WEBVTT - SUNDAY SAMPLER - The Nashville Podcast Network (12-22-24) 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.040 Hey guys, Sunday Sampler, what do your thank you? We 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.280 had a two new podcasts in the Vets Office with 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:18.079 Doctor Josie and take this personally with Morgan Hulesman. You'll 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.680 hear a clip from these episodes and just a bit 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.400 and subscribe to those if you like them, love them. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.840 On the Bobby Cast, I sat down with Hunter Girl 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.600 talk about what life was like before she hit it 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.000 and before American idol and the origin of her stage name. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.120 Really love to be around her and all the cool 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.120 stuff she does even outside of music. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:37.479 But we're gonna get started here. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.480 Within the Vets office with Doctor Josie, they had Dug 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.280 the Pug on Dug the Og celebrity dog millions of 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.919 Instagram followers. So Doctor Josie talked with his owner Leslie 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.600 about how famous Doug got the rise to fame the DMS. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.480 He gets funny episode. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:01:03.240 Here we go in the Vets Office with Doctor Josie. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.920 You're listening to in the Vet's Office with Doctor Josie Horchak. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:12.880 How did this all come to be? 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.680 So? I used to actually work a few buildings over 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.520 on Music Row. I went to Belmont and that's what 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.160 moved me to Nashville, and I had dreams of working 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.479 in the music industry and doing marketing and PR and 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.800 like graphic design and branding and stuff for bands, and 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.040 so I got a job doing that at a small 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:37.319 record label artist management company. And I got Doug when 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:38.520 I was. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.000 A junior at Belmont. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.960 So I was in college in college, and so I 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.400 was going to work on music row and then I 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.080 would come home and I had my dream pug who 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.200 loved getting dressed up and loved doing activities with me 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.840 around town. And it became this kind of tradition where 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.120 I would get home from work and go out around 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.680 Nashville and take pics with him. This was in the 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.320 very beginning of Instagram. I think this was twenty thirteen 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.320 when I started posting him, and so I just did 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.960 it for fun on my personal Instagram. I mean, no 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.080 one even really had like my friends didn't even really 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.360 have it. It was mostly Facebook at that time. And 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.800 I would post him and say Doug the pug doing that, 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.600 Doug and I blah blah blah, and people just wanted 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.080 to see Doug. So if I posted anything on my 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.320 personal Instagram that wasn't Doug, people were like, where's. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.679 Doug, like, we don't really care. They just wanted to 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:34.200 see Doug. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.120 And so I started getting a little more creative and 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.560 doing I started getting a little more creative and doing 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.360 you know, things that were on trend, like holiday type things, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.200 or if a famous artist was coming into Nashville, I 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:54.040 would like play off that and big Instagram pug accounts 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.880 that had all these followers at the time. When they 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.640 would take our photos and post them and tag us. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.120 They would get so many likes, and it. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.840 Was this rush of like, WHOA, that's so cool a 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.960 photo that I took and a concept that I came 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.680 up with, and the styling and everything, like people are 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.400 resonating with this, they like it. And again this is 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.720 very condensed, but I ended up switching my account from 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:25.120 me to just Dug and putting more effort and time 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.800 into it. And he reached one hundred thousand followers on Instagram, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.600 which was insane and huge and amazing at the time. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:32.160 And we had a. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.880 Little party and I was just honestly a very fun hobby. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.640 It got me, brought me a lot of joy, and 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.160 it brought other people joy. And I would be lying 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.440 if I didn't say that at that time, I saw 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.640 it being something like what it is now. I had 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.320 this gut feeling to pursue it, and so I actually 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.360 when he hit one hundred thousand followers, I put in 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:56.520 my notice to quit my job. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.840 Wow, and people thought I was crazy. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.880 I kind of lied to most people and said I'm 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.560 starting my own graphic design business because I didn't want 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:05.960 to be like So, I have this dog that has 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.440 an Instagram and I think he would make a really 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:15.480 cute stuffed animal. But it happened as soon as I 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.919 put my notice in for that job. At that one 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.880 hundred thousand party, we had a pug balloon left over, 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.720 and Rob and I were just dating at the time, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.479 and he was on tour and so all by myself, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.160 I went to Dragon Park in Hillsborough Village, which was 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.760 right by my old apartment, and I tied the pug 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.680 balloon to Doug and again, he doesn't care about anything, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.440 so he was all about it. He was running around 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.160 the park with this pug balloon attached to him. And 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.320 I sent the footage to Rob and I said, can 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.600 you put a cute song over this? 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:47.799 Can you put like people? 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.760 Let me tell you about my best friend, Like, let's 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.440 make the pug balloon his best friend, and I posted 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.200 it to Doug's Facebook, his Instagram, and then I made 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:57.880 him a Twitter because I was like, what would a 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.480 band need, Like if I were to help one of 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.760 my artists at the label, what would they need? And 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.760 so I put it on all these things and I 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.760 had a logo for Doug and I took it very seriously. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.080 But that night I posted it, didn't think anything of it. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.440 I woke up and I looked on Facebook. He had 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.400 three thousand likes at the time on Facebook, and the 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.719 next day he had like fifteen thousand. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.239 I'm like, what happened? And I looked at the video 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:24.679 and had twenty million views. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.159 Wow, and this is the one hundred k party where 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.360 he's running around with a pug bull Yes, Like right 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.400 after that party, I took a little video with a 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.760 leftover balloon and I was like, whoa. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:35.360 All of a sudden, it. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.359 Was real okay, you know, And by the end of 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.719 that week he had a million likes followers on Facebook. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.440 Doug was like, my mom just quit her job. I 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.240 got to go to one. He was like, let's go. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:50.240 And so it was this crazy feeling of like I 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.800 felt very ready for it, because I had already kind 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.400 of set it up for success, but for it to 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.159 actually happen and for me to have the free time 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:00.560 to do it. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.640 So Rob luckily. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.159 Got home from tour right around then, and we just 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.440 started making videos. I mean every day we were coming 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.520 up with like, let's dress Dug up as Harry Potter 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.799 and call him Harry Pugger or you know all these 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.240 popular TV shows, The Walking Dead. I dressed him as 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.760 a zombie and we were crazy people running around Radner 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.560 Lake with our dog with a dressed as a zombie 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.120 and like but we didn't care. It was just this 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:35.320 very exhilarating time. And within a few months we had 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.599 a book deal and later that year we were going 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.239 on a book tour all over the world. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.640 We went to London. Did he hit his first million 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.320 followers that year? Oh yeah? 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:50.359 So he on Facebook went from three thousand to a 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.000 million within like a few weeks. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.440 Okay, on Instagram. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.800 Instagram's a harder platform to grow, so I think it 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:02.320 took a little longer. But honestly, justin Bieber posting he 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:07.720 posted two pictures of Doug. They his label actually hit 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.280 us up and was like, hey, remember the Justin Bieber 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.480 era of like sorry and what do you mean? 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.160 It was like the best era, but take me back? 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.960 And he was like on the Calvin Klein ads, they 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.120 asked Doug to be a part of a countdown for 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.080 how many days until? 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:24.760 What do you mean? 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:25.360 Okay? 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.000 And so I took pictures of Doug wearing Calvin kleins 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.320 and that little sign that said eight days what do 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.320 you mean? And Justin posted two of those photos and 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.720 tagged Doug. We went up like one hundred thousand followers 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:38.920 in a. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.960 Day, I bet, and it was. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.400 It's just still so crazy to even look back on 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.040 that and to see what it is now, and just 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.640 it's been the most amazing fun ride and Doug. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.120 Loves every second of it. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.520 One thing that you said that I just feel like 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.760 sitting here and talking with you is I feel like 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.920 there's Instagram influencers and TikTok where you're like, Okay, this 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.640 is like their job, and you can kind of tell 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.720 like it just seems so organic and you just enjoy 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.040 I mean, obviously he's like your child, so you enjoy 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:09.640 doing it. He loves to do it, and like that 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.560 just really translates. I thank you on his page is 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:13.960 why he's so successful. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:15.400 I really appreciate that. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:21.000 I feel like, obviously, social media has changed exponentially. We've 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.120 been doing it full time for almost ten years, and 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.080 it's changed so much, and I think every day I 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.640 have to make the conscious choice and Rob as well 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.480 to do it because we love it, right, because we 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.440 would have a completely different approach to social media with 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.800 Doug if we were doing it just for the followers 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.880 and the clout at this point, yeah, and so it's 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.840 honestly become so much more laid back and we're a 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.800 lot happier because of it, because we're just sharing like literally. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.720 What we want to share doing anyway. Yeah, we feel 0:08:58.720 --> 0:08:59.000 like we. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.240 Have nothing else to prove at this point, right, and 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.800 it's it's just like truly for fun and to like 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:12.200 we still have so many big dreams obviously, but his 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.800 happiness and our happiness is like most important of course. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.400 Why one word hunter girl? 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:25.640 Why? 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.680 I know and I've heard the story. You know you 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.080 were the only or whatever the version is, you were 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.400 the only in your class. You're a girl, But what 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.640 as a stage name and one word like all that 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.280 came together and you decided on it? 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:43.000 When why just because That's what everybody called me growing up, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.600 and my last name's Walking Awski, eleven letters, pretty rough, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:52.280 but I feel like that just part of me, especially 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.720 right now, and like, hey, hunter girl, like how are 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.160 you doing? That's what my Paul would call me. And 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.520 so whenever I come up on stage and I have 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.439 the name that a lot of people call me when 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.080 I was growing up, it kind of always just reminds 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.760 me of home. That's how I feel when I think 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:03.960 of it. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:05.600 Did I don't say anything to you about just going 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.960 by one name? Weirdly? Were they like, are you sure 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:08.560 you want to do this? 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:09.840 Uh? 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.079 Like I think somebody had like mentioned that. They're like, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.360 do you want to do Hunter Walking Awski? And I 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:15.679 was like, I think I want to be I think 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:16.800 I'm gonna be Hunter girl. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.360 One word And they're like, that's cool. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.400 People will remember it, and they were like, just go 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:20.760 for it. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.760 People do remember. I remember going, oh, this girl's I 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.280 got one name. I didn't even know what it was about. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.040 I was like, this is cool, Like that's how I 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.520 was again. I was checking out the show I'd Adventures, 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.240 but you you never know who they're going to keep 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.440 on that show. I watched them edit people and like 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.880 two people in but only to cut them out later, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.439 but they'd already been eliminated, like for for drama. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.920 So Hunter, though, is your name? I remember asking I 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.199 know the answer, but I remember. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.000 Asking you this in the same way, like what do 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:47.400 I call you? 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:48.760 Your friends call you that. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.560 My friends call me hunter, like my like my Paul 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.480 will still he still calls me hunter girl, just because 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.640 that's what he always did. But my friends called me 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.760 hunter and uh, but on stage, it's like I kind 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.720 of get to separate myself a little bits, like the 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.719 like hunters going home and enter PJS. But whenever I'm 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:05.920 on stage, I get to be Hunter girl. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.120 What I would like for you to go back and 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.280 talk about, just for a second, when you talk about 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.280 writing with the veterans, which is how you and I 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.559 ended up together that night we were doing some veterans stuff 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:16.360 at the Opry together. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.320 Yeah, explain like what that is. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.599 So I started writing writing with veterans when I was 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.800 about seventeen. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.520 And why why would you write with veterans? 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.760 My grandfa, my grandpa's in the service, and six of 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.480 my great uncles and I just got involved and I 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.600 was just volunteering and singing songs for the people that 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.240 were writing the songs with the veterans, and so it's 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.680 always been something like meant a lot to me and 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.360 just seeing how much it, like it affected my family too. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.800 And basically what we do is we get in a 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.040 room with a veteran and we write their story about 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.120 whatever they want to talk about, whether it's like something 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.800 in the service or somebody they miss or anything. And 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.480 it's kind of therapeutic in a way for them to 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.000 get to tell their story. And honestly, like, whenever I've 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.880 been in that room, it's like, you know, I'm lucky 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.200 enough to write a song every day, but this is 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.720 their first time that they get to feel that whatever. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.640 Like it just makes me remember just how like how 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.559 good songwriting is for the soul. And I've written with 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.719 gold Star kids and gold Star families and so I've 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.320 been doing that consistently. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.679 Since I was about seventeen and still do it. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:23.160 I had one a few weeks ago. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:48.800 Really yeah, cast. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.480 Up Little Food for your Soul. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:53.160 Life. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.880 Oh it's pretty bad. It's pretty beautiful, BEFU. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:04.120 That's a little more family said, ek cut you're kicking 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.280 with full thing with Amy Brown, We're. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.800 Just gonna have a little chat today. I am sitting 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.559 on my bed next to my dog with my computer. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.200 I've been looking at emails. Tomorrow is my mom's birthday, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.560 or it would be her birthday if she was still alive. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.240 But I think I just got a little emotional as 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:30.160 I was prepping for the episode because I thought, well, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.160 in honor of her birthday, maybe I should share one 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.720 of my favorite things that she would make, which was 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.120 cherry Berry's on a Cloud. And it's not a recipe 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.040 she came up with. It's just something that she was 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.480 known for making, like she was really good at making it. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.760 People would request it. I would request it her friends 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.480 for showers or any type of event or gathering. People 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.719 would be like, Judy, can you bring cherry Berry on 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.760 a cloud? And she would and it's so good. And 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.600 I just went into my email and I searched, you know, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:08.440 Judy Cherryberry, and things popped up, and it just took 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.800 me down memory lane because there was this email that 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.360 my sister had sent out. Because Ben and I were 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.400 married for years in years in years, let me think 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.960 you're almost seventeen. We lived in Austin, some we lived 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.440 in North Carolina, and then we were back in Austin, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:31.600 and then we've been in Nashville the last almost twelve years. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:36.000 So when we were in North Carolina because Ben was 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.880 in the Air Force, I guess we were going back 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.120 to Austin for a visit, and my sister sent out 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.160 this mass email to everybody and it was like the 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.960 Browns are back in town, and she is the queen 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:52.800 of hospitality, and she was inviting everybody over and saying, Hey, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.960 bring whatever you can, or just bring yourself, it doesn't matter. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.960 Judy's gonna make Cherryberry's on a cloud. We're gonna grill out, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:01.520 and everyone's going to have a good time. And I 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.520 was looking at everybody on the email and even my 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:07.480 sister's husband. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:08.720 And then Ben and. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.720 I aren't married anymore, but we're still close and our 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.480 families are close. But all of those relationships came from 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:19.760 my mom and her friendships that she made, and I 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.880 was just thinking how special it was that we would 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:27.040 all gather together. And I'm getting emotional because I miss that, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.320 I really do. But I'm about to be with my 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.600 sister and her family for Christmas, and I know we're 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.520 going to be gathering around the table We're going to 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.520 be cooking and hanging out, and it's going to have 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.520 that same vibe. It's just not exactly how I saw it. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:46.520 Although Ben will be in Colorado at the same time. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.400 ISH we kind of overlap, so the kids will be 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.040 with me some and then they'll go be with him, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.800 and I wonder if we'll all get together. I could 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.840 see him coming over because he's friends with them, and 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.000 I have gratitude right now for that. I have gratitude 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:07.200 for these memories of gathering and keeping it simple, just 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.360 inviting people over, and my sister's like, don't worry about anything, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.120 bring your kids. Everyone will pitch in and help. I've 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.000 got cribs if you've got babies, and they just we're 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.520 all about hosting and community. Like when we were living 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.640 in Austin. I just remember that so much, my mom cooking, 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.560 my dad cooking, my sister cooking. And it looks a 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.800 little different now that my mom and my dad are 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.400 gone and Ben and I are divorced. My sister is 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.800 still really, really, really good at that and inviting people 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.960 over and having extra chairs for people to pull up 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:45.440 around the table. And I guess my point here really 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.360 is I'm going to link the or copy and paste 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.280 the cherryberries on a cloud recipe and the show notes, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.720 because if you have to go anywhere this holiday season, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:57.360 take this. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.120 It will be a hit. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:04.040 It is so good. And if you ever just have 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.800 some time and you want to reminisce, type in keywords 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.040 into your email. I mean, I was going all the 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.880 way back to I think it was two thousand and 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.679 ten or twenty eleven that I saw that email that 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.840 my sister sent out to everybody, and I copied and 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.520 pasted that and I sent it over to my sister 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.480 so that she could reminisce. But then I had to 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.919 go find the actual recipe, So then I had to 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:33.200 google or search inside my Gmail my mom's name and 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.520 the cherryberry recipe and it popped up. So I copied 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.000 that and I'm going to drop it in the show notes. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.480 But then I started looking at emails from my mom, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.879 and that's probably what got me emotional, alongside the fact 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.439 that it's her birthday tomorrow and she's not here, but 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.479 I had sent her this email of this little garden 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.560 I was growing because I wanted to make fresh salsa, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.760 and I took a video and I emailed it to 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:05.400 her and she said, she said back, let me tell 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.840 you what she said here cute. She goes, what's really 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.919 in that planter? I said, cayenne, tomato and cilantro. You 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.359 don't believe me, And she said, amy, tomatoes get huge. 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.680 Are you starting your garden with seeds? 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:19.760 You don't have to. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.199 You can buy tomato plants and that will be much faster. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.240 And I said, mom, I started with seeds. I will 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.920 transplant them to separate pots when they get three inches tall. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.160 It's a salsa garden. Did you watch my video? I'm 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.760 not scared. I'm being patient. When it's time, I'll get 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.840 to make salsa. For Ben's smiley face. I said, my 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.399 first sprouts came in today. I just noticed about twenty 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.240 minutes ago, and I got so excited. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.280 And I don't even know that version of me. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.800 That decided to make a little salsa garden from seeds. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.479 We're gonna do it live. We ah the one shoot 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.119 three sore losers? 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:05.840 What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:07.520 I know the most about sports, so I'll give you 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.400 the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.240 a sports genius, y'all. 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.640 It's Sison I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.879 I live on the north side of Nashville with Bayser, 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.919 my wife. We do have a farm. It's beautiful, a 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.760 lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops. Hopefully 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:29.000 soon corn pumpkins, rye. I believe maybe a little fescue 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:31.080 to be determined. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.119 Over to you, coach, And here's a clip from this 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.000 week's episode of The Sore Losers. 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.960 Right, tell me, how'd that Christmas party go? 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:41.320 Man? 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.800 You missed out. I told you it was networking. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.640 I know I was gonna go. Then the wife informed 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.240 me we had Christmas caroling with the neighborhood and we 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.600 were getting together with other families and we were gonna 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:57.439 go Christmas caroling. 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.600 Sometimes you realize I just got a network for the 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.960 good of the Sore Losers. And I realized that. Baser 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.320 even said before I went, I can't believe you're going 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.520 to this because it was an hour and a half 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:09.440 drive from where I live. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.080 Yeah, it's at a higher up's house, which is weird. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.600 It's not easy to get to and they do it 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.080 at five o'clock, and I don't know if they understand 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:23.800 what five o'clock means. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.160 It means grid lock traffic. 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:29.879 So if you want to get there right at five o'clock, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.960 you got to leave at three o'clock. If you don't leave, 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:34.920