Best Bits: Amy’s Shedding Season & Morgan’s Puppy Tales

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Best Bits: Amy’s Shedding Season & Morgan’s Puppy Tales"

The Bobby Bones Show presents a heartfelt and engaging episode titled "Best Bits: Amy’s Shedding Season & Morgan’s Puppy Tales," released on March 29, 2025. This episode delves into personal transformations, pet adventures, and the journey toward self-care, offering listeners an intimate glimpse into the lives of Amy Brown and Morgan. Below is a detailed summary capturing the essence of their discussions, enriched with notable quotes and timestamps for context.

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1. Amy Brown's Shedding Season

Transitioning Beauty and Self-Discovery

Amy Brown opens up about her decision to overhaul her beauty routine, symbolizing a broader journey of self-discovery and transformation.

• Removing Microbladed Eyebrows: Amy discusses her experience with microblading and the subsequent decision to have her eyebrows laser removed. She explains the complications that arose after discontinuing Botox, which altered her forehead's shape and affected the appearance of her microbladed brows.

  [04:22] Amy Brown: "It's like a shedding of things that help with confidence and just have been a part of me for a while."

• The Laser Removal Process: She details the laser removal process, including the unexpected result of her brows becoming patchy and the ongoing need to conceal them.

  [08:46] Amy Brown: "I can't go back to get them lasered off for another, well seven weeks to do round two and then it starts all over."

• Temporary Solutions and Future Plans: Amy shares her temporary solution using concealer and a tinted brow gel to mask the imperfections during the healing period. She expresses optimism about regaining her natural brows once the treatment concludes.

  [09:58] Amy Brown: "So you basically have to draw your brows on right now until this process is finished."

2. Morgan’s Puppy Tales

Fostering, Rescuing, and Pet Parenting

Morgan transitions the conversation to her experiences with pets, highlighting the joys and challenges of fostering a new puppy while managing existing pets.

• Fostering a New Puppy: Morgan introduces Belle, a foster puppy, contrasting her high-energy demeanor with her older, more laid-back dog, Remy.

  [30:10] Morgan: "Remy's like, so, so chill. I call Remy an eeyore dog. She, like, very chill."

• Rescue Stories and Challenges: She recounts rescuing Kara, a dog with behavioral issues, and the emotional and logistical hurdles involved in ensuring Kara's well-being. Morgan emphasizes the importance of proper training and the difficult decision to keep Kara after multiple homes.

  [35:42] Amy Brown: "We were getting to that point... there was so much anxiety with her and it was impacting the kids and our wellbeing."

• Advocating for Responsible Fostering: Morgan advocates for fostering as a means to test compatibility before adopting, stressing the benefits of temporary care for both the pets and the families involved.

  [38:29] Amy Brown: "So I was curious about this... but it's exhausting."

3. Embracing Self-Care and Clean Living

Skincare Routines and Lifestyle Changes

The conversation evolves into discussions about self-care, particularly focusing on skincare routines and lifestyle adjustments aimed at healthier living.

• Skincare Products and Routines: Amy and Morgan exchange tips on maintaining clear skin using clean and cruelty-free products. They discuss specific brands and ingredients, highlighting the balance between effectiveness and ethical considerations.

  [51:15] Amy Brown: "Sometimes there's just a genetic thing happening. Or also, if you eat a certain way and drink plenty of water."

• Hydration and Nutrition: Both emphasize the critical role of hydration and proper nutrition in overall well-being, linking physical health to mental and emotional states.

  [56:41] Morgan: "It always comes back to that on everything... taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself in a way."

• Mental Health and Medication: Amy shares her personal journey of discontinuing medications like Adderall and Wellbutrin, reflecting on the challenges and benefits of this decision.

  [35:42] Amy Brown: "I'm so thankful to have it out of my system... and trying to take better care of yourself."

4. Personal Growth and Future Endeavors

Looking Ahead with Optimism

In the latter part of the episode, Amy discusses her upcoming ventures and the support systems that aid her ongoing journey.

• Upcoming Podcast Makeover: Amy announces the rebranding of her podcast to "Feeling Things," introducing a new co-host and outlining the future direction of the show.

  [61:56] Amy Brown: "We'll have episodes every Tuesday and every Thursday. And I'm very excited for that."

• Community and Support: Both speakers acknowledge the importance of community support and shared experiences in navigating personal transformations and fostering responsible pet care.

  [37:40] Morgan: "Fostering is really good. Temporary situations because Hazel and Remy really both like their situation that they already have."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Amy on Transformation:

  [04:46] Amy Brown: "And I want it, but then I don't do it because I'm like, look at all this hard work you've put into not having it."

• Morgan on Fostering Benefits:

  [38:29] Amy Brown: "So I was curious about this... but it's exhausting."

• Amy on Self-Care:

  [60:30] Amy Brown: "This sad little dead plant. Really sad."

• Morgan on Skincare:

  [56:10] Amy Brown: "So I've been using skin better, which has, like changed my life."

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Conclusion

This episode of The Bobby Bones Show offers a nuanced exploration of personal change, the complexities of pet fostering, and the pursuit of healthier living. Through Amy's candid recounting of her beauty regime overhaul and Morgan's heartfelt pet stories, listeners are invited to reflect on their own journeys of transformation and self-care. The integration of meaningful quotes and personal anecdotes enriches the narrative, making it a relatable and inspiring listen for audiences seeking authenticity and connection.

Transcript

[Bob Pittman]

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[Bob Pittman]

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[Colleen Witt]

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[Bob Pittman]

Mind when it comes to their vet care.

[Larison Campbell]

In Mississippi, Yazoo clay keeps secrets.

[Morgan]

7,000 bodies out there or more.

[Larison Campbell]

A forgotten asylum, cemetery.

[Colleen Witt]

It was my family's mystery.

[Larison Campbell]

Shame, guilt, propriety. Something keeps it all buried deep until it's not I'm Larison Campbell and this is under Yazoo Clay. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Colleen Witt]

Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here and Eating While Broke is back for Season four every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. This season we've got a legendary lineup serving up broke dishes and even better stories. On the menu we have Tony Baker, Nick Cannon, Melissa Ford, October London, and Carrie Harper Howey turning Big Macs into big moves. Catch Eating While Broke every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts. Wherever you get your favorite shows, come hungry for season four.

[Mary Kay McBrayer]

I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast the Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. This season explores women from the 19th century to now, women who were murderers and scammers, but also women who were photojournalists, lawyers, writers and more. This podcast tells more than just the brutal, gory details of horrific acts. I delve into the good, the bad, the difficult, and all the nuance I can find because these are the stories that we need to know to understand the intersection of society, justice and the fascinating workings of the human psyche. Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains, or often somewhere in between. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bob Pittman]

Hi, I'm Bob Pippman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to introduce a brand new season of my podcast, Math and Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. I'm having conversations with some folks across a wide range of industries to hear how they reach the top of their fields and the lessons they learned along the way that everyone can Use. I'll be joined by innovative leaders like chairman and CEO of Elf Beauty, Tarang Amin, legendary singer, songwriter and philanthropist Jewel.

[Morgan]

Being a rock star is very fun, but helping people is way more fun.

[Bob Pittman]

And Damian Maldonado, CEO of American Financing. I figured out the formula. I just have to work hard.

[Morgan]

Then that's magic.

[Bob Pittman]

Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math, and the ever important creative spark, the magic. Listen to math and Magic on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Morgan]

The best bits of the week with.

[Mary Kay McBrayer]

Morgan, Part 1 Behind the Scenes with a member of the show.

[Morgan]

Happy Saturday, everybody. Joining me this weekend is Amy. Amy, how are you? Hello.

[Amy Brown]

Good.

[Morgan]

You feeling good? It's a Saturday morning. Apparently, according to Lunchbox, we always record this on a Saturday morning.

[Amy Brown]

No, we're recording it before the show, so. So I'm still waking up. I have my matcha tea here with me.

[Morgan]

Do you drink coffee at all?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, well, I alternate between the matcha and the coffee, but I am on a mushroom coffee and mushroom matcha kick from this company. Rise. I don't know. I just order it on Amazon because it's winter. My friend who also orders it from the company, she's like, I order it from Amazon in the winter and the company in the summer because I don't trust the storage at Amazon in the hotter months.

[Morgan]

Very specific details.

[Amy Brown]

What if it's sitting in the warehouse in the heat? I don't know. Who knows?

[Morgan]

Okay, so mushroom coffee. We've gotten rid of the extensions. I know. You've posted that. You've gotten rid of Botox. You did the lasering of the eyebrows. What's going on? I feel like a transformation is happening.

[Amy Brown]

It's like a. Yeah. Just trying to figure out the baseline. And I. I don't know. I can't explain it. I just was over it all.

[Morgan]

Yeah, like, you're just ready for a change.

[Amy Brown]

Kind of like a shedding of things. And then we'll see what we like and want to add back in. The only reason why I had to have my eyebrows lasered off. So if y'all are not familiar with microblading, which I'm sure most of the women listening are, but if you're a guy. Because I was trying to explain this to my boyfriend, he did not understand. And I said, look, you'll start to notice it now that I talk to you about it. But a lot of women, especially my age, have it done. And I just turned 44. I know so many people, and then I know what I'm looking for, so I can spot it in people, too. And I'm like, okay, yeah, they have their eyebrows microbladed, and it's just a tiny stroke, like a tattoo of sorts, but it's not going as deep as a tattoo. So the artist I go to Beauty by Megan in Nashville. She's amazing. She's the one that told me I needed to laser them off. She's been on my podcast multiple times. She also tattoos areolas on, like, nipples for women that have had breast cancer and they've had a mastectomy, and then they have their surgery, but then their nipples are gone and they don't feel the same. So they have their. Their reconstructed breasts and there's no nipples, and they're like, oh, this just doesn't. I don't feel like me. But she can tattoo it on in a 3D way to where it looks like the areola, the nipple. Everything's there. It's fascinating. She's very talented. Her mom had breast cancer. That's how she got into that. But anyway, she also is very talented at brows. And it's like she gets a razor and does these tiny strokes and. And then fills it in with ink and then, ta da. You've got brows, but.

[Morgan]

So you laser off your previous brow completely.

[Amy Brown]

That she did, yes. Because I went to see her. I'm like, these are the things nobody tells you about when you're in your 30s and you're doing certain things.

[Morgan]

So tell me right now to make sure I'm aware.

[Amy Brown]

So I went to see her while I was getting Botox. So my forehead was manipulated by the Botox. So therefore, when you stop getting that and it dissolves, your forehead takes on a different shape. Like it's moving a little bit. And I don't even know that it's that noticeable to people. But then when your brows were tattooed on in a specific spot and then your forehead shifts, my brows started to shift, and I was like, what is happening? I don't know what to do. And it's either I was going to have to go get Botox to lift the brows to make them even or have them removed. And she said I would go have them lasered off. And she told me where to go. You want a pico laser to remove them. But she's like, I think it'll take one time. You'll be fine. Well, when I got to the laser place, they said, well, we don't know. Once we laser off the brown color, like the brown ink if it's going to be red, orange or blue or green under there, like the under.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

And they said depending on what that's like, you're probably gonna have to come back again in eight weeks. And so I thought what, this is.

[Morgan]

Gonna be a process, meaning you'd have to go without eyebrows for eight weeks.

[Amy Brown]

Well, so I have the hair, but the problem is when the laser hits it, it removes some of the hair sometimes cause it's so hot or it blanches it. So some of the hair is now white. So it's like my brows are a mess. I, I, you just forget how important brows are to the shape of a face. Which is why we pencil them on. We, you know, use the like a brow mascara. Like a, do you use that like a tinted. That was new to me in the last year and I was like where was, where was this when I was.

[Morgan]

They've evolved a long way when it comes to eyebrow, like just penciling instead of doing permanent things to it.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, there's all kinds of tools now and different things, but I had them microbladed a long long and I would go back for touch ups. And then over time that starts to bleed a little bit. So some people just get em removed from time to time to start fresh. And I'm like this process, I can never have this process again. It's exhausting. So I had red and orange undertones. So now like right now you're looking at me, I'm gonna wear a hat.

[Morgan]

Did I look good right now?

[Amy Brown]

Well, I put concealer entirely over my brow, like all the way. So the orange and the red you cannot see it. And then I put the like the, why do, why can't I think what it's called like a brow gel, like a tinted brow gel over that to kind of give the hair some color. And then I got my Lift and Snatch, which is a Nyx that brand or Nyx, I don't know how to say it. They have this brow pen thing that's called lift and snatch.

[Morgan]

Is it lift and snatch?

[Amy Brown]

Well I created strokes with my Lift and snatch pen and somehow I've concocted brows on my face that are not really there.

[Morgan]

So you basically have to drawing your brows on right now until this process is finished.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. And I can't go back to get them lasered off for another, well seven weeks to do round two and then it starts all over. So hit me up in August, we'll see where we are with things and I'll probably maybe have some hair back in by then. Because I'm like, I think, you know, it's. They say if you do things in a 2 degree increments, you're more likely to stick with it all. It's like, just give it 2 degrees and then you can. 2 degree. 2 degree. 2 degree and 2 degrees is a lot.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

Because I was talking to my ex husband Ben about it. It was at this family therapy thing where they really focused on the 2 degree thing. And Ben and I were there and he's like, yeah, as a pilot, if you're flying somewhere and you are off by 2 degrees, you're going to end up somewhere really far away, like nowhere near your destination. So I like that analogy, picturing it that way, because it actually is more than you think. Two degrees is more than you think. So just give it two degrees and you'll be awesome. Well, I went like. Mine didn't go a full, like, I don't even know. I went like a hundred degrees. Like, just shedding myself of things that help with confidence and just have been a part of me for a while, so might get some hair soon.

[Morgan]

You're like, I don't know. All that to say.

[Amy Brown]

All that to say. I don't know. And just. I either want to chop it off again and make it really short or grow it out. And I don't know if I have the patience. So maybe I'll have some extended. I don't know. We have I heart country festival coming up, and I keep picturing myself interviewing artists under the. You know, where we do it backstage, and the lights are so bright, and I'm like, I'm gonna have to wear a hat because they're gonna be like, what is wrong with her brows?

[Morgan]

Well, as of right now, I think you've learned at least how to conceal and construct them so they look great.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. But if you're under some bright lights, Morgan, you're gonna be like, does she have concealer? I feel like in Hunger Games.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

The people at the Capitol.

[Morgan]

Yeah. How they look all crazy and wild with their makeup.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, that's me. When I'm getting ready in the morning, I'm like, I'm the Hunger Games.

[Morgan]

I think also too, because you know what it looks like before, if you wouldn't tell me, I. I couldn't tell right now. Honestly, I genuinely mean that I wouldn't tell you. I'd be like, no, I mean, like, we might need to construct that a little differently. It looks good. So just know, have some confidence that you've at least Figured out a natural way to make it look tiny. Snatch.

[Amy Brown]

Hey, Hey. I ordered that on Amazon. I've looked for it at. Oh, actually CVS had it so you can find it because I wanted to get a different color. I ordered. They have Burnett ash brown and blonde. And that's the crappy thing is you don't know which shade's gonna look right on you, so you kind of gotta order them all to figure it out.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Cause I'm blonde, but my eyebrows are more like dirty blonde, a little bit light brownish.

[Amy Brown]

You could do the blonde. I'm an expert now, so I go, I'll color match you. You would be the lift and snatch.

[Morgan]

You know, I just did this because I've been revamping. Like, I've been in the process of really, like, cleaning up my home. Meaning, like, really trying to swap everything for glass and use clean products. Cruelty free products. Like, really trying to be aware of the things that I'm buying and consuming across all levels. Cleaning, food, makeup, all of it.

[Amy Brown]

That's another example of where if someone's trying to do that, you gotta go two degrees.

[Morgan]

Yep, two degrees.

[Amy Brown]

Cause if you try to go all at once, it can get overwhelming and you just quit.

[Morgan]

It's so overwhelming. I feel like I've been in this process, gosh, two and a half years now. It's just I. I've. My theme, we've talked about this actually a lot on my podcast recently was baby steps. So it's like very similar to what you're saying of the 2 degrees. But it's like I. I was always like, if you just take like a baby step, a baby step is better than no step. So you take a baby step, we're moving in the right direction. So same concept, just different terms. And that's exactly what I've been doing with the clean products and stuff. So I've been. Now, I've gotten to the place where I'm now focused on my makeup and starting to swap out which. Finding clean and cruelty free brands that are also ones that you love is very difficult. You'd be surprised how many things aren't cruelty free or they aren't clean or vice versa. Like finding both and the whole thing is just really difficult.

[Amy Brown]

You would think if they have an emphasis on clean, they'd have an emphasis on well.

[Morgan]

So here's what I've also learned.

[Amy Brown]

Cruelty free.

[Morgan]

So if they sell in places like China, China requires animal testing. So if a brand sells there, they're not considered cruelty free, which is wild. But, like, Most products sell in China, so then they can't be considered like a completely cruelty free brand. But there are some. Like, Fenty is one. Makeup by Mario is one. Like, they're endorsed by PETA, but then are they clean? Yeah, so they have clean products too. So I've done both. Like, trust me, when I've been. I'm doing so much research, I'm like, they have to have both. And those are two that I found safely so far. Those are two that. There's like 50,000 makeup brands and those are two. So it tells you how difficult it is. But all that to say. I had gone to Sephora and I was testing my, like, face color and trying to match it for Fenty, like the new product I'm wearing. And the girl there, like, I had makeup on and she just like, straight up, like, swiped like an entire piece of my cheek off of my makeup and then like, started matching me that way. She's like, okay, well, here's your color. I was like, what, am I supposed to go out in the world looking like this? What are we doing? She just let me go.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, she didn't, like, you know, patch you up?

[Morgan]

Nope, she didn't at all. She was just like, you're fine.

[Amy Brown]

Well, I do see, though, that she does want your makeup off to properly color match you.

[Morgan]

That makes sense.

[Amy Brown]

That's.

[Morgan]

We needed that. But, like, you could have just taken the whole thing off or like, you know, not just like a. It was such a funny situation. And I had like three other errands to run after, so I was just like, covering my face and like, don't look at my cheek.

[Amy Brown]

See, that's how I feel with my brow. I'm like, covering them. Like, don't look at my brows.

[Morgan]

But I saw your time where you get bangs.

[Amy Brown]

I'm sure people did not notice your chunk of makeup missing.

[Morgan]

No, they didn't. It was me. And we always notice things more than other people for sure about ourselves.

[Amy Brown]

Not a bad idea about the bangs thing because I have thought about it. However, I just think with my curly hair, it would be a mess. I will regret it. And I will just. That would be like taking another hundred degree step.

[Morgan]

That would be a big step.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But I do think they'd look cute on you. I loved my bang phase. I had so much fun. I'll look at pictures and I'm like, dang, I really liked those. Or like, I got used to styling them and they started to look really good. But it was for sure a process. The bangs was adding another layer to things.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. And things are about to get humid around here. It would be a mess.

[Morgan]

They would be very girly. Okay, well, what about. We're gonna take a quick break and then boyfriend, birthday things.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Okay. We'll be right back.

[Larison Campbell]

There's a type of soil in Mississippi called Yazoo clay. It's thick, burnt orange, and it's got a reputation.

[Amy Brown]

It's terrible, terrible dirt.

[Larison Campbell]

Yazoo clay eats everything, so things that get buried there tend to stay buried until they're not. In 2012, construction crews at Mississippi's biggest hospital made a shocking discovery.

[Morgan]

7,000 bodies out there or more, all.

[Larison Campbell]

Former patients of the old state asylum, and nobody knew they were there.

[Colleen Witt]

It was my family's mystery.

[Larison Campbell]

But in this corner of the south, it's not just the soil that keeps secrets.

[Amy Brown]

Nobody talks about it.

[Morgan]

Nobody has any information.

[Larison Campbell]

When you peel back the layers of Mississippi's Yazoo clay, nothing's ever as simple as you think.

[Amy Brown]

The story is much more complicated and nuanced than that.

[Larison Campbell]

I'm Larison Campbell. Listen to Under Yazu Clay on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Cheekies]

Hey, y'all, it's your girl, Cheekies. And I'm back with a brand new season of your favorite podcast, Cheekies and Chill. I'll be sharing even more personal stories with you guys, and I know a lot of people are gonna attack me. Why are you gonna go visit your dad? Your mom wouldn't be okay with it. I'm gonna tell you guys right now. I know my mother, and I know my mom had a very forgiving heart. That is my story on plastic surgery. This is my truth. I think the last time I cried like that was when I lost my mom like that. Like, yelling. I was like, no. I was like, oh. And I thought, what did I do wrong? And as always, you'll get my exclusive take on topics like love, personal growth, health, family ties, and more. And don't forget, I'll also be dishing out my best advice to you on episodes of Dear Cheekies.

[Colleen Witt]

So my fiance and I have been together for 10 years. In the first two years of being together, I find out he is cheating on me, not only with women, but also with men. What should I do?

[Cheekies]

Okay, where do I start? That's not love. He doesn't love you enough. Because if he loved you, he'd be faithful. It's going to be an exciting year, and I hope that you can join me. Listen to Cheekies and Chill, Season 4 as part of the My Cultura Podcast Network. Available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Amy Brown]

Are your ears bored?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

Are you looking for a new podcast.

[Mary Kay McBrayer]

That will make you laugh, learn and say que?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Then tune in to locatora radio season 10 today.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Amy Brown]

I'm Diosa. I'm Mala, the host of Locatora Radio, a radiophonic novella, which is just a very extra way of saying a podcast.

[Colleen Witt]

We're launching this season with a miniseries, totally nostalgic, a four part series about the Latinos who shaped pop culture in the early 2000s.

[Amy Brown]

It's Lala checking in with all things Y2K 2000s. My favorite memory, honestly, was us having our own media platforms like Mundos and MTV Tres. You could turn on the TV, you see Thalia, you see JLo, Nina Sky, Evie Queen. All the girlies doing their things. All of the beauty reflected right back at us. It was everything.

[Mary Kay McBrayer]

Tune in to locatora radio season 10.

[Colleen Witt]

Now that's what I call a podcast. Listen to Locatora Radio Season 10 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Sonoro and I Heart's My Cultura Podcast Network present the Setup, a new romantic comedy podcast podcast starring Harvey Guillen and Christian Navarro. The setup follows a lonely museum curator searching for love. But when the perfect man walks into his life.

[Amy Brown]

Well, I guess I'm saying I like.

[Colleen Witt]

You, you like me. He actually is too good to be true.

[Amy Brown]

This is a con. I'm conning you to get the Delato painting.

[Morgan]

We could do this together.

[Colleen Witt]

To pull off this heist. They'll have to get close and jump into the deep end together. That's a huge leap, Fernando, don't you think?

[Morgan]

After you, Chulito.

[Colleen Witt]

But love is the biggest risk they'll ever take. Fernando's never going to love you as much as he loves this job.

[Amy Brown]

Chulito.

[Morgan]

That painting is ours.

[Colleen Witt]

Listen to the setup as part of the Mike Vultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bob Pittman]

On November 5, 2018 at 6:33am, a red Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned in a ditch out in Sleep Hole Valley. The driver's seat door was open. No traces of footsteps leaving the vehicle. No belongings were found, except for a cassette tape. Lodged in the player. On that tape were 10 vile.

[Amy Brown]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Bob Pittman]

Grotesque.

[Cheekies]

Oh, my God.

[Morgan]

Oh, my God.

[Bob Pittman]

Horrific stories that to this day have been kept restricted from the public until you feeling this too. A horror anthology podcast. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Morgan]

All right, you just celebrated a birthday, which. How are you feeling? Like you feel great?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, I feel good. Feel the same. I mean, I'm excited for my 40s. I'm entering mid-40s, I guess, now turning 44. I think this is gonna be a good season of life. So not scared of it at all one bit.

[Morgan]

I'm really excited for you too, because you're also going to Charleston, which I've been and I love, but that came from a birthday.

[Amy Brown]

That was my birthday present. I got a little gift bag from him and opened it up and there was a card inside with a note which just had my name on it. It was really sweet. And then there were two other envelopes in there, Option one and option two. So I opened up option one and it was this itinerary, like a Southwest printed itinerary for a specific weekend to Charleston. And I thought, oh, okay, what's option two going to be? So I open that up and it's a Southwest itinerary for the same exact weekend, but to Jacksonville, Florida, where you fly into there and then I guess go to Amelia island, which I've never been there. I never even heard of it. But I googled it.

[Morgan]

I don't think I'd heard it either.

[Amy Brown]

It looks adorable.

[Morgan]

Where is it by in Florida?

[Amy Brown]

Jacksonville.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Amy Brown]

Because that. Yeah, I think it's maybe a 30, 40 minute drive. I think that's what he said. I guess he has gone there before and he loved it. But he knew I had mentioned Charleston too. Just in conversation at times. Like, it's a place I really want to go. So I got to pick because those tickets were the same weekends on Southwest. So he could just. He's like, both of those are booked and I'll just cancel the one that doesn't. Cause he has points and whatnot.

[Morgan]

Also, we love a planner.

[Amy Brown]

I know.

[Morgan]

I mean, can we acknowledge that for a second? The fact that he went and booked, like, it's done. Signed, seal, delivered. You just have to pick one.

[Amy Brown]

Well, that was one of the things out of the gate that I was very attracted to that he surprised me on. I didn't know he would be that way, but when we first started dating, I would just get a text message to from, you know, Rezi or one of the apps. What's the other one? Yeah, like a table, open table.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. Think of it. It's early in the morning. So I would get a text and it say, accept or decline. And it would be the restaurant the time. And I like, he didn't even say anything to me. And then I'd be like, okay. And then he would text and be like, cool, glad you can go. But he would just throw things out there and plan. And obviously if that didn't work, he'd be like, oh, fine, I was just shooting my shot with it. But it would just be done to.

[Morgan]

Just take the initiative to just do things. That is one of the most attractive things when a man has that ability and executes it. It's amazing. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

And there were always great restaurants and ones that I had been wanting to go to that I don't really get out and do that sort of thing, so.

[Morgan]

Which obviously also means he was listening to you. I'm assuming you would talk about these things and he would talk about.

[Amy Brown]

Well, this was early on. I mean, this is when we were first starting to date, so we weren't talking all the time.

[Morgan]

But like when you'd hang out, would you bring up these places, like just even in passing? Like kind of.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. He definitely pays attention and that's why the gift was so special. Because I know at some point I mentioned Charleston and he had said at some point that I was hard to shop for, which is probably true. And I couldn't really give him anything. He's like, do you have anything that you want? I'm like, no, don't worry about a gift, it's fine. He's like, well, we got to do something. And we don't get a lot of one on one time together because between my kids, his kids, and he has his kids all the time, so I don't. And he's got three of them, so it's difficult for him to get away, especially with sports. They're very active. And there was one particular weekend coming up where he knew I didn't have my kids. And then his kids didn't have stuff going on. It was like the one weekend in the next several months, like, this is what we got.

[Morgan]

It has to happen.

[Amy Brown]

He was like, that's it. We're going on a trip and this will be her birthday present.

[Morgan]

Will this be your guys's first trip together?

[Amy Brown]

No. We went to Canyon Ranch. My friends, she. My. My college sorority sister got a job recently with Canyon Ranch. We were roommates together for a little while after college. Her name's Lauren Ford. She's amazing. And she hit me up and she was like, hey, I would love. I just started working for Canyon Ranch. I would love. If you want to go, let me know. We have one in Arizona and one in the Berkshires, and they're opening one in Austin. And I. I wanted to go to the Arizona one really bad, because that one's supposed to be epic. And this is on her. Like, she's like, I just want to send you. And I'm like, okay. Wow. And I could take a friend or whatever. And I told her, well, I just started dating somebody, and. Cause Caitlin and I actually, we were talking about going to the Arizona one if we could work that out. And then between my schedule and Caitlin's schedule, we weren't. And then Arizona was just more difficult to get to. Cause it's a longer flight, more planning.

[Morgan]

And again, we didn't change too.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. And we didn't have much time. I think when we went, we were there for less than 48 hours. And I highly recommend, if you can go to a place like that, you at least go for two full days. And we didn't have that, but we were like, we'll just give it a shot. And the Berkshires is closer on the east clo. On the East Coast. We flew into New Hampshire. Okay. And then you drive. Have you seen, like, on Real Housewives of New York? Yeah, they have houses in the Berkshires.

[Morgan]

I was gonna say. I recognize that name, but I just don't even know where it is. It's, like, kind of like the Hamptons.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. But it's. It's a little different than that. It's in the mountains. Like, it's not like the Hamptons. And this didn't feel uppity at all. This is. I feel like the Berkshire's Canyon Ranch. They're both wellness places, but this one was definitely an emphasis on wellness, not luxury. But it was. It was awesome. Just different than what I had in my mind for Arizona. Got it. And I asked him if he wanted to go because he actually could get away. And that was, I think, a big test in what it would be like to really be together and travel. I mean, it was just so easy. It couldn't have been more smooth. And he's into that type of stuff. Very much so. And so he was like, yes, hands down, I'm there. So we went, and that was our first little getaway. But we weren't as comfortable. It was easy, but, you know, it's still new.

[Morgan]

So you're like, okay, this one will be a different experience. Much more. Especially now you guys are dating It's. It's different. But I do feel like going on a trip early on in the relationship, even if it's a quick one like, that can be very telling of a lot of signs. It's very. It helps you understand that person a little bit better because travel can create stress, and seeing someone in potentially stressful situations helps you understand their character and who they are better.

[Amy Brown]

At least.

[Morgan]

I've noticed.

[Amy Brown]

No, I agree with that.

[Morgan]

So I'm glad. I'm excited for you guys.

[Amy Brown]

Thank you.

[Morgan]

Okay. And the kids, have they met? Do you want to say yet?

[Amy Brown]

Well.

[Morgan]

You can say I plead the fifth. We do that sometimes.

[Amy Brown]

I plead the fifth. In case we talk about it elsewhere. I plead the fifth.

[Morgan]

All right, deal. Well, also speaking of really exciting kids, in a way, is I have a foster puppy right now, which by this point that people are hearing this, she will be in her new home, and I'm already sad about that. I only had her for a week.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, so.

[Morgan]

Which was a very short time, but also reminded me, oh, my gosh, I forgot about the puppy stage. I forgot so much. She has been a great little cuddler and sleeps through the night with me, but oh, my gosh, as soon as she wakes up in the morning, it is like, out of a rocket. I'm like, where are you and what are you doing? Pulling off my, like, clothes off of the hanger. She's messing with Christmas lights. Like, I'm like, what is happening? What's going on? It was like a culture shock for a second because Remy's about to be 10 this year, so I have not had the puppy phase for almost a decade, and I was like, I not sure I'm prepared for this situation for a week. I'm not sure how this is gonna go, but it's been really fun. And she's super cute now.

[Amy Brown]

You don't want her to go?

[Morgan]

Yeah, a little bit. I think Remy does, though.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. He's like, get this dog out of here.

[Morgan]

Remy's, like, so, so chill. I call Remy an eeyore dog. She, like, very chill. Just, like, moving slowly. Life. And this dog is the polar opposite of that and will run circles around Remy, and she's just like, what? What is happening? Why are you here? So I do think Remy is ready, but I. I'm gonna miss her. She's a little cutie. Her name was Belle.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, I love that name.

[Morgan]

Like, Belle from Beauty and the Beast. And she's a little morky mix. She was an owner surrender at five months old, which is super sad. And I think she had quite a little bit of neglect in a way because she was skittish of everything. Like, I tried to have friends come over to meet her. She's a little puppy. To see how she did. And she would cower behind me and just be very afraid of everything. And at five months old, that shouldn't be happening.

[Amy Brown]

Right.

[Morgan]

You know, that's, that's not enough time on this earth to have those experiences. So I do think it was not great. But I'm really excited for her new family. That's the latest update. And I don't have any kids, but I have lots of animal situations happening.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. And I'm thinking about an owner surrender and I know that that's probably like, oh, man. But at least they took her somewhere where she could get cared for because if people, if it's not a good fit or situation, they may just throw them out into the street.

[Morgan]

Yes. I will always commend people for surrendering and doing it responsibly if they have to. But there is also the other side of it where you see the surrenders and you're just like, that is like they don't play enough or they don't bark enough or they, they sleep all the time. Like, the reasons that I've seen are so, so, so bad. But if you are going to do it, doing it responsibly is always a better way. Especially right now with, with the way shelters and rescues are so full that like dumping them on the streets is only going to put them in a quicker situation for the potential of euthanasia, which is not good for anybody if you ever cared about that animal. So it is for sure that. But it's been a, it's been a good little eye opening to if I ever decide to get another dog or bring another dog in. I know that I'm a puppy.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Yeah. I like fostering. Fostering is really good. Temporary situations because Hazel and Remy really both like their. The situation that they already have. Adding to it would not quite work. How are your animals?

[Amy Brown]

They're great. They're really good. Kara's doing better than ever, which is so awesome because it was getting rough there for a little bit. So of course I wouldn't want to have to, you know, find another home for her. It would probably have been with a friend or something. But we were getting to that point. Like it was. There was so much anxiety with her and it was impacting the kids and our wellbeing. And so I think we finally got her and us, like, the right training and care and figuring out how to meet her needs. And she's more calm and oh, I love. It's been amazing. I know it's, you know, so sometimes it just takes the right resources. And not everybody has that. Like, I had to spend some money to figure this out, and not everybody can do that. So I have a soft spot, I think, probably for people that realize I'm in over my head and I don't want to do. I don't know what to do. And I know this dog deserves better and whatever its needs are, I can't meet them. So that's almost where we were with Kara. And even my. Some of my close friends that would come over, they'd be like, one of my friends is anti rehoming. Like, she judges people left to right. She'll even admit it. And then she's like, honestly, no judgment here. Like, I get it. It's exhausting. And, you know, we got it figured out. And she's doing so much better. And now I just look into her eyes and I'm like, oh, I'm glad we've. Because she's more at peace.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

And so that's been a beautiful transition. You know, just two degrees at a time.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

And it's because it's been a process, like. Cause we rescued her and.

[Morgan]

And she's had quite a fluctuation of behavior.

[Amy Brown]

And she's been through a lot too, of like, dogs experience the stress of, okay, we've moved. She's been in three different homes. And then also, if you count when she was going back and forth to Bends, that's a fourth home. And we ultimately made the decision of just keeping her at my house because the back and forth, we were like, this is not helping. And Stevenson really wanted her, though, because he's like, well, when I'm at dad's, I want her. And then finally Stevenson understood that it's probably best that we just keep her in one place. So she's doing good. Maggie's great. Maggie's chill. She's a cat. She's unbothered.

[Morgan]

Yeah. If you're like, I really want a pet, but get a cat, they're so much, so much easier. For sure. They will chill and they'll hang out.

[Amy Brown]

She ignores me pretty much all day long and then at night sleeps right by me.

[Morgan]

So is it funny?

[Amy Brown]

You're like, so weird.

[Morgan]

Very cat like behavior. Oh, well, I'm glad to hear that things are better, though. That makes me happy. And I'm proud of you for, like, having the patience to do it too, though, because that's also another thing. It gets frustrating and hard. And nobody really also acknowledges that process where you went through the experience to make sure she could stay with you guys. You know what I mean? Like, you were finding every way impossible solution you could, right? And that's what you're doing. I think that's another step that is often missed in the surrendering world is people will just. It's like an automatic okay, discard, where you're like, I've tried everything.

[Amy Brown]

But I can also see where if you don't have the bandwidth or the resources, that automatic surrender might be your option because you're like, shoot, what have I done? And we can mess up and we can think we're ready for something, and then we're like, realize we're not. Or the dog's just not a good fit.

[Morgan]

But yes, this is also why I always tell anybody, if you ever, ever want to get an animal before you do it, foster. Because if foster is not a permanent situation, and then you can decide, hey, if this is right for me, cool, we can continue and we'll adopt. But if you have them in your home and you decide, oh, gosh, this is not gonna work out, then you don't. There's no, you didn't do anything wrong. All you did was help an animal. I always tell people that, like, for especially first time, never had pets and like, just foster, give it try. Like, do trial runs and you're helping animals at the same time, and it gives you a better idea of what to expect and what's going to happen. You can also find a perfect fit for you that way versus thinking, oh, well, I really want a German shepherd. And then you get a German Jeopardy. Or like, oh, I am not built for this breed. You know, like, we all think and we kind of fantasize certain breeds and stuff, and then you get them. It's a completely different experience.

[Amy Brown]

So I was curious about this, you know, because I loved my Rottweiler Josie.

[Morgan]

I love Roddies, which she was a.

[Amy Brown]

Surrender, but not to a. A dog rescue place, to our church. Like a family. They didn't know where to go, but they could no longer care for her. And they just showed up at our church in Austin and walked inside with the dog, and they barely spoke English and they just said they were able to get out, that they couldn't care for the dog. And they had like, her crate and her food and all her things, and they just dropped her at the church. And then my pastor called and he's like, aren't you looking for a dog? And I was like, yeah. So my mom and I went over and looked at her and I was like, she's perfect. Because I was newly married to Ben at the time and we were moving to North Carolina into our first home together, and he was going to be in Afghanistan a lot, and so I was going to be alone. So I was thought, oh, a rottweiler will be awesome. So anyway, I was obsessed with her, but she shed a lot. And I love that Cara is a doodle. She doesn't shed. So do they make rotty doodles? I don't know.

[Morgan]

I don't know if there's rotten doodles out there.

[Amy Brown]

Okay, well, people were like, oh, you want to rescue a labradoodle? They're probably. Those are really hard to find. And then sure enough, Kathy, who we work with, call me one day. She's like, I got a Labrador to rescue. I'm like, perfect. And so she doesn't shed, and it's amazing. So I keep thinking, like, maybe one day there'll be a rotty doodle rescue.

[Morgan]

There's her and Link of you. I've seen some interesting mixes in the shelter. I've seen like, Chihuahua bulldogs and, like, you'd be surprised what comes through. And some of them are really cute. Some you're like, oh, you're a little mutt. That's okay. And I. That is true. Like, you can truly find, gosh, any breed. My cat is a full blown, full blood Siamese, and she came straight from a shelter. Like, you just. You can find anything. It's just all back to patience, patient time, and fostering. Genuinely. That's how you find just situations. Like, everybody always asks, how do you get all these little dogs? I'm like, well, I'm literally on the foster list. So they come to me as soon as they come in. Like, they're in my home before they're ever up for adoption. And then you kind of have a first right of refusal if you decide you really love them. And it's a great fit for your family. So it's the perfect way to have, like, all the things running in the right direction and setting you up for success. I talked to Wags and Walks founder Katherine about that. She came on my podcast and we kind of talked about that.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, Wags and Walks is great.

[Morgan]

Okay, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back. We have a few more things.

[Larison Campbell]

There's a type of Soil in Mississippi called Yazoo clay. It's thick, burnt orange, and it's got a reputation.

[Amy Brown]

It's terrible, terrible dirt.

[Larison Campbell]

Yazoo clay eats everything, so things that get buried there tend to stay buried until they're not. In 2012, construction crews at Mississippi's biggest hospital made a shocking discovery.

[Morgan]

7,000 bodies out there or more, all.

[Larison Campbell]

Former patients of the old state asylum. And nobody knew they were there.

[Colleen Witt]

It was my family's mystery.

[Larison Campbell]

But in this corner of the south, it's not just the soil that keeps secrets.

[Morgan]

Nobody talks about it. Nobody has any information.

[Larison Campbell]

When you peel back the layers of Mississippi's Yazoo clay, nothing's ever as simple as you think.

[Amy Brown]

The story is much more complicated and nuanced than that.

[Larison Campbell]

I'm Larison Campbell. Listen to Under Yazoo Clay on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Colleen Witt]

Sonoro and iHeart's Mike Kultura podcast Network present the Setup, a new romantic comedy podcast starring Harvey Guillen and Christian Navarro. The setup follows a lonely museum curator searching for love. But when the perfect man walks into his life.

[Amy Brown]

Well, I guess I'm saying I like it.

[Colleen Witt]

You like? He actually is too good to be true.

[Amy Brown]

This is a con. I'm conning you to get the Delato painting.

[Colleen Witt]

We could do this together. To pull off this heist, they'll have to get close and jump into the deep end together. That's a huge leap, Fernando, don't you think?

[Morgan]

After you, Chulito.

[Colleen Witt]

But love is the biggest risk they'll ever take. Fernando is never going to love you as much as he loves this job.

[Morgan]

Trulito. That painting is ours.

[Colleen Witt]

Listen to the Setup as part of the Mike Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Amy Brown]

Are your ears bored?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

Are you looking for a new podcast that will make you laugh, learn and say, que? Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Then tune in to locatora radio season 10 today.

[Amy Brown]

Okay. I'm Diosa. I'm Mala, the host of Locatora Radio, a radiophonic novella, which is just a very extra way of saying a podcast.

[Colleen Witt]

We're launching this season with a miniseries, totally nostalgic, a four part series about the Latinos who shaped pop culture in the early 2000s.

[Amy Brown]

It's Lala, checking in with all things Y2K 2000s. My favorite memory, honestly, was us having our own media platforms like Mundos and MTV. Tres. You could turn on the TV, you see Thalia, you see JLo, Nina Sky, Evie Queen. All the girlies doing their things. All of the beauty reflected right back at us. It was everything.

[Mary Kay McBrayer]

Tune in to locatora radio season 10.

[Colleen Witt]

Now that's what I call a podcast. Listen to Locatora Radio Season 10 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Cheekies]

Hey, y'all, it's your girl, Cheekies. And I'm back with a brand new season of your favorite podcast, Cheekies and Chill. I'll be sharing even more personal stories with you guys, and I know a lot of people are gonna attack me.

[Amy Brown]

Why?

[Cheekies]

Are you gonna go visit your dad? Your mom wouldn't be okay with it. I'm gonna tell you guys right now. I know my mother, and I know my mom had a very forgiving heart. That is my story on plastic surgery. This is my truth. I think the last time I cried like that was when I lost my mom like that, like, yelling. I was like, no, no. I was like, oh. And I thought, what did I do wrong? And as always, you'll get my exclusive take on topics like love, personal growth, health, family ties, and more. And don't forget, I'll also be dishing out my best advice to you on episodes of Dear Cheekies.

[Colleen Witt]

So my fiance and I have been together for 10 years. In the first two years of being together, I find out he is cheating on me, not only with women, but also with men. What should I do?

[Cheekies]

Okay, where do I start? That's not love. He doesn't love you enough. Because if he loved you, he'd be faithful. It's going to be an exciting year, and I hope that you can join me, listen to Cheekies and Chill Season four as part of the My Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Bob Pittman]

On November 5, 2018 at 6:33am, a red Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned in a ditch out in Sleep Hole Valley. The driver's seat door was open. No traces of footsteps leaving the vehicle. No belongings were found, except for a cassette tape lodged in the player. On that tape were 10 vile.

[Amy Brown]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Bob Pittman]

Grotesque.

[Cheekies]

Oh, my God.

[Morgan]

Oh, my God.

[Bob Pittman]

Horrific stories that to this day have been kept restricted from the public. Until now. You feeling this too? A horror anthology podcast. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Morgan]

I'm gonna do some fun little things here because we had lots of questions, but I feel like this is more fun stuff for part one. So what is your current favorite perfume. And this is coming from Megan in Iowa. Do you have a current. Which also. I had a huge revelation that, like, if I'm gonna have a clean home, I can't really have perfume anymore.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, I haven't been wearing it. See, to be honest, I was wearing last year. I'm obsessed with Le Labo.

[Morgan]

You had got me some of that, and I loved it.

[Amy Brown]

It's so good. So probably that. But I ran out, and I haven't been wearing it. Probably similar things of hormone disruptors. You just hear all this stuff, and you're like, shoot, what. What am I supposed to put on my body when you're trying to pay attention to that sort of stuff? So I haven't really replaced it yet. But anything. Le Labo is always good.

[Morgan]

I know. And that's where I'm at right now, because I. I was talking to somebody, and she was like, well, if it has fragrance, it's not technically clean. And I'm like, are you kidding me? So perfume? I can't have perfume?

[Amy Brown]

Well, it could have an essential oil in it.

[Morgan]

I know, but perfumes don't. Those perfumes are. They've got fragrance for days. I don't think you can replace that in, like, the perfumes we're talking about, like, Leilabo or Tom Ford or on those, like, Caliber. So I'm kind of bummed. This has been a new.

[Amy Brown]

I know. I'm like, well, let me recommend vanilla essential oil.

[Morgan]

Just dab a little dash of peppermint maybe. I don't know. Smell like Christmas. Because I had bought one when I was in Paris that was, like, my souvenir from coming from Paris. Because I don't like buying things that are, like. Just like a little trinket to have. That doesn't do it for me. I like bringing something that'll continue to bring me a memory in a way. Like, I brought a scarf, and when we were in Berlin, and then when we went to Paris, we were. I got the perfume, and then when we were in Barcelona, I bought back this, like, handmade pottery vase of. From a bar where we all they. The drinks that they had were out of these pottery things that they handmade. And so it was, like, all things that I could continue using. And then I had this moment where I was cleaning my bathroom, and my perfume from Paris shattered all over the floor.

[Amy Brown]

No.

[Morgan]

I was like, this is not happening right now. I was so sad, like, devastated, because it was so. It was like my. And I wanted to keep the bottle even when it was over because it was gonna be the.

[Amy Brown]

Well, you're just gonna have to go back.

[Morgan]

I am gonna have to go back.

[Amy Brown]

Well, what was it?

[Morgan]

So I will admit I did go online and I bought another one, but I had to buy it from Paris because it's the brand Dip dq, which we have here. But there was specialty scents for each city. So when we were in Paris, it was. It was certain to Paris, so I had to buy it from Dipty Q Paris to get another one.

[Amy Brown]

How do you spell that?

[Morgan]

Like dipty D, I, P, T, Y, and then Q, U, E. Dipty Q.

[Amy Brown]

Dipty Q is the brand. Okay.

[Morgan]

We have one in the Green Hills Mall here.

[Amy Brown]

Okay. I'll Google it, because I want to take a look. And then I don't know if the requirements of how they formulate it. Is it different in Paris than America because of different regulations, or is it all the same?

[Morgan]

I have a feeling it's all the same. It's just different. They use different fragrances for different cities to have, like, limited.

[Amy Brown]

Well, because I know that certain things aren't allowed in Europe that are allowed here. That's true.

[Morgan]

So we're gonna believe it's maybe better. Yeah, hopefully. But that. The kind that I got is EO Rose. I don't know how to say that word. And I speak French. It's eau and then rose, but that's my favorite. All right. Then we also had Lindsay from Wichita, who is like, you both have great skin. So she really wants to know our skincare routine.

[Amy Brown]

Well, I just use a foaming facial wash survey from, like, cvs. You just. That's my cleanser is just. It's gentle. I love something that foams and then.

[Morgan]

Everything else for a reason or just. You like it. It's just fun.

[Amy Brown]

Well, I don't like not foaming. Helps me feel like I'm getting it clean. So I like seeing the bubbles. When I sometimes use a cleanser that has no foam to it. And, like, is anything really happening?

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Amy Brown]

So I like that for that reason, I guess foaming cleanser, because they have other ones, like a hydrating one, and it doesn't foam.

[Morgan]

Okay. So it's part fun, part yeah.

[Amy Brown]

And then everything else I use is Biopel now, which is the snail serum company. I found them originally through their snail stuff that I was putting on my face for the glow. And then I started using some of their other products, and I really. I really, really like them. But sometimes if I have a glow, I may have some of the snail serum on like the actual snail serum, which I. I don't know that I would categories categorize them under cruelty.

[Morgan]

Cruelty free.

[Amy Brown]

I know that it's an animal, but the snails are living a good life on a snail farm, like in Brazil. So they say they live in a little greenhouse and they eat organic lettuce and carrots.

[Morgan]

Well, it says.

[Amy Brown]

I got a video of the snails because I was concerned.

[Morgan]

Okay. You would be happy to know at least like a quick Google search. Yes, biopel products are cruelty free and not tested on animals, although their. Some of their products contain snail secretion and eggs, but they are sourced in a responsible, non harmful manner.

[Amy Brown]

Boom. Thank you very much. Yeah. Fact checked me there.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Which is good.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. Because I was like, shoot, I know this is coming from an animal, but I don't think it's tested well.

[Morgan]

There's secretion in their eggs whenever they're doing it.

[Amy Brown]

Yes. And I think they're living the good life to get the secretion out. So, yeah. I'm just putting a bunch of snail eggs on my face. Which. Have you heard that salmon sperm is a thing right now?

[Morgan]

No.

[Amy Brown]

Salmon. Salmon sperm facials.

[Morgan]

Stop.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, it's real.

[Morgan]

Have you done one?

[Amy Brown]

No, but I will.

[Morgan]

You're like, I'm not about this. I. I think if you just don't tell me that's what it is, I'll do it. But now that I know I don't know that I can do it. It feels weird.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. You just, just be like, Just call it the salmon facial. Yeah.

[Morgan]

Don't. Don't tell me. Exactly. Like even talking about like the snail. It's like the snail secretion and the eggs. I'm like, I. There's a lot of information that I didn't necessarily needed. Just tell me you weren't harming them and you're good. Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

For whatever reason, it doesn't bother me. Oh, sign me up. Okay. Snail sperm, salmon sperm, tuna sperm, something about whatever.

[Morgan]

But I think we have learned this though. Fish have a lot of important properties that are very helpful for us. That's why a lot of people take fish oil. That's why like, my cat has fish oil and it has made her fur just beautiful. Like fish oil and oils and things that come from fish. And like, I don't know what kind of animal a snail is.

[Amy Brown]

Is it. It's not a fish.

[Morgan]

I know. But like, it's not in the water. Is it a mammal?

[Amy Brown]

No, I don't think so. I don't think it's a mammal. Escargot.

[Morgan]

Oh, they're in their own. They're part of the malus.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, maluska.

[Morgan]

And specifically within the class gastropoda.

[Amy Brown]

Ah, yes, that class. Love that class.

[Morgan]

I still don't exactly know what that means, but yeah. Oh, they go with clams and oysters and mussels.

[Amy Brown]

Really?

[Morgan]

Squid. That's what mollusca is. And then in the even smaller family is slugs. Sea sales, I.e. hard sea snails and other shell than shell less gastropods. So they are. But like, you know what we need? Like, is it part of. This is such a random tangent. But like, is it a man? You know, when we think about animals and we put them in like mammals or amphibians.

[Amy Brown]

It's not a mammal.

[Morgan]

They're just.

[Amy Brown]

It's definitely not.

[Morgan]

I know it's not a mammal, but do you see what I'm saying? Like we have the overarching. I'm trying to figure out.

[Amy Brown]

I don't know what umbrella it's under. Yeah, it's not. Yeah, I'll research my snails and circle back.

[Morgan]

But yeah.

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, definitely not.

[Morgan]

I go on weird loopholes. Okay, we are done here. I think I had other things, but the snails totally threw me off, so.

[Amy Brown]

Well, you didn't share your skincare.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah. Okay. So I've been using skin better, which has, like changed my life. It has. There's this. So I'll. I wash my face every night with bicellular water. That's how I get my makeup off. And then I use an Elemis cleanser, which I think I'm gonna have to swap out because I'm learning that one is not cruelty free.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, I have some of that. The. Are you using the. The little oil stuff? It's like a. Yeah.

[Morgan]

Are you talking about Elemis?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah, the cleansing balm.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Amy Brown]

Where you. It doesn't foam.

[Morgan]

It does not foam.

[Amy Brown]

But that one I like. I have some of that. I think they sent me some and I had it in my drawer forever and I wasn't using it. And then I saw more and more people posting about it and I was like, oh, I might give this stuff a try. That stuff's nice.

[Morgan]

Oh, it makes my skin like truly glow afterwards.

[Amy Brown]

But I just don't use it all the time.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I use it every night, like after I wash off my makeup. It's like my cleanser that I put on and kind of like get it ready and then I put on skin better. This, like, it was helping with like any acne or stuff that was popping up and I feel like I've used.

[Amy Brown]

Skin Better's sunscreen before.

[Morgan]

Mm. I did get a sample of that, so I'm gonna try and. Because Skin Better is clean and cruelty free, so I really like that brand.

[Amy Brown]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Just more on the expensive end, which I don't love. But so there is a Skin Better product in there that like, has been helping with. Just like hormone stuff that's kind of keeps popping up in my face. And then I also put on like a hydrating SPF lotion on top of that at night and I sleep in it and then I wake up in the morning.

[Amy Brown]

You sleep in an spf?

[Morgan]

It's a. It's really more because it's also hydrating. Oh, so it's just a dual.

[Amy Brown]

Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

I don't really need the SPF at night, but I need the. I love. It's La Roche Posay, which is also like another one that I think.

[Amy Brown]

So they have that at like some like, they don't have Elemis at CVS or whatever, but La Roche Posay or however you say it.

[Morgan]

So that. That's the one that I have from like hydrating and I love. And then wash that off in the morning and I put on a vitamin C serum from younger and then I put on that hydrating SPF and that's it from younger.

[Amy Brown]

Is that a brand?

[Morgan]

Yeah, and it's. So it's a clean, cruelty free brand and it's. It's super cheap on the like, more cheap side. Like, the serum is only $25, which is insane for a vitamin C serum. And super clean, high high volume of vitamin C is what I was looking for in this one has. It feels really good. The one thing my, like my skincare lady back home, her name Sissy and she's. She loves, by the way, she loves you. She's like very big into clean stuff and she's just really great. She's like, I believe she's in her 50s and she looks insane. Whatever she's doing. I'm like, yeah, just tell me. Just tell me to do it. And one of the things she said, she was like, I don't care if you don't do anything else but put vitamin C in your skincare routine. It's the only thing that matters. Honestly, I was like, okay. She's like, more matters. But this is very important for you right now.

[Amy Brown]

I think sometimes when I'm frustrated with my skin, I look at my water intake and I'm like, I'm not hydrating. Obviously my skin is Going to have a reaction. That's the largest organ in my body. It's not just my skin on my face. It's like, my skin everywhere. And so also make sure you're hydrating. Sometimes you don't need to go spend a bunch of money on stuff when maybe you naturally. Like my friend, not therapy Cat, but I have another friend named Kat, Cryo cat. And her skin's amazing. She does nothing. Her skin's amazing. She drinks a lot of water, but she does nothing. She doesn't. She's like a boy. She doesn't wash her face. She doesn't really wear makeup. She barely puts lotion on. And I'm like, ugh. So you might look at her and be like, well, I want to know whatever it is you do. And so sometimes there's just a genetic thing happening. Or also, if you eat a certain way and drink plenty of water, which she does. Which I do not want to drink water like her, but she's. It's like. It's like her job. And I just. I can't seem to drink enough. But I know I need to drink more because it's so important. And sometimes just a shift like that will change everything.

[Morgan]

It really is.

[Amy Brown]

Even in your cognitive thinking. Because right now I'm like, wake up. Like, why can't I think of words this morning? But I know I'm dehydrated.

[Morgan]

I'm telling you, like, if you. If you want to do basis, like, nothing that, like, actually costs, like, so, so much money, like, if you get, like, truly just eating really good foods for your body, like, I'm talking, like, stay in the produce aisle and focus on cooking foods and sourcing your food. That way in water, it changes the game for almost every single part of things that are going wrong or things that you want to change in your body.

[Amy Brown]

I know, but sometimes that's just not as much fun.

[Morgan]

It's not. Absolutely.

[Amy Brown]

Like, fine, I'll take the pimple.

[Morgan]

Trust me. I know. I. Right there with you. But if there's one thing I've learned across this entire thing is, like, it always comes back to that on everything.

[Amy Brown]

Every level or even mood. Yeah. Just taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself in a way. Like, sometimes I look at, like, my dead plant in my kitchen, and I'm like, well, I haven't given it water, nourished it properly. And then I'm like, that's exactly what's happening inside my body.

[Morgan]

A great representation of it. Yeah.

[Amy Brown]

This sad little dead plant. Really sad.

[Morgan]

I hope you're not a sad little dad plant, though.

[Amy Brown]

Well, no, I'm trying to do better at taking better care of myself. But I feel like in this transition, because I know earlier, you know, we mentioned, like, okay, I'm shedding a Botox and lays it off my brows and hair. But I also stopped Adderall. I got off my Wellbutrin, which was my antidepressant, which it was time to get off that a while ago. And then. But getting off of Adderall, that's been a journey too. And I'm so thankful to have it out of my system. But there's days where I'm like, gosh, I know right now if I just like popped an Adderall, I would get some stuff done. And I think about it and I want it, but then I don't do it because I'm like, look at all this hard work you've put into not having it. And it's just a journey, shedding of all the things and trying to take better care of yourself. And I didn't realize when I was on Adderall how much I was neglecting my nutrition because you're just so go. And so, thankfully I've started to put on a little bit more weight being off of that. But then it's like, okay, what, what foods am I putting in my body? And just, you know, making sure I'm taking care of myself.

[Morgan]

So it is. It's really hard.

[Amy Brown]

We're all trying to figure it out. Two degrees at a time, guys.

[Morgan]

It absolutely is. It's a whole process. Well, Amy, thank you for being here. Thanks for hanging out with me. Do you want to tell people where they can find you, hear you, all that good stuff?

[Amy Brown]

Yeah. Radio Amy is where I am on Instagram. And then my podcast is getting a makeover. It'll be official on Tuesday. April will be the very first episode. It'll be on the four Things with Amy Brown feed. So if you've been subscribed or you're following, there you are good to go. But if you aren't subscribed or following yet, you could go do that. And then we're flipping it to Feeling Things. It's just a name makeover. And then my friend that's also a therapist, Kat Van Buren, she's joining me as a full time co host. And so we'll have episodes every Tuesday and every Thursday. And I'm very excited for that. And the Instagram handle for that is Feeling Things podcast. So you can go to that handle and we'll be posting like videos and all the things and episodes should be up. Yeah for the foreseeable future.

[Morgan]

Tuesdays and Thursdays and you can follow the show obbyboneshow on all the things and I am obcurlmorgan. Bye everybody.

[Bob Pittman]

That's the best bits of the week with Morgan.

[Morgan]

Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend.

[Amy Brown]

Go follow the show on all social platforms and follow ebgirlmorgan to submit your.

[Morgan]

Listener questions for next week's episode.

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[Morgan]

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[Larison Campbell]

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[Colleen Witt]

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[Larison Campbell]

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[Colleen Witt]

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[Bob Pittman]

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[Amy Brown]

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[Morgan]

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[Colleen Witt]

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[Bob Pittman]

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[Morgan]

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[Bob Pittman]

And Damian Maldonado, CEO of American Financing. I figured out the formula. I have to work hard.

[Morgan]

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[Bob Pittman]

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