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A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're gonna go, you're gonna meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here, you're gonna get it in a mug or a glass. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit. Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Are you a small business owner launching a company or dreaming of starting one? Then ch 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 maintained their businesses. You don't want to miss these inspiring stories of small business journeys. 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And the big announcement is country superstar Keith Urban will be performing on board as the headlining act. This is a one of a kind cruise that will stop at beautiful destinations like St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Martin. Open booking for the Top Shelf Country Cruise with all of us and Keith Urban begins February 20th. Go to topshelf countrycruise.com to learn more. Hey guys, welcome back to Sunday Sampler. A bunch of clips from the podcast this week, so maybe you want to check it out in the vet's office with Dr. Josie Morgan from the Bobby Bones show came on to talk about her pets, adoption stories, how Remy became a therapy animal, and so much more. So we're going to start with that. Here's a Clip of this week's in the vet's office with Dr. Josie. You're listening to in the Vet's Office with Dr. Josie Horczak. Do they sleep in your bed with you? Remy does. As you just heard, the little scuffle between them. Remy doesn't really allow Hazel to come sleep in the bed. Sometimes she will if she's so tired she doesn't pay attention because Hazel's a little sneaky. But, yeah, Remy does. And Hazel would love to. Whenever she does, especially when I go back home, they both sleep in the same bed together. But for some reason, at my house, this is something. So when you travel back to your hometown, they'll sleep in the same bed together. Like, we're not in our normal environment. We've got a band together. It's kind of like that. And because my parents have three dogs and they both kind of like, like their space and they like being a little independent, so I think they choose to be together versus separate on that. That's totally fair. But then we go back home and it's all for this week, only we are on the same team. It's funny how that works. And when we get home, it's over. Are you about to tell me not to let her sleep in the bedroom? No, no, no, I'm definitely not. I feel like I'm, like, the bearer of bad news. No, my. I have three dogs. Two of them sleep on the floor because they just get hot at night. And then my little one's, like, wrapped around my head, See? And I don't. I get it. I know there's like, you know, you sleep better or whatever. I'm like, honestly, I don't know that I would sleep better. I'd be like, where are you? Why won't you cuddle me? I like having you to snuggle. I love to sleep with my little dog. Biggie is his name. His name's Biggie, and he's a small dog. He's tiny. I know his name when we adopted him was Baby Bear. Baby Bear. And he only came to the the name Baby. And my husband was like, I'm not calling this dog baby. So we called him Biggie because it sounds, you know, similar to baby. Yeah. And he comes to Biggie, though. He come. Oh, yeah, he's totally. Biggie is for sure his name now. But no, like, he's like my little space heater and he's so cuddly. And I'm all about if you want your pets to sleep in your bed with you, I support you. You know, it's funny, too, when I'm on the couch hanging out with both of them, like, Remy will be cuddled like she's little spoon with me. And if I'm like, kind of turned at all, Hazel will be in between my knees, like, back. And we're all just. I'm just like, well, we're here. Until one of you moves, you're like, I am just going to have to hold it for the next 12 hours. That's exactly. Sometimes I will fall asleep on the couch if we're all peacefully sleeping there. I'm like, I'm just going to sleep on the couch tonight. It's best. There's no better feeling. There really isn't. And I know there will come a day that I'm going to miss that. So I'm going to soak it up every time that I can, 100%. So you're single. Have you ever dated anyone that didn't get along or like your pets? Yeah. Yeah. Really? No, I didn't date him for very long. Let's put it that way. I don't know why I'm saying, really, like, I asked the question. Yeah, no, it didn't last very long. That's honestly one of my first questions before I even really start to consider even going on a date with someone is if they like animals. Because I am a massive animal lover. I, me and your producer of this podcast have had this conversation. I can't date a hunter. Which is funny because. Yeah, I just, I can't. I could if it was like, out of sight, out of mind. You never bring it home. Yeah, but I just know most hunters. That's not the lifestyle. No. And I just. I love animals so much that if you don't, we're just going to be vastly on different scales. And you're also not going to understand me as a human being 1000%. It's like in your DNA. I feel like if you're an animal lover and you know all of your values, like finances, children, all of that, of course is super important. But, like, if you don't like animals, that is right up there. Oh, yeah. And it's funny, I had. I dated one guy and he. Oh, he had all kinds of red flags, but he was actually really good to my animals. But I. Something that's really important to me is that I. If I see a stray animal, I am going to find a way to get it and I'm going to get it to safety. That's just. I. All my Plans will be curtailed. I don't care. Correct. And we were headed to dinner, and I was. I saw a dog, and I was like, pull over right now. Like, I'm going to go find out. And he was like, no, we're not. And we're going to keep going. And I sobbed about this dog I had never met in my life, but I was like, I. This is not going to work for me. And I remember, like, sitting in that car being like, this is so important to me that I can't overlook this. We broke up for a multitude of other reasons, but that was something that really stuck in my brain. For future partners. Yeah, they have to be okay with this part of who I am. I feel like you at the first date need to be like, would you or would you not? So stop on the side of the road for a stray animal? Check yes, check no. Just save us some time, Josie. There's also people that I've met who, like, purposely hit squirrels. Oh, don't tell me that. Like, I. I'm not kidding. Like, they'll purpose and they'll see. Or they'll see possums or something. I'm like, stop. I don't. What is that animal doing to you? I'm calling 911 on them. That's how I feel. They're not. Not only am I not going to date you, you're going to jail. See, that is horrible. Oh, the toothpaste one's funny. The toothpaste story is funny. What's this? So I did date a guy. And, you know, I brushed Remy's teeth every single night. Ms. Hazel doesn't have to have her teeth brushed because she doesn't have teeth, but Remy gets her teeth brushed every night, and it is with my toothpaste. So I never forget that. This is something I have to do, Right? Well, I was dating a guy, and we were at the point of him, he was staying over, and he had went into my bathroom to brush his teeth, and he came out and he was like, oh, that toothpaste is super weird. And I was like, what are you talking about? I have Colgate. Like, why is it weird? He's like, in the green bottle. And I was like, can you show me which one you use? And he comes out. I'm like, it literally says dog toothpaste on this bottle. You're like, you just brush your teeth with the dog's toothpaste. I did. And you may or may not be illiterate because it says dog toothpaste. I'm like, it says it right. Vets Best Dog Enzyme Toothpaste. Wait, that is disgusting. They, like, put, like, chicken flavor in there. Yeah, that's why it tasted a little weird for this poor guy. And I was like, I'm really sorry, but that is not my toothpaste. And he's like, no. Did. No. Did you guys. Yeah, we didn't work out for other reasons, but I'm. I'm not sure if that did or did not play a part in that. It's very possible it did. Friday Night, Reed mentioned that that was a jam, but I believe, if I'm correct, you wrote that. I think Lady A cut it, but didn't put out a single. Yeah, it was on the Own the Night record. And then you asked, hey, you guys didn't put a single. Do you care if I cut it and put it out Single? Is that true? I actually was. I mean, it was. Yeah. Basically, I was playing a little show down in Birmingham, and, yeah, a guy at. The. One of the Guys at the label, Kevin, came down and he came to the show, and just after I played Friday night, he pointed at me, he said, there's your single. And I'm like, lady A cut it, you know, from the stage. He goes, and put on the radio, it's your single. Thanks, Kevin. Keith Urban, Wild Hearts. Yeah, man. How'd that one go? This goes out to the Drifters. All of the dreamers ready to fly. I'm like, whisper Singer. How'd that do? We were 20. I'm bringing you cookies next time I have a song on the radio. We. We missed number one by 26 spins. No way. Yeah. So it's my first, and I'm fine with it. I knew that. You know why? Because I talked to Jen Wayne. I was on a golf course. Jen Wayne pulls up behind me. We're playing golf. Jen Wayne, by the way, was a professional tennis player. Again, one of the great, great people, too. And she pulls up behind me, and she's with Garth's lawyer. But she. To her, that's not Garth's lawyer. That's, like her friend or something. I don't know. And I only knew Garth Sawyer because he kind of got somebody I knew out of some trouble. Not Garth, but somebody I knew out of some trouble. And I just met him because we had opened for Garth in Fayetteville in the Razorback Stadium. And so I met him, and I went up to him, and I was like, hey, I just want to say thank you. Because he contributed something that was very, very beneficial to Me, I was very beneficial to me. I can tell you about all the air. But then I see Jen and him coming up, right? And I'm like, what the crap? And she's like, yeah. She goes, can you believe? Because again, at this point, I wasn't like in the music game, meaning I'm just creating content at this point. But I don't even keep up. But I want to know if my friends are doing well. And she was like, we missed by 26 spins or 20, whatever the number was. And then she told me who beat it. I think it was like a multi week. Yeah, someone had it for multi week. I'm kind of like, why you don't need a 3, 5, 7 week number one. Especially if it's that close. Like somebody open up. That's the point. That's a good song. That's a good song. No, it worked out. I mean, all that being said in the. The interesting thing, people like, guy, you must have been upset. And I was like, honestly, I wasn't. That's the first time I ever saw had a song go top five and it didn't go number one. Like, it was my first number two. I'll take it. Yeah, you'll take it. But I mean. No, I'm serious. It was like just in relative thinking. It was like, I've never had a number two. How cool is that? I could have had six number twos. You got a two. You're right. You know, Keith Urban is the guy too, that had really instilled in me after saying it many times. What you said earlier was because Keith would be like this song, not on air. We'd be talking and Keith and I left pretty close. I've been over. You know, we're. Keith and I are friendly. When he. When he's here, he's not here a whole lot. But when he's here and he's like, dude, some of my biggest songs weren't number ones. He goes, and everybody thinks they were because they're the. Everybody goes crazy for them. But he's like, number seven, number 13. The honest truth is it was too early. People are catching up. And that being. I will say, if anybody has never seen Keith play live, you. I don't care what genre and what zip code you thought you were born into, where your parents didn't want you listening to, that you listened to, like, whatever music you like. Keith Urban will melt your face off. Also, his whole band is like front men. And the. And the cool thing is the fact that he has Nathan and Jerry up there singing. And that Keith isn't intimidated is because Keith is such a rock star. He doesn't need to be intimidated. Anyway, go see Keith's live band. They're freaking mind blowing. And he is such a. This word gets thrown around a lot. But he's such a perfectionist in that I've been with and around him at times pre a show, and he's making sure the lights are in the exact place the lights like, before he does a show. Like, he's going, okay. What? You know, sometimes depending on where you are when you are, an artist won't even need to do their sound check. They'll have somebody go do it for him. He ran a sound check. He ran some new stuff. He wanted to test the lights. He wanted to see what the light. Like, that's a guy who wants to make sure that the people get out of it. The money they put into it. Yeah. And he has the time to do it. I remember in earlier years doing tours, you're just like, I don't even have time for soundcheck because my day's booked so much. What do you mean? Having to, like, do like. Yeah, just all kinds of random stuff read Nothing you out of songs breaks your heart. But Eli Young, man. Whoa, whoa. What? No, you already said that. So that's not it. The only other one I know is the Rascal Flat song. Rascal Flats. Rewind, rewind. How? Sing Whisper. Sing. That one. Wow. Flip the moon back up in the sky Put a puck back into that sweet red wine oh, yeah. No, it's not dead. Ray. Do you ever hear a song that goes like this? When I grow up, up, up I can be whatever I want, want, want you'll see. I never said it was that. I said, when I grow up, my number one kids song. Writing kids songs before I even had kids. I just remember being so grateful. Phil Barton. And what's. What's really cool is every once in a while, Phil will play it or write and people will tag me in it. I just remember being so grateful because you knew Phil and brought Phil over to the. When I lived downtown. And I was just so grateful that because, dude, you can write with anybody at any time. People you have. That's fun. But I was like, I'll write any song ever. I was like, eric, well, don't say that, because it made me feel less special. But then it's. I was like, he's like, I write with anybody. I write with everybody. Everybody that asks. Yeah, Yeah. I was very grateful because I was like. And then Eric's like, let's do that. I remember it vividly and it's awesome. And people still, schools still use that for, like, assemblies. That's great. They get tagged at like the end of the school year every year with schools and their kids, like all, like the second graders singing the whole song. And so. Yeah, that's it. You didn't know that? Did you do it? No, I did, man. I used to sing that back in school. Yeah, See, this guy used to sing it back in school. Yeah. A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks for me. Love Starbucks. Love to get a chai tea. And if I'm ready, if I really need a big day, I'll get that double shot of espresso ready to go. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're going to go, you're going to meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here. You're going to get it in a mug or a glass. There's also a condiment bar. It's back. Now you can add the finishing touches to your drink so you don't have to go, well, I need a little more of this. I need a little less of this. You can do the perfect amount of cream and sugar. You now have even more reasons to stay a while at Starbucks. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit. Hey, it's Bobby Bones. 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A lot of crops. Hopefully soon, corn, pumpkins, rye I believe. Maybe a little fescue to be determined. Over to you, coach. And here's a clip from this week's episode of the Sore Losers. Let me show you the picture, Ray. It looks like the N1 mixtape tour out there. They've shown clips of basketball shorts from 20 years ago. It wasn't it crazy how baggy they used to have them? Oh my gosh. And now they all wear them right up their cranks. Dude, you can't even see the kid's legs Dude, I mean, he has a head, arms, and ankles. That's all he has. Is that not hilarious? You almost got to get him another pair of shorts. I did. I got him another pair of black shorts. Yeah, I mean, it is so. You know, my mom, she could sew those things. I mean, look at that. I mean, it's socks. It's his socks. You don't even see any skin. He does look like a baller, though. He does look like a baller. Dude. What's the little one do? Just dick around on the sideline. On the sideline with his basketball and cries because he can't go in the game. He looks like he'd be a little bit more efficient than Jessica. Yeah, he's ready. He'll. He'll be in it next year. He'll be four next year. And he can play. And I'm like, how the hell is he going to play basketball? The basketball's three size. It's too big for him. Like, is it. It's a women's ball. Probably. It's like a 27 and a half inch youth ball. I don't know. Yeah, it's women's. Yeah. Yeah. That's where we're at. We got a game this coming weekend. We got two games left, man. We got to turn this season round finish 500. That's what we're hoping for. To go three and three in our first season would be a huge success. And you said it wraps up when? In two weeks. Here's what you can hope that'll be perfect. It goes right into March Madness. Then the stuff with Keith, with Kid. I'm gonna make poster boards. You bring the March Madness to the house. The kids get into it. It invigorates them. Just like LeBron and Luca loving the game again. Maybe they get it all just works together. Hopefully they keep that excitement then in the offseason. This right now, you almost got to look at it as a wash. No, we're. We're still excited. We still have fun. I mean, that's what we're trying to do. We like, we played. I mean, I got to tell you, I'm shocked you guys are doing the score. Tell me how good this practice was yesterday. I forgot to tell you this. We played Duck, duck, goose. Who wants gummies? Duck, duck, goose. Basketball version. So they dribble the ball around the circle. And the other person, everybody in the circle has a ball. Duck, duck, duck, goose. And then whoever gets hit, Goose has to start dribbling and dribble around the circle. And chase them around the circle as they're dribbling. If they get back to their spot, that's really good. Boom, dude. Yeah. So you got to come up with the dumbass stuff to keep them entertained. You're not running plays and doing conditioning. These kids don't need to condition at this age. There's two. They don't need conditioning because they got plenty of energy. These are the only two things I remember from basketball at that age. You got to try one of them. I'm just telling you. The one is where I told you a kid needs to bark like a dog in the middle of the lane. And then that distracts and you run a play to the basket, but he just gets on his knees and starts barking. And all the other kids are looking. And then boom. You beeline it to the right, get to the hoop, get a basket. It works once. I'll do it. Okay, I'll do it this weekend. That's one thing. I'll get my wife to film it. Yes. You got to get a kid just faking like they're a dog, going as loud as they can. So then kids look and then boom. Then you pass it. It works every time. The other thing, tell the kids to write down a mistake on a piece of paper. Hey, what do you think you did wrong? What do you think? This is what I remember from four year old basketball. What'd you do wrong? What'd you do wrong? All the kids write down bad pass, didn't make a basket. Da da, da. You take them all, you put them in a coffee can. You bring a lighter with you. Light that bitch on fire. And the kids are going, oh my God, Dad. What is that? Dad? None of those matter. Okay, let's change it now. I don't remember exactly how he outro it. Damn, that's pretty good, man. But they're all on fire. That's really good. And it's in a coffee can. So it's not going to start a fire in the basketball court, but it shocks them all. And you're like, because guess what? None of those matter. They're all ashes now. It's in the past. I, I, I remember it from four years old, dude. So that's pretty legit, dude. We're like, coach just started a fire in a coffee can. That's pretty good. It goes out on its own. You're not going to start like a, you know, gym fire. Okay, I like it. You got to. That's the type of stuff, it's something that they're Going to remember shock value, right? Yes. Yes. Get their attention. Yes. All right, well, happy Wednesday, everybody. We're out of here. I mean, no football to talk about. I mean, coach started a fire of practice today in a coffee can. What? What? What? The league calls me. Hey. Parents have been requesting to get off your team, saying you're turning their kids into pyromaniacs. I'm sorry. Maybe you got to throw. I remember our coach, too. He had let a couple. I don't think it was an F, but he'd definitely say a little S or a D every once in a while. Okay. You let a swear word slip. Damn it. Come on. Sorry, kids for saying that. Come on. Just get them fired up. It's something they're not expecting. I do like that. All right. Anything else? You got anything going on? No, man. No, man. Baser dude. They make her. She's been working from home. She had to commute. She said they would commute in traffic. Hour and a half. She had a commute. Yeah, they just. They're doing a couple things in the office. Oh. Hits me up almost the same drive. My drive's 20 minutes. Hers in traffic is an hour and a half. She goes, it's brutal. I'm quitting tomorrow. I'm like, totally kidding. She's not quitting. But she goes, dude, this traffic. This traffic is awful. And I'm like, yeah, it's pretty bad. But working from home, you save yourself an hour and a half on the front end and the back end. Yeah, that's three hours of your day, man. I just. Those people that sit in traffic, that sucks for them, but all right. Little food for your soul. Life ain't always pretty, but, hey, it's pretty beautiful. Laugh a little more. Tighten up your core. You're kicking it with four things with Amy Brown. All right, let's talk about closure, because. Well, I think this is something that we've likely all struggled with at some point. Like whether it's a breakup or a friendship that fizzled or ended or just any situation that never fully has been resolved, it's really, really hard to move on without that final answer. And I will say sometimes we want to receive that final answer, but also sometimes we want to give other people closure because we feel like it will be good for them when maybe that's not necessarily our role. You may not have to provide that. So that's a whole nother thing to work through as well. But I read something from psychologist Kavya Shrivastav. Totally not sure if I'M saying her name right, but I gave it my best shot, and it really hit close to home. She said closure isn't about what the other person gives you. It's about how you process what happened. Now, the main reasons behind why we crave closure are pretty obvious. Obviously, it helps us find peace after being hurt. It stops us from just ruminating over it, obsessing over any unanswered questions that we have. It helps us move forward without lingering regrets of sorts. And pretty much, closure is like sealing an emotional envelope. That's how I visualize it in my head. Like, you're able to just close it shut without it. You keep going into the envelope to reread all the old stuff, the letters, the messages, and you try to make it make sense, and you can't. And the hard truth about closure is sometimes we think that it has to come from the other person. Like, we need to hear them explain or apologize or even validate whatever it is that happened. But that's not always going to happen again because they don't even owe it to us. Now, in some circumstances, yes, it's not a blanket statement, but let's just say for the sake of this thing, it's never going to happen. You're not going to get the closure. So then what? What do you do? Well, that's when you get stuck in the Y trap and you're like, why did they do this? Was it me? What could I have done differently? How could I fix it? And those types of questions will leave us spiraling forever. So the key for us is to accept that we don't need all the answers to move forward. And I have had to practice this multiple times in my adult life. And I wish I better understood this as a teen and a young, young adult as well, because the power of acceptance is so good. And now that I know acceptance, it just helps me. And I know that it could sound like if you're accepting that, you're just kind of rolling over and being like, okay, cool, you know, this horrible thing happened, and I'm fine with it. But that's not what the acceptance part is. Acceptance just means that you're not going to fight it. You're going to fight what's happening. It means instead of obsessing over why something happened, you focus on what you can do next. A little mantra that I had in my back pocket for 20, 20, 2021, 2022. Like, I was using this one a lot. I may not understand it, but I can heal anyway, because there was so much I wasn't understanding and I didn't have answers to, but I knew I had the ability to heal anyway. Sometimes it was hard for me to just move on. I didn't like the idea of that. So I would think of it more as like moving along or moving forward. Like despite what was happening, I was gonna move forward. Sometimes I would move backwards, but at least I was moving. It's a small shift from the word moving on to moving forward, but for me it made a big difference. It felt more practical and less forced. The energy is a little bit different. I don't know. See if that resonates with you. Like if you say moving, I'm moving on or I'm moving forward, there's different energy there. So then comes the time where you have to really give yourself closure again. It's not coming from the other person, it is coming from within you. At the end of the day, finding closure is you choosing yourself because you're not going to let those thoughts take up any more space rent free in your brain. So one thing you need to do, because who knows how long you've been thinking these thoughts. I mean, some of you listening right now, I know, are holding onto things from 10 years ago and you want closure and you have been wondering why for the last 10 years. Or maybe it was just 10 days ago. Well, this is going to be awesome for you to be reminded of this. I'm not saying anything new by the way, and I'm gathering a lot of different things that I was taught over the last five years that I learned. Some of this I picked up in Al Anon that is all about surrendering, releasing control. When you are stuck in trying to figure out the why of what happened and you are stuck wanting closure from somebody else. This is the opposite of surrendering. You have to focus on what you can control and you can't control that. So whether you've been trying to operate that way, like I said, For 10 years or 10 days, pause and forgive yourself for holding on for however long it was. Let go of any resentment towards the person. You don't want to carry that around and then prioritize peace. If you are waiting on that one last conversation or that one last explanation, just know that you don't actually need it. Your peace is within you. It's not dependent on what they do. This is honestly one of those things. Like when I was typing out what I wanted to say about this, I'm like, oh, I need to like email this to myself so I can go back and read it when I need it. Or maybe I'll just pull this part of the podcast and listen to it when I need it. Because I think we all crave closure and we can know that this is what we need to do to let it go and not get all wrapped up in that we need answers from somebody else when we're trying to force it. Now, if someone wants to volunteer that information, that's totally fine. But does knowing that really change things for you fully? I know there are things that I have ended where I believe the person would appreciate more closure. And at the same time I felt like what I was able to share was enough. A lot of my friends, they can't even get their day going without stopping by Starbucks for me. Love Starbucks. Love to get a chai tea. And if I'm ready, if I really need a big day, I'll get that double shot of espresso ready to go. But the great thing now at Starbucks is, is that if you go and you decide you want to hang out in Starbucks for a little bit, they're now doing ceramics, like glassware. So if you're going to go, you're going to meet a friend and you order a drink and you say, I want it here. You're going to get it in a mug or a glass. There's also a condiment bar. It's back. Now you can add the finishing touches to your drink so you don't have to go, well, I need a little more of this, I need a little less of this. You can do the perfect amount of cream and sugar. You now have even more reasons to stay a while at Starbucks. So you go to Starbucks anyway. Next time, stay a while at your next Starbucks visit. Hey, it's Bobby Bones. For many, the American dream means starting your own business and working for yourself. If you're a small business owner, launching a company or dreaming of starting one, then you'll not only want to make sure you're using a platform like Intuit QuickBooks, but you'll also want to check out season three of Mind the Small Business Success Stories from iHeartMedia's Ruby Studio and Intuit QuickBooks. In every episode, hosts Austin Hankowitz and Janice Torres talked to small business owners about how they've grown and maintained their businesses. They've tackled hundreds of challenges that come along with, well, being your own boss. 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She's getting real not afraid to feel Take a soul to soul Just let it flow no one can do it quite like Caroline it's time for Caroline. It's so disgusting, but I have this hacking issue that I feel like every single time before I do a podcast I gotta hack it up. And it's like, okay, it's like a thing. And I've never met someone to join in with me before. Well, here we are, best friends, right off the job. Because I feel like it just really took us to the next level right away. What do you think? Well, I think being singers too, you know when your voice is like in the prime and when you know you've got stuff stuck in there. Yes. And the worst is on stage. Sometimes I'll take a puffer before I go on stage, which is actually, I've learned, is the worst thing. What's a puffer. Like a. A butyrol. Like when you have asthma. Oh, okay. You like, spray. It's like a steroid in your throat. Okay. To help you open your airways. Okay. And it actually gets all your mucus going. So I'm hacking on stage while trying to sing. It doesn't work. Yeah. So I can't take that. What do you do when a hack attack comes on stage? My husband, who's my playback, he can talk in my ears. He's like, you need to take another shot of your puffer. Come to the side of stage after the second song. But now I know the puffer is the problem. Yeah, the puffer is a problem. So I just went to the doctor. So I was. This is not. I'm not throwing names out there, but I was hanging out with Shania Twain and I was like, as a friend. No, I opened for her and then I saw that, and she, like, learned your song on stage and y'all did, like three part harmony. Crazy. Like, like, best moment of my life so far for sure. Which we'll circle back to the moment. But then let's talk about the hanging out. We were hanging out. How do you hang out with Shania Twain? Well, she was on a three run date at this festival in Newfoundland, which is like, my family lives there, so it was kind of like. Canada. Yeah. Okay, so you're from Canada. Yes, from Canada. Okay. And I got to meet her on stage because I play with her. And then. How did you get that opening spot? Just because you're a badass. Oh, you were nominated for, like, Canadian artist of the year. I mean, you got stuff going on. All the Canadian. The Canadians. You were the one female Canadian. This was my first nomination ever, and I was actually really surprised that I got it, so. And you're nominated for female artist a Year. Yeah. Which, like, I. Awesome. I thought maybe I would get like new artists or something, but that. Straight to the top. But hanging out with Shania, I was like, this is my moment to ask her. Random. And you did? Yeah. What'd you. So I asked her because she's a fellow Canadian. I asked her about, like, her business manager. Is it a Canadian or is it an American? Because they need to know all the tax laws for both countries. What is it? She's like, you need a Canadian. Okay. So I did actually switch business managers. Okay. To a Canadian. Yeah, Gotta. I literally listened to every single thing she told me. What else? Can you share all the tea. She told me to go on singular for asthma. So I Did Okay. Which is a medication, I think. So should. I said so, so it must have. And then I got my puffer, and then I got a Monzyrtech. Allergy pills. Okay. And acid reflux Nexium. Okay. I'm just taking all of these things. And then she told me, like, this whole thing about, like, not eating before your show. And she, like, lays in the dark in her hotel all day, and people just bring her, like, purified food. And I'm like, well, I don't have people. Yeah. And we do have your husband. I have my husband. He has, like, 10 jobs. He's not going to pure a. Like, pure. Pureed. Sorry. Yeah, pureed. Pureed food. So she only wants it, like, mushed up, like, applesauce style. Yes. She does not chew food day of her show. Meanwhile, I'm like, Really? I eat McDonald's for every meal when I'm on the road. Why does she not choose food? Because I just kicked her throat. Yeah, she doesn't want a hat. She doesn't want a hat. She knows her body, I guess, so I wrote it down, but I'm not at that point yet. Like, she brings her own ninja with her. Does she, like, do anything when she's laying in the dark? Like, watch tv? No, she dark, like, meditate, meditation music. All day. All day. How do you do that all day? I don't know. And I explained to her, I'm like, I'm at the point of my career where I'm flying in day of potentially, or I'm driving all day, morning and all night. I haven't slept for a week, haven't showered and need to eat McDonald's. So I'm not at that point yet. But, like, how does one lay all day without going bananas? Yeah, man, that's amazing. She's pushing down to art shows where she's. She rips around stage like she's running. She. This, like, the. The rebirth of Shania. Because I feel like she kind of went silent for a little while and then reemerged. Yes. And, like, man, did she reemerge, like, with incredible costumes. And I feel like she, like, cuts them herself backstage before. I've seen documentaries or something where she's like, the costume will be. I could be wrong, but, like, she'll, like, get some scissors and, like, change it up a little bit. And, like. Yeah, I've definitely watched all her documentaries and read her book. And because she's Canadian, I just know everything about her. And she was, like, trying to. She was, like, explaining some Stuff about her past life. I'm like, I know. You don't have to tell me. I know everything about you, but thanks. So y'all, like, hung out? Hung out? Yeah, like 4aM so, like, how many hours? Well, it was, like, after the show, so I'm like midnight to 4ish. And she was just chatting with you? Yeah. And she was so chill. Drank a whole bottle of champagne, and I was just. Is she living her best life these days? Yeah. I feel like she's really in her, like, her best drive. She's so cool. And she, like, swore. And she was, like, super Canadian and, like, you know, Canadian hillbilly vibes, which is what I am, so. Oh, did y'all, like, get numbers? No. Okay. But she was like, I'll send you this stuff. I'm like, how are you gonna send me that? Let's be honest. Gosh, that's so cool. Because a lot of times, like, mega stars like that don hang out with people that, like, are opening for them, and I've never. Yes. I usually don't even get to meet the person. Yeah, sometimes you don't even meet for meet them. And the fact. Cuz, actually, so I made that happen because. Oh, go, girl. I heard that she doesn't meet opener sometimes, and her meet and greets are not very big. Okay. So I was like, how can I meet Shania? I'm literally opening for the queen, and I'm. I need to meet her. So I. This is side note. But I play the bagpipes. Oh, I know. And I've got to. I have so many questions about the bagpipes. So I was like, other than that, like, she's not gonna care who I am. So what if I played bagpipes to one of her songs? So you learned it. So that morning in the hotel, I learned Any man of mine on bagpipes. I have, like, my electric bagpipe. So I sent her manager a video of me playing it, and she was like, yeah, she loves it, so should I. Approved. And then when I was about to go on stage with her, I was like, you know, do you guys play in the same key? Like, I need to make. They're like, no, you're not really gonna play. Like, she's just gonna talk to you, and you'll play it for, like, two seconds. You're not gonna play with the band. I had in ears, but I didn't hear the count in of them actually joining me. So I did the beginning of Any man of Mine and then the whole band came in. In a different key because I did an album key. And so she talked to me in my ear and she's like, that's the wrong key. Go figure out what key we're in. She knighted. Yeah. And I was like, I specifically asked if you guys played it in this key. And they're like, no, don't worry about it. Hey, it's Mike D. And this week on Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, Kelsey and I recently rewatched all eight Harry Potter movies. I re ranked them from my least favorite to my most favorite. We got into a big discussion and heated debate on a death in the Harry Potter franchise that I thought was a little bit overrated. So a small spoiler warning. Even though the last movie came out now over 10 years ago, and I think if you haven't seen any of the Harry Potter movies by this point, you're probably not going to. But we do get into all the details as far as the endings, the deaths, because in order to do this episode, you have to talk about it all. So here's just a little bit of the episode, but be sure to check out the entire thing on Movie Mike's Movie podcast. At number four, I have from 2010, Deathly Hallows Part 1, directed by David Yates. This one sets the stage. And it went up on my list. I was gonna say you weren't the biggest Deathly Hallows. No. And I think it's because when we do rewatch them, we don't typically rewatch the last two. Maybe because they are heavier. Maybe it's because the conclusion of the story. It's not one that I think, like, hey, let's put that one on the way. Family friendly film. But the way we re watched them all and we're. I was able to see it build up towards the end and like, really find out the true story. I almost feel like for the first time again, because it's been a while since we sat down and re watched them all. Now imagine, like having to wait a year. Even though I'd read the book, I couldn't do it. Like, I. I put myself in that position of when these movies came out and thinking, like, going to a theater and not knowing what was gonna happen, even though you probably read the book, you knew it was gonna happen. But that level of excitement had to be wild. Oh, it was unmatched. So that one went up and at number three, this one also went up and I put them together. It's Deathly Hallows Part 2 from 2011. The conclusion to all of It. I don't remember the scene whenever Harry finds out the whole story of how it all connects and with Snape. Oh, yeah, yeah. When they go to the big exposition of what is he dip his. Dips his head in like that water thing, like that fountain. And then he's able like to. Well, Harry dips his head in the water and sees. He puts like Snape's tears. That's what it was when Snape dies, which that was sad. Sees all of Dumbledore telling Snape, like, you must be the one to kill me. And how Snape, like all along has tried to protect Harry and he wasn't the bad guy. I remember reading that and my mind was blown. Life was changed. I was like, oh, my God, he wasn't the bad guy. Because in the books it's the same. Like you think for six books that Snape hates Harry and that he's responsible for Dumbledore's death. You think that. And then like you find out in the book. Book truly changed me. And the fact that Voldemort has been a part of him. Like he lives inside of him. That whole connection of when he. What happened when he tried to kill him. And it just. For the first time I was able to like really connect it all and feel the gravity of it and think, oh, like how well designed this story was and all the pieces that ended up connecting. And this is the only movie franchise that I feel wraps up perfectly because I guess because it is based on the book. But there was nothing, no questions unanswered. There was no emotions that you were lacking. It had it all. Yeah. And then they give you the scene in like 20 years when everyone's like married and has their own kids going to hop. That hits you emotionally. I also love whenever they go into whatever that white space is wherever he sees them again, sees Dumbledore again, Dumbledore again. And he, like, you think he's dead, but then he's not really dead. Then he comes back to life long bottom has his moment where he shines. So there are so many great conclusions for different characters in this final movie that I found myself loving it more. And now I feel like I could just go back and watch part two. Yeah. And enjoy it and feel like, oh, yeah, that is one. Now I want to go back and re watch. That is why I have it at number three now. But at number two has stayed here pretty steadily, I'd say before Chamber of Secrets was in that number two spot forever. I just love those so much. But it's Prisoner of Azkaban came out in 2004. Watch that one a lot. We've watched this one, I feel like the most because we've seen it anytime it's on tv. And then we did one of our like outdoor movie nights. They showed that one. And this one, it's pretty. Has a lot of vivid memories. Obviously the introduction of Sirius Black. Hermione has the like time travel thing. It's the first one where they look more like. They look older. They don't look like tiny kids. There's straight children in the first two. But this one, they get older and it starts to get a little darker. The tone, the bus scene at the beginning. Yes. Which I think is the most iconic, like one of the most iconic things out of all of these movies. The double decker bus that is very memorable and overall has just become one that I feel is a really good centerpiece of the entire story. And I think it's the fact that we have re watched it so much that it has great rewatch ability. It has crept up into my number two slot. All right. And at number one, Sorcerer's Stone 2001 Chris Columbus. I just feel that this one embodies everything that I love about Harry Potter. I had it on vhs. That is amazing. I wish I still had that. But it's. I hate to pick the first one in a franchise because. Which you don't normally. I don't because I feel like the first one is still setting the stage. But this one sets the stage. The best of him not knowing he's a wizard. Haggard. Harry Haggard. Coming. Yeah. The best line, that whole interaction with all them trying to get the notes to him. The mail to him post doesn't come on Sunday. Him living beneath the stairs, them leaving and then still finding them and him finding out about Platform nine and three quarter. Like they're just. It's the best. Yeah. And it also. The reason we associate these movies, at least for us with Christmas time, is because there is Christmas in this one. Happy Christmas, Harry. And it just has like that warm, cozy vibe that even though it's not a Christmas movie, I think that's why anytime November December roll around, I want to re watch these movies. And I also feel this was the first time that you're introduced to not knowing whether Snape is a good or a bad guy. You think he's the bad guy the entire time. Yeah. You think he's the bad guy for six movies. Yeah. But this is the one where like, oh, he's the bad guy. He's doing it. He's the one messing up the Quidditch man. Oh yeah, yeah. When he's doing the curse and it turns out it's Quirrel and Snape's like trying to counteract it and Hermione sets Snape's robes on fire. So I think nothing will ever knock this one out of being my favorite Harry Potter movie. It has everything I want from every single character and to me it just feels the most magical. And I feel kind of like a kid again whenever you watch this movie. Thanks for listening to this week's Sunday Sampler. If any of those clips tickled your fancy, go and check out the episode. Subscribe to the podcast. That would be great. That would help us. Maybe you like the podcast. The Bobby Cast four Things with Amy Brown Sore Losers Movie Mike Caroline Hobby Dr. Josie Morgan got her podcast Take this personally. All are up there. Subscribe if you don't mind, check them out. Thank you guys and we will see you next week. Foreign Bobby Bones here with some exciting news. 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