Bobby Bones Show Best Bits of the Week with MorganBest Bits: What Eddie Learned From Breaking His Arm & Morgan’s Helicopter Dog Parent Moment
Happy weekend friends! Eddie talks all about his broken arm and how it’s impacting his day-to-day life, plus what he’s learned from the experience. Morgan’s dog had her dental surgery and Morgan turned into a helicopter dog mom. Plus… Veggie tales! Morgan & Eddie talk fruits & vegetables like how they should be stored and then it moves into a conversation about restaurants, underrated foods, and a rookie mistake.
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Part one, behind a scene with a member of the show.
Welcome to the Weekend, everybody, It is The Best Bits Part one. Morgan here and Eddie is joining me. Hi, Eddie, what's up. You know we had a little freak out there for a second that Eddie was not going to be on your best Bit. Yeah, I know.
I mean it's weird. I never call in sick, but last night, like I was thinking, like, there's no way I can go to work tomorrow. I was like in bed with the chills and like I was freezing, and everyone in the house is like, it's so hot in here, Dad, and so I don't know. I took some ivyprofen, I drank a lot of water. I went to sleep. Except for like twelve hours, I feel I mean, I don't feel like one hundred percent, but I'm good to go. Yeah, we were.
We were just talking about how just that time of year, like we're just in that space where everybody's getting sick, nobody feels great about them. It's like we're just that's where we're at.
We're just doing it, We're surviving. I feel like that's where I'm at. Every day. We're just surviving. I mean everyone's like, everyone's like, how you doing. I'm like surviving. I'm alive.
You know. I do feel like there should be a little bit more moments where you're not just surviving.
I know, I know I'm waiting for that time. That's retirement, speaking of.
Not retirement, but you are surviving. You did break your arm. You're sitting here in a sling.
I'm an idiot.
You didn't get a cast. Like we Let's like, how are you feel it? How's life with a broken arm?
So I'll give you like the whole story. It sucks one being one armed, and like I can I've got it's been what a week now, and I can do a little bit of rotation in my hand. So, so here's what happened. I was roller skating, I fell. I broke the bone. It's called a radius bone, but it's right where it's connected to the elbow. Yeah, so that's what causes your wrist to go. That bone is kind of like the bone that helps your risk go left to right.
Which you really need because you know, you use your your wrist bone when you're to do.
It, So you don't even realize how much you turn your wrist in life until you can't use it. And so I went to the er the night that I fell, and they were like, I'm not going to put a cast on it. Go to the orthopedic on Tuesday, because it was m okay day on Monday, So wait till Tuesday. Go to orthopedic and they'll kind of tell you what they want to do. I don't want to put a cast on it, and then them say like, oh you don't, we need to do some surgery take the cast off. So let's just not put a cast on it. So then on Tuesday I went to the orthopedic and they did more X rays on it and they said, yeah, confirmed what they thought was wrong is what was is wrong. And they're like, but your bone, this is not this is not me, like say anything cool about me. But there they said, the muscle is so strong in the area that it kept everything together. So like where it broke, it's still attached to the muscle and it didn't move, so it's good and it's even kind of trying to heal itself already. So let's not do a cast. Stay in the sling. I sit every as much as you can every day and even try to move it a little bit every.
Day, so like your own kind of physical therapy.
Yes, so the pain is like when it just sits there, not so bad. Now a week down the road and not so bad. But what happens, Morgan is that it's almost like you know how when you just kind of sit and fidget like and just kind of tap your finger or whatever or even just like slap your knee. Well, my muscles to just do that randomly, and when it does that, my whole arm just gets a shot of pain. And that happens twenty times a day, oh idea. And even like when you're standing up, I want to stand up real quick and you don't even think about it, but your right arm acts like it's going to grab this arm rest to get help myself up, and it doesn't, but it just moves a little bit, and that whole muscle where it's broken feels like it's ripping. It's tearing that boney.
It's like muscle memory. So your brain is remembering that your body needs to do things, but your body part can't do that at this moment, right, So it's like trying to get them on the same page. Yes, does it. Were you mad that you didn't end up getting the cast?
Well, I asked him, like, but I don't. I'm really worried because like it's already kind of just jerking a little bit, and I feel like I'm gonna just rip it. He's like, you won't. You won't make it worse, Like unless you bang it on something or hit it really hard, you're not going to knock it out of place again. So and he's like, if you want a cast, we can do it. But it's bulky. It's a pan of the button you get in the shower. It's a pan of the button life in the butt wearing a shirt.
Yeah, and you have to cover it when you shower. I've had a few casts in my life. Yes, And you have to cover it when you take a shower, and especially on your hand, like you kind of just have to hold your hand basically out of the water. It's a really uncomfortable situation.
Yeah. So anyway, he was like, yeah, I mean, we could do it if you want, and I just don't see the need if you're careful, I don't see the need to put a cast on it.
So then how long do you have to be in the sling for.
Well, the sling's probably going to be like a four to five week deal, okay, he said, the whole process is probably going to be six to.
Eight weeks where it's actually fully healed.
Where it's actually fully healed. Now, he said that if you don't, if I don't try to do a little physical therapy on my own, like every day, move my fingers, make a fist, try to straighten my arm, which I can't really straighten my arm all the way. But if I can work on that every single day while I'm sitting on the couch or whatever, He's like, that will reduce the amount of physical therapy I will need later.
So you will need physical therapy though, probably because I mean my arm is immobile.
So like I think after six weeks, your arm forgets like to do what it normally does, and then you have to kind of train it again.
Well and your brain. You know, I've never broken any major bones, like I've broken fingers and just kind of random things. Yeah, so but I do remember you feel very hesitant to use it again. Yes, that's where the problem lies. It's not more that like it's not heeled and it can't do those things. You're like, I don't want to because I'm scared in your brain. That's when your brain's finally catching up to what's happening. It takes all that time and then it's delayed.
But there are two different kinds of people, Like there are us, the careful ones, where like I don't want to grab that bottle because I can hurt myself if I rotate it. And there are people that are like, I don't care grab a bottle. Oh I hurt, so I'm gonna grab it anyway. So like that's kind of what the doctor's saying, Like, if you're gonna be a dumb ass, I'm sorry, you're gonna be an idiot, like you will cast.
It, okay.
But if you're not, like, if you could just be careful and not do things you know you're not supposed to do, like you're good where you're at.
Just be careful, okay, So you're not an idiot and you.
Have muscle, yeah, strong muscle that get my phone together. That's where we're.
Gonna focus the energy on. Is your wife a little bit of annoyed? She's like because now she's kind of having to pull a little bit more way just because there's things you can't do.
She did say that she misses two armnitty like for sure, and just little things, just little things like can you do the dishes for me tonight? I can't cook, which I love to cook, and like that's my thing and I can't really do that right now. Like I try to heat something up yesterday with one arm. It's so hard.
It just takes you twenty times.
Oh, we had so hard to even scoop something out of like the pan.
So she's like, I have another child, this is lovely for five weeks. Yes, yes, oh man, And what have we learned from this lesson?
I don't know. I don't know, Morgan, because like, yes, I think the obvious is, you know, you can't do stuff like that anymore. But that's kind of my personality, Like going to a roller skating rink with my kid for like their birthday party, Like how blame would I be just sitting there and be like, all right, guys, have fun. You got three hours, Like I'll be sitting right here.
Okay. I don't think that's the lesson. I think you can still do things. I think the lesson is done. Go to her, Maybe we don't do that extra lap. Maybe we just take it a little bit easier, maybe we realize that we've had a lot of life, or not quite back in college anymore. I know you can still do all those things.
I know. People, my kids love it when we go hard, like like we'll still do full court basketball, like when we go to the gym and there's no one there, like the basketball gym, Like me and my whole family will do full court basketball, and they want me to play hard. They don't want me just to be like, oh, try to steal the ball. Dad. No, they love it when Dad goes hard because they really want to beat me. So like when he said, Dad, let's race, they really want to beat me, and I'm like, I gotta I gotta go fool.
You don't have to though they can think that you are without you actually doing it right. You know your limits, you know, like what your body is capable of, especially now I know you know, like.
This is gonna. I was skating so well though, Like I was doing so well, and my wife even got out there and she couldn't let go of the wall.
I'm like, come on, no, Eddie. This this reminds me of the moment when Okay, So I grew up roller skating, our rollerblading, and I should say roller blading is.
The one with the at the single a single line.
Because Kansas is all flat everywhere. Right. I used to rollerblade all over my neighborhood. No big deal. Well, two years ago, I'm like, I want to get back into rollerblading. Bought a nice pair of roller blades, and I'm like, I'm gonna roller blade in my neighborhood because that's what I did growing up. So I, you know, put my own. I didn't have a single pad on, I didn't have help, I didn't have anything on. Right, I lasted two minutes before I rounded the corner in the hills of Tennessee. Uh huh, and I go tumbling, broke my tailbone. I had a huge strawberry all did.
When was this?
Oh yeah, this like two years ago. You know, we talked about the broken tailbone on the show, mostly because like it sucked to sit down. Oh yeah, like you want.
To talk about, Oh you did have it? Do you have a donut?
I don't think I got a donut. Okay, I was just suffering through the pain. That's brutal, and that was my moment where I realized, Okay, you can do the things that you would like to do, but let's make sure you wear pats. Let's make sure.
Do you want me to go to the skating rink with pads? You know how lame that would be? Like this is this was this was crazy, like after it happened, like you turn it. It's so weird how your mind works, Like as soon as it happened, like the kids were, we weren't ready to go yet. They wanted to escape for like ten more minutes. I said ten more minutes, and I sat down and I watched everyone in the rink and my arm was throbbing at that point, It's like it hurts so bad. And I'm like, I see five older dudes older than me. I'm like, how come he? I'm sure he's fallen, and like a guy probably my age going as fast as I'm like, I'm sure he's fallen, Like why am I the one that broke my arm on a fall that didn't even seem like it was that bad, you know? And then you start seeing people like oh, pick up their kids with both arms, like well, that must be nice having two arms to pick up your kid. You immediately start feeling like life's just not fair.
It is that, but that's always been true, right, Like that's always been a thing beyond this moment, beyond everything. Life is just not fair. All that to be said, you can still do all of these things. You just have to know your own limits of like, Okay, maybe we don't go fifty miles an hour, maybe kills thirty five. Sure, just pull back just a little in different areas. For me, it's I need to wear pads if I'm gonna try something again for the first time. Yeah, or gymnastics, I you know, pulled my hip bone, like the rotator cop of my hip bone when I was trying to do things a thirty one year old should not be doing.
To your defense, though you were doing really well, like some of the videos you posted, Like dude, you're killing it.
See this is like you like, I was doing really well. We have to know our limits. We can do these things, and we can continue to keep doing them. We just have to know when we're probably pushing it a little too hard.
You're right, You're right, that's our line.
I know, I know, and that sucks because it sucks to like, right, it sucks to get older, it just does. It does the reality.
But like the when I broke my foot though, like that was I was just playing baseball. We were just catching and Bobby over through the ball and I jumped for it and my foot land and landed the wrong way on the base. Like that's just such a freak little accident. The fact that I did that last year. I'd never broken a bone before that, Morgan never that was kind of my thing, you know, like I've never broken a bone. It's pretty cool. Last year I break my foot.
Maybe you manifested it.
Maybe I did. Maybe I did. But but like for years, like people, you know how we do bits on the show, like what's something that you've never done. I've never broken a bone, but last year broke my foot, this year, break my arm.
You manifested that. The universe Like that's what you're gonna keep saying jokes on you. Oh yeah, we're gonna make you break you major bones. Watch this figure this out. It's also just it's not even just the breaking of it, right, it's the recovery time. It just takes longer to recover. It took me almost a year. I still can't quite hit my tailbone. In the right way really, and my my hip sometimes will still I'm like, oh there it is again. Yeah, and you're gonna have that now forever. That's gonna be part of your moments where you're like, oh that hurts a little bit, this little twig like whatever.
People always say too, like oh, you know I can since the weather come in, like I know when a storm coming because my bone starts aching.
And the ones you always injure and that's the one that you feel. Yeah, so we've learned.
The lesson is don't go that hard. You can see you can still do things, but don't overdo it.
Yeah, just you know, pull back maybe a yeah, little hair if you will, but also kind of badass and you look at you.
You broke your arm. Rollers. No, it's such a bad story. Every time I tell the story, people are like, you were roller skating, and then I have to be like, no, no, it was my kid's birthday party, like he wanted to go roller skating, and then went out there with him.
Just own it, you know why you're living up your life and you're out there and you're like, yeah, I did that happen? Was it dumb? Absolutely? But is it a great story to tell. Yes, it is, it is, you know, and now you have a story. Before you didn't have a story.
That's right, that's right. We would have been the story I want. Roller skating last night. It was awesome, cool, my kids.
That's a great story.
Not really, but man, I broke my arm roller roller skating. That's the story. The story.
Oh my goodness. Okay, Well, thanks for sharing. You're really glad you're on the ment.
Yeah. Man, we're on the up and up, and you're on pain meds. So I'm on yeah, a little bit of pain meds, but mostly I'm trying to get off the pain meds and go to ibuprofen now, which is like six hundred milligrams I think, which is three ibuprofins, like regular store ibuprofens.
Gotcha. So I just do that every six hours any in particular reason or you're just.
Like not, I just don't like pain meds. Yeah, Like you hear all the stories about people getting hooked on pain meds, and honestly, I don't feel it the way people will explain it. Like I kind of feel like I get tired on the pain meds and a little groggy and a little moody when they when like it starts fading and fading off, you start feeling a little weird about it, like I don't know, like it just feels like a bad hangover.
You know I'm talking about this shouldn't be how I feel.
Yeah, I don't. I don't like that feeling. So the ibuprofen, you don't get that feeling with that?
Yeah, No, that's something normal that people take every day.
Sure, the ibuprofen. It's like the pain went away and now the pain's coming back.
You know what's funny is when I so, did you ever have your wisdom teeth taken out? So you still have your wisdom team?
I think?
So? Okay? I so I got my taking out in high school and they gave you lore tabs, which is like a pain med and because it's supposed to help you get like dry sockets and that's really painful.
Whatever.
Well, I took these lord tabs and eddieoisto sick. I lost ten pounds in like two days and they had to rush me to the ear like through the ivy. That tells you how much I hate needles. I kicked the nurse because I did not want her putting a needle in that. Even though I was like deafinitely ill from these lor tabs, the lower tabs caused all of that, and I had to like sleep with an ivy and for like a couple hours just to get me back to a little bit normal. And it's all because I got stupid wisdom teth out and they gave me pain meds.
Were you allergic to the pain meds or something?
It's possible. We don't really know. We just know that like that is the only introduction into my system that you know, had it had before.
So do you take pain meds when you like, like when you fell on your butt, did you take pay mets?
No?
And I had gotten some, but I was just like I don't I don't know what this react. This is also why like that experience also, so you know, it kind of helped me in a way. I never had the gene that I wanted to explore drugs, sure, because I'm the same like it gave me this like okay, that had that reaction, and that was something that was legal for me to take. I don't need to know what anything illegal is going to do to my body, right, it had like that, So at least it helped and maybe that way, yeah, but I just don't. I've never had that like gene for it, so now I just don't really. I try and stay away in general from any type of hard drug, even if it's prescribed.
I know. And it's funny because like when something like this happens, the doctors are so quick to just be like, do you want pain meds? And I think the answer always is like sure, like I'll take pain meds. But it's it's I don't know, like my I've always kind of just kind of been like I'm good like and plus I kind of like the pain to kind of know where I'm at, you.
Know, like that feels a little weird.
Well it's not like I know, it's not like I like the pain because it feels I get to feel something.
I was like, I might have a little concern here, but okay, No, I like the.
Pain to kind of see where I'm at with the injury, like because really, if you're on pain meds the whole time, you'll never know like am I recovering? I don't know, Like look at my arm, I can extended. I'm probably breaking it as I'm extending it. But like if you're off pain meds or even just kind of like you get to feel like, oh no, no, it's still it's still hurt, it's still broken.
Yeah, that's true, because it does. It numbs you. That's the purpose of it. Yeah, and sometimes you need it. Sometimes there's no other way to go through that. But I get in this situation you're like, Okay, let's not do this.
They do say like, don't mix alcohol with it. I'm like, why not.
There's a reason, trust me, I can tell you. Even there was one time I had like I think it was like a moss oficillin. I had like a virus, and they gave me or whatever, the antibiotics. Right, they're like, do not drink alcohol. I remember one time I was like, I'm not okay.
I really you mixed it with antibiotics and you were feeling weird.
Because I was in college, and I was like, it's fine, I'll go drinking and it'll be okay. Oh no, Eddie. Like an hour in, I literally was like I am on an other planet. I am not sure what's happening to my body. It felt very out of body typing in a good.
Way, though, like if you were a druggie, Like would you be.
Like yeah, maybe, but I wasn't, so I start forking out, like somebody take me home, Like I'm done. I'm tapping out.
So I'm the same way. It's something like when just taking something that makes you feel out of control. M M, I don't like that.
Wait, hold on taking a break real quick.
We're coming right back.
Yeah, yeah, okay, so you don't like feeling out of control. I don't think that's unuseful, though, I don't know.
Some people like getting so hammered that like they're cool with it. Yeah, I guess that's true, but like I don't want something that's going to make me feel like all right, whatever, whatever my body wants to do, just do it, like yeah, because like some drugs, like yeah, it's not you, it's not you doing it, yeah, or it is you doing it, but it's a part of you that has been unexplored and it wants to get out.
Yeah, that's why. Like everybody's like I went to a forest and did this, so you're not around people or whatever. I'm like, do you like realize how that kind of says when you say it, like you had to go to a forest to have this in your body. Do you feel like that's formal?
But at the same time, like you know, it's like, oh no, it's the drugs. But you can blame it on the drugs, but the drug's not making you whatever you're doing, like that's you. Yeah, and the drugs just out taking every little bit of it's the word I'm looking for, every little bit of like subconscious part of you, discipline or the part of you that says like, oh, don't do that. The drug just takes that away.
It's like when you're an alcohol and they say, like the truth, what do they say with like the truth? The truth comes out, yeah, but they say, like the truth starts to be something. There's like a saying that goes along where it's like you alcohol like induces the truth whatever, like versus and you're like, I'm sorry, I was drinking. No, that was like even.
Really meant that. Yeah, but the alcohol takes those inhibitions off inhibition. Yeah.
So I'm not sure how we walked down this winding road, but we did. We did. That was good, well, I did. Speaking of like also just pain meds and stuff. Rimy's on some right now. She had her dental surgery.
Eddie. I was.
I was a wreck. I don't I don't know how you have kids, honestly, Like this is how I am with Rimmy, and I'm a disaster. Like I passed her off to them. I was sobbing. They're like, it's so, she's going to be back to you in the two hours. I was like, I don't care. I was And I sat in the office the whole time and they would come out and updake me as it was happening. She had to end up having two teeth pulled so and they were like big teeth, so it wasn't like a you know, it felt more kind of like my wisdom teeth situation, like she had to have some It was an invasive surgery for her mouth, and uh so she ended up coming out and she was so so drugged, so she there's like these pass So I got to be with her while she was waking up. That was like my request. And so she's in her bed next to me. We're like sitting in the vets, like just like front office. Yeah, and she's waking up and her tongue starts drooping out and she just let she's feeling good so high she cannot move. She keeps trying to lift her head. I'm like, just lay down. This is not there yet. So then we finally get released her like you can go home. So I'm like, okay, I haven't eaten. This is at this point is one pm, and I'm like, I have not eaten a single thing. I'm starving. I'm gonna grab food on her way because I can't leave you. So I like put an order in for a sandwich and I run in to like pick this up. I'm gone maybe thirty seconds. Right when I left her, she was in my front seat, passed out in her dog by like wasn't moving. I come out. This dog is sitting in my my driver's seat, like sitting up.
She's turned the car on, she's got it in drive.
She's literally sitting there and her eyes are half open, and it's so high sitting in my driver's seat.
Oh my gosh.
And this dude had like walked by ride at the perfect time. He's like, is your dog okay? And I was like, she just had it so agree. I swear I'm a good dog, Bob.
That's not my.
She looked high like she's not okay. She's so and she just looked mad, like, what is happening to me?
She's grumpy. Those pain pills, man, they make you grumpy do.
And she didn't listen Eddie, She didn't none of that wore off until probably eight o'clock at night.
Wow, that's amazing, Like she was she was.
Still coming out of it for a long time.
So so what was wrong with her teeth? Like were they they're.
Harder on them. She's just her breed. Whatever she has under her is just like genetic, they get more tartar than others, which is crazy, Like I do think had I not been brushing her teeth every night, they would have been significantly worse and she would have had more teeth pulled, because there's some some dogs that they end up happening to have all of them by the time they get well, they're pulled, so I think it would have been worse. But yeah, just genetically she had tartarer. So it was was supposed to be just like a dental cleaning and then they're like, yeah, we're gonna have to take two of these little suckers out. Poor baby, I know, but she still has all her canine, so she's technically still you know, she still got those the ones.
Back there, because that's like demasculating it. You take those canines.
Out, Hazel like, so cats have two of them right, like, they're kind of like little things. And when I got Hazel like they I had to take her for a dental surgery because she came from such a bad situation that when I got her back, Oh, that poor cat was so drugged up, and a cat on drugs with so much force in the dog. A dog will lay there and just like let it be what it is. For the most part. A cat wants to bop around and you're like, dude, you can't walk.
Really, it's horrible.
It's horrible, Addy. But she only has one snaggle tooth. All the rest of her teeth are gone.
That's funny, because aren't cats like lazy? I feel like they would really want to just lay around and do nothing.
They are, but they also there they want to talk about like wanting to be in control of something. Like cats like their ability to be in control of a situation, and they're not like when she was under so many different medicine and coming out of anesthesia, that poor cat. I have never felt so bad for an animal like I felt horrible for Remy, but at least she was chill with it. Hazel did not want any part of it, Like, and she made accidents on herself because she didn't know what was happening. It was just bad. But so she has one one little thing left and then you know me, So we got we got lots of tooth situations happened. She really does. I see it like come out sometimes when she's eating. I'm like, we're using that one tooth man ah for sad it is. So we had that happen. Yeah, And apparently I looked like a bad dog mom because she like tie in the front teeth.
Nah.
They're probably just like, what's the I've never seen a dog look like that.
No, let me show you the picture. You're gonna die. You're gonna laugh so hard. So we did have that. I also went back to Wichita, which I'll tell you about. Look at this Eddie, you probably had it seen it.
Oh my gosh, she does look high. She's like, hey, man, like Bob.
Marley type situation.
Like little that's so funny.
In the driver's seat, I'm like, this dog is not normal.
That's crazy. How like dogs don't have different facial expressions for the most part. Yeah, she definitely looks different.
She was so and I was like, you don't want to laugh. I felt so bad, but I was like, this is funny.
That's hilarious.
Yah. So that that was rummy, but she's doing better for back to normal. Life's good. I'm happy it's over. I'm really happy it's over. And then I went back to Wichita quickly for the weekend before that surgery, and I did an event with Nicole Gallion and Logan Mice.
It was like a event the Kansas peeps. Nicole Gallion moved back to Kansas, she's there.
Yeah, yeah, she moved back. So she did a like Firstborn fundraiser for her charity, like with her label that she does, and it was so cool, Eddie, you would have loved it. It was like they did it kind of bluebird style. And Nicole Rodney Claus and her husband Lauren Watkins, her husband or soon to be husband, Will Bundy, and then Logan mas and his wife Jill, and they does Logan's wife play too, Yeah, they like kind of they released a couple's album together, but so there was all couples on stage, but it was crazy because like the star power that was on that stage in like little hutch Kansas. Yeah, yeah, was insane because like Nicole and Rodney together have multiple number ones, so many hints. And Will Bundy is one of the writers behind you look like You Love Me? That was like a new one. He also did like a bunch of other ones. So it was just like, like, is this really happening? This is crazy?
What did you contribute? I was the host, I but you didn't say anything?
Oh god, no any and my really horrible jokes. Those were the two things that I contributed to.
How many people were there, Oh gosh.
I don't know, but it looked full, like the we were in this really cool theater called the Fox Theater in Hutchinson, and it looked full from what I could see as.
Far as Hutchinson from which toa like forty minutes, okay.
Not bad, and the family came everybody came out.
That's fine.
Yeah, so it's a good time back in Wichita. But you would have loved it.
Oh, I bet that's your thing. I love Nicole and Rodney, Like I don't know Rodney as well as Nicole. What's crazy about Nicole is when I lived in Austin before we moved to Nashville. One of my co workers at the new station was like, Hey, I know, I know a songwriter out there, Like you should hit her up, like whenever you go up there. She's from my hometown Stirling, Kansas. And I'm like, okay, cool, Like I'll never hit her up, Like I don't like a songwriter. There are millions of songwriters. Little did I know that her friend was Nicole Gallian. And of course, like I've known Nicole just just from being you know, in the industry. She's amazing. Her kids ended up going to school with my kids. And then I see Rodney around and I feel like I had to kind of just like Rodney, I'm sorry, I know everyone except you and your family. So I finally met Rodney, I don't know, like a couple of years ago. But they're they're just great people. I love them.
They so are So did you ever tell Nicole but you knew when?
Yeah, back in the day. Absolutely. That's so funny because like they're their hometown's so small. It's that of course, like everyone knows everyone there. That's so it was. It was just it was just crazy because like I really thought that when she said meet my songwriter friend, I was like, okay, like everyone's a songwriter, Like I don't how am I going to meet this person? But no, it was a real songwriter, Nicholes. Nicole is one of the best.
That's so funny, isn't it crazy? How Nashville just that's just Nashville.
It is Nashville such a national story.
Literally, so and that was cool. It was just a cool also connection like the Kansas thing, and felt really cool to be connected back to home.
Oh I remember too when you were like you wanted to meet Nicole because you're like Kansas people, like we got to stay together, like I want, I want to I want to meet Nicole. And then you finally met her backstage when we were doing a show with her.
Yep. And you know what's funny is like so fast word like full circle. I believe. I also talked about this on the show she helped. So my sister's been obsessed with Nicole for gosh long before like I ever knew really who Nicole was in a good way. Yeah, Like she just loved her, like she because Nicole's so esthetic on Instagram. She has like cool posts and she's.
All her pictures are stylistically like yes, awesome, and like she's not just like a great songwriter, she's a great writer, Like she has just really a good way with words.
So my sister loved just following along and when she found out she was from Kansas, the whole connection, and so she loved her, like that's like her favorite artist if you will, yeah, that would be her favorite. And so she freaked out when she realized, like Nicole and I had become friends. She's like, you're you just have her number, but this this was like my artist that I liked, And I'm like, I'm sorry, like this is cool for you, right, And it ended up Nicole helped my now sister's husband, my brother in law, proposed to my sister at backstage when Nicole opened for Walker Hayes, which was her first time playing like interest Maank Arena and which took.
No way, that's awesome. Yeah, so see, and that probably would have never happened it wasn't for you.
Yeah, it was like I was like, Nicole, any chance, I know this is wild, but like it was funny. They just thought they were going back to say hi to Nicole because Taylor just loves to meet her. And Taylor's not my sister. Nothing about her is like a fangirl, but she loves She just loves who Nicole is as a person. It's kind of how my sister is. And so she saw her and she's like so focused on the fact that she's meeting Nicole, and she turns around and like, my brother in law was little honest, and she's like, what is happening?
What are you doing? You're embarrassing yourself.
Yeah, so it was cool. It was a cool, full, full circle moment. Lots of Nicole stories.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah, so there's that. That was my life.
No broken arms, so no broken arms, pretty chill.
No broken body parts period.
Yes, And that's the goal in life.
Well, we didn't know that was the goal until this past weekend, when you didn't need to know that that was a goal.
When you get older, the goal is don't break anything.
I know. Okay, I have some random topics that we're going to go into, So take a quick break. We'll be our back on the show's week You know how we talked about Apple's being on the counter in the fridge, the debate. Okay, so I'm going to add to this a little bit, potatoes. Where do you put those?
They're also outside? Okay, so outside of the refrigerator, Yeah, on.
The counter in the pantry. Well, I had always put them in the refrigerator. Don't ask me why. I think I always felt things, if they were produced, needed to go in the fridge because I thought they'd expire on someone.
I think the rule that you automatically think people just automatically think, which is probably true. I don't know, but anything you put in the refrigerator is gonna last longer that true period. Well, and it's like this is healthy. I look at like a vegetable or frum, like that's healthy. That doesn't belong in the pantry. That's kind of like my brain's wiled it. Okay.
Well, I learned that if you put potatoes in the fridge they turn to sugar starches.
Wow.
So potatoes are carbs and they're good for you, but you put them in cold, they turn to sugar. They're no longer healthy for you.
No way. So I wonder if that's why they say like sweet potatoes, you like sweepatatoes. I love swoopotato and sweet potato fries. They say before you fry them, soak them in cold water for I don't know an hour. Oh and I wonder if it's because they wanted to convert into like a sugary starch.
Vegetable h to have like this like sugar crystallization versus Wow.
But I don't know. You can't go wrong with sweet potatoes for me, Like, no, that's just the best thing in the whole wide world.
Sweet potatoes are so good and they're so filling. That's why I love them. It's like you can have half of one of like, Okay, I'm stuffed.
I'm good.
Yeah, Like if you give me sweet potato fries, I can never eat the whole thing. They're so good though, they are, and you can make them savory or you can make them sweet.
Yeah.
They they're very versatile. Yes, that's the word I was likestile. They're a versatile vegetables.
They really are. They really are vegetables. One of the best. It's a vegeta. Yeah, potato potato vegetables.
I might need to brush up on fruits and no.
But here's the rule though, Like if it has a seed, it's a fruit.
I know, but like that I can't process that quick enough for like easy trivia.
You know what I mean, Sure you can't.
I can go down the whole list of.
Fruits and number fruit God has a seed, got seeds? Good tomatoes those also have seeds. That good carrot doesn't. It's a veggie, you got it?
Like that's that's that simple.
Was a pumpkin though, those have seeds, But it's a veggie.
No, it's it's a fruit.
It's a fruit.
But it's like you forget like pumpkin seeds, Like.
That's true, but have you have you never made pumpkin seeds in the oven?
Love it?
Oh? I was like, you've never had those?
Fry them?
Those are probably really good.
Yeah, fry them on a skillet, so good. I don't know. My kids never want to do that anymore, because it was such a tradition at the beginning, like you know, like, oh, right, we're gonna carve the pumpkins first, get all the seeds out. I'll cook them while you guys carve, and then no one ate them. And so I'm like, man, I won't want seeds anymore.
I do feel like you grow out of it at some point because I don't do it anymore. But I do very remember.
Remember doing it?
Yeah, yes, pumpkins. Seeds were so yummy.
Would you eat the whole seed or would you kind of try to open the seed?
I think I'd eat the whole thing because you make it like super crunchy.
Yeah.
I love a crunchy seed.
And then you're like I kind of gets stuck in your throat a little bit and you're like, oh, gotta get that out of there. It just like stays in there for maybe ten maybe ten seeds are enough.
No, that's a good one. Okay, not seed, But isn't there like a twist on that? Like avocado is a fruit because it technically has a seed, but nobody really believes that because it's not a it's not a normal seed.
No, it's still a fruit.
That's what the internet is.
The Internet's crazy anyway.
I have learned that most produce does not belong in the fridge.
That's good. I mean you would think that, like you want anything to just last put in the fridge.
No, like tomatoes I used to always put in the fridge.
Oh we put those in the fridge.
Yeah, but they don't.
Is that turn into sugar too?
I don't think those turn into sugar. But I do think they last longer if they're out.
What's crazy though, are bananas Like if you have bananas that are like they look like they're getting ready to rot a little bit, and you put them in the fridge, they will turn completely brown, but then when you peel it there, they look like they're brand new.
That can't be good.
I don't know what it is, but there's something about it where like it looks like it's dead, it looks like they're just you throw it away, but as soon as you peel it it looks so it's perfect.
That cannot There has to be something in bananas that that is not good.
I mean, I'm not a scientist. Maybe there's there's nothing good about it, but yeah, to me, it looks perfect.
Yeah, but you know it's funny too, like even working in the restaurant industry, everything we did was always in like the.
Big refrigerator, freezer, fridge.
It was never out, like lock each other in there.
Go in there and screen sometimes though why oh oh to get away? I mean, or you know you have a moment.
Is that tough service industry? Like just people being mean to you?
Yeah, not as much, like especially not then now I bet it's pretty rough. Oh Eddie's heart. I just know.
I just have one of those jerks. When you tried to move try to just get comfortable.
Your faces looked so sad.
Just jerks. It's so weird. It's like your whole arm just tightens up and then the elbow just starts hurting.
I feel so bad. Okay, but yes, there were moments and also like you're just close, like tighten it with so many people and so many different personalities that you're like, okay, I need a moment. I'd catch my manager in there all the time. I'd be like, what are you doing? He's like, I need five minutes.
He's going to the freezer.
Okay, have fun.
Do you guys ever run into each other? Like when because I went to uh olive Garden I think the other day for one of my kid's birthdays, and we sat right by the kitchen door. Yeah, and every time they come out there like corner corner.
I think more people are saying that now because of like the bear and yeah, cheft corner behind you, And also I do think there's some better buffalo wilblings. We never said corner. We would try. We just yell something we'd be like yo, like I'm coming out or some of them. There was never like a word and we were never trained to say that.
But I feel like if you didn't say corner, like, it can easily be a collision.
Oh I had multiple collisions. I dropped a lot of things. Really, Yeah, do.
You get you get in trouble for that.
It's not a good thing, especially if it's a really big trade.
Yeah.
But like also it's also on the other people to see you and like be aware. But you move so fast, especially in an environment like Buffalo wobblings, like you're you're turning tables quickly when people aren't watching games. When they're watching games, you're they're there for four hours. You're chilling.
Run me through this. So you drop the whole platter of like five plates. Yeah, what you have to go back to the kitchen.
M h, I need to make it.
First off, they clean up, right, Like.
Well, I start cleaning it up. Yeah, and then that's when the manager drums in. He's like, okay, go remake the ticket because you have to tell the kitchen quickly because it takes time.
So then you go tell the kitchen and then they're like Morgan.
The thankfully at least Buffalo, Like you're just spinning wings something crazy. Yeah, like they have wings ready. Yeah, But other places I don't feel like that's as easy to.
Do, no, Like especially like a nice restaurant where they have to really make the sides and the entrees and yeah, I bet the cooks are just like kill this girl.
Yeah they love me though. I was always charming, and I worked Expo before I was a server, so like I got to know them really well where I just delivered food at stay in the expo window. The Expo is like where the food gets put on the like heating, and you take it and you take it to the table.
Oh, oh my gosh. That explains so much. That explains so much when like somebody who's not our server delivers the food.
They're probably an Expo, But.
How did you know where everyone everyone's food goes.
Every table has a number, so when.
They put not the table, the person.
Oh, most of the time, I'm just shouting it out okay, and like giving wings Okay. Sometimes people will put it in order, so you knew if it went around a certain way, then you can kind of figure that out quickly. But most of the time, You're just like, I have this many here handed.
That's amazing. Just learned about an next for a day because I'm always wondering, like, who's this dude? Or did the server be like hey, I need help, Like I'm busy, so will you go take that food out?
No, especially at a place like and I don't know now if they've gotten rid of expos, but like it would go. So I started as a host and then I went take out, and then I did expo, and then I became a server, and then I was about to become the bartender when I left for college.
So I have you never bartended? No, you probably didn't want to do that.
I did.
No, you didn't, Yes, I did know. You didn't.
I wanted to learn to make drinks and be there like splashing drinks.
So I get that part. But dealing with drunk customers has to be so hard.
Yeah, but also fun. I almost bartended in college too. I was like, oh, yeah, I could totally do that, but then I had to learn a lot of drinks. I was like, never mind, I don't have that energy anymore.
See as a guy, though, Morgan, let me explain something. There's something stupid that goes through a guy's head that thinks the bartender wants you like.
You don't think women also feel that way when they see a hot bartender.
Yes, but but there's no way that a hot bartender thinks that the customer's hot. You're too busy, you're like, just what do you want? Like what you want? Two beers? Fine? Thank you? Like they don't want to hit, they don't want to talk to you, and and the person that's ordering the drink, they're just there to have fun. So they think, like, oh, do that bartender is so hot, like she's she's totally into me. Watch this and it's a game to you. And you're like trying to hit on them, and they're literally like what do you want to drink?
This is inside a dude's mind.
I'm never it's like this, and like, I don't know twenty years.
Ago, how you make good tips good money?
Oh I get that too, Like oh, they start flirting back and you get good tips.
Eddie, I had a even as a server. I cannot imagine as a bartender. As a server one, I made so much money flirting. I should be you should be ashamed of yourself, Eddie. I was just me, you know me, Like I'm super friendly, I'm having fun.
Yeah, but like would you sit with them?
And like, no, not unless I knew them. If they started to come in regular, because you had a lot of regulars at Buffalo because of the wee nights like bone in boneless nights you'd have, you'd start to see some of the same people. So once and they start requesting your section, and I'd be like, okay, yeah, I'll start to It would get that way, but never on the first time. That'd be weird. But I had I'm sure it's still somewhere at my parents' house, but I had a gallon baggy full of napkins receipts of all the phone numbers I had ever gone.
Oh my goodness, people would leave on them. Is it still at home? Like you have to find that post.
That it was a whole baggy of it.
Do you understand what I'm saying. You're literally just trying to make a living, You're just making your working. You're at work. But to every other dude in there, they're like, it's chick Tully digs me, you know.
But there was two guys that I went out on a few dates with.
So how did that happen? Was that like, hey call me when you're off or here's my number.
They became regulars and like, and I don't.
Know, you think it was the wings, I don't think so.
No, they were. They were playing a long game and they're like, you should we should go out to dinner, Like, I'd love to take you to dinner. I was like, okay, what do I have to lose here? Like this is how you meet people? Yeah, and so I went out on a few days. So I'm obviously none of them turned into anything. But I went on a couple of dates. Like one of them I dated for a couple of months.
A couple of months. Yeah, dang.
Yeah, So it wasn't like unusual. There is a chance that it happens. So you're saying you gotta play a long game. Now you're saying there's a chance that the hot bartender may be into you. Yeah, but again, long game, not short game, and you have to go when they're not busy and when they're but you gotta do both. It's the long game.
Obviously, I don't give a crap. So if there any dudes listening, like take notes, it's pretty good.
I'm helping you guys out. This is how you do it, this is how you score the hot bartender server.
I remember when I was not twenty years old, like my brother. My brother he was six years older than so if he was old enough to drink, like you go to a bar, I'd sit with them. They would kardis. I was always good as long as I'm with him, They're just like, oh cool, they're like the same age, and it's fine.
Oh god, I could never and so.
Like at seven at eighteen nineteen, like, yeah, let's go do what do you wanna do? You wanna go to a bar? Let's go? And I remember we were like I wrote one of those roadhouses like logans or I don't know, one of those. And there was a girl and she was totally into me, like I can totally tell you where. I swear she was into me. And I said, hey, what are you doing? It was like Saturday night, Like what are you doing after? After you're done here? Like nothing, like do you want to go out? Like do you want to go with us? We're probably gonna go do something. And she's like okay, like why don't you come? Like after we close, I'm like what time do you close? So like eleven, you got it. So I told my brother, like, let's go back. We gotta go get her, and we go back and like there were no cars in the parking lot. I'll never ever forget it. And it was one of those things, like one of those things in your mind you're just like that sucks.
Okay, but also kind of rude to her, because yeah, you a way to get out of that. There's a there's a way to be like no, but that's the start.
Thinking like oh, maybe, like you know, there's a family emergency. I didn't my number or did I I don't remember this kind of This was probably before cell phones. Honestly, I was nineteen.
Years old, but right before that's funny, not funny. She should have she should have just let you down.
It wasn't funny in that moment.
Now you can look back like that's funny.
Dang that hurt.
There There is a chance, but not as many chances maybe as we think there's that. Okay, Oh, I want to share something with you that in case it never makes.
It, but that's funny because it may not.
It may not. But also you know, pretend you never heard this. If it does. Okay, Lunchbox made a rookie mistake. You want to know what happened. Yeah, he had his little sore losers convention and this dude but dials me right and I pick up the phone. I'm like, Lunchbox, what's up? Hello?
Hello?
And all I hear is like laughter, and then somebody go, you just butt dialed her. They were talking about me. And when they were talking about what were they saying?
Could you pick up anything?
No, but there was laughter, which means there was some comments set about me on some level enough for somebody not even just be like, hey you butt Morgan or like it was you just butt dialed her? Like that means I was in the conversation.
I mean, I will say that, like when I used to do the convention, there was a lot of like FaceTime Bobby, Yeah, FaceTime Amy and see they pick up call Morgan. Like there was a lot of that. So I wonder if that's kind of what it was. And he was like, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it, Lunchbox. Oh, he was totally talking crowd about you.
There's no way, like I would like to say, yes, that could be in some scenarios. I feel like it was this in that one, there was too much laughter for that.
It is a rookie mistake.
I'm an idiot, he is for I'm like really like, I sat there all weekend and I even texted him. I literally said, rookie mistake. I just heard you're talking about me.
And you talking crap about me.
Dude, didn't even see the text message.
You have to do a whole like I know exactly what you said, like I heard all and then don't tell him what you heard, you know, and he'll be like, what did you hear? Like I'm not telling you know exactly what you said.
See if I can get them. But you know, the worst part though, is he was also probably drunk. He doesn't even probably, oh for sure, it would be my guest. He didn't even respond to that text message until we were back at work, dude, and he was like, sending me a bonehead, And I was like, dude, that was literally three days ago.
Speaking of I didn't send you a fun fact, I think right, speaking of we're a little late, I gotta do that.
All right, Well, we are going to get out of here. I had other random topics, but you know, well inter Eddie and I fashion we went on different always it was more fun anyway.
They're like, topic is this, Let's talk about all these other things and then maybe we get around it. We'll talk about the topic.
We'll leave on this one. What food is so underrated that you wish more people either liked or talked about?
Oh, underrated food?
I can give you a second to think mine minus breakfast burritos. I feel like nobody like them.
I don't like them, like a breakfast taco.
Same same concept, but breakfast. I mean, man, you do a breakfast.
Burrito, right, what do you want in it? You don't do meat, eggs.
Potatoes, avocado? Yeah, I love I love an egg I have to be in the mood for it though. It's kind of a texture thing.
Potato and eggs pretty good.
Yeah. And I just went to a place they had tater tots and with eggs and avocado and salsa and crema ganma granma.
Yeah, I mean creama. I understand why you said it that way, because it's a it's cream, but it's krama crema. Yeah, which you say awesome, by the way, Like when you say it like that, you say it really perfect those are my rolling rds.
That's my little piece of Spain that came back with me little bit.
Yeah, did you do they They don't have breakfast burritos over there.
No, you know what they do have is patatas bravas, which are my favorite thing.
E Patata's bravas.
Patata's bravas are potatoes, a spicy mayo and like a marinera red sauce type thing. Do you know what that means Patata's bravas. I know it means potato, but I know what bravas is.
You're saying good potatoes. You're saying it bravas, bravo, kind of root, brava, brav.
Brave.
Yeah, it's a brave potato.
It's a brave potato. Why are they called brave potato?
It's almost like proud. It's Spanish, is weird, like the direct translation of certain words. They're like, yes, that's the direct translation, but but it's also you can also use that to say like proud.
Okay, so it's a proud.
It's a brave potato, like direct translation. But I'm sure they mean it like badass potato, you know what I mean?
Like taste see potatoes yeah like that.
Yeah, like you can use so many different one word to describe so many different things. Okay, but yeah, you got it though.
Great potatoes, Yeah, patatos, bravas.
It's like a loaded mashed potato. You know, you know what I mean? If you trans think it loaded, They're like, what does that mean? Same deal.
It's so true. Okay, you're your underrated food.
Underrated food. Can I go like brisket because I feel like no one really talks about you can go your briskit, Okay unless you're in Texas, like, oh we gotta get Texas barbecue. But the whole world needs to understand how good a smoke brisket is. Okay, like smoke brisket is the best thing that you can eat in the entire world, Like better than a steak.
Okay, Hey, this is your underrated food and I believe in you with this.
It's a brisket baby.
Okay, yes, all right now we're going to jump out because we got to go answer some listener questions.
Gotta go.
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