AI, Airbnb Nightmares, Secret Siblings & Dog Grief | WAIT. WHAT?! with Aimee Mayo

In this chaotic solo episode of WAIT. WHAT?! with Aimee Mayo, hit songwriter and bestselling author Aimee Mayo dives into AI obsession, ChatGPT, Airbnb horror stories, ancestry.com family secrets, surprise siblings, dog grief, Reddit rabbit holes, ketamine therapy, ibogaine, podcast struggles, celebrity songwriting stories, and the emotional story of losing her soulmate dog.

This episode covers:
Airbnb nightmares and crazy guest stories
ChatGPT, Claude, AI obsession, and YouTube algorithms
The ancestry DNA discovery that shocked an entire family
Dog grief, pet loss, and emotional healing
Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and comedy podcast inspiration
Ryan Tedder and Adam Lambert songwriting stories
Funny Southern storytelling and dark comedy
Reddit rabbit holes and viral internet stories
Ketamine therapy, ibogaine, psychedelics, and mental health
Podcasting struggles, fame, family secrets, and chaos

If you love podcasts like Theo Von, Joe Rogan Experience, Diary of a CEO, SmartLess, Armchair Expert, comedy podcasts, storytelling podcasts, conspiracy rabbit holes, emotional real-life stories, Nashville music stories, celebrity interviews, and hilarious chaos — this episode is for you.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Dark Truths

SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's like my podcast has a podcast. That's how many people have a podcast. We talked about the night we found him dead at his birthday. Probably two things I hate most are opiates and daylight savings time. Jeffrey X St. Falls, that's crazy. My AI told me basically that I had a problem. Princess Chad just kisses his ass because she's just like the wop in the house that takes a bitch at him and thinks he hung the man. We scare our marriage therapist. The very first thing that we heard when we saw that ring doorbell, everybody in that little lock was horrified. It was complete silent. It was one of the most effed up things I've ever heard in my whole life. I think I'm gonna have to change the name of my podcast. I didn't realize there's a podcast called Wait Wet with these two drag queens, and there are millions of episodes. There was like two inches of baby powder, just all over everything in like her living room. Okay, that dog ate a hundred pack thing of niceret. Maybe he was addicted to nicotine. I found her in the pool. It was one of the worst days of my life. I just heard a voice in my head say, you can't call me. I'll vote for you if you'll subscribe. I got everybody an ancestry.com kit and random Christmas.

Solo Start And Naming Trouble

SPEAKER_00 2:00

And I may be changing the name of the podcast. I'll talk about that in a minute. Because I think I might have screwed something up. But oh, I've screwed a bunch of stuff up. This is my first solo episode, and I'm doing it like I'm wearing sunglasses because I didn't know what to do. And my two favorite like people that just sit and shoot the shit are Theo Vaughn and Tim Dylan, and they both wear sunglasses. So I'm thinking maybe there's something to that. Maybe it makes you not give a shit a little more or something. But I look blind on the freaking monitor. But anyway, oh, speaking of blind, Gordon Moat, a legendary piano player, probably played on more records, maybe than anybody ever. I mean, just insanely talented. He was my first episode. Y'all should check that out if you hadn't seen it. Okay, back to what I was talking about. I think I'm gonna have to change the name of my podcast. I didn't realize there's a podcast called Wait What? with these two drag queens. And there are millions of episodes. They I thought maybe this will be okay when I saw it a couple weeks ago because they quit doing it like seven years ago. But then when I saw it a couple weeks ago, it said they just started back. So like they'll do a video and it'll have like two million views quick. It's good and they're crazy. But um, I think I'm gonna have to change my name because it'll probably take 10 years before it'll show up. Like when people search it, and you already spell my name weird anyway. A-I-M-E-E. I'm just gonna shoot the shit like Theo Vaughn. He's my favorite. He's why I started a podcast. He's the only person I've ever heard about where they grew up with stories crazier than mine, and they're just

Podcast Heroes And Dream Guests

SPEAKER_00 4:00

so good. They're so good. So we had a podcast with this doctor from Gaza. That's one of the most powerful podcasts I've ever seen. I think everybody should watch that. And then he did a podcast with this Amish kid, and I love Amish. Oh my gosh, I love the Amish. I hope I can get somebody Amish on here. I don't even know how he did that. But um, that Amish kid, when he's talking about being down by the water, listening like they'll listen to some deaf leopard, it's amazing. That might be my favorite. So, anyway, so I learned something like on the Gaza one, and then the Amish kid, I learned something, but I just loved it so much. And then what really did it for me that made me want to start a podcast, which everybody's got a podcast, but it's like my podcast has a podcast. That's how many people have a podcast. One of my favorite people in the world, Bob Regan, he was my dad's best friend, and my dad died young. And we like on an episode we talked about the night we found him dead at his birthday. That episode is super emotional. But Bob Regan, he's such a legendary songwriter, and he's also one reason I want to talk to him, he's one of the wittiest, funniest people I know. He says shit and I never forget it. But so um Bob was on and we had a great talk, but I'm encouraging him to start a podcast about Parkinson's because I think it's becoming, well, I don't think I know it's becoming more common, and I don't know if they know why, but I'm hoping the AI will help with some of the things they need to help them with Parkinson's.

Business Lessons That Actually Stick

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Did an episode with Jerry Bosselman who's like he started a billion-dollar company. Oh, he's done so much stuff. He's he's I think he's invested in like over 50 companies and he's made a bunch of millionaires. But that episode, out of all the episodes, that one is the one in my mind I come back to most because I learned some things on that episode that have really started to change. If you hear weird noises, that's my pug who is super codependent right now. I'll tell you that in a minute. The third episode of Theo's that made me want to do a podcast was with W. Brian Hubbard. I would love, love, love to talk to him. He was on Theo. I saw him there first, and then he was on Joe Rogan twice. So there's podcasts with him out there, but he talked about Ibigain, which is working wonders with veterans. Like, I think if people go fight for us and come back fucked up and have to do things they don't want to do, and then they come back and live with it while these politicians are at parties. I don't think that these politicians have any right to get involved if somebody's getting better from psychedelics. I just don't. And I mean, if you really think about it, it's crazy. Um, because it's they're just trying to go get therapy. And then even if, even if they they're they're having to go to Mexico and different countries. So um I want to talk to W. Brian Hubbard bad about that because there's starting to be some awareness about it. And probably the two things I hate most are opiates and daylight savings time. And I always say that. I hate opiates. Opiates run lives, they kill the young people here. And I think that Trump is gonna legalize Ibogaine. I saw something with Joe Rogan and I saw Trump talking about it, but we should all pray that happens because it's really been helping people. I mean, like, and and people that are hurting need help. So why get why get in the way of that? Listen to the doctors. You're freaking like the don't get me started on our government. And it doesn't matter who's in office. Jeffrey Epstein files, that's crazy. That's been going on for 30 years, and nobody will do shit. Like, nobody's gonna go to jail for that. I want to talk to somebody about that too. If there's this guy, Gavin DeBecker, and he's like a dream guest too. I saw him on Diary of a CEO. I like that podcast. And that I think that guy's got the best marketing across the board. His shit is great. I heard him say he had 30 employees the other day. And that's one of my things that I just look up to. People who can run a company or run a business. That's what I was talking to Jerry Bosselman about. Coming back to that, anybody trying to make more money needs to watch the Jerry Bosselman episode. Because I'll tell you right now, I learned four things from it that have changed my life as far as work goes, and and as far as a lot of personal relationships go, four things. And um, it's so amazing. I'm I'm gonna try to make it in little clips too, um, because it we talked a long time, but um so the thing though, a few of the things I learned from him, one of them was so if somebody tells you an idea and they're like instead of saying yeah, but yeah, but means no. Say yes and and that advice is amazing. The thing with like yes and you don't burst their bubble, they can keep, you know, dreaming and talking about it. They may, they may have it screwed up at first, but they may figure it out as long as you don't shut them down. Um, it sucks so bad to be shut down by somebody when you tell any idea you tell them, and they're like, yeah, but there's already 20 of those. How's that gonna work? Yeah, but, yeah, but so that um yes and will change your life if you start putting it into action. That was one of the things that I learned from the Jerry Bosselman episode. Another thing I learned that I love so much, I kind of already lived a little bit like this, but if you are somebody who spends a lot of time thinking people fucked you over or don't like you and stuff like that, his thing was assume positive intent. And my thing that I've been living by, always assume the best. And so, like if somebody doesn't call you back, you know, you can think about like, well, they're just busy, you know, or and Jerry's was assume positive intent. And okay, this guy that used to be my song plugger, Blaine Rhodes, he told me once, always assume the best. So, like, if I had messaged somebody trying to write with them and they didn't respond, then I'll start thinking, well, they don't even like me. I don't think they like me. They didn't even come say hey to me at this or that and blah, blah, blah. And so the thing with um that is that anything could be going on in their life. You never know. They could somebody could have just found a lump like on their breast and be in the middle of a health crisis they hadn't told anybody, or their parents could be sick, or they could just have a lot going on at work. A million things could be happening. And um, I'll teach y'all another trick that's crazy that I've learned that just made me think about it. But for real, you should watch the Jerry Bosselman episode. It, I'm not gonna tell you everything because some people need to go watch it. I'll tell you one more thing, and then there's two more huge things. But the other thing is if you're trying to hire somebody, we talked a lot about that because he's he's done all these startup, oh my gosh, so many companies, like about 50 something companies. The thing, like with Jerry, is he's just so smart about business. I never really understood what he did. But he said when you're hiring somebody, it's gonna be hard to hire, like, and find somebody who checks every box you have. So hire somebody that's competent and smart that you can train, that's highly trainable. And that really helped me so much because in the past I would get frustrated if somebody I need to learn as much as anybody how to manage a team. That's why I'm fascinated with it. Because he he told me a bunch of my problems, like on that podcast of what I'm doing wrong. And then I'm like, that's exactly right. But so that podcast is amazing.

A Prayer For Direction

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Okay, I'm so freaking excited about what we're filming next week. It's gonna be next week's episode. This has been one that I've been looking so forward to, but having a hard time putting together. And it's so crazy because I said a prayer the other night like, God, please show me what to do on this podcast so I can help people and have fun and and like love it and find a way to make money doing it. So I was praying, but mostly I was praying for give me a sign that like I'm supposed to be doing this because it's been really hard. And the part that hadn't been hard, it and the um I've been doing shit wrong. And maybe I should say that instead of how I work non-stop. My AI told me basically that I had problems. I think I gave my AI, which I use all day, every day, which I know I shouldn't, and my daughter bitches about it, but my AI basically, my chat GPT AI basically thought that it said that I did more research about I did more research about like trying to figure out algorithms and long form clips and short form clips and what works on TikTok and YouTube and all the things. It said that I did more of that research than most big podcasts do in a year. And I'm like, this thing is criticizing me. Um, and then on Claude, we have a different relationship. This is so messed up. I think I'm probably spending too much time with them. But so Clawed, it's got a completely different personality. I keep getting so sidetracked. I guess this is kind of shows what it's like to be ADD. So I'm bouncing everywhere, but a lot of these will be clips. I oh, oh, so I got a text out of nowhere. We stayed an Airbnb in Gedston, Alabama, my hometown, and we went there looking for a dog, which there's a another episode. I'm gonna write it down so I don't forget that's coming up. That's so good. I want to help people, that's the number one thing, and I want and I want to laugh and have fun. That's my big things with the podcast. But so the message that came from the Airbnb host, his name's Micah.

Airbnb Nightmares And Host Stories

SPEAKER_00 15:36

He said, if you ever need any Airbnb, crazy Airbnb stories, hit me up. And I was like, That's my son, that's the one I've been wanted to do most because we have some Airbnb stories, and the name of this episode isn't air. Wait, we need to put that on the screen. The name of this episode is Airbnb Nightmares. So I've been trying to put this together. I'll tell you right now, the first time that we ever turned on that ring door, well, the first time we ever rented that we rented for we rented the house on Airbnb for two summers, maybe two and a half, and it was the craziest experience ever. Like good and bad. The best part is I made a lot of friends, a lot of cool people came here. I love people loving and enjoying our house because we love this house. But so, like, and we wanted to travel. But so some of the stuff that happened when we were renting our Airbnb, the okay, the first time we rented, we went to this festival, this music festival in Kentucky. I'll have to find the name of it. But so we went to this music festival, and we got back from the festival, it was about two in the morning, and the thing went ding, like this little thing that my that's my daughter, that the doorbell, like the ring doorbell, somebody was going in. So the very first thing that we heard when we saw that ring doorbell, everybody, everybody in the little loft was horrified. It was complete silence. It was one of the most effed up. I'm trying not to cuss as much because my mom was bitching about it, but it's one of the F'd up, just most F'd up things I've ever heard in my whole life. What these, what it was two guys, and actually, I'm not gonna say until the podcast because it's it's dirty and it is messed up. It's just, I don't even want to do it right now. So that episode is gonna be awesome. Anybody that's running an Airbnb like a super host, we are calling all Airbnb hosts with absolutely unhinged stories. We want the crazy shit. I mean, the cray, we want the wildest, jaw-dropping kind of insanity that keeps you up at night that you're still wondering, what the fuck were they doing? Like there was one story I heard with this with this lady, and she was telling a story about what happened, and she said that um these South African guys came to my place and they're wanting, and I'm cussing mom because she cussed in her thing. But um, these South African guys come to rent our house, and we live like we have another house next door. They're not in there 10 minutes, and this guy's calling me asking, can they start a bonfire in the backyard? I'm like, fuck no, you can't start a bonfire in the backyard. So then she said that she didn't hear another peep from these guys the whole time they were there. And then when they went to check out, she went in there and she said there was like two inches of baby powder just all over everything in like her living room. She couldn't understand it. They couldn't figure out what in the hell were they doing. And I don't know if it was baby powder or I don't know what it was either. But so so she the funny thing is she's telling that story, and then at the end, she's like, so now the vacuum is fucked. And then she said they had to go buy like more and more vacuums that just kept getting torn up because of whatever these people were doing. So I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the crazy stuff people leave behind, the most expensive, the most weird, like because we had people leave so much shit here. Our kids couldn't wait to race in the house after Airbnb was here because they just, you know, it was like a surprise show of groceries. Like sometimes they went to Costco and left a whole liquor cabinet. Sometimes they like just left a bunch of jelly smears. You never knew what was gonna be in there, but we discovered so many good groceries because when you go to the grocery store, you always just buy the same old shit you always buy. But this forced us to try other stuff, and we got so much good stuff. I've got a bunch of stories, a bunch of stories of mine and other people's. But um, I want to hear just the insane shit, like the the mysterious discoveries, like that you're still trying to wrap your head around. And the like, and I also need somebody who will tell the stuff.

Learning To Ask For Subscribes

SPEAKER_00 21:16

One thing that I'm doing that I said I wasn't gonna do because I hate, I especially hate it when that guy from CEO, Diary of a CEO does it. For some reason, he does it in a weird way. He's why I didn't want to do it because like I just didn't want to, I don't know. Something makes me feel like an idiot asking people to subscribe. But but I'm gonna have to ask people to subscribe because I'm never gonna get monetized if I don't. So there's a reason these people are doing this, and like I love that Deovon doesn't ask people to subscribe, and I doubt Tim Dillon does, and um, so like it doesn't feel natural. To me. So I said I wasn't going to do it. Everybody tried to get me to do it, but I didn't want to. So I made that little, that little dog, that little dog with the subscribe button. But I really need help. Like I really need help because I want to keep doing this. And I've got to be able to pay people to help me, or there's no possible way I can do it. I've been doing some crazy shit. Like I um this is so messed up. There was this guy that like texted me um asking me would I vote for something? Like he's political. I can't even remember if he's a Republican or a Democrat. This is how desperate I'm this. I don't know if it's desperate or if I'm just an idiot, but this is what I've been doing. So anybody that texts me, that texts me for anything and anybody that I meet that I don't even know, like I asked our waiter to subscribe, but the person that sent the government text, like, will you please vote for me? I'm blah, blah, blah, telling me all the stuff about them. And I texted them back and said, I'll vote for you if you'll subscribe to this podcast. And then so I've I'm getting subscribers here and there from some very just weird ways. And then we went to an Airbnb. And um, you know how in an Airbnb, there's all those buttons like of people's profiles on the remote. So it's like subscribe, subscribe. There was like a Buddhist subscribe, and um, all he had was like meditation, but so that I need help. I need please subscribe, please tell anybody you know that loves podcasts. And I know the podcasts are too long, they're like an hour and 45 minutes long, but that's because I like to talk and I'm learning stuff. But there's God, there's been some good ones. I'm telling you

Selling A Home And Growing Up

SPEAKER_00 24:02

right now. The one I've had so many people, so many people tell me they cried watching the one I did called Dream House with Pam Tillis about leaving your childhood home. That one is emotional because we're selling our house after 25 years in the same house, and we all love it so much. That's gonna be one of the biggest changes of my life, probably like besides getting married. I mean, like living at home with your parents, and then there's getting married and being, you know, starting a family and all that. And then there's when you turn that chapter and you're gonna be moved. You're I can't even imagine walking through our house the last time, just because we've lived here so long. You have to know what can be done in here to make it as valuable as it is. So um that episode, God, it's so good. It's so good. But it's like we're gonna be empty nesters. My daughter graduates in, well, she finishes school in 10 days. She's been doing her exams, and I'm telling you right now, like they're hard. Like I've been studying statistics. I saw her homework last night, and it had teardrops on the freaking homework. It just broke my heart. It really took me back to being a teenager, and I told her, I said, um, I took a picture and I'm like, we'll laugh about this in 10 years. And I do believe that. I'm gonna do an episode coming up this new season.

Manifesting An Adam Lambert Cut

SPEAKER_00 25:42

This will be season two. What? Ah, season two. I'm doing an episode with people who've made big dreams come true that can't even believe it and don't even understand how they did it. Like, we got an Adam Lambert cut like about 15 years ago, and that was one of the biggest things I've manifested. Like, and I really believe that I did because I watched that show all the time. I was obsessed with his singing because I love Freddie Mercury. So then, like, he starts making a record. Well, he was the first artist that was ever on Rolling Stone without there being a giant hit record out at the time. So it was mainly that he was just gonna explode and everybody knew it because he's just a phenomenal singer. And it'd been forever since we'd had anybody like Freddie Mercury. So I wanted a song on Adam Lambert so bad, I got obsessed with it. And I saw on this, well, everybody was trying to get on that record. I wasn't the only one. Max Martin that wrote Shake It Off with Taylor, Swift. Like there were so many people. Dr. Luke, who had the biggest pop songs in the world at the time, and then Lady Gaga, Sia, the biggest artist, the biggest artist, and the biggest pop songwriters. There was nobody in Nashville that even knew anything of how in a million years to get an Adam Lambert cut, and including me. And I saw on this, like, I saw on this blog thing once an American Idol blog. It's like working with Adam Lambert. So every big artist, every huge pop songwriter was trying to get on that record. And um, like I didn't even know where to begin. And then out of the blue, but I was visualizing it and I believed it could happen. That's the point. And then out of the blue, we get a call from Ryan Tetter of One Republic. He's one of the biggest songwriters of all time. He's amazing. I mean, huge. Um, he's also the lead singer of One Republic, but he just has written so many epic songs and no telling how much money he has. He's got all the theme songs for all the movies. He's a huge songwriter. And so when, and he's a huge artist, he's had tons of number ones with him singing. He sang apologize. Out of nowhere, Ryan Tedder calls wanting to write with Chris and me. And I was like, how in the hell does he know who I am? Like, and then this person said he typed out y'all's lyrics for like years because he worked like in the basement at DreamWorks Publishing. So he had typed my lyrics like and knew exactly who I was. He had typed the songs I'd written with Chris, and um, he knew who Chris was. And so we got together with him. We flew to Denver. We were like, hell yeah, we want to write with him. We flew to Denver, we got to his place. I was so excited. I should have known this. He wanted to write something country, and I wanted to write for Adam Lambert. That was all I cared about. And so I kept talking about Adam Lambert, and finally he's like, Who is Adam Lambert? So he looked him up and he saw him singing, like um on American Idol. And then um, after he saw him singing, he's like, Okay, okay. And then we wrote this song called Sleepwalker. And oh, I love that song so much. I wish I could play it right now. But the fact that I got a song on that record still blows my mind and shows me that anything is possible.

ChatGPT Claude And Too Much Research

SPEAKER_00 29:26

So my AI chat just tells me all the time that I've got like um it's basically getting on to me, like that. I have an ACD and I'm fucked up. That's what it how it talks to me. Like Chris's chat GBT just kisses his ass. It's like a girl, he talks to his and hears a voice. Like he says she said, and I'm like, who said, and it's chat. So like he's got a whole different thing going with his AI. But mine, like basically is telling me I have problems and to stop doing shit. It may be because I'm asking it sometimes, like, what am I doing wrong? Like, what do I need to be doing? But and because I just research stuff nonstop. And so that's what the chat GBT is saying. And then Claude, I love Claude too. Um, I feel like they get jealous of each other. Like you maybe you should turn one off when you're using the other one. Like, I don't know. I know I use them too much, I'm sure of it. But it's it's kind of fun, you know what I mean? Using them and they help so much stuff. You can make a will, you can make, you can read a contract, you can get some papers from your doctor and put them in the thing and it'll explain it to you. Any health procedure, like my aunt was having a health procedure and I didn't understand it. And you can tell Chat GPT, explain it to me like I'm a fifth grader. I said fourth today on the statistics, but explain it to me like I'm a fifth grader, and it will break that shit down and explain it to you. If your dryer's not working, you can take a picture or whatever's poking out, and chat GPT can tell you how to fix it, soaking clawed. My kids hate AI, but they sometimes you have to use it. I like have fun with it. My husband has a problem with it because she's just like the wife in the house that doesn't bit doesn't bitch at him and thinks he hung the moon, which I love him and I know how lucky I am. But chat GPT just kisses his ass all the time. And even the kids roll their eyes when he says chat said. I've been consulting with chat and all that. Anybody that's not doing AI, you're not gonna understand any of this. And anybody that's not doing AI, you should know all the stuff it can do because it can kind of make your life like a million times easier in some ways. Like for me, I'm just always research researching algorithms and TikTok and just stuff that like I don't need to be doing that. That's all I know. That's why I have to pay somebody to do that because that's gonna screw this whole podcast up. That's why I need people to subscribe. So I don't even know what's gonna happen on this podcast. I've had sunglasses on, I've had I forgot, I went and forgot and took them off. Um, but another episode that's gonna be so

New Ideas Reddit And Real Talk

SPEAKER_00 32:39

good. See, I'm trying, I'm changing things up a little bit. I want to have fun and do things like the Airbnb episode and read Reddit stories, which I've been collecting. There's one called the Period Party that everybody needs to hear. I didn't even understand how this AITA thing worked on Reddit. I didn't know what Reddit was, and so like then the first story I ever read was the period party, and I can't wait to read that. I'm gonna have some people over and we're gonna read some Reddit stories. So I want to have fun and do stuff

Ketamine Therapy And Policy Anger

SPEAKER_00 33:17

like that. And then the episode like that I did with Dr. Neff about ketamine therapy, like she's a doctor and she's really seen this help people. I ain't saying it'll help everybody. I ain't a doctor. Um, I did ketamine therapy, and it's interesting because I did let some stuff go that had been kind of making me not feel good and dragging me down and just shouldn't be thinking about. I did let some stuff go, even though really most of my like thing was like it was really nuts. Like most of my ketamine thing was like I was in a mailbox and it was raining paint, and then I was like in Legoland, little Lego world. There's a lot of toy stuff, and then the coolest thing was this these crystals shot up around me, and um, right when I went on it, well, like I first I was like a little kid and I was saying, I don't like that, I don't want you to do that, or something like that, and then these freaking crystals shot up around me like protection, and if you looked up, it was like the nebulas in the sky, and then I like shot out of that into something else, but it did help me. That's why, like, I think if you do it with a doctor, then it could help other people with depression because she gives statistics about how many people get better from it. Um, and they're not of course it's like maybe 60 or something, it's not perfect, and I'm not recommending it, I'm just telling my experience with it because I don't want to get in trouble. And I get so mad at how the government just like tries to get in everybody's business. Like, if some if somebody's depressed, if somebody wants to take their own life and ketamine will help them, you guys should pay for it, not tell them they can't do it because insurance doesn't cover it, I don't think. It don't most places that I know of. This is the end of season one. 10 episodes in season one. I was just talking and going over like a little bit of the stuff I learned this season. And I want to talk about the episodes that I have coming up

Losing A Soulmate Dog

SPEAKER_00 35:33

right now. My little pug Batman, he's laying under me. And since my love of my life dog girlfriend died, like I don't even understand how hard it's been. And I know a lot of people are like that. She was my soulmate dog, and I love him too, like crazy. He's like like Velcro to me. Since she died, he doesn't let me out of his sight. If I try to go out the door, he'll almost trip me because he just darts after me. He walks up and down the hall like behind me. It's heartbreaking. It's so sad. And um, one time I tried to show him a picture of girlfriend, and and he just looked at me like his eyes said, How could you do that to me? Like, like I thought he might like seeing her or something, but she was like his mama's sister, best friend, wife, like not really wife, because she bossed his ass, and she was more like his mom. She was his everything, honestly. But when she died, like he's he's like a different dog. I found her in the pool. It was one of the worst days of my life, one of the biggest shocks of my life, seeing her in the pool. It took me months to even get to the grief from the shock. But I have learned some great things about, you know, to help get through this, like from people just by talking about it. But one of the episodes, we're gonna talk about people losing their dogs. I'm just like, people can call in and will like send their stories or whatever, but we're gonna have some people that call in and then somebody here that's a therapist, like that does grief counseling. So that that one really matters, I think. If you hear noises, he's he's a pug, so he snores. And he's lovable. And I feel bad saying that girlfriend was my soulmate dog, and I'll never love another dog like that, but she just was. It was like she was the funniest, most messed up dog I've ever known. And that's what like Chris told me, do you want to clone her? Like when after she died, I don't know how it works, but I just heard a voice in my head say, You can't clone me. Like, like, and that was true. We could never clone her because it was her personality we were so in love with, not not her looks, because she looked, she looked, oh, she was so cute. She she was just amazing, but she looked a little bit crazy. And then Batman is the cutest dog ever, and like his puppy picture, like he's the cutest dog ever. But Batman, like his little picture, when we saw him, he was just the cutest puppy you've ever seen. But when we were bringing him home, we went and met this lady, and he's got papers, but papers don't mean shit because like all he cares about is food and girlfriend. But now that girlfriend's gone, he's basically just said, fuck it, and he's gonna do what he wants to, and he just all he cares about is food and he won't let me out of his sight. Um, the thing I want to talk to that counselor about too, and hopefully this will help a lot of people because I know that everybody goes through this that loves an animal, and it's hard and it's a different kind of grief, and it's like um it's a more personal grief. Like that's one thing I found. It's more personal, like it's almost like they're a part of you or something when you really connect with a dog. I've had dogs that didn't even like me. So um we had a dog that moved across the street, and that was a similar situation, actually, because um that dog, Gus, I had a dog named Rosie that a coyote killed. And um, when Rosie died, Gus moved across the street because there was another dog over there and they had a dog door and they couldn't keep him out, and we couldn't keep him here. So finally they just took over his vet bills, but he needed that dog, that other dog, more than he needed us. He would come over and visit sometimes, but he just wasn't gonna live here no more. And then we had another dog, Harry, Harry Potter, who was an Airedale Terrier, who was a terror, is what he was. He was an Airedale terror, like he's the only dog. And we loved Harry, we loved him because it's hard not to love him, but he tortured the kids. Anyone that came to this house, okay, that dog ate a hundred-pack thing of nicerette. It had diarrhea, but it didn't really hurt him that much. He would steal everybody's shit like from their car. He ate a whole maybe he was addicted to nicotine. He ate a whole thing of this songwriter Brad Warren's dip, or it might have been Brett Warren. Like they had Copenhagen, like a whole thing, and the dog ate it. Anybody that came here to work on an air conditioner, that dog got your food. And we got happy meals for the kids. We never got in the house before that dog snatched at least one and somebody was screaming. And then we got a bouncy house for Oscar's birthday and at Costco, it was like $400. And then that dog, Harry, had bit a hole in it before we could even, before any guests showed up. So I've had dogs like that. I've had dogs that I've had dogs that were nuts, I've had dogs that left. Um, and then I've had a lot of dogs I love. My best, my first best friend was a Beagle. But so that episode I'm really looking forward to because I think that it'll help a lot of people, and it and I know it'll help me. So that's another one coming up. And I'm gonna talk to some hospice now. It ain't all death. I know, like I think it matters to talk about death, but and I've written a lot of songs about death. Oh, I've written some songs I really love about death. That sounds crazy, but to me it really matters. I wrote a song about losing your dog on Tim McGraw, and that's one of my favorite songs I've ever been a part of. I wrote it with some killer people, Tom Douglas, Claire Douglas, and Jiren Johnston. And the funny thing on that song is when we finished it, first of all, I bugged the shit out of Jaren to write that song with me for three years, maybe forever. I'm relentless. Like, according to Faith Hill, I'm the most tenacious person she's ever met, which I'm gonna take as a compliment. But I think that also means I'll bug the shit out of somebody. I bugged Jaron Johnson like crazy, and then he just never would respond. So then I decided who is the most respected, prestigious, badass professor everybody looks up to, songwriter in Nashville, and it didn't take but one second. It's Tom Douglas, he's a Hall of Fame guy, but he's almost like a preacher and a songwriter and a prophet, like he's amazing. But so I thought I'm gonna lure Jaron in with Tom. And this is crazy because something else just popped in my head. I think Tom and me were both making some deals here because I said I'm gonna lure Jaren into this writing appointment with Tom Douglas. He wrote The House That Built Me, which I think I've probably talked about that song on three or four of the episodes I've done. Every songwriter, when they go to reference a song that's a masterpiece, like 70% of the time, it's um gonna be The House That Built Me. When Shane McInally and me talked about it, when Gordon Mo and me talked about it, yeah, it's always gonna be that song is so good. But so anyway, I was talking to Tom Douglas about this idea because it was the idea about losing your dog. And the whole reason that I wanted to ride it with Jiren was because I saw a post he did on Facebook of him and his dog when his dog died. And it had all these pictures, like a collage of him and the dog riding in the truck, and then the dog snuggled up with him on the couch, and them like in the yard, and the dog wearing a bandana, and just like all the stuff. And I got the idea from that post and thought, people, you know, everybody experiences this. There's a killer song in this. I know there is. So I lured him into um writing with me when I told him I'd been talking to Tom Douglas about writing the song about losing your dog. And within 30 seconds, Jaren texted me back, I'm in, you want to do it tomorrow? And it's like, oh, I've been trying so long. But it was a very good idea on my part. And I was pulling in one of the biggest writers ever. And so the awesome thing is Tom, he's so smart. He said, um, somehow when I got on the Zoom or whatever, we were writing on Zoom, it was during COVID. And when I got on the Zoom, there was a girl on there, and I didn't know who she was. And it was Tom's daughter, Claire. Tom just brought his daughter with him because he was trying to break her into writing, probably like my dad did the same thing with me. It was super smart. And either that or they talked about it and I didn't know it. And the wild thing is Claire Douglas had some of the best lines in that song. She had the one about the um, if you're if your red wing boot goes missing, like she had so many great lines in that song. So at the end, after we finished it, I had chill bunks and we all loved it. And Jaron tried to do the work tape, and um he started crying, and then he tried to do it again, and he started crying. Then he's like, I'm gonna have to go record this by myself. He was so shook up by the song. We all were, I love that song, but so many people have used that song in their um memorials for their dogs, and so many people have just written me stuff about it. And whenever I play it at a songwriter show, people just like I was doing one a couple months ago, and I was like, Well, do you want to hear this or do you want to hear um a song about losing your dog? And some guy, some guy in the crowd's like, don't do it! So I didn't do it, but I do love that song, and I love to play that song. I haven't played it since I lost girlfriend, but so I'm gonna talk to that there, all of that to tell you I've got a dog trauma because it was traumatic how I found girlfriend. I've got a dog grief therapist that's gonna be on here, and I think that's gonna be a great episode.

Surprise Siblings From Ancestry Kits

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And then one that I'm very excited about that is absolutely gonna be nuts, is I'm doing an episode about surprise siblings. And I saw this thing this guy wrote, and and it was on Reddit, and it was just the title, and it said, I got everybody an Ancestry.com kit and runned Christmas. Like, so we get this message from this girl that we grew up with. Her name's Laura Langford, and I used to play with her all the time growing up, and so my mom tells me, like, that we, oh, Amy, she calls, we found something out, and I'm like, what? And she said, Laura Langford saw you connected with her on Ancestry.com, and she's like, my sister, she's my half-sister. We all were like, What the fuck? She was the neighbor, she lived like a couple houses down. I played Barbies with her, and I remember dancing to Rocket Town in her living room. We played together all the time, and she was at my grandparents' house all the time. So they all find out this girl they knew and grew up with um was their half-sister. And I'll tell you something about how sweet my grandmother was. Once we found all this stuff out, like because we had a Christmas party and we hung out with Laura and we hadn't seen her, I hadn't seen her in 30-something years. But so she said she always felt different from her family. She always knew something was off, and um, she just couldn't figure it out, and it was like her other siblings connected better, like she just felt like not an outcast, but it like something wasn't right, you know, in her in her family with her mom and dad. And so that just opened a new world to her. Suddenly everything made sense, and my brother um he said, you know what? Like, I went by her house like to get something because we're all friends with her. I went by her house to get something, and I was like, Why you got a picture of my mama, like her graduation picture in there? And Laura's like, that's me, but we didn't put that together, but they looked alike, and that was really, really weird, especially since we all knew her and we're we're neighbors. But then Laura said, You know, I'll tell you something about your grandmother. I played over there all the time and she was always nice to me because women know, and I I wouldn't be surprised if like my grandmother knew exactly because women always know, and especially if it's your neighbor and the lady sleeping with everybody on the street. So that was a shocker that like Laura, she's my aunt, and I was playing like games at her house and playing and dancing to Rocket Man in the living room. She's my aunt. We were grew up together, so that was just insane. Then it's helped her and it's helped us, and then Chris, my husband, his sister calls him, and she's like, Guess what? Mom just found out that she's got a sister. So my husband's mom has a sister, my mom has a sister, and I've got a lot of friends who have found relatives on ancestry.com. It is shut up everywhere, it's messing stuff up. Ancestry.com is running Christmases everywhere. That freaked me out. But so we're doing the surprise sibling, and I'm gonna have people call in. That's gonna be really fun. If you know anybody with a crazy story about that, and I'm gonna talk to some hospice

Hospice Nurses And A Concert Ask

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nurses. Like, there's one that's been taking such good care of my Aunt Debbie, and like I respect that job so much. I'm gonna talk to some hospice nurses about um what it's like being with people in their last days. I'm hoping and praying they put my aunt on hospice too soon because she'll she'll get a little better. I just want I want her to feel good, you know what I mean, and not think that because hospice is there, it it means she's gonna die tomorrow, you know. Like, but they've been so good to her. And like I just respect that job. And I think that them spending their time like with people when they're on their way out of this world, that that is really special. And I can't imagine the things they hear and see, like doing that job. So I'm gonna talk to two hospice nurses and any nurses that you know that's a hospice nurse that could call in. We would love that because we want to season two, we want to do more stuff like interactive. That's my favorite. If I can find a way, like we may do some live episodes on YouTube where we can talk to each other at the same time, and I think that would be so awesome. So I'm excited about having these hospice nurses on, and the thing that's so awesome is the nurse Hannah that's been taking great care of my aunt in Alabama. I have never asked anybody for tickets for concerts or anything because it I don't like asking people for anything, just like the please subscribe thing. I just hate it. I don't like it, it makes me uncomfortable. But I got a message from my uncle that said this hospice nurse, Hannah, that has been taking such good care of your Aunt Debbie, she like loves Riley Green. If there's any way, you know, you could get it where she could meet Riley Green. And so um, I never, I mean, I never ask anybody. Everybody in the world asked me to ask people for everything, and I don't. I mean, I might if it's like sincerely, seriously, something that matters. But um, if somebody's just wanting to party, I don't. But so he asked me, would I get some meet and greet passes from Riley? And I I was like, I didn't want to, you know, and then I thought, man, what a cool person to spend their days with people who are dying and and try to encourage them and make them like feel better because that nobody knows what that feels like till it's you, you know, like and they are right there. But so I texted Riley. We know each other because he's from close to my hometown, and we wrote a really good song together called They Don't Make Them Like That No More. And what's crazy is that was his new single, and then that other song came out and it just blew that shit out of the water. That was like gone because that other song was such a big hit. You look like you love me, and I love that girl that he does it with. But so I texted him, and there was my husband on that fucking motorcycle. Oh my gosh, I can't even deal with it. He's crazy. Everybody thinks I'm the crazy one, but he's crazy. He told me that for his birthday he wanted to ride down our road naked on that motorcycle. He still hadn't done it. He bought me an insane helmet. Like, he really wants me to ride with him, but I'm just afraid of falling off. I want him to feel alive and do what he needs to, and I just pray to God he doesn't get hurt. But that's coming up, so we've got, and then Chris and me are doing an episode with a marriage therapist, and that should be interesting. We scare our marriage therapist, like I don't know what she thinks. I've acted like a fucking idiot in marriage therapist sessions. I mean, really and truly, like, but it's weird because they we just become friends with each other, and then Chris is like, she was taking your side on that. He got mad about some Kenny Chesney text from fucking 15 years ago. And he's probably gonna get furious, he won't watch this anyway, but I don't think. Hopefully, you won't. But we're doing one, we'll be fighting about it on there if he does, but we'll be doing one on being married and like things we've learned because we've been married 27 years in November, 1111.99. That seems unreal. And we're gonna talk about some crazy shit on there, too, that most people

AI Music Fears And End Times

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wouldn't. Well, I'm doing a series too that's very interesting, talking to some of the biggest songwriters there are about how AI is changing music because most people don't know what's happening, like as a songwriter, and how AI is changing music. It's insane. Like, it's really crazy. It's changing so many things. Like, I can take 30 seconds and make a graphic design that just like blows my own mind, and you just prompt it and tell it, and it does it. It's it's crazy. But our kids hate it, and I understand why they hate it. I almost feel like AI is listening to me like a lot of times, because one time my AI was acting totally human, and to the point that it laughed at me when I did something. I had done like a million like of these. I'd done a million prompts asking, you know, like tell me a hundred titles for this name of this episode, go through this transcript and find everywhere I said the name Tim. Do this, do that. Like it was all about the podcast all the time. That's all I ever looked up, like to the point that I almost felt sorry for that AI doing it. And then out of nowhere, one night I I typed in and said, what happened during the rapture? And then my AI, it did like ha, like H A. Chris was like, I have never seen that. And I had never seen that either, and I use it nonstop. But so um that AI was started acting like totally different, like a friend, like joking back and forth with me all the time. And it just totally changed. This happened three weeks ago. So my husband thinks that AI kind of went sentient or whatever that word is. And we're gonna do an episode about AI too, because he never shuts up about it. And I'm worried about it, and we have different opinions about it, and so do our kids. And I'm curious what other people think about it. Like, I think it's gonna take so many jobs. I don't want to be negative, there's gotta be positive things, but everybody should at least be preparing for it and aware of it. So we're gonna talk about that too. Hopefully, we can get somebody like an AI expert on here and find out what they think. But another big thing is the mark of the beast. Okay, Elon Musk has those neural links that he's wanting to put in people's necks. I think he has one already. I think Sam Altman has one already. He's the guy that started Chat GPT, and I think that they both have a neural link, a chip in their head right now, because Elon is always a little bit stilted when he talks. Like he almost talks like a machine sometimes. And how does somebody do that much shit that he's doing across the board, going to Mars, making sending rockets up left and right, and then doing solar panels? And then my car, my favorite car I've ever had, Tesla. I love the dog mode. Um, look that up if you've got a dog and take it with you everywhere. I love the car just for that. I don't ever want another car that doesn't have that. But Elon Musk, I think he's got a neural link. So the link in the computer stuff, it says in the Bible not to take the mark of the beast. Well, the mark of the beast is 666. And doesn't that look just like computer code or whatever's on a barcode at the bottom? So there's something to that too. And there's wars and rumors of wars. I mean, I'm gonna talk to somebody, I know who I want to talk to. That's the most educated person I know about that. I've just got to get a hold of him. But I plan on having him on season two. So I'm excited to talk about the rapture. This is a crazy season coming up. I I'm realizing that now that I'm saying it. But I am determined to have just as many fun episodes as the ones that like are more, they're more like specific, like if you lost your dog, you know, or if you found a surprise sibling. That's things that people will watch because they have gone through it. Like, but there I'm also gonna try and do a bunch that are fun. I'm starting to look at this whole thing different and figure it out. And I'm hoping that this freaking strategy I made

Final Thanks And Subscribe Plea

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works. Okay, I love you guys, and I really do. I I feel connected to people that watch this. But if you love podcasts, please keep watching mine. Please tell people about it, and please, please, please, please subscribe. You guys rock. Thank you for watching.