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Amy Brown
Foreign. Hey, it's Amy. And we are back with another Sunday sampler. It's clips from some of the podcasts that came out this week on the Nashville Podcast Network. On the Bobby Cast, Bobby sat down with comedic legend Tom Green. Tom talks about how he pushed the envelope when he hosted Saturday Night Live. He talks about the Bum Bum Song, his new documentary that's out about his life and so much more. On my podcast, four Things with Amy Brown, I sit down with my dermatologist and we talk about skincare myths, the truth behind beauty sleep, and how often we should be showering and even washing our hair. Also whether stress can cause hair loss. Like for real. For real. And collagen supplements, are they any good? This week's episode of in the Vet's Office is all about cats. Dr. Josie is joined by one of her former vet school classmates and friend, Dr. Bean. And they're answering all kinds of things like, should I be worried about hairballs? Why is my cat peeing outside of its litter box? And what does making biscuits really mean? So we're going to get started with that one. Here's a clip from this week's in the vet's office with Dr. Josie. You're listening to in the Vet's Office with Dr. Josie Horchak. I have a lot of clients that say, okay, I can't get my cat to stop jumping on my counters. What do I do? So, I mean, my cat does not jump on the counters. She's perfect. So I think it's, you know, it's a training issue. I think you'll try to obviously discourage it when they are jumping up the kind of couple tricks that I'll recommend to people. Cats in general are very tactile. They based a lot of their decisions on how things feel. So putting like double sided tape on a countertop or like aluminum foil, um, sometimes Saran Wrap also works. They hate how that feels. So they'll usually jump on and immediately jump off. And so the hope is that they just learned that they just don't jump up there cause it feels weird for them. And it's like dogs where you start, if you start them young as a kitten, hopefully they don't develop that bad habit. With all behaviors, cats and dogs start them young, trim their nails young, if you can. Yeah, get any sort of behavior issues kind of sorted as early as possible is going to be your best way to get it sorted. Yeah, I mean, I do get it. I think, you know, your cats are going into their litter boxes or peeing and Pooping. And then if they're, like, walking across your kitchen counter, it's probably not the best thing in the world. So that is fair. Zelda doesn't jump on your kitchen counter at all? No. Wow. Not at all. You are a strict cat daddy. I mean, I would say I'm not. I am not tempted by their tricks. You know, cats and dogs, I see them begging for food. I see them asking for extra things. You have to be stronger. You have to be stronger. Totally. I think having some structure is a really good thing. Sets you up for success. What do you think about keeping cats on flea, tick and heartworm prevention all year round? Especially my clients will say, my cat doesn't go outside. They're indoors only. Do I really need to do that? This is a tough one because don't lie to us. I know. I'm going to be very honest. I think, you know, if you go to your vet, your vet is probably going to recommend this. Is my cat on flea and tick? She is not. I kind of explained to people, hey, it's all about how you manage risk and how comfortable you are with risk. Can I say that it's impossible that your cat will get fleas if they're indoor only? It's not impossible. I've definitely seen cats get fleas when they're indoor only. Is it likely? Probably not likely. So if you are a person that wants no risk, you want to make sure you're covered, then I would definitely stay on flea and tick. If you're somebody that's like, you know, little ambiguity is fine. I can manage it. If it comes along, then you may not have to put them on flea and tick. Yeah, I think that's a good, really good point also, too, like, depending on where you live, like, Bean is in downtown Chicago in a high rise, it gets very, very cold there in the winter. I feel like you don't see as many fleas. Like, down here in the south, in Nashville, we see so many fleas. And I think if you have, like, cats and you have dogs in the house or other pets, you know, if they're going outside at all, then having them on prevention makes a lot of sense. But, yeah, if you're in, like, New York City or Chicago and you're living on the 20th floor, the risk of them not being on prevention is pretty low. Yeah. Pros and cons with each side. I think if they have, like, a skin disease, I'll always recommend being on flea prevention at least for a month or two, just in case cats, a Lot of times you will not see fleas on a cat. They groom themselves so, so well. Um, and so I've had cases where we work them up for allergies or other causes for itching and scratching. And you do special diets, you do medications, you spend it, send them to a specialist. And it was just a flea all that time. And it's like, just put them on flea prevention initially to see if it works, because that's such an easy fix for kind of what I would call a stupid problem. Yeah. And can save people a lot of time and money. It's funny how you say that. Like, dogs will see them come in with fleas, and it's so obvious they're crawling in fleas. And then a cat comes in, and they are so meticulous. They've, like, plucked each tiny little flea off. And so you don't always know. Oh, no. And usually you never know. Usually you don't see them. That's why I think always, if we're having a skin problem, start with. Flea prevention is always a smart idea. Yeah. It's like 20 bucks and maybe 30 bucks now and covers your bases and can definitely save you a lot of time and money, if that's what it is. Okay. What do you think about my favorite thing in the entire world, which is when cats make biscuits? This is everyone's favorite thing. I love when they're in the bakery. No, she. No, it warms your heart when a cat decides for the first time that they want to make biscuits on you. It's like they have decided they love you. They care about you. And that's why I like cats more than dogs. I feel like a dog. Most dogs, you give a treat. They love you forever a cat, you really have to work for them to love you. And when they love you back, it is like nothing else. It's like you won the lottery. Oh, it's. You've been chosen. Yeah. You have been chosen. And so when they make biscuits, you know, I think there's a couple theories out there. I think some. One time I read that as kittens, they do it to, like, stimulate milk production in their mom. So they just, you know, maybe they feel like you're a parental figure. They love you. They're comfortable. They want to kind of get a nice, comfortable spot going. Because I feel like sometimes my cat can make biscuits for, like, 20, 30 minutes. Really? And I say, we got enough biscuits. We have too many biscuits now. We made too many. Who's gonna eat all these biscuits? Exactly. That is crazy. 20, 30 minutes. I didn't know that. Oh, she'll. She can go. I've seen cats can go for a long time. Wow. Just working away in the bakery, slaving away, just making biscuits. Oh, there's nothing cuter. Oh, I love it. I need you to send me a picture of Zelda making biscuits. I have videos. I'll show you after this. Is she on your chest making them? Yeah. Like, on your chest, on your abdomen, on your back. Like, whatever they want to do. Cats do. Do whatever. I wish I could have a cat. I, as everyone knows, I have three dogs and my husband is, like, deathly allergic. I would have to literally get rid of him in order to have a cat. I mean, I love him. I love your husband, but, I mean, I like cats a lot, too, so I don't know. I'd have to think about it. It depends on the day. Some days I'm like, get out. Give me the cats. I will say there one thing that we haven't talked about is there is a diet out there that Purina makes. Clear. Live Clear. Live clear. Something like that. And the cats eat it. And one of, like, the main sources of allergens in cats comes from their saliva and their dander. And it's supposed to kind of like, change that so that if you do have allergies, you're less allergic to the cats. I've had some owners say it works. I've had some owners say it works. Yeah, I always just tell owners, you know, we don't have any studies, we don't have any, like, research that proves this, I think. But I've had owners try it and they think it works and they're happy with it. So, hey, if it works. Yeah, great. Definitely worth a shot. I think the big thing for me is, like, if you know you're highly allergic, you probably shouldn't get a cat, because then you're just going to have to end up rehoming it. If you already have the cat and you're experiencing allergies, great. Like, this is a great option to try Live Clear Purina. Look at us, we're plugging again. Someone sponsor us? Someone like, my God, who do you hear from? Is it somebody, an executive at mtv? Do they call whomever is now managing your representing you? How quick does all that happen? And. And what's, like, the board, Like, I don't know, you walk into a business room, like, the cliche thing, there's all these chairs, they offer you the big deal you've been waiting for. Like, what really happened? I've got a pretty hilarious story about that. I don't. I don't know if. See if I can paint the picture properly. So. Well, first of all, what happened was I was. The show was now kind of popular in Canada enough that I got invited on the one talk show we had in Canada at the time. It was called Mike Bullard was the name of the host. He just passed away. Rest in peace, Mike. He was a very funny guy. He gave kind of gave me a. Did me a solid there. He'd have us on his show, and I'd go on and do some, you know, goofy thing that I probably, you know, like I was talking about earlier, I probably, you know, regret doing. But, you know, it was, you know, I'd go in with bags of milk, and we have milk comes in bags in Canada, which is strange. But anyways, I pop milk bags and milk would fly everywhere and the microphone would break and all this kind of stuff. But his manager was there, who's from Los Angeles, also since passed away. He's in the documentary. His name's Howard Lapidus. And he. He. He represented Jimmy Kimmel, who was not, you know, he was on radio at the time, and Carson Daly, who was on TRL, and Norm MacDonald and also Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla, who were doing Loveline on MTV. So Howard was in the MTV universe, and he brought the show there. And that's kind of how we got the initial meeting to do the pitch of the show. So they saw the few tapes that he showed them, and then they. They flew us. Well, they flew me down to. To Los angeles and probably 27 or 20, 28 years old, and put me up in the Mondrian, okay, which is the most Los Angeles feeling place to be. This sort of modern, you know, artsy hotel, furthest thing from Ottawa, and it's right beside the House of Blues, which is no longer there, but the House of Blues. They had these pitch meetings every year for mtv and they'd bring all the producers and writers in to come out. And you have a stand in front of the MTV executives. And the top executive there was Brian Graydon, who. I did not know who anyone was, but he was. He was the one who ultimately signed the show. But. And so they had told me they had seen four or five or they had seen a bunch of our tapes now at this point, and they had sort of directed me. Play this one. This one. This one. Come. You're gonna come out, you're gonna play these four tapes and Then. And then talk a bit about the show. And so there's this thing I used to do which again, I, I put it in the documentary. So I should probably not be embarrassed to say it, but I used to kind of for a gag, I would suck milk out of cow's udders. You know, it was just, it was just a gag. It was just a gag. But. And they said don't, don't play that one though. Don't play that one. That's so. But I just was such a idiot, I guess that I, you know, they literally told me to make a VHS tape and put this tape on where you paint your parents house. The one where you have the crutches and you're falling down on the street on the crutches. And the one where you go in the pharmacy and try to buy condoms. Play those three, but don't play the cow water one. And I was so sort of sure that no, we need a gross out one. You know, we need to have a balance here. You know, it's very important to me that we have a balance. So I still put that one on the tape and, and I came out and I did my big speech and it was actually like quite, it wasn't complete idiocy. Like it was thought through. Like I, I did say in the speech, you know, in the pitch, you know, you know that this is shot on home video cameras and looks raw and looks rough. And because I'm a skateboarder and skateboarders are doing this now, like this kind of thing, it'll be relatable. And so I really did kind of try to explain why it looked the way it looked. And then I played everything. And then I played the cow utter thing. And of course the room just went nuts because it was, it's disgusting, right? And, but, and funny, right? It's really funny though, you know, dressed as Captain Kirk or something like that, squirting milk all over my face. But, but then I, I had brought a backpack with me and in the backpack I had a couple of cans of shaving cream. And I just for whatever reason decided after I do that I'm, you know, while everyone's freaking out about the cow udder sucking, I'm going to lie down on the boardroom table in front everyone and spray shaving cream all over my face and scream that I want to be on mtv. So I did that and everyone's going, what the hell's this kid? And I took the shaving cream and I walked up to the guy who looked like he was in charge and put some on his face. And then I just walked out. That was Brian Graden. And then I just walked out of the room and. And the guy who had been kind of coaching me to do the. To do the pitch, you know, called me and was laughing and said, you put shaving cream on my boss's face. But they called the next day, and they picked up the show the next day. Yeah, yeah. And they. And I remember going down the elevator with Howard Lapidus and he said, that was the craziest, best pitch I've ever seen. I did never. I didn't ever pitched anything before. I didn't know what a pitch was. But naivety, I guess, kind of is good sometimes. But. And then. And then they. They literally. I was moved to. They got me an apartment in New York City, and we moved down to New York. We took all our tapes and. Which were, you know, hundreds and hundreds of tapes, and immediately they began sort of working on packaging these tapes and they built a studio for us and in Times Square, right beside where they do TRL. And that was. That was it. The first 10 episodes were just old clips from the. From the Canadian show repackaged with the new studio. 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. This ain't the little bitty, itty, bitty, teeny tiny bowl. This is the Super Bowl. Super Bowl L I X. 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Listen to Mind the Business Small Business Success stories on the Iheart app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Amy, do you ever use Wayfair? Oh yes, I have used it multiple times. Yeah. Yeah, me too. What items you want me to tell you about? Well it's almost endless. Like I look for a table and it has so many little clicks. There's so many. What do you. I don't know. What do you want to talk about? Well I love the light that I got from 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 aesthetically 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. Whatever your home decor style is, Wayfair can help you achieve it. For me, I got a table for the upstairs room with the, it's like the sports cave. 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Obviously you have topical things and different treatments for your patients, but sometimes do you have a conversation of, okay, what are we eating? Absolutely 100%. It wasn't actually covered that much back in the day when we were in med school because they were looking at the body as different systems. You know, you have skin, you have gut, you have your kidneys, your liver. But now there's an emphasis on how you can tie this all together. And research has shown that there are certain foods that are pro inflammatory for certain conditions. So for example, let's say someone has rosacea, which is redness of the cheeks. We know that there are certain foods that can make it worse. Alcohol, caffeine, so anything like coffee and so forth, spicy foods. And this varies on the person. So each person may have a different response. I have some patients who have acne and if they eat, let's say, a lot of sugars during Christmas time, they will break out immediately. We're learning more about dairy. Dairy is still kind of like in flux. Some people have maybe an intolerance to gluten, to certain types of diets. So I think it's important to know your body and the best way to do it is actually, for example, cut out alcohol for three weeks or two weeks and see how your skin responds. You'll be surprised. Cut out certain types of sweets, you know, and you will see a difference in your skin. As a doctor, do you have strong thoughts about alcohol? Because I feel like earlier in the year, I know it's still only February, but I believe it's early January. The surgeon general came out talking about how there should be a warning label on all alcohol for cancer. I know that's not your specialty, but when it comes to aging, because like we've always heard, well, one glass of wine a day keeps the doctor away, or it's good for your heart. And looking at the body as a whole, do you find that heavier drinkers tend to look older than they are? You know, when you drink alcohol, it actually causes a lot of oxidation. Oxidation leads to inflammation. Inflammation is honestly what causes all these issues. So, for example, when we look at patients, let's have a heart disease. Let's go out of the skin, go to the heart for a second. Heart disease is actually a form of inflammation. It is nothing different than perhaps what's going on with rosacea with your face. Now, you can argue that certain types of alcohol, like red wine, for example, may help for people with heart disease because it thins their blood out. So if you drink alcohol, you're less likely to clot, so therefore you're less likely to have a heart attack. But that's like maybe a glass of wine here or there. But yes, heavier drinkers put a lot of stress in their liver, and the liver is what's responsible for clearing all the toxins. And if we're not careful, over time, your liver becomes less efficient. When you're younger, I mean, you can do whatever you want to, and your body can respond down the road. It's like, if you get injured, it takes longer to heal. If you have a cut, the skin, if you're like 10 years old versus 50, big difference in the healing time, the scarring. That's why, as I have aged, one margarita with my friends, you know, on a Tuesday night, Wednesday impacts me or maybe a Friday night. But I'm just giving an example of, I wake up the next day feeling way different than I did if I had a margarita a long time ago. Absolutely. Same thing with sleep before, you might be able to be up and work late, next day, still be functional. So I look at this as, you have to know your body well. You have to, like, listen to it. If you listen to it. If you understand what it's telling you in these solo cues, you can actually kind of adjust things and perfect yourself. Because it's all about health and wellness in my mind. So you mentioned sleep. Let's pivot for a second to that. Beauty sleep, like is that a real thing? So you hear like, oh, gotta get my beauty sleep. It was just sort of a saying back in the day. But yeah, there's definitely something to it. Absolutely. And you, we see it in the skin immediately because people who don't sleep get dark circles. You're already seeing that inflammation forming. You are in real time looking at that person and you can identify their skin doesn't look fresh. Sleep has a way to regenerate your body. That regeneration is important for cell turnover, for good skin tone, good health. In fact, let's talk about hair loss for a second. There is a type of hair loss called telogen effluvium which is due to stressors. Hair loss due to stress. Now what's the stress from? Lack of sleep is one of the things. So if you're working hard, non stop, if you're under stress, chronic stress, we're talking about, not acute stress. It takes a toll. Aging. If you look at people who eat well, sleep well, take care of their body, they actually do substantially better in terms of their blood work and their overall skin health and hair health as well. So simply adjusting how much sleep you might be getting could be step one, easy things. Yeah, which I mean if you, if you're stressed though, sometimes it's not easy to fall asleep. Fair enough. But then there's things that you can do that can be ways to mitigate that stress. Like for example, go for a little walk. Sometimes if you go for a walk and this would be a run, I know people say do a little bit more physical activity, go for a walk for 15 minutes, walk like three miles per hour on that treadmill, three and a half miles per hour. You'll feel better, your mind will be more clear, your thoughts will become a little bit more crisp, you're more centered. And then your body will kind of take itself out of this flight and fight response. The problem is that we are bombarded by so much all the time. Social media, this, that text messages. So you never give your time, you never give your body time to recuperate, to heal. So what you're doing is that if you do certain activities, you can actually take your body out of this whole like fight and flight response. And that's what unfortunately the role has become becoming more responsive as opposed to proactive. And how I can take care of situations more now responding to each stimuli. We're gonna do it live. We are the 1, 2, 3. Sore loser. What up, everybody? I am Lunchbox. I know the most about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all. It's Sizzin. I'm from the north. I'm an alpha male. I live on the north side of Nashville with Bazer, 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. And here's a clip from this week's episode of the Sore Losers. Ray was a Wild on E with Brooke Burke. I never saw that one. I did see Singled Out. That was a good one with Jenny McCarthy. That was a fantastic show, dude. Brooke Burke would travel the country in a bikini and show you all these tropical places, and you'd go, that's why I'm going to college, because I'm gonna retire and go there. Well, I'm 40. Still haven't gone there. Watch that shit in high school. And, dude. And you're like, man, that's all I want to do. Make money, travel. Dude, this Brooke Burke just got bikini body all over your tv. Dude. Is that the same chick that was Dancing with the Stars? Burke? Dude, she was. She was more big on Wild on E than Dancing with the Stars, but is that who she was? I don't know. I was a fan. When Bones is on it. I've never seen it since or before, I think. Another girl that was on Daisy Fuentes. That chick was hot, dude. Wild on E. And you know what? I never saw a girl in a bikini like that other than spring break. Or then when I moved to the west side of Nashville in the Whale Tales, because I went to a school in Chicago. I didn't see bikini for 15 years, but I watched it every day. Wild on E. And I thought that's what life's was found out real quick. You got to go on vacation to see that. I used to watch Real World, and I thought, that's what life is. That is what it is, dude. It kind of was. It kind of was. It kind of was badass in college when you could go to the bars that. I'm telling you, the first time I went to a bar, I was 18. I went to Bob Populars And I'm telling you, a brawl broke out where people were breaking pool cues over each other's backs. And I was like, this shit is what life is about. This is living. This is what I've. All the stories I've been hearing about and on the TV and movies. And then I go out the next time, and there was no fight. Go out the next time, there was no brawl. And I'm like, oh, so it's not exactly like tv. One of my first bar experiences. South beach. Got us into a bar in Texas State on the square there. Yeah. And he goes, hey, dude, I got a. What was it? Gift card. He goes, but there's still a couple dollars on it. Oh, no. And he goes, you can scan it and we'll get all our drinks and then we'll bounce. And so at this point, my life. Dude, I didn't know you do bad stuff. Bad stuff ends up happening to you guys. You can't do bad stuff like this. Karma will get you. So we go in there, we go to this bar and kiss. What? Casey goes. South beach goes, oops, delete that. South beach goes, hey, but I know the. I know the bartender. I know the front desk person. I know the valet. I know this. He knew everybody at the bar. He got all me and my boys in. We weren't 21. We go in all. There's a back door. One of us got in. One of us just came in right past the ticket taker. No cover. Everybody else paying five bucks, bro. We got into a table, spent 200 in drinks, gave her a gift card, and we were all out of there. Didn't pay a dollar for drinks. That was my first bar experience. I think Bark Bar, bad karma got me probably for the next year of my life after that one. Why? I don't know. I mean, how can you jump on a tab and not expect that to come around and bite you? What do you mean jump on a tab? You said you paid with the gift card. Gift card had $2 on it. So it scanned so she was able to hold it. And then we bailed before she came back. Oh. So when she went to actually run it, run it for $210. It failed. It declined. We were long gone. Damn. So, Green Parrot, if you are still open on the square, I would love to pay that 200 back. They may have foreclosed. They may have went bankrupt. I'm a check, but still owe it as far as I'm concerned. We need to pay that back. It was in 2007. Maybe if you just go back and say, I had a tab, I need to close out my tab. They're like, what was the last name? I'm like, oh, it's from 2002, dude. They pull it up. It's a bunch of those. Hey, what's the bit Shot? The what? Oh, kamikazes. No, no, no, no. The one Lemon Drop. No, no, the thing that's like the weakest alcohol, it's just sugary. Oh, it's like lemon drop or kamikaze. But it's not an actual shot. It's a bottle. That's just. You would know. You're the bar guy. Rum, vodka, White Walker. I don't. Sugar. You're talking about a shot. No, it's the bottle. The bottle. Pacifico. Sweet. Rum, sugar. I mean, I know now it's like whipped cream. There's a whipped cream. Green Parrot, 124 North LBJ Drive, San Marcus, Texas. They serve food? Yeah, it's still open, guys. Let us know. We'd love to pay that back. Best bar in the square since 1982, man. Malibu. It's on Malibu. Dude. Dude, they're going to pull up the bill and it's going to be 12 Malibu shots. It's called the Dirty Bird. Green parrot.smmtx on freaking insta at shitty Saturday. $3.50 lemon drops right there on their Insta. Dude, I don't think Nephews is still open. But we go to Nephews and there. We didn't sneak in. Oh, yeah. Hey, Green Parrot, they got a hottie. They got a hottie who's serving drinks. Probably her mom. God damn, dude. We go to Nephews in South beach because all these Texas State kids, they're just there, like, kind of to show off. Nobody's there at a bar to really drink because people puck pretty. There we go. Green Parrot's got some ladies there. If you're in San Marcos, stop by there on the square. There are some hotties in there. Hey, hear me on this one. I'm hearing you, college. It's about the pre game. Nobody's really drinking at a bar, so. South beach taught me. Yeah, because you can't afford it, right? So we go to Sanctuary Lofts, get tanked with Billy, and then we go to Nephews, and South beach would go get a glass that had a little bit of cranberry juice or a little bit of vodka still in it, and then he'd go in the bathroom and pour it from the faucet so it looked like you had a Full drink, but it was really somebody else's glass. And it was all watered down. And you just fake like you drink it. He taught me you don't really drink at bars. You just fake it, and that's how you save money. So Billy'd be out of there, man. Out. 150 bar chat. That's crazy. Go back, play blackjack on his computer, lose another grand. We're like, oh, man. I'd never lied about it, but south beach be like, yeah, dude, we had a bar tab, too. It was crazy, dude. Me and beach didn't pay a damn dime for an hour and a half. Talking chicks with water in our cup that we filled up in the bathroom sink. Smart. It's sort of like. But then. Then they needed a drink. Oh. Then all of a sudden, me and south beach don't even know where the bar is. Is it over there? Yeah. Point me which direction that is. Hold on. Dude. Every time. Going to grab the wallet. South bj. Did you want to bounce? And there's literally nowhere else to bounce. It was the last place open. No, no, man. We'll stay here. We'll say, which bar are you girls at? And it's like the ob. Like, there's obviously the bar. We just play dumb for the next five, and then we. We're never going to land these chicks. We're not dropping $50 on drinks for them. Yeah, that's a tough one, man. It's sort of like when in Austin. I think it was the library or it was copper tank. Or not copper tank, Aquarium. Copper penis. Right. I think it was library. Library was great, dude. I don't know if it was like 9 to 10, maybe it's 9 to 10pm they had two dollar Long Island Iced teas or some shit like that. Deadly. So you would go in there and you would slam five Long island iced teas in an hour. Ten bucks. And you would be absolutely housed. Housed. And you would have to buy drinks at another bar because you had five Long island iced teas. That set you up for the next two and a half hours of stumbling around 6th Street. I mean, that is the way to do it. You go early. You're the first one at the bar. And it's $2 Long Island Iced teas. Let me suck that now, dude. I wish I'd have found that place. I remember the one time there was some. Was there a popular place? It was kind of like Japanese. They had sake bomb. I mean, I'm sure there were different places where people get the sake bombs before the bars? Probably. Yeah, probably any sushi restaurant. It wasn't. It wasn't the one with the. Was it the one with the sharks in the floor? Oh, that's pretty expensive, dude. They might have been. I went to qua with a chick, and I'm like, all right, man, I'll get us some shot. I almost maybe. Or was that airplane thing was all on west. West six. Yeah, Quad may have been it, man. Okay, so let's just say it was qua. And I had 20 bucks, and I go, okay, perfect, man. I can probably buy each a couple shots. That'll buy us some time. Dude, I did. I gave a 20 bill and two shots, and that was it. Oh, that's it. When you shot is $10. You were like, dude, the chick is what? Man, you only wanted one drink. I'm like, yeah, you know, I got work in the morning, but it was awesome hanging out with you. I was like, damn it. Why'd I get a shot? I should have got something that went slower. It's like, hung out with her for 10 minutes, and I was walking back. Hey, boy, that's good night. You know what I mean? I got to get up early. It's like. I mean, here's the thing. I was spoiled rotten because I knew bartenders at every bar. I never paid for drinks. Never paid for drinks. You didn't hear when we first moved. Yeah, I know. Even here, I met bartenders, never had to pay for a drink. I don't know what your dumb ass was back there serving drinks, and I'm like, guys, guys, this is hilarious. Little did I know, you actually get pretty big trouble for that. Yeah, probably, right? I mean, that bartender, probably. I mean, if the manager would have walked around the damn corner and I'm sitting there slinging, like, what the. Dude, you did it every Saturday. What the hell were they thinking? Lunch, Give me a vodka, man. And lunch, it gives me just a vodka. I'm like, could you have put a mixer in here, you jackass? So anyway, here's a styrofoam cup of nothing but vodka. Awesome. Dude, I'm gonna go die in the alley. I'm not sure what bar we went to, but it was one on West 6 that I never went to. And I was like, hey, boys, I'll get a round of drinks. And it's me, Garrett, Greg, Jacob, and I go up And I get six or whatever, and it was like, $30. And I came back up. These are $6 a piece. You hadn't seen prices. And they're like, we've been paying that for our whole lives and you had to buy one round and you're freaking out. I'm like, I didn't realize it was so expensive. How did you guys ever go out? Hey, hey, Caroline. She's a queen of talking hey, what's on your mind? She's getting really 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. Well, I don't dress up, so I kind of get excited when I Will you dress up because you're the anchor of New Channel two. Yeah. Everyone, this is the face of Nashville, Nikki Burde. Welcome. Welcome. If you watch the news, I mean, I do not watch the news, but I love the news because of you. Right there. Yeah. Yeah. But you dress up every day. I do. Yeah. So it's almost like when I'm not at work, the second I get home, my clothes just. I feel so overstimulated. So I take off my jewelry, I take off my bra, I take off like, all. And I'm like, sweat. So this is. Yes, this is me. What is your routine in the mornings? You mean like. Yeah. Okay. I actually am very strict about my routine because sleep is so important to me. And I go to bed. We'll start there. I go to bed at about 7pm before my daughter does. My husband puts her to bed. And I wake up at about 2:40 and I am out the door. 40? Yes. In the morning? Yes. So you're in bed by 7:30? 7:00. 7:00. Is it hard to make yourself go to sleep at 7? No. Aren't you tired all the time? Not. Not at 7. But I go at like 9:30. But I also sleep till like 7. So it's kind of. It's the same, but. No, it's not. You get less. 2:30? Yeah. Why 2:30? Because they have to be at work at 3. You have to be at 3, but you don't come in ready. No. So I do. Pack your bag the night before. Pack everything the night before. It's all sitting by the front door. I shower the night before. So literally when I wake up, all I have to do is brush my teeth, wash my face, put on my skin care, and get dressed and I'm out the door. And I mean, I'm probably up and out the door in 10 minutes. Okay. And get to work. And then I do my makeup right there. Yeah. No, no. I snooze for half an hour. You do yeah. Oh, yeah. So you wait, wake up at 2? Yeah, I start. Start the process then. But yeah, I'm not out of bed till, like, 2:45. Does it wake just enough? No, you would think it. I guess because we've been together for so long, he's probably used to it. How long have y'all been together? We've been together. We've been like. We started dating in 2007. Okay. Michael and I were 2008. See? But we've only been married 10 years. Same 10 years. Because y'all just had your 10 year. Yeah. September. What did y'all do for it? Went to Cabo. So fun. It was really just y'all two or Andy, too. It was just us two. But then my sister and her fiance went, you know, because when you've been married that long, you're like, you can hang for so long, but then you want another couple. Like, you want friends. I'm like, michael and I have talked about everything. We always have things to talk about, and we always have ongoing conversations. But it's like, yes, it is so nice to have friends to hang out with too. Yes. We know every little bit about each other. We'll be each other's travel companions. Well, now, because you're my neighbor. Yes. And it's just so good because not only do we get along so great, Justin and Michael get along, and our daughters are the exact same age. Literally perfect. And we're only child moms. It's perfect. I know. We're so lucky. It's. God saw both of us, and he was like, that's a good. I'm like, but you're, like, my favorite. Ditto. I'm like, literally, how I not been better friends with you before? Because I've known you for so long, but, like, I've never liked. Now we're like, oh, my God, I'm obsessed with you. Ditto. I feel the same way. Okay, great. Justin and Michael get along. Like, it is true. My husband knows this, so I'm not, like, talking bad about him. Like, he doesn't like a lot of people. Why not? But I think that's a good quality. Like, I. I love everyone until you, like, prove me wrong, you know? And I. And I usually do get taken advantage of quite a bit because of that. Well, yeah. I mean, I'm just like. I love everyone. My sister calls me the collector of stray cats. Because I always just. I'm like, yes. The more the merrier. Come in. And I'm trying to learn boundaries better. But my husband Is opposite. He's like, no, I don't like that person. But he actually adores Michael, and he has said that multiple times. He's like, that's a great guy. And if Justin says that, then, like, you're. You're in. Okay. Yeah. Well, I'm glad. We didn't even know how tight cutthroat this was, but I'm so glad he split through the cracks. It is. I mean, it's a good thing to be serious. He is. He is selective of his people. Well, you know what? That's good. I. I think it is. He conserves his energy. Yeah, he does. I have been a chronic people pleaser my entire life. Same. But not anymore. I'm working on it. I had a life coach. I hired a life coach when I was 38 years old. Really? And then I have done extreme therapy measures to get to the root of my issues, which is I'm a high functioning, codependent person, which means I walk into a room. Not anymore. And I need to make sure everybody's happy and everybody's happy with me. And, like, if you are not. If your vibes are off and if you're not, like, feeling my vibes, then I'm gonna, like, fix it. Yeah. I'm gonna be, like, up in your face, getting to know you, wondering what's going on, getting to the root of your issue, trying to make you happy, to make sure that you walk away feeling happy and that you love me. I feel like I'm like that a little bit, but it finally wore me out. Yeah, it's exhausting. It's exhausting. I. I'm getting better at that. I definitely used to be like that, especially with the TV news. Because when people would send me mean comments, I would, like, try to convince them, like, no, no. Like, I'm a nice person. Like, you would like me. People are coming after you. They're awful. I mean, I'm sure you get it, too. No, not like you. I mean, everyone gets. If you have any sort of online or on air, like, any sort of public Persona, like, people are going to attack you. You get it on the regular. You know what? Since I became a mom, it's been a lot easier. Really? Yes. What do people used to say and why are they nicer now? I think they used to say things like, mostly about my appearance. You know, like, you know, you always remember the mean comments. Like, somebody called me lunch lady arms. Lunch lady arms. I had fat arms. And of course, like, that's your. You know, everybody has their Own thing. Like, of course my arms are my insecurity. And I know that's ridiculous and stupid. We all have our things. We all have our things. And I reckon lunch. Lightly arms. Don't be. What a. Is it awful? And then one guy sent me a tweet that was like, I can't. The fact that someone married you is shocking. The fact that someone impregnated you is shocking. And the fact that you have a job being on TV is even more shocking kind of thing. Like, people say really mean things. One lady told me I was going to hell because I. I wore a sleeveless dress on tv. So my old instinct back in the day would be to, like, convince these people to, like, sign their profile and message them or email them back. Like, almost like, shaming them at first for making them feel bad about that and then convincing them, like, no, I'm a nice person. Like, you would like me. You would shame them first and then convince them. Yeah, almost. Almost make them feel bad about, like, you're. You're a jerk for thinking that. Because they are. Yeah. Or not jerk for thinking. For saying it. Anyway. You can think whatever you want. Right. For taking the time to write you a mean comment to someone they don't know to make me feel bad. It's totally myself that's a jerk. Ye. Because their one sole purpose in that wasn't for change to hurt your feelings. It was to hurt me. Right. And so my purpose in doing that was to make them see the error in their ways and then convince them, like, oh, no, you. You. I'm a nice person, but it's not about me. It's about them. Right. And I don't really care. They have. Yeah, I know. Not my problem. Not your problem. I had this situation come up the other day where somebody actually, like, did something intentionally to hurt you just to, like. Yeah, to, like, take something away from me. Who do I need to fight? Well, I'll tell you later. Yeah, but I was like, oh, my God. And then I was, like, all pissed, and I wanted to, like, fight them in my head, but then I was like, you know what? Not my issue. No. Not my problem. And not my bag of demons that I'm carry around. If I'm. If someone's gonna go out of their way to try to, like, take something from someone else for no other reason than they just don't want me to have it, that's not making them get anything. Then I'm like, okay, that's not my problem. It's not. It's not my problem. That that's what you're gonna spend your time doing. Yeah. That's exhausting. Yeah. It's like, have you listened to Mel Robbins? Let them. Oh, Mel Robbins. Is she not changing the world? Changing the world. Give people the idea of Let them. Let them is a book or I listen to audio tape. It's just about letting people have their thoughts, their feelings about you, about anything, their opinions about life or even, like, the little inconveniences. I love the example that she gave that she was checking out the grocery store and the lady checking out was being so slow and she was getting annoyed and she wanted to, like, complain and then she was, let them. Let this clerk be slow checking people out. Because me getting frustrated and bitching about it and doing anything is not going to speed her up. Let me instead figure out how to deal with this anxiety and why I feel this way and then respond in a better way and use this time productively. And so profound it is. 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 gonna 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 Business small business success stories from iHeartMedia's Ruby Studio and Intuit QuickBooks. In every episode, hosts Austin Hankowitz and Janice Torres talk 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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You know those things that make you go, really? No, really? I think There was a 17 year old in Rhode island who ran a candidate that was a deep fake. Really? Wait, wait, that's news to me. That's, that's, that's really. No really right there. Really? No, really listen to. Really know. Really on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Mike D. And this week on Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, my wife Kelsey joined me and we did our big recap episode that we do every month. Movies of the month. All movies that we saw in theaters or at home in the last 30 days. There was one day we talked about where we watched six movies in one day. So you got to check out this entire episode. But right now, here's the best movies we saw in the last month from Movie Mike's Movie podcast. I needed to laugh. And that was provided to me by one of them days. And beginning of the year, comedies are hit or miss because they put those ones out in January that they're not sure whether they're going to like do well at the box office or kind of flop. And then they can just be like, oh, it was a January flop. Well, I would say as a whole, any movie that comes out in January, which is known as a dump month for movies, is hit or miss. But primarily it's usually a comedy that's like, I don't know if this is going to be funny or it's a horror movie that I don't know if it's going to be scary. But when it came to one of them days, it was really funny. It also did really well at the box office. I laughed the whole time. At one point it was what, like certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Is it still? Yeah, really high score. It got really good reviews and was also funny. So had a good critic score and a good audience score, which is rare. And the movie is about two best friends. One of their boyfriends spends their rent money on a get rich quick scheme and then they have like eight or 10 hours to make that money back before getting evicted. So it's a really simple plot. Drops right into it and there's a lot of just. I felt like it had good writing. It wasn't all physical comedy. I mean, Kiki Palmer and says I also had like incredible comedic timing. Crazy that Sizza, this was the first time acting did a really good job in it. And then also is about to do the super bowl with Kendrick Lamar, but she can really do it all. Yeah, I really enjoyed this one as well. I rated it a four out of five. What did you give it? I'm gonna give it a 4.5 out of fives. So close to perfect. Which is really high for a 90 minute comedy. Listen, it was Also the perfect length. I don't need my comedies to drag on because I feel like at a certain point you just start like kind of regurgitating things or making them like. It also just like, wasn't necessarily believable, but, like, then you start really dragging on. Also got to say Maud Apatow. So funny in it. Oh, yeah. She's the person who moves into their apartment complex. Yes. Yeah. I felt like right as this movie was wrapping up, I would found myself to think, okay, this needs to. Oh, and it was over. Yeah. Right. When you're like, all right, you can't really make any more jokes. You can't drag. So it's like, okay. The comedy movies that always go on a little bit too long. I always think about speaking of the Apatows, Judd Apatow, every Joe Battle movie goes about 30 minutes too long. Yeah. Especially like super bad 40 year old virgin does love it. This is 40. His films are the equivalent of when people on TikTok are like, I have to make this video a minute to get into the creator fund to make money off of it. That's Judd Apatow's movies. He's like, I got to make this two hours long. His inability to edit himself is wild. And made a movie in a while, though, I feel like he's going to do one with all of his daughters. At this point, he only has two. All of his daughters and his wife, which he's pretty much been putting in. I guess he's already really done that. Yeah, They've been in everything. Yeah. Since like Funny People. I remember them being the kids are making money now. He doesn't need. Yeah, they're fine. She's doing Euphoria movies. They're good. The nepotism is strong in that family. So that's your best. For my best, I'm going to go with the Brutalist. And I think it's because very different end of the spectrum of films. It's the one that I was a little hesitant going into just because it was three and a half hours long, which is a long movie. That's a flight. Oh, it is a flight. I am now a fan of the Intermission, which I thought I wasn't going to like. I thought, you know me, I don't like stopping down while watching a movie. I want to go all the way through. If I have to go pee, I'll go pee real quick and I'll come back. But I thought the idea of taking a break and then coming back to it was going to Offset me a little bit, but it actually like reset me. Yeah, you got up and walked around. Cuz I was like, I'm going to go walk around, I'm going to go get a drink, I'm going to come back and feel refreshed. And it was about an hour and 40 minutes into it and then we had another hour and 40 to go. I think it was also the fact that they included the 15 minute intermission in the runtime. So that 335 was also including the 15 minutes. I thought it was going to be 15 on top of that. Oh, I guess I did too. And I really didn't calculate the time after we got out because it was just long in general, which then it would have been like 450 plus the 10, 15 minutes of preview. Then I was like, man, it's going to be like 4 hours and 10 minutes at the movies. But I feel after watching this, I am more inclined to any movie that decides to embrace the intermission. I don't think people will really embrace it a whole lot because of that break. I think movie theaters have a hard time because then you have all the people coming out and then they get busy again. But I think they want to get busy again. Right. Because the line to the concessions got so long after it. People getting a second round refreshers. But I also don't feel like a typical theater chain is set up for an intermission. Yeah, we were the Bell Court smaller theater, so there's only a couple movies showing. I think it would be harder in a big theater like for Captain America for everybody to exit and go to the lobby. I think it would overwhelm some people because I think right now, even when we get there, sometimes during peak hours, we're waiting 10 to 15 minutes to get popcorn. Don't even get me started on the time that that person complained and I almost got in a fight in line. Yeah, people get. They get so impatient. People are doing their best. They're doing their job. It's not their fault that the person. True story. In front of you ordered $80 worth of snacks. A lot of snacks. There's literally one person. They can only get so many popcorns. They can only get so many drinks. And then if you're like, this line hasn't moved. I've been here for 20 minutes. Then get here 20 minutes earlier next time. Like, I don't know. People need to relax in line. So I don't movies. I don't think that an intermission would be good at a Regular theater. Because then everyone's gonna stand in line for that long and then they're gonna be like, well, now the movie's starting. And I missed it because I took this intermission. Yeah. I feel like it's kind of the recess vibes of like trying to wrangle everybody up after recess. Like, come on in, come back inside. Oh, I'm still on the swing set. Feral children's. Yeah. Running around. And then you have people maybe who would like, I want to go watch another movie. And they sneak into another movie. I enjoy it. I don't think. I don't think they're going to be that many three hour movies that warrant an intermission. It's very rare that we get one. It's usually one a year that we go to. If that. Like last year, Oppenheimer. I feel like Avengers. Actually the year before last. Oh, this 2020. Dang. I'm still living in 2024. I know. It was two years ago. I know. So I would like to see more intermissions. I think it would give some people because it is a daunting task. Like the Brutalist. Even though I enjoyed it, it's not one that I'm going to recommend to people because seeing 3 hours and 35 minutes is like, I don't want to go to that. But I think it did eat up most of our Saturday. Yeah. And we were like, well, Saturday's over. That's. Yeah, it's gone. But I really enjoyed it. I'm glad we spent the time to watch it. I'm still not rooting for it to win Best Picture. I still am leaning on wanting the substance to do really well. But now I can appreciate a little more. Take this personally with Morgan Huelsman. This is all the talk on social media right now. Is everybody talking about looking for jobs, applying to jobs, not finding jobs. It is the hottest topic I think I've seen in the last few weeks. And that's why I'm bringing on one of my really good friends, Paige, who is an expert in this field. When I say expert, the expert of all experts. Paige, how are you? I'm so good. I. I'm so. I'm so excited to be here. And you're right, I am a little bit of a subject matter expert in the career job hunting space. What do you think is happening right now? Because you see online there's all kinds of people who are like, I cannot find jobs. Nobody is hiring. What is your kind of take on this? That what's going on in the job market right now that you're seeing, it's really interesting because there's 8.1 million jobs on the market right now. And the unemployment rate's not bad. It's around 4.14%. It hasn't changed much in the past year. So we haven't seen huge inflections. So it's interesting because there's actually more of a demand in the current market in the US Than there is supply, which is interesting. Let me digress. So I want to start back from the pandemic, because I feel like everything still stems from the pandemic, naturally, because that was such a weird time in our life. Yeah, well, you had all of these layoffs, and then you move forward. PPP loans were granted, and so people started to hire again, and everyone started to leave their jobs to get better ones. It was called the Great Resignation. People were offered these insane salaries. I'm talking like hundreds of thousands more than they've made before. So, of course, no brainer, let's leave. And so now when these loans have dried up and people realize, oh, I've got to pay those back. Now we have layoffs happening. The tech industry was hit really hard in that space. And then you're coupled with some unsettling things in the market. You add an election year on top of that. Businesses aren't for sure what legislation is going to impact their business, so they hold their coins tight to their chest. So it's an interesting market. There are jobs out there. But the reason why it's hard is that there's been a lot of things that have happened over the past couple of years. And I think people don't realize that all of the time is there was so much change so fast. So one of the things I always say is if someone's offering you an insane salary and it's too good to be true, believe them. Take a look at organizations and how they responded to the pandemic. If they were doing a ton of layoffs, how did they respond to that? Layoffs can be make business sense. It's not necessarily always a bad thing. But how do they recoup from that? What does that look like? What's their sustainability look like as an organization? How long have they been in the game? All of these things are really important when you're looking for a job. And this is why I have you on Stacy, because I think your story is so cool, because it's really easy to get a job when you're done with college or get a job out of high school, and you stay in it for 20 years and you never look at other options, you never explore past what you think you're supposed to be doing. And you went a complete opposite direction and did something that was not even something that was in your mind at the time of you doing any version of college or studying. I have always been the type of person that if you put something in front of me, I'm gonna go after it. And it's like, get out of my way, because I'm gonna either, you know, succeed or fail sort of thing. I just think again, I. I started just thinking about, you know, I love being able to impact people at the hospital patients, like, getting them back on their feet. But I just again, was like going, there's just something, some little piece of missing. And so it's always like, I say a lot of, like, cliche things, but I'm like, you're never gonna know if you don't try. And, yeah, that it was a little scary. But at the same time, I go, I got this. Because if. But if I don't got this, I left the hospital on good terms. I can always go back and I always have an a, B and C plan, or I joke and say this, but I go say, none of this works out for me. I like candles. So I can start making candles. Like, you always figure it out. But I think that that's what's hard for a lot of people, is just to put that all to the side and just truly go after. And I know it's. I mean, it's easier said than done with a lot of things, but I just think the unknown is something special sometimes. And I am a big believer in that of just like, hey, just give it a shot. So it's. It's truly really cool. And I, I remember the conversation my husband and I had. He was just kind of saying, hey, like, he supports everything and anything that I do. But he was telling me, he was like, hey, just hang on for a few more months, just for a steady two week paycheck as you kind of like transition and everything. And I looked at him and I said, I love you and respect you, but I got this. I got this going back. I didn't know Covid was going to happen, so it's just crazy. It's crazy to me. And side note on that too, While he was like, hey, let's hang on a little bit more. So he was also starting his own business in insurance. And so then two entrepreneurs and then Covid hit. It was a little scary. Thanks for listening to this week's Sunday Sampler. New episodes are out weekly, so go check them out. 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