speaker 1: our best friends. Oh yeah, that's exactly what I said.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I heard. That's it. Yeah, sorry, I've
Speaker 1: totally rambled. But Britney's I love it. I love it
Speaker 1: being the host of women of I Heart Country too.
Speaker 1: You love seeing women like do their thing and getting
Speaker 1: to pursue their dreams and do what they love and um,
Speaker 1: it's cool to watch. Yeah, And that's just one example.
Speaker 1: Britney's one example. But I mean if if I did more,
Speaker 1: we'd be here all day. Yes, hey, and one day
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll get them all out of amy, don't
Speaker 1: you worry, and we'll share all. So I don't mean
Speaker 1: one example of just like in my life. I just
Speaker 1: mean one example of women that's quite see like killing
Speaker 1: them both. But I also get more stories out of
Speaker 1: you another day. But yes, I agree. I love seeing
Speaker 1: ladies out there killing it and also ladies supporting other
Speaker 1: women and that's really cool. So we also had the
Speaker 1: draft of Christmas songs this week. You won halla, I
Speaker 1: never win drafts. Yeah, so proud. I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about some other Christmas songs that like I wanted to choose.
Speaker 1: There's just so many, especially because we were being very
Speaker 1: specific in choosing artists. And I'll let you think see
Speaker 1: if there's any that like you would have chose. Hard
Speaker 1: Candy Christmas from Dolly Parton was a missed opportunity for me.
Speaker 1: I feel like I should have chosen that. Yeah, that's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. Where are You Christmas? From faith Hill?
Speaker 1: Have you heard that one? The one in the Grinch
Speaker 1: I have. I don't know, I might have to look
Speaker 1: that one up. So it's the Jim Carrey the Grinch Halla,
Speaker 1: Grinchhill Christmas And she's like, where are you Chrismas. It's
Speaker 1: like the little girl seeing it. But then faith Hill
Speaker 1: did like a rendition for like the movie or whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: great song, great Christmas song. Have yourself a Merry Little
Speaker 1: Christmas from Judy Garland. Do you know that one? Yes?
Speaker 1: Of course Judy Garland. She also did The Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 1: She was the um What was the song? Rainbow? The
Speaker 1: Rainbow were some? Yeah? The Rainbow that one? Um? Then
Speaker 1: another one Santa tell Me from Ariana Grande. Have you
Speaker 1: heard that one? No? But I'm not the biggest ariana
Speaker 1: grande fan day. I know it's weird. I know, I
Speaker 1: know it's okay, it's like, hey, hit or miss. The
Speaker 1: rest of these are kind of like some pop artists.
Speaker 1: Mistletoe from Justin Bieber, Oh, yes, so good. I feel
Speaker 1: that one totally should have made it. That one is
Speaker 1: a jail. I have that on my list and I
Speaker 1: didn't do it to listen to that one this week, right,
Speaker 1: and then I'll be home for Christmas. And this one
Speaker 1: stop pop which is Being Crosby and nobody chose a
Speaker 1: Being Crosby song, and he's like big mister Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's mister Christmas before Brett Eldridge was Mister Christmas. Which, okay,
Speaker 1: I had to look up. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is what Dolly was singing about, but I just got curious.
Speaker 1: What is hard candy Christmas mean? And it says the
Speaker 1: phrase hard candy Christmas refers to a time when families
Speaker 1: who did not have much money could only afford to
Speaker 1: give hard candy or penny candy to their children for Christmas.
Speaker 1: The hard candy metaphor suggests that life can simultaneously be
Speaker 1: hard and sweet, oh, which you know, Dolly grew up
Speaker 1: extremely poor. Um so anyway, I don't. She was just
Speaker 1: thinking about like hard cana. Now there's like this a
Speaker 1: whole meaning behind but it's I mean that, I mean
Speaker 1: hard and sweet, but like you're doing you're doing your
Speaker 1: best to do it. But of course, in true Dolly fashion,
Speaker 1: there is a much bigger meaning behind the song. And
Speaker 1: then it says, here, okay, is hard Candy Christmas really
Speaker 1: a Christmas song? And apparently Dolly never considered it to
Speaker 1: be about Christmas at all. She said, it's kind of
Speaker 1: funny that people think it's a Christmas song and it's
Speaker 1: really not. But it's as Christmas in the title, I know.
Speaker 1: She said, here, it's really let me sorry an ad
Speaker 1: pop definitely so annoying. It's really just about people having
Speaker 1: hard times and saying it's like a hard candy Christmas,
Speaker 1: like when you're so poor that all you get for
Speaker 1: Christmas is a piece of hard candy. But then it
Speaker 1: is about Christmas, it is, but you can use it
Speaker 1: year round. How about that, Like, well, it's like a
Speaker 1: hard candy Christmas. It can be you know. I really
Speaker 1: like hearing the stories beshind songs. But then sometimes I
Speaker 1: hear and I'm like, that is not what I wanted
Speaker 1: it to be. And now I don't want to know
Speaker 1: this because you kind of put your own meaning to songs, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: And then what did you think Hard Candy Christmas was about?
Speaker 1: I don't know, honestly, I just always sing it and
Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought it was generally about like
Speaker 1: hard candy and like Christmas time, and I don't know
Speaker 1: it is it is, but clearly there's more meaning behind
Speaker 1: us than that. So now now that I know she
Speaker 1: doesn't consider her Christmas song, but I didn't choose it.
Speaker 1: But when I was shocked you didn't choose with George
Speaker 1: Strait's song Christmas Cookies, I know I almost did. Did
Speaker 1: you have it on your list? I did, But then
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know that everybody's gonna love
Speaker 1: this because I don't know that everybody knows it, And
Speaker 1: then I don't know that they're gonna love it, so
Speaker 1: I just kind of had to go with the hits.
Speaker 1: I mean, you did great, obviously you won, but I
Speaker 1: Christmas heck, yeah, that was that was like a third round.
Speaker 1: That was a big third round pick. And I didn't
Speaker 1: even have that on my list. I was surprised nobody
Speaker 1: picked it because that I've already played that a million
Speaker 1: times this holiday season. Yeah, yes, so many. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about Christmas songs for a second.
Speaker 1: Maybe we just added some more to people's playlist they
Speaker 1: could have this week coming up. And speaking of getting
Speaker 1: in the Christmas spirit, we have the y Old Tide
Speaker 1: Carolers on this week and they sang a great rendition
Speaker 1: of Red Nosed Reindeer about Lunchbox in the show and
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. Abby is part of the Yuld Tide Carolers
Speaker 1: and this was her first time performing with them on
Speaker 1: our show and that was super fun. But I want
Speaker 1: to know what you're going to be doing this Christmas.
Speaker 1: What do your plans look like for the Christmas holiday?
Speaker 1: Amy going to Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Ooh okay? And will
Speaker 1: you guys open presents on Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day? Yes,
Speaker 1: we do, Christmas Day. My kids are begging to open
Speaker 1: one present this coming weekend or this weekend as people
Speaker 1: are listening to this like a whole week before Christmas. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this weird tradition? They're like, please,
Speaker 1: and so probably gonna do that. Somehow they've convinced me that, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll do that, But then everything else would beat Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to be snowing a ton or what the weather is
Speaker 1: going to be. Like, I want to read a lot,
Speaker 1: cozy by the fire, spend time with family, maybe go skiing.
Speaker 1: I haven't decided yet. It's a lot of work to
Speaker 1: go skiing. And some people my family are avid skiers
Speaker 1: and they are really really good, and I'm just chill.
Speaker 1: I'm not horrible, but I just cruise, take the time,
Speaker 1: having fun. I don't want to go do anything too calm.
Speaker 1: If every once in a while it's fun to have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a challenge, but I'm not looking
Speaker 1: for that the whole time. And then it's so much work,
Speaker 1: all the clothes and getting up to the mountain and
Speaker 1: then being so cold, and then but I'm sure I'll
Speaker 1: get suckered into going at least one day. Dear kids
Speaker 1: like to go skiing. No, they've tried it and they
Speaker 1: hated it. Being from Haiti, they were like, what is
Speaker 1: this freezing cold white stuff? But they both have said
Speaker 1: they might give it another go. They've they've tried it
Speaker 1: multiple times. I think the last time we went they
Speaker 1: just didn't do it at all. And then but this
Speaker 1: year I guess because they had a break because COVID
Speaker 1: and different things. They're like, you know, if it's a
Speaker 1: good weather day, then we'll give it a go. I
Speaker 1: like it. At least they keep trying it. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you can look into like snowmobiling for them, Maybe that's
Speaker 1: more there. Yeah, speed, maybe it's snowmobiling a thing and
Speaker 1: Pugosa springs. Yeah, people have those sort ofmentalm or go
Speaker 1: do something. Um we I got Stevenson some He's not
Speaker 1: gonna be listening to this, so he won't know. But
Speaker 1: for Christmas, I got him some electric gloves that charge
Speaker 1: and so maybe that will help keep him warm. Because
Speaker 1: my children, seriously, the cold gets so bad. It's not
Speaker 1: just like oh I'm cold, it's cold and they start crying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so that's how you know they're hurt. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: they were raised an entirely different environment than that. It
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, Well, I like I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this because and maybe if you hear this, it'll it'll
Speaker 1: make you think of something. But I was thinking of
Speaker 1: like the evolution of Christmas is over time, and how
Speaker 1: like it started when I was probably like I don't know,
Speaker 1: from like one to ten years old, it was like
Speaker 1: first thing in the morning, we woke up at like
Speaker 1: six am. There were stockings stuffed and it was like
Speaker 1: we checked about you know, Santa's cookies and everything he
Speaker 1: ate and did the reindeer eat their food that we
Speaker 1: laid out for them, and the whole like show baying
Speaker 1: of Christmas. And then from like ten to fifteen, it
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, we got up a little bit later
Speaker 1: because we liked to sleep in and we'd open up
Speaker 1: all our presents. Still made sure to open up all
Speaker 1: the presents before it was food time. And then like
Speaker 1: then it was like fifteen to twenty, and it got
Speaker 1: a little bit later. We stopped waking up quite as early.
Speaker 1: And then like now twenties to thirties, it's like we
Speaker 1: roll out of bed. When we roll out of bed,
Speaker 1: we might get dressed up, we might not wear any
Speaker 1: makeup or anything. You just never know what everybody's feeling
Speaker 1: that day. And then we'll maybe open a few gifts
Speaker 1: and then we'll eat lunch in the afternoon time. And
Speaker 1: obviously the toys and the gifts and stuff that people
Speaker 1: get have evolved too. But I was just thinking about
Speaker 1: how it it's fun to look back and see how
Speaker 1: your Christmas evolves over your life and like the things
Speaker 1: that have happened. And as you get older, do you
Speaker 1: like look at yours and doll and you're like, Wow,
Speaker 1: mine's really like shifted and changed over time. I feel like,
Speaker 1: at least for the past fifteen years, mine has been
Speaker 1: very much the same, except for adding kids to the
Speaker 1: mix five years ago. But we've been going to Colorado
Speaker 1: for a very long time. But see what I love
Speaker 1: that that's a really strong tradition. And then I mean,
Speaker 1: I think back to my try. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't have strong Christmas memories with I mean going to
Speaker 1: Alabama to visit my grandma and my cousins on my
Speaker 1: mom's side, that's mostly what I remember to be a
Speaker 1: very and my grandma had this silver gold you know
Speaker 1: those vintage, but hers is a legit vintage. I kind
Speaker 1: of wish that she when she passed away, I inherited it.
Speaker 1: I don't know where it is now, but it would
Speaker 1: probably sell for so much money. Now, except for my
Speaker 1: grandma smoked like all day long, and so it probably
Speaker 1: smelled really really bad. Oh yeah, and bowling. We would
Speaker 1: always go bowling around Christmas time because my grandmother was
Speaker 1: the manager of a bowling alley. She worked nights. What
Speaker 1: wasn't in bowling alleies my my mom's family, I think
Speaker 1: as my mom's filming or my dad's they owned a
Speaker 1: bowling alley. Yeah, what what was the thing in bowling alleys? Then?
Speaker 1: I don't know. My grandma just loved a bowl and
Speaker 1: she thought, I'm here all the time at night, might
Speaker 1: as well manage this place and get paid to be here.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it makes sense. And so that's where
Speaker 1: he would hang out. She would give a bunch of
Speaker 1: quarters to go play video games or then we would bowl,
Speaker 1: and there was a nursery there and everyone was allowed
Speaker 1: to smoke. My okay, my cousins like spent time in
Speaker 1: the bowling alley nursery. Okay, because my aunt would join
Speaker 1: the league with my grandma. And yeah, I've talked about
Speaker 1: it with my cousins. Now we're like, this is all
Speaker 1: so bizarre. Could you imagine right now going to a
Speaker 1: smoke filled bowling alley and dropping your baby off in
Speaker 1: the Bowling Alley nursery. I got quite the image going
Speaker 1: on in my head. Yes, that's amazing. And that's where
Speaker 1: my grandma taught my sister how to play cards, and
Speaker 1: because they would sit around and just smoke play cards
Speaker 1: in this back room. But we did get unlimited fountain drinks,
Speaker 1: so that was cool. Well, that's exciting as a kid
Speaker 1: when your grandma's a manager. You got the hook up.
Speaker 1: I don't know what are you doing? Are you going
Speaker 1: to Kansas? Yeah, I'm making the twelve hour drive back
Speaker 1: to Kansas. It's gonna be rough, but we're gonna do
Speaker 1: it and spend time with family, a lot of family time.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen my niece and nephew for a year,
Speaker 1: since last Christmas. I'm very excited to see them and
Speaker 1: spend some time with them. And after Christmas and that
Speaker 1: whole holiday, I'll be going up to Colorado for some
Speaker 1: snowboarding as well. Oh yeah, and then back in for
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve and back to work after that. We're
Speaker 1: in Colorado, my best friend lives in Denver, and then
Speaker 1: I think we're going to drive up and go to
Speaker 1: Veil for snowboarding. Oh yeah, that sounds so fancy. I know,
Speaker 1: I've never been to Vail. I'm like, okay, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: do it. You know, I'm trying to make sure I
Speaker 1: just do more things. Yes, me trying to just continue
Speaker 1: to keep doing more. And so I haven't snowboard since
Speaker 1: I was in college, and I've been wanting to go back.
Speaker 1: And so we're at least spending one day. The other
Speaker 1: two days we might just be hanging out exploring Denver,
Speaker 1: but one of those we're gonna go up and snowboard
Speaker 1: in Bail. But we also got it before the prices
Speaker 1: went to like three hundred a day. It was like
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks when we bought our tickets, I was like, score,
Speaker 1: that's great for me. Yeah for a day pass, yes,
Speaker 1: I can handle that. I can handle that, But like
Speaker 1: three hundred for a day pass a little too much.
Speaker 1: So we did get those early. But yeah, that'll it'll
Speaker 1: be a fun one. I'm excited. So I also want
Speaker 1: to end this on a fun We're gonna do a
Speaker 1: quick would you rather? Christmas edition? Okay, so obviously in
Speaker 1: at the number one spot of the best bits this
Speaker 1: weekend is our spicy Christmas Gift Exchange. It was hilarious.
Speaker 1: The whole thing was just fun and a lot of
Speaker 1: things happen. So make sure you can go watch the
Speaker 1: whole thing on our YouTube page or Bobby Bones dot com.
Speaker 1: It's up there. So that's what's coming in at number one.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna end this on a fun little would
Speaker 1: you rather? And we're just gonna do quick. We won't
Speaker 1: debate it. It'll just be kind of is what it is.
Speaker 1: Ready ready open presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
Speaker 1: Christmas morning? Same? Have snow every day in December or
Speaker 1: not at all for Christmas? I guess every day? Same? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're two for two. Go Christmas bar hopping or watch
Speaker 1: Christmas movies. Watch movies. Dang I do bar hopping. I
Speaker 1: love a Christmas pop up. I get suckered in, Okay,
Speaker 1: I spend all the money, cook the Christmas meal or
Speaker 1: clean the dishes I clean? Okay? Same? We are three
Speaker 1: four four. Make a snow angel or a snowball fight.
Speaker 1: Snow Angel. I'm snowball fight mostly because I love hitting
Speaker 1: people with the snowballs. Lots of small presents or one
Speaker 1: big present. Still like this one's hard, but I guess
Speaker 1: one big Okay, all right, Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think I'm going lots of small I love snocks. I
Speaker 1: love getting socks. Would you be Santa's Elf or Santa's
Speaker 1: reindeer Elf? Okay, I think I'm going reindeer because they
Speaker 1: can find the sky. True, But you get to, like,
Speaker 1: I guess, live at the North Pole any cookies? All
Speaker 1: probably take a sleigh ride or go ice skating. Oh
Speaker 1: why am I thinking overthinking this one? Sleigh ride? I know, right,
Speaker 1: business lay ride sound cool? If it were with actual reindeer,
Speaker 1: I think I would do that. If it was just
Speaker 1: like with a horse, then I want to I'd go
Speaker 1: ice skating. Yeah. Christmas dress up like you dress up
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day or Christmas pjas. Oh, both are so
Speaker 1: good pick because I've done both, and like last year
Speaker 1: for Christmas, we dressed up and went to like a
Speaker 1: really nice restaurant for dinner, Bourbon Steak here in Nashville,
Speaker 1: which is it's so awesome. The view is amazing, and
Speaker 1: everybody got dressed up and we sat around the table
Speaker 1: and it was so much fun. Um. But also I
Speaker 1: love being my pajamas at home, so I know, sorry
Speaker 1: I ruined this question for you. I'm not choosing both.
Speaker 1: I'm holding you too, Amy. You have to choose one.
Speaker 1: You have to choose one. Okay, fine, pajamas at home, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think I would choose pjs over
Speaker 1: everything normally anyway, because I just love staying at home.
Speaker 1: But well, anything for joining me and Merry early Christmas.
Speaker 1: Ho yes, tell the people where they can find you.
Speaker 1: Listen to you all that good stuff on Instagram, at
Speaker 1: Radio Amy and then the podcast world four Things with
Speaker 1: Amy Brown and then Outweigh which we talked about earlier
Speaker 1: and like Women of by Heart Country. But I do
Speaker 1: have a website, Radioamy dot com. That's another goal for
Speaker 1: my for twenty twenty three is to start to update
Speaker 1: that more. Oh yeah, make up more of a resource
Speaker 1: for people with links and that all the things. But
Speaker 1: that's just another layer of that's more about bandwidth, not
Speaker 1: like Internet bandwidth, but just capacity to get something like
Speaker 1: that done human bandwidth. But maybe I'll put my website
Speaker 1: on my vision board. I love it. Okay, we're at
Speaker 1: in the website. We go to Radioamy dot com and
Speaker 1: I am at web Grolmorgan on all of the things.
Speaker 1: Lots of content and stuff up there for you guys all,
Speaker 1: and of course the show at Bobby Bones Show and
Speaker 1: you can see all the videos we're talking about at
Speaker 1: Bobby bones dot com. Y'all. Thank you guys for hanging
Speaker 1: out with us all year. I hope you have the
Speaker 1: best holiday season. It's been fun twenty twenty two. I
Speaker 1: know we're all looking forward to twenty twenty three, but
Speaker 1: mostly for a few weeks off in the holiday season.
Speaker 1: So Merry Christmas, everyone, Merry Christmas. We love y'all. Bye, huh.