October 5, 2024 • 40 mins
Happy Weekend! Mike D opens up about struggling to make new friends as an adult. Morgan went to a Chappell Roan concert and now she understands all the hype. Plus, they talk about how they shop for things and why are advertisements everywhere!?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one. Behind a scene with a member of the show,
What's up, everybody? Happy weekend? I'm excited to be joined
by Mike D. Mike, how you feeling.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You are feeling warming up? My voice good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The test the do rey me thing. When that happened
on the show, I was like, oh, I have not
warmed up my voice enough to be doing a singing competition. Okay,
we have lots of happening on the show this week.
Rascal Flats stop by. It was their first time together
in five years. In our studio, Eddie had a personal
tell me something good. Lunchbox geeked out over snooky. Yes
(00:40):
that's snooky from Jersey Shore. A stranger yelled at Eddie's sun.
We had Luke Bryan in studio. Lunchbox saw something disturbing
in his neighborhood, and we all admitted the things that
make us think less of other people. So that's all
on part two if you want to catch up on
the Bobby Bone Show. But the reason you're here is
to hear some updates on life and everything in between.
(01:01):
Mike D, tell me what's going on with you, what's
new in your life right now?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You know, I'm at a point where there's not a
whole lot of new. It's a lot of just trying
to maintain myself and maintain my sanity. I think that's
where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That feels like adulthood.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, Like I've been in the process now of like
trying to make friends and I just haven't been able to.
But also I haven't really tried. But I think that's
where I'm at right now in life, thinking that looking
at like home life is good, wife and I are good,
but it's also like that when I go home, that's
my only human interaction. We had this kind of conversation
(01:34):
the other day of like she thinks that I need
to go hang out with other people who aren't work
related so I can have a little bit more of
like I guess I'm startling kind of with like an
identity outside of this job. Oh, because it's like here,
this is everything, go home, still working, but I and
then now on the weekends, I kind of like disconnect
(01:55):
myself from everything. I'll watch movies, I'll read comics, I'll disconnect.
But I don't think that's good for me. Because I'm
just like separating myself from the world in order to
kind of decompress. But I'm not doing anything for me
to kind of give me another avenue to connect with people.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay, Okay, So I know everybody moved fun of me
because I had a friendship coach on my podcast, but
she did give some really good advice and maybe this
can help you. The way to make new friends is
to go to a setting one that like you really enjoy,
but you go back to it multiple times to see
if you can start interacting with familiar faces. So for you,
(02:34):
what are some places that you really enjoy going?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, the first thing I was thinking of doing was
like a run club because I love running. Yes, and
there's a couple there's like a run club I've been
following on Instagram now for like I say, six months,
and I'm like, I'm gonna go to that. I'm gonna
go to that, and I've never gone to it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Really, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Just because it's that step for me to go try
something new and also find time for it, which is
probably the hardest thing for me, is carving out an
hour of my day even in the week. It's hard
for me to do, and I've just never been able
to have all those things line up where I have
the time and also have like the mental capacity to
(03:13):
go do something like that, because for me, it takes
a lot to plight myself up to go hang out
with people I don't know, because in any situation, even
when I'm with people that I do know, I don't
say much. I hang to the corners of the room
and just kind of exist. It's hard for me to
put myself out there with people I'm comfortable with, and
going into a situation where it's just me. I don't
(03:36):
have my wife to fall back on to like start
conversations and me hop into and just be me feels
terrifying to me. It feels like going back to the
first day of school, which I hated.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, that's fair though, I mean that obviously making friends
is something that's very a very vulnerable place for you,
So it makes sense why you haven't wanted to go
and be like, I don't want to put myself into that.
That seems miss in the time that I do have,
I just want to do what I enjoy versus like
going and emotionally putting myself through this.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, because that's The other thing I'm struggling with is like,
do you reach a point in adulthood where it's like
you don't hang out with friends because you have so
much going on? And also like, we don't have kids yet,
But do you reach a point when you do have
kids that like you don't even think about friends. So
I'm like, I don't know if it's just me getting
older in a place in my life where I kind
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of missed the boat on friends, or like, what is happening.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I don't think you missed the boat on friends, and
I do think you should absolutely have some because I
think it adds to your life, right. I think having
close friendships is super beneficial for you in a lot
of ways. And I don't think you can't not make
friends now. But to your point, it is going to
be emotionally physically taxing and adds another thing to your
(04:51):
to do list that you have to actively go and do.
But I think you can do a run club because
a run club's easy for you, right. You can show
up right at the right time and you don't really
have to socialize, and you can just watch and you
go on your run and then you leave and you
experience it that way right as you work things up,
then you can start to show up a little bit
(05:11):
earlier and be like, Okay, I'm gonna say hi to
somebody this time, or there isn't this huge like dedication
to that, and you get your run in, which is
something that you like to do anyway. I think that's
a great option for you to like start this now.
Another thing that you can do because you love comic
books is go to a comic book store and like
(05:32):
hang out at a comic book store for a while
and see if somebody's there, because that's something you also
enjoy doing. That one's not as intimidating because it's not
a massive group of people. Yeah, that's just more individual interactions.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I've had casual encounters at comic book clubs, but I
guess for me, it's like taking that next step of like, hey,
you want to hang out?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It is it's hard, but maybe a natural progression from
the comic comic book store is like hey, like maybe
you both get one and you're like, hey, do you
want to go like read these there's a coffee shop
down the store. And I know that sounds so funny
you hear that come out of my mouth and you're like, oh,
I don't want to say that, but I think people
want connection more than we give us ourselves credit for. Right.
(06:14):
People want to feel connected and they want to like
hang out with other humans. And there's probably somebody else
out there, not just one person, but multiple people who
feel the same way you do, and they don't want
to take the first step either. So what both of
you just aren't going to take the first step, and
then you're both just not ever going to be friends.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, you know, good point, But this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Way, I guarantee you if you can do it. One
at a comic book store and then go for a
run club like those those are two easy first steps,
right You just you go for the run. You don't
have to talk to me anybody you go. You just
go and you show up right on time. You do
the run, you see it, experience it, and be like okay,
you know, work your way up to things so it's
not so this big intimidating moment. And then you stop
(06:56):
at a comic book store and maybe say hi to somebody.
Those are really the easy, like non intimidating steps, right, Yeah,
those are those are easy ones versus you looking at
it from the picture of Okay, I have to go
to this run club. I'm gonna have to socialize. I
need to talk to people. I have to invite them
to hang out with me. Don't don't look at it
that way. If you look at from that way, you're
never gonna go. If you just go and be like
(07:18):
I'm gonna go run and just join this because it's
good community versus like I'm gonna go and I have
to make friends. I think it takes away some of
that intimidation.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Taking the standard out of it of like, yeah, it
needs to be a direct result of this, just like
just experiences.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah. Because also, these things are stuff that you already
love as hobbies. You're just further pushing your hobbies into
your life. And the hobbies are a great thing to
have as an adult. It's another thing that a lot
of adults don't have because we don't have a lot
of time. So all you're doing is really investing more
into your hobbies, and by way of that, you might
just make some more friends.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah. I've never really thought about it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Hey, I'm telling you this friendship coaches, right, Yeah, this
is all me just like kind of spitting out what
she ingested into me, like back into you. I think
you can do this, Mike, and I think you deserve this.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah. I think that way sounds a lot easier and
less intimidating, because I even remember, like earlier in my
in my twenties, I tried like the bumble bff yeah,
and that felt weird. It felt like I was trying
to date somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It does. It does feel that way because you're.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Like talking back and forth. And then I met a
dude who was also into comedy. I was like, should
I ask him to go to a comedy show with me?
But this feels like I'm trying to ask them out.
It does.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Also friendships are like that, right. You know what's funny
is I've been rewatching sex in the City and they
had made a comment and they're like, well, what if
we're the soulmates and guys are just like the fun
things you know that we hang out with on the side.
And that was a funny perspective, but it's also true
because you can develop really deep connections with a friend
and it does feel like dating. And there's also like
(08:56):
memes that are like if people don't think you and
your best friend are dating, then you're not really best
friends like it is dating. It's just more of a
platonic dating. And it does feel weird at first, but
it's so common, Mike, Like that is so common. Nothing
about asking somebody to hang out is weird. I promise.
I know it feels weird, but it's so common, and
(09:18):
they're not gonna be like, are you hitting on me?
That's not how that's gonna be sick.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm married, but we want to hang out.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, this, this would be really good for you. And
it sounds like it's a space that like you really
want to be into, so I don't want you to
shy away from it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah. I think that that's the way easier route for
me to take. And then I'm gonna look at this
week coming up and I'm gonna make one of those
drunk clubs.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah you are, and guess what, You're just gonna go run.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Just don't don't put any pressure on it. If there
is one thing I've learned in life, the minute you
stop taking pressure off something, the easier it becomes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I mean that's kind of how it was for dating
with me. I think, like for a solid three years
I would just like, gotta find the one, to find
the one, And as soon as I stopped thinking about that,
started working out.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, well, see, you're teaching me something that's really difficult
to do. So I'm saying things that I know are
really hard to do, but I think you can. Okay,
so we got we got the friendship level. That's what's
trying to happen in your life?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Is there anything else outside of the friendship? How's the
comic book collection going? Do we have any new tattoos?
Is there any big things that have happened outside of
serious topics?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Book collections going good? I've stopped kind of looking for
the really expensive Grail comics because the ones I do
want are like Hella expensive of like five hundred hundred, like,
not one hundred thousand, like a thousand bucks. So I
don't think I'll ever pull the trigger on those, just
because it's like I don't know if I could do.
I got the one that I wanted, and I'm good there.
(10:50):
I'm just like reading current issues and maintaining a few
series that I've been enjoying this year. So that's kind
of where I am with comics tattoos. I've heavily been
looking into another. Yeah, because I want to get one
by the end of the year, and I'm trying to
decide on what to get. Like everything I see on
Instagram right now that I like, I'm screenshotting and I
have a folder in my phone or just like tattoo inspiration.
(11:13):
And I haven't really decided exactly what I want to
get yet, but I have a lot of ideas and
I have a couple of artists in mind that I'm
looking at. Okay, the location, I'm definitely thinking of that.
When we talked about of like my arm if not,
there's like a cool design I think would be cool,
like on my upper leg and those are the leg tats.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, dang, Mike, you getting serious.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, because I've always wanted a leg tat because being
a runner, like the short side I wear, I always
thought it'd be cool to have one that's like right
at that line. Okay, I just like the way it looks. Also,
Quinn Yours from Texas has one right there, and I
was like, yeah, the quarterback at Texas got it, and
he has like this it's like a kind of like
a skull, but it's like right there at the short
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line and it just looks cool.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Got it? So we're seeing what looks cool, and that's all.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I don't think that's what tattoos should be at the
end of the day. They I think people put a
lot of emphasis on the meaning behind them, like having
this big meaning. The way I look at tattoo is
like they got to look cool. They need to answer
the way that I look and be in cool placements
where you can show them off. If they have a meaning,
that's bonus for me. But I want something that is
(12:25):
important to me and I think is a representation of me,
but also has to look cool.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
M okay, dang, okay. So we got we got friendship
movement going, We've got new tattoo. How's the Spider Man
tattoo going?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Great?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
That's good, totally okay. I met like the most I've
ever loved it.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh peak, We've hit peak most peak. Okay, this is
all good, see good things. Everything else is moving in
the right direction, which means the friendship stuff can only
move in the right direction too. That's how we're gonna
put it on in the universe.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, worst that happens is
like I don't make a friend, which I already don't
really have.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So it's like that is true, Like you look at
the worst thing that happens and somebody's just like, okay, yeah,
I'm good. But then you just move forward. But also
I say that knowing like rejection is real. Yeah, that
feeling is not fun. So I understand that perspective too.
But you deserve to have you have all of us
(13:24):
as friends here, but you deserve to have deep friend connections.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, And I guess that's what I want to clarify.
It's like, not that I don't have people here that
we talk to you as friends, that we interact as friends,
that we do hang out with here. It's also we're
all in points of our life where we don't hang
out as much outside of work, and we when we do,
it's probably a work related event, like with the traveling
with you know, Bobby and Eddy, So I do have
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that connection in bond Like when we go do twenty
five Whistles trips, it's like a bonding trip because it's
all the guys together doing something fun, traveling, staying in
hotels together, driving in rental cars, Like there is that
part of my life, but that's also still connected to work,
and I feel like I need a disconnect from that,
with the relationship that my identity is it rooted in
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the fact that i'm quote unquote Mike d like I
want it to be just me, like that I'm not
associated with this at all, and I think it just
I kind of need it because I think I need
an avenue where I'm not thinking about all that this
job entails, where I can disconnect. That's why I do
(14:32):
do things like go to the gym, go running, because
it's those times where I'm not thinking about those things
in my life that I just feel better, and after
I do them, I feel like like I have a reset.
So I think that's why I'm looking for that friendship.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, you should also use this as evidence, Mike, Like
when you're going into those scenarios and you're freaked out, Like,
use this as evidence, like you have friends, you've made friends,
you're just trying to make new friends. So like, use
this in your mind when like the anxiety creeps in
and you're like, I don't want to do this and
I'm scared, use it as evidence that, like you have
been able to make friends, so it's not something that
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you're not capable of doing. This just looks a little
differently of how it's going to come to be. So
use it as like an evidence for you to be like, Okay,
I'm not totally foreign in this, even though this feels
really foreign to me. Like I did make friends. I
do hang out with like Bobby and Eddie and we
go on all these things and we have a great time.
Like I am a good friend. I just want to
(15:29):
make more.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, And I think for now that I think about it,
I think is that I kind of want to make
like a best friend, which is hard to do. It
is like I have my wife obviously, and I have
Bobby who I've been close with for a long time,
but I don't have a friend that I can just
go to their house randomly and I feel like, yo,
you have that right, Yeah, you could just show up,
(15:50):
like I need to hang out with somebody, Hey what
are you doing that I could text so freely and
say hey could I come over? Yeah, come over? Or
hey I'm doing some right now, come over later. Like
I don't think I have that friendship because it's like
the friends I do have that I'm like at that
level with all have you know, wives and kids, and
it's like, that's why, I don't know if it's just
like an age thing that I'm at right now that
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that's gone, or it's just I don't have that type
of friend.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, it's for sure an age thing. There's that association
with me too. But it's also that as you shift
in age, you can also continue making friends that can
keep being that for you, you know what I mean, Like,
you can continually make new friends. That's always an option.
It's always an option. It doesn't matter how old you are.
Think about it, like I got to the retirement home
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and they're all new friends. It's true they didn't know
each other before that phase of their life. You can
always make new friends and it's always going to be
there for you and available. It's just how much you
want to go after it. And so I think it's both.
I think the answer to that is both.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It's also hard because you've probably experienced this too, and
you do move away from like where you grew up
and where you made all those friends, Like I do
have those friends don't live here any like they don't
live here. Oh yeah, if I moved back to Texas,
I'd be like I wouldn't have this conversation because I
would have those people that I could just go over
to their house and hang out with. But it's that
starting over in your twenties, like like the most where
(17:12):
you've already established all these relationships, going to a new
city and having to start over, which is I think
the thing I never had time to do because as
soon as I moved here in twenty sixteen, I was
dropped into it got super busy, was traveling, Like there's
two years of my life that I just have as
like a blur because I wasn't even here to maintain
a relationship evenen I tried to. That was also when
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I didn't really even date because wasn't even here.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, And so now you
have to you're kind of backpedaling and trying to do
it now, which is harder, right, Like the older you
get it, the harder it is. But it's not impossible,
and it does exist and people still make new friends.
I just made three new friends in the last six
months that I never had. Like, you can do it,
but it is a level of putting yourself out there
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that is very vulnerable and allowing people to to be
vulnerable with you. That's hard, Like vulnerability is hard. It
doesn't matter which way you look at it, platonically, romantically, whatever,
So none of it's easy. But I do think you're
you can find it and you're capable of it, and
it's out there. It's just like you getting through like
(18:18):
your wall that you've put up. You know, yeah, because
you have and it exists. I promise it does. You're
evidence of that. Yeah, you're like okay.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I even got to a point like, hey, should we
rush the kid process along just so I have a
friend out. I was like, that kid'll hang out with
me until he's like.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Can Okay, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
We saw like a family going to take their kid
to see maybe it was Wild Robot, and I was like, Hey,
that'd be cool to take like your kid to go
see a movie. Have to be so excited. I like,
like I look forward to that part of it. Yeah,
like taking a kid to a movie, like experiencing that,
Like that sounds fun to me. Of like, oh, they
get to do the things that I still like to do.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yes, that's an option, and you will have a friend
in your kid when that happens. But you should also
have adult friends too.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Adult friends too hard. Let's create a.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Human On that note, We're gonna take a little break here.
We'll be right back. Speaking of little kids, Mike, I
went to Chapel Roone at First Bank Amphitheater out in
Franklin here, and there was so many little kids there,
really yeah, and they were so cute. Yes, everybody was
(19:30):
dressed up. I have never been to a concert that
had a more electric crowd. Like you know when you
go to a concert and everybody's all about the artist
or whatever. This crowd was all about like everybody being
together and they everybody was so nice to each other
and comb I have just never seen so much kind
human interaction in one setting with that many people. And
(19:52):
then when she came out on stage, it was it
was like everybody was one. Everybody just became like one
giant fan of Chapel Rode. It was such a cool
experience to be in that crowd.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's also like the prime time to see her like
in her career right now of like where she is
the biggest and there is just like that energy. Like
I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I always
get just completely intrigued by somebody who has that passionate
of a fan base like grows that quickly and just
like dominates at everything. Like I'm so fascinated with just
(20:26):
like that rise to fame and having like that much
power to where like they play a show, it's like
thousands of people. They put out a song, it gets
millions of streams in like seconds, Like I'm just fascinated
with those types of people, and she does.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And that's it, and that's the community she's created, like
speaking on that, like she I'm not kidding. When I
walked in here, I just felt something so different. And
we go to concerts all the time, not just for
our job, but just in we are music people. We
like to go. I've been to so many that for
me to sit here and say this is one of
the most electric crowds I've ever been part of for
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somebody that's at that point in their career is wild.
She was so good And now not only did I
like enjoy the crowd and the experience that I had there,
but I only listened or knew like five songs before
I went, And ever since I left there, I've been
like down her whole deesography. I'm like, let's see what
else do you got like I had so much fun.
So that's how you also know it was a good time,
(21:21):
right because you want to dive into them further, versus
it being like, okay, I'm good, Like I'll just know
my five songs. So it was really good. Definitely suggesting
her even if you're not a huge fan, I think
you'd become a massive fan.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
How are like on stage? Is like like the production
is there like a lot of things going on, a
lot of dancers, is like a big set. Really she had.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
An all female band, which was awesome. It was two guitar,
like a guitar, bass and drums and her.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh wow, I kind of imagined her having like sculptures
on stage like big sets.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's really her that's that big, like really big character.
I mean she had an outfit, she ripped off a
skirt at one point, her makeup was all done up,
and there was lots of graphics on the screens and stuff.
But beyond that, I mean pretty bare bones as far
as like the way that you would imagine it to
be so shocking to me too, but she took up
(22:15):
that whole stage. I mean she had that much energy
and that much character that she really like owned that
entire stage, and maybe that's why they don't have any
of that up there.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, it could be like maybe next tour is like
that because she's also like at this like the still
like the rise of her fame in this tour, maybe
didn't know that it was going to be as big
as it is, or like no, or like even like
having the money to create a stage, like because that's
what I would picture for her, is like a huge thing.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And maybe it's just as they keep rising right like
that that has to be the next level versus this
level right here. Yeah, I don't know. And to your point,
they just might. She might a skyrocket so fast they
weren't ready for it, you know, they didn't sit there
and prepare for two years. And because I do, I
do imagine like a Lady Gaga esque type yeah vibe.
(23:02):
But no, it was very I mean her whole Midwest
princess thing. It was very that she was wearing camo.
She had like a camo outfit on and a camo dress.
So it was really good though. I highly suggest going
to one of her shows. And then I also went
to a Dan and Shay thing that was really fun
and I there's one song on this new stuff they're
(23:22):
working on that changed my life, Mike. Hell, it made
me incredibly emotional, but also just that we already know
that Shane Mooney is incredibly talented, right, Like, we know
that he's a great vocalist, but this just like shot
him just over a freakin grand canyon.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Is it his singing in the song or is it
what the song is about?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
His singing?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, where I'm just like, oh in it. If I
could elaborate on it more and make more sense, I
don't know what I'll like. Cannon can't say at this moment,
but all I know that when it comes out like
it just made me like stop in my tracks and
see something differently that I've seen before. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I'm explaining that very well without being able to say anything.
So there was that too. So I had two life
changing moments this week.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Do you like music just because somebody is a good singer? Like?
Do you just look for good singers and automatic things
I'm gonna like their music?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
No, I normally listen to lyrics, Yeah, because I don't
like if I look at all my favorite bands throughout
my entire life, I don't know that I would consider
them any of them to be like great singers.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, that's but that's true though you don't you're not
attaching to somebody. That's I think that's why this was
so life changing because it made me literally stop.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean cause stand and shaken out. Both they can
sing well and they can write really good songs. Yeah,
but I think that's probably a very select case. I
just think over like any music, like the most popular
people probably aren't the best singers. It's like their lyrics
and their connection more. Because I just always find it
interesting whenever you say, discover somebody like in random place
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you can sing really well, or you discover like somebody
you know it can like just really sing and you
think you should be famous. I've never really seen that
as like, well, I think anybody could sing really well,
Like that's a little bit more common. It's more rare
to have somebody who can write really good songs and
put it to music that connects with people. That's a
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harder thing to do, like singing, Like, yeah, you could
take lessons, you could be classically trained, but you can't
really teach something like how to be a dynamic songwriter.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's so true. You kind of are you aren't? Yeah,
like you have Like I look at, I don't know
if you've ever there's thoughts that come to mind, like, oh,
that could be a really good song, but I have
no idea how that would actually transpire. That's are really
good words, and that's a really good thought process that
like putting that to a song and a melody and
all of that. Oh heck no, yeah, you know what
I mean. I don't know if you've ever had that
thought process, but it's so true now that you say that.
(25:55):
And I look at like all my favorite people, I
most of the time love them for their life lyrics
and the way that the songs connect to me versus
like I'm truly listening. It's only it'll be like a shock.
I'll be like, oh wow, oh she can sing. He
can sing? Well, didn't didn't know that was coming. It's
kind of like tea pain.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
When I listened to his stuff, we had a connection.
There was a nostalgia factor because we listened to it
in childhood and then he did mass singer. I was like, oh,
oh he can sing, you know what I mean? So
I think you're right. I just never thought of it
that way.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, because there's some artists that are like really great singers,
like elite, but they're songs that, to me don't really
say anything. Some people like love them, and I'm like,
I just can't get into it. Yeah, I need more
than just like they're an amazing singer.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's fair. Well, just know that this particular one is
because he's insanely good at singing that it stops me
in my tracks.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I mean, yeah, Shane Mooney vocals is like an entirely
different level. Like it's just interesting to listen to his
like isolated vocal tracks. So like just how he sings,
how Dan like puts all the airing on it. It's like
an instrument.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
This is a version of that. And I think that's
why it was so impactful, like a true isolated Oh insane.
I wish I could elaborate on it further. Again, I'm
not sure what I'm allowed or not to say. All
I know is that when people are here, they're gonna
be like, what the crap?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right? I want to hear it now.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So that and maybe I have to it up too much. Dang, now,
never mind, I take it back.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It It was horrible. You know, actually they're not releasing
the song not that good.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's really bad. Okay, we're gonna take another quick break
and we'll be right back, all right, Mike, what is okay?
This is? I realized this is something that I do
and maybe this is really good. Weird adult Morgan. But
I like to when I really like something, whenever sale happens,
(27:47):
I'll buy multiples of it and I'll keep stocks of
it instead of like going throughout the year and trying
to buy it for normal price. I have like stocks
of multiple things in my house because I've bought them
on sales. Do you do this or is this weird? Morgan? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This is my wife one hundred percent really yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
So she'll go, like she finds something she likes and
then she'll wait for sale, buy it all and she'll
just have it and it'll be like on stock.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, whenever something is on sale, she's stocking up on it.
And whenever she finds something she likes and is on sale,
she'll get it in every color. Like that's kind of
her her thing, Like I like it, I'm gonna get
it in every color.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
See what it's so listen, I love this Adult version
of us because it's so smart. If you think about it.
Most of the time, the things you end up really
liking are a little bit more expensive, and then you're like, dang,
I really don't want to pay full price for that.
But then you realize, like at Christmas time it'll be
like fifty percent off or something like I'm getting ten
of them.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I have entered the light the part of my life
where I don't buy anything that's not on sale, like
like a major thing, anything at all, anything at all.
I'm always like, I feel like, in the last few months,
I've kind of made this decision. If it's not on sale,
I'm not getting it yet, because I've just noticed like
if you wait at least three maybe four months, it's
gonna go on sale, that is true. And always find
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it on sale or a promo code or something. Because
there have been times where I've bought something full price
and then a couple months later it's on sale at
like a drastic amount, I'm like, if I just waited.
And also it proves to me, like I'm very much
when I buy something, I probably think about it way
too much and think of like, Okay, do I really
need this? Do I still want it now or am
(29:22):
I acting on impulse? So also giving myself that time
to wait until it's on sale makes me decide do
I still want it? Because if I want it now
in the moment where it's full price, maybe I'm just
playing off some emotion. I shouldn't get it yet. But
if I still want it in those two three months,
I know it's the right purchase to make.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's really healthy of you. Honestly, that's actually really smart.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
It's taking me a lot to get there, just because
like in the like probably in my twenties, I would
just buy things randomly, like why do I have this?
I don't need this, I don't want this.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Does this pretend to also close and stuff too? Is
this everything? Or is it just really bigger purchases?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I would say, like I've gotten to the point now
where it's even close to interesting seeing shoes. I'm like,
it's gonna go on sale at some point.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
See, but if you leave it in your car, you
put in your car, then you will get a coat
for you.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah. The only thing I will still act on if
it's something that I know is going to sell out,
like a collab or something that's coming out, and I
know it's not going to be around long that it's
not even this the case that could go on sale eventually.
That's the only thing that I'd be like, all right,
I've been wanting this for a while. It's finally coming out.
I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Like limited edition stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, anything limited edition or something that's just like Okay,
they're probably not going to make any more of this,
or in the past it is sold out before and
I wasn't able to get it, So now like, oh
it's back in stock and I still want it. I
got to pay the full price.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, that's fair. That's actually I really need to adapt that. Honestly.
I need to start like waiting til picts are on
sale because I did. The reason thiss got brought up,
not even just because of my My girlfriends will go
in my bathroom cabinets and there's just like stocks of
beauty products and they're like why, I'm like, I bought
it all on sey Oh okay, this is really smart.
I do it with soaps, Like if I get soaps,
(31:04):
that's also a thing that I buy multiples of. It's
been a whole thing and this has got passed down
from my mom. So this is where this comes from.
But the reason got brought up is because I've bought
now three pairs of these sweatpants that I have. I'm
so obsessed with them that I can't stop buying helpers
of them. Not that I need five pairs of sweatpants,
but I really love them, and now I own multiples.
(31:25):
And to your point, I did not wait for them
to go on sale. I just really loved them. So
now before I buy my six pair, I will wait
and hopefully they go on sale. So appreciate that life
lesson Mike. Also, I wanted to talk about to speaking
of shopping, have you been to a store where you've
(31:47):
had to put like your card in and stuff. I
know a lot of people shop online and stuff now,
but have you been somewhere like it can even be
a Target or whatever where you put your card in
at the register? Did you get multiple ads?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I have not that get no?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Okay, So your girl went to best Buy. I needed
an SD car like stat So I go to bed
bye and I'm standing at this thing and I hit
my card right, Mike, I kid you not. There were
five advertisements that popped up first. I would you like
to join our club. Next was it would you like
to donate? Those are the two that I'm used to, right,
And then the fall was like, oh we have this
(32:22):
other new club also there here's an ad and I
was like, that's not even best buy. And after that ad,
then another one popped up to join a sister version
of something, and I was like, what is happening? Just
hit yes, no, I just I need to pay for
the thing. Five advertisements on this teeny tiny register and
(32:43):
that hasn't happened to you yet.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well that's happened. Like that reminds me like going to
get gas at the gas station where it's like do
you want to save five cents? Do you want to
get a car? Wiche? Do you want to join our
rewards plan?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
What are your biggest fears? Dude, I'm just trying to
pay for gas.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
There's so many you know. What it reminds me of
is Ready Player one when he's about to sell the
ad space. I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not ready for this.
I'm like, listen, I get it. It's on our phones.
You're listening to me all the time, but had a
freaking register. Man, I'm just trying to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I just want to tap and get there, right, and.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's what I'm trying to do, and they keep your
cart like some of them don't have the tap, so
my card's in it, so I just have to keep
waiting for it to like pass through to get my
card back. I was so mad. I got so frustrated,
and I kind of looked at the girl and she
was just totally oblivious to what was happening. I was like,
for real, so that I just had to voice some
(33:35):
that experience and now it's probably gonna happen to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I think we're going to get into a space in
the next four to five years where their ads like
in places that we've never had as before. Like I
think it's going to get to a point where we're
like seeing stuff in this sky floating. I mean, there's
like the little pop, but there's going to be like
stuff where it's like on the road signs, here's the exit,
but also here's an ad.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I do think it is. I'm not kidding well. I
think that's why I love Ruddy Player one so much.
So I look up like, honestly, probably our life this
is gonna happen in some former fashion and that ad space.
How he's like, oh, we can sell up to ninety
five percent of the view field without ruining their whatever. Yeah,
And I was like, this is gonna that, that's gonna happen.
(34:20):
They're gonna straight up put it everywhere, and I think
you're right.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah. I mean I was even watching football like it's
on Amazon on Thursdays now and during their commercial breaks
it's obviously Amazon based commercials, and it's like, here's this
product here scanned this QR code and by this it's
just and they.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
All have QR codes, so like they get you that
way because they're like, here's your use it for your phone.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Stupid. The Amazon thing is weird to me, like watching
things on Prime and how they haven't really done it
so much yet, but how much they're integrating, like buying
things from Prime while you're watching things on Prime. I
feel like we got so used to like this big
corporation also being in like media like so easily, Like no,
this is where we get like toilet paper and like
(35:04):
random house things.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
The lines have gotten very blurred.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
And now they're making really great TV shows and showing
life sports. They're gonna start selling us the stuff we're
getting to our house.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yup. Oh it's so true though. Okay, that was my
only rant for the day. I had to voice that.
Thank you for a lot. Although now I really need
to adapt your shopping strategy because of what's about to happen,
because I really will be like I'll just feel bad.
I'm like, okay, I'll buy it. Just get it out
of my face, you know, like I panic. It's kind
of like when somebody goes to to they hand you
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and they're holding the credit card reader and it has
the tip on it and I panic and I'm just like, nah,
that one. Just don't look at it. I don't know,
just press the big button.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That one always makes me feel bad.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
It does when they're straight up holding it and you
can tell that they see it and you're like, uh, okay.
This happened to me at a plant store, Mike. I
tipped a plant lady. She didn't do anything. There was
a zero help that I received, And I said, this
plant lady twenty percent because I panicked. It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah. I feel that at some places where I go to,
where like a smoothie place where yeah, you can have
your smoothie made maybe tip on that. But you also
can grab things that you just grab them like that's
already ready and pay for it, but they still have
the tip line on there, like I wouldn't grab it.
It's just like a bottle of water, Like it feels weird.
It feels weird to say no, but you did nothing.
You just scanned it.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I know when they're watching you, it's like their eyes
are on you, like they know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
The last one that happened to me is I went
to a like a drive through car wash and they
have somebody who like comes around and like does a
pre scrub before you go through an automatic car wash,
and they're like, do you want to tip the scrubber today?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Well, they now asked you to tip the scrub and
I was like, You've been doing that forever for free.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I've never really thought of like tipping that person, but
now there's a pressure to tip that person. And if
I don't tip that person, because I'm looking at it
right now and they're gonna scrub my car, I feel
like a jerk. So I still tipped them a dollar,
but it's like, oh, that's that seems like an added
service to entice me to come to your place because
you add this little thing to it is.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
And it's crazy when you think about because you're like,
now a ten dollars car wash has now turned into
a twenty dollars car rush because of all the different
tips that you have to do. Yeah, that's what it
gets to the point of, right, it just keeps like
piling on. That stresses me out. It makes me not
want to come.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Out of my house exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And this is why everybody buys uff online now because
nobody wants to go to the store and have those interactions. Okay, well,
you know, just watch out for the ads on the
registers when you go to places. Okay, we're gonna wrap
this up. Mike, Thanks for joining things, for being vulnerable
talking about friendships.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
There's a lot of different areas of conversation in this day.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I like to go lots of different ways, and I
really appreciate you just coming with me on them, but
being vulnerable talking about what's going on in your life
and also voicing our frustrations with ads.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, we had the whole range of emotions today. We did.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
We were inside out basically all of them came to play.
They were pressing buttons. All right, tell the people where
they can find to hear you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
You can find my podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast wherever
you listen to podcasts. Coming up this week, I have
Freddy Krueger on, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The guy who played him, did he wear his mask?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
He did not. But it's the fortieth anniversary of the
first Nightmare on Elm Street movie, So I had Robert
England on to talk about like the whole making and
behind the scenes of that movie, which is really cool
for me because that was obviously one of my favorite
horror movies growing up. I'd put it in like the
top three of all time, and like to have somebody
who is so iconic and also like the face of
(38:32):
a horror franchise which you don't really have, Like Michael
Myers has a mask, Jason has a mask, Chucky as
a doll.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Oh, Freddy Kruger doesn't have a mask.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
He's like has makeup on. But like when you actually
see him, you're seeing the character Freddy Krueger. All those
other characters is just completely different people. Okay, So it's
like a whole different level of fame that he dealt
with that.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
We talked about that's so cool. That's a huge git, like,
that's a great interview, I imagine.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, that was awesome, and it was hard to do because,
as I imagine it, like forty years everybody has asked
him everything possible, so I had to kind of find
a way to ask him things in a different way
so it'd be like, oh, that was interesting. And he
gave me like a cool compliment at the end of it,
so you got to listen to check it out.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
You better, you better kept that compliment in Oh yeah, okay,
I was posting that teaser, like check out what he said.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I'm good I did that.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
That's so fun. Okay, go follow Mike d listen to
movie Mike's Movie podcast and you can follow me out
web girl. Morgan and I have a podcast out. We
kind of talked about the friendship Coach, but I had
Morgan number one on recently. We talked it's a hilarious
conversation between two friends about dating, life, relationships, all that stuff,
and lots of funny clips came on the point, all right,
(39:45):
we're getting out of here.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Bye, everybody, bye. That's the best bits of the week
with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out
the other two parts this weekend.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Go follow the Show and all social platforms. Show and
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for next week's episode.
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one. Behind a scene with a member of the show,
What's up, everybody? Happy weekend? I'm excited to be joined
by Mike D. Mike, how you feeling.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You are feeling warming up? My voice good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The test the do rey me thing. When that happened
on the show, I was like, oh, I have not
warmed up my voice enough to be doing a singing competition. Okay,
we have lots of happening on the show this week.
Rascal Flats stop by. It was their first time together
in five years. In our studio, Eddie had a personal
tell me something good. Lunchbox geeked out over snooky. Yes
(00:40):
that's snooky from Jersey Shore. A stranger yelled at Eddie's sun.
We had Luke Bryan in studio. Lunchbox saw something disturbing
in his neighborhood, and we all admitted the things that
make us think less of other people. So that's all
on part two if you want to catch up on
the Bobby Bone Show. But the reason you're here is
to hear some updates on life and everything in between.
(01:01):
Mike D, tell me what's going on with you, what's
new in your life right now?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You know, I'm at a point where there's not a
whole lot of new. It's a lot of just trying
to maintain myself and maintain my sanity. I think that's
where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That feels like adulthood.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, Like I've been in the process now of like
trying to make friends and I just haven't been able to.
But also I haven't really tried. But I think that's
where I'm at right now in life, thinking that looking
at like home life is good, wife and I are good,
but it's also like that when I go home, that's
my only human interaction. We had this kind of conversation
(01:34):
the other day of like she thinks that I need
to go hang out with other people who aren't work
related so I can have a little bit more of
like I guess I'm startling kind of with like an
identity outside of this job. Oh, because it's like here,
this is everything, go home, still working, but I and
then now on the weekends, I kind of like disconnect
(01:55):
myself from everything. I'll watch movies, I'll read comics, I'll disconnect.
But I don't think that's good for me. Because I'm
just like separating myself from the world in order to
kind of decompress. But I'm not doing anything for me
to kind of give me another avenue to connect with people.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay, Okay, So I know everybody moved fun of me
because I had a friendship coach on my podcast, but
she did give some really good advice and maybe this
can help you. The way to make new friends is
to go to a setting one that like you really enjoy,
but you go back to it multiple times to see
if you can start interacting with familiar faces. So for you,
(02:34):
what are some places that you really enjoy going?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, the first thing I was thinking of doing was
like a run club because I love running. Yes, and
there's a couple there's like a run club I've been
following on Instagram now for like I say, six months,
and I'm like, I'm gonna go to that. I'm gonna
go to that, and I've never gone to it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Really, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Just because it's that step for me to go try
something new and also find time for it, which is
probably the hardest thing for me, is carving out an
hour of my day even in the week. It's hard
for me to do, and I've just never been able
to have all those things line up where I have
the time and also have like the mental capacity to
(03:13):
go do something like that, because for me, it takes
a lot to plight myself up to go hang out
with people I don't know, because in any situation, even
when I'm with people that I do know, I don't
say much. I hang to the corners of the room
and just kind of exist. It's hard for me to
put myself out there with people I'm comfortable with, and
going into a situation where it's just me. I don't
(03:36):
have my wife to fall back on to like start
conversations and me hop into and just be me feels
terrifying to me. It feels like going back to the
first day of school, which I hated.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, that's fair though, I mean that obviously making friends
is something that's very a very vulnerable place for you,
So it makes sense why you haven't wanted to go
and be like, I don't want to put myself into that.
That seems miss in the time that I do have,
I just want to do what I enjoy versus like
going and emotionally putting myself through this.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, because that's The other thing I'm struggling with is like,
do you reach a point in adulthood where it's like
you don't hang out with friends because you have so
much going on? And also like, we don't have kids yet,
But do you reach a point when you do have
kids that like you don't even think about friends. So
I'm like, I don't know if it's just me getting
older in a place in my life where I kind
(04:26):
of missed the boat on friends, or like, what is happening.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I don't think you missed the boat on friends, and
I do think you should absolutely have some because I
think it adds to your life, right. I think having
close friendships is super beneficial for you in a lot
of ways. And I don't think you can't not make
friends now. But to your point, it is going to
be emotionally physically taxing and adds another thing to your
(04:51):
to do list that you have to actively go and do.
But I think you can do a run club because
a run club's easy for you, right. You can show
up right at the right time and you don't really
have to socialize, and you can just watch and you
go on your run and then you leave and you
experience it that way right as you work things up,
then you can start to show up a little bit
(05:11):
earlier and be like, Okay, I'm gonna say hi to
somebody this time, or there isn't this huge like dedication
to that, and you get your run in, which is
something that you like to do anyway. I think that's
a great option for you to like start this now.
Another thing that you can do because you love comic
books is go to a comic book store and like
(05:32):
hang out at a comic book store for a while
and see if somebody's there, because that's something you also
enjoy doing. That one's not as intimidating because it's not
a massive group of people. Yeah, that's just more individual interactions.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I've had casual encounters at comic book clubs, but I
guess for me, it's like taking that next step of like, hey,
you want to hang out?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It is it's hard, but maybe a natural progression from
the comic comic book store is like hey, like maybe
you both get one and you're like, hey, do you
want to go like read these there's a coffee shop
down the store. And I know that sounds so funny
you hear that come out of my mouth and you're like, oh,
I don't want to say that, but I think people
want connection more than we give us ourselves credit for. Right.
(06:14):
People want to feel connected and they want to like
hang out with other humans. And there's probably somebody else
out there, not just one person, but multiple people who
feel the same way you do, and they don't want
to take the first step either. So what both of
you just aren't going to take the first step, and
then you're both just not ever going to be friends.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, you know, good point, But this.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Way, I guarantee you if you can do it. One
at a comic book store and then go for a
run club like those those are two easy first steps,
right You just you go for the run. You don't
have to talk to me anybody you go. You just
go and you show up right on time. You do
the run, you see it, experience it, and be like okay,
you know, work your way up to things so it's
not so this big intimidating moment. And then you stop
(06:56):
at a comic book store and maybe say hi to somebody.
Those are really the easy, like non intimidating steps, right, Yeah,
those are those are easy ones versus you looking at
it from the picture of Okay, I have to go
to this run club. I'm gonna have to socialize. I
need to talk to people. I have to invite them
to hang out with me. Don't don't look at it
that way. If you look at from that way, you're
never gonna go. If you just go and be like
(07:18):
I'm gonna go run and just join this because it's
good community versus like I'm gonna go and I have
to make friends. I think it takes away some of
that intimidation.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Taking the standard out of it of like, yeah, it
needs to be a direct result of this, just like
just experiences.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah. Because also, these things are stuff that you already
love as hobbies. You're just further pushing your hobbies into
your life. And the hobbies are a great thing to
have as an adult. It's another thing that a lot
of adults don't have because we don't have a lot
of time. So all you're doing is really investing more
into your hobbies, and by way of that, you might
just make some more friends.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah. I've never really thought about it that way.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Hey, I'm telling you this friendship coaches, right, Yeah, this
is all me just like kind of spitting out what
she ingested into me, like back into you. I think
you can do this, Mike, and I think you deserve this.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah. I think that way sounds a lot easier and
less intimidating, because I even remember, like earlier in my
in my twenties, I tried like the bumble bff yeah,
and that felt weird. It felt like I was trying
to date somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It does. It does feel that way because you're.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Like talking back and forth. And then I met a
dude who was also into comedy. I was like, should
I ask him to go to a comedy show with me?
But this feels like I'm trying to ask them out.
It does.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Also friendships are like that, right. You know what's funny
is I've been rewatching sex in the City and they
had made a comment and they're like, well, what if
we're the soulmates and guys are just like the fun
things you know that we hang out with on the side.
And that was a funny perspective, but it's also true
because you can develop really deep connections with a friend
and it does feel like dating. And there's also like
(08:56):
memes that are like if people don't think you and
your best friend are dating, then you're not really best
friends like it is dating. It's just more of a
platonic dating. And it does feel weird at first, but
it's so common, Mike, Like that is so common. Nothing
about asking somebody to hang out is weird. I promise.
I know it feels weird, but it's so common, and
(09:18):
they're not gonna be like, are you hitting on me?
That's not how that's gonna be sick.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm married, but we want to hang out.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, this, this would be really good for you. And
it sounds like it's a space that like you really
want to be into, so I don't want you to
shy away from it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah. I think that that's the way easier route for
me to take. And then I'm gonna look at this
week coming up and I'm gonna make one of those
drunk clubs.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah you are, and guess what, You're just gonna go run.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Just don't don't put any pressure on it. If there
is one thing I've learned in life, the minute you
stop taking pressure off something, the easier it becomes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I mean that's kind of how it was for dating
with me. I think, like for a solid three years
I would just like, gotta find the one, to find
the one, And as soon as I stopped thinking about that,
started working out.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, well, see, you're teaching me something that's really difficult
to do. So I'm saying things that I know are
really hard to do, but I think you can. Okay,
so we got we got the friendship level. That's what's
trying to happen in your life?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Is there anything else outside of the friendship? How's the
comic book collection going? Do we have any new tattoos?
Is there any big things that have happened outside of
serious topics?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Book collections going good? I've stopped kind of looking for
the really expensive Grail comics because the ones I do
want are like Hella expensive of like five hundred hundred, like,
not one hundred thousand, like a thousand bucks. So I
don't think I'll ever pull the trigger on those, just
because it's like I don't know if I could do.
I got the one that I wanted, and I'm good there.
(10:50):
I'm just like reading current issues and maintaining a few
series that I've been enjoying this year. So that's kind
of where I am with comics tattoos. I've heavily been
looking into another. Yeah, because I want to get one
by the end of the year, and I'm trying to
decide on what to get. Like everything I see on
Instagram right now that I like, I'm screenshotting and I
have a folder in my phone or just like tattoo inspiration.
(11:13):
And I haven't really decided exactly what I want to
get yet, but I have a lot of ideas and
I have a couple of artists in mind that I'm
looking at. Okay, the location, I'm definitely thinking of that.
When we talked about of like my arm if not,
there's like a cool design I think would be cool,
like on my upper leg and those are the leg tats.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, dang, Mike, you getting serious.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, because I've always wanted a leg tat because being
a runner, like the short side I wear, I always
thought it'd be cool to have one that's like right
at that line. Okay, I just like the way it looks. Also,
Quinn Yours from Texas has one right there, and I
was like, yeah, the quarterback at Texas got it, and
he has like this it's like a kind of like
a skull, but it's like right there at the short
(11:58):
line and it just looks cool.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Got it? So we're seeing what looks cool, and that's all.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I don't think that's what tattoos should be at the
end of the day. They I think people put a
lot of emphasis on the meaning behind them, like having
this big meaning. The way I look at tattoo is
like they got to look cool. They need to answer
the way that I look and be in cool placements
where you can show them off. If they have a meaning,
that's bonus for me. But I want something that is
(12:25):
important to me and I think is a representation of me,
but also has to look cool.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
M okay, dang, okay. So we got we got friendship
movement going, We've got new tattoo. How's the Spider Man
tattoo going?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Great?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
That's good, totally okay. I met like the most I've
ever loved it.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh peak, We've hit peak most peak. Okay, this is
all good, see good things. Everything else is moving in
the right direction, which means the friendship stuff can only
move in the right direction too. That's how we're gonna
put it on in the universe.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, worst that happens is
like I don't make a friend, which I already don't
really have.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So it's like that is true, Like you look at
the worst thing that happens and somebody's just like, okay, yeah,
I'm good. But then you just move forward. But also
I say that knowing like rejection is real. Yeah, that
feeling is not fun. So I understand that perspective too.
But you deserve to have you have all of us
(13:24):
as friends here, but you deserve to have deep friend connections.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, And I guess that's what I want to clarify.
It's like, not that I don't have people here that
we talk to you as friends, that we interact as friends,
that we do hang out with here. It's also we're
all in points of our life where we don't hang
out as much outside of work, and we when we do,
it's probably a work related event, like with the traveling
with you know, Bobby and Eddy, So I do have
(13:49):
that connection in bond Like when we go do twenty
five Whistles trips, it's like a bonding trip because it's
all the guys together doing something fun, traveling, staying in
hotels together, driving in rental cars, Like there is that
part of my life, but that's also still connected to work,
and I feel like I need a disconnect from that,
with the relationship that my identity is it rooted in
(14:12):
the fact that i'm quote unquote Mike d like I
want it to be just me, like that I'm not
associated with this at all, and I think it just
I kind of need it because I think I need
an avenue where I'm not thinking about all that this
job entails, where I can disconnect. That's why I do
(14:32):
do things like go to the gym, go running, because
it's those times where I'm not thinking about those things
in my life that I just feel better, and after
I do them, I feel like like I have a reset.
So I think that's why I'm looking for that friendship.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, you should also use this as evidence, Mike, Like
when you're going into those scenarios and you're freaked out, Like,
use this as evidence, like you have friends, you've made friends,
you're just trying to make new friends. So like, use
this in your mind when like the anxiety creeps in
and you're like, I don't want to do this and
I'm scared, use it as evidence that, like you have
been able to make friends, so it's not something that
(15:08):
you're not capable of doing. This just looks a little
differently of how it's going to come to be. So
use it as like an evidence for you to be like, Okay,
I'm not totally foreign in this, even though this feels
really foreign to me. Like I did make friends. I
do hang out with like Bobby and Eddie and we
go on all these things and we have a great time.
Like I am a good friend. I just want to
(15:29):
make more.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, And I think for now that I think about it,
I think is that I kind of want to make
like a best friend, which is hard to do. It
is like I have my wife obviously, and I have
Bobby who I've been close with for a long time,
but I don't have a friend that I can just
go to their house randomly and I feel like, yo,
you have that right, Yeah, you could just show up,
(15:50):
like I need to hang out with somebody, Hey what
are you doing that I could text so freely and
say hey could I come over? Yeah, come over? Or
hey I'm doing some right now, come over later. Like
I don't think I have that friendship because it's like
the friends I do have that I'm like at that
level with all have you know, wives and kids, and
it's like, that's why, I don't know if it's just
like an age thing that I'm at right now that
(16:11):
that's gone, or it's just I don't have that type
of friend.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, it's for sure an age thing. There's that association
with me too. But it's also that as you shift
in age, you can also continue making friends that can
keep being that for you, you know what I mean, Like,
you can continually make new friends. That's always an option.
It's always an option. It doesn't matter how old you are.
Think about it, like I got to the retirement home
(16:37):
and they're all new friends. It's true they didn't know
each other before that phase of their life. You can
always make new friends and it's always going to be
there for you and available. It's just how much you
want to go after it. And so I think it's both.
I think the answer to that is both.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It's also hard because you've probably experienced this too, and
you do move away from like where you grew up
and where you made all those friends, Like I do
have those friends don't live here any like they don't
live here. Oh yeah, if I moved back to Texas,
I'd be like I wouldn't have this conversation because I
would have those people that I could just go over
to their house and hang out with. But it's that
starting over in your twenties, like like the most where
(17:12):
you've already established all these relationships, going to a new
city and having to start over, which is I think
the thing I never had time to do because as
soon as I moved here in twenty sixteen, I was
dropped into it got super busy, was traveling, Like there's
two years of my life that I just have as
like a blur because I wasn't even here to maintain
a relationship evenen I tried to. That was also when
(17:33):
I didn't really even date because wasn't even here.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, And so now you
have to you're kind of backpedaling and trying to do
it now, which is harder, right, Like the older you
get it, the harder it is. But it's not impossible,
and it does exist and people still make new friends.
I just made three new friends in the last six
months that I never had. Like, you can do it,
but it is a level of putting yourself out there
(17:56):
that is very vulnerable and allowing people to to be
vulnerable with you. That's hard, Like vulnerability is hard. It
doesn't matter which way you look at it, platonically, romantically, whatever,
So none of it's easy. But I do think you're
you can find it and you're capable of it, and
it's out there. It's just like you getting through like
(18:18):
your wall that you've put up. You know, yeah, because
you have and it exists. I promise it does. You're
evidence of that. Yeah, you're like okay.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I even got to a point like, hey, should we
rush the kid process along just so I have a
friend out. I was like, that kid'll hang out with
me until he's like.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Can Okay, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
We saw like a family going to take their kid
to see maybe it was Wild Robot, and I was like, Hey,
that'd be cool to take like your kid to go
see a movie. Have to be so excited. I like,
like I look forward to that part of it. Yeah,
like taking a kid to a movie, like experiencing that,
Like that sounds fun to me. Of like, oh, they
get to do the things that I still like to do.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yes, that's an option, and you will have a friend
in your kid when that happens. But you should also
have adult friends too.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Adult friends too hard. Let's create a.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Human On that note, We're gonna take a little break here.
We'll be right back. Speaking of little kids, Mike, I
went to Chapel Roone at First Bank Amphitheater out in
Franklin here, and there was so many little kids there,
really yeah, and they were so cute. Yes, everybody was
(19:30):
dressed up. I have never been to a concert that
had a more electric crowd. Like you know when you
go to a concert and everybody's all about the artist
or whatever. This crowd was all about like everybody being
together and they everybody was so nice to each other
and comb I have just never seen so much kind
human interaction in one setting with that many people. And
(19:52):
then when she came out on stage, it was it
was like everybody was one. Everybody just became like one
giant fan of Chapel Rode. It was such a cool
experience to be in that crowd.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's also like the prime time to see her like
in her career right now of like where she is
the biggest and there is just like that energy. Like
I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I always
get just completely intrigued by somebody who has that passionate
of a fan base like grows that quickly and just
like dominates at everything. Like I'm so fascinated with just
(20:26):
like that rise to fame and having like that much
power to where like they play a show, it's like
thousands of people. They put out a song, it gets
millions of streams in like seconds, Like I'm just fascinated
with those types of people, and she does.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And that's it, and that's the community she's created, like
speaking on that, like she I'm not kidding. When I
walked in here, I just felt something so different. And
we go to concerts all the time, not just for
our job, but just in we are music people. We
like to go. I've been to so many that for
me to sit here and say this is one of
the most electric crowds I've ever been part of for
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somebody that's at that point in their career is wild.
She was so good And now not only did I
like enjoy the crowd and the experience that I had there,
but I only listened or knew like five songs before
I went, And ever since I left there, I've been
like down her whole deesography. I'm like, let's see what
else do you got like I had so much fun.
So that's how you also know it was a good time,
(21:21):
right because you want to dive into them further, versus
it being like, okay, I'm good, Like I'll just know
my five songs. So it was really good. Definitely suggesting
her even if you're not a huge fan, I think
you'd become a massive fan.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
How are like on stage? Is like like the production
is there like a lot of things going on, a
lot of dancers, is like a big set. Really she had.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
An all female band, which was awesome. It was two guitar,
like a guitar, bass and drums and her.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh wow, I kind of imagined her having like sculptures
on stage like big sets.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's really her that's that big, like really big character.
I mean she had an outfit, she ripped off a
skirt at one point, her makeup was all done up,
and there was lots of graphics on the screens and stuff.
But beyond that, I mean pretty bare bones as far
as like the way that you would imagine it to
be so shocking to me too, but she took up
(22:15):
that whole stage. I mean she had that much energy
and that much character that she really like owned that
entire stage, and maybe that's why they don't have any
of that up there.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, it could be like maybe next tour is like
that because she's also like at this like the still
like the rise of her fame in this tour, maybe
didn't know that it was going to be as big
as it is, or like no, or like even like
having the money to create a stage, like because that's
what I would picture for her, is like a huge thing.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And maybe it's just as they keep rising right like
that that has to be the next level versus this
level right here. Yeah, I don't know. And to your point,
they just might. She might a skyrocket so fast they
weren't ready for it, you know, they didn't sit there
and prepare for two years. And because I do, I
do imagine like a Lady Gaga esque type yeah vibe.
(23:02):
But no, it was very I mean her whole Midwest
princess thing. It was very that she was wearing camo.
She had like a camo outfit on and a camo dress.
So it was really good though. I highly suggest going
to one of her shows. And then I also went
to a Dan and Shay thing that was really fun
and I there's one song on this new stuff they're
(23:22):
working on that changed my life, Mike. Hell, it made
me incredibly emotional, but also just that we already know
that Shane Mooney is incredibly talented, right, Like, we know
that he's a great vocalist, but this just like shot
him just over a freakin grand canyon.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Is it his singing in the song or is it
what the song is about?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
His singing?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, where I'm just like, oh in it. If I
could elaborate on it more and make more sense, I
don't know what I'll like. Cannon can't say at this moment,
but all I know that when it comes out like
it just made me like stop in my tracks and
see something differently that I've seen before. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I'm explaining that very well without being able to say anything.
So there was that too. So I had two life
changing moments this week.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Do you like music just because somebody is a good singer? Like?
Do you just look for good singers and automatic things
I'm gonna like their music?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
No, I normally listen to lyrics, Yeah, because I don't
like if I look at all my favorite bands throughout
my entire life, I don't know that I would consider
them any of them to be like great singers.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, that's but that's true though you don't you're not
attaching to somebody. That's I think that's why this was
so life changing because it made me literally stop.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean cause stand and shaken out. Both they can
sing well and they can write really good songs. Yeah,
but I think that's probably a very select case. I
just think over like any music, like the most popular
people probably aren't the best singers. It's like their lyrics
and their connection more. Because I just always find it
interesting whenever you say, discover somebody like in random place
(25:00):
you can sing really well, or you discover like somebody
you know it can like just really sing and you
think you should be famous. I've never really seen that
as like, well, I think anybody could sing really well,
Like that's a little bit more common. It's more rare
to have somebody who can write really good songs and
put it to music that connects with people. That's a
(25:20):
harder thing to do, like singing, Like, yeah, you could
take lessons, you could be classically trained, but you can't
really teach something like how to be a dynamic songwriter.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's so true. You kind of are you aren't? Yeah,
like you have Like I look at, I don't know
if you've ever there's thoughts that come to mind, like, oh,
that could be a really good song, but I have
no idea how that would actually transpire. That's are really
good words, and that's a really good thought process that
like putting that to a song and a melody and
all of that. Oh heck no, yeah, you know what
I mean. I don't know if you've ever had that
thought process, but it's so true now that you say that.
(25:55):
And I look at like all my favorite people, I
most of the time love them for their life lyrics
and the way that the songs connect to me versus
like I'm truly listening. It's only it'll be like a shock.
I'll be like, oh wow, oh she can sing. He
can sing? Well, didn't didn't know that was coming. It's
kind of like tea pain.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
When I listened to his stuff, we had a connection.
There was a nostalgia factor because we listened to it
in childhood and then he did mass singer. I was like, oh,
oh he can sing, you know what I mean? So
I think you're right. I just never thought of it
that way.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, because there's some artists that are like really great singers,
like elite, but they're songs that, to me don't really
say anything. Some people like love them, and I'm like,
I just can't get into it. Yeah, I need more
than just like they're an amazing singer.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's fair. Well, just know that this particular one is
because he's insanely good at singing that it stops me
in my tracks.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I mean, yeah, Shane Mooney vocals is like an entirely
different level. Like it's just interesting to listen to his
like isolated vocal tracks. So like just how he sings,
how Dan like puts all the airing on it. It's like
an instrument.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
This is a version of that. And I think that's
why it was so impactful, like a true isolated Oh insane.
I wish I could elaborate on it further. Again, I'm
not sure what I'm allowed or not to say. All
I know is that when people are here, they're gonna
be like, what the crap?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right? I want to hear it now.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So that and maybe I have to it up too much. Dang, now,
never mind, I take it back.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It It was horrible. You know, actually they're not releasing
the song not that good.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's really bad. Okay, we're gonna take another quick break
and we'll be right back, all right, Mike, what is okay?
This is? I realized this is something that I do
and maybe this is really good. Weird adult Morgan. But
I like to when I really like something, whenever sale happens,
(27:47):
I'll buy multiples of it and I'll keep stocks of
it instead of like going throughout the year and trying
to buy it for normal price. I have like stocks
of multiple things in my house because I've bought them
on sales. Do you do this or is this weird? Morgan? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This is my wife one hundred percent really yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
So she'll go, like she finds something she likes and
then she'll wait for sale, buy it all and she'll
just have it and it'll be like on stock.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, whenever something is on sale, she's stocking up on it.
And whenever she finds something she likes and is on sale,
she'll get it in every color. Like that's kind of
her her thing, Like I like it, I'm gonna get
it in every color.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
See what it's so listen, I love this Adult version
of us because it's so smart. If you think about it.
Most of the time, the things you end up really
liking are a little bit more expensive, and then you're like, dang,
I really don't want to pay full price for that.
But then you realize, like at Christmas time it'll be
like fifty percent off or something like I'm getting ten
of them.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I have entered the light the part of my life
where I don't buy anything that's not on sale, like
like a major thing, anything at all, anything at all.
I'm always like, I feel like, in the last few months,
I've kind of made this decision. If it's not on sale,
I'm not getting it yet, because I've just noticed like
if you wait at least three maybe four months, it's
gonna go on sale, that is true. And always find
(29:01):
it on sale or a promo code or something. Because
there have been times where I've bought something full price
and then a couple months later it's on sale at
like a drastic amount, I'm like, if I just waited.
And also it proves to me, like I'm very much
when I buy something, I probably think about it way
too much and think of like, Okay, do I really
need this? Do I still want it now or am
(29:22):
I acting on impulse? So also giving myself that time
to wait until it's on sale makes me decide do
I still want it? Because if I want it now
in the moment where it's full price, maybe I'm just
playing off some emotion. I shouldn't get it yet. But
if I still want it in those two three months,
I know it's the right purchase to make.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's really healthy of you. Honestly, that's actually really smart.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
It's taking me a lot to get there, just because
like in the like probably in my twenties, I would
just buy things randomly, like why do I have this?
I don't need this, I don't want this.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Does this pretend to also close and stuff too? Is
this everything? Or is it just really bigger purchases?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I would say, like I've gotten to the point now
where it's even close to interesting seeing shoes. I'm like,
it's gonna go on sale at some point.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
See, but if you leave it in your car, you
put in your car, then you will get a coat
for you.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah. The only thing I will still act on if
it's something that I know is going to sell out,
like a collab or something that's coming out, and I
know it's not going to be around long that it's
not even this the case that could go on sale eventually.
That's the only thing that I'd be like, all right,
I've been wanting this for a while. It's finally coming out.
I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Like limited edition stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, anything limited edition or something that's just like Okay,
they're probably not going to make any more of this,
or in the past it is sold out before and
I wasn't able to get it, So now like, oh
it's back in stock and I still want it. I
got to pay the full price.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, that's fair. That's actually I really need to adapt that. Honestly.
I need to start like waiting til picts are on
sale because I did. The reason thiss got brought up,
not even just because of my My girlfriends will go
in my bathroom cabinets and there's just like stocks of
beauty products and they're like why, I'm like, I bought
it all on sey Oh okay, this is really smart.
I do it with soaps, Like if I get soaps,
(31:04):
that's also a thing that I buy multiples of. It's
been a whole thing and this has got passed down
from my mom. So this is where this comes from.
But the reason got brought up is because I've bought
now three pairs of these sweatpants that I have. I'm
so obsessed with them that I can't stop buying helpers
of them. Not that I need five pairs of sweatpants,
but I really love them, and now I own multiples.
(31:25):
And to your point, I did not wait for them
to go on sale. I just really loved them. So
now before I buy my six pair, I will wait
and hopefully they go on sale. So appreciate that life
lesson Mike. Also, I wanted to talk about to speaking
of shopping, have you been to a store where you've
(31:47):
had to put like your card in and stuff. I
know a lot of people shop online and stuff now,
but have you been somewhere like it can even be
a Target or whatever where you put your card in
at the register? Did you get multiple ads?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I have not that get no?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Okay, So your girl went to best Buy. I needed
an SD car like stat So I go to bed
bye and I'm standing at this thing and I hit
my card right, Mike, I kid you not. There were
five advertisements that popped up first. I would you like
to join our club. Next was it would you like
to donate? Those are the two that I'm used to, right,
And then the fall was like, oh we have this
(32:22):
other new club also there here's an ad and I
was like, that's not even best buy. And after that ad,
then another one popped up to join a sister version
of something, and I was like, what is happening? Just
hit yes, no, I just I need to pay for
the thing. Five advertisements on this teeny tiny register and
(32:43):
that hasn't happened to you yet.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well that's happened. Like that reminds me like going to
get gas at the gas station where it's like do
you want to save five cents? Do you want to
get a car? Wiche? Do you want to join our
rewards plan?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
What are your biggest fears? Dude, I'm just trying to
pay for gas.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
There's so many you know. What it reminds me of
is Ready Player one when he's about to sell the
ad space. I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not ready for this.
I'm like, listen, I get it. It's on our phones.
You're listening to me all the time, but had a
freaking register. Man, I'm just trying to pay for it.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I just want to tap and get there, right, and.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's what I'm trying to do, and they keep your
cart like some of them don't have the tap, so
my card's in it, so I just have to keep
waiting for it to like pass through to get my
card back. I was so mad. I got so frustrated,
and I kind of looked at the girl and she
was just totally oblivious to what was happening. I was like,
for real, so that I just had to voice some
(33:35):
that experience and now it's probably gonna happen to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I think we're going to get into a space in
the next four to five years where their ads like
in places that we've never had as before. Like I
think it's going to get to a point where we're
like seeing stuff in this sky floating. I mean, there's
like the little pop, but there's going to be like
stuff where it's like on the road signs, here's the exit,
but also here's an ad.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I do think it is. I'm not kidding well. I
think that's why I love Ruddy Player one so much.
So I look up like, honestly, probably our life this
is gonna happen in some former fashion and that ad space.
How he's like, oh, we can sell up to ninety
five percent of the view field without ruining their whatever. Yeah,
And I was like, this is gonna that, that's gonna happen.
(34:20):
They're gonna straight up put it everywhere, and I think
you're right.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah. I mean I was even watching football like it's
on Amazon on Thursdays now and during their commercial breaks
it's obviously Amazon based commercials, and it's like, here's this
product here scanned this QR code and by this it's
just and they.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
All have QR codes, so like they get you that
way because they're like, here's your use it for your phone.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Stupid. The Amazon thing is weird to me, like watching
things on Prime and how they haven't really done it
so much yet, but how much they're integrating, like buying
things from Prime while you're watching things on Prime. I
feel like we got so used to like this big
corporation also being in like media like so easily, Like no,
this is where we get like toilet paper and like
(35:04):
random house things.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
The lines have gotten very blurred.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
And now they're making really great TV shows and showing
life sports. They're gonna start selling us the stuff we're
getting to our house.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yup. Oh it's so true though. Okay, that was my
only rant for the day. I had to voice that.
Thank you for a lot. Although now I really need
to adapt your shopping strategy because of what's about to happen,
because I really will be like I'll just feel bad.
I'm like, okay, I'll buy it. Just get it out
of my face, you know, like I panic. It's kind
of like when somebody goes to to they hand you
(35:36):
and they're holding the credit card reader and it has
the tip on it and I panic and I'm just like, nah,
that one. Just don't look at it. I don't know,
just press the big button.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That one always makes me feel bad.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
It does when they're straight up holding it and you
can tell that they see it and you're like, uh, okay.
This happened to me at a plant store, Mike. I
tipped a plant lady. She didn't do anything. There was
a zero help that I received, And I said, this
plant lady twenty percent because I panicked. It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah. I feel that at some places where I go to,
where like a smoothie place where yeah, you can have
your smoothie made maybe tip on that. But you also
can grab things that you just grab them like that's
already ready and pay for it, but they still have
the tip line on there, like I wouldn't grab it.
It's just like a bottle of water, Like it feels weird.
It feels weird to say no, but you did nothing.
You just scanned it.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I know when they're watching you, it's like their eyes
are on you, like they know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
The last one that happened to me is I went
to a like a drive through car wash and they
have somebody who like comes around and like does a
pre scrub before you go through an automatic car wash,
and they're like, do you want to tip the scrubber today?
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Well, they now asked you to tip the scrub and
I was like, You've been doing that forever for free.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I've never really thought of like tipping that person, but
now there's a pressure to tip that person. And if
I don't tip that person, because I'm looking at it
right now and they're gonna scrub my car, I feel
like a jerk. So I still tipped them a dollar,
but it's like, oh, that's that seems like an added
service to entice me to come to your place because
you add this little thing to it is.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
And it's crazy when you think about because you're like,
now a ten dollars car wash has now turned into
a twenty dollars car rush because of all the different
tips that you have to do. Yeah, that's what it
gets to the point of, right, it just keeps like
piling on. That stresses me out. It makes me not
want to come.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Out of my house exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And this is why everybody buys uff online now because
nobody wants to go to the store and have those interactions. Okay, well,
you know, just watch out for the ads on the
registers when you go to places. Okay, we're gonna wrap
this up. Mike, Thanks for joining things, for being vulnerable
talking about friendships.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
There's a lot of different areas of conversation in this day.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I like to go lots of different ways, and I
really appreciate you just coming with me on them, but
being vulnerable talking about what's going on in your life
and also voicing our frustrations with ads.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, we had the whole range of emotions today. We did.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
We were inside out basically all of them came to play.
They were pressing buttons. All right, tell the people where
they can find to hear you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
You can find my podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast wherever
you listen to podcasts. Coming up this week, I have
Freddy Krueger on, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The guy who played him, did he wear his mask?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
He did not. But it's the fortieth anniversary of the
first Nightmare on Elm Street movie, So I had Robert
England on to talk about like the whole making and
behind the scenes of that movie, which is really cool
for me because that was obviously one of my favorite
horror movies growing up. I'd put it in like the
top three of all time, and like to have somebody
who is so iconic and also like the face of
(38:32):
a horror franchise which you don't really have, Like Michael
Myers has a mask, Jason has a mask, Chucky as
a doll.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Oh, Freddy Kruger doesn't have a mask.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
He's like has makeup on. But like when you actually
see him, you're seeing the character Freddy Krueger. All those
other characters is just completely different people. Okay, So it's
like a whole different level of fame that he dealt
with that.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
We talked about that's so cool. That's a huge git, like,
that's a great interview, I imagine.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, that was awesome, and it was hard to do because,
as I imagine it, like forty years everybody has asked
him everything possible, so I had to kind of find
a way to ask him things in a different way
so it'd be like, oh, that was interesting. And he
gave me like a cool compliment at the end of it,
so you got to listen to check it out.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
You better, you better kept that compliment in Oh yeah, okay,
I was posting that teaser, like check out what he said.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
I'm good I did that.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
That's so fun. Okay, go follow Mike d listen to
movie Mike's Movie podcast and you can follow me out
web girl. Morgan and I have a podcast out. We
kind of talked about the friendship Coach, but I had
Morgan number one on recently. We talked it's a hilarious
conversation between two friends about dating, life, relationships, all that stuff,
and lots of funny clips came on the point, all right,
(39:45):
we're getting out of here.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Bye, everybody, bye. That's the best bits of the week
with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out
the other two parts this weekend.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
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