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Bobby Bones
Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Are you a small business owner launching a company or dreaming of starting one? Then check out season three of Mind the Business Small Business Success Stories from Ruby Studio and Intuit QuickBooks. Join hosts Austin Hankowitz and Janice Torres as they talk to small business owners about how they've grown and maintain their businesses. You don't want to miss these inspiring stories of small business journeys. Listen to Mind the Business Small business success stories and do it on the iHeart app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Are you still quoting 30 year old movies? Have you said cool beans in the past 90 days? Do you think Discover isn't widely accepted? If this sounds like you, you're stuck in the past. Discover is accepted at 99% of places that take credit cards nationwide and every time you make a purchase with your card, you automatically earn cash back. Welcome to the now it pays to Discover. Learn more@discover.com credit card based on the February 2024 Nielsen report, are you ready for the ultimate country throwdown? It's the I Heart Country Festival presented by Capital One Bigger Bolder packed with your favorite stars plus Capital One cardholders. It's your moment. Snag tickets before anyone else and grab an exclusive access pass to a private show pre event with one of the night's performers to tickets and access passes go live January 21st for 48 hours or while pre sale supplies last. Be sure to mark your calendars. You don't want to miss this. Head to iheartradio.com capital1 for all the details.
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Bobby Bones
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Dr. Josie Horczak
So one of the big questions I had for you is what was it like coming off Love is Blind or the Villains and going back into practice. I don't think it's like any secret that you weren't at the top of everyone's nice list. Coming off these shows were clients. Did they recognize you? Did anyone say anything? How was that?
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Dr. Sheikh Chatterjee
Yeah, so it's interesting. You know, I just opened up about this really recently, something I didn't really feel like talking about when I was going through it, but as soon as the show came out and I kind of became this villain. And let me also say, these shows, they edit you to make you look a certain way. Everybody kind of has this idea in the back of their mind that that happens, but not until you go through it that you realize just how much they can twist things and take things out of context and so on and so forth. So not only was I the villain, but I wasn't able to talk about what happened because we had signed all these contracts, say, hey, whatever comes out on the show, like, you have to go along with it. And if you speak out against it, they're like, we're gonna sue you and blah, blah, blah. So I not only could I speak out against it, but also I didn't even feel like, you know, people wanted me to apologize. And I'm like, I'm not going to apologize. I didn't do anything. You know what I mean? The show made me look a certain way. I'm not going to apologize for something I didn't do or you know, to the extent that I was portrayed. And that made people even more mad because I'm like unapologetic about it. So what happened is the clinic that I worked at in Chicago got review bombed by strangers on the Internet.
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Dr. Josie Horczak
Really.
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Dr. Sheikh Chatterjee
And I got, I got let go. So this happened within, you know, two months of the show coming out. So I didn't get to even experience much of clients recognizing me or anything. I was, it was a corporate practice and one of the big corporations, I don't want to say who it was, but it was one of the big corporations. And first they put me on a leave, like a paid leave. And I was like, alright, sweet, I'm just going to go to Miami. Then I guess just hang out during this paid leave. But obviously I didn't have a good feeling about it. I'm like, why am I being put on this paid leave? I remember I was at the pool one day and I get a call from I guess one of the HR people or you know, somebody higher up in the corporate and they like basically told me like, hey, you know, we're what they call it an involuntary separation. I'm like, okay, that's a fancy way of saying I'm fired because of these, the reality. And I can't blame them. I can't be mad at the corporation even because who would want that? You know, it's not good for business.
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Dr. Josie Horczak
Yeah, that brings up a really interesting point that I think about a lot in vet Med especially is how dependent these clinics are on reviews. Customer reviews on Google and Yelp. I feel like I know that when I owned a practice I checked them every single day and bad reviews are really detrimental for business. I don't know that other healthcare providers have that same, you know, that they worry about them as much as we do.
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Dr. Sheikh Chatterjee
Not to the same extent. I mean I think reviews are important for most industries, but some industries, like you said, rely on them and focus on them a lot more. But you know, it worked out really great for me in the long run because I had gotten this really big signing bonus. Just like maybe it was like six months before the show came out. Like big, big signing bonus. Like I didn't even. This was like, you know, around Covid time when vets were like really in demand. So like close to a year's salary type of signing bonus. And I was like, okay, well what happens with the signing bonus then? Like I didn't leave. You're telling me to leave? And they're like, oh, you're Going to have to give it back. And I was just like, I can't. I spent it. And then ultimately I had a lawyer review everything and send them a letter. And my lawyer said, just don't pay them back. And if they'll want to do something, they'll do something. And, you know, they didn't do anything. So I took that sign on bonus, and I was loving Miami so much that I was like, you know what? I'm just gonna stay here, move down here. You know, I had a little period there where, thankfully, I didn't have to work this nice bonus that I had. So had a lot of fun and then. And frankly, I just started missing being in practice because that's, you know, that was my whole life, really. Yeah, I was a dj, too, and had my fun things. But, you know, we go to a lot of school. I mean, being a vet is more than just a profession for most of us, Right. It's something that, you know, calling.
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Bobby Bones
It's like a part of it, right?
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Dr. Sheikh Chatterjee
Yeah, exactly. So I was like, you know what? Let me get my Florida license. And the demand for vets down here is just as high as everywhere else in the country. Right. So. And I had never worked in this urgent care environment before, so I didn't realize how much I was going to like that. The pay is better, too, as an urgent care vet, because not everybody wants to work those long hours, you know, but if they find somebody that will.
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Dr. Josie Horczak
Do you have clients down there that recognize you from tv?
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Dr. Sheikh Chatterjee
Oh, that's the other thing. While people in Chicago, but were, like, shunning me, Miami just welcomed me with open arms. They just loved me down here. And I even felt that before I started working down here. I just felt it socially because my Season of Love is Blind was filmed in Chicago. I was the villain. A lot of people switched up on me, you know what I mean? And people that knew me switched up on me and. And I was like, all right, this is full. You know, and then I come down to Miami, and all of a sudden they're like, oh, my God, we love you. Like, come to this yacht party. Come to this penthouse party. And I was like, this is where I belong. You know, Miami's, you know, my kind of place.
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Dr. Josie Horczak
So really, it seems like you're handling it pretty well, like being labeled a villain. I would say that veterinarians just inherently, we are kind of people pleasers for the most part. Do you feel like at any point where you're like, wow, this sucks. Like, I wish I had never Gone on this show or are you just like, this is it. This is what it is?
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Dr. Sheikh Chatterjee
No, actually, I never, never for a second thought that. Because the hate and most of that was all online in. In person is a whole different story. You know, you're like the man of the hour. And especially here in Miami, you know, even though some of this was editing and portrayal, even that negatively portrayed version of me, they loved that here in Miami. They loved it. You know, like, come on down.
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Bobby Bones
I have the list of things that you do when the year starts for good luck. Like, things you eat.
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Eddie
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
And I bring this up because one of my good friends has been rector, super talented artist, good friend, great guy. Every year his wife sends over a thing of Black Eyed peas and she drives them around to, like, their friends.
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Eddie
Really?
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Bobby Bones
It has for like three or four years. And we get the black app is we eat them day one. We didn't make the Black Eyed Pea list this year. And I don't know.
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Eddie
Do you think you did something to not make that list?
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Bobby Bones
I. I don't know. I don't know. If they didn't do it, I can text him and ask them.
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Eddie
Yeah, yeah. Hey, man, I didn't get my Black Eyed Peas this year.
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Bobby Bones
I will text him and then we'll talk. And if he sends a message back, I'll voice memo it. Hello, it's Bobby and Eddie.
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Eddie
What's up, Ben?
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Bobby Bones
And we're recording a podcast and we're talking about the new year and how traditionally eat Black Eyed Peas. And I told them about how your wife would bring us Black Eyed Peas every year, the past few years, and we'd eat them, and it's awesome. We had a great year because of that. And this year we did not get the black Eyes and we didn't know if we didn't make the cut. Like, we weren't on the list anymore, like we felt in the rankings or.
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Eddie
If it was just a bad year for Black Eyed Peas.
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Bobby Bones
Maybe she didn't make any.
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Eddie
Right?
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Bobby Bones
We're just curious because we're talking about you and we're talking about, oh, how wonderfully talented you are and your music is so great. But then I was like, I didn't get my Black Eyed Peas. Now, I'm not asking for the Black Eyed Peas, but what I'm wondering is, did we not make the cut or did she not make the peas? Both are acceptable. Seasons change. So let me know we'll be recording for the next little bit. If you do hear this. Have a great day, man. Unless we didn't make the list. And have a moderately good day.
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Eddie
What are black eyed peas? Like? Like, what do they taste like? Like, what are they? I don't know if I've ever had black eyed peas.
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Bobby Bones
No way.
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Eddie
Nah. Really? I don't think that I've ever eaten black eyed peas. I've definitely never ordered them at a restaurant, so I know that for sure.
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Bobby Bones
You don't order them at restaurants. I mean, you.
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Eddie
Black eyed. Peace.
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Bobby Bones
My grandma liked them. It's a very southern thing, which I guess not really a Mexican thing.
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Eddie
No.
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Bobby Bones
So she would make black eyed peas. They feel pretty bitter.
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Eddie
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
They're. They're like. If I were to make an analogy, you know, Brussels sprouts.
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Eddie
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
By themselves, kind of bitter. Like if you do nothing to Brussels sprouts. Kind of bitter. Kind of weird. But if you put bacon on them and honey and. Brussels sprouts became kind of trendy for a while because of all the things you could do with them.
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Eddie
A little soy sauce.
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Bobby Bones
Black eyed peas are kind of like that. But Black eyed peas, a member of the lagoon family, has a pale cream color and distinctive black spot resembling an eye. They are thought to have originated in North Africa, where they've been eating for centuries. They were introduced by North America, by Spanish explorers. They are now grown throughout the world, especially in American Southern cooking.
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Eddie
Collard greens, black eyed peas, like that kind of stuff. Cornbread.
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Bobby Bones
My grandma was a big black eyed pea person.
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Eddie
Really? So they just look like beans?
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, with a little black eye like that.
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Eddie
Is that it?
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Bobby Bones
That's exactly it.
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Eddie
Okay. Do you eat them like beans? You just kind of.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, it's. They're wet.
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Eddie
A bowl and a spoon.
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Bobby Bones
It's almost like black eyed peas. You can have them with the. Again, I'm going to be way wrong, but you can have them like in the broth. It's not quite soup, but it's wet.
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Eddie
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Or you can just drain them completely. But we had. We had black eyed peas once every couple of weeks, but for New Year. And so I have this list of the reasons why things are for good luck. And so number two is pork. From the Midwest to Germany to Eastern Europe, many people believe pork symbolizes progress because pigs root forward as they eat.
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Eddie
Yeah. They stick their noses in the ground and eat.
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Bobby Bones
This protein is often paired with cabbage or sauerkraut. But it's. The reason it is considered luck is because pigs push forward. And they think if you eat a pig who pushes forward, you will also.
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Eddie
Push forward in the year.
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Bobby Bones
Yes, it's lucky. Number three, grapes. Eat 12 grapes at midnight on New Year's Eve for luck. Also, prosperity could be in your future. This is according to the Spanish, originating in Spain in the late 1800s. This tradition is known as.
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Eddie
Come on, you can do it.
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Bobby Bones
Las doce u vas de las huerte. Okay, how would you say that?
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Eddie
Say it again. Las doce. What is it?
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Bobby Bones
Las dolce uvas de la suerte.
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Eddie
Okay. That's like the good luck midnight grapes.
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Bobby Bones
How would you say that with the accent proper?
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Eddie
I don't even remember what you say. It's like la. It's like la dose. La dose is at midnight. The 12.
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Bobby Bones
I'll blow it up so you can see it.
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Eddie
So la dose uvas. Oh, the 12 grapes of good luck. That's what it is.
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Bobby Bones
Say it. Okay. Yeah. The 12 grapes of good luck. Each of the dozen grapes represents a month of the year.
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Eddie
Oh, 12 grapes.
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Bobby Bones
Why it's 12.
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Eddie
That makes sense.
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Bobby Bones
I remember Morgan number two eating grapes under her table at New Year's, and I didn't know where that. But now I see where it's from.
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Eddie
Interesting. Is she Spanish? I think the opposite, actually, because it's a Spanish tradition. Interesting.
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Bobby Bones
I think they are so the opposite. Number four greens, as in collard greens. Any leafy vegetables.
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Eddie
And what do those taste like?
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Bobby Bones
The. Like, not. Not great.
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Eddie
Like green beans.
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Bobby Bones
No, I like green beans better than collard greens. Collard greens are good if they're cooked in something like, my grandma made a bunch of collard greens, but it was always cooked in, like, a grease or something that made it actually taste better because just the collard green itself, the texture is kind of rough. The category of leafy vegetables. Think collard greens. Kale resembles paper money. This is why greens are lucky, since it looks like money. Eating them is thought to encourage prosperity. A tradition with roots in the African. I don't know this word. Diaspora, exactly. And the civil war. They often serve with black eyed peas, which may represent coins. As if that's not enough, eating a plate full of greens will start your year on a healthy note.
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Eddie
Interesting.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, that's four. Number five, pomegranates.
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Eddie
Pomegranates are good.
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Bobby Bones
I do like pomegranates.
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Eddie
Like, have you eaten the fruit? I've only drank the juice.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, sometimes I'll get pomegranates in a plastic case.
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Eddie
Okay.
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Bobby Bones
And just eat them with the seeds and everything. Well, they are. They are the seeds. Yeah.
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Eddie
I see them at the store, and I've seen them, like, cut in half, but I'VE never really.
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Bobby Bones
I'm not talking about the big ones, and I'm talking about. They're the pomegranate seeds I think that you can eat.
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Eddie
Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, Those are the seeds.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. So.
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Eddie
And they're like jelly. They kind of, like, soft.
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Bobby Bones
So I will eat those. I've never eaten a full pomegranate. I don't think. In Greece, it's tradition to smash a pomegranate by the front door on New Year's Day. The more seeds that spread out, the more fortune you can expect. In Judaism, pomegranates are said to contain 613 seeds, which is the number of commandments in the Torah. At Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, each pomegranate seed represents a wish for the coming year. In Brazil, people eat pomegranate seeds in groups of seven, a lucky number meant for financial prosperity. So it seems like pomegranates have slowly distributed themselves in different ways throughout the world. I mean, different things. Good for them. They've really expanded their. Their footprint on the luck.
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Eddie
You should try that, though. You should go around smashing pomegranate in front of people's doors.
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Bobby Bones
My wife would be so pissed. There's pomegranates all over the front door. So that. And Ben has not messaged me back yet, but that's what. That's what I was thinking about. He did listen to the message, though.
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Eddie
Maybe he's conversing with his wife, like, hey, why didn't they make the list?
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Bobby Bones
Did you make any?
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Eddie
Did they do something?
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
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Amy Brown
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. Yeah, me too.
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Amy Brown
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Bobby Bones
Well, it's almost endless. Like I look for a table and it has so many little click. There's so many. What do you. I don't know. What do you want to talk about?
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Amy Brown
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Bobby Bones
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Amy Brown
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Bobby Bones
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Amy Brown
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Bobby Bones
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Amy Brown
So I got one of the best emails ever of my entire radio career. The email fits the theme of shedding things because you're about to hear that. Well, when I read it that this listener has been in the process of shedding her old self, her old ways, and she's been so successful at it that she barely recognizes how she used to be. Now, before I read it, it's probably helpful for me to set up that over Christmas break I had a few episodes that were what we call best ofs or reruns because, well, vacation. So keep that in mind when you hear the email. Okay, this is from a listener named Kristen, and here's what she sent in. Hey, I was nonchalantly making dinner on a Thursday evening and catching up on the four Things podcast and played the newest one. All of a sudden I hear a story about a runner with an eating disorder. It took a few seconds to realize it was my story story. Fast forward two years and I hardly recognize that person. I was journaling this morning about how far I've come with my eating disorder and anxiety in the past two years. It's the holiday season and I didn't spend the whole time analyzing caloric content or having near panic attacks thinking about being out of my normal routine. I'm buying new clothes without worrying about the size. I'm still a runner and care about my health, but I have freedom in those feelings. I still have thoughts about my body but don't think about restricting and remind myself how happy I am now. It was meant to be that this episode was replayed so that I can really see how far I've come. In the last two years, I've gone on countless trips to see friends and family, including four international trips. One being completely solo for two weeks, I am learning to find the joy in the now. I'm single, I'm a 34 year old woman who is over dating apps and I am open to what the next minute, day or year brings me. After hearing that episode again, I felt like I had to reach out and just say thanks one more time. Happy holidays to you and your family, your friend, Kristen. So there you go. That's Kristin's email. And Kristen, if you're listening right now, thank you so much for sending this update. You sharing your story and then me revisiting it here. Now, being able to read this email I know is going to encourage and inspire and impact another listener somewhere. And congratulations on living in the now, finding the joy in the now, and being curious and excited about what's next and the next minute, the next day or the next year. I love that you wrote that part and that you got to listen to the rerun and I really need to travel. Seeing that you've gone on four international trips in two years and one being completely solo for two weeks, I'm jealous. It's awesome. Thanks, Kristen. All right, I touched on this on Tuesday with Kat during the fifth thing, but I'm cutting back on Botox this year and I'm giving facial fitness a try. If you're not familiar with facial fitness, maybe you've seen it labeled as face yoga or maybe even face Pilates or face gymnastics, but it's all about strengthening the muscles in your face similar to how we exercise other parts of our body. Now. Some of it is about working the muscles and then there's other areas that you really want to just relax. So some of the exercises feel like a workout and you're like, oh wow, I can really feel that. And other stuff just feels so good, like you're giving yourself this little massage every day. And I've just been Doing different videos on YouTube. I'll link a few of them in the show notes if y'all want to give them a try. It's been an adjustment for sure, working this into my routine, and it's a process. You do have to do it every day. So I'll share updates as I go, but I'm looking forward to exploring this path and seeing where it takes me. Some of my friends have asked, like, why in the world are you doing this? Especially my kids when they see me in the mirror doing it. But I'm enjoying it so far, and I'm curious. I think that's. That's the best thing. I don't really talk to my kids about the Botox part, but my friends that have been asking, I'm like, yeah, you know, I do love me some Botox. And honestly, I will likely still get more in the future. I just want to sort of get it out and then assess things and do a reset of sorts, like see the true baseline again and then maybe add to it with more intention, with the theme being less is more. And I want to reset because I've had several conversations, even with people that. That administer Botox, about the amount going in our faces and it eventually having the reverse effect on us as we get older. So I just want to be thoughtful about the amount being injected.
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Sizzin
We're going to do it live. We are the 1, 2, 3.
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So loser. What up, everybody? I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports. I'll give you the sports facts, my sports opinion opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all.
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Sizzin
It's Sizzin. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashville with Bays or my wife. We do have a farm. It's beautiful. A lot of acreage, no animals, a lot of crops. Hopefully soon, corn, pumpkins, rye, I believe, maybe a little fescue to be determined. Over to you, coach.
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And here's a clip from this week's episode of the Sore Losers. Right. You know what we never talked about.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah.
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Is when we went to the Brett Eldridge show over the Christmas break.
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Sizzin
Yeah. It doesn't work because Christmas is over.
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Yeah, yeah, I know. But there was a couple funny moments. I mean, we went first, we went to dinner, had a little Mexican food, had some margaritas, and that was fun and all. It was great.
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Sizzin
Great.
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Well, it was great that your wife got a reservation, because I was thinking, oh, we'll just walk in and get a table. And there'll be no problem. We walked into that restaurant. I've never seen anything more crowded in my life.
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Sizzin
That one's gotten a little bit more popping since I was down there. It's because it's at the epicenter of everything.
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You're right. It's right downtown, and I should have known better. But I'm glad your wife thought of reservations, because at me, I was like, we don't need a reservation. It's not that big a deal. But it was great. Then we go to the show and we meet up with Kevin and we meet up with Pitts, and they're sitting in a different section. Ray's sitting in a different section than us. And I'm like, let's just go into this one section. Look at all these seats here. And we sit down on these empty rows because the whole section is empty.
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Sizzin
Hold on, hold on. Is this worthy of a camera?
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No, no, no. I don't think it's worthy of a camera. I'm just. It's Ray being a little bit nervous. It was Ray just going, man, I don't. I don't like this. I don't. I don't like sitting here. Why? He goes, man, people are going to come. The people are going to come for these seats. And I'm just like, dude, just. If they move. If they come, there are three rows all around us that are wide open. They can just sit in one of the. He's like, yeah, this isn't right, man. I think we should probably just go to our seats. Me and Bay are just going to go to our seats. I'm like, would you just calm down for a minute? And he's like, Every person that walks down that stair, man, they're looking at us going, those are our seats. I know it. I know we're in someone's seats. So we're sitting there, and some people come and they sit a row in front of us, and there's like four of them and there's four of us, and they're sitting there. Here comes Kevin and Pitts. They're hanging out. We're chatting. And this guy. What I don't understand is he wants to go get a drink so he could just go through his three people that he's with and go to the aisle and go up and get a drink. Instead, he climbs over two rows of seats. He did. Because he doesn't want to inconvenience his friends to stand up so he can go out. So he climbs up two rows to where we are and then goes out that way. And of course, me being a smart.
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Sizzin
Ass, what you hit him with?
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We got a climber. We got a climber. Dude, we got a climber.
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Sizzin
There's nothing, as a man, more emasculating than trying. Because when you're climbing over a row, you're kind of vulnerable. Your nuts are exposed. You kind of look like a doofus.
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You look.
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Sizzin
And then somebody's yelling, we got a climber. I mean, talk about just making the dude look like an idiot.
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You got to worry about your pants ripping, your foot getting caught in the cup holder. You got all sorts of things that could go wrong.
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Sizzin
You got drinks, you got.
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And he just. He doesn't even. The guy doesn't laugh. He looks pissed off that I'm yelling, we got a climber. We got a climber.
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Sizzin
And we're falling out. Dude, that was hilarious. If somebody ever tries to climb over your rope, pull that one, because I'm telling you, it's a good laugh. Hopefully they don't kick your ass.
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And most times your friends are going to laugh and going to feel really stupid and awkward. And that's what we did. And I don't understand why he climbed up two rows to go out when he could have just had his friends stand up. I understand if it's like strangers. And you don't want to inconvenience the strangers because there's a hundred of them and you're going through the whole row. It was your set of friends. But anyway, Ray was right. Someone came and sat in our seats. They're like, hey, you're in our seats. And we had to move. And then.
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Sizzin
Yeah, I'll hang up and listen on that one. Because eventually I knew it was going to come. I think it was gun. I was a little gun shy because there was a person that came up and I immediately stood up.
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Oh, he puckered. He stood up. And they're like.
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Sizzin
But then it was like, they're like.
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Oh, we're way down there on the floor.
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Sizzin
Yeah, the.
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And Ray was like, okay, sat back down.
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Sizzin
The lady at the seat helper totally misdirected her. So that was on them. But, yes, I. I knew it was eventually going to come, and it did. And I was like, thank you, Y. My work is done here.
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So we moved to another section. We sit on a row. We're sitting there, and Glow is a Christmas show, guys. Brett Eldridge comes out. He's Mr. Christmas. He sings these Christmas songs. Don't know the names of them, but he sang them, and he sang them fine. He sang them great. It was cool. The band was great.
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Sizzin
You literally just said two of the titles in that statement. One of his songs is Mr. Christmas and the other one is called Glow.
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Oh, okay. I just thought that was the name of the tour.
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Bobby Bones
Glow.
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Sizzin
And he's like, Mr. Christmas, yo. I don't know any of the titles, any of the songs you just said. Two of them.
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Didn't realize that. Anyway, then there's three girls that are sitting. Three women. I shouldn't say girls. These are women that are sitting two seats over from us.
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Sizzin
Oh, this was great. I'm glad somebody heard this.
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And guys, it is Christmas time in Nashville. We are talking like five days before Christmas.
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Sizzin
Like the sleigh is getting gassed up.
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Yes. The. The Santa is getting his suit ironed and pressed. He is ready to go. He's getting his beard fixed up, his hair trimmed, making sure the suit fits right.
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Sizzin
Ms. Claus is on her knees, her.
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Wrapping present, sewing the costume back together. Anyway, Glow. We all know it's a Christmas show. Brett Eldridge lets you know he is going to do a Christmas show every Christmas. And he sings the first song, oh, Holly Jolly Christmas. I don't know if that's what he's saying. Then he said, next song. Santa Claus is coming to town. Third song, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the Way, finishes the song. And the three women go, we came for fucking country music. What is this shit? And got up and left.
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Sizzin
Dressed in cowgirl boots, skirts, white tees and hats. Ladies, read the room. Merry Christmas.
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We came for fucking country music. What is this?
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Sizzin
But he doesn't play any of his songs other than his Christmas ones at that show.
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And I just laughed because I'm like, hey, you're a Brett Eldridge fan, so you should know, B, you already paid for the tickets, so you're gonna leave. You're not just gonna sit here and enjoy him singing Christmas songs. Hilarious.
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Sizzin
And you know the issue they wanted to shake it ain't none of those are gonna. Most of the time we're. We're sitting.
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We're sitting because it's a sit down show. It's not really a Shake it show.
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Sizzin
Yeah, you're in awe. But they went and found it somewhere. Probably at Chiefs.
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I mean. Oh, that's where we're going to be on Chiefs is next Friday night. We're going to be there for the open bar happy hour. Soar, losers. Dot com.
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Bobby Bones
Ray.
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Sizzin
Hell of a plug.
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No, Hell of a plug. And then we're going to be at category 10. I mean, thank you to the Grand Hyatt. We're going to be at the Pred's game. I mean, it's going to be an amazing weekend. I don't know if people. There's no way people are still buying tickets. Right?
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Sizzin
Well, and I was going to say, I hope nobody leaves saying, I haven't.
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Learned anything about coaching.
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Bobby Bones
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Amy Brown
Oh, yes, I have used it multiple times.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. Yeah, me too.
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Amy Brown
What items you want me to tell you about?
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Bobby Bones
Well, it's almost endless. Like I look for a table and it has so many little click. There's so many. What do you. I don't know. What do you want to talk about?
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Amy Brown
Well, I love the light that I got for my kids bathroom and then also the kitty litter, like little hutch thing that I got for my cat, which makes it look like it's, you know, more esthetically pleasing, if you will. So that's how versatile all the things are because like a light for my kids bathroom, something for my cat, dishes for my kitchen.
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Bobby Bones
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Amy Brown
Speaking of tables, I got a ping pong table.
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Bobby Bones
See, we could do this forever.
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Amy Brown
Forever.
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Bobby Bones
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Morgan Huelsman
I'm really excited to be joined by Jesse Hutch today. Jesse, how are you doing?
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Jesse Hutch
I'm doing great. People have been asking me, have you slept? And I'm like, don't ask me that. Then I'll think about it and then I'll have an opinion and then that'll probably cause me to go downhill. So we just don't talk about Bruno.
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Lunchbox
That's.
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Morgan Huelsman
That's a fair point. Especially when you're in like, the heat of everything happening. Most people know you for being an actor. That's your. You've. When I went to your IMDb page, you had over 95 listings. Is that crazy to you?
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Jesse Hutch
Yeah, I just passed like a hundred and something.
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Morgan Huelsman
Oh, you did. You even went higher than that.
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Jesse Hutch
I was like, okay, it's not like you get a badge or anything for that. But no, you know, personally, I was like, wow, okay. I guess I've been doing this a.
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Morgan Huelsman
Little While you do have a really interesting part of your story though, before this acting, and we'll get into some more acting stuff. But you've had some near death experiences. Can you talk about those a little bit? Because those are wild.
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Jesse Hutch
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, they weren't planned first. Yeah, yeah. I mean, some of the injuries that I've had probably are. I put myself there. I, you know, I rode the bike on top of the train bridge. It was me trying to pull something off. It was me free climbing that cliff or. I used to love climbing church steeples. It's kind of like a thing.
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Morgan Huelsman
You've always really had this like kind of adrenaline side.
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Jesse Hutch
Yeah, absolutely.
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Morgan Huelsman
Beyond the stunts.
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Jesse Hutch
Yeah, yeah. So I've, I've never drank alcohol, never done drugs, Swearing's not my thing. But for some reason when I was younger, it just started out that I was like, oh, that sounds fun. Climb that thing. I can jump off of there. I can, you know, try whitewater rafting or white water kayaking. And so. Excuse me. Yes, I was a whitewater raft guide. I was a couple years in. I was in my first year of college and just happened to be in the right place at the right time and ended up drowning. So full on, right to the end. Blacked out. And they found me a couple miles down the river. They guesstimate I was underwater from 11 to 22 minutes.
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Bobby Bones
Wow.
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Jesse Hutch
And so rightfully so. I should be either dead and. Or if alive, I should be have complete brain damage or loss of function, you know, physicality, memory, you name it. And so the fact that I recovered from that is an absolute miracle. And I, I couldn't call it anything else. I can't be like, oh, the water was really cold and it froze me. Like, it, it was nothing like that because how else do you explain that? You know what I mean?
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Morgan Huelsman
Do you recall the rescue at all, like when people came to find you?
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Jesse Hutch
Yeah, I had moments, moments of it, but really small little memories that I have that I'm like, part of me is even like, was that even an accurate memory? You know what I mean?
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Amy Brown
Yeah.
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Morgan Huelsman
Are you like making it up? Because that's what you feel like happened.
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Jesse Hutch
I know. I. I just, I remember being very cognitive, obviously going into it. Right. By the time I went underwater, you know, I was guiding. It was a 12 foot Moravia raft. We hit the first wave, I had 12 people in my boat. We had another guide in the front. We. We hit it and went straight up. And we're just about to crest over as you should and then everybody was having a great time, and just we didn't have the power. And so we started to come back down and we started surfing. And so I'm keeping the paddle there, and I'm keeping it straight. And one of the guys. Two of the guys that fell off from the front as they fell, one of the guys managed to grab me. Not his fault. I mean, I'd be grabbing on his stuff, too, if I was falling. It's just like, oh, you know, he grabbed my life jacket, kind of wrapped me around the back. And then I ended up sort of almost like water boarded. It was like I kept going into the water, out of the water, in the water, out of the water. And eventually I just was like, man, I'm getting whooped here. Like, I can't shake this guy, so I'm gonna have to just bail. So I bailed, and I just happened to be right in that sweet spot where the veterans that I worked with called the Green Room. So there's a current on the top of the river, and then there's another current that's maybe 12 to 15ft or so below the surface. And this rapid was called the Coliseum. So kind of fitting, right, that it's. You think of these battles and. And I ended up going under right there and went down really fast. My. Both my eardrums kind of could feel the pressure. I knew there was a shift. I was like, oh, that was different. Okay. Immediately tried to swim, couldn't do it, and just felt like this. The water pressure was, like, pushing everything together. And I was like, man, it's really hard to swim. And I had to eventually abandon my paddle, which you never do as a. As a guy that you get, you know, reamed out and everybody makes fun of you. But I was. I knew this was a different situation, and I wasn't able to get out of this yet. And so I let go of the paddle so I could really swim as hard as I could. Still couldn't break the current. So my training told me, all right, chill out. You got to go with the flow. I'm not going to beat the river. And so I just hung out and hung on to it, you know what I mean? And as I'm floating along, it's kind of you. You go through the. The process of, like. So I'm underwater, you know, I'd like to be done with this soon so I can get some oxygen. And I. I just. I tried again. I tried to swim. You know, I used more energy, burn more of my strength. And then just couldn't get out and was like, okay, I have to just literally go completely numb to this. I just let everything go. Just went completely limp and trying to save my energy. Right.
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Jesse Hutch
Because, I mean, oxygen's still in my blood, so I'm like, okay. The less I can use my muscles.
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Morgan Huelsman
I can't believe how much you're aware as all of this is happening.
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Jesse Hutch
Yeah, I mean, I was. It was three years into being a guide. I'd done it for quite a while. I was also in college training for this very thing, you know, being an outdoor guide, swift water rescue technician training. I had. I was. I had search and rescue training. I had wilderness first aid training, which is pretty intense.
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Morgan Huelsman
So you had all the tools for a potential survival out of this.
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Jesse Hutch
Yeah. And I've always been. I knew going through that course that I was a person that I stay pretty calm when pressure hits. I actually operate better the more stress there is in my life. Sometimes there's certain family things where I'm still, like, navigating. I'm like, oh, my goodness, I just fell apart. I couldn't handle that. Like, why not? Should be easier than that. But for whatever reason, when I'm on the river or I was, you know, or I'm on set for 12, 14 hours a day and this pressure hits, I. I just really feel comfortable.
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Lunchbox
Hello and welcome back. Oh, no, wrong podcast. I'm sorry. That's what you get if you listen to my podcast. But hello, Sunday Samplers. My name is Mike D. I have a podcast called Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. And on last week's episode, I did my top 10 movies of the year. Like, out of everything I watched, I think over a hundred, almost 150 movies. These are my top 10. I'm only going to share with you number three and number two. So if you want to hear this full list. You want to know what is my number one movie of the year? After watching all those movies, you got to go listen to the full episode. But right now, here's just a little bit of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. See, I do so many podcasts, I forget what I'm doing. But Sunday sampler, thank you. Have a great weekend. Or hope you're having a great weekend. All right. At number three, speaking of a movie, people talked about a lot and made a lot of memes of, I have Wicked, which I gave a 4.5 out of 5. It's still not available to stream yet, but you can rent it at home. It is a movie I Feel that people are not only going to rent, but maybe even purchase. I think Wicked is a movie that has that type of appeal where you're going to want to rewatch this movie a lot because of the music, because of the songs, because of those performances. But not only that, we have the sequel coming out this year, which they did officially change the title to Wicked for Good. It's coming out on November 21st, so pretty much a year after this one came out. It's going to give a lot of people a reason that maybe didn't watch this movie in theaters to watch it at home. Or maybe some people will wait till they have like the two showing events where you watch one leading up to number two in theaters. But I think why I love this movie so much is because I have such an affinity for the wizard of Oz and all the mystery and just kind of lore that surrounds that movie. With all the dark and gritty past of just the filmmaking process, but also its impact on film. It being a movie, I would say only one of few movies that are almost 100 years old that people still watch and still hold up and still influence film to this day. To this day. And I rewatched that movie after watching Wicked and I'm fully in that world right now and seeing how they're going to connect the first one to the second one and how even though it's not a full on prequel, how now because of its success, it's going to be so interwoven. So I'm very curious to see how the second one plays out. And up to this point I've still avoided spoilers. And I think it was also that I didn't know anything about Wicked going into it. I didn't even know how to say Elphaba's name up until I did that trailer in the trailer park. And I was like, how do you say this name? So I think not knowing a whole lot about the story allowed me to enjoy the movie that much more. But from just a filmmaking standpoint, I loved that this movie brought back real sets and sequences that take place in real time. A lot of live singing was done for this movie. It just really felt like the set was alive, which you don't really have a whole lot anymore. For the most part it's just a bunch of green screen and blue screen and people who just acting to nothing. You can truly feel that in this movie. And I think is what made it so enjoyable to me that it still kept that Broadway theater vibe very live and fluid, which I think is important for all the songs in this movie and just having those big elaborate sets that remind me of the filmmaking process for that first Wizards of Oz, where they had no ability to rely on special effects. They had to do all those themselves. So hopefully, since they did film both of these movies at the same time, we get to see more of that in the sequel. I'm hyped for it. Very rarely am I this hype for a sequel that I think has the potential to be better than its original because, man, there has to be so much more action in Wicked for good. But at number three, I have Wicked. At number two, I have a movie I gave a 4.5 out of five. You can't stream it anywhere right now. You have to rent it. But it is a real pain. Starring Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, who also directed the movie. They play these two mismatched cousins, as they call them, who travel to Poland to go on this tour after their grandma dies. And this is them reconnecting, and you find out all about why they haven't remained as close. Kieran Culkin's character is very just go by the seat of his pants, very chill, very laid back. He is a people person who can form a connection with a random stranger on the street. And Jesse Eisenberg's character is very reserved, neurotic, overthinks a lot. But he has a wife and kid at home, so he has a life to get back to. And it's how those two personalities clash when you have kind of an odd couple here. The Movie only cost $3 million to make. Ended pretty well at the box office, probably through word of mouth. And like I was saying earlier, I think this is the only movie that makes the entire top 10 list of mine that has the potential to win Best picture. I do hope Kieran Culkin is nominated and wins Best Supporting Actor because he is fantastic in this film. I also think Jesse Eisenberg should get a nomination for Best Director. But this movie kind of just hit me in the gut in a way that I wasn't expecting. And these are both characters that normally I wouldn't have anything that I could relate to them to, but. But it's through the storytelling and the power of all the things that get revealed that I'm like, oh, I am like one of these people. And this was a movie that after I watched it, I really just reflected on my feelings and on it hitting a nerve that I've never even talked about and much less seen represented in A movie that I associated myself so much with Jesse Eisenberg's character that I thought, man, how did he make a movie like this? And really just hit me in the gut. And I think it was also the fact that they had such great on screen chemistry, the fact that the movie dealt with a lot of different emotional layers, one of losing their grandma, one of their falling out. And maybe I related a little bit to not being so close with some family members that I was closer to when I was a little bit more younger and carefree. I think we've all kind of experienced something like that when you're a little bit more wild and just don't care about things in your 20s, then you get in your 30s and you have more responsibility, you get more involved in your career. And maybe some people aren't at that exact same point in their life at that same age. And there is some friction that happens between those types of people when you hang out. Even though for me personally it is the front runner that I want to win Best Picture, the one I will probably get behind the most. Maybe that maybe for my number one. But depending on how that shakes out, there's nothing I feel is super novel about it that I think it's a hands down full on winner, deserves a five out of five. So not to take away from the story, to take away from anything I've said here, it just doesn't feel like anything I haven't seen done before. But what it does do, it does really well. So if you haven't seen it yet and you want to experience that or just see like why this movie make Mike so emotional, I do advise you to check it out because I do think it's worth it. I put a real pain at number two.
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