Best Bits with Amy: Morgan & Amy On Their Most “You” Weekend + Amy On How Her Life Looks Differently Lately

Happy Labor Day Weekend! Morgan and Amy get a little unhinged talking about foot fetishes, and selling feet pictures. Morgan had a very “you" weekend and Amy says her life looks different some days. They discuss their childhood delicacies and the things they’re currently obsessed with, plus some Nashville recommendations!  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Best Bits of the Week with Morgan number two.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Happy Labor Day Weekend. Yeah. I am joined right now
by Amy for the Best Bit special holiday weekend edition.
How are you Amy?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello? Happy Labor Day?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah. Well, you know, we do have another part coming
in that as all these listener questions, but there is
one that came through and somebody asked, does Amy like
to do the best Bit? So I figured I'd start
us off with that.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh yes, why I got a question? Hi? I think, well,
we do record them, which you know, props to you
because you're having to host and put it all together.
But sometimes our heads are kind of spinning when we
come in here to do it because we have just
you know, gotten done with the morning show and all
of our responsibilities there. Like even before you hit record,
I was just trying to rattle off a bunch of

(00:49):
spots as quickly as I could, and you know, it's yeah,
so sometimes I don't know. Now, I'm like, shoot, they're like, wait,
maybe they were asking in a good way or were
they asking a way?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, I think it's just more like it's extra work, right, So,
like and you're doing interviews. It was every couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I don't se No, I don't, I don't. I
don't mind it. We all are doing extra different things
at different times.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Maybe that's why. That's what I'm going to lean into.
That's why they were asking. And I do, like I
call the best bits like unhinged sometimes because we just
kind of come on here and we get a little unhinged.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes, that's kind of what happens. Yeah, I'm looking at
my coffee over there, and I need to drink it.
My mouth is still dry. It's been dry for weeks now.
And it says to avoid caffeine for like caffeine alcohol smoking,
which okay, I can avoid the alcohol and the smoking,
but I have not wanted to give up.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I saw you post on Instagram that maybe it's because
you tried a new toothpaste.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well that's what someone else had put so I thought, well,
funny enough, I had tried a new toothpasteweek before, and
I did have a theory myself that that could be it.
So I switched back to whatever I was using before,
and I don't know, I guess it wasn't the tooth face.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Is it like dry or do you feel like your
mouth is sore.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, it's just dry and it's really hard to swallow.
But it's not sore. It's just dry and I don't
have enough saliva to swallow. And so many people when
I posted about that a while ago, they were like, weird,
this is happening to me right now too, So then
I thought, well, is it an allergy thing? But then
these people didn't live in Nashville. And then also when
it first started getting dry was a couple weeks ago

(02:25):
when I was in Dallas for work, and so that
was a completely different state. And then it came back
to me with I mean, okay, went back to Tennessee
with me still listen. I don't know what it is.
Someone else thought I might have diabetes, so maybe I
need to get tested for that. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't think it is. I could be wrong. I
don't think it's diabetes, but I did see recently there.
And this is not like to scare you or anything,
but there is a new strain of COVID, and I
think if I remember correctly, I could be like mixing
two stories together. But dry mouth was a symptom of
that new strain.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, so when does the dry mouth kick in.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't know. I didn't and I saw it was
like a headline, so I didn't really dive into it.
But I could be wrong, and I could be piecing
two stories together that I saw at the same time.
But I do know there's some new strain of COVID,
and I do know that dry mouth is a symptom
of something that's going around right now. Okay, So whatever
it is, I've got it. So I don't think you're
alone because it's something going around. Maybe it's just something viral,
like a new strain of a flu, and it's like

(03:18):
dry mouth flu.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, I'm ready for it to be over because you
don't I you don't realize how much you swallow throughout
the day. And I realize now because I'm uncomfortable every
single time I have to do it.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, and Maybebay is what it's like for people who
live in like Arizona where it's super like dry heat.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, but I mean I'm drinking a lot of water. Potentially, yes,
I'd say when I go to higher altitudes and stuff too,
I struggle with that. But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Isn't it weird? The body is so weird? We do
have some things to talk about, and the most important
being you add a whole surgery in studio. How's your
ear doing.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's healing up nicely. Yeah, I went to her office,
so she came and did it on the studio or
did it in the studio. And then I don't know,
seven or eight days after that, I went to her
office and she removed the stitches, and she said it
looks good. And then she said that I'll be able
to come back, you know, at some point soon, and
she will pierce it for me. Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
So when she did that, because I know you have
multiple ear pierc scenes, it only affected the one piercing though, right, yes,
so the other two are fine. Are you wearing earrings
in them or no?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, okay, not yet. I'm just kind of keeping that.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Ear like totally. Wait, so are you wearing like were
you for a while wearing like earrings on once I've
been all on the other before it ripped, or like
after she did the surgery on it.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh, I know earrings. I haven't had any ear rings
in that ear since she took them out.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, okay, but were you wearing them in the other ear?
So you had like one ear on your earring.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, I have them all to that ear. But
then it happens to be that's where I tuck. I
tuck my hair behind my ear on that side so
you can see the earrings. And then on the side
where I had work done, it's like your hair's covering
it where my Do you feel like I did was
put back together?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, because you don't have earrings onone. I always feel
like I'm imbalanced if I.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Don't have hoops. I have on studs for little teeny
tiny hoops. So I think we're good.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Okay, Well that's exciting. I mean I'm glad it panned
out very well and not like the opposite obviously.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, because it was a fifty to fifty chance that
could have gotten infected, she said. And she wanted me
to take an antibiotic, but I didn't want to because
I took an antibiotic a couple months ago when I
was sick, and I don't I feel like that's too close.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, really mess up your system and they open you
up to more possibilities of getting sick, right, which could
be why you not have driven. It's all related.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, and when I took that antibiotic. I don't. When
I was sick, I didn't test for COVID. I've never
tested positive, but who knows if I've had it at
some point, and so I don't know if that's what
I had, And I wish I would have tested so
that I would know. So that way your theory about
our headline, maybe saw our maybe did see about the
dry mouth being COVID related, then I would know. Yeah,

(06:06):
But I guess maybe I can do an antibodies test.
Does those things still show if you had COVID or not?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't even a like are people still administrating that.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
I think I have some in a drawer somewhere because
I feel like I bought some at one point thinking
they were COVID tests, and then I got home and
realized they were antibodies.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Anybody isn't antibodies like your blood? They're testing the blood.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
I don't want right a wrong.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't know too many. It honestly feels like still
like a fever dream when that all happened. I don't
know that it was totally real.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
I have so much twenty twenty four and it's gonna
it had been will be January favorite come March twenty
twenty four. It will then four years and that just
doesn't seem real. I know.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, I'm speaking of COVID too. I mentioned it on
the show a few weeks ago. How I still don't
have my smell And somebody wrote me an article that
there's actually a place in Texas people are going to
because they are doing like they're performing. It's not you
don't go under for it, but it's it's like a surgery,
but you don't go under.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
And like I did for my ear, it's a local.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, like a local something. No, I'm not sure, Like,
you know, you gotta touch like the nerves and the nose,
So how is this going to be a local situation?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
They just totally numb your nose and you're awake.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I mean maybe yeah, like that's they're steeking things of
the nostrils and on the top like it's so wild.
But so maybe that's something. If we can find one
in Nashville, maybe that's what I need to try.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, when you brought up the me having one big
hoop potentially in my left ear and nothing in my right,
it made me think of a couple of weeks ago
when I was in Dallas. I was at the morning
show boot camp and all kinds of radio people were there,
and Carla, Marie and Anthony were there. He's worst Anthony
on Socials and he had on one sneaker in one

(07:49):
boot because he hurt his foot. He had like a
I don't know if he sprained something or whatnot, So
he had a boot on for healing. And someone asked
him like, so did you only pack right sneakers for
this whole trip? He goes, yeah, I got to bring
four different sneakers because I was only bringing my right side.
And I thought, oh, I guess that's what I could

(08:10):
do with earrings. But anyway, I bring up this because
this God is talking about his feet, which then God
is talking about people being obsessed with feet and fetishes.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Are obsessed with feet.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Mm hmm. Well, you know, we have the one listener
that has offered me a lot of money, and now
I'm like what after I heard Anthony's story, I'm like,
should I just start taking pictures of my feet? I
don't know. Because Anthony said, there's so much money to
be made, and he sells his dirty socks to their
listeners and followers, like people buy them and he wears

(08:42):
them and then he mails it off and they pay him.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay, I have so many questions. Do you know how
much like roughly he makes from this?

Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, but I could text them and then we'll find out.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Find out. Okay, we have to tailor.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh, circle back, circle back, circle back, like Lunchbox would say, sir,
go back.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Which is so annoying. By the way, I'm like to
answer the question. And is it women listeners or guy listeners?

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Good question, I'll ask that too. Okay, we don't know, Okay,
I'm texting right now.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
My gosh, Amy, there is like there is one guy
who just keeps blowing up my dms who's trying to
get me to sell him my underwear.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh no, I can't do that.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I would never. But like the fetishes that people have
is wild to me. I totally get it. Like foot
seems really innocent compared to the underwear guy keeps blowing
up my dms. But like it's still also weird, like
you can't post anything with feet on social media or
people are like, ooh, let me see those feet, that's
look so good. I'm like, what is it with you all?

(09:38):
You can't you can barely even see the foot.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
I know you were showing your UFAs your new ufash recently,
and you were trying to cover up your toes or
your feet so that way people weren't getting a glimpse.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
And people like put on socks. I was like, guys,
it's not the same effect. It looks really funny to
her slides of socks, like that's only me when I'm
like really being my true ratchetself.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
We had email or two in the mail bag that
said that he has been with a girl for three months,
but he hasn't told her about his foot fetish, and
he's like, when should I say? And I started to
think about it after, because again I worked with someone
that was very much into feet, and it's not like
he talked about it. We just all knew because he

(10:19):
couldn't help. But look at your feet.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's what he did. You can pick up on him
pretty quick because their first compliment is like, you have
really nice feet, right.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Or they just always they look, Hi, nice to meet you,
or hey, how's your day feet? Or what at the
office I was at. It is just so obvious. Every
girl there knew, Oh my god, did you look at
your feet today?

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Check okay, keeps doing that. So I'm thinking, if that
guy has been with his girl for three months, surely
she has noticed that he can't help but look at feet.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I mean for sure, especially too if he's offered like
foot massages or something.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't think it's going to be news to her.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
No, But I also I think he should her like
I don't think you get down further and then reveal
like is this something like super big and is it
like a glaring red flag. No, but maybe this girl's
like super like foot ticklish. Maybe she doesn't like people
looking at her feet. Maybe she's uncomfortable with her feet.
Who knows, but like that would be not a good
match if she hates her feet and you love her feet,

(11:19):
and then it's a whole thing. So I do think
he needs to tell her like a sip.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, okay, Carla Marie just replied that Anthony has never
sold any to a woman anyone who messages him as
a man. Oh mm hmm. And he's also sold old
sneakers that he's worn, and then also the socks that
are dirty. And then she goes, let me get the
numbers from him dot dot dot Sokay, we may.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Have an update that's a wild guy.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
The guys wow, and then uh, this is a podcast, son,
go for it, Okay, we can talk about it if
I need to believe this is. This came up in
conversation Zach who works at the River Upstairs here in Nashville,
the pop station. He said that he has a friend
that makes a ton of money just rating men's parts. What, yeah,

(12:12):
like they send I don't even know. He's like, she
doesn't honestly even care or look at them. Really, She'll
just be like nine. Fine. I just like, and I
don't know what site she's doing this through. Is that
like an OnlyFans thing? I'm not sure, But she makes
so much money saying that she'll rate it because again,

(12:34):
he didn't make it seem like she has to sit
there and look at them and rate them. She just
does it. I do.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
But guys, he goes like, that's what this is coming from, right,
is them saying like I need to send this in
pay this girl to rate it.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
A stranger on the intergo, it's so.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Big that I need to know what all of my
body is rated? Basically, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, is it that their ego? Okay, their ego could
be big or is it that On the other side,
are they looking for validation in any way? Shape to know?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Like very insecure and very like cocky probably no pun
intendent both in like very spectrum side I feel like.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Which also online stuff and men being weird. Sorry to
any men listening right now, we're not totally picking on you.
But I have a friend whose husband went on tender
like a few weeks ago, and he's very like, has
a great job, very smart. Sometimes you think, oh, bonehead,

(13:36):
kind of why would you do that, especially after hearing
all the stories. You just wouldn't be that careless. Set
aside the butthole part, like that being a jerk. But like,
I don't know why I said butthole, So this is
after dark. I just felt for her. Obviously, they don't

(14:00):
have kids, haven't been married long. She's not even messing
with it. They're gonna go ahead and get a divorce
because I think other stuff came out from it. But
how it happened was a friend of a friend of
a friend saw him on tender, told the friend, told
the friend and told the friend of toll dor and
sure enough, Yeah, it was her husband right there on

(14:20):
tender with his photo everything.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
It I the audacity, just like I just don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, did they think like, oh, I'm not gonna get
caught because the person I'm married to is not on
tender or.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
They just don't care, which is almost worse right, you
know what I mean, Like to just not have any
respect or care for what you're in to do that.
I mean, cheating of all is bad. It was all bad,
but like to blatantly do it, that's like a different
level of disrespect.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I feel like, yeah, I just feel like I feel
it must be happening. I would have never thought in
a million years that this person would have done it,
So then it makes me think it's got to be
happening so much more than we think, like the online
profiles either fake or which there was an Ashley Madison
documentary coming out or is it's already out. I've watched

(15:13):
some of it, and I can't remember where we were
watching it. I was watching it with my friend Cryocat.
It was when I didn't have a washer and dryer,
so it's been a minute at her house. I know
it was a Friday night around midnight because I was
over there doing laundry and trying to just get it done,
and my sister was in town. So it was at

(15:34):
some point, you know, a few months ago, and we
were watching it and it was very interesting. It was
the boom of Ashley Madison and when that first came
on the scene and the CEO and how he marketed
it and was trying to get it out there to
people in billboards and all. He was on you know,
the View and doing all these interviews on CNN, Fox

(15:57):
like everyone was wanting to talk to him, sort of
bad press, being like, why do you feel okay running
a company whose website is for married people to hook up?
And so they're bringing it on because it's an interesting story.
But in his mind, he's like, this is all free
marketing and it's genius and he didn't care. So that documentary,

(16:18):
I hadn't thought of it in a minute. We didn't
finish it, so now I kind of want to go
back and watch it. There was a journalist that was
being interviewed as part of the documentary who back in
the day, was trying to write an article on it,
and he was married, but he wanted to go on
the website to see what it was like, and then

(16:38):
met up with one of the other married people on there,
a married woman, because that's what it is, it's married people.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, hooking us married's like a shady website.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah. So he went and sat down at dinner and
was like trying to just do research, but he took
it like too far. He didn't do anything with her
and never even he In fact, he said he couldn't
even get through the dinner, like he had to confess like, hey,
I'm actually writing an article. But then that made her

(17:07):
feel super uncomfortable. She's like what, like she thinks she's
there being discreet and with someone that's like minded and
there to do what she's there to do, and then
she so she left and then he felt horrible. And
then I guess when his wife found out he even
went to the level he went with the article, even

(17:28):
hooking up the date and going on the date. He's like, so, yeah,
Ashley Madison ruined my life too. And I wasn't even
really trying to be a cheater. I was trying to
write an article about the process.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
So anyway, listen, I mean, Amy, I remember going in
my last therapy session and I was like, I literally
looked at my therapist because I've been I have been
cheated on in every relationship, serious relationship I've been in,
and I literally remember looking at my therapist. I mean like,
is this just like as good as it gets? And
I just have to deal with it because I just

(18:02):
genuinely I there's still like a level of hope they're right.
But for a big portion of me, it's like people
just cheat. There's just not that faithful and loyalness that
exists out in the world. I know it does, but
I think it's you and far between now, especially given
the access we have. I think social media has played
a huge role on that because you feel.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Like I know your immediate circle and now you know, well, you.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Feel like you have access to everybody, like heck, you
feel like you have access to a celebrity a model
when you probably don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Who you know what I mean, who is the celebrity
that kept showing up in everybody's dms like.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
That been afflic Well he was on Riah, that was
it was oh Adam, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
See, like it's just everybody's like it was even people
we know here they didn't even know he had DMed.
Like people I know that are stunning. Adam Levine with
definitely be into them. They because of the new story.
It was kind of a funny thing to just go
to your DMS and see if adamly and yeah, they

(19:08):
went and sure enough, Adam Levan had sent them a
dem and they had never seen it or replied. But
it's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's so crazy. It's just it's crazy to me that
it's just becoming such a normal part of relationships.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
When it's very I don't know that it's normal. I
don't know, it's not normal.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
The more people I know, the like, right, like, the
further we go along, the more people I know that
have been experienced cheating or have some crazy story like
the ones that I have, or on some level have
been through it, And I just don't feel like that
was the case before, like the last ten plus years.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
You know, I don't know. I never I think we
know about it more now because like, but that's still a.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Serious question I have in my brain, like, really, good
be it?

Speaker 1 (19:53):
I don't know, yeah, because I don't think something has
magically made people change and be different or want to
to do that more. I honestly think it's sort of
like the scary news that we get and what is
the world coming to? Well, there were serial killers way
back in the day. We just didn't know about it
because nothing made the news or like the Ted Bundy

(20:17):
that documentary is crazy because he would cross state lines
and state to state people weren't communicating, so there was
there was bad things happening, we just didn't know about them.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, I think to accessibility people too. Yeah, yeah, for sure,
But that is I mean on a long list of
the whole other podcast. Yeah, I mean chie so bad.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
An update on what Anthony has been paid for the
Dirty socks. But it's like, yeah, to your point of
like us putting our feet on Instagram for free, why
not we should get paid. Wikifi, I don't think you
make money from wiki feet. I think your feet just
comed up there.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
There is full on like websites to sell your feet pictures.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
All you should do is just your feet, upload your
picture of your feet. I don't know, this is getting
too good to be true. Do you see my my
nail polish over here? I was about to paint my toes,
not for You're about to do a whole lot for
pictures photos. But I have something later and I don't
have anything on my toes right now, which is fine.
Sometimes I just like to take a break and have
nothing on my nails. But I have Olive in June.

(21:29):
It's like a fall red color. I'm trying like that
one color oh s c that's what they call it.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
And then the other one looks like lipstick.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh, this is the quick dry top coat okay, from
Olive in June. It's see.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I like to buy like the quick dried nail polish
because I don't last very long. I mess up my
nails like almost immediately upon painting them.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, well I put this one. I let to sit
for a little bit and then I put the quick
dry on top, and I'm good.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
You're a little bit more patient than me.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
But this is my first fall color. It's like a
maroon looking situation, and I'm definitely ready for false.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Well, then you're gonna be also ready to take feet
modeling pictures and maybe maybe Amy. What we do is
we both commit to the bit, we both try it once,
selling our together, like, so we're in it together.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Oh could we get double?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
What I mean? Maybe, like, say we get a thousand
bucks that split five making that much?

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, I feel like you have to post a lot
of pictures to get a thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
I do think you get like regulars. Maybe not our
first one, but maybe our first one's five hundred, and
if they like it, then we'll be like, okay, well
a thousand bucks is the next one.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
So they subscribe. Yeah, like Eddie's Hot Chicken.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Business.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I mean there's like only fans just for feet, but
we don't have to be on only fans. We can
just like do our own little side business.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
But maybe we're going to again to go through an
official website. Honestly, I know there's no harm in it,
and you know, you do, you do whatever you want
to do. I guess I would just as a mom,
I don't need to share a finding out that I'm
selling my feet pictures.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
I don't think it's that bad. Even she did find out,
she probably why are you telling her?

Speaker 1 (23:07):
But you know her, she's a hustler. She'll be like,
oh okay, I'm gonna try to sell, and it's like
a gangway and then she starts selling her ankle in
her calf, in her knees.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I don't know, Yeah, I just do a code name,
like do you have a code name for like, I
choose one of my middle names and choose like a
you know, the town you grew up on.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Are you supposed to do the the name of your
first pet and the street you grew up on, So
mine would be your name?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well whatever, Trixie Pinehurst is mine, trick.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I like that, And honestly it does line up for
like a stripper name, Trixy Pinehurst. I like it. I
don't even know. I think mine would be what did
you say?

Speaker 1 (23:47):
It was the name of your first pet and the
street you grew up on.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Cuddles, Nantucket. I don't feel like that's very sexy.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Umbles. I feel like that works, Nantucket, it's very It
doesn't feel very like you get the Martha Stewart fans.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Okay, y'all will be we'll be right back, all right.
I guess something like fun random questions. What was like
a childhood delicacy that you had? Like you look back
and you're like, ooh, that was like my prime delicacy.
I'll let you think on it.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
I different dots, Oh my gosh, I love like if
my parents would ever buy me diffin dots, that'd be amazing.
And you couldn't get it at home. You can buy
it at the store. You didn't get it wherever they
had diffin dots, you had to be there. So I
don't know, that's.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
A really good one. I loved and you Most of
the time they only had them in like very like
obscure places like the mall or like a.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Game, yeah, water park. M hm.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
You couldn't ever find him, Like they never had like
a storefront.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
At least back then. So I'm trying to Oh great,
I mean now I'm gonna speak of the mall great
American cookie. How Like if we would go to the
mall and I would get a slice of that, I
would think I died in gone Heaven? What about you?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
I know, different house is. So that's a really good one.
My I think my delicacy wasn't even just something that
like I couldn't have often. It was more like something
that I love to have all the time. Faces so
many carbs. I literally had mac and cheese, mashed potatoes
and bread with butter, like that was my favorite meal
ever and anytime my dad made that, which was most

(25:19):
of my meals because I was vegetarian, like very early on,
so like you couldn't feed me a lot of things.
But every time I had that, I just like I
loved it because it's like three of your favorite things,
Like it's all carbs and cheese, and all of them
taste good.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, I had mac and cheese. Well, I've had it
several times lately. The weeks that my kids are staying
with Ben and then the weeks they're with me, I
live a very different life. I am very structured when
they're home, and I've never not had them. This is
still so weird getting used to. But I have so

(25:56):
much structure when they're home, Like we have Steven since bedtime,
it has got to be on par We were in bed,
we are reading, we are I'm looking at the clock.
I'm like, chop, chop, chop, you got thirty seconds. Brut
your teats. It says that we're reading. He falls asleep.
I'm like, oh, I sneak out. I go down, I
go to bed. Everything is on time. And when they're
not there, I don't know who I am. I have

(26:17):
I no structure, no adult I just casually go to
the kitchen. I start grazing and then they're not there,
so I'm like, we'll eat their food. So I heat
up the microwaveable Kraft macaroni and cheesecuts. I do those
a lot. Chicken nuggets, like there's they're these nuggets that
they love, and I just pop them in the air fryer.
And I'm not even worried about the time, which I

(26:40):
don't know why that is. Before I had kids five
and a half years ago, I was very structured with
my time. But maybe it's my weird way of trying
to cope with these weeks because it feels so weird.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
You're finding comfort in certain things and you're trying to
kind of it sounds like you're just allowing your yourself
to just like kind of live your own life again,
which has to be really hard.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
But that's what I'm saying. When I had my own
life before kids, I was very structure. At least I
knew the importance of a bedtime and you know some
quality nutrients.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
I mean, yes, But maybe now it's like it's a
combination of both. It's like learning to let yourself like
have your own life again, but you're also still finding
comfort in certain things while you're going through this transition.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, I hope I transition out of this best because
it's not it's definitely. I know how important sleep is,
and I'm not sleeping well on the weeks that I
don't have them, So I got to figure something out.
Maybe mentally I'll adjust, or I need to journal through it.
I don't know what's happening. There's probably something that needs
to be processed.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I appreciate that you're eating Craft mac and cheese cups.
Those are bob oh.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah. I feel like the kids come back to stay
with me and they're like, Mom, you need to go
to the store. All of our food is gone that
we like. I'm like, sorry, am.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Pro tip if you're gluten free, Craft makes one of
their that specific Craft mac and cheese, not like the
little microwave cups, but their box mac and cheese gluten
free and it tastes just like it. So if you're
gluten free, you can still have that.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, gluten free noodles or I feel like they've gotten
pretty good at those. We do the like a rice spaghetti.
None of us are gluten free, but I actually prefer
these noodles. I think the company's like Ancient Grain or
something like that. It's in a red box and they're
the best spaghetti noodles. And that's whenever I make spaghetti
and meat sauce for the kids, which is now what

(28:28):
I eat too, because I used to not eat the
ground beef. I used to not eat meat either. Now
I'm definitely trying to get more protein, and I use
gluten free every time, and my kids don't even notice
a difference.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, they've gotten really good at it. But that was
one that I was shocked to see because I was
having a moment where I needed like my comfort food,
which is mac and cheese and mashed potatoes, and I
looked and I was really excited to find the gluten free.
I was like, hopefully this tastes good, and it is.
It's really good. It's a pro tip.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
So that was your childhood, you know. That is when
you hit the jackpot if you've got to have the
heck and cheese, mashed potatoes and bread with butter.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yes, it wasn't even toasting, it was just like bread.
But that or that my cinnamon toast bread where you
toast bread and you put butter and then you do
cinnamon sugar on top of it. That that was also
the delicacy.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
We got an answer from oh, okay, we're st Anthony
on the shoes. So he replied to Carl Marie and said, yeah,
just men, and I wouldn't sell for less than fifty
dollars per sock if I was doing a sock's only transaction. Wow,
So fifty dollars for one sock?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
What that's crazy. I mean that's like that's like coffee
or you know, eat out food money.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh yeah, I mean that's yes, it's mailbox money. But
think of how many I mean, I guess you have
to how many people are really going to buy your
socks though?

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Wow? I mean think of it this way, Amy, And.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Do you have return customers? Is like, hey, you could
you get on a subscription where it's like you get
a sopha month.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I don't know what they're doing that talk, but yes,
I do think that happens. I don't want to know. Okay,
what's something you are currently obsessed with? It could be
anything on any level. Could be a TV show, it
could be food, it could be like a random item.
I know you really like your snail stuff, but we're
gonna stay away from that because you really love the
snail stuff.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh yeah, I'm obsessed with that.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I guess that one we already know you choose an
oh one that maybe people might not know.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, the finale of it was a couple of weeks ago,
but if people haven't watched it, they could binge two
seasons worth on Amazon Prime Video the summer. I turned
pretty mm hm so.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, so good. I'm already ready for where You're still
Team Conrad?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Is there going to be a season three? Do you know?

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I don't know if they've renewed it yet.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Time No, I don't want to say who I am
well more last time, yes, I was team Conrad, but
slowly but surely I'm I'm Team j Team Jeremiah. Are
I could go back to Conrad any minute?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Do you see if there is a season three coming? Okay,
it's been renewed. Well that is.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
I'm obsessed with season three, even though it hasn't come
out yet. I just wanted to hurry up and get
here because I love a good.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Age drama.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yes, what about you.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
I've been obsessed with These gluten free crackers are from
Milton's is the brand, but Trader Joe's makes this unexpected
cheddar cheese like spread and I eat those two together.
That is my girl dinner, like almost every day. It's
either my snack or my dinner, take your pick, but
I have to have it. It's like I swear, it's
like crack to me. It tastes so good.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Okay, see I'm in a TV show. I could go.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
You can go anything. You could add whatever you want here.
If you have other things you're obsessed with, that's just
like my current obsession, which isn't my healthiest but it's there.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, I toast, but I've been obsessed with toast for years.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, so toast has been your your thing for a while.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
M h. I guess now that we're dipping into fall,
I have been getting some of the pumpkin called foam stuff,
or at the store buying the pumpkin creamer can Sometimes
it's disappointing, like why did I buy this whole thing?
Here's here's my beef with that. Why do they sell
such big creamers? You can't when you open it, it

(32:19):
says it expires or goes bad seven days after opening,
which I'm sure there's some whiggle rooms, so let's call
it seven to ten. But I am the only one
using it, and I don't even get through half the
bottle in seven to ten.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Days and they don't make it any little or waste.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
No. Yeah, I mean I guess if you buy a
different brand in the pod. But I like I like
coffee made sometimes too, and also Khalifia Farms. It just
seems like the bottles are way too big. I wish
they would make smaller ones.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
At least like a half gallon maybe kind of like
they do regular.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Oh they're not even a gallon. No no, no, no,
we need like I need smaller than a pint.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I need like teeny tiny. Yeah, maybe you can freeze it.
No I don't, I mean frozen.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Well, a lot of people do if they drink iced coffee.
I saw this on TikTok if Like right now I
have iced coffee, and you see how it's watered down,
like the ice has melted and there's a layer of
like water on top of the coffee and milk. But
if you can think ahead, you can make cube ice
cubes that are your coffee drink. So if I took

(33:25):
this mixture right now and I made ice cubes, then
I put those in the freezer and then that's the
ice that I use for my iced coffee. So then
when the ice melts, it just melts into more coffee
and milk, so therefore it's not watered down.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Okay, that's a little trick, that's a hack. I like it.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
And now that we're moving in it into cooler weather,
I still haven't transitioned. Listen, it's not cooler yet. But
you know, I went through all of winter still drinking
iced and I feel like going into fall and winter too,
I'll keep on the ice train. I haven't wanted to
drink anything warm yet.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Well, I mean also people you ice creaming around, so
I feel like that's similar.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, I mean, and didn't you just like what you like?
I did quit using a straw though, because of my lips.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
What happened to your lip?

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Just age forty eight?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Like, I don't know, tell me that's another thing you
can't do.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Well, you can do it, but I was starting to
notice little lines, which sure, maybe I'm being a little ridiculous,
but they do say there's something to that. And I
was using a straw almost every day for my ice coffee,
and then I was using strawls if I was doing
green tea. And then I got so comfortable with shawls

(34:39):
and who's I'd put it in my ice water, and
I'm like, oh, I'm using a straw way too much.
And see when you do this with your lips, like
you know, all day every day, Yeah, when you're drinking,
then you start to form lines. So I thought, well,
I just should rather be proactive here and just ditch
the straw. And plus it's better for the environment. Even

(35:01):
though I have some metal straws, but I don't really
like those either.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
So you know, I saw the same thing which has
made me really super a different like wrinkle thing. But
it's like we're always looking down at our computers or
down at our phones, and it causes neck wrinkles. And
so now I try and like look at things even
in love one it is not working for me, Like
I always find myself naturally like looking down and I
hate it.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Okay, So Shannon, who works very closely with me, I
walked into the house. She works from the house most days,
and I walk in and I sit down. We're going
to work together, and one day, all of a sudden,
this contraption is under her computer, which is sure a
lot of work people had this, but it's it lifts her.
It's a little stand built for a computer, and she

(35:44):
has it right there, and every day that's for that
exact reason, not because the wrinkles in her neck, but
like pain in the back of her neck.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well, that's.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Posture, your posture, And so at first I was like, oh,
that looks awkward, but then now I'm kind of tempted.
Every day I look over and see it and I'm like, oh,
I should probably get myself one of those. But it's
just for that. You could get it and use it
in the studio.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
I know. The only problem is our cameras would like
it'd be like right in the eyeline of our cameras,
so I don't I think i'd get I have to
take it down, that's true, but I really want it
because I'm like, I don't like, this is such a
weird thing for me to be worried about. But I'm like,
if that's something I can do to like change it
for you know, twenty plus years older me, then cool,
I'll try it. But listen, when I'm laying on my
couch and I want to look at my phone, I

(36:28):
really want to look down, so like I have to
like lay on my side to like look eye level
with it. It's a whole like posture change that I'm
having to do and it's not going well. So at
least I'm glad your straws are going well because this
one is it?

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, well I have. That's My only tip for you
is to put it on that and maybe you can
find an angle where the camera will still get you,
like do it a little diagonal, or because you're in
your computer a lot, you might need to invest in
something like neck wrinkles aside just your overall.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Like overall body helm Yeah. Okay, well, well you know
the term from wrinkle problem that I'm having. When's like
I want to talk about we have coming up in
a minute, but before that, how is mom life going?

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Like?

Speaker 2 (37:08):
How are you? How are the kids? How's life?

Speaker 1 (37:12):
It's good. We've been in school for almost a month now.
We started school early August, which is crazy because a
lot of places in the country start well after Labor Day,
which I feel is when I used to go to school.
But it seems to get earlier and earlier and earlier,
and we're adjusting nicely. They're doing really well. They're both

(37:33):
at new schools and seem to be thriving. Mike De's
wife is our tutor, so she comes over either to
my house or to Ben's house like once or twice
a week to work with the kids, which is great
because they're math and science are what they need help with.
And Ben and I are both kind of like and

(37:55):
then we've been and I both are working full time
and oftentimes have meetings at night as well, just for
an hour. They don't take us away for a long time,
but that's an hour where they can focus on their
homework and have help. And then also sometimes it's not
that we don't know it, but as parents, I know
this is a struggle figuring out the best way to

(38:16):
teach it. It's like you know it, but then how
do you explain it to someone to where they understand.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
It and that they can retain it. Because it's one
thing to like totally understand it, but to be able
to use it and keep moving forward with it is
a whole game.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Kelsey and Mike's wife, She's got it down like she
it's to Shira's high fiving her, smiling like eager to
learn more. So what else he's doing? I said, Okay,
I will take take take all my money because I'm
seeing my kids happy about learning too, or having fun
while learning. Because that has not always been the case

(38:51):
in our household. Sometimes homework has caused a lot of
stress and anxiety. And I know I'm not alone in that. Uh,
Like there's times where I've just had to tell teachers
and this was a few years ago. We've done some
work and gotten through some things, but I would just
send notes and say, hey, yeah, homework's not happening, so

(39:12):
sorry about that. Like it's literally it's just not going
to happen, and I just need you to excuse it
because it just sometimes will send to another level because
it gets so stressful. And if Stevenson would get it's
mostly hymns. Dasher has always been able to kind of
hone in and focus, but if he gets overwhelmed, it
takes him to another place, and it's just not well North.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Everybody's sanity bogged down with a whole lot of homework.
I wish like that would change. Like, I know homework
is important, but I feel like almost the homework should
be like real life, like putting it into real life experiences.
I feel like that's more beneficial than like going home
and spending four hours writing on sheets of paper and
doing things, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, I mean, I just think as many hours it's
as there at school during the day. Before this new
school year where he now has homework, last year he
was at a school that did not have homework. They
got everything done at school and there was no.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Like no homebrew experiences. Which do you prefer?

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well, I think it's it's only been a month and
now and now Kelsey's helping so and he's, uh, I
guess matured in a way and has done some work
to where you know, if he gets anxious or overwhelmed,
he can now handle it. So I don't mind it now.
If we were where we were three years ago, I

(40:34):
would say no homework.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
But if you had the choice in what's the And
I say that.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Too for parents that I know, they have kids that
are very similar and so I feel your pain. It
is not a fun place to be. And you know,
other people are like, oh no, my kids love doing homework.
They're going to be valedictorian or whatever.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Well, so more often than not, though, I don't think
homework is the number one love for people to have
come home do no.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
And I think that there's a balance we're going to
understand trying to get it more in and it's reps.
It's repetition, right. The more you practice it, the more
you do it, the more you're going to retain it.
And so I see how that is helpful. But at
the same time, they're at school for a long time
during the day and if they want to play sports
or do any activities, Like Stevenson used to go to

(41:23):
jiu jitsu six days a week. He would go Monday
through Friday evenings and then on Saturday morning. And we
haven't been to an evening class since he started school
because his homework takes up that time, and you know, eating,
we're trying to do more meals around the table and
eating together, and so it's just sort of like, well,

(41:44):
it's a bummer because he was when he was at
the school that didn't have homework. He got to do
his extracurricular activity. And maybe once we get a little
bit better at it, he'll be able to squeeze in
other things. Because I know plenty plenty of kids play sports,
get all their homework done, whatever, but sometimes they're up
until well midnight one am doing everything they need to

(42:04):
do to get done, and I just feel like that's
a bit much for teenagers and kids, And sure the
real world, you can't avoid work that's handed your way.
But I just feel like as a culture, we're trying
to not have a work twenty four to seven type things.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
We're trying to change it.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
It is what it is.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah, we gotta change a lot of things to get
to that point. But I agree it starts at school.
It starts there, and it just moves us into I.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Know there's other schools that have the process down though,
they have the no homework system down, and they thrive
with it.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
So we got to implement it nationally, yes, worldwide.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Sort of like daylight savings.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yeah, except then some people stop doing it. Oh man, Okay, well,
we got a few more things to talk about. We're
gonna come right back. I just recently had the most
like I feel me weekend where I just did everything
that I wanted to do. And I'm wondering if you've

(43:01):
had one of these recently, Amy, where especially like just
given the stage of life you're in right now, where
you're like, I just needed like a weekend for me,
and like what I did was like I had this
full blown movie weekend and I did not move for
my couch, like I made food for me at home,
and then I watched a new movie, and then I
watched another new movie. Like I had this whole process
down of just watching movies and eating the food that

(43:21):
I wanted. And I didn't speak to anybody like I
talked to anybody on my phone. I didn't, I wasn't
like on social media. I was literally just engulfed in
movies and laying on the couch and it was like
really re relaxing and very like my good R and
R that I needed. And then I came out of
it feeling like the most me that I've felt in
a while.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
That sounds amazing.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Have you had one of like those type of weekends?

Speaker 1 (43:42):
I would see. We had vacation time last weekend, so
my cousin Amanda came in town and we went to
a hotel nearby for three days. And so that was
a very relaxing, refreshing and it was me actually trying
to take a vacation where I go away somewhere, because

(44:04):
in July we had vacation and we didn't we didn't
go anywhere. I mean, I took the kids to the
lake and we did more of like a staycation. And
so while technically this place was only thirty minutes from
my house. I acted like I was, you know, states away,
and I couldn't just pop home for anything. Like I
packed everything, took it with me, and we did We

(44:24):
ate good food. There was an amazing restaurant. We did yoga,
We did a sound bath, We went on hikes, we
sat by the pool.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Oh was this?

Speaker 1 (44:34):
We meditated, we journaled.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
You were supposed to do some like Falcon. Did you
end up doing it?

Speaker 1 (44:41):
I mean, it wasn't quite the experience that I thought
it was going to be. It was a little more
time consuming. But yeah, would I do it again? Not sure?

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Okay, But but the sound bath, then the yoga, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
I would do all of that again.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
And you know, you kind of have to have the
right partner for that. You have to be with someone
that you feel so comfortable with if you're trying to
have a relaxing wee nd And I'm you know, Amanda,
I guess affectionately known here as my psychic cousin. Like
she's she's she's that person. She's very safe. You can
kind of just do whatever, go with the flow. You
don't have to talk, you don't want to talk talk

(45:14):
if you you know. So that's what I needed and
I got it.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
I got it. That's a weekend.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, that was my vacation gift to myself.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
So I'm proud of you for giving that to yourself
and enjoying all the activities and also some relaxing.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
I know, originally, do you know what I originally wanted
to do for vacation.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
You going to go to Paris? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Hey I went from Paris to Leaper's Fort Tennessee, which
is okay because also just yeah, I need to plan
way more ahead. It would just got too extensive. I
wanted to. I want to plan it, be more prepared,
buy my tickets way more in advance, and then have
everything really kind of planned out, but also still go

(45:57):
with the flow.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yes, I love that. Well, I'm glad you got to
have that. And you know what, if you would like
to have also a movie weekend, I'm gonna give you
these wrecks because.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
They are all I mean, it's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
These were all like I think you'd like most of them.
One of them was a little bit chaotic. But Heart
of Stone is on Netflix with with Galgado. So if
you're a Galgado fan. It's great, but it's like an
action movie and she's the lead and she's like a
really important agent, and so I love when like female
leads are the like be a person in the movie.

(46:28):
And I was her in this. And then I think
I'm gonna pronounce this wrong, but love and Tap Tepee Tephi.
It's on Paramount Plus. And have you ever seen Crazy
Rich Asians the movies? If you love that movie, you'll
love this one. It's in that same vein she travels
from America to Tapee Tabi. I know I'm pronouncing that wrong,

(46:48):
but she travels to there to this huge like culture
school and has like this whole moment and it was
really cute, like super It's cheesy, it's like a little
rom com, but I loved it, like it was very
Crazy Rich Asians for me, which is like one of
my favorite movies. And then I watch Beautiful Disaster on Hulu, which, like,
you know, like a little toxic romance show where it's

(47:09):
like is it a movie or it's a movie, but
like you know when like you're seeing like the couple
and you're like, ooh, I really love them together. I
also really hate them together. M hmm, is that that's
what this movie is? The guy's a boxer. The other girls,
like the girl lead is like seems sweet and innocent,
but she has a really dark pass and there's like
this huge toxic romance happening between them.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Okay, like these so far because I haven't I haven't
heard of anything.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yes, they're all brand new to each of these platforms.
Like I straight up went through all of them and
found like the new movie for the weekend on all
of them, so that one was an on HuLos So
if you have now Hulo.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Hey, I say things wrong all.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
The time, Yeah, I do, especially when I'm talking fast.
But Netflix, Paramount Plus and Hulo those are all like
those three but all really good. Beautiful Disaster is the
only one that I preface where I'm kind of like,
is a little chaotic, but the other two super safe,
fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Okay, I'm I'm gonna need to write those dim typing them,
but I definitely want to see them, and I need
to see if I've got my Pyreamount Plus subscription anymore.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
I know, I don't know why I read I was
watching Yellow the New Grease Shafting. I think Yellowstone was
on there, yes.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Nineteen twenty three, nineteen Yeah, say say say say oyster oysters,
oyster oyster. When you said hulo, it made me think
of I was recorded Oaster something with Bobby and I
said oyster and he's like, say it again. I said oyster.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
I think it's because you were saying the s C.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
I still like oyster. That's just how I say it
is oyster. But it's oyster oyster. Oh.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
I'm not one to judge. I mess up my wars
all the time. So I was just like, yeah, I
get it, it's just.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
How I've said it, so I've not I have not
ever paid attention to it. And then he called it
out and I was like, oh, dang, you're right.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
I do often. Are you using the word oyster anyway?

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Well me a lot, just kidding, I don't. I think
I have. I do it when I tell it oyster joke.
I like fried oysters on a potato with a Chipotle mayo.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Oh okay. So Eddie and I have this whole conversation
a few weeks ago on the best bits where I
don't understand why people like oysters because they friedy have
burgers fried.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
I can't eat them raw. Now I've never had one raw,
but my dad would make them fried and then he
would whip up this Chipotle mayo situation Helman's mayo only
my parents.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Are very specific.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Yes there is everything else doesn't exist, and I agree,
they do taste different, Helmans all the way. So you
get that and then you add Chipotle to it, shake
it up in a squeeze bottle, and then you get
a regular potato chip, like just plain salty potato chip,
and you put the squeeze the sauce on the chip,

(49:44):
and then you pop an oyster on top, and then
you just throw it in your mouth and it is
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
That is quite a wild concoction. Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
I mean you have to if you're if you like
frying things, you have to know how to do all that.
I have not been a big friar, but my dad
would always do it. And that's one thing that I
missed so much, as all the cooking that he used
to do for us. I mean, of course I missed
him as a human, but cooking was his love language too.
And I remember in college for a date, date, party,

(50:15):
you know, and sororities, you would have the weekends sometimes
where if you had a big party, you'd make it
a whole weekend with your dates. And so we invited
everybody out to my friend's ranch in Austin and or
right outside of Austin, and so since my dad lived there,
I had him come and cook for everybody, and so
there was probably ten couples, so twenty people, and so

(50:38):
I was like, hey, just bring like ten bucks, we'll
tharn and hat. I'll give it to my dad as
like so he can go get the groceries or whatever.
And of course you would always end up spending way
more than that, which was still so fun and just
like it was his gift. It's the way he wanted
to show people, Hey, you know you're awesome. I love you, Like,
let me share this with you. And we did those.
We did the fried oysters on a potato chip with Chipotle,

(51:00):
and I swear every single person there they had they
were like, I've never tasted anything like this. This is
so good and it's so simple. So if you're hosting
people and you know how to do that stuff, make
that whip that up, it's like they'll think you're doing
something really crazy. So simple, it's like there's nothing to
it other than knowing how.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
To fry, which as long as you have a friar and.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
You read it right. I don't know what he was
using to bread the oysters, So now I don't have
all these details for you, but maybe you could google
because he didn't really use a recipe. That was the
thing too. After he died, my sister and I were
trying to compile some of his dishes that he loved
to make, which one of them was uh oysters Christopher,

(51:42):
which my mom's maiden name was Christopher. And so in
the eighties my dad opened a restaurant named Christopher's and
it was her maiden name, and it was a steakhouse.
It was really nice, like the waiters wore bow ties.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Uh wait, was he a chef there? Like? Did he
cook there? No?

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Jose was the chef okay, which I missed me some
Jose too. He has passed away. But actually at a
iHeart Country festival a few years ago before the pandemic,
we were doing like Brett Young or something. It was
like a Saturday day thing before the daytime village at

(52:19):
a hotel like Listeners Won Things. It was a private
event at a hotel and I'm there for work. I
walk in and I look over and bartending is Jose's daughter,
and I hadn't seen her in years, and I look over.
I mean, even thinking about it now, my throat gets
like I'm literally I feel it. When I saw her,

(52:41):
I just started crying. And I'm in the middle of
like supposed to be working. But it was just such
a special time for our family and they were such
a big part of it. And then anyway, my dad
went Banngrubt. Anyway, all the restaurants closed down, and that
that one was the special one of our family because
it was right near our neighborhood. South I thirty five,
near Onion Creek. If y'all are from Austin and your

(53:03):
parents happened to know of it in the eighties, is
right next door to Crumley's, which is this really cool
like gas station place, and mister Crumley worked there and
he had Christmas lights up year round. It was just
it's very nostalgic for me now I'm going down memory lane.
But you know, when you see someone or you or
you smell something, or you hear something that just evokes
such a memory that it brings up emotion in you.

(53:26):
That's what happened with Jose's daughter, and that was a
really special time. So no, my dad wasn't the ship
that Jose was, but my dad would create the menu. Yeah,
and oysters, Christopher was one of the most popular things
on there. And I want to put up that recipe
for people because it is so good. It's a fried oyster,

(53:47):
but he put it on toast tips, which is just
cutting whitebread into triangles. Yeah, and then you toast it
a little bit and you cook the you fry, you
pan fry the oysters in like a Worcester shower. I
don't know how to say that either cauction and it
is delightful. You want to talk about a decadent or
delicacy whatever you mentioned earlier, that would be it. I

(54:09):
need to get that recipe because I've got to put
it up because people are gonna love it. It's so good.
It's a little more high maintenance than the right oyster
on a chip with chapole mayo, but it's so good.
And I hope that people get that moment too, whatever
it is for them, that moment that brings back a
memory that's so special of like people in your life.
That just suddenly kind of warrant in your life.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Well, and especially for you given that he's passed on
now too. That's probably what made it even all the more.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Well when I saw her, he was alive. He was yeah,
my dad was still alive. Well he Jose, her dad,
her dad, her Jose had passed away, but my dad
was still alive.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
But so just like just a lot of pieces coming together,
which is really cool. I love that you got to
have that moment.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Yeah, no, it was really good.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
And see now you remember the recipes, hmm, I love that.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
And my on the menu, I was like Amy's beef
tips or something.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
It's just weird.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
I don't even eat beef. And Christie's catfish, Christie's garlic fish.
Maybe it was my sister's and my mom's was Judy's cheesecake.
So if you ate our whole. My dad was real
creative with the menu. We just named everything.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
I mean, we both have restaurants in our family. My
grandparents owned restaurants and that's what my dad grew up doing,
was like working in their restaurant. And like they also
had like a bullying My mom had like a bowling
alley and I think of like that stuff.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
My grandma was the manager of a bowling alley.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Like we have a lot of similarities with the way
that our parents like kind of grew up and stuff too,
which is crazy, but you know, everything feels like it's
connected in some ways.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
So did your parents, like did your dad ever think
about going into the restaurant business or no?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I mean he was young and he had three older
siblings and they all worked in it. But then I
don't think they went bankrupt, but I just think they
stopped doing it. It was like a hotel and a
restaurant chain that they had, and they they did it
for a long time and then I never got the
story of like what ended it or what happened, but
he loved, like he has memories of working in it
and like some really fun memories. And when my grandma

(56:01):
was alive, she would always talk about them, and like
I'd get them talking about it, and they'd have all
these crazy stories and experiences of things that have happened,
like dark and funny ones and it was just like
cool here, Like it was just especially because it's a
different time, right, Like just you think about like the
hotel business now and like a restaurant business now so
much different when it's like probably the same time in

(56:21):
the eighties, like just very different way of life and
things that were happening.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
So yeah, I think either it's you have to love
it because it's not for the faint of heart, Like
there's so much that goes into it and so much
to make it successful or to keep the lights on.
Even after the bankruptcy, my dad still went back into
the restaurant business. And even he's got two really scary

(56:47):
things that happened to him involving restaurants and opening stores.
One he was in Colorado opening a restaurant and he
was underneath like a gas stove trying to fix something
and it blew up and he got third degree burns.
Oliver's body that has starfled him, like whenever he made
it back home to our house, he I was. It's

(57:09):
one of my memories of him at home. I don't
have many from my childhood of him being at home,
even though he didn't move out until I was nine.
It's just my brain limited memories. But one of them
that I have is him His face was kind of
charcoally wow, and then he looked like a mummy and
my mom would have to change his dressings. And then
another one is the time he was opening a Swinson's

(57:30):
ice cream in Saudi Arabia and he got arrested and
went to Saudi jail, which is not a place that
you want to go. Well, you don't want to be
in a foreign jail period, but definitely not in Saudi Arabia.
But because vanilla extract is in ice cream, and my
dad was the pork waiting for the container to come in,

(57:51):
and the business partner there that was opening it he
was a doctor, which doctors there are highly regarded, and
my I was like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm
supposed to this is the ingredients we needed to open
the Swinson's. And so anyway, they still arrested him because
of the tiny percentage of alcohol that is in vanilla extract,

(58:11):
and the doctor came bailed him out and then worked
with you know, the I don't know police or whatever
whoever he had to to get to get the ingredients.
They treated it like a pharmacy. They said, okay, you
may use this to make your ice cream, but you
have to write a prescription for it and check it

(58:32):
out and then go make the ice cream. So the
doctor was like, uh, one script for vanilla extract please,
And then they opened the Swinson's. But you would think,
I don't know. I think my dad would just be like, Okay,
I'm done opening.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Restaurants, and he was like risking life to do them,
which crazy. Both of those stories are crazy, and you
know you kind of wish too. I bet that you
have like a book of all his stories, because he
probably has a lot of them, even once that you
maybe don't remember.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Oh. I know. That's what I tell people all the time.
If your parents are still alive, get all the stories,
write them down, ask them questions. We didn't do enough
of that.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Yeah, it's hard and it's hard to think about in
the moment, right. It's always after the fact where you're like, dang,
I wish I had that. So it's a great thing
to remember for people. Yeah, I do want to give
before we we'll have a part three, y'all where we
answer your questions, but quick, rapid fire Nashville suggestions for
people they're always traveling here, they always want things to do.
Favorite place for lunch slash dinner, bar.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Taco for lunch for sure. I mean, if you want
to do it for dinner, you can too, but I
love sitting outside, so I would say, let's go in
between there. Let's do a half hour, okay, and you
get a table outside, especially because we're approaching fall. It's
on twelve South. They open one in East Nashville too,
but I say go to the twelve South one. And

(59:51):
you honestly never know you might see walking by, because
if you're visiting, like there's times where I've been sitting
out and like Brett Eldridge's walked by, because there's other
restaurants in your by Bitley has walked by, or you
just never know who you might see. So that would
be fun. And you can just casually, you don't have
to like freak out, you can just let them walk by.
But still that could be fun. And then they have

(01:00:14):
great margarita's, but if you don't drink, they have other
just great you know, mocktails or whatever you want to
call it. And then the tacos, and they have a
secret taco that's normally at the bottom of the menu
and sometimes it's the lobster Taco and it is is
it a secret taco? I don't, I'm calling it that.
I think they call it like the it's not a

(01:00:36):
secret because it's on there, but I feel like they
call it the a special name because it's not always
on the menu. And most of their tacos because they're little,
they're like two bucks and so you order multiple, but
the Lobster one of six. So you're like, oh, I'm
not going to pay six dollars, that's ridiculous when I
can get this tacover two. You're going to think that,

(01:00:58):
because I thought that for a while and took me
going there multiple times until I finally was like, Okay,
I'm gonna get the lobster, and I tried it, and
it's the best. It's the best thing I've had ever.
It's one of the top five foods I've ever eaten
out in high life, high praise.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
It's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Yeah, but again they don't always have it. I don't
know when.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Special edition, Yeah, secret, but that's a secret.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Not sure. But that's why I would say, what about you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
That's a good one. Also Mexican, but i'd go Blanco.
It's great for lunch if you want to like hear
some live music and kind of sit in the environment
in there. Super fun, but also they have the best
QSO in town, like so good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
I wish Bartaco head Caso.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
They don't, Yeah, they don't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
They have walk and they have a trio you can
get like the song, but like, what's.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
A trio without a queso and Blanco has it. So
also Mexican, but we do have some good like Mexican
spots or sixty Vines. That's another one. They're both right
by each other.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
Oh yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
There good options brunch. Mm. The first one that comes
to mind for me is State Side Kitchen because if
bottomless momosas and they always have a DJ. So it
is live and it's near Broadway so you can like
go out and day drink after.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Okay, Well this isn't like it doesn't have to be
like that could be totally okay because Ian Rose.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Yeah, that's a great spot.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
I mean they have these great bowls like the Asie bowls,
but they have you don't have to get the icy asa,
you can do whatever. They have so many different concoctions
and they are so good. It's one of my d's
favorite places ever.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
They go every weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Yeah, my friend cry Ocat she goes every week and
two she's the one that sort of got me really
turned onto it. And they have great avocado toast and
they have other toasts, so it fits in that brunch category.
It and great lattes and.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
And more quick too, like if you need like a
quick little eat because I imagine you're just getting it
out of the counter and you sit down, right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Or is it yeah, I get it to go, okay whatever,
or you could get it and take it to a
park and eat somewhere like perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
See like two variations. Mine's like the full party side
of yours is like the health and one inside it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
It's a wellness place, but it's yummy for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Oh I love don't get me wrong. I make Osie
protein Ossi evils at home all the time, my favorite. Yeah,
so I'm all game for those.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
You know. I've been trying to make them at home too.
And it's more I can't get I'm not using asie
and maybe I need to get some of that because
it is really good for you nutritionally speaking, or the antioxidants,
but I can't get the consistency right. I either make
it too liquidy to where it's still like a smoothie,
or then it's too thick, and it's not blending all
the way too. I have to add more liquid and
then if you go over okay, the slightest, I can't

(01:03:30):
get it the right consistency that Ian Rose gets it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
I finally figured this out, and I know what it is.
You need frozen fruit. Whatever you're choosing, other frozen fruit,
you get the asie because most of the time it
comes frozen, so you get it about like half frozen
half like starting to not be frozen anymore, like you
run out of hot water. But add a little bit
of water and then like for me, I add two
scoops of vanilla protein into it. That consistency is litterally like,

(01:03:55):
like exactly like you'd get out of place.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
So just some melted asie and in a little.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Bit of water and some frozen fruit. The frozen fruit frozy. Yeah,
the frozen fruit, yes, I do that. The frozen fruit
is what makes it more smoothie like texture.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Yeah, I mean that's what I'm I'm doing, like frozen
blueberries and bananas and whatnot. I just don't have the
asi e PACs the I I us. You need frozen fruit.
But that consistency is just like in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
A little bit of water, just a little bit to
make it move, but you don't want too much because
that's what makes the liquidy. Okay, it is fine.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Yeah, And then at home, I try to be like
Aane Rose and I throw in granola and I heat
up peanut butter or nut butter, and I try to
swirl it on top and make it fancy. Because Aine Rose,
it'll it'll add up. That's why I want to try
and make it at home as much as I can.
I get those daily as smoothies and I just use
those that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Like that plate the Osi E Boldon Town is how
I started making them. So like I make that bottom
and then the top is blueberry strawberries, almond butter and
honey and glue and frue ganola. Yeah, so it's literally
just how like they make it there, but I make
it home. I think that's why I've never gone to
these places, because I found a way to make that home. Right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
But if you're visiting, ian Rose is a good place
to go. Okay, favorite dessert, I mean we love Jenny's
ice cream also good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
It's yeah, we've always even though we've lived in different
parts of town, We've always lived near one, so they're everywhere. Yeah,
I would say that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Okay, yeah, that's a good one. I would say that one.
But since you said it, I'm gonna go with Donut
Distillery because they're a little mini donut and they're so
cute and you have like fruity pebbles or we SI's
kind or whatever. But they're like not breakfast. They're definitely
a dessert. They're little mini donuts. They're really good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
I mean, if you come to town, you have to
go to Five Daughters.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
See I don't like Five Daughters.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
You don't like the layered donuts.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
I think it's because I really like og donuts, oh see,
and so like the layered ones are too like flaky.
They're more pastry like for me, and I really like
like old school, like just your basic donut.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Okay. See I love a croissant, so that's why I'm
into it. And then if I do eat a normal
I guess kind of donut that's I'm not flaky. I
like the cake consistency two opposite.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Yeah, okay, okay, what about favorite activity?

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
I love to go to the parks, like either Percy
Warner or Radner. So hike. There's some really good hiking.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Have you done a waterfall yet?

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
I haven't. No, I need to.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
You've lived here for how long now, I ten years,
and you love hiking over and you've never taken a
weekend even you can go with the kids and go
to a waterfall. They're like barely an hour outside of
the city.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
I know I need to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
You would love them, you'd see one, you'd be like, Okay,
I need to see all of them because they're massive here.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Okay, I'm gonna put it on my list. Yeah, when
we hike in Colorado in the summer, we always go
to the waterfalls and it's a lot of fun. But
you're right, I do need to do it right here.
It's just a lot easier to just tie car, you know,
to Radner. But you're right, I need to go do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
I just don't know if you like it as much
as like I put it in my head beat. I
think they're really cool. We have some really massive ones here.

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
Yeah, hiking. Also Pinewood Social and bowling or something like that. Yeah,
you can like eat and have good brunch. Pinewood Social
has a good brunch they do, and then you can bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Let's become a big bachelorette spot. So I tend to
avoid that one more often, but yeah, it is a
good one.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Well if you come on the off days, yeah, go
during a week or something, right, come on a Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Mine would be another one that's taken over from a
lot of bachelottes. So it's Arrington Vineyards. I love Errington.
It's beautiful. It's like a whole vineyard out there. They
have my favorite, which is BlackBerry wine, and it's just fun.
Sometimes they have live music out there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
You can take your own like cheese and crackers and
your whole spread and take a blanket and just hang
out out there, hang out. You cannot take your own alcohol,
do not try.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
No, you can just only take your own food. You
can have all the food in the world you want
and have your own alcohol. You have to buy that
o there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Yeah. I didn't know that the first time I went there. Obviously,
I know it was a vineyard, but we were it
was a group of us and someone had Teeto's and
we didn't think anything of it because it's like, okay,
but it's not wine. It's not a competition of wine. Yeah,
And this person didn't drink wine at all, so it's
a bummer. Yeah, that needs to go back in the car.
I was like, okay, fine, we don't know. We didn't
need it, but I learned that the hard way.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Yeah, so don't bring your own alcohol. But yeah, well
there's some national recommendations for all of y'all if you're
coming bachelor party or just for fun or with family.
But Amy, that wraps it up for part two. Now
we get to go to listener questions, but then it'll
be in another segment.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Well maybe we'll be more rapid fire with those, because
I just realized you said rapid fire foray the ones
we just did and I did not.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
It's okay, we're rolling with it. But for this one, Amy,
thank you for joining me, and thank you for talking
about life and all the stuff and just being totally
unhinged with me. Yes, it was fun. I appreciate that
really started off.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
Thanks for having me. I enjoyed it. I have as
anybody is going to send an email asking if I
like it?

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Yes, because yes, okay, y'all, we'll head over to part three,
which is a new thing we've been starting, which is
Listener Q and A The Bobby Bowl Ship Open funds