Lions and Tigers and Chinchillas...Oh My!

0:01 Good, three PM, good, three am, good, five am. You woke up and you can't get back to sleep because you have a Taylor Swift song stuck in your head. I'm Joe and I'm Morgan and we are anxiety addicts bedtime stories and Welcome to our weekly bs, where Morgan and I shoot the shit about all things stressing us out. Sometimes we have fabulous interesting we're weirdly obsessed and in love with them, guess, and now we google our own names to see what the other Joe Newman's and Morgan Walsh's of the world are up to. Don't you feel like a right, like a significant pull towards them though, Like there's really something you have in common with them, and you almost feel, I don't know, like a kindred magnetic pull that brings me towards them even though they have no idea who I am?

0:49 Right, I completely agree with you. So I get this email today about this woman named Wanda Joe Newman who's died in Oklahoma, and I'm like, it's okay that I read this because she and I are a thing. Wait, Wanda, how is she okay? Like? Can we learn a little bit about her to like. Yes, Morgan. She had an obituary and she's. Okay, it's just. Did she stop?

1:39 Did you? This is not funny? Please tell me she was like ninety one and it was her time. She was eighty. But she is a really nice obituary, Like if somebody wrote this about me, or people really could about like I'm we're not laughing about her honestly now because I feel because of what you said, like, do you feel a kindred relationship to these people? I feel so close to Wanda that I feel like she'd be laughing with us right now. I think she's okay, good, tell me me herbituating something better, because by the way, we're not loving at you, We're. Just we're laughing at working. People loved Wanda. She was from More, Oklahoma. She was only eighty, which when I was a kid, I was like, fucking eighty, like you might as well be the grim Reaper. But I think now that my parents are pushing that age, I'm like, well, it not that old.

2:33 It's not that old. Yeah, isn't that crazy? But listen to this. She is survived by her beloved husband of sixty years, Jefferson Newman, which means she married him at twenty and they stayed together. So mazeltop Wanda. Seriously, by the way, fantastic name. Wanda June. I know she sounds like somebody who would make you feel better and would always have like a dish of hard candies on her on her table. That's so sweet. But could you just explain because we're talking about people who share same names, and this is Wanda June, which has nothing to do with you. Joe Goes.

3:13 She has a J in her name, So apparently we're kindred spirits. I mean, or Google thinks we're kindred spirits. I don't know. I probably set this thing up when I was a self obsessed actress, Like I don't I don't know what I wrote, but it says in my email it says Google alert, quote unquote Joe Newman. Wait, we're gonna get the end of this obituary and people are gonna have called her Joe and I are gonna feel terrible Giga. Okay, I'm kidding. There's the word Joe does not exist on this webpage. But we still love you, not you, I mean Wanda. No, we love Wanda. No one loves me. I don't know what to tell you. Google. Google really hit one home on this one. They use the word joy a lot, and as we know, the first two letters of joy or j oh. So I don't know.

4:04 Maybe this is my problem with finding other Morgan Walshes though, is because I put quotes around my name, so like you have to find, you know how, like you do a Google search if you want, like an open an exact match, an exact match, you do, you know quote, So I did quotes. Maybe that's why I'm not getting any Morgan Walshes. I don't know. I wish I could tell you I have nothing valuable to add to that piece of the conversation. But I'm going to tell you a little bit more about Wanda June. And I don't know why I got this email, but here we are. She had her She lived a life filled with love for her family, a passion for sports, and a deep appreciation for the simple joys in life. But she and she has a big family, but she was devoted. She's from Oklahoma, and she was a devoted fan of OU sports, especially football, basketball, and softball, and rarely missed a game. And I kind of love of this idea of this curly haired grandma, like at every football game.

5:06 Why does she have curly hair? Joe, Because I there's a picture of her phone. I thought, because you were like such kindred spirits that you picture her. Like you as eighty and you're like curly. I think I actually, let's post it. We'll add this to our show notes, because I think that I am going to look like her at eighty. I'm gonna show you, although I'm going to try to look a little bit sluttier just because that's more my vibe. But like, I'm gonna take some inspiration from Wanda June. Here are you giving it to me? On the chat? I can figure out. I don't think there's a chat because we're both logged in it's the same person. Oh no, there's a chat.

5:48 So yeah, no. It's hard to find because it's under chat. Oh my god. Okay, you can look at this and you can look at Wanda's picture, and I love it. So here's what they say at the end, which I just thought was really sweet. They said her presence will be deeply missed, but her memory will live on in the lives she touched, and I was like, that's really positive. And then what's kind of sweet here is I'm sure that they're making a ton of money and this is like not an awesome thing. But like when you go to these Legacy dot com obituaries, I think it's really sweet that you can plant a tree for somebody, Like, what a nice thing to do.

6:32 It's such a beautiful thing to do. Right, Like I never send cut flowers if somebody's had a loss, because I'm like, oh, here's something else already nor that's already dead. Technically yeah, no, flowers hang on for like a good week and a half in my house, like three days, but somebody could. But yeah, I totally agree with. But they're basically on hospice. Like the flower cut flowers are on life support. That's the water. Are you not into my analogy? No? I agree with you. Joe. Okay, we're we're going to tell everybody about what council members in Ireland. Okay, So arguing about.

7:17 I need to say two things beforehand. So Joe of course started I don't know how many years ago, twenty years ago, doing Google alerts for her name, and I loved listening to them, and she said you should do it too. The problem is that we've talked about last week is that my name doesn't come up often. I do want to backtrack a little bit because last week we spoke about an actress named Morgan Walsh, and today I went into a whole rabbit hole because I found this other Morgan Walsh. And in the end, after twenty five minutes, I realized that the same person is the one I talked about last week. But Joe, do you remember you and I were talking about and I said, oh, do they have a LinkedIn? And you go, no, they have an IMDb. So yeah, this is Morgan Walsh, who I think is pretty well known, like like the Morgan Walsh that I talked about last week was married to like the funny Okay, So I finally found this other Morgan.

8:12 What I thought was this other Morganwash and I was like, oh my god, I'm going to talk about her. She sounds so interesting. So she started this organization called open Books, which is targeted towards books, which is so freaking funny, Joe, because you and I were talking about this today about like books for kids that all talk about inclusion, whether it be somebody with a disability, whether it be LBG, I don't know, TQ plus like whether it be this. Wait, she's like she's on podcasts she's and then they always talk about also that she is also an actress and her latest thing was this be e T show called The Games. Wait wait, I think it's called The Games People Play. But hold on. But if you go on her IMDb, the Morgan Walsh that we were talking about, none of this is written and then you have to like none of it like her stuff that's for this doesn't talk about Veep or anything else. But I finally went to her Instagram and like, there's pictures of this man, and I'm like, is this is say Morgan Walsh, Please look it up and tell me I'm not insane, because there's nothing that like ties the two like her two passions.

9:30 Let's say, like what she does on the side. Yeah, I hear, I hear what you're saying. Do you get what I'm saying? Okay? So I looked up Morgan Walsh and open Books and I ended up with a what I believe are they French or is my is Google? Just no? I openbooks dot org www dot openbooks dot Org. Okay, So I and I ended up this is where I ended up at an Apple podcast called open Books with Morgan Walsh and okay about it's called homophilia. Yeah, but that's a true Yeah, but that's a man.

10:21 So I don't think those are the no, no, no, it is. I think she's on the episode. She's she's the guest. Oh okay, all right, so you can delete all of that whole part of my conversation. Let me go back. She must be the guest actor, writer and co founder of Open Books. Morgan Walls drops by to CHOMPI. Yeah, looks like the same person. Yeah, but squere to freaking god, Joe. If you look up what I looked up last week, you're like, oh, I looked up IMDb. It talks about who her husband is. She was on Beep, she was just recently on. The B. E. T Show, and she has too like come. One is called open Books and the other one is a company centered around women like driven women businesses. And she also get this, she's the co founder of a company that was hold.

11:15 On, good job, Matt Walsh. I mean she what a yeah? Oh ready for this. She's recently starting in BT's games People Play, So I was right. But she's also the co founder of Tenth Avenue t which in twenty seventeen was awarded Most Innovative Product by Expo West. And it's this tea company, and I'm going, why is none of this updated on? Like when you look her name up, none of this comes up. I almost want to reach out to her and say, you're a fucking powerhouse? Why did I You should reach out to her and your first line of the email should be I don't know if you feel this too, but I feel very connected to you.

11:59 Let me introduce myself. My name is Yeah. And what if because she's clearly this powerhouse and probably gets thousands of emails a day, what if she emails you back? Because she does feel that way. And we have now unearthed this groundbreaking scientific sociological psychological term, which is how people feel connected when they have the same name. And people are going to have us on it. Oh my god, we are so smart. We got to read a book quickly because they'd be like they even wrote a book about it. Otherwise somebody else is going to jump on the bandwagon. I am not going to throw this person under the bus, because I don't think I should. But I was speaking with a very famous person who wrote a book, and I was like, this is really incredible. Yes, Morgan was a civil action. No, no, no, it was Uh, I'm not going to get into it, but it was kind of a coffee table book but with a lot of you know, media or content in it. And I was like, how did you do all this? And the person goes, you know, I just like made a bunch of voice memos on my phone and send it to the publisher. And I was like, ah, there's other ways of writing books, Joe. So, guys, we are going to pause our new Bedtime Stories until I don't know, I think September.

13:20 I'm positive. We just finished season two. We just finished season two. I like that. I like that positive. Yeah, we just finished season two. We have gotten an influx of new stories, but it's hard to edit, record and get everything out while writing new stories, and so we always take a pause of season two. We are so excited about season three, which will probably be out early September. We'll keep you. I think that. Yeah, I think we're going to try to start September first. Morgan. I don't know, we'll see how while we can get our shit together, But guys, please keep on sending us the stories once a week. We're going to release a rerun and once the week we are going to be on here with our bs with hopefully some really fun guests, because we've managed to connect with some pretty rad people on this wild West of the Internet thing, and we will keep you updated about the bullshit that's going on in our lives, like the rescued chinchilla I now have in.

14:15 The barn cho gooes. We rescued this chinchilla. My kids are playing with it. Should I haven't checked for rabies? Yeah, And I was actually thinking that before I took a picture of that. I was like, oh, before I go grab Raymond, who's very soft. By the way. I think that the trappers of the day knew this when they were making coats. But here's what's amazing. If it took I even said this to my kids. I was like, look, one real jerk dropped this chinchilla. But there were like fifty people in the town that rest that like came together to rescue it. So there's more good people than bad. I like this, and I got to tell small the town is. I got two texts a day from people like, you got the chinchilla? You knew about the chinchilla?

14:59 Does Dean know about the chinchilla yet. Yeah, but yeap, he does you know. He was actually like, okay, whatever, I don't let it get eaten. And I was like, okay, oh he's home. No, but I finally send a text and I was like, yeah, so we kind of have this foster situation. It's a chinchilla, it's in the barn. You don't have to look at it. I feel like, if I don't bring something into the house and it doesn't have massive vetbells. I don't want do they want people to be with them? Like? Is it happy?

15:40 So the Internet says no. The Internet says these are like solitary creatures. Oh my god, this is really funny. Who the Internet says the best chinchilla owners are hold on your name. Wait, no, this is funny because it basically says, I don't I don't want to butcher this because the word was really funny. Okay, the most suitable chinchilla owners are that generally those who are and then there's a lot of things, but basically it says the best chinchilla owners are the ones who want to leave the chinchillas alone. And not like cuddle with them. No, but this one's really friendly. It's really friendly.

16:22 Because it was domesticated and somebody dropped it, probably. With such assholes. But I will say though that I think it. I think it loves me. I know, but really I do think it knows that it's like in a much better situation right now. I cannot wait till next week we come on and talk about updates with the chinchilla, and you're like, I had to go to the emergency room and jumped up my faces. Oh my god, I have brabies right now. I'm foaming at the mouth. No, I'm just a friend, Like I just hope it's not like pregnant. I think it's a boy. I don't. Our local vet Joe Wineman, who's a just absolutely fabulous person, is going to take the chinchilla, who's his name is Raymond, once we get it in a quote unquote appropriate and suitable enclosure, And once we have an appropriate and suitable enclosure, then I can bring it over to Jack's Animal Hospital and then they will keep it at the front desk and then somebody will walk in and be like, that's the cutest thing I've ever seen and take it home and then beat it properly.

17:20 And leave it alone, which is a guess what it wants. Joe, Go take a picture of Richard Raymond. Go take a picture of Raymond, and we can see if we can get it out there for your community to see if anybody wants to. My god, I'm dying adopt it. But then what if I get messages from weirdos and I have to sift through them and see who really wants to love Raymond and who just wants to make a new hat. When you rescue in an animal, you take a silent oath that that is your responsibility.

18:05 I'm saying, no, I'm not. I can just bring it to the vets office and then it's not my. Problem and I will lose respect for. You if I bring it to a VET. Assume it's a self selecting group that all the people who walk through a vet's office like animals. Okay, I agree. You guys, you heard it. She's gonna edit out. Morgan just said she agreed with me. Did you hear it before? She was like, and so I was right, My god. Well guys, we are not going to be going away. We know you love her so.

18:46 Much, so good, it's so good. How have we not been nominated for anything. We will I. Just something to tell you, but I have to tell you offline and then we can share it later. But we will be jumping on with our bs, our weekly bs during the summer, keeping you guys updated, talking about news stories, news, things we're doing, and what to expect for season three. We appreciate everything and all of you so so much. And if no one's told. You today, we love you. And please give us five stars on Apple Podcasts. Oh and like, write like a review, and be our friends on social Good Night, good Night,