Eddie’s Hot Chicken Argument & Morgan’s Family Pranked Her Boyfriend

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show

Episode: Eddie’s Hot Chicken Argument & Morgan’s Family Pranked Her Boyfriend
Date: December 6, 2025
Host: Morgan (Show Producer), Guest: Eddie

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Episode Overview

In this engaging and lighthearted episode, Morgan and Eddie dive into holiday recaps and family stories, with a fun-filled debate about the "right" way to eat Nashville hot chicken. They discuss Thanksgiving adventures, family pranks, the challenges of accommodating a newborn, and their favorite Christmas recipes. Alongside their signature banter, listeners get a glimpse into food traditions, quirky group dynamics, and amusing personal quirks.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Thanksgiving Family Visits and Nashville Tourism

[03:15–09:22]

• Eddie shares highlights of his Thanksgiving, including family visits. His usually reclusive brother-in-law visits and asks all the tourist questions about Nashville, prompting Eddie to reminisce about fabricating celebrity house locations:
  • “When we first moved here, I made up a rumor that one house, like, Dolly lived there.” — Eddie [04:05]
  • Morgan tells her own “lost in Nashville” adventure, ending up on the set of the TV show "Nashville" at Percy Warner Park.
• They riff on the mystery of identifying celebrity homes, Nashville’s “old wealth,” and how sometimes massive homes belong to doctors or inventors, not musicians.

2. The Great Nashville Hot Chicken Debate

[09:22–14:49]

• Eddie brings up a hot topic: What constitutes real Nashville hot chicken?
  • Eddie insists hot chicken should be “chicken on the bone” (wings, thighs, legs) and scoffs at ordering hot chicken sandwiches.
  • Morgan argues back: “Every single person I’ve had visiting always gets a hot chicken sandwich.” [11:16]
  • Eddie passionately responds, “You’re doing it all wrong!” [11:20]
  • The difference between hot chicken in Nashville and menu items called "Nashville hot chicken" elsewhere is dissected, with Eddie bemused by the sandwich trend.
• Eddie and Morgan fact-check the origin of hot chicken, discovering its roots in the 1930s with Prince’s Hot Chicken—not a recent invention as Eddie initially thought.
  • “You got facts so hard.” — Morgan (after correcting Eddie) [13:46]

Memorable Quote:

"To me, the hot chicken is chicken on the bone." — Eddie [11:55]

3. Food Rituals and Pet Mishaps

[14:49–18:14]

• The value of pickle spears in sandwiches (“every sandwich should come with a pickle spear” — Eddie [15:01]) and quirky food safety debates (fork vs. fingers in the pickle jar).
• Morgan shares the minor Thanksgiving disaster: Her dog threw up ham on the baby’s mat, thanks to her dad sharing table scraps.
• Eddie compares the process of removing turkey organs for gravy to the sometimes squeamish experience for kids and vegetarians.

4. Living with a Newborn: Surprises and Lessons

[29:15–35:01]

• After a week sharing a home with her newborn niece, Morgan shares insights:
  • “Babies, they don't care about your plans. They just want to eat and sleep whenever they want to.” — Morgan [29:27]
  • Navigating family schedules around feeding and crying, and learning that newborn parents do not get sleep.
  • Morgan’s trick: Distracting the baby with spinning vinyl records and mirrors.
• Eddie commiserates with stories from having four kids, discussing sleep routines, co-sleeping challenges, and eventually establishing boundaries (i.e., locking the door when it was time to reclaim the bed).

5. The Great Buffet Etiquette Question

[41:08–44:32]

• Eddie describes picking only the chicken out of a mixed chicken-and-broccoli dish at a hot buffet, sparking a debate on buffet etiquette:
  • Is it wrong to pick out only what you want? Does “self-awareness” factor in?
  • Eddie jokes: “Do it when no one’s looking.” — Morgan [44:06]

6. Avoiding Food Waste and Parenting & Leftovers

[44:32–46:22]

• Both reveal pet peeves about food waste. Eddie, “I get so mad when…they never like to clean the entire…the entire plate.” [44:54]
• Shared strategies: Making kids serve themselves, but the kids sometimes game the system by taking tiny portions.
• Morgan shares her family's tradition of her dad being the “garbage disposal.”

7. Holiday Voting Adventures

[46:45–50:51]

• Morgan votes in person for the first time after finally getting a Tennessee ID. She describes the “old school” experience at an elementary school—giant machines, Scantron-style ballots, and elderly poll workers:
  • "We really haven't figured out better ways for this?" — Morgan [47:49]
• She notes the intimidation and confusion that sometimes accompanies voting, doing research ahead of time, and finally getting her first “I Voted” sticker.

8. Christmas Recipe Traditions & Swap Idea

[50:52–53:50]

• Eddie’s favorite: His mom’s “sand tarts”—pecan, powdered sugar cookies he’s never seen anywhere else.
• Morgan’s favorite: Her mom’s glazed poppy seed bread—unlike any other poppy seed bread due to its abundant icing.
• They hatch an idea for a team recipe swap, acknowledging only a few on the show would probably participate.

9. Salsa Heat Levels: The Mild vs. Spicy Debate

[53:50–56:52]

• Eddie offers to remake his homemade salsa less spicy for Morgan, after she confesses to “crying” from the heat:
  • “Eddie, I'm really the person who used to put sugar in salsa to make it sweet.” — Morgan [55:01]
• Morgan explains her delicate palate—growing up with bland foods, while Eddie’s changed over adulthood.

10. Light Closer: Dreaming Producer Eddie’s Chicken Business

[57:43–58:36]

• For laughs, Morgan and Eddie invent names and offerings for Eddie’s future food truck—“Producer Eddie’s Smoking Chicken” (possibly including pizza, sushi, and salsa).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Nashville hot chicken:
  “We were here when they invented Nashville Hot Chicken. There was no Nashville Hot Chicken before we got here.”
  — Eddie, tongue-in-cheek [12:29]

• On family pranks:
  “So we get to saying Grace, and everybody stands up and starts doing the Pledge of Allegiance. And he’s just like, what is going on?”
  — Morgan about pranking her boyfriend at Thanksgiving [25:44]

• On newborn chaos:
  “Babies, they don’t care about your plans. They just want to eat and sleep whenever they want.”
  — Morgan [29:27]

• On buffet etiquette:
  “Do it when no one’s around. No, that’s what it is. Do it when no one’s looking.”
  — Morgan, on picking out only the chicken [44:06]

• On spicy salsa:
  “He loves salsa. Like, big fan. And I tried. I was like, my eyes are watering.”
  — Morgan [54:56]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:15 – Thanksgiving family reunions and Nashville tourism
• 09:22 – Nashville hot chicken: sandwich vs. bone-in debate
• 13:10 – Fact-checking hot chicken (historical roots discussion)
• 14:49 – Pickles, gravy, and food quirks
• 22:46 – Thanksgiving with Morgan’s family, pranking her boyfriend
• 29:15 – Living with a newborn: lessons and observations
• 41:08 – Buffet etiquette: Is picking out the best bits okay?
• 44:32 – Food waste, leftovers, and parenting tactics
• 46:45 – Voting in-person for the first time
• 50:52 – Favorite Christmas recipes and the idea of a team recipe swap
• 53:50 – Eddie’s salsa heat debate with Morgan
• 57:43 – Joking about “Producer Eddie’s Smoking Chicken” business idea

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Episode Tone & Style

Conversational, playful, and candid, with lots of friendly teasing and relatable reflections on family, food, and life’s little quirks. Eddie and Morgan bounce off each other with humor, curiosity, and a deeply relatable approach to the joys and trials of holidays and traditions.

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Perfect for listeners who enjoy:
Pop culture and food debates, family stories, holiday nostalgia, and the chemistry of radio show friendship—plus anyone curious about real Nashville local color!

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[Morgan]

It is time Eddie joins me this weekend. What's up, Eddie?

[Eddie]

What's up, Morgan?

[Morgan]

We've made it to best bits. You know what? That always means this. We made it to the weekend.

[Eddie]

Oh, yes. That's a good sign. We made it.

[Morgan]

Like, I know we do this kind of randomly throughout the week, but it's always a sign that the weekend is here or coming.

[Eddie]

It's a wonderful time.

[Morgan]

So happy weekend. We did just have Turkey day.

[Eddie]

Mm.

[Morgan]

Was yours eventful?

[Eddie]

It was awesome. The food was delicious. The food was great. Family came into town. My mom, my sister, and my sister's husband, who, like, never comes to town.

[Morgan]

Oh, he's like, the one. The missing in action.

[Eddie]

He just kind of stays home. I don't know if he's, like, working or what, but just stays home, never comes. He's like, you know what? I'm gonna go this time.

[Morgan]

And how did it go?

[Eddie]

It was cool. Like, so. So he wanted to kind of see a little bit of Nashville. Almost everyone that comes to town, like, right?

[Morgan]

Like, oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

They just want to kind of like, let's go. Like, can you take me around and see stuff? And he asked, like, so where do all the, like, the country stars live? Like, all the celebrities? I'm like, dude, honestly, I do not know. Like, I truly don't. Like, I remember when we first moved here, I made up a rumor that one house, like, huge house that we saw, like, Dolly live there.

[Morgan]

Oh, that's funny.

[Eddie]

And we told Lunchbox's parents that that's where Dolly lived. Actually, I told Lunchbox, and I think Lunchbox told his parents that that's where Dolly.

[Morgan]

So the lie kept spiraling, and they.

[Eddie]

They went and took a picture in front of it.

And I have no idea whose house that is.

[Morgan]

Okay. So one time, when my family first was visiting here one year when I had first moved here, this was when the show Nashville was still popular. Speaking of houses, we got lost on a hike. And when I tell you lost. I had no idea. I wasn't familiar with the area.

[Eddie]

In town. In town.

[Morgan]

It was at. Yeah, it was a really cool h. That's about 20 minutes out of town. Okay, so near town, but not. We aren't, like, totally in the house.

[Eddie]

Oh, so you're not in town?

[Morgan]

No.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

We're in this, like, hike. We're lost. I have no idea where we're at. I can't help. I'm already bad at directions. I don't know this area anyways. We're stumbling around. My sister falls in a ditch on our little thing. It was this whole thing, right. We stumble to find a road, and we're kind of looking around, and we see a really big house. And so we, like, walk up, trying to, like, okay, let's just follow the road and try and get somewhere. We walk up to the house. They were filming the TV show Nashville. It was the Nashville house.

[Eddie]

The crew was there and everything.

[Morgan]

Everything there. Security at the front gates. And we were like, what? We're not trying to go in, but, like, what's happening here? And also, where are we?

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[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Can you tell us how to get back to our car?

[Morgan]

They really thought we were trying to, like, break into the set.

[Eddie]

Right.

[Morgan]

But we were just lost because you.

[Eddie]

All look like probably just regular fans.

[Morgan]

And we were. We watched the show, so we liked the show.

[Eddie]

It was Raina's house.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Wow. Cool, man. I want to ask you where that is, because, like.

[Morgan]

Well, I think they've sold it now.

[Eddie]

Where. Where is it?

[Morgan]

Percy Warner Park.

[Eddie]

Oh, that's not. That's in town.

[Morgan]

Yeah. I would say it's, like, outskirts of Nashville, I would say.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

And Percy Warner is huge. The park itself is huge.

[Eddie]

Yeah, it's huge. Yeah.

[Morgan]

And we.

[Eddie]

So that's hard because there's a lot of horse trails. Lots of trails. What's cool about that park, though, is you can hike it and feel like you're in the middle of nowhere.

[Morgan]

Exactly.

[Eddie]

But you really just, like, 10 minutes.

[Morgan]

From town, which is nice. That's a cool experience. But, yeah, we. And we stumbled upon it, and. Wow.

[Eddie]

And they were shooting, and that's really cool.

[Morgan]

It was a cool experience.

[Eddie]

Yeah. See, I don't know where that is. I don't know where anyone lives, like, really. I've been to.

Been to, like, maybe four.

Like, country singers. Like, big, big country singers homes.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And I couldn't tell you how to get there now. Like, it was just, like, you know, put in the GPS and, like, follow. Follow the directions, but I don't think I can get to them. Well.

[Morgan]

And there's so many nice areas now that have really big houses.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And we have a lot of old wealth in Tennessee.

[Eddie]

Yes, we do.

[Morgan]

So you could see a really big house and be like, that's definitely a famous person. Because if you know Nashville. But it's not.

[Eddie]

It's probably, like, a doctor or someone that, like, invented a screw that only, like, works for surgery.

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[Morgan]

Or like, a random rocker.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we have.

[Morgan]

We just have random Like a Rockler. Yeah, yeah. Or athlete.

[Eddie]

I remember Steven Tyler lived here. I don't know if he still lives.

[Morgan]

Here, but it's my favorite thing to see big houses and predict what they do.

[Eddie]

You should knock on the door.

[Morgan]

Oh, do, like, be like that guy. Like, hey, what do you do for a living?

[Eddie]

What do you do for a living?

[Morgan]

This is your house.

[Eddie]

That guy.

[Morgan]

That would be trespassing. I'd probably go to jail for that.

[Eddie]

You can just knock on the door. They don't have to answer, Right?

[Morgan]

That's true. But I feel like that's kind of a privacy. I knock on one and it's Keith Irvin.

[Eddie]

And he's like, morgan, is that you?

[Morgan]

Morgan, find my house.

[Eddie]

Nervenea's house.

[Morgan]

But you don't play that game with big houses when you drive by.

[Eddie]

No, I mean, I think I did, but now I'm just like, I don't know. I'm never gonna know so why I asked that question.

[Morgan]

So did you take him to fake houses and pretend?

[Eddie]

I started to, like, just kind of mix stuff up. And then I'm like, all right, I'm gonna be honest, dude. I don't know where anyone lives. Like, I don't know, dude. I don't know. Let me just take you downtown. I'll show you Broadway.

[Morgan]

Did you guys end up running into anybody? Cause sometimes that happens.

[Eddie]

Mm. Mm. We drove. We didn't get out. We went to. So he wanted to see where Jack White's record store was.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Which is downtown.

[Morgan]

Where's his record store? What's it called?

[Eddie]

It's called Third Man. Third Man Records.

[Morgan]

Oh, I didn't realize that was his.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that's his. Which is so funny you say that, because my son. I took my 17 year old with us, and he's in the store and he, like, is just kind of looking around, and then he comes to me and goes, wow, there's some major Jack White glazing going on in this store.

[Morgan]

Glazing?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Which means, like, you know when you.

[Morgan]

Like when they're super hyped up or something?

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. When you hype something up.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Oh, that's a new one.

[Eddie]

Jack White glazing. Big time. And I'm like, what are you talking about? He's like, look at this. Like, whoever owns this store is like, a huge fan of Jack White. He's everywhere. I'm like, idiot. This is his store. He owns it. And he goes, oh, that would make sense.

[Morgan]

So a lot of glazing going on there.

[Eddie]

A lot of glazing yeah, dude. It's his store. I would glaze it.

[Morgan]

That's funny.

[Eddie]

So we did that, and then he wanted. So we just drove through Broadway.

[Morgan]

You didn't actually take him and get out on Broadway?

[Eddie]

No, because my mom was there and.

[Morgan]

Like, your mom loved Broadway.

[Eddie]

I know, but no, we didn't want to park and do everything. And it was literally on the way to the airport to drop him off, like, we're gonna go.

[Morgan]

Because you did that. You did that intentionally. I know you did. You said, I'm gonna show you this, but it's not gonna be until you leave. So we're not staying.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I mean, I really didn't wanna get out of the car, so we just kind of did the tour. I took him to Hattie V's. We did get out of the car, and we ate Hattie V's.

[Morgan]

On Broadway or at a different one?

[Eddie]

At a different one. We didn't wanna go Broadway. Cause there'd be a lot of people.

[Morgan]

Yeah, you didn't.

[Eddie]

Let me ask. Let me ask you what you think about this? Let me ask you what you think about this? Cause it was kind of a discussion. So we go to. And he. He goes to order, and he. And it was his idea. He's like, I want to go to Hattie B's. Like, I want to. I want to try hot chicken. And it was that or Princess or whatever. I said, dude, Hattie B's is better. Let's go to Hattie B's. I know. Long debate.

[Morgan]

You're a liar for that. But, yeah, it's fine.

[Eddie]

I'm not. But so anyway, hey, I'm the chicken guy.

[Morgan]

Okay, that's fair. I haven't even eaten either.

[Eddie]

Yeah, exactly. What are you talking about?

[Morgan]

I had just experience with people visiting.

[Eddie]

So hot chicken. What is hot chicken?

[Morgan]

To me, it's spicy chicken.

[Eddie]

Okay. Kind of chicken.

[Morgan]

Like chicken tenders or chicken sandwiches. I feel like it could be anything.

[Eddie]

Crap. Okay. All right. Well, that was kind of the discussion. So we go and we order. To me, hot chicken is. You order, like, chicken on a bone. Like.

[Morgan]

Like a wing.

[Eddie]

Yeah, a wing, a thigh, a leg, a breast. Those are all, like, pieces. That's how you eat. This is hard for me to talk to you about this because you're not. You don't eat this stuff.

[Morgan]

No, but I know what all these things are.

[Eddie]

Okay? So, like, I guess you can eat it different ways. I get it. But to me, eating hot fried Nashville hot chicken is like fried chicken. Like, you would get a Kentucky Fried Chicken. It's on the bone.

[Morgan]

Oh, okay. We're connecting to kfc.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Right? And so he. It was his idea to get hot chicken. He wanted to try hot chicken, and he gets a chicken sandwich.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And my mom is like, no, what are you doing? Like, you're getting hot chicken. Get the hot chicken. And he was like, nah, I kind of just want a sandwich. And I was like, dude, get the hot chicken. Like, if you're gonna get the hot chicken, like we brought you to get hot chicken. You want to experience it, like, the way to do it. And it's just like, I'm gonna get a sandwich. We're like, okay, we just left it. But to me, I'm like, why would you.

[Morgan]

I think every single person that I've had visiting always gets a hot chicken sandwich.

[Eddie]

Really, guys? You're doing it all wrong, but you're.

[Morgan]

Still eating the same thing.

[Eddie]

Not really.

[Morgan]

You are.

[Eddie]

Not really.

[Morgan]

I mean, it's a chicken tender that's fried and put on a sandwich.

[Eddie]

See, I don't even want to have this conversation with you anymore. You are not. You don't know what you're talking about. You're not a chicken eater.

[Morgan]

Well, I think it's. Hold on now.

[Eddie]

Look, if we were talking about tofu, I would be like, you know what? I stand corrected.

[Morgan]

Morgan, don't be mad at me because I'm a vegetarian. There's chicken tenders that you don't eat as a sandwich.

[Eddie]

I understand.

[Morgan]

And that's not hot chicken, but hot chicken is. All of it. Sandwiches.

[Eddie]

I understand that the flavor is hot chicken flavored.

[Morgan]

That's what it is.

[Eddie]

But to me, the hot chicken is chicken on the bone.

[Morgan]

But here's. Here's the thing that you're missing, because if you go anywhere else, don't point.

[Eddie]

Your finger at me.

[Morgan]

By the way, sorry, I wasn't trying to point at you. I was trying to give, like, a presentation.

[Eddie]

I'm not mad. I'm just.

[Morgan]

Because if you go to enough different cities, it's funny, because they put Nashville hot chicken on their menus, and they're always sandwiches.

[Eddie]

Where?

[Morgan]

Just different cities.

[Eddie]

Where? Where?

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When?

[Morgan]

Like, when I've traveled.

[Eddie]

Yeah, like.

Iowa.

[Morgan]

Chicago.

[Eddie]

Not Nashville.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Where it's from.

[Morgan]

They'll put Nashville hot chicken. People connect the dots. That Nashville hot chicken is a hot chick sandwich.

[Eddie]

Yeah, they're stupid because it's like when you get people from New York City and they're like. And they go to Iowa and there's, like, New York style pizza, and they're like, that's not New York style pizza. I know New York style pizza. We're from Nashville. I know you know that. We've lived here since they invented Nashville hot chicken. We were here when they invented Nashville hot Chicken. There was no Nashville hot chicken before we got here.

[Morgan]

Really?

[Eddie]

They're. Fact check me.

[Morgan]

I am. Because I'm a little concerned that that did not just start in the last 10 years.

[Eddie]

I think it did.

[Morgan]

When did. Wait, when did you move here?

[Eddie]

12 years ago. It'll be 13 in February.

[Morgan]

Let's see.

[Eddie]

It was.

[Morgan]

You're not gonna like the answer.

[Eddie]

Shoot. 1980.

[Morgan]

And it's actually. You know who invented it? Hattie Princess Chicken. Hattie B. Nashville Chicken was invented in the 1930s with the origin.

[Eddie]

No, okay.

[Morgan]

With the origin story widely traced back to Thornton Prince's kitchen.

[Eddie]

I get that.

[Morgan]

Legend says that Prince's scorned girlfriend doused his fried chicken with cayenne pepper to punish him for being unfaithful. But he ended up loving the spicy dish. He then started selling it at his restaurant. Urban legend Chicken Shack.

[Eddie]

Urban legend.

[Morgan]

Which helped the dish become a Nashville staple.

[Eddie]

Okay, well, it wasn't really a big thing until we moved here.

[Morgan]

You got facts so hard.

[Eddie]

Okay, fine. I stand corrected.

[Morgan]

It could have not been as popular or famous.

[Eddie]

It wasn't.

[Morgan]

Or like dragged to other cities.

[Eddie]

It wasn't.

[Morgan]

That is probably more your point.

[Eddie]

We saw the growth. Eyewitness to the growth of it.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

And it wasn't a chicken tender and it wasn't a chicken sandwich.

[Morgan]

But Princess Hot Chicken sells chicken sandwiches, and they're the origin story.

[Eddie]

Sure. So Princess is the original. So I guess I have to like Prince. I'm not a fan of Princess.

[Morgan]

Really? Maybe you just tried the wrong things. Maybe you haven't tried the chicken sandwich.

[Eddie]

You know what? Maybe that's it. Maybe I need to go back and try the tender and the chicken sandwich.

[Morgan]

Who knew hot chicken was going to be the debate of your family?

[Eddie]

I know.

[Morgan]

My mom was like, I'm on the guy side.

[Eddie]

My mom was offended. She's like, you're not getting the chicken. Like, you're. He's like, I am. I'm getting the chicken sandwich. I'm like, that's not. And I was on my mom's side. I'm like, you're absolutely right.

[Morgan]

Well, this is justice for your brother in law. I'm on your brother in law side.

[Eddie]

Okay. What's amazing, too, is that they put two pickles, you know, like little pickle slices on the chicken. That changes Everything, like, even if it's like, the chicken's so hot, burns your mouth, put a little bit of pickle in there, and it's great.

[Morgan]

Calms it down a little bit.

[Eddie]

Calms it down.

[Morgan]

That's like when they put pickle spears with sandwiches. If I go somewhere and they don't, and I get a sandwich and they don't give me a pickle spear. I'm so mad. I deserve a pickle spear.

[Eddie]

You do. Every sandwich should come with a pickle spear.

[Morgan]

Yeah, if you say no, that's fine. But I never say no. Give me my pickle spear.

[Eddie]

Pickle jars. Do you put your hands. Do you grab the pickle with your hands or do you get a fork?

[Morgan]

Oh, with my hands.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I'm a fork person mostly because, like, I want to teach that because we have four kids. You want to make sure that we have nasty hands. And if I didn't teach them that, they would all put their hands in there. It'd be disgusting.

[Morgan]

That is funny.

[Eddie]

But I get it. You live alone. Oh, well, you have a boyfriend. But I mean.

[Morgan]

Yeah, we don't have a bunch of kids. Hands going in there.

[Eddie]

I get it.

[Morgan]

But also just, you know, hot take. It's one of those things where the. The pickle slice with the sandwich or getting it from a restaurant is always better than me getting it out of a jar at home.

[Eddie]

Agreed.

[Morgan]

I don't know why.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I don't know why either.

[Morgan]

They taste the exact same, but something's different.

[Eddie]

Probably psychological.

[Morgan]

I'm sure it's all in my head.

[Eddie]

It's like a hot dog. Like, you don't want. Well, you don't eat hot dogs, but it's like, you don't want to know where it came from.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

And then the jar, it's like, is this kind of like sitting in vinegar and With a bunch of other pickles and like.

[Morgan]

Well, you pickle's been up to.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's like.

[Eddie]

You know what? It's like during Thanksgiving, when I was cooking the turkey, I was taking all the. The stuff out, like the. The whatever organs.

[Morgan]

The stuff inside. Gross.

[Eddie]

Yeah, livers and stuff. Whatever. And one of my boys was like, dad, what is that? And I was like, well, that's the heart, that's the liver. And he was like, that. That what? We're gonna eat that. I'm like, yeah, it's gonna go in the gravy. I'm not touching gravy. And he didn't. He didn't touch gravy. And I think I probably ruined Gravy for the rest of his life.

[Morgan]

You might have ruined me also. That's how mine started.

[Eddie]

Oh, no. He ate a bunch of turkey.

[Morgan]

For now, I'm telling you, it sticks in your head. You see enough of that.

[Eddie]

You're like, what do you mean that's how it started? You saw, like. What did you see where you're like, I don't like that. Or was it just the thought that that's a. That's an animal?

[Morgan]

Mine was a thought. And then I started seeing, like, my dad was a hunter at one point when I was young.

[Eddie]

That's crazy to think.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah, they're still boar's head. It was until, like, I became a vegetarian. My mom was like, okay, we're. We need no more dead animals in the house. And. Yeah, so I. I often saw things and I even like, we go fishing and I just. I didn't like.

[Eddie]

You want to eat the fish?

[Morgan]

No, I never. I've never had fish.

[Eddie]

Never. So you turn before you even try to fish?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

You've decided you're not gonna eat that?

[Morgan]

Yeah, it grosses me out.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Morgan]

Like, I'm not getting seen all of that. I was 8 when I decided you.

[Eddie]

Never had a fish before. You're eight.

[Morgan]

I've never had fish. I've never had a steak.

[Eddie]

I bet you have.

[Morgan]

The only things I've had were chicken tenders or like, chicken nuggets and a.

[Eddie]

Burger nuggets from McDonald's.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Or Wendy's. I love Wendy's nuggets.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Mostly because they're honey mustard, but so.

[Eddie]

You still remember loving that nugget, but.

[Morgan]

Because of the honey mustard. They have really bomb honey mustard sauce.

[Eddie]

But you'll never have it again. No. Oh, I can't do that.

[Morgan]

But yeah, never fish. Never like turkey. I don't think I've ever had turkey.

[Eddie]

You're good without turkey.

[Morgan]

Or ham.

[Eddie]

You're good with that ham.

[Morgan]

It was really like chicken fingers.

[Eddie]

Bacon is different.

[Morgan]

Don't know that I've ever had bacon.

[Eddie]

Maybe you had to have. You were 8 years old.

[Morgan]

Maybe on things I just never knew.

[Eddie]

It had eggs and bacon.

[Morgan]

Not that I'm aware of. So, yeah. Weird life. Well, I do have some. Some stories.

[Eddie]

You kind of made me sad on that. That's so sad.

[Morgan]

I'm good. I'm happy.

[Eddie]

I know you are. And good. I'm happy for you.

[Morgan]

And I'm telling you, even like, I. I saw my boyfriend, we did like a friends giving, and he was doing a turkey, and I was watching. He's like, you need to walk away. And I was like, okay.

[Eddie]

What was he killing the turkey? What do you mean?

[Morgan]

He's pulling the stuff out. And I was already. He already saw my face getting, like, queasy. And he was like, I don't even.

[Eddie]

Want to see this.

[Morgan]

You need to leave.

[Eddie]

You're like, my son. What is that? Uh huh.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that was literally.

[Eddie]

That's not the liver, is it?

[Morgan]

I'm telling you, your son's about to turn.

[Eddie]

Oh, boy.

[Morgan]

We're gonna take a break and I have stories to share with you from my Thanksgiving if you're ready for this.

[Eddie]

I'm so ready.

[Morgan]

Pranked my boyfriend.

[Bobby Bones]

No.

[Eddie]

Oh, wait, wait. I think I saw the video. This is a little funny.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Hello.

[Morgan]

Hello.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast smart talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna, and I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business? My one advice to them, pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example, if anybody has more than 10% of what they had for customer service 10 years ago, they're already five years behind. If anybody is not using AI to make their developers who write software 30% more productive today with the goal of being 70% more productive. Yeah. So we are not asking our clients to be the first experiment on it. We say you can leverage what we did. We are happy to bring out all our learnings, including what needs to change in the process. Because the biggest change is not technology, is getting people to accept that there's a different way to do things. To listen to the full conversation, visit IBM.com smarttalks.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Eddie]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Morgan]

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[Bobby Bones]

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[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

All right. So this was the first Thanksgiving with my boyfriend. Yeah, it was also the first time. So they came and stayed for CMA Fest and he was kind of living with me at the time, but not all the way.

[Eddie]

That's where he was like making breakfast.

[Morgan]

Like you guys thought he was naked.

[Eddie]

While your parents were there.

He does it shirtless sometimes.

[Morgan]

Yes, but not while my parents were there. Anyways, so this is really the first time that we're living together. The whole family's there. We had a newborn with us. We had Three dogs.

[Eddie]

Yeah, that threw me off a little bit. That picture of the newborn. I'm like, morgan had a baby already.

[Morgan]

There's a lot. I'm like, guys, really?

[Eddie]

But you didn't say anything about it.

[Morgan]

What do you mean?

[Eddie]

You didn't say, like, oh, my nephew, my niece. Niece.

[Morgan]

But I talked about her having the baby on the show.

[Eddie]

I understand, but like, you know, you look at a picture immediately and it's like, Morgan with a baby. What the.

[Morgan]

You know, only people to think about all the things, I guess, but. So it was the first time he did really well handling my whole family. Yeah, it's a lot staying and all the things.

[Eddie]

Mom, dad, sister, brother, sisters, brother in law, baby.

[Morgan]

And then parents. Yeah, and then three dogs. They brought three dogs.

[Eddie]

They brought three dogs. That's a lot.

[Morgan]

So it was a full house. We only have three bedrooms.

[Eddie]

Do the dogs mess with the baby at all?

[Morgan]

No, all of them did really well. Even mine. It's like it took my dog, roomy about 24 hours to adjust to the baby noises. Me holding a baby.

[Eddie]

Yeah, Even, like, crawling. Like, they let her crawl.

[Morgan]

She's not crawling yet. She's only 11 weeks.

[Eddie]

But they let her lay on the floor.

[Morgan]

Yeah, right. Well, this is also funny, so I'll get to that. Remy threw up on her mat.

[Eddie]

No, Remy.

[Morgan]

Well, my dad had given Remy ham.

[Eddie]

For Thanksgiving, of course. And Remy was like, let's go.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And Remy loved it. Remy's stomach did not love it. So we spent the whole next day picking up throw up everywhere. Poor girl. Do not give your animals ham.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Good.

[Eddie]

Poor dad.

[Morgan]

He felt so bad. He did fine. We wouldn't have known, but she threw up on the playmat that the baby was doing tummy time on the whole scene. But. So he did really well. He handled everything really well. And. But then we pranked him.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Okay, so I saw the video. Explain like, so I want to know. Kind of like the. Like, did you set the camera up?

[Morgan]

Okay, so this is like, what was the setup? The whole backstory.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So first of all, it wasn't my idea. It was my sister's. She texted me the night before and she's like, I sent you a TikTok video. We need to do this to Brayden. And I was like, okay, let me go watch. Died laughing. He's like, next to me too. And I'm like, shoot, this is going to be funny. Text her back. Yes. So I'm like, you have to tell mom and dad, because I. I don't. I'm not gonna be able to keep that from him.

[Eddie]

So everyone was on board.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah. My mom was like, this is horrible. We shouldn't do that to him. I was like, he's fine. He doesn't care. And so it's her daughter's first Thanksgiving. So I literally like put the camera and she's like. I was like, taylor, you want to record like the first Grace? So it's like a memory. So we did it as a, like muse that it's Grace for her daughter's.

[Eddie]

That's a great setup. Great setup.

[Morgan]

And he thought nothing of it.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I mean, that's who would think about like, yeah, perfect.

[Morgan]

Cute memory.

[Eddie]

Yeah, why not?

[Morgan]

So we get to Satan, Grace, and everybody stands up and starts doing the pledge of allegiance. And he just is like, what is going on? And my brother in law was the one who actually gave it away because he was dying laughing. I'm like, my parents were rock solid.

[Eddie]

So did everyone put their hand over their heart?

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah, we were all doing it. And he stood up and he did it with us.

[Eddie]

He did it. Of course. He's like, okay, this is tradition, I guess.

[Morgan]

But after, like, we all couldn't stop laughing.

[Eddie]

So you guys were sitting down for Grace, right?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

And then who stood up first?

[Morgan]

Oh, we all just.

[Bobby Bones]

My sister.

[Advertisement Voice]

Just.

[Morgan]

You kind of hear her really slightly be like, okay, time for the pledge.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

And that's when he was so confused. He's like, we just sat down.

[Eddie]

Did you. Did you tell him like, hey, like, get up?

[Morgan]

No, I looked away from him because I was laughing. I couldn't look at him with a straight face. And I would have given it away. You can literally see in the video, he looks at me and I'm looking down, like laughing on the other side.

[Eddie]

I gotta rewatch that video. Did you go all the way through it?

[Morgan]

Oh, we made it through. You could tell. So we laugh at the beginning and then we get to. To which it stands and we like say the rest of it, like pretty proudly. But at this point he's just red in the face and all of us are still laughing. But you know, to his credit, he went along with it unaware of what was going on.

[Eddie]

Your mom, your mom needs to lighten up. That's a funny joke. Like, that's not hurtful. It's funny.

[Morgan]

Well, and I don't. She. I don't think she knew how he was going to take it. I know I wouldn't have agreed to it if I was like, this will be really uncomfortable for him. But we Prank each other all the time. So I was like, this is perfect. And then we mess with him because he had never played spoons before. Have you played spoons? The card game?

[Eddie]

I know, I mean, probably, probably. But I don't like pig.

[Morgan]

People do pig. They put their finger on their nose.

[Eddie]

Spoon goes in your nose or.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Which we couldn't figure out why we used to put spoons on our nose.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Morgan]

I thought you just grabbed it. Yeah, yeah, we had that. Like, did we remember this the wrong way?

[Eddie]

I think you put it on your.

[Morgan]

Nose, but yeah, but then I was like, you hide it because you don't want anybody to know you have it.

[Eddie]

I don't know.

[Morgan]

We couldn't figure it out either. But we played spoon because he had never played and. Poor guy. I mean, he lost tragically every game. He. He got spoo pretty quickly.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

And then it was then. Then he started to figure it out and found his groove. So he had two. Two quite the moments of embarrassment.

[Eddie]

That's so much fun. Did you. Do you guys drink?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

During Thanksgiving.

[Morgan]

I didn't drink a whole lot just because I still haven't really been. I'll have like a few sips here.

[Eddie]

And I know we talked about that on the shows. I was wondering like.

[Morgan]

Yeah, no, I've stayed away from it still. I feel a lot better not doing it.

[Eddie]

I bet you do.

[Morgan]

And like now it's just not even worth it.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Where other than the Sam Adams one 240 beer.

[Morgan]

I can't pass that.

[Eddie]

I know, dude. I know. But you really were wanting it though, because you took like a pig. You took a big chug out of it.

[Morgan]

You told me to chug it. I gotta say no to that. As though. He tells you to chug, you chug.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, of course.

[Morgan]

So, yeah, I would try cocktails and stuff and then he'd finish most of my drinks for me because I never wanted to finish them. So he was. Him and my brother in law are BFFs. They text each other every day.

[Eddie]

That's awesome.

[Morgan]

So they were making bets all the time together.

[Eddie]

Are they about the same age?

[Morgan]

Yeah. Yeah. I think my brother in law's a. A year younger than him.

[Eddie]

That's so cool.

[Morgan]

So right about there and they went golfing together.

[Eddie]

They did. Over the break. Yeah. Was the weather good?

[Morgan]

There was one day that it was decent.

[Eddie]

Oh.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

At the very beginning.

[Eddie]

There was before Thanksgiving.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

And they were actually.

[Eddie]

Thanksgiving was nice.

[Morgan]

Yeah. It was just still a little chilly. But not like horrible.

[Eddie]

I remember being outside and being like, this is actually really nice for Thanksgiving.

[Morgan]

And I want to tell you about. Because you have babies.

[Eddie]

I have babies.

[Morgan]

A lot of them.

[Eddie]

I got babies.

[Morgan]

And after spending a whole week with an 11 week old baby, I have learned a lot about newborns in that time frame.

[Eddie]

Go ahead.

[Morgan]

And so. And just motherhood in general. But babies, they don't care about your plans. They just want to eat and sleep whenever they want to.

[Eddie]

It's like a dog.

[Morgan]

Oh, very much so.

[Advertisement Voice]

But.

[Morgan]

But worse.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because it's a human.

[Morgan]

There's not a schedule.

[Advertisement Voice]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And you have to like, we'd be out somewhere and she'd start crying. My sister's like, I have to feed. And I'm like, okay, what do we do? What happens here? Or we'd have to accommodate the schedule to change to when the baby needs to eat versus go to sleep, which is new for all of us.

[Eddie]

Was that hard for you to adjust to? Because, like, her, it's natural. Like, she knows that she needs to like stop and feed or change or whatever. You don't have a baby, so it's like, do you ever feel, did you ever feel like, well, why is this affecting us? Like, it's not my baby?

[Morgan]

No, I mean, I love her so.

[Eddie]

Much already because that's great that you, that you acted, that you were understand, you were understanding about the whole thing.

[Morgan]

Well, it took me about two days to adjust to it. Not like in a bad way. It was just more. I don't know how this works yet. So what is your timing and like, what do you need from me to make. So we had to figure out the communication to get to a point of. Then by the end it was smooth. We knew the way it was working and how it was going.

[Eddie]

Because you're not spending a lot of time with her. Really? Like, yeah, you know, how often do you see her? Not very often.

[Morgan]

Like the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas. And then they'll come once a year. I'll get to go home sometimes once a year. Besides the holidays, what's going to be.

[Eddie]

Crazy is you seeing them in person, seeing the baby in person. Next time you'll be like, oh my gosh, she's grown so much.

[Morgan]

She already grew from the time that I went to the hospital and saw her. Like, she's already communicating a little face moving and giggling.

[Eddie]

No, wait till they start talking.

[Morgan]

Baby poop doesn't actually smell bad.

[Eddie]

I disagree.

[Morgan]

But yep, it was. There was some but like, I really thought it was going to be horrible. And I have about 50% of my smell back, so I feel like I.

[Advertisement Voice]

Would have smelled it.

[Eddie]

Oh, 50%, though you don't have the 100, so you don't really know.

[Morgan]

But I confirmed with my boyfriend, and he also said the same. He's like, I actually didn't. And maybe it's just because she's still on milk.

[Eddie]

I think it depends. Like, once they start changing their diet a little bit different, they're. Yeah. Their poop smells differently.

[Morgan]

So newborn poop is not bad.

[Eddie]

I guess not. No. Because it's all like.

[Morgan]

It's milk.

[Eddie]

Breast milk, Right? Yeah. Yeah.

[Morgan]

So learn that.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

I thought that was gonna be much worse. Changing diapers. I mean, it still was bad.

[Eddie]

Did you change her?

[Morgan]

No, I got out of all those.

[Eddie]

Okay. You didn't want to.

[Morgan]

I didn't. I would have done it, but the parents were just always around, so I.

[Eddie]

Was like, your responsibility.

[Morgan]

Your guys, they love mirrors and vinyl records.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Because it moves. And they just kind of like.

[Morgan]

She loves watching things spin.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Morgan]

So we sat next to a vinyl. She was crying. Aunt Morgan got really good at stopping her from crying.

[Eddie]

Aunt Morgan.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And I would get. I turn on the vinyl, and we just sit there and watch it spin.

[Eddie]

So that was your distraction from crying?

[Morgan]

Vinyl in mirrors.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

She loved watching herself in the mirror. I have the cutest video ever of her giggling in a mirror.

[Eddie]

I love that.

[Morgan]

And then also, I can do this a lot. And literally, I would do it, and she'd start crying again when I stopped, so I had to keep doing it.

[Eddie]

Oh, boy. You're like, what did I start?

[Morgan]

Yeah. And she was like. My sister was like, aunt Morgan, don't stop doing that. I was like, I can't breathe. So I was like, taylor, I'll record a little.

[Eddie]

You loop it over and over.

[Morgan]

Yeah. So she loved that. I found a lot of ways to entertain her parents. Do not get good sleep whatsoever. Like, actually don't get sleep now.

[Eddie]

Newborn parents. Nah, man. Like, it's terrible.

[Morgan]

It's a trick to make you think that, like, after they adjust to sleeping and the baby sleeps, you get to sleep. That's not how that works.

[Eddie]

And it really doesn't. And then you think they're gonna sleep, and then they don't.

[Advertisement Voice]

No.

[Eddie]

And then you can't sleep with them because you can roll over them.

[Morgan]

Yep.

[Eddie]

So you have to kind of either put them in another room and then have a baby monitor, or you put the crib by your bed and. Yeah, dude, it's terrible. That's kind of how I started playing video games.

[Morgan]

Really?

[Eddie]

Yeah. Because I wouldn't sleep anyway, so I would just stay up all night, play video games.

[Morgan]

So you would just exhaust yourself in general?

[Eddie]

Yeah. And then I would, you know, if the baby was crying or whatever, I would get him out of the crib and hold him while I play video games. Then he'd fall asleep, and then maybe like, okay, fell asleep. I can put him down then. You put him down. As soon as they roll over, they start crying again. It's brutal.

[Morgan]

So how long do you feel like that lasts for that phase? Because they're still. I mean, 11 weeks is. The baby's been here for a while, but it's still happening.

[Eddie]

It just depends. It depends. Like, my first son, he slept in our bed forever. Like, once it was, like, safe for him to sleep in our bed. And he was old enough he wouldn't go to sleep without sleeping with my wife holding him. And so he would sleep in our bed. And then finally, I think he was probably three years old, four years old. And we're like, I said, enough's enough, no more. Done. And we put him in his crib and he was crying and we went to our room and I locked the door and he stayed outside our door all night.

[Morgan]

He got out of it and he.

[Eddie]

Yeah, well, he was like, already three or four.

[Morgan]

Oh, my God.

[Eddie]

And so, like, he just. He fell asleep. Eventually cried himself out, fell asleep, and he, like, slept right outside our door. But that was the moment. I'll never forget it. After that moment, he never slept in our bed again.

[Morgan]

And you, that was the moment that you all started getting sleep again?

[Eddie]

Yeah, because I don't know about you, but, like, I can't sleep with, like, someone all over me in the middle of the night. Like. And even like now, like, our 6 year old, he'll make his way to our bed still in the middle of the night, and sleep.

[Morgan]

You haven't locked him out?

[Eddie]

No, we haven't slept right. He sleeps right in between us. And he's a violent sleeper. He like, swings his arms so I'll wake up to a punch in the face. And it's just him, like, rolling over, swinging his arms, you know, And I'm like, what the was that? Like, what is happening?

[Morgan]

Has he ever said, is he having bad dreams?

[Eddie]

Nah, he just twitches all the time. It's just how he sleeps.

[Morgan]

That's funny. He doesn't sleepwalk though, does he?

[Eddie]

I don't know if he remembers coming to our room. I Don't know.

[Morgan]

I feel like that's something you're gonna have to start looking into. Because if he's a violent mover, he's a violent sleepwalker.

[Eddie]

Next thing you know, he gets out of the house, kills someone.

[Morgan]

Maybe not that dramatic, hopefully not. But like punches somebody.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Morgan]

That's crazy.

[Eddie]

It's not like he looks at my face and punches it. He just kind of rolls over and like smacks you. Swings his arms around and boom. Pop right in the face. But no, I mean I've been. But like even my 12 year old, like he can't, he has problems sleeping and he comes up in the middle of night, he's like, guys, guys, I can't sleep. I'm like, why is that my problem?

[Morgan]

You know, like still working on the self soothing stuff.

[Eddie]

I gotta go to work in three hours, dude. Like, what are you doing? You gotta go to school.

[Morgan]

They also don't need as much sleep as we do though either, so I don't know.

[Eddie]

They get more sleep than I do.

[Morgan]

They do, but I don't know if you've ever seen those studies. Adults need just as much sleep as kids do, if not more.

[Eddie]

Yeah, well, I mean like our kids go to bed at 8:30. Nine, nine nine. They start going to bed. It's like bedtime routine's 8:30, go to bed at 9 and then they wake up like at 6:30.

[Morgan]

Yeah. You know, that's a lot of sleep. But you're not going to sleep when.

[Advertisement Voice]

They go to sleep?

[Eddie]

No, I don't. No, no chance. I don't go to bed at 8, 8:30. No way.

[Morgan]

Wouldn't that be awesome though?

[Eddie]

There have been nights where I'm like, I can go to bed at 8:30, but I don't know, Morgan, I don't know about you, but like the more sleep I get, the worse I feel.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I'm the same way. If I get too much. Yeah, there's definitely a fine line. I need a lot. But if I go right over that edge, I might as well just stay in bed.

[Eddie]

Yeah, like if I go to bed at 8:30 and like wake up at, you know, like say Saturday morning, wake up at like 8:30, you know, like 12 hours, I'm like my whole day shot. I'm like, my eyes are tired all day.

[Morgan]

Yep. It's like when you're back in school and you're like talking. Somebody's talking. I've found myself a few times that's happened in the studio. I'm like, I'm not in class, you, back to work. You know what I mean? When you were nodding, something was happening.

[Eddie]

There was a kid that always rode the school bus with us, and he. I mean, I'm talking. Every morning he would do that.

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[Eddie]

Every morning it's like his head would go down and he'd jerk.

[Morgan]

That's the worst, too, because, you know, people are seeing it and you're embarrassed by it.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Morgan]

That was always the worst. Okay, what else do I have? We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back. How about that?

[Eddie]

Let's take a break.

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[Morgan]

Hello.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

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[Eddie]

Wow.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

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[Eddie]

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[Morgan]

Uh, limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Cut the camera.

[Eddie]

They see us.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Eddie]

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[Malcolm Gladwell]

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[Eddie]

Excludes Massachusetts.

[Morgan]

Over the holidays, you had something happen with a buffet. Is this true?

[Eddie]

No, it's just a question because, like, there's a buffet. It's not over the holidays. It's down. It's downstairs.

[Morgan]

Oh, okay.

[Eddie]

And so they, there's a store downstairs and they have like food and they have a hot buffet. Like it's not really. What do you call that?

[Morgan]

Yeah, it's a buffet.

[Eddie]

Okay, so like they have all the hot meals and you get a plate and you like serve it up and then you just, you pay for it at checkout. There's a dish down there that I love, but it has like, it's like chicken and broccoli.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

And I love the chicken. Don't like the broccoli. And so the other day I went down there and I started picking out the chicken.

[Morgan]

Are they like chicken breasts or.

[Eddie]

It's like. Yeah, it's, it's like Asian it's like, you know, Asian chicken. Maybe, like. Maybe like a Mandarin chicken. Mandarin chicken with broccoli and a few other things in it. And, like, I don't like all the other stuff, so I just picked the chicken out, and I heard this guy being like, oh, taking all the chicken, and I was like, I want to turn around and be like, so what? Like, why can't I take all the chicken? But, I mean, he obviously didn't think I heard him, but I did hear him.

[Morgan]

Did you say something to it?

[Eddie]

Oh, I don't want to fight with someone at the store, you know, over chicken. But I wanted to ask you, like, what's the rule with, like, that, you know, like. Like, it's. It's there. I know understand that it's a dish. I understand that whatever they have in one container is the dish, whether it's like, you know, chicken with peas and carrots and whatever. But if I don't, like, all the other vegetables, can I just pick the chicken out? Like, what's the problem?

[Morgan]

I don't think there's anything wrong with it because there's a few, like, stipulations here. If it's one of the most coveted things that's always sold out, then, yeah.

[Eddie]

You'Re being that it's always sold out.

[Morgan]

It is.

[Eddie]

Yes. And you know what? The other day, I. This is funny. This is my answer. This might answer my own question, but the other day I went down there, and it was all gone except broccoli. So it wasn't just me. Yeah, it's not just me. There's something that people don't like about the broccoli.

[Morgan]

And maybe that guy was saying this because that's what he does, too.

[Eddie]

Maybe. Maybe.

[Morgan]

Probably.

[Eddie]

Probably. But. But I mean, it's funny, because I went down there and it was all broccoli left.

[Morgan]

I'm like, see, like, I don't think it's bad. You're still eating the food. You're the one paying for it.

[Eddie]

Correct.

[Morgan]

You should have what you want to have. But maybe you should, like, ride a slip to the place.

[Eddie]

Don't they know. Don't they know when they go pick it up and it's only broccoli left?

[Morgan]

But if it's, like, the chicken, maybe they just think people aren't getting it because, like, they get, like, the chickens and whatever's in the scoop is what they take. You write one ride a slip to the place and say, hey, I've never.

[Eddie]

Done that, by the way.

[Morgan]

Can we, like, maybe try one without Broccoli. Because I feel like there's several of us who would really love this about.

[Eddie]

One, do vegetables separately and the chicken separately.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Give a recommendation. Two, I don't think there's actually anything wrong with it. Again, you're paying for it. It's a hot buffet. People could ask for them to put more, and because it is a buffet, they could go and get more. Yeah, but there is a self awareness here.

[Eddie]

What is that?

[Morgan]

Just to.

[Eddie]

Oh, got it. Do it when no one's around. No, that's what it is. Do it when no one's looking.

[Morgan]

All of it, if you're gonna do it.

[Eddie]

I didn't take all of it.

[Morgan]

No, I'm just making sure for your future.

[Eddie]

Like, but see, somebody had to take all of it. Because at one point when all I went down and all that broccoli was left, somebody at one point only had three pieces of chicken left, and they took the chicken.

[Morgan]

Okay, but this is your stipulation. Don't be that guy.

[Eddie]

But I would be that guy, because I don't want all that broccoli.

[Morgan]

Okay. Just take it all and then throw away the broccoli later.

[Eddie]

No, I'm not gonna buy food and throw it away.

[Morgan]

Well, they're still throwing it away anyway.

[Eddie]

They are. It's not my problem. Do you throw food away?

[Morgan]

No. I'm actually very. My boyfriend, like, hates leftovers after, like, a couple days. And I'm like, but that's food we're gonna waste. I don't want to waste it. I'll eat it. Are you that way?

[Eddie]

Yes. I get so mad when, like. And my kids, for some reason, they. I don't know when they started doing this, but they like to leave a couple things left on their plate. They never like to clean the entire. The entire plate. And it makes me so mad. I'm like, you have one chicken left. Eat it. Like one little piece.

[Morgan]

Is this where you become the garbage disposal and you eat everything?

[Eddie]

No, I make them eat it, but sometimes I'm not there and I just see that. I'll go in the trash and I'll see like, oh, they've freaking did it again.

[Morgan]

So your wife is not making them?

[Eddie]

No, see, my wife doesn't care about stuff like that.

[Morgan]

Yeah, well, you also have to be careful because it creates a food problem on some level.

[Eddie]

I. I know, I know, I know it does.

[Morgan]

I know there's that. But also.

[Eddie]

But it's like one chick. See, what I started doing, though, was like, all right, I'm not serving your Food. Mom's not serving your food. You're going to serve your own food. And whatever you serve yourself, you're going to eat.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's a good idea, too, because.

[Eddie]

Then what they start doing now is just put one piece of chicken on there. I'm like, oh, they're gaming the system. You need to eat more than that.

[Morgan]

Let's see. This is where our dad became what we call him, Mikey. And I don't know. I don't know where that reference comes from. Or, like, our garbage disposal. He always ate whatever we didn't eat. We go out to restaurants, and we'd have some left, and he'd finish our.

[Eddie]

Probably because he didn't want to waste.

[Morgan]

That's exactly why. And. But the thing with restaurants, it's different at home. At home, you can control your portions. Restaurants, man, sometimes those portions are huge.

[Eddie]

I know, I know, but that's what the doggy bag's for. The to go boxes.

[Morgan]

I bring mine home, too. But there's some things you can't bring.

[Eddie]

No.

[Morgan]

So there's that. But I'm with you. I don't like wasting food. I'm very particular about that.

[Eddie]

Mexican restaurants, do you bring the chips home?

[Morgan]

No. Honestly, most of the time I eat.

[Eddie]

But if there's anything left, there's really never got it.

[Morgan]

They'll give them to me and to go, and I'll take them. But, yeah, no, there's never anything left that's always getting finished. All right, anything else you want to add before we jump out of here?

[Eddie]

We're good. Morgan.

[Morgan]

Oh, I did get to go vote for the first time in person.

[Eddie]

You did? Wait, how did you vote before mail in?

[Morgan]

Oh, so I was at college. One of them happened, so I had to mail that in. And then I had my Kansas ID here for a long time, and then I had to get it renewed in Kansas because I lost my ID in Kansas when I went back home one time.

[Eddie]

Drunk.

[Morgan]

No, it got stolen.

[Eddie]

Oh, weird.

[Morgan]

It was not a fun experience, but thankfully, I was, like, there, so I was like, I'll just get it a new one here. So I always just had a Kansas ID until this year, where I finally have a Tennessee ID and I got a vote in person.

[Eddie]

You get to vote.

[Morgan]

It was a weird, weird experience.

[Eddie]

Well, this is a weird. This is a weird election.

[Morgan]

Well, just in general, because I have a feeling this is also where my election place is gonna be, but it was at an elementary school in the gymnasium, and it was just like, school in session.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we're like, running around.

[Morgan]

They're on, like the other side, I guess.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

But I would think they're everywhere. I guess they just can't use their gymnasium. But it's like a super old school. And they had this, like, old technology.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

And you get like this huge sheet of paper and you put it in this giant machine. And I was just sitting there. Like, we really haven't figured out better ways for this.

[Eddie]

I don't think it's that. I think it's more of that things can get hacked.

[Morgan]

I guess that's true.

[Eddie]

If you do it electronically, you know, or like all through Internet, like, then people can mess with that. I honestly think that there is that technology too. And then some precincts don't have it too.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Because I know that there's like electronic voting and I know that there is hand counting, like, where they have to count by hand.

[Morgan]

I guess it's different ever because it's like by county and by city and all of this.

[Eddie]

I don't know anything about all that stuff, but I'm assuming if your place still has it, they just maybe can't afford the good equipment or hacking thing. I don't know.

[Morgan]

Yeah. All the above.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And it is.

[Eddie]

It is old school. That. That old school way is crazy, huh?

[Morgan]

Oh, it was wild. And it was.

[Eddie]

And you turned. You turn the little knob. Knob?

[Morgan]

I didn't turn a knob. I hit something on a screen.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

But it was like one of the big. You know, like back in the day when you got your first computer and it was giant. That's what these things looked like.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And it was this huge machine and you put this little, like large, like what used to be like a Scantron kind of.

[Eddie]

Yeah. And that's where it tallies and it.

[Morgan]

Like prints it and then you have to put it somewhere else.

[Eddie]

I know it's so old school, but.

[Morgan]

And there was all these elderly people working who I think were retired, and.

[Eddie]

They are what they are on their off time.

[Morgan]

It was just such a. And I had fun doing it. It was like, cool.

[Eddie]

Did you go through all the people that are trying to tell you who to vote for?

[Morgan]

What do you mean?

[Eddie]

You know, like the people that are working.

[Morgan]

Like, there was nobody outside of mine.

[Eddie]

No one was standing with signs. There's usually. Yeah, they're probably. Yours is probably like a real small place that no one goes to.

[Morgan]

I don't. Man, I don't know. All I know is I was like you. I kept getting things in the mail. You have to vote. I Was like, I didn't even know there was a voting thing.

[Eddie]

I know, right? Like what? Like, what's. What is there to vote on now?

[Morgan]

It's a.

[Eddie]

Obviously I didn't do it.

[Morgan]

Representative chair, but it's from our district.

[Eddie]

Did you know anyone on the ballot?

[Morgan]

I knew two of them.

[Eddie]

From what signs? Each.

[Morgan]

Each, like, from each party? Yeah, I guess. And I'm like, these commercials are always mean.

[Eddie]

No, but that's why. That's why those commercials are effective. Because, like, if you don't know anyone, you're like, oh, I remember that last name. Yeah. Heelsman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that last name. Cool. Vote for Huelsman.

[Morgan]

I will say, though, I was smart. I went and did research on all of them. Okay. I looked into them. I wasn't just gonna go blindly because based on those commercials, none of them are options.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

I know.

[Morgan]

If I'm being honest. And then, like, they have a bunch of independents. And I was like, I don't know who any of those people were. So I had to do read up on everybody.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But it was just a cool experience to actually finally get a vote in person.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

It's not the same when you mail in votes.

[Eddie]

No, no.

[Morgan]

Do you vote in person or do you mail in vote?

[Eddie]

No, I've always done it in person. And the experience is cool. Yeah. I mean, you feel like you matter.

[Morgan]

Well. And I finally got to have a sticker. I'd never had a sticker before.

[Eddie]

The I voted sticker.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

That was so fun.

[Eddie]

You like that?

[Morgan]

It was just, like, cool. Not that I've never exercised my right to vot.

[Eddie]

The process is cool. Yeah.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And it took me two minutes. I was in and out.

[Eddie]

I know.

[Morgan]

Crazy.

[Eddie]

Yeah. There's never really a huge wait. Like, especially when you go to those small little elementary schools or public libraries. No one's ever there.

[Morgan]

I know. That's the best part.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So there was that.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Morgan]

And last thing I want to ask you about. So with the holidays coming up, you and I both love food.

[Eddie]

Love food.

[Morgan]

We're foodies. What is the one recipe that you associate with Christmas?

[Eddie]

My mom's cookie. It's like she calls them sand tarts, but I don't know what.

[Morgan]

Sand tarts. I love that.

[Eddie]

And it's like, it's like dough with, like, pecans in them.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

And it's powdered sugar on the outside. And she does it, like, in balls, like moon shaped ones, star shaped ones. And like, I've never seen anyone ever make these before. She's the only one I've ever seen do do that. So, like, automatically. That to me is like Christmas Christmas. But I've never seen anyone make that. I've never.

[Morgan]

I've heard of almond. Actually, I had an almond cookie at our holiday party this week. And it sounds similar almond cookie because there was almond on it. It's a soft cookie, and it's in powdered sugar.

[Eddie]

White powdered sugar?

[Advertisement Voice]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And it's like a really light kind of. Almost looks like a sugar cookie. Small, but it's like in a ball.

[Eddie]

Probably the same idea.

[Morgan]

It sounds similar, but different because different nuts.

[Eddie]

Do you ever watch, like, Cookie, Christmas Cookie, Bake off, or, like, those TV shows? No, I know there's a bunch on Hulu right now.

[Morgan]

Is that what you're watching?

[Eddie]

I watched a couple and, like, I saw something like it, but they didn't call it a Santa. I forgot what they called.

[Morgan]

I bet your mom came up with that name.

[Eddie]

Maybe because it just looks. It's like, sandy with a powder.

[Morgan]

It's a tart. Like a lemon tart or a lemon tart.

[Eddie]

But it's not. It's not tart at all. It's just tastes like.

[Morgan]

Do you think it passed down on your family?

[Eddie]

Yeah, for sure, for sure. And I don't know whose recipe it is.

[Morgan]

Okay, well, this was my idea, and I feel like we. You and I just do it too. But I was like. It would be fun because you see people doing recipe swaps all the time. It'd be fun either to, like, swap recipes of our favorite Christmas thing and have the other person make it, or you just have to bring in your favorite recipe. Like, maybe that'd be fun, and then everybody gets to try it.

[Eddie]

That'd be cool.

[Morgan]

Cause mine is poppy seed bread.

[Eddie]

Oh, poppy seed bread.

[Morgan]

So my mom has always made this poppy seed bread, but it's different than typical poppy seed bread. She, like, douses it with icing.

[Eddie]

Love it.

[Morgan]

There's a glaze that is actually made for it, but she makes it into an icing. And everybody who has this poppy seed bread loves it. They've never really had a poppy seed bread that's like that. And so that would for sure be mine.

[Eddie]

That's good.

[Morgan]

And it's a good. I think I've brought it to work, I think, before one time, because I made, like, two big loaves. But wouldn't that be fun?

[Eddie]

That would be awesome. But who would participate in that? You and me? Amy.

[Morgan]

Amy would.

[Eddie]

I mean, that's about It.

[Morgan]

You think Lunchbox would.

[Eddie]

No chance. Bobby? No chance. Ray? No chance. Maybe Ray's wife. Maybe Ray definitely wouldn't.

[Morgan]

Scuba.

[Eddie]

Scuba wouldn't.

[Morgan]

Abby would.

[Eddie]

Abbey Wood. Okay.

[Morgan]

Well, whoever wants to. Okay, I feel like we should do that.

[Eddie]

It's gonna be you, me, and Amy.

[Morgan]

And you know what? We're the only one that get to eat them. But wouldn't that be so fun?

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Because I feel like those are things that remind you of Christmas and then to share them, then you get to, like, remember that recipe with other people.

[Eddie]

Did you? Did. You said the salt. The salsa I gave you was too hot, too spicy.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

Do you want me to make you a more mild one? Because I was thinking about. Because my mom came when my mom was in town. Like, she loved it. It was like crack to her. She just ate so much of it. And I started thinking, like, I should give that for Christmas. But, like, I don't.

I feel like the way I made yours was probably the least amount of heat I can do. I can probably do half a pepper. Never done half pepper before, but I can.

[Morgan]

I would love some.

[Eddie]

Do you want some that's less spicy?

[Morgan]

Yes. And I feel like I offended you with your salsa.

[Eddie]

You didn't offend me, because I understand heat is a thing for people. Like, you know, like, that's why they sell mild, medium hot, and mother plucking hot.

[Morgan]

That's what my boyfriend always gets.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

You can literally make one that's, like, so spicy, and he'd be like, not spicy enough.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

He loved your salsa.

[Advertisement Voice]

Loved it.

[Morgan]

Like, finished it in one setting.

[Eddie]

And I would say, that's medium heat.

[Morgan]

Yeah. He thought it was amazing. He was like, this is, like, roasted but smoky.

[Eddie]

And he was like, oh, he broke it apart.

[Advertisement Voice]

Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

He eats salsa by the spoon.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

He loves salsa.

[Eddie]

Wow. That's hardcore.

[Morgan]

Like, big fan.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And I tried. I was like, my eyes are watering.

[Advertisement Voice]

No way.

[Eddie]

Your eyes were not watering.

[Morgan]

I. Eddie, I'm really the person who used to put sugar in salsa to make it sweet.

[Eddie]

Less. Okay.

[Morgan]

And, like, less spicy, less hot.

[Eddie]

You know, they do, like. You can do, like, a fruit. You can put fruit in salsa in it. Oh, yeah.

[Morgan]

Mango salsa.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Love that. I've had a few different fruit salsas, but this. Yeah, yours tasted amazing, but I was crying, man.

[Eddie]

Okay, all right. Okay. All right. I'm gonna make you one less mild then.

[Morgan]

Yeah. I'm just a baby. I've tried really hard, too. We went to a taco one time, and there's A funny video that he took of me because I was literally crying, and I was eating honey barbecue. And he was like, this is not spicy barbecue.

[Eddie]

That's not spicy at all.

[Morgan]

I'm telling you, they put something in there that was not honey barbecue. And I couldn't. Morgan, I couldn't place it. That. You know, when they do, like, the sweet, spicy things. I was like, I'm telling you, this.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Is one of them.

[Morgan]

But he couldn't place it because it tasted perfectly normal to him.

[Eddie]

So he didn't. He felt like it didn't have any spice.

[Morgan]

No. And I was literally crying.

[Eddie]

It's your Covid.

[Morgan]

I don't think so, because I've always. I mean, I used to put sugar in my salsa when I was, like, five years old.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

I. It's spicy is always. But I also ate very bland foods for a significant portion of my life. Cheese quesadillas, cheese pizza.

[Eddie]

Sure.

[Morgan]

There's not a lot of spice in that. So only until, like, my later adulthood have I started to even add in spices.

[Eddie]

Yeah, same, though. Like, same. I didn't like spice at all until I probably. I don't know, my 20s.

[Morgan]

Did your parents make spicy food, though?

[Advertisement Voice]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah. I mean, all our food.

[Morgan]

And you would eat it?

[Eddie]

No, no. I would purposely ask, like, is this spicy? They'd be like, no, this one's not, and whatever. So, like, yeah, I had to ask for not spicy food. And then now I love spicy food.

[Morgan]

When did it change over for you?

[Eddie]

I would say, like, late 20s.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Yeah. It went from, like, dipping a chip. Like, literally just dipping it. Not scooping, dipping it, getting it wet.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

That's what I said.

[Eddie]

And then even, like, moving it up and down to get whatever's left off. And then I would eat it.

[Morgan]

That's what I do.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

That's what I did.

[Eddie]

With yourself, Morgan. That wouldn't hot at all.

[Morgan]

It was. My eyes were crying.

[Eddie]

That's so funny. I got you. I got you. I'm a little more milder.

[Morgan]

I would love that.

[Eddie]

No heat, but maybe a no pepper. It's just tomatoes.

[Morgan]

But do you think you can make your. Your mom's Santa tarts?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I can do that.

[Morgan]

I feel like we should do a little recipe change. Whoever wants to participate gets to.

[Eddie]

All right.

[Morgan]

But that'd be fun.

[Eddie]

We'll talk to Amy about it.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Last lunchbox. He won't do it, though. There's no chance.

[Morgan]

I don't think he even cuts normally. No, I don't even think anything.

[Eddie]

I don't think his wife does.

[Morgan]

His wife cooks. I talked to her at the holiday party. She's talking about all the cooking she does. And I was like, you do a lot of cooking. She's like, yeah, I do. So makes me think he doesn't do a lot of that.

[Eddie]

Makes sense.

[Morgan]

I could be wrong.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Morgan]

But. All right, Eddie, thanks for hanging out with me.

[Eddie]

Thank you, Morgan.

[Morgan]

It's fun, Jeff. We always go different places. Tell the people where they can find you.

[Eddie]

Producer Eddie on all things very simple.

[Morgan]

Even hopefully one day.

[Eddie]

Smoking truck.

[Morgan]

Producer Eddie smoking chicken.

[Eddie]

Smoking chicken truck. That's what it is, man. Now, I changed really quick on that.

[Morgan]

You could do Producer Eddie smoking chicken in tacos.

[Eddie]

Tacos. I don't know.

[Morgan]

Not. And tacos. In tacos.

[Eddie]

Oh, the smoking chicken in tacos.

[Morgan]

I know that'd be weird for you because you like fajitas in a certain.

[Eddie]

Way, but I know. I don't know. But, you know, like, it can be just called Producer Eddie's Chicken. Smoking chicken. But you can sell all kinds of things.

[Morgan]

Producer Eddie's food.

[Eddie]

Foods. All of it. Sushi from pizza. Sushi. Pizza. Salsa.

[Morgan]

What are all your. Salsa.

[Eddie]

Salsa. But he does chicken. Smoking chicken.

[Morgan]

And that's just what you have. You have all your.

[Eddie]

Those are my specialties, but I'll have more.

[Morgan]

And your sauce.

[Eddie]

What sauce?

[Morgan]

Or your spices.

[Eddie]

Spices. Spices. Seasoning.

[Morgan]

Yeah, seasoning.

[Eddie]

Seasoning.

[Morgan]

You can have that. To say that would be like your merch.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah. It'll be right there by the window.

[Morgan]

I figured out your whole blueprint now.

[Eddie]

Thank you, Morgan.

[Morgan]

Bye, everybody.

[Eddie]

That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening.

[Morgan]

Be sure to check out the other.

[Eddie]

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[Eddie]

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[Eddie]

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Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

[Morgan]

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