September 23, 2023 • 38 mins
Morgan and Mike D answer listener submitted questions! Mike D shared if he and his wife would like to have kids + why his name is “Mike D.” They admit their most watched movies of all time, and their favorite parts of working on the show. Plus, Mike D gives a big update on his braces, and reveals the most surprising thing he learned during his weight loss journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Best Bits of the Week, and we've got more you
mis Bits of the.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's up everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
So this is a special edition of Best Bits in
a way because it is just the regular listener Q
and A with Mike D.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What's up, Mike?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How's it going?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But it may sound a little strange because we are
recording from our homes right now. It's been a crazy
week for the Bobby Bone Show, so it has been.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It feels weird because I feel like I'm in my
own element here in my own background where I normally
do my podcast. So I feel like we're gonna have
a different energy today.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're gonna have more movie Mike and more unhitched Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Maybe maybe I feel very comfortable, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Okay, Well, we're gonna dive in. These are all questioners, questioners.
These are all questions that y'all listeners submitted via my instagram,
the Bobby Bone Show Instagram, and you can do it
every week, but this weekend, you asked Mike D some
questions and myself and both of us we go array
of things here.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I can't wait for these. I have no idea what
people want to know, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Do you want me to hit you with the really
hard one to start?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Let's do it. I like a hard one to start.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, would you and your wife Kelsey like to have kids?
Is that on the plan for y'all?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes, but not anytime soon. I think right now we're
at a point in our lives where we see everybody
else around us with kids and we think like, no
one's really selling it. That's hard for me to get
over because everybody tells you that it's so hard to
have kids. You're not going to sleep. Your life is
going to be consumed with all the things they do,
(01:37):
which sounds, you know, like a lot. And we feel
like knowing ourselves right now, we want to enjoy while
we're still relatively young, to do the things we want
to do, travel, hang out, sleep in on the weekend.
We're trying to enjoy as much of this part of
our life as we can. And then what I also
hear from people is once you get past that, it's
(01:58):
all the great things about kids, like getting to see
yourself and them, getting to teach them things, getting to
experience things like you did when you were a kid,
So they always lead with the negative and then they
get to the positive. So for us, we're like, we're
good right now. Maybe in the next I'd say, within
like three or four years, we start talking about it,
(02:18):
but right now we're good. No plans of it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I love it and I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Listen Like hearing the guys talk about all their kids
at work, I'm like, you guys have really changed my
mind on what I felt I was.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's a lot. I also feel for our generation it's
kind of changed a little bit, like just our timeline
of when we need to do things by I feel
like that generation before us was like, Okay, you finished college,
you get married, and you start having kids immediately. I
feel like we're a little bit more delayed. Maybe it's
because some people would say, is we're still living in
our childhood or prolonging that as long as we can.
(02:53):
But I'm okay with it. I don't feel like I
need to be on any timeline. I think the only
external factor I have some times is like my mom,
who kind of wants grandkids. She's never pressured us like say, hey,
when you get to bring us a grandkid.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
She's not a seen you every time you come home.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No. But the thing is with my mom is I
have an older brother and an older sister, and none
of us have kids. So I just think she's like,
somebody have kids and they're you know, seven nine years
older than me. So I think that's the only external
factor I have of you know, that would be cool
for my mom.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Cool for mom, but maybe not for you. That this
is a very different way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Okay, So that was a big one that got asked
a lot. So that's why I had to start with
it first. How is how did you come up with
Mike D instead of Mike. You've explained this once on
the show. I don't know that everybody caught it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah. So whenever I got into radio, which was oh
Man twenty ten, was when I started with the show,
I knew I wanted a different name that wasn't my
own name, because my real name is so generic that
you google it and you get like one hundred different people.
It could be anybody. So I wanted something unique and
(04:05):
that I could have on every single social media platform
and be able to have the user name, which is
what I have now every platform is the same. Mike DSTRO.
So at the time, I was in a band called
Everyday Destruction, and a thing in punk rock is you
take a part of the band name and incorporate it
into your stage name. So my name was at the
(04:26):
time Mike Destruction. Whenever you try to get that on
social media, it was too long. I think I tried
to get it on Twitter and it said it was
too many characters. It was like, okay, I'll just shorten
it and try to make it sound like a word
that it's actually a name. So I changed it to
d Stro and ever since then that's what it's been.
It's just kind of stuck. Even long after the band
broke up. I just stuck with it. I just like
the way it sounded, and I feel like over my life,
(04:49):
I kind of know how I met different people from
different points of my life by what they call me.
Like my family calls me Mikey. That's just growing up
as what I was, and then and everybody in school,
if I was close to them, it was Mikey. If
I didn't know them, it was my real name, which
is Miguel. And then now doing the show, it's people.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Know me as Mike d You know what I'm really
jealous of Mike. You know what, I'm really jealous of Mike.
You have so many nicknames. I never had nicknames like,
and if they were, they were so weird, so nobody
really mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Because it's like morg which is literally like a death place, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That way, yeah, Or there's Morgs, which has become another one,
but that's you know, plural death places, or like Mo
and Mo always found felt weird.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It felt very like old. I never really liked Mo.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So like, I'm really jealous that you've gone to have
so many cool different nicknames.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The only nickname you have is because there was another Morgan.
Then you got a two edit.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
On and that's not better either.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm literally like number two, so I have death and
poop Like that's literally what I'm driving on.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You're like, I probably got a nickname and it has
to do with the bathroom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So I'm very jealous of you for that, but it's cool.
I love hearing your story about telling your name. I
think you've only gotten to share it once, so I
wanted you to like share it here again because I
do think it's a cool way that you got your
name to where you are now and how it's like
come into the show, But it wasn't because of the
show that you have that name.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, I've had it for a long time that I
just kind of forget. I also just like the way
it sounds. It just sounds like you remember that, and
some people just call me dstro So it's like, hey,
if it's more memorable, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's true. I do want to circle back to to
your wife really quick. Somebody did ask what does your
wife do for work? If you feel comfortable sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
She is a project manager, so our lives are completely different.
She works from home, which is nice because I come
home and we get to catch up. And it's just
crazy seeing the differences between both of our jobs because
I'll be sitting in this exact same spot trying to
come up with like a dumb game or a dumb idea,
or I'll have to like order something weird for a bit,
(07:05):
and it's just so different because hers is very much
more just having meetings and working on just documents and
things throughout the day that it kind of balances each
other out where she has a whole different set of
work problems that I would say are a little bit
more like traditional, and I just have like this other
offset of problems, like, man, I really got to find
(07:26):
a fish bowl this week?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Is there sometimes when you come home and she's like,
what are you up to today? And it's like she
gets to be excited about the things that you're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Because she is so used to what she does every day.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, I guess I keep it interesting mainly because we
have such a crazy schedule, Like right now we're traveling
so much. With the new show, we started too much
access that it's kind of like, hey, where are you
going this week? And we get to talk about things
like that. And then we've also since we do have
such different weeks, we have like a calendar now that
we keep, and I that things saves me so much
(08:00):
because we literally put every day of all the things
we have, and just to be able to see it
helps me remember things because I'm so bad at remembering
times and dates when it's not just like on a calendar.
So I feel like that helps me from having to
ask her like a million questions.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You know, I did buy something on Amazon that's been
a game changer. Maybe this is what you're using, but
it's like this clear calendar that I put on my
refrigerator and I get excited to fill it out every month.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's like my I wipe it off, start clean, and
there it is.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I have the exact same one, the clear calendar. Do
you have the wait?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Did we both because I saw this on TikTok? Did
you see it on TikTok too?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't know. Kelsey got it, so she may have
seen it on TikTok. And then we each have our
own colored markers so we know who's is what event
on the calendar.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
This is amazing we discover we have the same calendar.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's so helpful, it is, and it's.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So like it's esthetically pleasing, is the best way I
can describe it. Like it's not like some chunky calendar
that's in the way. It's just like clear and it
just kind of sits there.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah. And then it's just the process of going through it,
like cleaning it off and then writing all the new
things and then being like, okay, this is what we have.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes, Oh my god, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, we got a little middle mineral break in here.
I've been told I have to start answering these because
we love to all talk to each other too much.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So this is a little Benny break.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We'll be right back, all right, Mike, another update on
something going on in your life.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
What is the latest with your braces going on?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I am in my last let's see, I've had them now,
I've had this news set. So here's the reason I've
had for so long, which is normally the question I
get the most, and I do any kind of Q
and A.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I knew that if it makes you feel better, though
nobody asks like how long have you had it on?
They just said is there any updates? So if that
does help, we are improving on how we.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Asked the question.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah. So I had to get a new set of
braces because I've had this long history of dental work
because I did not go to the dentist at all,
like since, I mean from childhood, I just never went
to the dentists. We couldn't afford it, we didn't have
dental insurance. So I've had so many problems that I
never addressed. And it wasn't until I moved to Nashville
(10:13):
that I was able to, you know, start fixing them.
And I went to one dentist and orthodontists who had
this one plan for me, and it turns out it
wasn't the best plan. So in the last two years,
I've got a new dentist and orthodontis and had to
get a whole new set of braces. So in this
set that I it's supposed to be on for two years,
(10:34):
I'm now over a year and a half, so I
have about until June is when I'll get a moth.
And then I had to go through this whole other
process that they were freaking me out about because there's
something else messed up in my mouth where like they
don't align, so I could potentially have some kind of
intense jaw surgery apparently what this is true, Yeah, because
(10:56):
I don't think I'm gonna do it. I think it's
if I want per picteth. That they had to like
shave off a part of my jaw to get them
to align correctly because they're so crooked and messed up.
But the other thing I have to have done is
get like actual implants put in because the first dentists
took out some teeth to make space for my teeth
(11:17):
because they were so crooked and jumbled together. That I
have teeth that are gone because they had to make
room for them to straighten out correctly. So it's I
don't think I want to go through the process of
having my jaw shot a sad and then having to
get new teeth on. So I think I'm just going
to get the new teeth put in there, whatever implants
(11:38):
they are.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh my gosh, Mike, this has turned like much more
extensive than you probably ever originally thought.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah. So that's why I think people wonder if you've
had braces before, you think, oh, we should have them
off by now, why does he still have them off?
Is because I have all these other other things going
on that I that have gotten so out of hand.
It's kind of like when you keep unraveling all these
things that you have in at tend to you realize
there's a lot more problems behind it. So that's why
it has taken me so long.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah. Wow, well that was a crazy update. I was
not ready for that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And I do hope like whatever you do decide to do,
I hope like you're happy with it and it's like
worth all of this that you're putting yourself through, because
I do know.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I mean, I was in braces for like seven years too.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And then I got myself in a minsul line because
I know for my retainer, I know how much mouth
like problems suck, and just the pain that you have
to constantly go through is terrible. So like I feel
for you, but I do hope like at the end
of it you're happy with whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You decide to do.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, the pain is no joke of just having them
on and having the thing is like I only have
like one and a half good weeks a month because
I have to go in every like six weeks to
get them tightened and they put a new wire on,
so they hurt for literally like four weeks after that,
and then it's a good week and a half and
then I have to go back again. So it's like
a constant cycle of just pain in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And actually like keep going to the place all the
time too, which is another thing to add to your
things to do.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
The scheduling is hard because they always want to put
you in the morning and then I have to explain
to them. But also the fact that they keep messing
up things in my mouth and I have to do
podcasts and speak for things like they literally have they
I think in the last two visits they put these
little things underneath my teeth that are just there the
whole time, and I'm constantly having to over enunciate otherwise
(13:28):
I'll be have so much like spit in my mouth
and talk like that, and then everybody would be like,
you sound horrible on your podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I mean, Mike, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I think all of us on the show have some
type of mouth weird thing happening. Like I have noticed
that we all have something. I don't know if you
ever put that together.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I feel like we've I don't know, maybe the walls
of the studio has forced something on us, because it
seems like we should not be talking on the radio
with having all these like weird problems that we have.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Maybe it's because our studio is full of mold. That's
what we find out like five.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Years later, That's what I think it could be. So
like that, like there's gonna be some study afterwards that
there was something affecting all of our throats because it
just happens.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, and I'm telling you it never happens, like rarely
do I have the same problems outside of the studio,
unless like I'm dealing with the sinus or allergy stuff,
like it's always in the studio, but everywhere else, I'm
like not having that problem exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
When I leave there, I feel different and I don't
feel those same things that have been hindering me in there.
I like get at it there and I'm like, oh,
I get speak normally, there's nothing in my throat.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm really glad we're on this same conspiracy theory together.
It doesn't make me feel as crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, I feel like Eddie and Lunchbox would hop in
on that one too, I do.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Okay, do you drink This is such a like weird shift,
But do you drink alcohol?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Was a question.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I only drink on special occasions, which is usually twice
a year, which this is a complete opposite from the
me of ten years ago, where I would drink anything.
And I was actually talking to Eddie about this recently
because I went home to Austin for our last vacation
and it brought up, brought back all those memories and
when I used to go hard and party all the
(15:08):
time and drink and now I don't really do that
at all, so now it has to be kind of
a special occasion. The last time I drank was last vacation.
We went to a Reds game in Cincinnati, and one
of my favorite things to do is have beers at
a baseball game because it's a place where I feel
like very relaxed and there's just something about the environment
(15:28):
that this feels like an occasion for me to have
some beers. So that was the last time I drank.
But I don't really crave it anymore like I used to.
Like I used to have to drink beer to have
a good time in like social situations, and it was
kind of a crutch for me. So I just kind
of stopped doing that to the point that I don't
really feel like I need to drink anymore to have fun.
(15:50):
So now I just have to be like in a
perfect environment where like, okay, this calls for a drink.
So it was that was the last time. Next time
would probably be probably Christmas when around with my family. Again,
that's really the only time they drink.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You're growing, Mike, I mean, this is what's happening. You're
having huge growth periods, and the fact that you recognize
that and like we're just like, man, I'm not gonna
do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Pretty cool, it's weird, like it's not weird though, like
I don't know's I feel like I would drink more
because I feel like it's fun. But also I just
like the feeling that I have the day after not
having to deal with that, because I never wake up
the next day thinking, oh man, I should have had
(16:32):
some beers. I wake up the next day thinking, Okay,
I feel good right now. I'm probably better without that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh that's funny. Okay, I love it. I love that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That was a question too, and still proud of you,
even though you think it's weird. I'm proud of you.
I'll take it for you.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Okay, movies we have seen the most, I'll let you start.
I gotta think about mine.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Oh, there's a lot of movies I've seen the most.
I think the one that wins is one of my
favorite movies of all time, Twister, which I probably see now.
I think at least over fifty times, because I've watched
that movie so many times, whether I sit down to
watch it at least twice a year, and then if
(17:11):
it's ever on TV, I watched the entire thing because
I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Okay, yeah, that was one of your favorites. I feel
like you brought it up and you're like this, I've
watched this movie so many times.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I can quote the movie from beginning to end, like
without even watching it. I have all the soundtrack memorized.
And they're working on a sequel now, and I'm a
little bit upset about that because I feel like it's
a movie that shouldn't have a sequel. But I'm gonna
go watch it anyway. I just know it's not gonna
be as good.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It's okay it I'll give you another one to keep watching,
hopefully at least it's something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
What are your second third? Like, say you have your
top three movies that you've watched the.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Most, So easily Twister, I would say, after that is
probably a Disney movie. It would probably be Finding Nemo, okay,
cause I remember watching it as a kid, but also
so much in high school because anytime we had any
kind of free time for some reason, my high school
was just always like, let's watch Finding Nemo. And I
(18:08):
also had a Spanish class where in order for us
to learn Spanish, we would watch movies in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, clever though, like that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, we would just watch Disney movies in Spanish. But
I think our teacher only had Finding Nemo, so we
watched Finding Nemo like four or five times throughout the
course of that class.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
That's funny, okay. And then number three.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I think number three would probably be a superhero movie
and would probably be my favorite movie of all time,
The Dark Knight, just because that's another movie I watch
at least once a year.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Okay, that's solid, I mean, but that's also a dark
movie to be watching once a year.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, I just love it so much from the beginning
to end. But I've been recently just rewatching. I rewatch
long movies, which I feel like people don't do. I
rewatch Infinity War and Endgame and also least once a year,
and it feels like nothing to me. Those movies are
three hours long, but I just dive into them because
I'm like, even though I know what happens, I just
(19:08):
like want to dive back into that world and wish
we could go back in that time of the MCU
where those movies were new. So that's a movie I
can watch, just no problem.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm glad you said at least one superhero movie besides
The Dark Knight.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Since the Dark nighted one is dark, I tried to
avoid the darker one.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But first of all, I want to I want to
say that you had to watch Finding Nemo on repeat
in school. I had to watch Twister Finding like on
repeat in school. Like grew up in Kansas.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, it's a Kansas thing for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's like instilling the tornado here or something.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We watched that in armagedon so many times.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, I don't. I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Probably like when you're like, why are we watching Finding
Nemo eight a hundred times? It's kind of how we felt.
But my my number one, and I think I've already
watched it ten times this year alone, and I watch
it on repeat often.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Is ready Player one? Oh dang, Like it is my
favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I didn't realize you loved it that much. I love
that movie. But I feel like outside of seeing it
in theaters, I've only watched it once.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Since Oh Mike is my and every time.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
The worst part about it is I think a lot
of people like watching it because it comes and goes
from Max and Hulu A lot and like, so I'll
just binge watch it almost like multiple times while it's
there because it always gets taken off always, So I
think that might contribute to that because then I get sad,
mostly because I haven't found anything that's so similar to
it that I can also like it's really standalone, like
(20:42):
on its own. Free Guys a little bit close to
it that I like, yeah, but still not as much.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So Ready Player one is one.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I think it's a tie at two with Sweet Home
Alabama and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Whenever those are.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
On TV, I'll watch them, so probably three or four
times a year at least, and then three would probably
be Avengers, Like I rotate those movies. Those are like
my you know how people have TV shows to put
on when they fall asleep or TV shows in the background,
minor Marvel movies.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh yeah, I do the same things.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Like I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It's something comforting of like I already know what's going
to happen and it's still exciting, so like if I
want to stop and watch for a second.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I can, or I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Sometimes I kind of forget though, because there was a
period where they came out so frequently that I would
just go see them in theaters and then it would
be on too the next one. So I feel like
rewatching them over and over again you see different things
that you maybe missed, and then you're able to connect
them now that you know the entire story. So I
feel like rewatching those movies is actually quite beneficial.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That is true. You're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
There's only one I can't rewatch. It's the Newest Guardians
of the Galaxy because I cried so many times they
can't do it in person. I'm like, yeah, I might
rewatch it again if somebody wants me to, but that
is not a choice I will make. Okay, what about
most anticipated movie of next year for you?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh? Of next year?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, that's the thing. A lot of things got delayed
until next year. I feel like the one I'm looking
forward to that got pushed to next year is Dune two,
mainly because because I wanted to love Dune Part one
so much. I love the director, didn't need a love
but I just found that movie to be kind of boring.
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But this one is supposed to be where all the
action is and where like the story really unfolds. And
they get into the entire war of what that movie is,
and people just love that movie and love that book
so much that I feel like the sequel is going
to be so much better. And I just love things
that are really big and cinematic and give me a
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reason to go to a theater to watch it, and
I feel like that is what Dune two is going
to be. So I'm hoping that it lives up to
those expectations. And it makes me kind of get the
bad taste of Dune one out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay, yeah, that's fair. And it was very cinematic the
first one. I think that's why I even liked it
is because it was very like visually appealing.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It looks great, like I love the costume design in that,
and the just the soundtrack and the score to that
is so good. But I just needed a little bit
more story, a little bit more action. And there's supposed
to be a scene where Timothy Challomet like rides one
of those like sandworm licking things in this one, so
I think that's gonna be pretty epic.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Okay, it does give me some Star Wars vibes for sure.
It leads into that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's like Star Wars and Game of Thrones, but in
the sand.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's a weird mix of things.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Now, I will say before we take one more little
mini break, I did watch Interstellar for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh my gosh, the first time, first.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Time I had.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I don't know why I had never dove into it,
but like I said, I've been trying to watch basically
any sci fi movie that's like Ready Player one. I've
been trying to find and watch an Interstellar kept popping up,
and I was like, I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And as you know, that's like a three hour long movie.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's a long one.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But it was so good.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I loved it. I loved the concept of it, the plot.
I mean, I've never seen that before, that storyline, and
how it was and so cool to like think, holy crap,
all these aliens could actually be us in the future.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Like it was such a cool concept.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I love that movie. The thing is, I did not
like it the first time I watched it, and I'm
surprised you did, because I feel like that movie is
so big and there's so many things going on, and
the entire theory of time in that movie is so
complex that I watched it for the first time and
I didn't fully get it, so I had to watch
it another time, and I think it wasn't until the
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third time that I realized, this is one of the
most beautiful movies I've ever seen, and it is so good,
and I love Christopher Nolan and just how he always
just pushes the envelope on filmmaking. And I think I
didn't get it that first time because it was so
groundbreaking and so different and so far into sci fi.
But looking back on that movie now, I guess one
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of the best of the TWENTI maybe one of the
best of his.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh it was so good. That's crazy that you didn't
like it the first time.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But I will say I did watch it from literally
like midnight until three am. I am a night out,
and I don't work on the show on a night out,
and so maybe me being up at that time and
like nobody else was awake and I was like very
much by myself and in my feelings, maybe that was
why I like connected with it so much.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I think watching it late at night helps because the
last time I watched it where I really got into it.
I started it at night and I knew it really
had me sucked in because I didn't want to go
to sleep, and I was like, all right, I'll finish
it in the morning.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
That's fair. You didn't do what I do and stay
up until three am. It was not my best decision,
but it was worth it.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I think that's another thing that you can do with
longer movies like that is split it up into hours
and make it feel more like a show, and I
feel like you can kind of chew on it a
little bit more.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You're not wrong, but with the way that I like
to complete things, yeah, I would always feel like I
needed to do it, and then i'd get up that
next morning and like I would even probably get out
of bed, I just turn it back on and be like, Okay,
time to watch it's so bad. Okay, let's take a
quick break and where you got a few more questions
for you?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Mike?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
All right, alrighty, Mike, Are you going to be doing
any more stand up in the future.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I have been writing a lot. I was literally writing
a joke earlier today that I just need to go
back and do what I did when I was starting
out and do some open mic nights because comedy is
kind of a hard thing to jump right back into.
So I kind of want to go do some open
mic nights to try out some new material and start
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building a new set. But yeah, that is like my
favorite thing to do. I feel like I love just
the writing process of it, and the actual performing is
like a whole other level that I have to prepare
myself more because you can write something and think it's
hilarious and then you go do it and it doesn't work,
and then you write something else that you think, think, okay,
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that'll just give me to the next thing, and that
ends up being the best thing. So it's a whole
kind of like trial and error process that I really love.
So it takes a long time to also write just
like ten minutes, which is what I normally do when
I open up for Bobby that I'm going through now
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and trying to find exactly what I want to say,
because I think when I was starting out, I was
just focused on, Okay, this is a good joke, this
is a good joke. I'll just push them all together
and make a set, and it worked for me. But
now I kind of want to build something that's a
little bit more like an entire piece of like this
is actually more representative of me and all these weird
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thoughts that I have that hopefully other people find funny
and create like this little package of my jokes that
I could do in any situation, whether it be opening
for Bobby or doing it on my own, that you
don't have to listen to the show to get. You
don't have to know anything about me, and you can
listen to you do stand up and like take something
(28:02):
away from it. And I haven't fully got there yet,
so I'm not completely ready to jump into it.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Okay, that's fair. I do want to give you props. Listen.
I went to my first open mic night and I
was so uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I have never and it was like all these people
testing out their jokes, right, it wasn't like a full
blown steak.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That was people testing their jokes.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And I made the wrong decision of sitting in the
front row and I will never do that again in
my life. But like these people get up there and
they just like tell these things knowing that some of
it's gonna fall flat, and they you know, come away
with like the Okay, this work, this didn't and just
like props to you for doing that. I would literally
put my pants like, I don't think I can handle
(28:42):
that awkwardness. And so I think it's really cool that
you're doing it, and I hope you can find like
your perfect sweet spot and then maybe you can.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Like, would you ever do it by yourself? Like go
out on the road and do it by yourself?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, I think that's eventually what I would want to
work up towards. I think it's because the good thing
about doing open mic nights like that is it's so
welcoming that unless you are just there like making fun
of the entire process or being a jerk, no one's
gonna boo you, that's true, and no one's gonna be
just nasty towards you or heckle you. It's kind of
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like a learning process for everybody. And even if you're
bombing up there, I feel like you'll either just get
like some small collaps or you'll kind of get a
little bit of a self awareness and think, Okay, I
gotta hop out of here.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That's fair, that's fair. But just props to you, Mike.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm seriously could nuper okay, who would win in a
half marathon between you and the lunchbox?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Me?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
All day like it. When it comes to long distance,
like that is where I that is where I like
I can crush. Like I feel like anybody on the
show would probably beat me in like running a forty
or maybe even running a mile. But when it comes
to long distance, that is one thing about is I'm
relentless and I will not stop and I will out.
(30:05):
I will beat anybody. And I half heard on like
I just I just know myself and I know my body.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Mike, I just like came up with the best bit ever.
As you and Lunchbox run and who drops first, Like
you just run.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
There's no set time, there's no set end.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
You just run, and you ever like, whoever's gonna drop
first drop loses.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, one of us will end up in the hospital.
Because I feel like as relentless as I am, Lunchbox
is even more. I mean he ran a marathon with
no training ones that's true. But that's why it would
be such a good bit.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Like it would have to become to the point where
we'd have to be like, okay, both of you have
to stop.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
This can resume tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, there'd be some kind of time limit on that.
Because I could I can keep going. The thing about
me is I'm quietly competitive, and even when I go
run just here, like on a normal day, if there's
somebody like trying to get like behind me and pass me,
I'll turn on the gas and just burn a milliam behind.
If you're gonna pass me, like you have to really
past me. And when it comes to running in a marathon,
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I feel like I could keep going. But the thing
is is I'm quietly competing with all these other people
around me, So I run like faster, and then I
get more tired in a marathon situation because that kind
of competitiveness comes out of me and I want to,
you know, finish faster. And I'm so focused on that.
But if I was just running at my normal pace
with no one around me, I could I don't know
(31:24):
how far I could run. I could just keep going.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Okay, Well, well, marinate on it. I think I think
it's a cool little bit idea.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I mean, I don't want anybody to get hurt.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But I feel like it'd be really What about like,
in relation to that, what was the thing that surprised
you the most about your weight loss journey that you
went on?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I would say, like not to get too serious. But
I thought everything was going to be like completely happy
after I did. I thought it would be the one
thing in my life that after I did that, all
my other problems would go away and it would fix everything,
because the way I felt was being overweight and un
healthy was the only thing stopping me from being happy.
(32:04):
And then I lost all the weight, and then I realized, oh,
that's really not everything. Like people still they still treat
you the same way, and they still care about you.
So it wasn't really so much the weight that I
felt like once I had this, I would have like
all the success and all the other things. It was
just kind of getting to that moment and realizing, Huh,
once you get the thing you've been wanting your entire life, Uh,
(32:27):
you could still be sad that.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Wow, I was not expecting you to say that, but
I do think it's a very true thing for a
lot of people, not just with weight loss, but just anything.
I think you hope for something for so long and
you paint such a vivid picture of it in your
brain that if it doesn't go as that, it's almost disappointing,
even though it can be this really, which what you
did was incredible, Like it can be this incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And it's still not enough.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, I think that's Yeah, it could be with any
kind of success or even like with money, like you think, oh,
if I just had this amount of money and I
was rich, all my problems would go away. You get
all that money and you realize there's a whole other
set of problems and you might not be that much happier.
So I think what I learned from that, though, is
to live in the moment and appreciate the things you
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do have and just enjoy life more. Because there's always
going to be something that seems unattainable, and that seems
that once you get it, your entire life is going
to be better and happier. But you don't really have
to chase that all the time. Appreciate the things you
have around you while you can.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
No, that's a good lesson to learn and one that
I feel like we often learn a lot later in life.
It's really hard to live in the moment and enjoy
what you do have. So I don't think you're alone
in that particular thing. But I'm glad you shared that, Like,
thanks for opening up, because it wasn't what I was
anticipating for you to share from that, So thank you,
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and we'll end on this one maybe.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
A brighter note.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Our favorite part about our specific jobs and the roles
we have the show.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So, Mike, what's your favorite part?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Our favorite part? I mean mine really goes back to
actually doing the live show. Like once, when we're actually
in there doing the live show and there's that energy going,
that is the best part. We're connecting with everybody listening
and it feels like there's a momentum there. It's because
it's all it's the it's the product of all the
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other work we do in the other hours of the day,
which some people think that we just come in and
start talking. Not the case whatsoever. There's so much work
that goes into booking guests, coming up with segments, everybody
having you know, the things they need to record throughout
you know, the show. When we're working in between breaks.
There's so much work that goes in on the other side.
It's once we're actually there and getting to do it
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that that's the most rewarding part. Because in that moment,
nothing else can really touch us, nothing else really matters.
We're just so focused on actually doing the show. And
it's almost like actually getting to do the show is
kind of like like the reward in a way of
all the other things we have to do, Like that's.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's the icinge and the cherry on top.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, it's like that's the that's the best part and
it's so hard to get to that point, but yeah,
that's my favorite part still.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Oh that's good and true. Nobody can't get to us.
We sit in a room with no windows, so really
nobody can.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
It feels like I like like we're in Vegas school.
I don't see the sun until I leave that place,
and I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah, I've been like rained or anything. We're all like, oh,
there's a tornado outside.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Nobody knew, no idea.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Every time I think my part is getting to connect
with people with social media. I just love hearing people's
stories and figuring out how they are impacted by the
show or if something happened that connected the pieces. Like
I just love so much of that piece of social
media and getting to see that every single day, and
(35:54):
whether it's just somebody like we love the show. I
listen all the time, like just that, like you said,
is the reward for all the work that we do
is like, these are real people who are taking real
time out of their day to spend with us and
hang out with us and listen.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
To our crazy stories. And for them to be connected
by that all across the country. Heck, even in countries
that are in America, like blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
And so I just love that piece of connecting and
seeing like true people and like very human moments.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah. I think when I first started touring with Bobby
that was kind of my eye opening part of Oh,
there are actually people on the other end of this
and getting to actually see like listeners and meet them
and talk to them. It added a whole different level
of like, oh, we're not just speaking into an empty
black hole. It's actually going out and you know, affecting
some people.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, and it matters.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Like I've always said, even if it does something for
one person, then you've done your job in this life.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
And I think it's so cool that a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Us have more than one person, but like, just multiple
impacts across the board is really awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh yeah, so happy note. We ended on a happy note.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
We did it, Oh, Mike, Well, thank you for joining
me on this entire Best of Bits weekend and for
answering all of our listeners, Q and Ice. I appreciated
you being very vulnerable and more talkative than most people
are used to. I know you're talkative, but yeah, they
may not so appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
The quiet me is a myth. It's a myth at
this point it is.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
It's just something that you're playing into at this point.
Now you just gotta roll with it, kind of like
I gotta roll with Morgan.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Number two. Oh well, tell the people where they can
hear you. Find you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You can listen to my podcast, new episodes every single Monday,
movie Mike's Movie Podcast on iHeartRadio wherever you listen to podcasts,
and I am on social media across everything at Mike
Distro because I was smart and gave myself a unique name.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah you did, and you can find me at web Girl.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Morgan also on all the things, not that it's as
unique as Mike that somehow I managed to get all
of them.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
And of course the show at Bobby.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Bone Show and Bobby Bones dot Com has a whole
lot of content for y'all. So thank you guys again
for sending in your questions Mike d I'm proud of us.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
We did it. Another weekend like virtual high five.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
All right, Bye Bye Bobby Bone Bobby Bone Show
Best Bits of the Week, and we've got more you
mis Bits of the.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Week with Morgan number two.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's up everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
So this is a special edition of Best Bits in
a way because it is just the regular listener Q
and A with Mike D.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What's up, Mike?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How's it going?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But it may sound a little strange because we are
recording from our homes right now. It's been a crazy
week for the Bobby Bone Show, so it has been.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It feels weird because I feel like I'm in my
own element here in my own background where I normally
do my podcast. So I feel like we're gonna have
a different energy today.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're gonna have more movie Mike and more unhitched Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Maybe maybe I feel very comfortable, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Okay, Well, we're gonna dive in. These are all questioners, questioners.
These are all questions that y'all listeners submitted via my instagram,
the Bobby Bone Show Instagram, and you can do it
every week, but this weekend, you asked Mike D some
questions and myself and both of us we go array
of things here.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I can't wait for these. I have no idea what
people want to know, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Do you want me to hit you with the really
hard one to start?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Let's do it. I like a hard one to start.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, would you and your wife Kelsey like to have kids?
Is that on the plan for y'all?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes, but not anytime soon. I think right now we're
at a point in our lives where we see everybody
else around us with kids and we think like, no
one's really selling it. That's hard for me to get
over because everybody tells you that it's so hard to
have kids. You're not going to sleep. Your life is
going to be consumed with all the things they do,
(01:37):
which sounds, you know, like a lot. And we feel
like knowing ourselves right now, we want to enjoy while
we're still relatively young, to do the things we want
to do, travel, hang out, sleep in on the weekend.
We're trying to enjoy as much of this part of
our life as we can. And then what I also
hear from people is once you get past that, it's
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all the great things about kids, like getting to see
yourself and them, getting to teach them things, getting to
experience things like you did when you were a kid,
So they always lead with the negative and then they
get to the positive. So for us, we're like, we're
good right now. Maybe in the next I'd say, within
like three or four years, we start talking about it,
(02:18):
but right now we're good. No plans of it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I love it and I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Listen Like hearing the guys talk about all their kids
at work, I'm like, you guys have really changed my
mind on what I felt I was.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's a lot. I also feel for our generation it's
kind of changed a little bit, like just our timeline
of when we need to do things by I feel
like that generation before us was like, Okay, you finished college,
you get married, and you start having kids immediately. I
feel like we're a little bit more delayed. Maybe it's
because some people would say, is we're still living in
our childhood or prolonging that as long as we can.
(02:53):
But I'm okay with it. I don't feel like I
need to be on any timeline. I think the only
external factor I have some times is like my mom,
who kind of wants grandkids. She's never pressured us like say, hey,
when you get to bring us a grandkid.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
She's not a seen you every time you come home.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No. But the thing is with my mom is I
have an older brother and an older sister, and none
of us have kids. So I just think she's like,
somebody have kids and they're you know, seven nine years
older than me. So I think that's the only external
factor I have of you know, that would be cool
for my mom.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Cool for mom, but maybe not for you. That this
is a very different way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Okay, So that was a big one that got asked
a lot. So that's why I had to start with
it first. How is how did you come up with
Mike D instead of Mike. You've explained this once on
the show. I don't know that everybody caught it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah. So whenever I got into radio, which was oh
Man twenty ten, was when I started with the show,
I knew I wanted a different name that wasn't my
own name, because my real name is so generic that
you google it and you get like one hundred different people.
It could be anybody. So I wanted something unique and
(04:05):
that I could have on every single social media platform
and be able to have the user name, which is
what I have now every platform is the same. Mike DSTRO.
So at the time, I was in a band called
Everyday Destruction, and a thing in punk rock is you
take a part of the band name and incorporate it
into your stage name. So my name was at the
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time Mike Destruction. Whenever you try to get that on
social media, it was too long. I think I tried
to get it on Twitter and it said it was
too many characters. It was like, okay, I'll just shorten
it and try to make it sound like a word
that it's actually a name. So I changed it to
d Stro and ever since then that's what it's been.
It's just kind of stuck. Even long after the band
broke up. I just stuck with it. I just like
the way it sounded, and I feel like over my life,
(04:49):
I kind of know how I met different people from
different points of my life by what they call me.
Like my family calls me Mikey. That's just growing up
as what I was, and then and everybody in school,
if I was close to them, it was Mikey. If
I didn't know them, it was my real name, which
is Miguel. And then now doing the show, it's people.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Know me as Mike d You know what I'm really
jealous of Mike. You know what, I'm really jealous of Mike.
You have so many nicknames. I never had nicknames like,
and if they were, they were so weird, so nobody
really mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Because it's like morg which is literally like a death place, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That way, yeah, Or there's Morgs, which has become another one,
but that's you know, plural death places, or like Mo
and Mo always found felt weird.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It felt very like old. I never really liked Mo.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So like, I'm really jealous that you've gone to have
so many cool different nicknames.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The only nickname you have is because there was another Morgan.
Then you got a two edit.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
On and that's not better either.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm literally like number two, so I have death and
poop Like that's literally what I'm driving on.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You're like, I probably got a nickname and it has
to do with the bathroom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
So I'm very jealous of you for that, but it's cool.
I love hearing your story about telling your name. I
think you've only gotten to share it once, so I
wanted you to like share it here again because I
do think it's a cool way that you got your
name to where you are now and how it's like
come into the show, But it wasn't because of the
show that you have that name.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, I've had it for a long time that I
just kind of forget. I also just like the way
it sounds. It just sounds like you remember that, and
some people just call me dstro So it's like, hey,
if it's more memorable, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's true. I do want to circle back to to
your wife really quick. Somebody did ask what does your
wife do for work? If you feel comfortable sharing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
She is a project manager, so our lives are completely different.
She works from home, which is nice because I come
home and we get to catch up. And it's just
crazy seeing the differences between both of our jobs because
I'll be sitting in this exact same spot trying to
come up with like a dumb game or a dumb idea,
or I'll have to like order something weird for a bit,
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and it's just so different because hers is very much
more just having meetings and working on just documents and
things throughout the day that it kind of balances each
other out where she has a whole different set of
work problems that I would say are a little bit
more like traditional, and I just have like this other
offset of problems, like, man, I really got to find
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a fish bowl this week?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Is there sometimes when you come home and she's like,
what are you up to today? And it's like she
gets to be excited about the things that you're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Because she is so used to what she does every day.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, I guess I keep it interesting mainly because we
have such a crazy schedule, Like right now we're traveling
so much. With the new show, we started too much
access that it's kind of like, hey, where are you
going this week? And we get to talk about things
like that. And then we've also since we do have
such different weeks, we have like a calendar now that
we keep, and I that things saves me so much
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because we literally put every day of all the things
we have, and just to be able to see it
helps me remember things because I'm so bad at remembering
times and dates when it's not just like on a calendar.
So I feel like that helps me from having to
ask her like a million questions.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You know, I did buy something on Amazon that's been
a game changer. Maybe this is what you're using, but
it's like this clear calendar that I put on my
refrigerator and I get excited to fill it out every month.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's like my I wipe it off, start clean, and
there it is.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I have the exact same one, the clear calendar. Do
you have the wait?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Did we both because I saw this on TikTok? Did
you see it on TikTok too?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't know. Kelsey got it, so she may have
seen it on TikTok. And then we each have our
own colored markers so we know who's is what event
on the calendar.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
This is amazing we discover we have the same calendar.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's so helpful, it is, and it's.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So like it's esthetically pleasing, is the best way I
can describe it. Like it's not like some chunky calendar
that's in the way. It's just like clear and it
just kind of sits there.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah. And then it's just the process of going through it,
like cleaning it off and then writing all the new
things and then being like, okay, this is what we have.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yes, Oh my god, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, we got a little middle mineral break in here.
I've been told I have to start answering these because
we love to all talk to each other too much.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So this is a little Benny break.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We'll be right back, all right, Mike, another update on
something going on in your life.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
What is the latest with your braces going on?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I am in my last let's see, I've had them now,
I've had this news set. So here's the reason I've
had for so long, which is normally the question I
get the most, and I do any kind of Q
and A.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I knew that if it makes you feel better, though
nobody asks like how long have you had it on?
They just said is there any updates? So if that
does help, we are improving on how we.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Asked the question.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah. So I had to get a new set of
braces because I've had this long history of dental work
because I did not go to the dentist at all,
like since, I mean from childhood, I just never went
to the dentists. We couldn't afford it, we didn't have
dental insurance. So I've had so many problems that I
never addressed. And it wasn't until I moved to Nashville
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that I was able to, you know, start fixing them.
And I went to one dentist and orthodontists who had
this one plan for me, and it turns out it
wasn't the best plan. So in the last two years,
I've got a new dentist and orthodontis and had to
get a whole new set of braces. So in this
set that I it's supposed to be on for two years,
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I'm now over a year and a half, so I
have about until June is when I'll get a moth.
And then I had to go through this whole other
process that they were freaking me out about because there's
something else messed up in my mouth where like they
don't align, so I could potentially have some kind of
intense jaw surgery apparently what this is true, Yeah, because
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I don't think I'm gonna do it. I think it's
if I want per picteth. That they had to like
shave off a part of my jaw to get them
to align correctly because they're so crooked and messed up.
But the other thing I have to have done is
get like actual implants put in because the first dentists
took out some teeth to make space for my teeth
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because they were so crooked and jumbled together. That I
have teeth that are gone because they had to make
room for them to straighten out correctly. So it's I
don't think I want to go through the process of
having my jaw shot a sad and then having to
get new teeth on. So I think I'm just going
to get the new teeth put in there, whatever implants
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they are.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh my gosh, Mike, this has turned like much more
extensive than you probably ever originally thought.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah. So that's why I think people wonder if you've
had braces before, you think, oh, we should have them
off by now, why does he still have them off?
Is because I have all these other other things going
on that I that have gotten so out of hand.
It's kind of like when you keep unraveling all these
things that you have in at tend to you realize
there's a lot more problems behind it. So that's why
it has taken me so long.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah. Wow, well that was a crazy update. I was
not ready for that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And I do hope like whatever you do decide to do,
I hope like you're happy with it and it's like
worth all of this that you're putting yourself through, because
I do know.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I mean, I was in braces for like seven years too.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And then I got myself in a minsul line because
I know for my retainer, I know how much mouth
like problems suck, and just the pain that you have
to constantly go through is terrible. So like I feel
for you, but I do hope like at the end
of it you're happy with whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You decide to do.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, the pain is no joke of just having them
on and having the thing is like I only have
like one and a half good weeks a month because
I have to go in every like six weeks to
get them tightened and they put a new wire on,
so they hurt for literally like four weeks after that,
and then it's a good week and a half and
then I have to go back again. So it's like
a constant cycle of just pain in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And actually like keep going to the place all the
time too, which is another thing to add to your
things to do.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
The scheduling is hard because they always want to put
you in the morning and then I have to explain
to them. But also the fact that they keep messing
up things in my mouth and I have to do
podcasts and speak for things like they literally have they
I think in the last two visits they put these
little things underneath my teeth that are just there the
whole time, and I'm constantly having to over enunciate otherwise
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I'll be have so much like spit in my mouth
and talk like that, and then everybody would be like,
you sound horrible on your podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I mean, Mike, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I think all of us on the show have some
type of mouth weird thing happening. Like I have noticed
that we all have something. I don't know if you
ever put that together.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I feel like we've I don't know, maybe the walls
of the studio has forced something on us, because it
seems like we should not be talking on the radio
with having all these like weird problems that we have.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Maybe it's because our studio is full of mold. That's
what we find out like five.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Years later, That's what I think it could be. So
like that, like there's gonna be some study afterwards that
there was something affecting all of our throats because it
just happens.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well, and I'm telling you it never happens, like rarely
do I have the same problems outside of the studio,
unless like I'm dealing with the sinus or allergy stuff,
like it's always in the studio, but everywhere else, I'm
like not having that problem exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
When I leave there, I feel different and I don't
feel those same things that have been hindering me in there.
I like get at it there and I'm like, oh,
I get speak normally, there's nothing in my throat.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm really glad we're on this same conspiracy theory together.
It doesn't make me feel as crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, I feel like Eddie and Lunchbox would hop in
on that one too, I do.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Okay, do you drink This is such a like weird shift,
But do you drink alcohol?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Was a question.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I only drink on special occasions, which is usually twice
a year, which this is a complete opposite from the
me of ten years ago, where I would drink anything.
And I was actually talking to Eddie about this recently
because I went home to Austin for our last vacation
and it brought up, brought back all those memories and
when I used to go hard and party all the
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time and drink and now I don't really do that
at all, so now it has to be kind of
a special occasion. The last time I drank was last vacation.
We went to a Reds game in Cincinnati, and one
of my favorite things to do is have beers at
a baseball game because it's a place where I feel
like very relaxed and there's just something about the environment
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that this feels like an occasion for me to have
some beers. So that was the last time I drank.
But I don't really crave it anymore like I used to.
Like I used to have to drink beer to have
a good time in like social situations, and it was
kind of a crutch for me. So I just kind
of stopped doing that to the point that I don't
really feel like I need to drink anymore to have fun.
(15:50):
So now I just have to be like in a
perfect environment where like, okay, this calls for a drink.
So it was that was the last time. Next time
would probably be probably Christmas when around with my family. Again,
that's really the only time they drink.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You're growing, Mike, I mean, this is what's happening. You're
having huge growth periods, and the fact that you recognize
that and like we're just like, man, I'm not gonna
do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Pretty cool, it's weird, like it's not weird though, like
I don't know's I feel like I would drink more
because I feel like it's fun. But also I just
like the feeling that I have the day after not
having to deal with that, because I never wake up
the next day thinking, oh man, I should have had
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some beers. I wake up the next day thinking, Okay,
I feel good right now. I'm probably better without that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Oh that's funny. Okay, I love it. I love that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That was a question too, and still proud of you,
even though you think it's weird. I'm proud of you.
I'll take it for you.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Okay, movies we have seen the most, I'll let you start.
I gotta think about mine.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Oh, there's a lot of movies I've seen the most.
I think the one that wins is one of my
favorite movies of all time, Twister, which I probably see now.
I think at least over fifty times, because I've watched
that movie so many times, whether I sit down to
watch it at least twice a year, and then if
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it's ever on TV, I watched the entire thing because
I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Okay, yeah, that was one of your favorites. I feel
like you brought it up and you're like this, I've
watched this movie so many times.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I can quote the movie from beginning to end, like
without even watching it. I have all the soundtrack memorized.
And they're working on a sequel now, and I'm a
little bit upset about that because I feel like it's
a movie that shouldn't have a sequel. But I'm gonna
go watch it anyway. I just know it's not gonna
be as good.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It's okay it I'll give you another one to keep watching,
hopefully at least it's something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
What are your second third? Like, say you have your
top three movies that you've watched the.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Most, So easily Twister, I would say, after that is
probably a Disney movie. It would probably be Finding Nemo, okay,
cause I remember watching it as a kid, but also
so much in high school because anytime we had any
kind of free time for some reason, my high school
was just always like, let's watch Finding Nemo. And I
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also had a Spanish class where in order for us
to learn Spanish, we would watch movies in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, clever though, like that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, we would just watch Disney movies in Spanish. But
I think our teacher only had Finding Nemo, so we
watched Finding Nemo like four or five times throughout the
course of that class.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
That's funny, okay. And then number three.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I think number three would probably be a superhero movie
and would probably be my favorite movie of all time,
The Dark Knight, just because that's another movie I watch
at least once a year.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Okay, that's solid, I mean, but that's also a dark
movie to be watching once a year.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, I just love it so much from the beginning
to end. But I've been recently just rewatching. I rewatch
long movies, which I feel like people don't do. I
rewatch Infinity War and Endgame and also least once a year,
and it feels like nothing to me. Those movies are
three hours long, but I just dive into them because
I'm like, even though I know what happens, I just
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like want to dive back into that world and wish
we could go back in that time of the MCU
where those movies were new. So that's a movie I
can watch, just no problem.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm glad you said at least one superhero movie besides
The Dark Knight.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Since the Dark nighted one is dark, I tried to
avoid the darker one.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But first of all, I want to I want to
say that you had to watch Finding Nemo on repeat
in school. I had to watch Twister Finding like on
repeat in school. Like grew up in Kansas.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, it's a Kansas thing for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's like instilling the tornado here or something.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
We watched that in armagedon so many times.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, I don't. I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Probably like when you're like, why are we watching Finding
Nemo eight a hundred times? It's kind of how we felt.
But my my number one, and I think I've already
watched it ten times this year alone, and I watch
it on repeat often.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Is ready Player one? Oh dang, Like it is my
favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I didn't realize you loved it that much. I love
that movie. But I feel like outside of seeing it
in theaters, I've only watched it once.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Since Oh Mike is my and every time.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
The worst part about it is I think a lot
of people like watching it because it comes and goes
from Max and Hulu A lot and like, so I'll
just binge watch it almost like multiple times while it's
there because it always gets taken off always, So I
think that might contribute to that because then I get sad,
mostly because I haven't found anything that's so similar to
it that I can also like it's really standalone, like
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on its own. Free Guys a little bit close to
it that I like, yeah, but still not as much.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So Ready Player one is one.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I think it's a tie at two with Sweet Home
Alabama and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Whenever those are.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
On TV, I'll watch them, so probably three or four
times a year at least, and then three would probably
be Avengers, Like I rotate those movies. Those are like
my you know how people have TV shows to put
on when they fall asleep or TV shows in the background,
minor Marvel movies.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh yeah, I do the same things.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Like I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It's something comforting of like I already know what's going
to happen and it's still exciting, so like if I
want to stop and watch for a second.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I can, or I don't have to.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Sometimes I kind of forget though, because there was a
period where they came out so frequently that I would
just go see them in theaters and then it would
be on too the next one. So I feel like
rewatching them over and over again you see different things
that you maybe missed, and then you're able to connect
them now that you know the entire story. So I
feel like rewatching those movies is actually quite beneficial.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That is true. You're not wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
There's only one I can't rewatch. It's the Newest Guardians
of the Galaxy because I cried so many times they
can't do it in person. I'm like, yeah, I might
rewatch it again if somebody wants me to, but that
is not a choice I will make. Okay, what about
most anticipated movie of next year for you?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh? Of next year?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh, that's the thing. A lot of things got delayed
until next year. I feel like the one I'm looking
forward to that got pushed to next year is Dune two,
mainly because because I wanted to love Dune Part one
so much. I love the director, didn't need a love
but I just found that movie to be kind of boring.
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But this one is supposed to be where all the
action is and where like the story really unfolds. And
they get into the entire war of what that movie is,
and people just love that movie and love that book
so much that I feel like the sequel is going
to be so much better. And I just love things
that are really big and cinematic and give me a
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reason to go to a theater to watch it, and
I feel like that is what Dune two is going
to be. So I'm hoping that it lives up to
those expectations. And it makes me kind of get the
bad taste of Dune one out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay, yeah, that's fair. And it was very cinematic the
first one. I think that's why I even liked it
is because it was very like visually appealing.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It looks great, like I love the costume design in that,
and the just the soundtrack and the score to that
is so good. But I just needed a little bit
more story, a little bit more action. And there's supposed
to be a scene where Timothy Challomet like rides one
of those like sandworm licking things in this one, so
I think that's gonna be pretty epic.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Okay, it does give me some Star Wars vibes for sure.
It leads into that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's like Star Wars and Game of Thrones, but in
the sand.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's a weird mix of things.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Now, I will say before we take one more little
mini break, I did watch Interstellar for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh my gosh, the first time, first.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Time I had.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I don't know why I had never dove into it,
but like I said, I've been trying to watch basically
any sci fi movie that's like Ready Player one. I've
been trying to find and watch an Interstellar kept popping up,
and I was like, I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
And as you know, that's like a three hour long movie.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's a long one.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But it was so good.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I loved it. I loved the concept of it, the plot.
I mean, I've never seen that before, that storyline, and
how it was and so cool to like think, holy crap,
all these aliens could actually be us in the future.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Like it was such a cool concept.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I love that movie. The thing is, I did not
like it the first time I watched it, and I'm
surprised you did, because I feel like that movie is
so big and there's so many things going on, and
the entire theory of time in that movie is so
complex that I watched it for the first time and
I didn't fully get it, so I had to watch
it another time, and I think it wasn't until the
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third time that I realized, this is one of the
most beautiful movies I've ever seen, and it is so good,
and I love Christopher Nolan and just how he always
just pushes the envelope on filmmaking. And I think I
didn't get it that first time because it was so
groundbreaking and so different and so far into sci fi.
But looking back on that movie now, I guess one
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of the best of the TWENTI maybe one of the
best of his.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh it was so good. That's crazy that you didn't
like it the first time.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But I will say I did watch it from literally
like midnight until three am. I am a night out,
and I don't work on the show on a night out,
and so maybe me being up at that time and
like nobody else was awake and I was like very
much by myself and in my feelings, maybe that was
why I like connected with it so much.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I think watching it late at night helps because the
last time I watched it where I really got into it.
I started it at night and I knew it really
had me sucked in because I didn't want to go
to sleep, and I was like, all right, I'll finish
it in the morning.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
That's fair. You didn't do what I do and stay
up until three am. It was not my best decision,
but it was worth it.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I think that's another thing that you can do with
longer movies like that is split it up into hours
and make it feel more like a show, and I
feel like you can kind of chew on it a
little bit more.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You're not wrong, but with the way that I like
to complete things, yeah, I would always feel like I
needed to do it, and then i'd get up that
next morning and like I would even probably get out
of bed, I just turn it back on and be like, Okay,
time to watch it's so bad. Okay, let's take a
quick break and where you got a few more questions
for you?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Mike?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
All right, alrighty, Mike, Are you going to be doing
any more stand up in the future.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I have been writing a lot. I was literally writing
a joke earlier today that I just need to go
back and do what I did when I was starting
out and do some open mic nights because comedy is
kind of a hard thing to jump right back into.
So I kind of want to go do some open
mic nights to try out some new material and start
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building a new set. But yeah, that is like my
favorite thing to do. I feel like I love just
the writing process of it, and the actual performing is
like a whole other level that I have to prepare
myself more because you can write something and think it's
hilarious and then you go do it and it doesn't work,
and then you write something else that you think, think, okay,
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that'll just give me to the next thing, and that
ends up being the best thing. So it's a whole
kind of like trial and error process that I really love.
So it takes a long time to also write just
like ten minutes, which is what I normally do when
I open up for Bobby that I'm going through now
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and trying to find exactly what I want to say,
because I think when I was starting out, I was
just focused on, Okay, this is a good joke, this
is a good joke. I'll just push them all together
and make a set, and it worked for me. But
now I kind of want to build something that's a
little bit more like an entire piece of like this
is actually more representative of me and all these weird
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thoughts that I have that hopefully other people find funny
and create like this little package of my jokes that
I could do in any situation, whether it be opening
for Bobby or doing it on my own, that you
don't have to listen to the show to get. You
don't have to know anything about me, and you can
listen to you do stand up and like take something
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away from it. And I haven't fully got there yet,
so I'm not completely ready to jump into it.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Okay, that's fair. I do want to give you props. Listen.
I went to my first open mic night and I
was so uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I have never and it was like all these people
testing out their jokes, right, it wasn't like a full
blown steak.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
That was people testing their jokes.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And I made the wrong decision of sitting in the
front row and I will never do that again in
my life. But like these people get up there and
they just like tell these things knowing that some of
it's gonna fall flat, and they you know, come away
with like the Okay, this work, this didn't and just
like props to you for doing that. I would literally
put my pants like, I don't think I can handle
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that awkwardness. And so I think it's really cool that
you're doing it, and I hope you can find like
your perfect sweet spot and then maybe you can.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Like, would you ever do it by yourself? Like go
out on the road and do it by yourself?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, I think that's eventually what I would want to
work up towards. I think it's because the good thing
about doing open mic nights like that is it's so
welcoming that unless you are just there like making fun
of the entire process or being a jerk, no one's
gonna boo you, that's true, and no one's gonna be
just nasty towards you or heckle you. It's kind of
(29:18):
like a learning process for everybody. And even if you're
bombing up there, I feel like you'll either just get
like some small collaps or you'll kind of get a
little bit of a self awareness and think, Okay, I
gotta hop out of here.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That's fair, that's fair. But just props to you, Mike.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm seriously could nuper okay, who would win in a
half marathon between you and the lunchbox?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Me?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
All day like it. When it comes to long distance,
like that is where I that is where I like
I can crush. Like I feel like anybody on the
show would probably beat me in like running a forty
or maybe even running a mile. But when it comes
to long distance, that is one thing about is I'm
relentless and I will not stop and I will out.
(30:05):
I will beat anybody. And I half heard on like
I just I just know myself and I know my body.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Mike, I just like came up with the best bit ever.
As you and Lunchbox run and who drops first, Like
you just run.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
There's no set time, there's no set end.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
You just run, and you ever like, whoever's gonna drop
first drop loses.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, one of us will end up in the hospital.
Because I feel like as relentless as I am, Lunchbox
is even more. I mean he ran a marathon with
no training ones that's true. But that's why it would
be such a good bit.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Like it would have to become to the point where
we'd have to be like, okay, both of you have
to stop.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
This can resume tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, there'd be some kind of time limit on that.
Because I could I can keep going. The thing about
me is I'm quietly competitive, and even when I go
run just here, like on a normal day, if there's
somebody like trying to get like behind me and pass me,
I'll turn on the gas and just burn a milliam behind.
If you're gonna pass me, like you have to really
past me. And when it comes to running in a marathon,
(31:03):
I feel like I could keep going. But the thing
is is I'm quietly competing with all these other people
around me, So I run like faster, and then I
get more tired in a marathon situation because that kind
of competitiveness comes out of me and I want to,
you know, finish faster. And I'm so focused on that.
But if I was just running at my normal pace
with no one around me, I could I don't know
(31:24):
how far I could run. I could just keep going.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Okay, Well, well, marinate on it. I think I think
it's a cool little bit idea.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I mean, I don't want anybody to get hurt.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But I feel like it'd be really What about like,
in relation to that, what was the thing that surprised
you the most about your weight loss journey that you
went on?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I would say, like not to get too serious. But
I thought everything was going to be like completely happy
after I did. I thought it would be the one
thing in my life that after I did that, all
my other problems would go away and it would fix everything,
because the way I felt was being overweight and un
healthy was the only thing stopping me from being happy.
(32:04):
And then I lost all the weight, and then I realized, oh,
that's really not everything. Like people still they still treat
you the same way, and they still care about you.
So it wasn't really so much the weight that I
felt like once I had this, I would have like
all the success and all the other things. It was
just kind of getting to that moment and realizing, Huh,
once you get the thing you've been wanting your entire life, Uh,
(32:27):
you could still be sad that.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Wow, I was not expecting you to say that, but
I do think it's a very true thing for a
lot of people, not just with weight loss, but just anything.
I think you hope for something for so long and
you paint such a vivid picture of it in your
brain that if it doesn't go as that, it's almost disappointing,
even though it can be this really, which what you
did was incredible, Like it can be this incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And it's still not enough.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, I think that's Yeah, it could be with any
kind of success or even like with money, like you think, oh,
if I just had this amount of money and I
was rich, all my problems would go away. You get
all that money and you realize there's a whole other
set of problems and you might not be that much happier.
So I think what I learned from that, though, is
to live in the moment and appreciate the things you
(33:12):
do have and just enjoy life more. Because there's always
going to be something that seems unattainable, and that seems
that once you get it, your entire life is going
to be better and happier. But you don't really have
to chase that all the time. Appreciate the things you
have around you while you can.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
No, that's a good lesson to learn and one that
I feel like we often learn a lot later in life.
It's really hard to live in the moment and enjoy
what you do have. So I don't think you're alone
in that particular thing. But I'm glad you shared that, Like,
thanks for opening up, because it wasn't what I was
anticipating for you to share from that, So thank you,
(33:51):
and we'll end on this one maybe.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
A brighter note.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Our favorite part about our specific jobs and the roles
we have the show.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So, Mike, what's your favorite part?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Our favorite part? I mean mine really goes back to
actually doing the live show. Like once, when we're actually
in there doing the live show and there's that energy going,
that is the best part. We're connecting with everybody listening
and it feels like there's a momentum there. It's because
it's all it's the it's the product of all the
(34:23):
other work we do in the other hours of the day,
which some people think that we just come in and
start talking. Not the case whatsoever. There's so much work
that goes into booking guests, coming up with segments, everybody
having you know, the things they need to record throughout
you know, the show. When we're working in between breaks.
There's so much work that goes in on the other side.
It's once we're actually there and getting to do it
(34:46):
that that's the most rewarding part. Because in that moment,
nothing else can really touch us, nothing else really matters.
We're just so focused on actually doing the show. And
it's almost like actually getting to do the show is
kind of like like the reward in a way of
all the other things we have to do, Like that's.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's the icinge and the cherry on top.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, it's like that's the that's the best part and
it's so hard to get to that point, but yeah,
that's my favorite part still.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Oh that's good and true. Nobody can't get to us.
We sit in a room with no windows, so really
nobody can.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
It feels like I like like we're in Vegas school.
I don't see the sun until I leave that place,
and I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah, I've been like rained or anything. We're all like, oh,
there's a tornado outside.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Nobody knew, no idea.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Every time I think my part is getting to connect
with people with social media. I just love hearing people's
stories and figuring out how they are impacted by the
show or if something happened that connected the pieces. Like
I just love so much of that piece of social
media and getting to see that every single day, and
(35:54):
whether it's just somebody like we love the show. I
listen all the time, like just that, like you said,
is the reward for all the work that we do
is like, these are real people who are taking real
time out of their day to spend with us and
hang out with us and listen.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
To our crazy stories. And for them to be connected
by that all across the country. Heck, even in countries
that are in America, like blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
And so I just love that piece of connecting and
seeing like true people and like very human moments.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah. I think when I first started touring with Bobby
that was kind of my eye opening part of Oh,
there are actually people on the other end of this
and getting to actually see like listeners and meet them
and talk to them. It added a whole different level
of like, oh, we're not just speaking into an empty
black hole. It's actually going out and you know, affecting
some people.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, and it matters.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Like I've always said, even if it does something for
one person, then you've done your job in this life.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
And I think it's so cool that a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Us have more than one person, but like, just multiple
impacts across the board is really awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh yeah, so happy note. We ended on a happy note.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
We did it, Oh, Mike, Well, thank you for joining
me on this entire Best of Bits weekend and for
answering all of our listeners, Q and Ice. I appreciated
you being very vulnerable and more talkative than most people
are used to. I know you're talkative, but yeah, they
may not so appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
The quiet me is a myth. It's a myth at
this point it is.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
It's just something that you're playing into at this point.
Now you just gotta roll with it, kind of like
I gotta roll with Morgan.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Number two. Oh well, tell the people where they can
hear you. Find you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You can listen to my podcast, new episodes every single Monday,
movie Mike's Movie Podcast on iHeartRadio wherever you listen to podcasts,
and I am on social media across everything at Mike
Distro because I was smart and gave myself a unique name.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Yeah you did, and you can find me at web Girl.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Morgan also on all the things, not that it's as
unique as Mike that somehow I managed to get all
of them.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
And of course the show at Bobby.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Bone Show and Bobby Bones dot Com has a whole
lot of content for y'all. So thank you guys again
for sending in your questions Mike d I'm proud of us.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
We did it. Another weekend like virtual high five.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
All right, Bye Bye Bobby Bone Bobby Bone Show
Hosts And Creators
Bobby Bones
Amy Brown
Lunchbox
Eddie Garcia
Morgan Huelsman
Raymundo
Mike D
Abby Anderson
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