Speaker 1: The Best Bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2: It's Listener Q and DA time.
Speaker 1: We're Morgan in a show member answer almost all your questions.
Speaker 2: Listener Q and A time.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the weekend best Bits. But technically it's twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, Scuba, so frame of mind, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're in the new year, but we're not
Speaker 1: in the near but we're in the new year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little mind, but we're working with it.
Speaker 1: My truer.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to start with some shout outs here
Speaker 3: for listener Q and A.
Speaker 1: Listener Q and A is my favorite one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for dang not us talking to each other and.
Speaker 1: Just having that's cool too, But this is where we
Speaker 1: get a lot of positive reinforcement and feedback that we
Speaker 1: don't normally. Guess it's cool to hear it from people.
Speaker 2: Oh you like the shout out?
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, let's roll with it.
Speaker 3: Can he do more singing? Every time I listen to Harty,
Speaker 3: I want to hear Scuba, Steve Screen. Okay, thanks Scuba
Speaker 3: for always making me laugh when I hear you laugh.
Speaker 3: Heather from California, Heather Scuba, Actually he wrote he wrote it.
Speaker 2: How I did Scubauba.
Speaker 3: It's my favorite on Best Bits, Max from Massachusetts my
Speaker 3: two faves again, enjoy your holidays and vacations.
Speaker 1: Michelle, Thank you Michelle.
Speaker 2: And then another one.
Speaker 3: Took schoo was advice from earlier this year and changed careers.
Speaker 3: It was scary, but it's been great.
Speaker 1: Dang, that's all I love to hear, like what was
Speaker 1: the career change and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, they only have a teeny tiny little box that
Speaker 2: they give.
Speaker 1: They limit the characters and they at least put their
Speaker 1: name where they're from.
Speaker 2: They did, so when I type these out sometimes they
Speaker 2: like it, like adjusts it okay. And then also they
Speaker 2: have to put in a second box because there is
Speaker 2: such a small box.
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of excuses here.
Speaker 2: It's a small thought the poor people have.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I totally get it. I'm just totally messing around.
Speaker 1: But that's awesome that you went ahead and he or
Speaker 1: she she?
Speaker 2: I do know, what's a she?
Speaker 1: Okay? That she saw something wanted to change and wanted
Speaker 1: to do something she really wanted to do and went
Speaker 1: for it. That's really awesome. I'm really proud of you
Speaker 1: and excited for you. That's pretty bad ass, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: feel good now I feel great now good. And I
Speaker 1: also like to hear that someone took my advice and
Speaker 1: it worked for them. That's really cool.
Speaker 2: What if they took your advice and it didn't work
Speaker 2: out for them?
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you know, you have to try it to
Speaker 1: see it works for you, and if it doesn't, then
Speaker 1: you go back to what you're doing or try.
Speaker 3: All right, Lance would like to know how many pairs
Speaker 3: of Nikes do you own?
Speaker 1: Only Nikes? They don't know about rebox or.
Speaker 2: Only Nike, Fela and Nikes.
Speaker 1: Okay, to how many Nikes I own? Do you consider
Speaker 1: Jordan's Nikes because they're made by the same manufacturer, but
Speaker 1: they're not where they are. He was technical with Nikes.
Speaker 1: You think maybe he meant like shoes in general and these,
Speaker 1: but Nikes because he meant Nikes, Okay, Nikes. It's hard
Speaker 1: for me to figure out in general how many shoes
Speaker 1: I have, and but then even dial it down to Nikes.
Speaker 1: So if I were to close my eyes and just
Speaker 1: look at my closet and what is in there, and
Speaker 1: if I'm only looking at the Nike boxes, which usually
Speaker 1: are those orange boxes that have to check on them, yet, yes,
Speaker 1: and some of the older ones I have are they're
Speaker 1: black boxes. They're the old Nike boxes, which can be
Speaker 1: they just do it, they say, just do it on
Speaker 1: it or Nike. But it could be confusing though, because
Speaker 1: Jordan's boxes are also black boxes with silver on it,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to differentiate that between a Nike box.
Speaker 1: So if I'm just gonna say Nikes, yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: to say probably around fifteen to.
Speaker 2: Twenty Nikes, including Jordan's.
Speaker 1: Not including Jordan's. With Jordan's, you're probably looking at around
Speaker 1: somewhere around forty five to fifty.
Speaker 2: Do you have a closet just for your shoes.
Speaker 1: I have a closet that's divided in half or half
Speaker 1: of them is my shoes, and the other half is
Speaker 1: all my collectibles, like my sports cards and autographs, and
Speaker 1: even like memorabilia from my life from my radio career
Speaker 1: that I've kept over the years, simple things like Mike flags,
Speaker 1: to posters or billboards or concerts that we did, and
Speaker 1: I have those posters or shirts or whatever. Even like
Speaker 1: notes from like an old host where they wrote something
Speaker 1: down that I thought was really funny or cool that
Speaker 1: I kept. That's like a memory. Major pack rat for
Speaker 1: my history of me. I'm a hoarder, that's my wife. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why I would say order, I say collector.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, thanks for the question. Answer.
Speaker 2: What is your personal and professional goal for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: From VICKI personal and professional?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the professional would be me having my own show,
Speaker 1: and we've talked a little bit about that in different
Speaker 1: avenues of our shows of where I want to be.
Speaker 1: But I feel like this would be the year to
Speaker 1: where everything I worked towards of the last eighteen years
Speaker 1: will finally pay off and what I want to do
Speaker 1: in my career, which would be doing my own thing.
Speaker 1: So I feel like twenty twenty five is the year
Speaker 1: where that happens.
Speaker 3: All Right, I can send it out, putting it out
Speaker 3: in the universe that's out there.
Speaker 1: I've been putting out there hardcore for the last year,
Speaker 1: and I feel like this is where it finally comes
Speaker 1: to fruition in twenty twenty five. And then my personal goal,
Speaker 1: which kind of plays into that, because I feel like
Speaker 1: the personal and professional bleeds in so much for me
Speaker 1: that I feel like by having this career goal finally
Speaker 1: being reached, it will make me happier my personal life,
Speaker 1: so that way I can focus on what would personal
Speaker 1: goals be because I've been so focused on the professional
Speaker 1: side of it. And then when you get news that
Speaker 1: isn't quite what you want to hear, or you get
Speaker 1: no news at all, you start creating these scenarios in
Speaker 1: your head. I'm sure you've been there as well too,
Speaker 1: with projects on hold or things that you're working on,
Speaker 1: and you fall down this well, this deep well of
Speaker 1: like negativity and spiraling. I'm like, what's gonna happen? Is
Speaker 1: this even gonna happen? Oh my god? What do I
Speaker 1: and you just don't know? And then in all reality,
Speaker 1: everyone else is like, yeah, I mean you're fine, dude
Speaker 1: or whatever. You just project this world that doesn't exist,
Speaker 1: which I've been doing the last year, and then nothing
Speaker 1: happened this last year, and so I fell down this
Speaker 1: path of like what the am I doing?
Speaker 3: You know this is some super super insider baseball because
Speaker 3: this was not on microphone when we talked, But do
Speaker 3: you take my advice from last time that we talked
Speaker 3: about just human to human?
Speaker 1: Yes? I did, because that was cool because then it
Speaker 1: allowed me to then not focus as much on that,
Speaker 1: which makes my goal of twenty twenty five to be like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is happening. So now I'm spending the
Speaker 1: last month or so and we'll continue for the spoiler
Speaker 1: arts recorded to twenty twenty four the remainder of this
Speaker 1: year preparing and even into next year, preparing for what
Speaker 1: that role is and not so much focusing on is
Speaker 1: it going to happen, but more than anything, getting ready
Speaker 1: for it to happen, but also relishing in the moments
Speaker 1: of like, Okay, life is busy, but not as busy
Speaker 1: as it will be at some point, so I also
Speaker 1: enjoy those smaller moments with my kids and my wife
Speaker 1: and the family and doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Good, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was amazing, be helpful. Yeah, it was very helpful,
Speaker 1: So thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Good. That was super inciting, Like, and that was just
Speaker 3: a human to human conversation Scuba and I were having.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad, but it was helpful. Yeah, and allow
Speaker 1: me to focus on the prize and not worry about
Speaker 1: getting there so much because it's going to happen. It's
Speaker 1: just being ready for it now. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm really ready for it. I'm thinking about it
Speaker 1: in the drive and in moments I have to myself
Speaker 1: or even with my wife, like how can I when
Speaker 1: I get this? I'm speaking as and when when I
Speaker 1: get this? What are some things I want to do?
Speaker 1: What I want to change? How do I want to
Speaker 1: do this already setting up like the first day on
Speaker 1: air of how I want to implement, what that looks like,
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. So I'm ready for it, versus
Speaker 1: like when it happens, it's like, oh my god, for
Speaker 1: the last six months, bitch and complaining about it not happening.
Speaker 1: Now it's here, and now I'm not ready. So now
Speaker 1: I'm like no, no, no, no, I will be ready
Speaker 1: for it once it becomes a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's really hard.
Speaker 3: I mean that was like a personal experience that I
Speaker 3: was leaning on to give you. That advice is like,
Speaker 3: don't sit and wait in all the chaos of it,
Speaker 3: and just start preparing like it's going to come, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then you're prepared for whatever is to come regardless.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, Okay, good?
Speaker 3: Are you the one leaving the show Trisha in Minnesota?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, we don't know what it happens in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 3: I know, listen, I had to throw it in there
Speaker 3: because he's getting asked about you, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: Scuba can answer for himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe Bobby knows something more about my career that
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: It's possible you may know a lot of things than
Speaker 2: any of us know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I did go to him because it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where I guess to say it's without
Speaker 1: giving too much information, but it's always weird to tell
Speaker 1: your your current employer like, hey, love being here, but
Speaker 1: I also want to do something that's not here. And
Speaker 1: most people would be like, oh, well, school, you, you're out.
Speaker 1: But I went to him because I do love what
Speaker 1: I do here, but I also love what I've been
Speaker 1: working towards for the last almost twenty years. And I
Speaker 1: had to be honest with him. The reason why I'm
Speaker 1: not as happy as a human is because I'm not
Speaker 1: doing something that I want to do. And he's even
Speaker 1: dropped nuggets over the last four to five years of like, hey,
Speaker 1: you should consider doing your own show. Hey, one day,
Speaker 1: I want to clip your wings and let you fly.
Speaker 1: So he also has put the in my head of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could do this. Oh, I have the skills to
Speaker 1: do this. Oh I really yeah, I really could do this,
Speaker 1: and just I've been holding myself back by not pursuing it.
Speaker 1: So it was really cool to go to someone like
Speaker 1: him who can then one give me advice to also
Speaker 1: have my back, Like who better to have your back
Speaker 1: than someone like that within the company, And then he
Speaker 1: believes in me, So that's kind of cool. So I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot where I was going with this.
Speaker 2: Hey, we just hyped up Bobby in No, we don't know.
Speaker 2: That's the answer to the question.
Speaker 1: I rely don't know what's going to happen. Yes, but
Speaker 1: it is great that I went to someone that I
Speaker 1: can trust and they didn't shoot me down. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that sounds cool, and then it's like nothing ever came
Speaker 1: of it. No, we actually had conversations and multiple conversations
Speaker 1: of where this could go and how I could work
Speaker 1: on on both shows. Always different thing. I'm giving too
Speaker 1: much information, but I will say that I have full
Speaker 1: support within my show and within the company, which is great.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I feel like twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: will be the will be a pretty awesome year, five.
Speaker 3: Year year Scooter year year, speaking of twenty twenty five, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and what could be coming? Have you worked on your script?
Speaker 3: All James in New York would like to know.
Speaker 1: I have not. No, I haven't worked on it, probably
Speaker 1: in a lot. Last time I actually legitimately worked on
Speaker 1: it was right when I first moved to LA in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, and I called like three of my closest
Speaker 1: friends and I was like, we should start setting up
Speaker 1: a And at the time, a big Google shared doc
Speaker 1: type program was called ever Note. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I worked with ever Note.
Speaker 2: Ever know was familiar, but I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So it had like this like elephant logo on it,
Speaker 1: and it was back before Google Docs was was really
Speaker 1: a thing or really took off. And so it's like
Speaker 1: any that's a version of that where we share docs.
Speaker 1: So I always created this shared space we all type
Speaker 1: in character development ideas for characters, you know, how we
Speaker 1: see the first but so playing out. So we had
Speaker 1: like an initial meeting in twenty fifteen, did that, and
Speaker 1: then I got the job with Ryan Seacrest and I
Speaker 1: just haven't looked.
Speaker 2: Back mostly been nine years too.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know it's a.
Speaker 2: Lot of life very long time.
Speaker 3: Well, it happened because there's people who start scripts and
Speaker 3: they don't finish them for decades, so exactly what was
Speaker 3: a possibility?
Speaker 1: Or even songs where someone will write a song and
Speaker 1: they put it down and they don't get to it
Speaker 1: till Like trying to think if there was an artist
Speaker 1: recently we had on in the last year where they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: had the song. I hadn't touched it, and ten years
Speaker 1: later I was like, Oh, and they work on it
Speaker 1: and they have a different perspective ten years later and
Speaker 1: it becomes this massive hit.
Speaker 3: True, but if the direction of your career is heading
Speaker 3: in the way, if your career's head in the direction
Speaker 3: that you believe it's going to be, I fear the
Speaker 3: script will continue to be on the back burner for
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But I also feel like too that when I
Speaker 1: do it and I'm able to focus on my show,
Speaker 1: I feel like it will allow for a little bit
Speaker 1: more time to focus on things that are about me
Speaker 1: as well. Like right now, my focus is totally setting
Speaker 1: up and making sure the show and one person is
Speaker 1: fully successful in all different ways of content to revenue,
Speaker 1: to perception, everything, Whereas when it's just me. I feel
Speaker 1: like at least if it's just me, then I'll be
Speaker 1: able to focus on my show, do my thing, and
Speaker 1: then I'll have a little more free time to work
Speaker 1: on the show slash other things I want to work on.
Speaker 1: Right right now, it's all encompassing of like twelve different lives.
Speaker 2: In the Show's possible. I'm optimistic, Okay, we like optimism here, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twenty five optimism, pessimism. Catch back, Yeah, catch
Speaker 1: up with me later in the year and see where
Speaker 1: we're really at.
Speaker 2: But right now, right now, this moment, this is where
Speaker 2: we are.
Speaker 1: Hello, optimistic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 2: right back. Does he still like to try all flavors
Speaker 2: of Oreo? What is his favorite?
Speaker 1: So? My favorite, I think is still just the traditional
Speaker 1: but double stuff so you get extra of that filling
Speaker 1: in the middle. Yeah, we tried the carrot one. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's still around. Remember the carrot cake one.
Speaker 3: I think they do limited edition. Okay, drop them and
Speaker 3: then they take them bax.
Speaker 1: That one was delicious. The carrot cake had the vanilla
Speaker 1: outside or the white cookie outside versus the chofol one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it had that and on the inside was a
Speaker 1: carrot cake frosting filling. Dude, Oh my gosh, freaking phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Well, it's sold out everywhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe it's just limited edition. It may have
Speaker 1: been around around I think Easter ish, which makes sense.
Speaker 1: It maybe been years ago, got it because I haven't
Speaker 1: had it since I actually I haven't had it since
Speaker 1: we lived in La I feel like, so it's been
Speaker 1: about five years. If you ever see the carrot cake
Speaker 1: one come out or the care one come out, please
Speaker 1: snag yourself a bag or a sleeve or whatever.
Speaker 2: Need it the whole thing to hold?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I get that. And you ever take milk
Speaker 1: and put in the freezer so it gets like a
Speaker 1: little chunky and icy? Oh god, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: You even't tried it? So how do you know?
Speaker 3: It sounds disturbing? Like the texture of it. I'm a
Speaker 3: texture person sometimes.
Speaker 1: Do you like ice in your drink?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Not really really like warm lukewarm warm drinks.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I think it's because my teeth are super since it is, okay,
Speaker 3: and so I don't like super cold things and ice
Speaker 3: like I like really teeny tiny ice like crunchy ice. Okayeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but I don't like like cubes or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I don't mind. Yeah, I'm more of
Speaker 1: the crunchy ice like Tiana flats or whatever they.
Speaker 3: Have have like the Sonics ice, Sonic ice. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: baby icy little crushies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, a little crushies yeh yeah, we're easy to
Speaker 1: I'm sure it still don't get your teeth, but whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you wouldn't like those. I'm sure someone out there's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. The frozen milk you put in there
Speaker 1: just enough to where the top part of the glass
Speaker 1: that you put in there has to be in the
Speaker 1: glass can be plastic the glass.
Speaker 2: They pour it in a glass cup.
Speaker 1: Yes, first the glass cup is already cold because the
Speaker 1: glass was in the freezer, almost like how people do
Speaker 1: beer mugs. They'll put them in the freezers of frosty. Yes,
Speaker 1: you grab a frosty cup, pour the milk in there.
Speaker 1: You can already start to see it kind of get
Speaker 1: really cold. Put it back in the freezer for like
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty minutes, so you get that top layer of
Speaker 1: the ice rank on top of the bit and then
Speaker 1: where you can push it through with your finger and
Speaker 1: then it drops in and it's a little icy, and
Speaker 1: that right there with the carrot cake oreo is a
Speaker 1: heavenly combination.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, the more everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hey, you asked, I will give you an answer.
Speaker 3: I did hate I'm not my question, but yeah, what
Speaker 3: is one thing you'd like to do better as a parent?
Speaker 1: From Kate a parent, I feel like my patience could
Speaker 1: be better. There are moments where I'm conscious of it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm so impatient. Stop that.
Speaker 1: Who cares? Why does it matter? And me and my
Speaker 1: wife are guilty of it. If we're just busy, we're
Speaker 1: especially at the end of the year, we're so burnt out.
Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone feels it. At the end of the year,
Speaker 1: there's last minute deadlines. Everyone's pushing all this last minute crap.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get to the holiday, You're trying to
Speaker 1: check your list and everything, and then you all have
Speaker 1: to also worry about the holidays, the family stuff and
Speaker 1: all that. You just get a little testy, and all
Speaker 1: the little crap that normally wouldn't bother you bothers you.
Speaker 1: And then you find yourself yelling your kid about something
Speaker 1: so stupid and you see their face and they get
Speaker 1: crushed and you're like, oh my god, why am I
Speaker 1: doing that? Who cares? Who really cares? Is who cares?
Speaker 1: Like even like in public settings, I don't allow my
Speaker 1: kids to be on the phone or play with tablets
Speaker 1: or that kind of stuff. Everyone does their own thing.
Speaker 1: I'm not a you can't judge parents, because everyone does
Speaker 1: their own thing for their own reason. But I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't mind technology. My kid does play video games
Speaker 1: at home. It's a reward system. You do your homework
Speaker 1: or if you're good while we're out and about, we
Speaker 1: come home, you can play thirty minutes of video games,
Speaker 1: or you can my daughter if you want, you can
Speaker 1: watch you know, a Netflix show on your mom's phone
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes. There's always a time limit. But I'm
Speaker 1: not big on it in public. So that usually means
Speaker 1: my kids are just running all over the place and
Speaker 1: they're they're like wild animals. But they get to be kids,
Speaker 1: and there's some moments where like stop it, don't do that,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, you know what, who gives a crap?
Speaker 1: We used to run around the mall as kids we
Speaker 1: used to be. We used to recab it. It was
Speaker 1: just it just is what it is, and they get
Speaker 1: to enjoy life versus being a zombie in front of
Speaker 1: a tablet or a phone and which only bothers me.
Speaker 1: When the volume level is so low that everyone can
Speaker 1: hear your kids Coco Melon video, you just turn it down.
Speaker 2: You just made that loud for it.
Speaker 1: I did that on purpose. Turn it. I don't mind you, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I will judge you on. Turn
Speaker 1: it the f You're gonna be deafening your child and
Speaker 1: you're deafening me waiting on line. I know. I understand
Speaker 1: it's helpful so you can focus on your other kids
Speaker 1: or whatever you're doing, but please turn down the damn volume, okay,
Speaker 1: or there's like headphones even then that that's damaging to
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 3: So I understand why you want to play it not
Speaker 3: as much as over as long as they don't do
Speaker 3: the air butt.
Speaker 1: But then they can't monitor if it's too loud or not,
Speaker 1: though the kid could turn it up, and now they're
Speaker 1: deafening themselves. So I understand why you play it out loud,
Speaker 1: but turn it down, good lord, turn it down.
Speaker 2: We're bouncing all over the place.
Speaker 3: Favorite Christmas gift you've gotten, Kirsten from Canada, I'm.
Speaker 1: Assuming of all time. Ah Man, there's a pretty dark
Speaker 1: period of my life where I didn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of great gifts or mini gifts, just because sing the
Speaker 1: mother with four kids and then all that crap, and
Speaker 1: then I didn't participate in a lot of holidays as
Speaker 1: I moved because I couldn't afford to go back home,
Speaker 1: so I didn't have a lot of gifts. I think
Speaker 1: my best Christmas gifts will be from my wife she
Speaker 1: got me. The one that stands out was in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: she got me one of these shoes that I had wanted.
Speaker 1: I mean, this goes back to probably let's see, I
Speaker 1: was living in Alvido, Florida. My neighbor was that guy
Speaker 1: from Mashbox twenty. He was the drummer in there. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking like ninety four to ninety five. They were
Speaker 1: these Scottie Pippin' shoes that came out and they were
Speaker 1: like they say air on the side, like ai R
Speaker 1: and they're all black with white around the outside of
Speaker 1: air and they have air bubbles in the bottom. And
Speaker 1: I remember my friend Danny Burke. He got one of
Speaker 1: those because he was like, you know, his parents, his
Speaker 1: parents were together and they weren't married, and life was wonderful,
Speaker 1: and they had two incomes and I think it was
Speaker 1: just him and his sister, so they were able to
Speaker 1: afford the great things in life. And he had those shoes,
Speaker 1: and I remember, like, damn, I want those. I used
Speaker 1: to go to the foot locker or Jumbo Sports and
Speaker 1: I'd see them and I'd try them on and walk
Speaker 1: around and be like, oh no, yeah, they just don't
Speaker 1: fit right, but they fit perfect. Yeah, No, I don't
Speaker 1: think I want these now. I'm good. No, No, you can
Speaker 1: put them back now. They just don't fit. But I
Speaker 1: love them so much and I never got them ever.
Speaker 1: And then my wife she was I don't know how
Speaker 1: she figured it out or I forget what. Maybe I'd
Speaker 1: mentioned it, I don't know, but then I remember that
Speaker 1: Christmas she went and got me those shoes. It was
Speaker 1: like our first Christmas in LA and I think it
Speaker 1: was my son wasn't born yet. No, it was our
Speaker 1: first Christmas in LA and our first time of like
Speaker 1: actually having real money because I was working with Ryan
Speaker 1: at the time and making pretty decent money. It was
Speaker 1: our first real paycheck, and before that was just kind
Speaker 1: of like with small gifts, which were great, But this
Speaker 1: is our first real big Christmas. And she got me
Speaker 1: those shoes and I cried. It was like a moment
Speaker 1: where I was like, oh my god, I got these
Speaker 1: shoes mean so much to me. They may not seem
Speaker 1: a lot to you or anyone else, but man, they
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me.
Speaker 3: It was like the you know when you watch the
Speaker 3: Christmas movies and you see the little kid come through
Speaker 3: as the imagery and the adult.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was like your moment of that happening.
Speaker 1: That was my moment, Like it just it was so amazing.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, she's really like she went hard,
Speaker 1: like this is a big deal to me. It had
Speaker 1: been coming for what twenty thirty years? Thirty years coming?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I finally got it too hard. I mean
Speaker 2: she picked up on that one quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah. She's great. I wish I was as good as
Speaker 1: she was with gifts. I'm not. Usually it's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: just tell me what you want. I'll get it because
Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin it for you and get
Speaker 1: something crappy.
Speaker 2: You know, A good way to to do that.
Speaker 3: Like when I'm dating somebody, I always put notes in
Speaker 3: my phone fro not.
Speaker 2: Even just like asking them for things.
Speaker 3: I will like make a comment, they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is like my favorite drink.
Speaker 2: Write it down, and then I always reference that note.
Speaker 3: Like if I go pick up a coffee for them,
Speaker 3: or if I grab like food somewhere, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is what they like. And then I just always
Speaker 3: have a running thing of like mental notes, but I
Speaker 3: put them down because my memory sucks and life happens,
Speaker 3: so I like have a running list in my phone.
Speaker 1: She probably has that too on me. Women are so
Speaker 1: more thought You guys are so much more thoughtful.
Speaker 2: Hey, now now you have the pro tip. Now you
Speaker 2: can do it.
Speaker 1: I know, and I'm sure it could do it. But
Speaker 1: then what will happen is I'll remember and oh I
Speaker 1: have to remember that, and I'll be driving somewhere, and
Speaker 1: then I'll get wherever and I'll forget to do it,
Speaker 1: and then it'll just I just know me with that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't do it.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to help you out for next year, buddy, Okay,
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know, I'll try, all right.
Speaker 3: The last promise is favorite holiday tradition with your kids
Speaker 3: or as a kid for the holidays. Jessica and Tennessee
Speaker 3: and we had a Jessica and sand Diego and it
Speaker 3: shared him from Texas that all asked the same question.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool. So I think as a kid, the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for us was going out to look at Christmas lights.
Speaker 1: We used to love. There's always that one neighborhood in
Speaker 1: the area. I'm sure everyone had like a neighborhood that
Speaker 1: just like went hard and all the houses together are just.
Speaker 2: We have one house that always had Santa.
Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: Well they went all.
Speaker 3: Out and like if you paid for like donated to
Speaker 3: one of the charities, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: That's really really cool.
Speaker 2: And they still do it to the day, like thirty
Speaker 2: years running.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they hit So Santa's there and you get
Speaker 1: to like tell him what you want for Christmas and
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 3: Now you know, now as an adult, I wonder if
Speaker 3: Santa lives there.
Speaker 1: Yeah it could, yeah exactly, Yeah could go to Santa's Helpers.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. That permanently takes residence there, exactly, and it
Speaker 1: probably was.
Speaker 2: I didn't know, Yah, Santa.
Speaker 1: That's pretty dang cool. Yeah, we just had like we
Speaker 1: just love the lights aspect of it. And we had
Speaker 1: a neighbor. His name is mister Peterson, and he was
Speaker 1: one of those ones that was featured like in the
Speaker 1: newspaper every year. And then it was like how many
Speaker 1: lights he has, and then he expanded from just whatever
Speaker 1: he had he held in his garage to remember one
Speaker 1: year he didn't build this back garage behind his house.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like the houses had acreage or anything.
Speaker 1: It was like smaller lots, but he had the corner
Speaker 1: house so he had more space to put up lights.
Speaker 1: And then there was a point where it was like
Speaker 1: the news that a special on him and got picked
Speaker 1: up by ABC and went national, and he was showing
Speaker 1: all these extra breaker boxes he has in his garage
Speaker 1: and he has like you know, counting the light bulbs
Speaker 1: he has, like you know, one million of the light bulbs.
Speaker 1: We're in a break a record this year. And his
Speaker 1: house was like you could see it from outer space.
Speaker 1: It was so and there's lights everywhere around that house
Speaker 1: and it was so much fun.
Speaker 2: I like that where they're like, uh, they try and
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think Jack Black isn't it and like Houston, Genoa,
Speaker 3: but they like light the they're trying to light the
Speaker 3: house to show it from space and that like shows
Speaker 3: up on the satellite and everybody celebrates.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things. Yeah, one of those moments.
Speaker 1: And he did that for a really long time, and
Speaker 1: then of course with age, you get older, and then
Speaker 1: it became less. And then I think he passed away
Speaker 1: maybe a year or so ago, so he hasn't been
Speaker 1: doing it, or that house hasn't. I think the house sold.
Speaker 3: I hope somebody, like maybe one of his family members.
Speaker 3: I wish they would have picked up the tradition and
Speaker 3: need it, or.
Speaker 1: I wish it would have known that when it happened
Speaker 1: and there's a garage shell. I would love to have
Speaker 1: gone there and like bought some of those lights because
Speaker 1: they were so huge. I know, yeah, but that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So we used to do that a lot.
Speaker 1: We used to drive around for like the whole month
Speaker 1: just checking out lights, looking at Christmas lights.
Speaker 2: We have them. We have two places in which Shaw
Speaker 2: that are super cool.
Speaker 3: They're called Candy Cane Lane and one's a like a
Speaker 3: reindeer road I think is what the other one is
Speaker 3: called but all of the houses, like within this whole
Speaker 3: strip of a street have giant candy canes is decorated differently.
Speaker 1: Candy can Lane.
Speaker 2: If you live in that street, you have to own
Speaker 2: one of these candy cans. You have to put it
Speaker 2: out for Christmas.
Speaker 3: Or there's these this other Reindeer road where it's all
Speaker 3: these reindeer they have these.
Speaker 2: Some have giant, I mean like huge statues of reindeer.
Speaker 1: ABC The Great Christmas Light Fight. Candy Cane Lane is
Speaker 1: like world like world like worldwide known.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's these two roads and there and it's cracked
Speaker 3: every year in whichita people always go through these because
Speaker 3: you just drive through them. But yeah, it's cool and
Speaker 3: they decorate their houses too. But it's known for the
Speaker 3: candy canes and it's known for the.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's really cool. Yeah, it's fun to see the lights.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just kind of cool. And if
Speaker 1: you can get out of the car, like walk around
Speaker 1: and look at it like it's I think it's so
Speaker 1: cool to be able to see it all. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: love we love.
Speaker 3: Then find the walk around ones as much as the
Speaker 3: driving ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Peterson was what everyone parked and walked to
Speaker 1: the house, and everyone like walked around looked at it
Speaker 1: and everything, and it was like when I'm busy, busy
Speaker 1: days like Christmas Eve they had the police would come
Speaker 1: out and help direct traffic and stuff. Because it was
Speaker 1: a big circular neighborhood, so everyone drove through the neighborhood
Speaker 1: to go in and come out, but there's always a
Speaker 1: traffic jam coming out and coming in. And then because
Speaker 1: the neighborhood was a circle, it was cool because then
Speaker 1: everyone else started kind of joining in and putting up
Speaker 1: a bunch of different No one could ever compete with
Speaker 1: mister Peterson, No, but he was like.
Speaker 3: The attraction, and then everybody else was like trying to
Speaker 3: keep up with the like the openers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was definitely the headlining act for sure. It
Speaker 1: was really cool.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I started taking I think it was like two years ago.
Speaker 3: I started taking Roomy and then this last year took
Speaker 3: Remy and Hazel and I take them to look at
Speaker 3: Christmas lights through jobs school.
Speaker 2: And they love them. They look at the lights.
Speaker 3: Oh really, Okay, I think animals love lights because it's
Speaker 3: just colors.
Speaker 2: Take a bunch of cool colors.
Speaker 1: It's all bright.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you uhuld see my cat the window. She
Speaker 2: was like her head was just on a swimm.
Speaker 1: What is.
Speaker 2: Well, it's cute to think, I've ember said. Remy is
Speaker 2: just like chilling, like this is fun. I'm in the car.
Speaker 1: Yeah this is cool. Yeah, but I'm too cool because
Speaker 1: I'm older.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah no, but yeah, So that's it. That's the
Speaker 2: way you can elevate with the kids. If you drive around,
Speaker 2: bring your dog.
Speaker 1: The dog too, see if he reacts to the lights.
Speaker 2: They will they look, Okay.
Speaker 1: We need to do that. Well, I mean again, this
Speaker 1: is in the new year. But at this point we've
Speaker 1: driven around, tracked that lights. It was awesome, but we
Speaker 1: still need to do that. We have done yet. It's
Speaker 1: on your list, it's on my list yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll tell the people. We're all wrapped up.
Speaker 1: Oh we're done.
Speaker 2: That was hellicuy the first best bits of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of us that the first best of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. We did it. Nonder how long we
Speaker 1: hear under thirty minutes minutes wow, like Christmas twenty four
Speaker 1: or you can find me Instagram at Scuba Steve Radio
Speaker 1: Scuba s t V E R A D I O
Speaker 1: on Instagram, on Twitter x and I am on TikTok.
Speaker 1: But that's gonna be going away in the New.
Speaker 3: Year so later apparently, and you can follow me out well,
Speaker 3: girlm Morgan.
Speaker 2: Also check out the show at Bobby Bone Show and
Speaker 2: Happy New Year everybody.
Speaker 1: Dang guys, I was gonna eat more time up to
Speaker 1: add to the clock.
Speaker 2: Don't do it.
Speaker 1: Bye. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other
Speaker 1: two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all
Speaker 1: social platforms and follow at web Girl Morgan to submit
Speaker 1: your listener questions for next week's episode.