Best Bits: Eddie’s Dad Life Updates & Morgan Challenges Eddie To Do Something For Himself

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show – "Best Bits: Eddie’s Dad Life Updates & Morgan Challenges Eddie To Do Something For Himself"

Release Date: March 15, 2025
Host: Premiere Networks
Title: Best Bits: Eddie’s Dad Life Updates & Morgan Challenges Eddie To Do Something For Himself

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Introduction to "Best Bits" Segment

The episode kicks off with Eddie introducing the "Best Bits of the Week" featuring special guest Alec Baldwin. This segment focuses on personal updates, challenges, and insightful conversations surrounding fatherhood and personal growth.

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Eddie’s Dad Life Updates

Eddie begins by sharing updates about his life as a father, highlighting the balancing act between work and family. He discusses the routines and responsibilities that come with parenting four boys, emphasizing the challenges and rewards of raising children involved in various sports and activities.

Notable Quote:

Eddie: "So, like, my oldest son will take one of them to practice, my wife will take another one to practice and I will take the other one to practice." [08:56]

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Challenges in Making Dad Friends

A significant portion of the conversation revolves around Alec Baldwin expressing his struggles with making friends as a father. He reflects on the difficulty of connecting with other dads outside of their children’s activities, citing an inherent competition among men that often hinders the formation of genuine friendships.

Notable Quote:

Alec Baldwin: "Having conversations with grown men. Being a grown man is like, there's an underlying competition." [12:30]
Eddie: "But let me challenge that. Wouldn't you have more to say because you don't have the space to say it now." [06:23]

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Strategies to Overcome Isolation and Build Community

Eddie encourages Alec to take proactive steps in building his own community outside of work and family obligations. He challenges Alec to participate in activities that promote personal connections, such as scheduling trips with old friends or attending social gatherings that align with Alec’s interests. Eddie emphasizes the importance of stepping out of comfort zones to foster meaningful relationships.

Notable Quote:

Eddie: "I'm challenging you. This also has happened a few times where we've like challenged different things and we get follow ups. Next time you come on Best Bits, I hope you have at least booked the trip." [36:23]
Alec Baldwin: "It's a good challenge and a challenge accepted." [38:33]

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Balancing Work, Family, and Personal Time

The hosts delve into the complexities of balancing professional responsibilities, family life, and the pursuit of personal interests. Alec shares anecdotes about managing multiple family commitments, while Eddie underscores the necessity of allocating time for oneself to maintain overall well-being.

Notable Quote:

Alec Baldwin: "There's definitely something to think about, because I think a lot of people are in my situation where you really don't have a lot of time to do anything else other than work and your family." [31:19]
Eddie: "So knowing other people are going through similar things is part of the human experience." [15:43]

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Reflection on Parenting and Personal Growth

Alec reflects on his experiences with parenting, particularly how each of his children exhibits unique personalities and talents. This diversity necessitates different parenting approaches, reinforcing the idea that one size does not fit all in raising children. The conversation highlights the importance of recognizing and nurturing each child’s individuality.

Notable Quote:

Alec Baldwin: "When you look at our show, look at Lunchbox, how different he is than I am, you know, Or Bobby, how different Bobby is from you or Amy. Like, everyone is just so different that it. Like, we all get along somehow, which is really cool." [57:46]
Eddie: "It's part of the cool human experience to know that you get to be different, that you get to choose your own path." [58:50]

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Anecdotes and Personal Experiences

Throughout the episode, Alec and Eddie share personal stories that illustrate their points about friendship, parenting, and personal development. Alec recounts his first job experiences and the lessons learned from them, while Eddie speaks about his participation in a panel event, emphasizing the impact of mentorship and community support.

Notable Quote:

Alec Baldwin: "I bought a $350 guitar. And then I'm like, dang, I only have 50 bucks left." [64:56]
Eddie: "It was really cool to be on a panel. We were all different ages in it, which also gave us all a lot of perspective." [43:23]

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Conclusion and Takeaways

The episode concludes with Alec accepting Eddie’s challenge to step out of his comfort zone and actively seek out opportunities to build friendships outside his immediate circles. Both hosts acknowledge the importance of community and personal connections in leading a fulfilling life, especially amidst the demands of fatherhood and professional commitments.

Notable Quote:

Alec Baldwin: "It's a good challenge and a challenge accepted." [38:33]
Eddie: "You just need to book it, get it on the calendar and do it." [35:00]

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Final Thoughts

"Best Bits: Eddie’s Dad Life Updates & Morgan Challenges Eddie To Do Something For Himself" offers a candid and insightful look into the lives of fathers navigating the complexities of modern parenthood, work-life balance, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment. Through engaging dialogue and relatable anecdotes, Alec Baldwin and Eddie provide valuable perspectives on building meaningful relationships and fostering personal growth.

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Transcript

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[Alec Baldwin]

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[Marc Seale]

Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast, here's the Thing, I spoke with more actors, musicians, policymakers and so many other fascinating people like writer and actor Dan Aykroyd.

[Alec Baldwin]

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[Marc Seale]

And write at night.

[Alec Baldwin]

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[Marc Seale]

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[Kyra K. Dixon]

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[Mel Reid]

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[Mel Reid]

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[Alec Baldwin]

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[Eddie]

So we had to go out to farmers and convince them.

[Alec Baldwin]

Following that curiosity is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition.

[Marc Seale]

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[Eddie]

The best bits of the week with Morgan, part one.

[Alec Baldwin]

Behind the scenes with a member of the show.

[Eddie]

Happy weekend, friends. Eddie is joining me this weekend on best vids. Hello, Eddie.

[Alec Baldwin]

What's up, friends?

[Eddie]

I heard this is your favorite thing ever to do.

[Alec Baldwin]

Oh, you have no idea. When you walk up to me and you like tippy toe and you're like, hi, Eddie.

[Eddie]

I can do that.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's my favorite week of the year or month. How often do we do this?

[Eddie]

You ask me that. I think every time.

[Alec Baldwin]

Am I number six? Yeah.

[Eddie]

You guys rotate. There's six of you.

[Alec Baldwin]

Six of us. When are you gonna get Bobby on here?

[Eddie]

I've tried that doesn't work. I've asked.

[Alec Baldwin]

You might have to just go to him.

[Eddie]

I think he's busy. Yeah, he's got a busy schedule. Also, he has like eight podcasts. So, like, what is one more that he's gonna talk about? You know what I mean?

[Alec Baldwin]

That's true.

[Eddie]

He truly talks about a lot of things.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, but you know what? I think that too. I'm like, there's no way he can do another podcast. And then he somehow does. It has a lot to talk about. What I don't understand is, like, how he can just talk to no one. Like, when he does podcasts by himself, sometimes he'll do, like, the Bobby cast all by himself. And it's like, how can you talk to no one for 45 minutes?

[Eddie]

You've never done that before?

[Alec Baldwin]

No, never done it. Never tried it. And I don't think I can do it because I need interaction.

[Eddie]

Yeah. It is tougher to do it solo than with somebody I've done.

[Alec Baldwin]

You ever do it on your podcast? Just you?

[Eddie]

Yeah, we're all talk about things. If I have something to talk about and say, it's a lot easier.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. But if I have something to talk about and say, I'm like, I'm hungry.

[Eddie]

Okay. And I'm think about telling a story.

[Alec Baldwin]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Right. Like you're reading a book to your kids. Imagine that there's no talking back and you're just reading a story. That's kind of what talking a story is.

[Alec Baldwin]

What do you visualize while you're talking?

[Eddie]

I'm just, like, picturing the story itself. It's kind of like Creating a book. And you're saying it out loud. So it's kind of like that.

[Alec Baldwin]

Maybe I'll try it.

[Eddie]

I think you could do it.

[Alec Baldwin]

I did. Like back in the day, like when I was younger, there was a guy named. I think it was Paul. Harvey was his name.

[Eddie]

You're looking at me like I could tell you, but I have no idea who this is.

[Alec Baldwin]

No chance you would know who that is. But my mom would listen to it. And he would talk. He had this little, like these little five minute segments. And he would tell like some kind of story, but he'd always just say, like, so the car was just sitting there. There's nothing better than the sound of. And it's like, that's.

[Eddie]

This is how he sound. Like, very melodramatic and very spacey.

[Alec Baldwin]

Like all the little dramatic pauses and everything. And I thought, like, I guess that's one way of doing it. Doing it real slow, just as the.

[Eddie]

Thoughts pop into your brain. That's someone who's actually really good at talking because they're not using filler words. I don't know if you've ever put two and two together, but if you listen to somebody talk, unless they just have so much experience that they've edited the filler worth out of their speech. But most of the time when people talk slower, like you just saw me take a break there, instead of saying, most of people talk slower. You know what I mean? Like I even. You know what I mean? It's a filler word.

[Alec Baldwin]

You know what I mean?

[Eddie]

So for him, he wasn't doing any filler words.

[Alec Baldwin]

No filler words.

[Eddie]

Sharing the story and using his brain to, like, allow it to think and then process and then talk, versus most people use the filler words when their brain is thinking. Yeah, that's a lot of it. But you could do it.

[Alec Baldwin]

I feel like my family talks so much that I have nothing to say. I'm surrounded. I got it. I got it. I'm surrounded by so many people that just talk so much that I don't have anything to say.

[Eddie]

But let me challenge that. Wouldn't you have more to say because you don't have the space to say it now.

[Alec Baldwin]

No, but I love having conversations.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

I just have nothing to say for that long without somebody saying a response or like challenging or even just.

[Eddie]

You could talk about the Dallas Cowboys. No golf. Or hanging out with the boys for 10 minutes without somebody else talking.

[Alec Baldwin]

Oh, 10 minutes. Yeah, I could do 10 minutes.

[Eddie]

10 minutes is where it starts.

[Alec Baldwin]

Not 45, though.

[Eddie]

Once you get 10 minutes, though. You just keep rolling because it keeps going in different directions. So you're like, oh, well, this story and then this part. And let me add this.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, I guess so if you can.

[Eddie]

Do 10 minutes, then home free.

[Alec Baldwin]

Maybe I'll try it someday.

[Eddie]

I think you should just see what comes out.

[Alec Baldwin]

Just see what happens. I'm not gonna release anything, but just. I'm gonna get in my office and just start talking.

[Eddie]

You know what helped me one time when I was. Oh, gosh, this is after my really, really bad relationship. I got on a microphone and I just for, like, 30 minutes, talked about my feelings.

[Alec Baldwin]

That's pretty good.

[Eddie]

It was like my release. It never went anywhere. I never shared it.

[Alec Baldwin]

You still have it?

[Eddie]

No, I'm pretty sure I deleted that one. That was. That was evidence of a lot of things in my life. It was more of a release for me, but it felt really good. It was like a audio journal entry, which is kind of like part of what inspired some of the podcasts that I do now. I have moments where I do little audio journal entries where I share moments from my life that I feel like I can really speak on, but that's few and far between.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You know, but there's moments of that.

[Alec Baldwin]

I guess my point is I really do like doing this podcast because I think you're kidding. No, I'm not kidding.

[Eddie]

Because you guys are always kidding.

[Alec Baldwin]

I'm not kidding. We've talked about this. It's just the time. It's just the, like, hey, do you have, like, this time to cut out and do this podcast? That's the hardest part. But once we're in here, I love doing it. I love talking to you, and I think we bounce well off each other. And, oh, yeah, we have great conversations, good conversations.

[Eddie]

But also, I have to correct you because I don't come up and say hi any anymore. Now I just come up and stand in front of you and look at you, and, you know, immediately I just kind of give you a look, and you're like, yup. Okay, this is Bestman's time.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. Which is kind of what everyone does. Like, Bobby and I on stage, like, he didn't have to say anything. Gives me a look. I'm like, I got it. You want to wrap the song up? Let's go.

[Eddie]

Now it's the time. See, this is how long we've all hung out together. All right, Tell me about life, though, Eddie. How are things going? How's dad life? How's individual life?

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, life's Life's good. Life is good. We've. It's been a really good mix lately. Has been a good mix of, like, family and work and travel. We got to. I didn't get to tell you, really talk about the super bowl with you, which is kind of cool.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah, you can totally talk about it.

[Alec Baldwin]

Hadn't really talked to anyone. It's weird because, like, there are a group of dads that I see probably every week at practices or just different, you know, events that my sons have. And, like, I see dads and we're like, what's up?

[Eddie]

And usually you guys never purposely hang out outside of these sporting events. You're just these.

[Alec Baldwin]

I don't have friends like that. Like, I don't hang out with. There are. Okay, I'll backtrack. There are a couple of dads that I know from my son and his friends. Like, they're my son's friend's parents. And if I like the dad and my wife likes the mom, we'll have him over for dinner. Like, we've done that before, but not very often.

[Eddie]

Yeah. You need some dad time.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Or just friend time. This is why Eddie. Every day, we always catch Eddie sitting in a guy named McKitty's office here at work.

[Alec Baldwin]

That's my guy time.

[Eddie]

This is why you always do this.

[Alec Baldwin]

That's my guy time. But McKitty's different, though. McKitty's like a. So My Kitty is a. He's an on air personality on one of the stations here.

[Eddie]

Big 98.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, big 98. Afternoon guy. He's way younger than me.

[Eddie]

So are you living vicariously through him?

[Alec Baldwin]

No. What's crazy is this is funny. You're gonna laugh, but what's funny about kind of how our relationship started was his dad died when he was nine or something when he was a young boy. And it started off kind of like, as a joke, but not really because I would just. He would do stuff in life, and I would say, like, your dad probably wouldn't be proud of that. And for me, it was kind of like just a funny little joke. But to him, he was like. He would get emotional because he's like, you're right. My dad probably wouldn't like that. And I'm like. So we just kind of started that way, and I would kind of. He would come to me and be like, hey, my tire is flat. I'm not joking. I know you're laughing, but I'm not laughing.

[Eddie]

I'm smiling because I think it's cool that you Guys hate me, have a connection like this. I always love seeing you guys sit together. I think it's cute. Like, I think it's a cool thing.

[Alec Baldwin]

I don't. It's not. It's not like I'm his dad's age, but, like, I'm older. I'm like an older brother to him. And, like, the other day he, like, man, I got a flat tire. Like, will you come? Like, look at it? And I don't know how to do anything with a flat tire. I'm like, here I am being the dad, you know, Like. And so that's just kind of our conversations. It's really like, I'm older, more mature, he's younger party phase, and we kind of just meet in the middle.

[Eddie]

I love this for both of you guys because it's clearly an outlet for you to have some adult dude time that doesn't have a lot of stipulations to it. And I love it for him because he's getting to have a mentor, brother figure in his life, and that clearly is important to him. So I think it's cool that you guys do this. I joke around with you guys because it's funny, because we give you a hard time when you always take your breaks and stuff.

[Alec Baldwin]

We go to Whole Foods on Wednesdays.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Like, you guys have a whole routine that you've set up. But genuinely, I think it's awesome for both of you guys. So you get to have that.

[Alec Baldwin]

It is cool. And he's very. Just nice and friendly and open to talk about whatever. And I love that with dads. I was just talking to my wife about this. There is some kind of competition.

[Eddie]

Interesting.

[Alec Baldwin]

With just men, I would say with men in general.

[Eddie]

Okay, tell me more.

[Alec Baldwin]

Having, like, conversations. Conversations with grown men. Being a grown man is like, there's an underlying competition. There's always, like, a size me up. When you first meet a dad, and it's like, what do you do for a living? Like. Like, that's always the first thing. Like, this is going to establish what I think about you. And. And it's. It's just very awkward. Like, this underlying competition where, like, we can't just be, like, normal.

[Eddie]

There's really interesting, Eddie, because I don't feel like dudes are ever normally like that.

[Alec Baldwin]

Well, from, like, kid. From, like, being a kid. Competition was always a thing. Like, in sports. Competition's always a thing when you're a kid, like, being competitive in sports, then you grow up, and then the sports competition, you no longer play sports. Some play Golf. But then that competition kind of becomes like, how. How successful am I versus you? And it's a weird thing. And maybe it's me overthinking it, but I can see it. I can sense it when I have conversations with other dads of just like, okay, maybe like, all right, you're the radio guy. Like, you think you're hot stuff. Like a weird barrier that I always have to break. And so maybe that's kind of why I'm very reserved on making friends. Don't get me wrong, there are, like, a handful of dads that I love, and that's not an issue, and we hit it off right away. And those are the guys I talked to. Yeah, but it's really hard to make friends. It's almost like dating when you're older. It's kind of hard to make dad friends when you're a dad.

[Eddie]

Well, making friends and finding a partner are comparable. Right? These are people you want to spend time with. These are people you want to like. You want to enjoy hanging out with. You're going to spend a lot of time with them. That's the goal. So it is similar in doing that. I'm bummed for you, though, that, like, even these dad friends, though, that you don't, like, get to have guys time and hang out with them or have moments of that.

[Alec Baldwin]

And realistically, we don't have a lot of time.

[Eddie]

I know, but, like, just like, for your wife, she should have girls nights, and she does.

[Alec Baldwin]

So she has no problem. She's got, like, ton of girlfriends and they have dinner.

[Eddie]

Why you should also have this.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, she says that, too. I will. I will say, though, that there are a couple dads that are always like, hey, man, like, let's go grab breakfast sometime. And, like, which is weird because I can't have breakfast during the week, so I'd have to have it on a Saturday morning, which I'm like, yeah, breakfast really doesn't work for me. But they want to get together to talk about, you know, just life, which is really cool.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And you should be doing that.

[Alec Baldwin]

So that's definitely on on my list.

[Eddie]

And there's one dad countering it with let's have lunch. Because I think most people can have lunch during the day. That makes it easier.

[Alec Baldwin]

Totally.

[Eddie]

Kids are at school. You guys can both take a break from work. You can get away for lunch. Just might be a little bit later, but you can always have a lunch.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, we could have a lunch, which is. I don't know. I think parenting is fun to Talk to other parents about. Because you always wonder, am I parenting the right way? How do you do this? How do you deal with this?

[Eddie]

Well, it's. With anything in life that you're going through, you want someone else to have battle scars with. You want to trade stories. You want to share the experience with someone. Because having an experience by yourself is lonely.

[Alec Baldwin]

Totally.

[Eddie]

So knowing other people are going through similar things is part of the human experience.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. And sense of, like, comfort to, like, okay, I'm not the only one, guys.

[Eddie]

It is again, back to, like, the loneliness side of it. Because even you can have your wife and you have your kids, but there's still loneliness in that.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You're experiencing something alone that somebody else isn't having those same feelings for. So it makes sense. You were going to say there's one guy. Is there one guy that you're a little bit more.

[Alec Baldwin]

No, there's one guy who's been asking. Specifically been asking me. I guess he's just kind of having a hard time with work, life, work, family, balance. He's not really happy at work. And then he also feels like he's having trouble with some of his kids and how to do all that. I think it's so cool that he feels comfortable enough to come to me and say, hey, I'd love to talk to you about this. I don't. I mean, I'm not an expert. I don't know. But.

[Eddie]

No, but you love to talk. You're an open space and I love.

[Alec Baldwin]

To talk about that. You know, like. Yeah, I know all about that. I know all about balancing work and family. I know all about dealing. I mean, I have four boys, 17. The oldest, six, the youngest. So, like, I have experience with all of these different ages with boys, not girls. No experience with girls whatsoever.

[Eddie]

Vastly different life experience.

[Alec Baldwin]

Totally different. But. So I think that's pretty cool. And I'm looking forward to, I think, going to do it probably in the next couple weeks where we're going to hang out and talk and, I don't know, see what happens.

[Eddie]

You know, it's funny you're saying this and talking about this. Women are really good about creating community around them. I don't know that guys have as much of an innate desire to do that because I think it's really built into us to have a support system like women. I don't know that it's as necessarily built into men because they have always been taught to be the provider and take care of things that you guys don't have this innate Well, I need a village to do this. You know what I mean? Like, I do think there's a difference to that experience, too.

[Alec Baldwin]

I know exactly what you mean. And I don't think we're built to where we don't need it. I think we do need it.

[Eddie]

You do. You're just taught you shouldn't.

[Alec Baldwin]

Like, we don't need it. Yeah, but, I mean, I'm a total victim of this. Even when I feel like I don't want to hang out with other people, which is most of the time, I'm like, I don't want it. I don't want to go to their house. Like, I don't want to hang out with his family. Like, I just want a chill weekend. But when I do, I always leave going, like, that was nice, and that was fun. We should do that again. So I don't. Yeah, I think guys are wired to. Like, we don't need him. I got it all myself. Like, I don't need help doing this. But when you do talk to another male and they're going through certain things that you're going through, and, like, oh, you. Oh, you struggle with this, too. Like, absolutely. We all need community.

[Eddie]

We do.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's a part of life, and it's.

[Eddie]

Very much so that it's been driven into you guys to think that you don't or you'll be okay without it. It's not necessary. I think it's necessary for everyone. I think everybody needs help. I just. I don't think it matters your gender. I think we all need someone to lean on in all different spaces of life. Not just a partner, not just a friend, not just a family. I think you need it all to survive.

[Alec Baldwin]

I agree completely. There is a guy that hits me up every year around April. I think it's April, and there's, like, some retreat. Every. Every April, he emails me and he invites me to this men's retreat.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's like, thousands of men go to the mountains and smoke cigars and, like, talk about just life and God and faith and whatever. And I'm like, no, I'm out. Like, I can't. There's.

[Eddie]

Why does that.

[Alec Baldwin]

I don't know.

[Eddie]

Hold on. We're gonna take a quick break. We're coming back, and we're gonna get into that one.

[Alec Baldwin]

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[Mel Reid]

Hey, this is Mel Reid, LPGA Tour winner and six time Ladies European Tour.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

Winner, and Kyra K. Dixon, NBC Sports reporter and host.

[Mel Reid]

You forgot to save all my Miss America, by the way. And we've got a new podcast, Quiet Please with Mel and Kira.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

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[Mel Reid]

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[Kyra K. Dixon]

Yeah, it's actually life's cheat code and we're not going to be quiet about it on or off the course. We're bringing on some of our friends like Michelle We, Heather McMahon, Amanda Baliotis.

[Mel Reid]

So if you want to keep up with us, and here is yap, tune into our new podcast, Listen to Quiet.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

Please with Mel and Kira, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.

[Marc Seale]

Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to share my podcast with you. Math and Magic stories from the frontiers of market. This week I'm talking to the CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bonsell, about how he led his team through unprecedented times to create, test and distribute a COVID vaccine, all in less than a year. It becomes a human decision to decide to throw by the window your business strategy and to do what you think is the right thing for the world. Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math, and the evermore important creative spark, the magic. Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Alec Baldwin]

Did you know that companies hire the most in the first two months of the year? Or that nearly half of workers are worried about being left behind? I am Andrew Seaman, LinkedIn's editor at large for jobs and career development, and.

[Marc Seale]

My show Get Hired brings you all.

[Alec Baldwin]

The information you need to, well, get hired. People are forming opinions of you even before you log into the zoom or walk into the room. And so you really have to think about what is it I want to display you don't plant a garden and then just walk away and expect it to thrive.

[Eddie]

You are in there pulling out the weeds. You're pruning it, you're watering it.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's the same thing with your network.

[Eddie]

You should always be in there actively managing your network.

[Marc Seale]

If you don't feel confident to say a number, even admitting that to a.

[Alec Baldwin]

Recruiter is going to be far better than saying, well, what is your budget for the role? A lot is in the follow up, right?

[Eddie]

Don't wait to follow up.

[Alec Baldwin]

Whether you're a new grad, an established professional, or contemplating a career change, get hired is for you. Listen to Get Hired with Andrew seaman on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you like to listen.

[Dr. Joy]

Love at first swipe? I highly doubt it. What's your biggest red flag? No, no, no. What's your ultimate green flag? These days, reality TV and social media have us thinking love is instant. We're marrying strangers at first sight. We're finding love through walls, or we're even judging people by balloon pops. But what really makes a relationship last? On this episode of Dope Labs, poet, author and relationship expert Young Pueblo breaks down the psychology and biology of loving better and he provides eye opening insights and advice that we all need.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's a big realization moment that you should not be postponing your happiness. Like your greatest happiness is not necessarily going to like come from a relationship. Your partner, they should add to your happiness, but your happiness is really coming from within you.

[Dr. Joy]

Listen to Dope labs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Eddie]

All right, Eddie, I need to know why you feel. No, I can't do that.

[Alec Baldwin]

I don't smoke cigars. I don't drink whiske. Like I don't like.

[Eddie]

And that's your reason?

[Alec Baldwin]

No, it's. That's part of my reason. I. It's. I. Again, from the. From a distance. That just sounds like it's. It's like when I am surrounded by like, say I walk into a book club with 20 women and I sit on the couch and I'm in the middle, I'm like, get me out of here. This is a very weird feeling.

[Eddie]

Okay, same deal.

[Alec Baldwin]

Like a thousand men that I don't know.

[Eddie]

But you, Eddie, thrive in situations of meeting people.

[Alec Baldwin]

I don't know what it is.

[Eddie]

You love meeting people.

[Alec Baldwin]

I love sitting next to someone on an airplane. I love talking to the Uber driver. I love finding out more about my server. Like, I love that stuff.

[Eddie]

Exactly.

[Alec Baldwin]

Thousand dudes that, I don't know, weirds me out.

[Eddie]

It's just because you're. You've been taught to think that that's weird.

[Alec Baldwin]

I don't know who taught me that.

[Eddie]

Society. You know what I mean?

[Alec Baldwin]

No, obviously not. Because a thousand people do this, and.

[Eddie]

They have no problem doing it, but that. Those are people who've finally taken that uncomfortable step and said, I'm just gonna try this.

[Alec Baldwin]

I feel like they feel very comfortable going probably now.

[Eddie]

I bet the first time they did it, they didn't, you know, Then I'm.

[Alec Baldwin]

Like, what am I gonna talk about?

[Eddie]

Your life. You're being a dad. How that experience is for you. All the things, do things, sports you can talk about, dude things, dude news, literally. You can also bring tequila if that's what you want to have instead. And I bet there's somebody else that's going to be there that also wants tequila.

[Alec Baldwin]

Can I dilute my vodka?

[Eddie]

Yes, you could also do that.

[Alec Baldwin]

I can't, man. Like, dudes love to drink, and I don't mind, like, a little bourbon with ice or whatever, but I'm sipping it, not drinking it.

[Eddie]

That's fine.

[Alec Baldwin]

And like, dudes, like, this bourbon's from 1840. I'm like, wow, you're a man, Eddie.

[Eddie]

I would challenge you that I think all of the things that you possibly believe about this situation are so much worse in your head, probably, that when.

[Alec Baldwin]

You would go, because I do like the mountains.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

And I like campfires.

[Eddie]

And you like hanging out and meeting new people. That's all that is. The only difference is that you're adding this label of, like, there's a thousand men, I don't know, thousand dudes, which is a thousand people at an airport that you'd love to go and talk to on any given day.

[Alec Baldwin]

It might take me back to, you know, middle school. I don't know what your town was like, but did you make the jump from elementary school to middle school? And it was like, your elementary school is one, but then you go to middle school, and there's six elementary school people there, so you don't know half the people. And you're desperately looking for the one person that you know because it's like. And you're stuck on the side of the wall, on the corner of the wall, just kind of like, cool, cool.

[Eddie]

This is a side of you. This is like, the little kid in you that is not loving this.

[Alec Baldwin]

I had to do it in middle school. Like, my first day of middle school. Very, like, lost and didn't I found one person that I saw. My dude. Be my friend. I know I never really talked to you in elementary school, but, like, be my friend, because I don't know anyone else here. Same in high school. Like high school again. It was a bunch of middle schools getting together, and all of a sudden I'm like, I don't know anyone here. This is so weird.

[Eddie]

This is a little kid in you that's freaked out by it. Maybe I just feel like. And then I'm on the mountain for you. At the end of the day, my.

[Alec Baldwin]

Wife says the same thing. She's like, go. Like, you might like it. And I'm like, I don't want to.

[Eddie]

What's the worst that can happen? You're gone for 48 hours.

[Alec Baldwin]

No, no, no. I think it's like a. It might be like a three, four day retreat.

[Eddie]

Okay, but say you go 24 hours.

[Alec Baldwin]

And it's not a lock in. Like, they're not. They can't keep me there.

[Eddie]

Exactly. Say it's 24 hours. You're like, this is the worst thing I've ever done. I have to go. Oh, my kids got sick. I gotta go.

[Alec Baldwin]

You want me to go all the way to the mountains and come back like six hours later?

[Eddie]

Yeah, because I guarantee you're not gonna come back.

[Alec Baldwin]

You're so confident.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Alec Baldwin]

I probably wouldn't. I'd probably like it. Yeah.

[Eddie]

You love socializing.

[Alec Baldwin]

I do, I do. It's just, I don't know anything about this knowing, like, look, change is good.

[Eddie]

Being uncomfortable is good for you. It would help you. It would help you probably have a new experience that you've been needing.

[Alec Baldwin]

What was it like? Let me ask you a question. What was it like when you joined the Bobby Bones show and you didn't know any of us?

[Eddie]

I was uncomfortable.

[Alec Baldwin]

But, like, do you remember that feeling?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I do. It was uncomfortable and I was, like, listening.

[Alec Baldwin]

We knew each other.

[Eddie]

Yeah. But we had one lunch. At one point in time, I'd met.

[Alec Baldwin]

You a couple times.

[Eddie]

But those are also your people. And typically when you know, like, you're with your people, you're gonna hang to them versus the one person that you maybe kind of know. Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

I was your dude in middle school.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And it was uncomfortable. But now look at this. And if I wouldn't have been uncomfortable, where would I be? Not here.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Being uncomfortable is the catalyst for change.

[Alec Baldwin]

I know. And I feel so stupid because I preach this to my son all the time. My 17 year old. He's all about, like, not avoiding Uncomfortable situations.

[Eddie]

And I'm always like, it's easier to do that. It's easier to do that because being uncomfortable also sucks. And it gives you feelings that you don't either want to address or you don't want to feel. And it's hard. I can recognize that there's moments where I'm like, I'm not touching that. I don't want to do that. There's. I can't tell you how many times Eddie, I've had a date lined up and I have to hype myself up and be like, okay, we're gonna do this. Where I'm, like, sitting on the couch. I was like, I really don't want to do this.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. But has any of those dates turned into something really cool?

[Eddie]

Yes. And a lot of them haven't. So to my point being, I still get up and do it every time because I know there's always the opportunity for something really cool to come of it.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And this is your opportunity for something really cool. And close friendships that you don't currently have. Not on that level. Not on space. No.

[Alec Baldwin]

No, I don't.

[Eddie]

I think this is something you like.

[Alec Baldwin]

I have Bobby and, like, I have, like, our guys here.

[Eddie]

Like, but it's different.

[Alec Baldwin]

It is different.

[Eddie]

And you. You're looking for dad friends and things. These are people that are likely on very similar levels and experiences as you. And having that kind of community is so much different. Having, like. I love this community. I say they're different. Like, my work community. Love it. I'm great. I love coming here. I don't wake up in the morning and hate coming into work. But I also love that I have my group of friends that I get to spend time with outside of work. I go and we go and do fun things.

[Alec Baldwin]

But you don't have a family.

[Eddie]

You're right. But that's my community.

[Alec Baldwin]

Right. I have the family, but so is the community. Is my family my community?

[Eddie]

It's another one of your communities. It's not your only one, though, because.

[Alec Baldwin]

That family takes a lot of my time.

[Eddie]

It does. But it's also important to you as a human being to have multiple communities.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

For you to feel good. Because how are you gonna keep living in this community with your family and at work and feel whole when there's something missing?

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. I think. I mean, there's definitely something to think about, because I think a lot of people are in my situation where you really don't have a lot of time to do anything else other than work and your family. You go to work, you're done with work, it's time to cook, it's time to take kids to practice, time to pick kids from school, whatever, whatever it may be. Before you know it it's 8:30 and it's time to get everyone ready for bed. And you're like, well, what do we do now? Like, nothing. But, but there are the weekends.

[Eddie]

There are. But this is also challenging you.

[Alec Baldwin]

This is the challenge to restructure.

[Eddie]

You have a son who is old enough to help that you're at least have talked about on the show where you struggle with letting go of some things and allowing him to do stuff, which is hard. I know I remember being a 16 year old kid or. And I was not super responsible. But I also remember my two older sisters spending a lot of time watching me and taking care of me. And I'm sure my parents at one point were afraid but were like, well, we have to let go of this and let it happen.

[Alec Baldwin]

We've used him before. But there's. I have four boys and three of them play sports. So like we literally have to sometimes go three different ways. You know, like my oldest son will take one of them to practice, my wife will take another one to practice and I will take the other one to practice. Practice. So like that's just kind of where we're at.

[Eddie]

True. And there's moments in your life where this will happen.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yes.

[Eddie]

And I can't speak to that not being a parent. But you can restructure enough to have a weekend away. You can restructure enough to have a lunch with somebody. You can restructure enough to have one night. Because your wife does it.

[Alec Baldwin]

Like I said, my wife does it. And, and I have no problem just staying at home with the boys while she does that. And she doesn't have a problem staying at home with the boys while I do it. She does it every time I travel. See, like that's part of, like that's part of what we do.

[Eddie]

So this is just something you have to restructure to see if it's worthy enough of the time for you to go and do it. Like if it's that important.

[Alec Baldwin]

See, I will say though that when we do travel, like the super bowl, we were gone for a whole week and me, Kevin, Mike, Reed, Bobby and Matt still came with us on that. We do kind of form a bond.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

And we do have a good time together and we do have good conversations because we're outside of the work environment. We're together the whole time. So that does kind of count. It does to that.

[Eddie]

But you are also still working.

[Alec Baldwin]

I am still working.

[Eddie]

It's kinda like how Bobby has to challenge himself to do things that are not work related. You almost have to challenge yourself to have friends that aren't work related or within your other community.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's a tough challenge. And I know it's rewarding at the end. I just. It's a challenge where you're like, man, I'm not even willing to play. Even though I do know there's a reward at the end.

[Eddie]

You do. And it's like with anything, you have to decide what's actually worth it. You know what I mean? What do I care enough about what's actually worth?

[Alec Baldwin]

I'm like, do I want my rest on Saturdays?

[Eddie]

It's a thing.

[Alec Baldwin]

Or do I want to go meet or hang out with friends?

[Eddie]

It's true.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. I mean, there are like one thing I have been wanting to do is go like on a little trip with friends. You know, like even just a golfing.

[Eddie]

It's a little trip, Eddie.

[Alec Baldwin]

No, I'm talking about like three of my good buddies that I know or three of. Like, there's a buddy I have in Wyoming that I haven't talked to or I went to college with. I haven't talked to him in a long time. Like, we kind of talked text back and forth once in a while. But like, I would love to go spend a few days with him in Wyoming. Like, I'd rather do that than go to the mountains with a thousand dudes.

[Eddie]

Okay, then what's. What has stopped you all of these years?

[Alec Baldwin]

Nothing. Just. Just. Just finding the time to do it. And him finding the time that he can do it. Yeah, that's it. Just, I mean, if we can kind of say, hey, you know What? How is March 15th? That's great. March 15th. I will be there. We will do it. And I know that at some point in the near future we will do that, but that's the kind of stuff I like. Rather than jumping into the cold, cold water of hanging out with a thousand dudes on a mountain.

[Eddie]

Okay, fair enough. Maybe this is your baby step.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

But I think you just need to do it.

[Alec Baldwin]

Honestly, just do it.

[Eddie]

You just need to book it, get it on the calendar and do it. You have to. If you have had any experiences in the last year that have taught you present, moment matters, you can't keep saying yes. At some point it will happen. You just have to do it. I know that's hard to do with kids And a family and a whole life that is existing.

[Alec Baldwin]

Part of me too, though, my personality is never to be the party planner, but to be the party attendee.

[Eddie]

Fair. But all you have to do is book a date.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, that's a date. Yeah.

[Eddie]

And I bet he'll start planning the rest, right?

[Alec Baldwin]

He loves the booking. The date is kind of is planning the party. Okay.

[Eddie]

It's planning one day, Eddie. It's literally saying this weekend works for me.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's like, I'll give you small example playing golf. Like, I have a hard time setting a tee time, like a commitment of I'm going to play at 8 o'clock today. I'd rather just walk up to the course whenever I'm ready to go and be like, hey, do you have room for one? Yeah, you can walk right up. Like, that's my style.

[Eddie]

Spontaneous is not a bad thing. It's also balance. You can have plenty of spontaneity while also having one weekend where you're like, set calendar dead.

[Alec Baldwin]

Write it down. Goal.

[Eddie]

I'm challenging you. This also has happened a few times where we've like challenged different things and we get follow ups. I. Next time you come on Best Bits, I hope you have at least booked the trip.

[Alec Baldwin]

I have something for you.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

In the next few days. Something that I told you I would get you and it's coming.

[Eddie]

Corn.

[Alec Baldwin]

I'm not telling you what it is. I'm not telling you what it is.

[Eddie]

That's the only thing I can think of right now. Has to be corn.

[Alec Baldwin]

Corn. Smoked corn. No, I'm not telling you.

[Eddie]

I don't know if it's corn season yet.

[Alec Baldwin]

Write it down. Goal. Go hang out with Scott in Wyoming.

[Eddie]

And my only challenge is that by the next time you are on Best Bits. That gives you six weeks.

[Alec Baldwin]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

That gives you six weeks.

[Alec Baldwin]

I can't book something in six weeks.

[Eddie]

All I'm saying is get it on the calendar and you and you book a flight. It doesn't have to be in the next six weeks that you go on the trip, but in the next six weeks you set and pick a date and you do this.

[Alec Baldwin]

I think it would be fun. So I just text my friend Scott and be like, hey, man, I want to come see you. When? Now. Let's book it.

[Eddie]

Literally.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. You know, I gotta clear my wife too.

[Eddie]

Well, yeah. Like, hey, be like, hey, wife, when's a good time?

[Alec Baldwin]

And we're going into basketball tournament season.

[Eddie]

You're always gonna have excuses.

[Alec Baldwin]

Ugh.

[Eddie]

It's always something I Hear you. But you're always gonna have excuses because life is always gonna be busy. You're always gonna have something to do for the rest of your life because you had four kids. You will always have something to do.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

But you know how necessary it is for you to also have personal experiences, even as a dad and adult.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's necessary. I know, I know. Because my sole purpose in this life right now is just to raise my four kids. Like, in my mind, like, that's it.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Like anything else is not important, and that's fine. But also this time is just as important for you, being a human on this earth and living your life.

[Alec Baldwin]

I agree. And it takes someone like Morgan Huelsman to tell me this.

[Eddie]

I have to remind you, because I am. I don't have kids. So I can. Can blatantly say there's a reason you need to do this.

[Alec Baldwin]

Right.

[Eddie]

And I know that's also easier said than done because I am childless.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, that's like when Bobby does, like, parent advice. Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

I. I can. I can recognize that this is a very difficult ask, but I think it's important.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's a good challenge. It's a good challenge and a challenge accepted.

[Eddie]

It's better than the mountain retreat. You know, we found the. We found the baby ground for sure. Okay, we're gonna take a break. We'll be right back. I wanna tell you about some things that happened. Maybe we can get into some super bowl stories.

[Alec Baldwin]

Oh, yeah, the Super Bowl. I forgot about that. I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast the Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. 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.

[Marc Seale]

Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to share my podcast with you. Math and stories from the frontiers of marketing. This week I'm talking to the CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bonsell, about how he led his team through other unprecedented times to create, test and distribute a COVID vaccine, all in less than a year. It becomes a human decision to decide to throw by the window your business strategy and to do what you think is the right thing for the world. 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 stories from the frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Mel Reid]

Hey, this is Mel Reid, LPGA Tour winner and six time Ladies European Tour.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

Winner and Kyra K. Dixon, NBC Sports reporter and host.

[Mel Reid]

You forgot to say warm and Miss America, by the way. And we've got a new podcast, Quiet Please with Mel and Kira.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

We are bringing you spicy takes on sports and pop culture, some golf hats and interviews with incredible people who have figured out how to make golf their.

[Mel Reid]

Superpower or just people we like. Plus tales from the road and everything in between. By the way, golf isn't just for the dads, brads and chads.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

Yeah, it's actually life's cheat code and we're not going to be quiet about it on or off the course. We're bringing on some of our friends like Michelle We, Heather McMahon, Amanda Baliotis.

[Mel Reid]

So if you want to keep up with us and here is your app, tune into our new podcast.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

Listen to Quiet Please with Melbourne and Kira, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.

[Dr. Joy]

Dr. Joy here. You may know me from Therapy for Black Girls where we're celebrating 400 episodes of the podcast. That's a whole lot of girl me Too moments. For years we've had deep, thoughtful and inspiring conversations about Black women's mental health, and now we're celebrating this milestone in a big way. In this special episode, Peloton Yogi Chelsea Jackson Roberts shares how yoga has taught her to stay grounded and present while balancing motherhood and self care. I can't control my partner. I can't control my child. I can't control anyone outside the way that I govern myself in this world. And the celebration doesn't stop there. We'll continue this milestone with Dr. Lauren Mims, who joins me to discuss the powerful yet sometimes challenging transition from girlhood to womanhood for Black femmes. Together we explore how we navigate this transformative journey with strength and grace.

[Eddie]

Black girlhood is giggling.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's sisterhood, but it is also, I.

[Eddie]

Think, focusing on learning how to cope with really difficult things that are happening.

[Dr. Joy]

With insights like these, this 400th episode celebration is one for the books. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Alec Baldwin]

Ever wonder what it would be like to be mentored by today's top business leaders. My podcast, this Is Working can help with that. Here's advice from Google CMO Lorraine Tuhill on how to treat AI like a partner.

[Mel Reid]

I see AI as an incredible co pilot.

[Alec Baldwin]

You may use different tools or toys.

[Mel Reid]

To get the work done, but ultimately.

[Alec Baldwin]

As editor, as creator, as maker, you.

[Mel Reid]

Own it and it needs to be good.

[Alec Baldwin]

AI is just the latest flavor of that.

[Eddie]

You're still the judge of what good looks like.

[Alec Baldwin]

I'm Dan Roth, LinkedIn's editor in chief. On my podcast, this Is Working leaders like Indra Nooyi, Ray Dalio, and Rich Paul share strategy for success and the real lessons that have shaped them. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Eddie]

So, Eddie, we had International Women's Day this past weekend.

[Alec Baldwin]

Cool.

[Eddie]

And I got asked to be on a panel at the Grand Hyatt.

[Alec Baldwin]

Let's go.

[Eddie]

It was so much fun.

[Alec Baldwin]

So you did it already?

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, it happened. International Women's Day was on Saturday of this last weekend. Not this one that we're talking about.

[Alec Baldwin]

And what was the event?

[Eddie]

It was just a panel of three women. One was a CEO, another was a general manager.

[Alec Baldwin]

What the.

[Eddie]

And then there was me.

[Alec Baldwin]

That's crazy. Not in a bad way. That's awesome. Yeah, that's great for you. That's just, wow. Like, good company to be in.

[Eddie]

In a room of women. There were some dudes that trickled in too. Like, shout out to them. And it was really good, Eddie. Like, it felt really good to talk to women. And it was really cool to be on a panel. We were all different ages. We had one that was, like, kind of more my mom's age. And then we had middle, and then we had mine. Like, we had these different ages in it, which also gave us all a lot of perspective. Like, we were learning from each other as we're sitting on the panel. And the reason I bring this up, though, is because at the very end, like, they had asked people in the audience had asked questions. But after we got done, I'm standing waiting for my car to get pulled up, and one of the girls who was in the audience walks up to me and the CEO panelists, too, and she goes, I didn't want to ask a question because I don't speak super good English. And she was like, but how do you wake up every day and be confident? How do you do this? You seem really happy. And we sat there and we had a conversation about for, like, five minutes. And she was like, oh, I have chills on my arms. Like, thank you for saying that. But I ended it with, also, you should speak up. Do not be afraid because you learned a whole new language. Like, and why would you not want to use it? You did that on purpose. I don't speak another language. Like, use it. Don't be afraid just because somebody might not completely understand you. Like, be confident that you did that. And she gave me this big hug and she had tears in her eyes. And I was just like, what is my life right now that I got to have that conversation with that woman and be on this panel? And this life is happening?

[Alec Baldwin]

It's pretty amazing.

[Eddie]

It was a really cool moment.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And I wanted to share that with you.

[Alec Baldwin]

That's really, really cool. And it gives you a little bit of purpose. Like, wow, that's cool that she's. I don't know. She asked me a question, thought I was qualified enough to answer that question, and now it could help her with something in life, which is really, really cool. I do understand what she was going through, though, with not wanting to ask that question. Growing up bilingual. So, like, the way I grew up was my parents spoke Spanish, some English, mostly Spanish, but I was taught to learn English, so I understood Spanish because my parents spoke Spanish. But I also went into an American school system learning English. So. And I was always taught. My dad always taught me, like, English, learn English, learn English, learn English, because this is. You will live. You're an American, like, you will be speaking English for the rest of your life. And. But I was always ashamed that I knew Spanish because I didn't really learn Spanish, you know, as far as, like, educational wise. Like, but I knew Spanish because of my parents. So, like, I understand the whole feeling of feeling a little bit of embarrassment of, like, I don't know this language as well as I know my main language. But you're right, it is badass to know two different languages.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

It is.

[Eddie]

And I. One, I do think people, again in our society have made that complicated for people. Right. I'm sure she's had moments in her life where people have been like, I can't understand you. And they get frustrated with her or they yell at her or, like, tell her to speak. You know, who knows the experiences that she's had that led it to that. But I just, I think it's so beautiful when two cultures can combine. I think that's so cool.

[Alec Baldwin]

Totally. And I tell my kids that all the time. Because what's funny is my two biological kids Half white, half Mexican, half Hispanic. My two adopted kids, one of them is just fully white. He loves it. His last name is Garcia. He's like, that's right. I'm Mexican. I'm half Mexican.

[Eddie]

So he says, have you gotten, like, the heart to tell and be like.

[Alec Baldwin]

Buddy, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm letting him roll. I'm letting him just roll with it. Because at school, I don't know if I ever told you this, but at school, they had, like, a flag day. And they're like, if you have, like, a heritage that you come from, like, a culture or whatever, and you want to carry that flag and represent that flag, you can do it. And he was like, where's the Mexican flag? And he's as pale as can be, blonde hair, blue eyes, carrying that Mexican flag, while my biological kid was like. Like, I don't want to carry that.

[Eddie]

So wild.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, it's a weird thing where, like, my biological kids kind of are just like. Well, I don't know. Like, it's weird being both. Like, what am I. I kept telling, like, it's so cool to have background and culture. Like, your grandparents are so different. Both grandparents are so different. They speak two different languages. Like, we make different foods. You know, we. We come from this place that's very different from the place you live. And I think it's something really. It's something that I didn't really even understand until probably I was, I don't know, you know, 20, 30 years old. Once I left home and realized that it was cool to have a little, you know, a different background, I thought it was pretty cool, but it took me a long time to realize that.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Because it. I would imagine it would come with insecurities because of the way that people speak about that.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

You know, and people believe that it's not okay when you should be one or the other or whatever. When I'm sitting here, I'm like, give me all heck. When I went over to Europe and people spoke, like, five languages, I was like, are you kidding me? I don't even speak another. I mean, thankfully, I do have a little bit of French that I happen to remember, but I was like, you speak five languages.

[Alec Baldwin]

Pretty cool.

[Eddie]

How freaking amazing is that?

[Alec Baldwin]

And how stupid are we to only know one?

[Eddie]

Exactly. We shouldn't.

[Alec Baldwin]

Or two. Or two. And I think, you know, a lot of Americans know a little bit Spanish, too, because you kind of have to. But, like, okay, two languages. Some of these people in these countries know freaking 10 languages. And it's so amazing.

[Eddie]

It's incredible. So I think it's so cool. But I knew you liked that moment.

[Alec Baldwin]

That is really cool.

[Eddie]

Just because it was so important for me to tell her that. I was like, I know I don't have any experience in that matter, but, like, please speak up. I don't want you to. Not to.

[Alec Baldwin]

What did you tell her? Do you remember?

[Eddie]

So she had asked. She's like, how do I, you know, wake up? I have really hard moments sometimes where I wake up and I don't want to do this, and I just don't know how to be confident and excited like you are right now. And I think she was seeing one version of me, of course. And I told her, I said, just exist in those feelings. Like, don't put them away. Those actually help you in the end. And I know it's really hard when you wake up and you're feeling sad and you don't want to do something, but sometimes you have to feel that to get to the other side. And sometimes when we push it away, it never really helps us in the end. So feel the feelings and then encourage yourself to keep pushing through those, and I promise you'll start to be able to push through them more often if you just learn.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's good.

[Eddie]

Something to that effect.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, but way to go to come up with that on the fly. I mean, it was real.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

So it's not like you made it up, but like, yeah, questions on the fly are pretty hard.

[Eddie]

They are. But also, it's just something I'm passionate about. I mean, even sitting here talking with you about things I love, I'm. I'm like Eddie, or I'm like Bobby. I'm a challenger. So I love to challenge people. I love to see them become the best version of themselves.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, but you guys are annoying sometimes.

[Eddie]

I know. It is. It absolutely is. There's no doubt about it.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's like, let me be me. Just let me be me.

[Eddie]

That's why I also have moments where I'm like, I get sucks. I'm not saying that it's gonna be easy, but if I can be the one person in somebody's life to be like, no, do this, I will be. Even if I'm a little bit of a jerk to push you in that direction.

[Alec Baldwin]

At least you acknowledge that.

[Eddie]

Yeah, but it's ne. I think there's also a side that we want someone to do it for us. We want someone to challenge us, like a partner. And one of the qualities I'M looking for is someone who can challenge me and say, no, don't do it that way, or, hey, let's talk about that before you pursue it this way, instead of just allowing me to just bulldoze kind of. I think that's where ours comes from. I don't know. I can't speak for Bobby, but that's where some of mine comes from, is like, I want to do this for other people, and I hope other people do it for me. You know what I mean? Like, you're always a reflection of the things you want. That's what's happening.

[Alec Baldwin]

See, I'm always just like, that's none of my business. She's got it. Unless you come to me and ask for help, I'm not really gonna look at you and be like, hey, are you okay? I do that to you sometimes. Hey, everything good? You seem a little different, but for the most part, it's just like, that's okay. They'll figure it out. If they need help, they'll come to me.

[Eddie]

True. And I don't ever, like, you know, never see a stranger on the street.

[Alec Baldwin]

And I'm like, are you okay?

[Eddie]

Let me help you. I'm gonna fix this for you. It's only people in my life that I know, and we start to have conversations, and I can feel it coming out of me where I'm like, ooh, this is my time. Push, Em. Let's go. Let's do this.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I just. I don't know any other way to be. You know what I mean?

[Alec Baldwin]

That's you. I just love that we're all different. Like, we're all so different. And there was something I kind of wanted to talk about on the show, but, I mean, it'll never happen because just we're just so timed on the show.

[Eddie]

What do you want to talk about?

[Alec Baldwin]

But. But I've always wanted to talk about how I didn't realize how different people were, like, really to the core, how different people are. You look at the human race, we all the same, we're all, we love routine. We love, like, love to eat at these times. We love to, like, do these things on the weekends. Like, we all just kind of like to do certain things, right?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

But when I adopted my two kids and we've had, you know, they've been part of our family for six years now. Yeah. Six years. When you look at biological. Your genetics versus two other people's genetics and how different they are, it's unbelievable. It's so crazy to. I know what My boys are going to be. I don't know what their jobs are going to be. I don't know, like, where they're going to work. But I know that one of my boys is not going to be a lawyer. He's not going to be a doctor. He's not going to be anything where he has to go to school for more than, like, one year. He works with his hands. He is uber talented with his hands. He can already fix things. He can already, like, just create things with his hands. And he doesn't think about anything. He's not a thinker. He's just. Watch this. I do this boom, boom, boom, boom. I build a home. Like, you see that? And you're like. And then you got my. And you're like, well, he can never do that. Like, he'll never, ever be able to do that. But he's got a mind that can create so many cool stories that can create, like, anything. He could rap. He could, like, write a song. He could tell a cool story, make it really funny. Like, unbelievable. My other one, no, Chance couldn't tell a story to save his life.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Alec Baldwin]

But you start looking at these things where you're like, wow, like, we are all so different. We, like. I don't know, I feel like putting them in school is so hard because, like, school is such a generic.

[Eddie]

Like, yeah, it's kind of a one size fits all.

[Alec Baldwin]

Everyone's going to take these classes, everyone's going to take these tests. But, like, one cannot do that as well as others can. And, like, it's so sad to me that, like, I look at some of my kids, some struggle with school so hard, and it's not their fault. They're just not built that way. They're not built to do school the way that the government or whatever, the school officials think that. That, that's. That's how it should be. But other ones thrive in it. So, like, I don't know, I. I think it just came to me the other day when I just look at them and, like, they're all so different.

[Eddie]

Isn't it weird, too, when you do look at that and you see all these, like, you look at your four kids, they're four different little human beings that are gonna grow up to do four different, completely different things. And then you look at people when we share things, and everybody seems to have an opinion of how you should live their life, and it should be the way that they live their life. And you look at that and you say, but we have vastly different experiences. So why should we live the same life? Why should I do it the way that you did it? Just to make you feel better. But we had different experiences that would dictate that that shouldn't happen.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

I think so much of our understanding of people is understanding that we're different. And I think a lot of people lack that ability to recognize.

[Alec Baldwin]

Totally. I never thought about it. I really just thought, like, oh, we're all the same. Like, we're all kind of. And there's a thought, too, of just like, if I wanted to become a lawyer, I can become a lawyer. Like, if I wanted to be a doctor, I could become a brain surgeon. I don't think that's true for me. Like, I could try my best, I can try my hardest, and maybe, like, I could probably be some kind of brain surgeon, but I don't know if I would be good at it because. But I'm good at what I do now. And I did not try to find this job. I did not try to say, I'm going to be on a radio show with all my friends and we're going to talk in the morning and we're going to do this. Like, I never said that. I never planned that. But I'm able to do this sometimes to think, like, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

[Eddie]

Well, then it starts coming in. The question of your calling, your destiny. Are you on the right path? Those kind of different.

[Alec Baldwin]

But that's what I'm saying. Like, I know what my boys are going to do. Don't know how they're gonna do it, who they're gonna do it with or whatever. But I know that he is meant to do X. That one's meant to do. Yeah, that one's meant to do Z. Like, you could just see it in them from the day they were born. Like, from the day they were so young.

[Eddie]

Have you not also had to also parent them? Each differently because of that experience?

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, so differently.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Before, it was really easy to like, oh, well, I did this with that one. We're just gonna copy paste.

[Alec Baldwin]

But again, again, like, you even look at our show, look at Lunchbox, how different he is than I am, you know, Or Bobby, how different Bobby is from you or Amy. Like, everyone is just so different that it. Like, we all get along somehow, which is really cool. Like, we all get along, but we're all so, so, so, so different. And Bobby's never gonna think the way I do. I'm never gonna think the way he does. And we're Never gonna think the way Lunchbox does. Like, it's just so interesting to me. I just love that about us. Yeah. Yeah.

[Eddie]

It's part of the cool human experience to know that you get to be different, that you get to choose your own path, that life happens the way that it's supposed to. All of those things kind of collide and create one beautiful mess of experience that you're going to live throughout the course of however long you're here. It's weird. It's also weird. Very retro, like, very introspective of you to go in, and very psychological, like you were having a moment.

[Alec Baldwin]

It was definitely a moment. And it, too, comes from school a lot because some of them struggle with school. Like, really. It's really hard for them. And I feel so bad for them. And I want to tell their teachers, like, it's not for them. Like, school is not for them.

[Eddie]

I do wish there was some version of. I did go down a rabbit hole at one point with the education system and why schools were created, what that looked like, how that started. And it's fascinating, honestly, the industrial revolution of creating the schools to really create these marketplaces and yada, yada, yada.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

That's history. But it is crazy that we've evolved in schools of what we're learning, in a way. But it's still kind of the same.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's the same linear.

[Eddie]

Linear structure created decades ago.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yes, yes.

[Eddie]

That we've never thought, hey, we should probably rehaul this a little bit. Like, I do wonder certain things in life, why we don't rehaul them, why we don't look at something and say, hey, because it's hard.

[Alec Baldwin]

It might be too much. It might be way too much work.

[Eddie]

That too.

[Alec Baldwin]

You know, maybe we don't have the resources, like, to do all that. But, yes, there is something. Oh, my gosh, my. Do we have time.

[Eddie]

So, yeah, you can keep going as.

[Alec Baldwin]

Long as you have this. There is. There is something that they do in Nashville, and it's called, like, I don't know, something Biztown. And all the schools can participate in it, but it's a fake city in a big warehouse, and they do a fake city. There's police officers, there's firefighters, there are businesses, there are restaurants, there are hospitals, doctor's offices, a radio station, a TV station. There is everything. It's like a little city.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Alec Baldwin]

And so you get your class to go, the school has to sign them up, and they go. And it's like, all right, what do you Want to be. Like, I want to be a nurse. Okay, cool. Then you're going to go work at the hospital. What do you want to be? And my son said, I want to be on the radio. So he ran the radio station. They just did this, like, two, three weeks ago. And they teach him about, like. All right, so you work at the radio station. How does the radio station make money? They sell advertisements to that restaurant over there. So you have to go to the restaurant, and you have to ask the restaurant if they would like to buy. And they all start with, like, $10.

[Eddie]

Okay, wait, hold on. This is so interesting to me.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's amazing.

[Eddie]

It's fascinating that they do this. Are there people in this place, like, adults that are working there?

[Alec Baldwin]

No, they're not working. Well, they work. I mean, they're adults supervising.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Alec Baldwin]

But they let the. And they teach the kids, like, all right, each. There's an adult in every building.

[Eddie]

Got it. They have a supervisor for kind of eats.

[Alec Baldwin]

Correct. For the restaurant. So, like, when you go work for the restaurant, they tell you what your job is, what you need to be doing.

[Eddie]

But your son, when he had to go to the restaurant ask. He was talking to another student. Got it.

[Alec Baldwin]

That was told that he's going to come and ask you if you want to do advertisements. That means that they'll say your name of your restaurant on your. On the radio station.

[Eddie]

Got it.

[Alec Baldwin]

And then. And then he. Once he makes the sell, he goes back to the radio station and writes a little script, and he's like, go eat at whatever Italian restaurant. And then he plays a song, and everyone can do requests or whatever, but they give him $10. And, like, everything costs money. Like, so you just made a dollar from that. From that restaurant. So now you have to spend a dollar. Do you want to hire, like, do you want to hire a salesperson instead of you going all the way out there? Like, yes, I don't want to sell anymore. So he hired a salespeople that cost $3, and so Vice versa. Or you want health insurance that costs a dollar and he'll go to the doctor's office. He bought health insurance. It was amazing.

[Eddie]

It's like Monopoly kind of in real life to teach them about real life.

[Alec Baldwin]

Experiences, real life, how to go to a bank and, like, you can borrow money, but it's gonna cost you to borrow money.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Alec Baldwin]

Pretty amazing.

[Eddie]

I did not know this existed.

[Alec Baldwin]

And what I loved about it was to see. Because my son came back and told me, like, well, I was like, what was everyone like, your Friends. Everyone was pretty much what their dad did or their. Or their mom did, you know, like, he has. He has, like, his friend. His dad's a builder in town. So what did he do? He's a construction guy. Like, you know, my son was a radio guy. There's a.

[Eddie]

You do what?

[Alec Baldwin]

You know, a girl. Her. Her mom was a. Is a doctor, so she was a doctor. Like, I think it's just so cool like that. And they did it for, like, three days in a row.

[Eddie]

I was wondering if they continued it to really have the full experience.

[Alec Baldwin]

They did.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Alec Baldwin]

They did.

[Eddie]

That's really interesting.

[Alec Baldwin]

I was like, man, that should be school for. For some people.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Well, it also should just be part of everybody's schooling.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

To really understand, especially in high school, when you're getting to the point of understanding, like, what's after. Because so many of us got out of high school, we're like, okay, I guess we're going to college. More school, and then you still learn just more advanced things that you learned in high school. And then you start to be like, oh, well, what am I supposed to do? I don't know. I haven't done anything. How am I supposed to know what I'm gonna do?

[Alec Baldwin]

Oh, do you remember getting your first job and, like, trying to figure out, like, oh, what are benefits? Like, what do. What do I get?

[Eddie]

Well, my first job was working at Buffalo Wild Wings as a hostess. And that was a wild, wild west experience for me because no pun intended. Truly. I. Like, I was 16 years old. I got my first paycheck. I'm like, what do. What's happening here?

[Alec Baldwin]

What do I do with this piece of paper?

[Eddie]

And it was. I mean, that was so eye opening for me. And I was adamant. It was funny. My parents were like, well, Morgan, you. You do, like, four sports and you're in school. How the heck are you gonna have a job? I was like, I don't know, but I need to have a job.

[Alec Baldwin]

I need money.

[Eddie]

They were like, okay, but just so you know, this isn't gonna be easy. I was like, well, I. I need to do it. And it was. It was really hard. And I, at 16 years old, started working, like, immediately. It was like, my 16th birthday happened. I was like, okay, time to get a job. And I was like, why? Why did I do that?

[Alec Baldwin]

That's because you're a worker.

[Eddie]

I. I was. But, like, I look back on that, like, dang, Morgan could have been a little bit lazier.

[Alec Baldwin]

Yeah. No, no, that's not. Again, that's not your style. That's not Morgan.

[Eddie]

It wasn't.

[Alec Baldwin]

That's Eddie.

[Eddie]

Do you remember your first job and being like, what is happening?

[Alec Baldwin]

I lifeguard. I was a lifeguard. And like, yeah, when I got my first paycheck, I went to the guitar store and bought a guitar.

[Eddie]

So you blew it.

[Alec Baldwin]

My check was $400. I bought a $350 guitar. And then I'm like, dang, I only have 50 bucks left.

[Eddie]

What did you do with the last 15?

[Alec Baldwin]

I don't remember. Got whataburger or something? Yeah, I got lunch.

[Eddie]

That's funny.

[Alec Baldwin]

We're so stupid. And then all these times too, I'm like, where was my mom and dad? Like, why did they not tell me? Like, don't go buy a guitar.

[Eddie]

Oh, I'm pretty sure my parents tried to tell me a bunch of things and I did not.

[Alec Baldwin]

Probably. That's probably the real story.

[Eddie]

It was not what was happening. Okay, Eddie. Well, I could keep you here forever. I already have.

[Alec Baldwin]

Oh, that was fun.

[Eddie]

We gotta go into some.

[Alec Baldwin]

This is my favorite time. My favorite time of every six months.

[Eddie]

There it is. We are. I mean, I had like, random things and that was so much better. So I'm really glad it worked out that way. Thanks for being here, Eddie.

[Alec Baldwin]

That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms obbyboneshow and follow ebgirlmorgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode.

[Marc Seale]

I'm Mark Seale. And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. The five families did not want us to shoot that picture. This podcast is based on my co host Mark Seale's best selling book of the same title. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Caan, Talia Shire, and many others. Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast, here's the thing, I spoke with more actors, musicians, policymakers, and so many other fascinating people like writer and actor Dan Aykroyd.

[Alec Baldwin]

I love writing more than anything. You're left alone, you know, you do three hours in the morning, you write three hours in the afternoon. Go pick up a kid from school and write at night and after nine hours you come out with seven pages and then you're moving on.

[Marc Seale]

Listen to here's the thing on the iHeartRadio app app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Mel Reid]

This is Mel Reid, LPGA Tour winner and six time Ladies European Tour winner.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

And Kyra K. Dixon, NBC Sports reporter and host.

[Mel Reid]

And we've got a new podcast, Quiet Please with Mel and Kira.

[Kyra K. Dixon]

We are bringing you spicy takes on sports and pop culture. Some interviews with incredible people who have figured out how to make golf their superpower.

[Mel Reid]

An iHeart wins sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Alec Baldwin]

Presented by ELF Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer. If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built, then tune in to my podcast Building One. I speak with some of the best product builders out there. I've always been inspired by frustration. It came back to my own perspective with being blind.

[Eddie]

So we had to go out to farmers and convince them.

[Alec Baldwin]

Following that, curiosity is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition.

[Marc Seale]

Listen to Building One on the iHeartRadio app, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dr. Joy]

Love it first swipe. I highly doubt it. Reality TV and social media have love all wrong. So what really makes relationships last? On this episode episode of Dope Labs, poet and relationship expert Young Pueblo breaks down the psychology of love and provides eye opening insights and advice we all need.

[Alec Baldwin]

It's a big realization moment that you should not be postponing your happiness. Like your greatest happiness is not necessarily going to like come from a relationship. Your partner, they should add to your happiness, but your happiness is really coming from within you.

[Dr. Joy]

Listen to Dope labs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.