February 3, 2024 • 36 mins
Morgan and Mike D answer listener submitted questions! José wanted to know Mike D’s must watch movies from 2023 and MacKenzie wanted to know the most popular movie people would be surprised Mike D had never seen. Then Kim has us talking about the things we wanted to be when we grew up and Mike D gives half-marathon training tips to Chelsea. Brenda wants Mike D to talk about the possibility of kids and Meghan needs meal suggestions for eating less meat!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Listener Q and daytime.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
We're Morgan in a show member answer almost all your questions.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Part three time.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Listener Q and a thank you if you joined us
from part one, and if you didn't, be sure to
go check out part one because Mike d we talked
about our uniforms, which is a funny conversation itself, and
everybody probably has a uniform.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We got tattoo update from you, mental.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Health updates, all the things, a.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Lot of stuff over there, so go check out part one.
But let's get to some listener questions.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
All right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We got Jose from San Francisco, who wants to know
you must watch movies from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
First went up would be The Iron Claw, which is
a movie that I was surprised to not get a
Best Picture nomination. Zach Efron is in it and it's
the story of the Van Eric brothers who have a
pretty tragic story.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh I do I do want to see this.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's not out on streaming tho, no, it's still in theaters.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
They're kind of in a weird place of not knowing
who's going to have it on streaming or it's going
to be a to be rented, so you can only
go watch it in theaters still, but I always look
for a best picture to kind of hit me an
emotional level. I like sad movies like those are the
ones that I think should win.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You also like sad music too.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I like sad things because I feel like there's another
therapy thing. It's hard for me to feel emotion in
the real world, but when I watch it on in
a movie or a TV show and I can identify
something sad, it just hits me so much more. If
I see a character die in a movie like that
makes me cry more than I hear about somebody.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Crying in real life.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I don't know why it is, it's just something that
has always been a part of how I interpret things.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So hey, as long as you're getting it out some way,
I'll respect it.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So out of all the movies last year that I watched,
that was the one that made me cry, probably multiple times,
because it's so much of an emotional just gut to
the hit, right to the.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Gut, so I need to be in a space for that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
When I watched this, Yeah, some people have gone into
this movie blind, not knowing anything about it and you
will leave wreck.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, yeah, and I need to get in that headspace.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
But it's hard to recommend something sad, knowing like this
is going to make you cry because me saying that,
you'll probably watch it now and be like one that said,
I really think this one will stick to test.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Hey maybe if you don't get said you need to
get a little bit more in your motion. Yeah, okay,
that's your number one.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
My second one as far as movies that came out
and were the most just talked about online because it's
so weird.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's Saltburn. Oh yeah, you can watch on Amazon one.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It is one that you're going to have an opinion
about because there are some weird things in that movie.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And I've watched a lot of weird.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Movies, and going into this one, people picked out maybe
two or three moments in the movie that are just
like what is happening?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And I like movies like that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, so it is really weird, but you liked it.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I liked it a lot, And it's one I like
movies that create a debate, create a conversation that you
can watch and go talk about with your friends and recommend.
And this one might not be one of the best
movies overall, but I like movies that are no worthy
and that get people talking. So I think on that front,
this is one of those that you'll watch and definitely
have an opinion about.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You'll either love or hate it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I have seen people remake scenes from it, and I
feel like I've kind of seen the movie in that way,
and I'm like, this feels really strange.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Because if a movie comes out and then it takes over, TikTok,
that is a good movie.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, that's true, and everybody's trying to make the scenes
and stuff from it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So it's really just a story about this guy who
gets obsessed with another guy and it goes to some
very extreme measures to be a part of that person's life.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, all right, So Saltburn number two was not anticipating
that one you had any others?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
My third one was my favorite movie of last year,
Godzilla minus one. It just came back out in the theaters.
It's gone again. But they did like a black and
white version, which is cool because it has like that
old school monster movie feel to it. And that is
another one I feel like should have been up for
Best picture. It's up for like a Visual Effects Award,
but a movie that you don't expect a Godzilla movie
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to be that emotionally draining and just so good on
every level. It's not just the big dumb monster movie.
There's so much depth to it. And it isn't another language,
so you do have to watch it with subtitles.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But yeah, isn't it in Japanese or something?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's in Japanese.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But those movies are the best to me because you
pay so much more attention having to read a little
bit to you, like, pay attention to every single thing
because you're reading and you understand it more. And even
though that it's in Japanese, you still connect with the
characters because the acting in the movie is so good.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So you mean, I can't have this as my emotional
support background raise No, okay, three solid ones.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Did you have a top five or was it just
top three?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I did a top three?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, all right, Well those are some strong picks, So Jose,
if you want to watch some movies, He's got you.
McKenzie from Tennessee, No, mckennesssee now I want to call
you mcckennessee. McKenzie from Texas wants to know a popular
movie people would be surprised you've never seen.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
For the longest time, it was Star Wars, and I
had a thing in my mind that everybody star Wars
so much, I was going to be the one person
who never saw it. And I went the longest time
without watching the original Star Wars movies and even the
prequels they made in the late nineties early two thousands,
And it wasn't until they made the twenty tens versions
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that I went back and watched all the original ones
because I actually liked those better than the originals. At
times when those movies came out and so many people
were hating on them, I thought that's what made them exciting.
And also because they came out in the late twenty tens,
it looked better. The special effects were better, the action
scenes looked, you know, so much more like, oh, this
is what it would actually look like. That I enjoyed
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those movies so much that I went back and watched
the originals after being opposed to watching them just because
they were so popular.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
There was all the.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Fandom around Star Wars, I never fully got it, and
so it was me just wanting to like rebel against
here's this really popular thing. I don't want to be
a part of it. But now I've seen everyone and
I love them.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Have you seen any of the TV show from them?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Aside from the Mandalorian, I haven't been able to get
into all the other TV shows, even though everybody said
and or was good.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I never fully dove into the TV shows.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah. I went from zero to one hundred with Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like I was like, you, I've never seen the movies,
but you know, covid, I watched everything. I'm just bitch
watching everything, and I got into all those TV shows.
Those Star Wars movies, Man Mandalorian made me fall in
love with them even further. And then I just every
time a knew one came out, like yeah, let's go,
I'd be so hyped. It could be the worst TV
show ever. I was like, yeah, I fell I felt hard,
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so I respect it. But I'm glad you did finally
watch them. I feel like they're worth it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They are.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I mean, a new Hope is It's such a good movie.
I feel like people like Empire strikes Back better in
those first original movies. But I just love the introduction
of characters and the fact that the first one just
jumps into this world. They referenced the Clone Wars. Nobody
knows what the Clone Wars are. I feel like that
movie took so much, many more chances that movies don't
really do these days, of like creating this big world
(07:05):
and just here it is, it exists, believe it or don't.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, that's so true, and you know what, a lot
of people believed. H So it worked for him. We
got Kim from Florida. She wants to know what we
wanted to be when we grew up, Like when we
were kids, what do we want to be when we
grew up?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I wanted to be different things throughout different stages of
my life. The first thing I remember telling my parents
I wanted to be was an architect.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
What a strange thing. As like a little kid, like.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
In kindergarten, I was like, I want to be an architect.
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Maybe because I like drawing, I like tools. That was
just the first thing that.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And I remember every time you would fill out one
of those things of what you want to be when
you grew up for the longest time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It was architect.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Could you even spell architect?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I learned out because I wanted to be Okay, oy
I could spell it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now that's a hard one.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'm like a picture in a kindergarten, right, architect And
they're probably like.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Dangs, victoring skid.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
But I remember like I would just play of like
I'd had these sheets of paper with these drawings.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'd have my like little tool.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
They're like, I'm gonna be an architect someday, and eventually
I just never.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Thought, just not at all what I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And then after that I wanted to be a pro
wrestler because they got really into wrestling in the late
nineties early two thousands, and that was just like a
hype dream for me of like going I like research
like wrestling schools.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I was like, oh, I'll go to this one in
Texas and then I'll become a wrestling star and it'll
be so easy.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You wanted to be the fake wrestling star or like
legit wrestling.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Fake I'm not sure fake it is ww it's not.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Fake, Okay, Well they rehearse it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It is rehearsed. It is sports.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It is Sorry, sorry, sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You watch the Iron Claw and tell me that it's fake.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I just mean fakeaus in like you're not.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's not a legitimate like you're going and you're trying
to kill the guy.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, it's like rehearsed it.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It is predetermined. But everything that happens all the time,
that their body goes through.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is very no respect.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
There's no way for me.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I was not prepared to say that word. Clearly.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I feel like people discredit wrestling because it's quote unquote fake.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That's what everybody says. It's fake. What is real?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Hey, there was no disrespect for me.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I just more genuinely like because like the fake version
of it or like real like you may die today,
you know.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Like, well, some people have died in the quote unquote
fake wrestling.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Do that's horrible? No, there's still trust me.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
They're ripped, Like that'd be so cool to be like
ripped and you get like for hers, it's still scary.
I'm done, okay, any other specific you're wrestling.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And then I wanted to be like a rock star
for the majority of my life. I started like my
first band in like sixth grade, all throughout middle school
and high school, I was in bands whenever I first
graduated high school. I moved from my hometown to walk Statue, Texas,
to Austin, Texas, to literally being a We toured Texas
and tried to make it, and eventually, like I stopped.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Caring about it as much because I saw how.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Hard it was, and I looked at like the life
of like a touring musician not making a whole lot
of money. We made a little bit of money, but
really only enough to like put back into it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is a tough life. And around the time that.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I was going and touring a lot and playing, you know,
recording music, I was also starting as an internal the
show back when they were in Austin. So I was
going from playing shows late at night, going home, sleeping
for a couple hours, and going into the internship. And
I started to see, like, what do I really enjoy
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doing and what do I see myself doing five years
from now? What I want to best my time in
That was really when I began the shift of like,
all right, I'm going to cut back on doing the
music and focus more on something that I enjoy. And
also I see a future in.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That's fair and listen that rock star life for.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
The weeks, like you could have got into some crazy things.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, and just touring in general is tough. And also
like being in a band, isn't.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, even.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Back then it was more profitable, but being in a
band now really tough to be profitable. That's why everybody's
a freaking solo artist in doing the TikTok route, because
you can't really make a whole lot of money for
music and then you have to split it four or
five ways.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Have you ever thought about like trying on TikTok just
to like as like a side thing now?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I thought about it slightly for a minute, But I
don't really play guitar a whole lot anymore. And in
the band that I was in, I was lead singer.
I played guitar, but not I don't really have in
me anymore. I haven't written a song in like five years.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Maybe that can be part of your goal for twenty
twenty four, you try to write a song and sing it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
It does seem fun again because my brother is still
in He just joined a band again and he's touring
a little bit. And I watched his band before my
New Year's Eve and it kind of gave me that
itch again because it was always something I did with
my brother. He was the drummer, I was the guitar player.
So there was always this fun element of even if
we didn't tour, just playing songs again. I even texted
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him after that show, like, this would be fun again,
Like if we lived in the same city, we would
probably find like a practice space here just to play,
which I think is the fun part, Like not so
much playing shows, but just literally what I enjoyed the
most about it is when we would just have practice.
I'd come in with a song idea. We'd write a song,
practice it, and then get it down and there was
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just like a sense of accomplishment of like, oh, this
was actually a good song that I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Nobody has to hear it. I just like playing it,
so more of a hobby, I think.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Is the space I would get into, rather than like
putting the music out there because I don't think anybody
want to listen to it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Hey, you never know until you try, though, I think
you should try and pick up guitar again this year.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I maybe write a song because there was the band
that really got me into playing guitar was Blank n
eighty two. Whenever their album Mother State came out, I
wanted to be like the guitar player Tom DeLong.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
He is the one who inspired me.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
And they're back now performing putting out music, and he
like re released a guitar that he played back in
the two thousands that was so iconic and the guitar
that I like wanted as a kid, but it was
so expensive. They re released like that guitar, and I
thought about buying it's it's still really expensive. It's like
twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
It is, but definitely not not doable.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, but I told myself if I did that, that
would mean I had to commit myself to going back
and relearning some things and dedicating time in my week
to play guitar. And I was like, I don't think
I'm ready for it, so I didn't buy it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, maybe maybe you are right for it. You just
have to force it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I did pick up the guitar like a couple of
weeks ago now that I remember, and just tuned it
and played a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Felt pretty good.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I'm telling you, maybe this will also help you get
a little bit of things that you're doing that aren't
work that is true, and after everybody saw your day
in the life, I think you need some of that.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Mike, add that to your thing. Okay, well I am
with you.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I didn't go to the extent that you went. But
I did want to also be a rock star at
one point.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Which everybody does.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Listen, which we know because I got forcesting on the
air and that was the horrible experience for me.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, that that didn't work out for me.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But the other the other ones that were I had
were an ice skater I want to be a professional
ice skater, and a zoo keeper.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I want to take care of the animals at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I could see that.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And then a marine biologist a lot of animal really
the animals. Yeah. I never wanted to be a veterinarian
because they didn't want to that. That job always looked
really hard. But like the zoo keeper, you can play
with all the animals.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And then the marine biologists.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You always live on the ocean and you can hang
out dolphins and Whales's be so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I feel like I should know a marine biologist. I
just remember, like a lot of people wanting to go
to college to study marine You're.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Like where are these people? I want to meet you.
I want to go see some whales.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
If I had to guess, I think is do you
remember the movie Aquamarine?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I did it
for a lot of.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That and fighting Nemo.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's a few of them that came out in our
childhood and everybody's like, I want to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I was part of that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So yeah, those were mind but I.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Never took into steps you did, though I did. I
had vocal lessons, piano lessons, and guitar lessons. I did
all of that, and I did win my middle school
talent show singing Red High Heels by Kelly Pickler.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
So I wasn't horrible when that happened. I just never
got better, So it's fine.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And then an.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Actress that was always one which I do feel like
that could somehow some come in to play at some
point in time.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
All right, Well, I am working on I've that's been
another one of my goals this year of just writing
more creatively, and I've been writing things, not so much
knowing if it's good to be like a movie. I'm
working like on a scripted podcast, but if I write
something that requires a part for you, I'll definitely write
you in.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh heck, yeah, I'll do it. I would love it,
Like that's my jam.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I follow a casting like account to like try all
these ones.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I keep looking from seeing if I fit anything.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Just to be like should I do it? And I
do think about it a lot. I haven't pulled the trigger,
but I do think about it a lot. So we'll
see maybe.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, because I think on the other end of that,
I always at one point I wanted to be a director.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Mm hmm, I know you still kind of do. I
feel like that's the end goal.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
And in college and in high school, I was heavy
into like researching and like filming things. I love doing
music videos and short films, and what I love about
movies really is like the directing process, and like I
have a lot of favorite directors. It is a really
tough thing, though, And I don't know if I have
it in me to be a great director.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's fair. I do think you have it in you.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think you have a lot of talent and a
lot of creativity, but you have to love something so
much to pursue it so fearlessly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Like, and do you love it that much. I don't know,
Like that's the only question you can answer.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, I don't think I love the directing part as
much as I think I love the writing part more.
I would rather write something and somebody take that and
have their vision and their spin on it, because I
feel like I would like that aspect of it more
because I feel like I can pour everything out onto a page,
but to take that page and like make it come
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to fruition is a whole other thing.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Wouldn't that then mean you could be the producer on
the film. Yeah, so you could do producing versus directing.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So I feel like I would just be good.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I don't think there's a role for this of just
saying like what's good and what's bad, because like I
can watch a movie or I could probably even see
a process and be like we should take that out.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But I do think if you write something, then you
do have that input.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, then you are the producer.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, sometimes very few times, like somebody will write something
and then also be on set. Sometimes that happens.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I would like to do that part of it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Well, you know, everything is always changing, right, Everything always
has to evolve. Maybe that's how we start making great movies.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, all right, one up.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Never say never. All right, we'll be right back. We're
going to answer some more questions. All right.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Chelsea from California is trained for first half marathon and
want some tips or suggestions from the pro runner Mike d.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I'll start first, like that was kind of my first
major goal. The reason I was even inspired to run
was because of my dad, who about eight nine years ago,
he was running half marathons and I was not. And
there was one in particular where I went. I saw
him and my sister run and I was just on
the sideline and I thought, like, man, my dad is
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in his fifties out here running a half marathon, and like,
I don't really do anything physical, and he was seeing
him do that and accomplish that and being so proud.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That made me want to pick up running.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
And it inspired me, and even to this day I
think about it because he still runs and he's in
his sixties. So when I first started out, I couldn't
run a mile without stopping. So I think that was
my first goal. So depending on where you are and
your half marathon training, I would say for anybody just
starting running, the first goal should just be that first mile.
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If you've never run, whether it's you walking it, you
half jogging and then walking it, just try to get
through that first mile. Don't care about your pace, don't
care about anything else of just completing that first mile.
And then I think that first medium goal should be
a five k, which is three point one miles. And
it's always just having a goal in your head of
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what you want to achieve, knowing that you're working towards something,
and just creating small steps to get you there. Because
I didn't go out and just think, all right, I'm
gonna run a half marathon today, I'm going to run
for an hour. No, I'd be miserable. You wouldn't do it.
You were going to injure your body. And when it
comes to running, you want to ease yourself into it
because if you go hard, you're going to pull something,
you're gonna get hurt and injured, and then you're not
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going to be able to run the race. So don't
be afraid to start small, don't be afraid to run slow.
I think the majority of your run should be slower runs,
just building up that stamina and getting your body to
a point that it can take those things on and
you're going to realize that a lot of running is mental.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So yes, part of it is physical, but a lot
of it is.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Just your mental strength of I'm going to do this,
I'm going to accomplish this, I'm going to get it done.
And I think that's why I enjoy running, because so
much of it is just you versus yourself. I like
going on the pavement and knowing that it's my force
in my body and in my head that's going to
get me through this.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That is it me and the pavement.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
So get through that first goal of just completing that mile,
that's going to build up and you're going to get
that five k done and just add a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I would just say, I'm going to do another mile
this time, I'm going to try to do three, I'm
gonna try to do four, and eventually you're gonna build
yourself up and get to that big goal. So when
it comes to the actual things you need to do, hydrate,
drink water like that's really the easiest thing to do
when it comes to running, because that's gonna it's like
the lubricant that just power. It's like changing the oil
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in your car.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And makes me s why I'm a bad runner because
I don't drink water.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You gotta drink water. And it's that simple, because your
body is just sip on my emotional.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Because your body is just sweating and you're losing the
salt in your body and it's just draining out of you.
And if that all drains out of you and you
don't you're not hydrated, You're not gonna want You're gonna
slow down, you're gonna stop. So being hydrated is important.
Also stretching, which I hate. I hate stretching. I would
just go run and not stretch, but it really does
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help you not get injured. And also you just have
better runs when you take five ten minutes to do
some runner stretches. Search something on YouTube and just find
runner stretches, mainly just stretching out your legs and doing
that warm up process and then also after your runs
doing a cool down process of either another stretch routine
or just walking for a little bit. So it's powering
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up your body doing the run, powering down. That is
really the initial steps to get started.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Well, like just hearing you talk about the whole process
of this like mad respect because I am tired just
hearing about it.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
But you'll also find that if you I don't even
know that. I still love running, but I love the
feeling after it. But I think I've come.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
To enjoy the actual process of.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like zoning out and just enjoying the actual like oh,
this is a time where you can just you're only
focused on the running part. So I think if you
can also find I would always try to switch it
up a little bit with the scenery, because if you
are running on a treadmill is touff. I would not
recommend doing this on a treadmill, but finding like different
trails around where you live or different parts of your
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neighborhood to keep all the things that you're looking at different,
because that will also help, well, you're not so focused
on Okay, last time I ran at this point, I
was here and now I'm a little bit further behind.
As much as you can switch up your environment, it
will help you mentally get through that hurdle of like
I just want to stop and go home.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You know, if you're going to do that, just maybe
do it later on in your training, because there was
one day or a wild hair, and I was like,
I'm going to go for a long run today. I
went to a hike area to do it. I literally
lasted ten minutes. I was like what am I doing?
And I got stuck and I was like, I have
to walk my happy belt all the way home now.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So maybe do.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
The cool trails and stuff when you're a little more experience.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh that's great advice.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Like all of that is great advice, and I have
nothing else to share.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
So good job, Mike. I shout out Chelsea. I hope
your first half marathon goes amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And Okay, pro tip for shoes before I ask you
this next question.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I've gone through every single possible running shoe. I think
it's going and some places will you can go in
and they like look at your feet, they test them.
They like you stand on something and they can see
like where your pressure foids are. Yeah, so I would
say if you can find a place like that, like
a lot of running stores will have that and they'll
recommend what is good for your feet, because the thing
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everybody's different, and a lot of running shoes I feel
like are narrow and I have like a wider foot,
so I had to find something that fit me.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I tend to like.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Shoes that are a little bit lighter because when I'm running.
I know some people like that added support. I usually don't.
I like the less support that just has a little
bit more like speed on it and lightweightness.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Mike wants feet hitting the pavement.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I did get some shoes that felt like I was
literally running in socks that my pace got faster. But
I was like, this probably isn't good for my feet.
But yeah, I would say, go to like a running
store and see if they offer some kind of like
sizing or just recommendations and find something that's good for
your feet and try those out first.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Okay, all the pro tips now.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Brenda and Texas and somebody who goes by ya Ya
Tello on Instagram would like to know about the kids
situation with your wife.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Are you still talking about having kids?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
We are talking.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
This is not me, ask you do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I think we we've talked about it more of in
the point of like kind of creating a timeline.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Not anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I think we see other people who have had kids
in their thirties. That's kind of what we talked about
because we are now both in our thirties and looking
at what other people have done and thinking like.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh, I kind of liked that they waited until later.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
In life to have kids, because you're everybody says you're
never really ready for a kid. But I think we
want to get to a point where we've done all
the things that we can that we wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
As just just a couple.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Like, we still have places on our list that we
want to travel, we still have other things that we
want to accomplish in our careers. So I don't think
we're at a place in the next two to three
years yet, maybe in like four or five. That's kind
of where we are.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hey, you gotta do what fits best for you, guys,
and I think it's great whether you choose to or not.
However it feels right for you guys, and sounds like
you guys are just enjoying married life together and life
in general.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, that's great, life as hard as it is.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So true.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
The thing is, nobody sells having kids.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They really don't.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They really don't.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
They really don't.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I'm gonna tell you that right now. I talked to
every single and they're like, oh, but it's the best
thing ever. I'm like, yeah, but like everything else you
tell me doesn't agree with that.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
What part of it is, Like, I see the part
you post on social media, but everything else you say
sounds like it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, oh yeah, the big dilemma.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I also read are really sad statistic the other day
on TikTok of that by the time your kid turns eighteen,
you spent you have spent ninety four percent of the
time that you will ever spend with him.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That made me sad.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I'm like, I don't even have kids yet, and I
think that once they're eighteen, you're gonna see them so
much less because they go to college and then you
only see them like around holidays and they have a family,
you only see them two or three times a year.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Made me call my mom.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, you know what, that's true. I had made a
post like go and visit your loved ones, call your mom,
call whoever you need to call that you've been putting
off because you only get so much time.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Like I recently had a moment, like a couple maybe
even last weekend, where like I was at a comic
book shop and they were selling Pokemon cards and it
reminded me of a time that my mom literally took
me to like a store to specifically buy Pokemon cards
because she knew it was like important to me. Back
in the early two thousands, every kid was wanting Pokemon cards, but.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
We didn't have a whole lot of money then.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
But she still like knew it was important to me
and took me to buy a couple packs of cards.
And that's just like a moment I remembered, And I
was like, if I don't tell my mom this now,
that like that was a specific memory that I know
that she went out of her way to do this,
She spent money on this, and it's just something that
I remember from my childhood, like just to reminder, like,
you're a great mom. And I told her that, she
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was like, I do remember that day.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
No, that probably meant so much to her, Like I
know it meant so much to you, but it also
probably meant so much to her just to hear that
from you.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, because I think we just have like it's weird
the things you remember from our childhood, and there are
just weird moments like that that at the time, maybe
to her didn't seem like the biggest deal. And when you.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Start talking about having kids, I start to think about
what are those moments gonna look like? Even like hearing
Eddie talk about like the stuff he does with his boys,
I'm thinking of the things that they're going to remember,
because there's just stuff like that that you do with
your parents, what they do for you, that you'll be
on a podcast in your thirties thinking back on those moments.
So I just look at like other people with kids
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and be like, Oh, that's going to be something they remember.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's so true. Get altereeria. We're gonna take a little
more little break. Won't be right back all right? Listener.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Megan is trying to eat less meat for health reasons,
so she wants to know some of our favorite meals.
You're a vegan, I'm a vegetarian, so less meat style meals.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
What are like your top three favorite meals?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I have been very Asian inspired recently that so I
would go to a restaurant here that just closed down, actually,
but they had the best vegan Asian food, which was
like this fried rice And it's not that hard to
make fried rice that's vegan, really, just don't put the
egg in it. Or there's some other like meat based
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soy sauces they use or sometimes so they are no
longer in existence. So I've been trying to recreate the
meal I would get there that was my favorite and
try to make it at home. And I've found some
fried rice that literally just throw in the microwave and
it's actually really good. And then I'll make some tofu
and then I'll throw some cauliflower in the air fryer
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in just like a like a sturfry. It's probably my
favorite meal right now.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I love a sturfry.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It's kind of like a mismatch of it, just whatever
you have in your house.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
And I honestly make that a lot because it's hard
for me to make things for dinner because like, I
never know what I want. I told my wife the
other day I was starting to cook. I was like,
I didn't know I was gonna eat this until about
five minutes before I started cooking. Because a sturfry, you
can just really take all the ingredients you have and
just throw it in there.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And somehow it goes together. Sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
If you have the sauces, you're good. Yeah, it just
kind of still works.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Get a little flavoring to it and you're good. So
that's kind of my favorite right now. Okay, that's not
probably a week again. I'm weird about food. I have
like weekday foods and I have like weekend food.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, I get it. Sometimes less effort during the.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Week Yeah, that's more of a well, I'm kind of
the opposite way that I think about it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I like the less effort on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
That's funnier because you have more time on the weekend
because this is like.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
An easier meal for me because I can just throw
it in the microwave. I don't take a whole lot
of time to cook tofu and then throw something in
the air fryer.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I want the easier meals on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
So that is like my weekend meal. During the week
I like Mexican inspire things. So there is some soy
based too diesel that I'll make and I'll make some
kind of rice with it, or I have these there's
just really good Siete beans that are they have a
lot of vegan stuff, the whole brand, And I'm kind
of particular when it comes to beans and rice. Being
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a Mexican, I have a very high standard for that,
but their beans are actually really good. So if I'm
wanting something Mexican inspired again, Mexican food is pretty easy
to veganize. Of course you're not going to get the
same meat.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Cheese, but I still feel like it's still easy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
But like all the sides are pretty easy. You can
just throw it and there you go. You gotta go in,
So I feel like that's usually pretty easy.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
And then my third one would that's honestly the majority
of what I eat.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I eat some variation of that.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Aside from that is just finding different side items to make,
and that really comes down to just throwing things in
the air. And you can make veggies taste really good
by throwing them in the air fryer, throwing some avocado
spray in there, and then whatever kind of seasoning you like.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I use a lot of Tomorrow, like.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The sauce or seasoning.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
It's kind of like a soy sauce, okay, but it's
gluten free, which is why my wife found it. And
you throw that stuff on anything and it makes it
taste a lot better. And if you throw it on
something in the air fryer, it makes.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It get a little crispier.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
So I've just been experimenting on how it affects different
kinds of vegetables that I throw in there.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That sounds good and you look into that sauce. Okay,
all right, well those are some strong ones. So vegan side, now,
vegetarian side. I've got sweet potato and black bean enchiladas
that I make that do last for a couple of days,
which are awesome. Now, I'm pretty sure all my stuff
has cheese on it, so that's the side that doesn't
make it vegan.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
But then I always throw it.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Together like these Chipotle labels essentially at home, and they
are rice, sweet potatoes, black beans, avocado, sauteed peppers, and onions,
and mix it all.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Together with some salt and pepper, and you got a
homemade bowl. You can't you just mix everything in there.
You just need the ingredients you like.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
And then I also love a chopped salad, so lately
I've been doing I mean, sweet potato is like a
huge part of my diet because it makes me feel full.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
So I really love sweet.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Potatoes, and so I have a salad I'll do like
a medley mix, and we got blueberries sweet potatoes, some
candied walnuts, and some white cheddar cheese and then a
strawberry vineigarette. I think it's called like skinny skinny something
skinny gal and mix that all together, chop it all
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up in a bowl, and then I eat it out
of said bowl.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
So like my three.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Top that I typically always lean into, the enchilada is
not so much anymore because I just really don't like
corn tortillas.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I wish I could, really I.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Can't, and like trying to be gluten free at home
all the time, like that's a doesn't quite work out
for me. And I haven't found any tortillas that I
liked I couldn't free, so it was a struggle.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
The angeladas have backed off a bit.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But yeah, so I've supplemented that typically with my own
version of a homemade girl cheese. I have a gluten
free bread and I shred my own white cheddar and
regular chedder, makes those together and make a grilled cheese sandwich.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's been the supplement keep a classic. Yeah, gotta hit,
he'd never go wrong, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The last two questions are just updates for me. I
guess clear from Dallas wants an update on my personal
podcast sometimes hopefully sometimes.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Too, Claire, I'm also wigging.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I'm really pushing hopefully to launch it, launch it very soon,
but you know that's been the.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Goal for a while now.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And then Sarah from Arizona wants to know if I'm
still eating gluten free, which you just kind of heard
me talk about.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I am.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Everything I eat at home is gluten free, and then
when I go out to eat stuff, it allows me
to be al a little bit more open and eat
things that aren't gluten free. I'm not allergic to it.
I'm just really sensitive to it, and I feel more
like I have the flu when I eat a lot
of it. The problem was I was being a vegetarian.
I was eating a lot of carbs, so I was
eating gurl cheese, cheese, pizza, cheese, quesadilla's, a lot of
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cheese and carbs, and just as I got older, my
body couldn't take all the gluten anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So I had to back off.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
And I have which now allows me to at least
still have gluten when I want it. I can't really
eat like full blown like gluten pasta that will destroy me,
but like I can go and have like sour dough
like a girl cheese sour dough or something, or I
can go have a bagel from somewhere and I'll probably
be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I just like can't have it all the time.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So at home, which I cook more often than not,
is all gluten free.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Also why it makes it a struggle cooking out.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, that's why it's hard for my wife and I
just to go out to eat because she's gluten free.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm vegan. I havet some limited options.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
It is just taking things off and I'm like, dang,
I'm just gonna eat it all.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
All right, Mike, anything else you want to have before
we jump out of here. I kept you long enough.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
If you want to check out my podcast, movie Mike's
Movie Podcast. I do spoiler free reviews every single week.
I cover all the new movies coming out, and then
I do a lot of film history.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Love it. Go check them out and follow.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
You at Mike Distro.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
There did you say that? And I just missed it?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Okay, good, thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Sure you can come hang out with me too at
web Girl Morgan on all the Things, and be sure
to check out the show page. We got a lot
of videos up on TikTok and Instagram at Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
We'll see y'all later. Have a great weekend, Mike, thanks
for joining me.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
See uh that's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other
two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all
social platforms and follow at web girl Morgan to submit
your listener questions for next week's episode.
The best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Listener Q and daytime.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
We're Morgan in a show member answer almost all your questions.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Part three time.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Listener Q and a thank you if you joined us
from part one, and if you didn't, be sure to
go check out part one because Mike d we talked
about our uniforms, which is a funny conversation itself, and
everybody probably has a uniform.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We got tattoo update from you, mental.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Health updates, all the things, a.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Lot of stuff over there, so go check out part one.
But let's get to some listener questions.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
All right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We got Jose from San Francisco, who wants to know
you must watch movies from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
First went up would be The Iron Claw, which is
a movie that I was surprised to not get a
Best Picture nomination. Zach Efron is in it and it's
the story of the Van Eric brothers who have a
pretty tragic story.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh I do I do want to see this.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's not out on streaming tho, no, it's still in theaters.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
They're kind of in a weird place of not knowing
who's going to have it on streaming or it's going
to be a to be rented, so you can only
go watch it in theaters still, but I always look
for a best picture to kind of hit me an
emotional level. I like sad movies like those are the
ones that I think should win.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You also like sad music too.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I like sad things because I feel like there's another
therapy thing. It's hard for me to feel emotion in
the real world, but when I watch it on in
a movie or a TV show and I can identify
something sad, it just hits me so much more. If
I see a character die in a movie like that
makes me cry more than I hear about somebody.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Crying in real life.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I don't know why it is, it's just something that
has always been a part of how I interpret things.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So hey, as long as you're getting it out some way,
I'll respect it.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So out of all the movies last year that I watched,
that was the one that made me cry, probably multiple times,
because it's so much of an emotional just gut to
the hit, right to the.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Gut, so I need to be in a space for that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
When I watched this, Yeah, some people have gone into
this movie blind, not knowing anything about it and you
will leave wreck.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, yeah, and I need to get in that headspace.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
But it's hard to recommend something sad, knowing like this
is going to make you cry because me saying that,
you'll probably watch it now and be like one that said,
I really think this one will stick to test.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Hey maybe if you don't get said you need to
get a little bit more in your motion. Yeah, okay,
that's your number one.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
My second one as far as movies that came out
and were the most just talked about online because it's
so weird.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's Saltburn. Oh yeah, you can watch on Amazon one.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It is one that you're going to have an opinion
about because there are some weird things in that movie.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And I've watched a lot of weird.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Movies, and going into this one, people picked out maybe
two or three moments in the movie that are just
like what is happening?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And I like movies like that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, so it is really weird, but you liked it.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I liked it a lot, And it's one I like
movies that create a debate, create a conversation that you
can watch and go talk about with your friends and recommend.
And this one might not be one of the best
movies overall, but I like movies that are no worthy
and that get people talking. So I think on that front,
this is one of those that you'll watch and definitely
have an opinion about.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You'll either love or hate it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I have seen people remake scenes from it, and I
feel like I've kind of seen the movie in that way,
and I'm like, this feels really strange.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Because if a movie comes out and then it takes over, TikTok,
that is a good movie.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, that's true, and everybody's trying to make the scenes
and stuff from it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So it's really just a story about this guy who
gets obsessed with another guy and it goes to some
very extreme measures to be a part of that person's life.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, all right, So Saltburn number two was not anticipating
that one you had any others?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
My third one was my favorite movie of last year,
Godzilla minus one. It just came back out in the theaters.
It's gone again. But they did like a black and
white version, which is cool because it has like that
old school monster movie feel to it. And that is
another one I feel like should have been up for
Best picture. It's up for like a Visual Effects Award,
but a movie that you don't expect a Godzilla movie
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to be that emotionally draining and just so good on
every level. It's not just the big dumb monster movie.
There's so much depth to it. And it isn't another language,
so you do have to watch it with subtitles.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But yeah, isn't it in Japanese or something?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's in Japanese.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But those movies are the best to me because you
pay so much more attention having to read a little
bit to you, like, pay attention to every single thing
because you're reading and you understand it more. And even
though that it's in Japanese, you still connect with the
characters because the acting in the movie is so good.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So you mean, I can't have this as my emotional
support background raise No, okay, three solid ones.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Did you have a top five or was it just
top three?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I did a top three?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, all right, Well those are some strong picks, So Jose,
if you want to watch some movies, He's got you.
McKenzie from Tennessee, No, mckennesssee now I want to call
you mcckennessee. McKenzie from Texas wants to know a popular
movie people would be surprised you've never seen.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
For the longest time, it was Star Wars, and I
had a thing in my mind that everybody star Wars
so much, I was going to be the one person
who never saw it. And I went the longest time
without watching the original Star Wars movies and even the
prequels they made in the late nineties early two thousands,
And it wasn't until they made the twenty tens versions
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that I went back and watched all the original ones
because I actually liked those better than the originals. At
times when those movies came out and so many people
were hating on them, I thought that's what made them exciting.
And also because they came out in the late twenty tens,
it looked better. The special effects were better, the action
scenes looked, you know, so much more like, oh, this
is what it would actually look like. That I enjoyed
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those movies so much that I went back and watched
the originals after being opposed to watching them just because
they were so popular.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
There was all the.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Fandom around Star Wars, I never fully got it, and
so it was me just wanting to like rebel against
here's this really popular thing. I don't want to be
a part of it. But now I've seen everyone and
I love them.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Have you seen any of the TV show from them?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Aside from the Mandalorian, I haven't been able to get
into all the other TV shows, even though everybody said
and or was good.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I never fully dove into the TV shows.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah. I went from zero to one hundred with Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like I was like, you, I've never seen the movies,
but you know, covid, I watched everything. I'm just bitch
watching everything, and I got into all those TV shows.
Those Star Wars movies, Man Mandalorian made me fall in
love with them even further. And then I just every
time a knew one came out, like yeah, let's go,
I'd be so hyped. It could be the worst TV
show ever. I was like, yeah, I fell I felt hard,
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so I respect it. But I'm glad you did finally
watch them. I feel like they're worth it.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They are.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I mean, a new Hope is It's such a good movie.
I feel like people like Empire strikes Back better in
those first original movies. But I just love the introduction
of characters and the fact that the first one just
jumps into this world. They referenced the Clone Wars. Nobody
knows what the Clone Wars are. I feel like that
movie took so much, many more chances that movies don't
really do these days, of like creating this big world
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and just here it is, it exists, believe it or don't.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, that's so true, and you know what, a lot
of people believed. H So it worked for him. We
got Kim from Florida. She wants to know what we
wanted to be when we grew up, Like when we
were kids, what do we want to be when we
grew up?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I wanted to be different things throughout different stages of
my life. The first thing I remember telling my parents
I wanted to be was an architect.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
What a strange thing. As like a little kid, like.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
In kindergarten, I was like, I want to be an architect.
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Maybe because I like drawing, I like tools. That was
just the first thing that.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And I remember every time you would fill out one
of those things of what you want to be when
you grew up for the longest time.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It was architect.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Could you even spell architect?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I learned out because I wanted to be Okay, oy
I could spell it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now that's a hard one.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'm like a picture in a kindergarten, right, architect And
they're probably like.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Dangs, victoring skid.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
But I remember like I would just play of like
I'd had these sheets of paper with these drawings.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'd have my like little tool.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
They're like, I'm gonna be an architect someday, and eventually
I just never.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Thought, just not at all what I was expecting.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And then after that I wanted to be a pro
wrestler because they got really into wrestling in the late
nineties early two thousands, and that was just like a
hype dream for me of like going I like research
like wrestling schools.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I was like, oh, I'll go to this one in
Texas and then I'll become a wrestling star and it'll
be so easy.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You wanted to be the fake wrestling star or like
legit wrestling.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Fake I'm not sure fake it is ww it's not.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Fake, Okay, Well they rehearse it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It is rehearsed. It is sports.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It is Sorry, sorry, sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You watch the Iron Claw and tell me that it's fake.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I just mean fakeaus in like you're not.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's not a legitimate like you're going and you're trying
to kill the guy.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, it's like rehearsed it.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It is predetermined. But everything that happens all the time,
that their body goes through.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Is very no respect.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
There's no way for me.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I was not prepared to say that word. Clearly.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I feel like people discredit wrestling because it's quote unquote fake.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That's what everybody says. It's fake. What is real?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Hey, there was no disrespect for me.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I just more genuinely like because like the fake version
of it or like real like you may die today,
you know.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Like, well, some people have died in the quote unquote
fake wrestling.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Do that's horrible? No, there's still trust me.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
They're ripped, Like that'd be so cool to be like
ripped and you get like for hers, it's still scary.
I'm done, okay, any other specific you're wrestling.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And then I wanted to be like a rock star
for the majority of my life. I started like my
first band in like sixth grade, all throughout middle school
and high school, I was in bands whenever I first
graduated high school. I moved from my hometown to walk Statue, Texas,
to Austin, Texas, to literally being a We toured Texas
and tried to make it, and eventually, like I stopped.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Caring about it as much because I saw how.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Hard it was, and I looked at like the life
of like a touring musician not making a whole lot
of money. We made a little bit of money, but
really only enough to like put back into it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is a tough life. And around the time that.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I was going and touring a lot and playing, you know,
recording music, I was also starting as an internal the
show back when they were in Austin. So I was
going from playing shows late at night, going home, sleeping
for a couple hours, and going into the internship. And
I started to see, like, what do I really enjoy
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doing and what do I see myself doing five years
from now? What I want to best my time in
That was really when I began the shift of like,
all right, I'm going to cut back on doing the
music and focus more on something that I enjoy. And
also I see a future in.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That's fair and listen that rock star life for.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
The weeks, like you could have got into some crazy things.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, and just touring in general is tough. And also
like being in a band, isn't.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I mean, even.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Back then it was more profitable, but being in a
band now really tough to be profitable. That's why everybody's
a freaking solo artist in doing the TikTok route, because
you can't really make a whole lot of money for
music and then you have to split it four or
five ways.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Have you ever thought about like trying on TikTok just
to like as like a side thing now?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I thought about it slightly for a minute, But I
don't really play guitar a whole lot anymore. And in
the band that I was in, I was lead singer.
I played guitar, but not I don't really have in
me anymore. I haven't written a song in like five years.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Maybe that can be part of your goal for twenty
twenty four, you try to write a song and sing it.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
It does seem fun again because my brother is still
in He just joined a band again and he's touring
a little bit. And I watched his band before my
New Year's Eve and it kind of gave me that
itch again because it was always something I did with
my brother. He was the drummer, I was the guitar player.
So there was always this fun element of even if
we didn't tour, just playing songs again. I even texted
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him after that show, like, this would be fun again,
Like if we lived in the same city, we would
probably find like a practice space here just to play,
which I think is the fun part, Like not so
much playing shows, but just literally what I enjoyed the
most about it is when we would just have practice.
I'd come in with a song idea. We'd write a song,
practice it, and then get it down and there was
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just like a sense of accomplishment of like, oh, this
was actually a good song that I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Nobody has to hear it. I just like playing it,
so more of a hobby, I think.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Is the space I would get into, rather than like
putting the music out there because I don't think anybody
want to listen to it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Hey, you never know until you try, though, I think
you should try and pick up guitar again this year.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I maybe write a song because there was the band
that really got me into playing guitar was Blank n
eighty two. Whenever their album Mother State came out, I
wanted to be like the guitar player Tom DeLong.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
He is the one who inspired me.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
And they're back now performing putting out music, and he
like re released a guitar that he played back in
the two thousands that was so iconic and the guitar
that I like wanted as a kid, but it was
so expensive. They re released like that guitar, and I
thought about buying it's it's still really expensive. It's like
twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
It is, but definitely not not doable.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, but I told myself if I did that, that
would mean I had to commit myself to going back
and relearning some things and dedicating time in my week
to play guitar. And I was like, I don't think
I'm ready for it, so I didn't buy it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, maybe maybe you are right for it. You just
have to force it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I did pick up the guitar like a couple of
weeks ago now that I remember, and just tuned it
and played a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Felt pretty good.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I'm telling you, maybe this will also help you get
a little bit of things that you're doing that aren't
work that is true, and after everybody saw your day
in the life, I think you need some of that.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Mike, add that to your thing. Okay, well I am
with you.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I didn't go to the extent that you went. But
I did want to also be a rock star at
one point.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Which everybody does.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Listen, which we know because I got forcesting on the
air and that was the horrible experience for me.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, that that didn't work out for me.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
But the other the other ones that were I had
were an ice skater I want to be a professional
ice skater, and a zoo keeper.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I want to take care of the animals at the zoo.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I could see that.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And then a marine biologist a lot of animal really
the animals. Yeah. I never wanted to be a veterinarian
because they didn't want to that. That job always looked
really hard. But like the zoo keeper, you can play
with all the animals.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And then the marine biologists.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You always live on the ocean and you can hang
out dolphins and Whales's be so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I feel like I should know a marine biologist. I
just remember, like a lot of people wanting to go
to college to study marine You're.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Like where are these people? I want to meet you.
I want to go see some whales.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
If I had to guess, I think is do you
remember the movie Aquamarine?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I did it
for a lot of.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That and fighting Nemo.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's a few of them that came out in our
childhood and everybody's like, I want to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I was part of that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So yeah, those were mind but I.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Never took into steps you did, though I did. I
had vocal lessons, piano lessons, and guitar lessons. I did
all of that, and I did win my middle school
talent show singing Red High Heels by Kelly Pickler.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
So I wasn't horrible when that happened. I just never
got better, So it's fine.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And then an.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Actress that was always one which I do feel like
that could somehow some come in to play at some
point in time.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
All right, Well, I am working on I've that's been
another one of my goals this year of just writing
more creatively, and I've been writing things, not so much
knowing if it's good to be like a movie. I'm
working like on a scripted podcast, but if I write
something that requires a part for you, I'll definitely write
you in.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh heck, yeah, I'll do it. I would love it,
Like that's my jam.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I follow a casting like account to like try all
these ones.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I keep looking from seeing if I fit anything.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Just to be like should I do it? And I
do think about it a lot. I haven't pulled the trigger,
but I do think about it a lot. So we'll
see maybe.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, because I think on the other end of that,
I always at one point I wanted to be a director.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Mm hmm, I know you still kind of do. I
feel like that's the end goal.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
And in college and in high school, I was heavy
into like researching and like filming things. I love doing
music videos and short films, and what I love about
movies really is like the directing process, and like I
have a lot of favorite directors. It is a really
tough thing, though, And I don't know if I have
it in me to be a great director.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's fair. I do think you have it in you.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think you have a lot of talent and a
lot of creativity, but you have to love something so
much to pursue it so fearlessly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Like, and do you love it that much. I don't know,
Like that's the only question you can answer.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, I don't think I love the directing part as
much as I think I love the writing part more.
I would rather write something and somebody take that and
have their vision and their spin on it, because I
feel like I would like that aspect of it more
because I feel like I can pour everything out onto a page,
but to take that page and like make it come
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to fruition is a whole other thing.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Wouldn't that then mean you could be the producer on
the film. Yeah, so you could do producing versus directing.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So I feel like I would just be good.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I don't think there's a role for this of just
saying like what's good and what's bad, because like I
can watch a movie or I could probably even see
a process and be like we should take that out.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's fair.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But I do think if you write something, then you
do have that input.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, then you are the producer.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, sometimes very few times, like somebody will write something
and then also be on set. Sometimes that happens.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I would like to do that part of it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Well, you know, everything is always changing, right, Everything always
has to evolve. Maybe that's how we start making great movies.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, all right, one up.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Never say never. All right, we'll be right back. We're
going to answer some more questions. All right.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Chelsea from California is trained for first half marathon and
want some tips or suggestions from the pro runner Mike d.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I'll start first, like that was kind of my first
major goal. The reason I was even inspired to run
was because of my dad, who about eight nine years ago,
he was running half marathons and I was not. And
there was one in particular where I went. I saw
him and my sister run and I was just on
the sideline and I thought, like, man, my dad is
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in his fifties out here running a half marathon, and like,
I don't really do anything physical, and he was seeing
him do that and accomplish that and being so proud.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That made me want to pick up running.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
And it inspired me, and even to this day I
think about it because he still runs and he's in
his sixties. So when I first started out, I couldn't
run a mile without stopping. So I think that was
my first goal. So depending on where you are and
your half marathon training, I would say for anybody just
starting running, the first goal should just be that first mile.
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If you've never run, whether it's you walking it, you
half jogging and then walking it, just try to get
through that first mile. Don't care about your pace, don't
care about anything else of just completing that first mile.
And then I think that first medium goal should be
a five k, which is three point one miles. And
it's always just having a goal in your head of
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what you want to achieve, knowing that you're working towards something,
and just creating small steps to get you there. Because
I didn't go out and just think, all right, I'm
gonna run a half marathon today, I'm going to run
for an hour. No, I'd be miserable. You wouldn't do it.
You were going to injure your body. And when it
comes to running, you want to ease yourself into it
because if you go hard, you're going to pull something,
you're gonna get hurt and injured, and then you're not
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going to be able to run the race. So don't
be afraid to start small, don't be afraid to run slow.
I think the majority of your run should be slower runs,
just building up that stamina and getting your body to
a point that it can take those things on and
you're going to realize that a lot of running is mental.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So yes, part of it is physical, but a lot
of it is.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Just your mental strength of I'm going to do this,
I'm going to accomplish this, I'm going to get it done.
And I think that's why I enjoy running, because so
much of it is just you versus yourself. I like
going on the pavement and knowing that it's my force
in my body and in my head that's going to
get me through this.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That is it me and the pavement.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
So get through that first goal of just completing that mile,
that's going to build up and you're going to get
that five k done and just add a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I would just say, I'm going to do another mile
this time, I'm going to try to do three, I'm
gonna try to do four, and eventually you're gonna build
yourself up and get to that big goal. So when
it comes to the actual things you need to do, hydrate,
drink water like that's really the easiest thing to do
when it comes to running, because that's gonna it's like
the lubricant that just power. It's like changing the oil
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in your car.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And makes me s why I'm a bad runner because
I don't drink water.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You gotta drink water. And it's that simple, because your
body is just sip on my emotional.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Because your body is just sweating and you're losing the
salt in your body and it's just draining out of you.
And if that all drains out of you and you
don't you're not hydrated, You're not gonna want You're gonna
slow down, you're gonna stop. So being hydrated is important.
Also stretching, which I hate. I hate stretching. I would
just go run and not stretch, but it really does
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help you not get injured. And also you just have
better runs when you take five ten minutes to do
some runner stretches. Search something on YouTube and just find
runner stretches, mainly just stretching out your legs and doing
that warm up process and then also after your runs
doing a cool down process of either another stretch routine
or just walking for a little bit. So it's powering
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up your body doing the run, powering down. That is
really the initial steps to get started.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I'm tired.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Well, like just hearing you talk about the whole process
of this like mad respect because I am tired just
hearing about it.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
But you'll also find that if you I don't even
know that. I still love running, but I love the
feeling after it. But I think I've come.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
To enjoy the actual process of.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Like zoning out and just enjoying the actual like oh,
this is a time where you can just you're only
focused on the running part. So I think if you
can also find I would always try to switch it
up a little bit with the scenery, because if you
are running on a treadmill is touff. I would not
recommend doing this on a treadmill, but finding like different
trails around where you live or different parts of your
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neighborhood to keep all the things that you're looking at different,
because that will also help, well, you're not so focused
on Okay, last time I ran at this point, I
was here and now I'm a little bit further behind.
As much as you can switch up your environment, it
will help you mentally get through that hurdle of like
I just want to stop and go home.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You know, if you're going to do that, just maybe
do it later on in your training, because there was
one day or a wild hair, and I was like,
I'm going to go for a long run today. I
went to a hike area to do it. I literally
lasted ten minutes. I was like what am I doing?
And I got stuck and I was like, I have
to walk my happy belt all the way home now.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So maybe do.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
The cool trails and stuff when you're a little more experience.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh that's great advice.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Like all of that is great advice, and I have
nothing else to share.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
So good job, Mike. I shout out Chelsea. I hope
your first half marathon goes amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And Okay, pro tip for shoes before I ask you
this next question.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I've gone through every single possible running shoe. I think
it's going and some places will you can go in
and they like look at your feet, they test them.
They like you stand on something and they can see
like where your pressure foids are. Yeah, so I would
say if you can find a place like that, like
a lot of running stores will have that and they'll
recommend what is good for your feet, because the thing
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everybody's different, and a lot of running shoes I feel
like are narrow and I have like a wider foot,
so I had to find something that fit me.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I tend to like.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Shoes that are a little bit lighter because when I'm running.
I know some people like that added support. I usually don't.
I like the less support that just has a little
bit more like speed on it and lightweightness.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Mike wants feet hitting the pavement.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I did get some shoes that felt like I was
literally running in socks that my pace got faster. But
I was like, this probably isn't good for my feet.
But yeah, I would say, go to like a running
store and see if they offer some kind of like
sizing or just recommendations and find something that's good for
your feet and try those out first.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Okay, all the pro tips now.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Brenda and Texas and somebody who goes by ya Ya
Tello on Instagram would like to know about the kids
situation with your wife.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Are you still talking about having kids?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
We are talking.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
This is not me, ask you do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I think we we've talked about it more of in
the point of like kind of creating a timeline.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Not anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I think we see other people who have had kids
in their thirties. That's kind of what we talked about
because we are now both in our thirties and looking
at what other people have done and thinking like.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh, I kind of liked that they waited until later.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
In life to have kids, because you're everybody says you're
never really ready for a kid. But I think we
want to get to a point where we've done all
the things that we can that we wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
As just just a couple.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Like, we still have places on our list that we
want to travel, we still have other things that we
want to accomplish in our careers. So I don't think
we're at a place in the next two to three
years yet, maybe in like four or five. That's kind
of where we are.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hey, you gotta do what fits best for you, guys,
and I think it's great whether you choose to or not.
However it feels right for you guys, and sounds like
you guys are just enjoying married life together and life
in general.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, that's great, life as hard as it is.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
So true.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
The thing is, nobody sells having kids.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They really don't.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
They really don't.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
They really don't.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I'm gonna tell you that right now. I talked to
every single and they're like, oh, but it's the best
thing ever. I'm like, yeah, but like everything else you
tell me doesn't agree with that.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
What part of it is, Like, I see the part
you post on social media, but everything else you say
sounds like it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, oh yeah, the big dilemma.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I also read are really sad statistic the other day
on TikTok of that by the time your kid turns eighteen,
you spent you have spent ninety four percent of the
time that you will ever spend with him.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That made me sad.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I'm like, I don't even have kids yet, and I
think that once they're eighteen, you're gonna see them so
much less because they go to college and then you
only see them like around holidays and they have a family,
you only see them two or three times a year.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Made me call my mom.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, you know what, that's true. I had made a
post like go and visit your loved ones, call your mom,
call whoever you need to call that you've been putting
off because you only get so much time.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Like I recently had a moment, like a couple maybe
even last weekend, where like I was at a comic
book shop and they were selling Pokemon cards and it
reminded me of a time that my mom literally took
me to like a store to specifically buy Pokemon cards
because she knew it was like important to me. Back
in the early two thousands, every kid was wanting Pokemon cards, but.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
We didn't have a whole lot of money then.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
But she still like knew it was important to me
and took me to buy a couple packs of cards.
And that's just like a moment I remembered, And I
was like, if I don't tell my mom this now,
that like that was a specific memory that I know
that she went out of her way to do this,
She spent money on this, and it's just something that
I remember from my childhood, like just to reminder, like,
you're a great mom. And I told her that, she
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was like, I do remember that day.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
No, that probably meant so much to her, Like I
know it meant so much to you, but it also
probably meant so much to her just to hear that
from you.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, because I think we just have like it's weird
the things you remember from our childhood, and there are
just weird moments like that that at the time, maybe
to her didn't seem like the biggest deal. And when you.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Start talking about having kids, I start to think about
what are those moments gonna look like? Even like hearing
Eddie talk about like the stuff he does with his boys,
I'm thinking of the things that they're going to remember,
because there's just stuff like that that you do with
your parents, what they do for you, that you'll be
on a podcast in your thirties thinking back on those moments.
So I just look at like other people with kids
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and be like, Oh, that's going to be something they remember.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's so true. Get altereeria. We're gonna take a little
more little break. Won't be right back all right? Listener.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Megan is trying to eat less meat for health reasons,
so she wants to know some of our favorite meals.
You're a vegan, I'm a vegetarian, so less meat style meals.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
What are like your top three favorite meals?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I have been very Asian inspired recently that so I
would go to a restaurant here that just closed down, actually,
but they had the best vegan Asian food, which was
like this fried rice And it's not that hard to
make fried rice that's vegan, really, just don't put the
egg in it. Or there's some other like meat based
(29:34):
soy sauces they use or sometimes so they are no
longer in existence. So I've been trying to recreate the
meal I would get there that was my favorite and
try to make it at home. And I've found some
fried rice that literally just throw in the microwave and
it's actually really good. And then I'll make some tofu
and then I'll throw some cauliflower in the air fryer
(29:56):
in just like a like a sturfry. It's probably my
favorite meal right now.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I love a sturfry.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It's kind of like a mismatch of it, just whatever
you have in your house.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
And I honestly make that a lot because it's hard
for me to make things for dinner because like, I
never know what I want. I told my wife the
other day I was starting to cook. I was like,
I didn't know I was gonna eat this until about
five minutes before I started cooking. Because a sturfry, you
can just really take all the ingredients you have and
just throw it in there.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And somehow it goes together. Sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
If you have the sauces, you're good. Yeah, it just
kind of still works.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Get a little flavoring to it and you're good. So
that's kind of my favorite right now. Okay, that's not
probably a week again. I'm weird about food. I have
like weekday foods and I have like weekend food.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, I get it. Sometimes less effort during the.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Week Yeah, that's more of a well, I'm kind of
the opposite way that I think about it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I like the less effort on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
That's funnier because you have more time on the weekend
because this is like.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
An easier meal for me because I can just throw
it in the microwave. I don't take a whole lot
of time to cook tofu and then throw something in
the air fryer.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I want the easier meals on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
So that is like my weekend meal. During the week
I like Mexican inspire things. So there is some soy
based too diesel that I'll make and I'll make some
kind of rice with it, or I have these there's
just really good Siete beans that are they have a
lot of vegan stuff, the whole brand, And I'm kind
of particular when it comes to beans and rice. Being
(31:19):
a Mexican, I have a very high standard for that,
but their beans are actually really good. So if I'm
wanting something Mexican inspired again, Mexican food is pretty easy
to veganize. Of course you're not going to get the
same meat.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Cheese, but I still feel like it's still easy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
But like all the sides are pretty easy. You can
just throw it and there you go. You gotta go in,
So I feel like that's usually pretty easy.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
And then my third one would that's honestly the majority
of what I eat.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I eat some variation of that.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Aside from that is just finding different side items to make,
and that really comes down to just throwing things in
the air. And you can make veggies taste really good
by throwing them in the air fryer, throwing some avocado
spray in there, and then whatever kind of seasoning you like.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I use a lot of Tomorrow, like.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
The sauce or seasoning.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
It's kind of like a soy sauce, okay, but it's
gluten free, which is why my wife found it. And
you throw that stuff on anything and it makes it
taste a lot better. And if you throw it on
something in the air fryer, it makes.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It get a little crispier.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
So I've just been experimenting on how it affects different
kinds of vegetables that I throw in there.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That sounds good and you look into that sauce. Okay,
all right, well those are some strong ones. So vegan side, now,
vegetarian side. I've got sweet potato and black bean enchiladas
that I make that do last for a couple of days,
which are awesome. Now, I'm pretty sure all my stuff
has cheese on it, so that's the side that doesn't
make it vegan.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
But then I always throw it.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Together like these Chipotle labels essentially at home, and they
are rice, sweet potatoes, black beans, avocado, sauteed peppers, and onions,
and mix it all.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Together with some salt and pepper, and you got a
homemade bowl. You can't you just mix everything in there.
You just need the ingredients you like.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
And then I also love a chopped salad, so lately
I've been doing I mean, sweet potato is like a
huge part of my diet because it makes me feel full.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
So I really love sweet.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Potatoes, and so I have a salad I'll do like
a medley mix, and we got blueberries sweet potatoes, some
candied walnuts, and some white cheddar cheese and then a
strawberry vineigarette. I think it's called like skinny skinny something
skinny gal and mix that all together, chop it all
(33:44):
up in a bowl, and then I eat it out
of said bowl.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
So like my three.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Top that I typically always lean into, the enchilada is
not so much anymore because I just really don't like
corn tortillas.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I wish I could, really I.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Can't, and like trying to be gluten free at home
all the time, like that's a doesn't quite work out
for me. And I haven't found any tortillas that I
liked I couldn't free, so it was a struggle.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
The angeladas have backed off a bit.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But yeah, so I've supplemented that typically with my own
version of a homemade girl cheese. I have a gluten
free bread and I shred my own white cheddar and
regular chedder, makes those together and make a grilled cheese sandwich.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's been the supplement keep a classic. Yeah, gotta hit,
he'd never go wrong, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The last two questions are just updates for me. I
guess clear from Dallas wants an update on my personal
podcast sometimes hopefully sometimes.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Too, Claire, I'm also wigging.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I'm really pushing hopefully to launch it, launch it very soon,
but you know that's been the.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Goal for a while now.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
And then Sarah from Arizona wants to know if I'm
still eating gluten free, which you just kind of heard
me talk about.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I am.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Everything I eat at home is gluten free, and then
when I go out to eat stuff, it allows me
to be al a little bit more open and eat
things that aren't gluten free. I'm not allergic to it.
I'm just really sensitive to it, and I feel more
like I have the flu when I eat a lot
of it. The problem was I was being a vegetarian.
I was eating a lot of carbs, so I was
eating gurl cheese, cheese, pizza, cheese, quesadilla's, a lot of
(35:16):
cheese and carbs, and just as I got older, my
body couldn't take all the gluten anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So I had to back off.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
And I have which now allows me to at least
still have gluten when I want it. I can't really
eat like full blown like gluten pasta that will destroy me,
but like I can go and have like sour dough
like a girl cheese sour dough or something, or I
can go have a bagel from somewhere and I'll probably
be okay.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I just like can't have it all the time.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So at home, which I cook more often than not,
is all gluten free.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Also why it makes it a struggle cooking out.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, that's why it's hard for my wife and I
just to go out to eat because she's gluten free.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm vegan. I havet some limited options.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
It is just taking things off and I'm like, dang,
I'm just gonna eat it all.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
All right, Mike, anything else you want to have before
we jump out of here. I kept you long enough.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
If you want to check out my podcast, movie Mike's
Movie Podcast. I do spoiler free reviews every single week.
I cover all the new movies coming out, and then
I do a lot of film history.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Love it. Go check them out and follow.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
You at Mike Distro.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
There did you say that? And I just missed it?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Okay, good, thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Sure you can come hang out with me too at
web Girl Morgan on all the Things, and be sure
to check out the show page. We got a lot
of videos up on TikTok and Instagram at Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
We'll see y'all later. Have a great weekend, Mike, thanks
for joining me.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
See uh that's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other
two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all
social platforms and follow at web girl Morgan to submit
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