Mike D Gives Something in NYC 5/5 & Morgan’s Deep in Her Long COVID Detox

Mike D talks all about his trip to New York City and why it’s his favorite city. He gives something he saw in the city his first ever 5/5. Morgan is a week into her long COVID detox and she’s feeling proud of all the things she’s implemented in her life. And of course, did Mike D finally join a run club or make a friend?? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan part one
behind a scene with a member of the show.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's another Best Bits weekend, and Mike d joins me.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
What's up, Mike Dear, Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thanks for being here.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
We got all kinds of things to talk about, but
the first being that when you were on vacation, y'all
went to New York City.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, I want to hear all about it.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I think it's my favorite city in the whole world
because it is the city. Like you can love cities
and go visit other cities, but New York City is
like the mecca. It's the city of.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Cities, Okay, And why is it to you though, the
city of cities?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Because I feel like everybody has a different reason for that.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
For me, as a kid in New York City seemed
like it didn't exist. It only existed in movies. And
I never envisioned myself even going to New York City.
And the first time I ever went was because of
this job in like twenty seventeen, maybe I was probably
twenty six years old, and I was like, I gotta
go see Times Square, And I remember walking into Times

(00:59):
Square and having this euphoric feeling of like like I've
made it, even though I haven't made it. It just
felt in that moment like even though I was surrounded
by advertisements, which is really all times square is Isn't
that funny? Yeah, it just felt like like going to
an amusement park as a kid. It was like all
those feelings of whenever I'm in New York City, I

(01:20):
feel like I'm important, and I feel like everybody there
has a purpose. No matter if they're working at a bodega,
they're working at working in Broadway. Everybody there feels like
they have a purpose. Everything feels meaningful. So I just
love going there.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's a really good point, even you just saying that,
I'm like, you know, no, I feel like a kind
of live in New.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
York City for a moment, just to have my moment.
And you guys saw Wicked on Broadway.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, I'd never been to Broadway before, never seen any
kind of musical at that level, and it completely changed
me because I love the movie, and I think when
it comes to what I like about movies are ones
that use practical effects because I think it looks better,
a just better, And this was almost taking that to
a whole other extreme because everything that you see is

(02:07):
somebody operating it. It's a real life prob there's no
special effects. It all happens in that moment. All the
actors have to be perfectly on pitch, they have to
nail their lines. It's just crazy to see something so
well orchestrated also be so just like perfectly on every

(02:27):
mark because they can't make mistakes. Like I forget that
I'm watching real life people because it feels so precise.
It feels like I'm still watching the movie, but they're
actually they're doing it live.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Are you about to become theater mic instead of movie Mike?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
That would be hard for me. And it's also like
I feel like I watched the best one, Like I
started with the best one, so then.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's like they're still Hamilton.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, there are still there's some I want to see.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
It's just you did start with the Mecca.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, I started with like the best ones, so I
feel like it's gonna not that there there could be
better ones, but I feel like my expectations now are
really high. But I do want to see more now
that I've experienced it, because much like movies, like you're
not going to forget that experience.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Okay, So what would be your rating of Wicked the musical?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I would get, well, I've only seen one.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's okay what I've seen that experience.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
There's nothing I would change about the experience. The theater
we saw it in was like a bigger theater with
comfy seats. So I was worried about that because some
of them are like older theaters and you're like really
small seats next to somebody. But it was comfortable. The
performance was amazing. Now that I know what happens in
the second part, it's kind of like it spoiled the

(03:43):
second movie for me. That's why I didn't want to
watch it Initially. I was like, a people have been
seeing this play for a very long time, Like you're
just gonna have that spoiled.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
But it's no different than somebody reading a book and one.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, that's that's what I compared it to you. I
was like, if you read the book going into a movie,
Now I kind of know what to expect, but it
does have me more excited. Part two, I think I
gotta give it a five five really exciting because there
is a moment when it's in the first movie whenever
Cynthia Revo sings that big line that everybody was doing, like,
I felt that in my gut seeing that live, like,

(04:15):
I got addly emotional for no reason, and it was
just it was just singing.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, very much.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
So I can't believe you gave it a five out
of five? Have you ever given anything five?

Speaker 1 (04:25):
But I feel like that's something I'm gonna remember forever,
and since it does have already the historic value of
it's been around for a long time, it's well renowned,
there's a movie about it. I think that's that's as
high as you can get.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
All Right, Well, there you have it, five out of five.
Go to the mesicle. What else did you guys do
while you were in New York?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
We see we kind of figured out that we like
vacations where we kind of don't have a plan but
do have a plan and are just moving the entire time.
Because our last vacation it was a lot of downtime
and chill time, which I think we need did at
that time of just to break away not think about things.
But I ended up thinking about things like IP because

(05:06):
when you're hanging out by a pool, you're still on
your phone and you're still kind of connected with social media.
So what we like about New York is we are
doing things the entire time, pretty much walking, Like we
put in so many steps walking and I think that
allowed me to disconnect more than it would going to
like a beach or going to somewhere where you're supposed

(05:26):
to quote unquote relax. Like that is more relaxing to me,
And I think it's because I do have like an
overactive brain where I'm just constantly going.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
You have to do other things to distract you from
the original.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Like you have idle hands, yet that you have a
fidget spinner, so you have some kind of control over
your body. So I think that was kind of the
in between for me because it wasn't a relaxing vacation,
which I think you can probably attest to that, Like
when you go do a bunch of stuff and go
to a bunch of places, it's not relaxing in the
sense of like you come back well rested, but you
do so much that it feels worth it.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, I come back recharge from those because I have
like a new sense of adventure. Is really where the
recharging for me happens, Like there are people who'll go
to a beach and be like.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh man, well I just needed all that relaxing.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I'm like, no, I need you to like reinvigorate me,
because right now I feel like there's no purpose to
my life. And when I go on an adventure like
you going and walking around New York City, I feel
like I get like that click again to be like, Okay,
this is what makes life worth living kind of thing,
not saying.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
That it's like, you know, life isn't living.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
That's how I felt.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, but it's very much like this click where I'm like, Okay,
this is what makes it all worth it.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
This is what I try and do and spend my
time for.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, it's like if I didn't have to work a
job and earn money and keep a home, like this
is what I would be doing, Like this would be
all the fun things because you forget about all that. Yeah,
you're like, oh, I'm just going I'm not going to
figure out when I'm gonna eat, where I'm gonna get coffee,
what the next meal is going to be, what the
next plan is going to be, and then you don't
think about normal stuff like paying bills and oh yeah
I'm owing your lawn. Gosh.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's why I also always think about Europeans because whenever
I've been over there, they always just are so relaxed
and they don't really worry about the paycheck to paycheck,
you know, they just.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Get to live their life that all the time. And
I'm like, dang, what's that?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Like?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
I speaking to Europeans, they have it down with the transportation,
because like in New York, we took the train, and
it's just so much easier. It's so much faster because
we took like an uber from the airport to our hotel.
It's like an hour about the same distance in a train,
it took like twelve minutes.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I know.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I wish we had subway stations and subways all over
the country, like ever since I've ever I did.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
I wrote them in New York.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Heck, I even rode a train from Boston to New
York City and I was like, that was cool.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I could go to another city on a train.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Or when we were in Paris, when we were in Barcelona,
we were always doing everything by subway.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
And I'm so jealous that they get to commute that way.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's awesome because you get in you don't think about it,
then you just end up. I mean, in some time,
it takes a little bit longer than it would if
you drive, but it's just so much easier.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh yeah, and you don't have to worry about parking.
You just get a pass and you're always on it.
You can go anywhere and anywhere that you'd ever want
to go.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Because you have access to it.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I wish, yeah, I wish they did that more in
other places. What other places in the US have a
subway system?

Speaker 1 (08:21):
New York is the only one I can think of.
I know, they just built like a new train that's
starting to operate between some cities that haven't had one,
like California just got When they goes to lax for
the first time ever in everybody's like.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Welcome to right, Like so crazy? La is the other
big city And why doesn't La have a subway system?
I think Chicago has a tramway.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
I don't know sub trains in Chicago. You've taken a
train to a White Sox game.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Okay, so I know there's some But yeah, isn't that wild? Yeah,
I'm with you, And maybe it's says we don't live
it every day. And then people who do are like,
this is disgusting. I don't know why you do this,
but every time I see a somebody like, we're taking
this away, I'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's kind of confusing.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
The first time I was ever on a subway was
in New York City, and I was very much like
how does this offer?

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, we had to ask a guy like, hey, how
did we get to this straight? Because it is confusing.
They're all just name weird things and you're like, oh,
you got to go to this one and get to
that one and then go here, Like.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, you have to be at the right entry point
to get to where you want to go, which also
didn't know try doing that in a different language.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, that was very That was very interesting for us.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
I was just like following us on the map, hoping
we made it to our right destination.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's so fun. Okay, top three moments of your New
York trip.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Uh, So we went to I'll put the two baseball
games at number three. We went to a Yankees game
a Yankee Stadium and a Mets game at City Field.
Of those two, city Field was so much better, really,
like the Yankee Stadium was more iconic, like walking up
to it felt like, oh, this is cool, but once
you were actually in there's a little bit like underwhelming.

(09:55):
It's interesting. He felt very like corporate and like okay,
you're like the best team in well as far as
like how historic you are. But the vibes in there
just were right, Like the fan base wasn't there. We
didn't have that much fun at the Yankees game, even
though the actual game we saw was better there. The
vibe at City Field was just so much better. It
was easier to get to. We just took a train,

(10:17):
shoots you out right by the stadium. You walk up
and there's just more of that environment. I think it's
because their fans are probably just a little bit more passionate.
The overall just atmosphere there was better, and the food
was better. I found vegan nachos. You can't find that
anywhere at a at a sporting event. They had all
kinds of food, which apparently there's like some chef who
operates all their like food business and you can find

(10:39):
like anything there that's cool.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
See, the food changes the game, especially when you have
dietary restrictions. When you can find a place who really
has thought of everything, it does put it above other
places for that reason.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Because we got there like an hour before the game started,
just so we'd have time to eat and sometimes, like
I struggle to find stuff at a sporting event, but
there was so much to choose from and it was
really good.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Where is city?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Feel that?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
What city?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's like, H can't remember it now, but it's kind
of out by the airport.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, La Guardia, Yeah, it's out by that way.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I forget.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
I know they have multiple air forces, so I don't
know if that's the right one. That's the only one,
like I can think, I'm off the top of my head.
But okay, well that's cool.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
That's number three.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
That's three. So we checked off two more baseball fields
in our journey to go to all thirty. So I
think we've we've been to six now.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Okay, six is still strong.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
At number two, I would have to say Midtown Comics,
which is my favorite comic book store in the entire world,
because you walk in there and it just feels like, man,
this is where like all these superheroes live in my
mind because they're all like based in New York City.
You walk in, there's like a big Superman statue. It's
a really historic place, like a lot of Marvel actors

(11:52):
will go there for like signings whenever their movies come out,
like Anthony Mackie was there earlier this year. So for me,
I just like going in thinking, like, man, somebody could
show love and be here.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
But they have a bunch of like cool new comics,
and they have like old, like historic comics that are
like ten thousand dollars, like the first appearance of certain characters.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Did you buy an expensive comic while you're there?

Speaker 1 (12:11):
No? The one I wanted was like the first ever
X Men, and yeah, I think it was like ten
thousand dollars. So I'm like, I'm good on that.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's brutal, But did you buy any at least.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I got some new comics? And then I just kind
of walked around. They have like it's like a two
story place, so like downstairs is all comics and then
upstairs is all collectibles. So that's my favorite place to go,
just because it's it's cool. It's in New York City,
And if ever I need a comic that I can't
find and here, I'll order it from their website just
to know that it comes from them.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Does your wife, Kelsey, have any interest in any of
that stuff with you.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
She likes how much I like it, and she helps
me pick out comics. She'll be like, oh, do you
have this one? And I'll be like, no, I don't,
and I'll get that one. So she likes helping me
look for things and tries to find things that she
knows I like, and I think that part makes it fun.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh yeah, that's sweet.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
And like with the collectibles too, Sh'll find things and
be like, hey, look look at the Spider Man. That's
a cool I'm one that actually is cool. I like
that she.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Knows your interest in what you're looking for. Yeah, so
that helps.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Speaking of were you jealous about Loveboxing and Spider Man?

Speaker 1 (13:18):
The craziest thing is whenever I first saw them filming,
like my head immediately went to, oh, they're filming at
New York City. We're about to go to New York City,
and then I realized it was in another country. And
then seeing his footage, like that's all I was watching
that week, Like my feed was just all these Spider
Man angles and to know that he was there, I know,
and saw Tom Holland, or at least Tom Holland's brothers

(13:39):
stunt double in there like that was crazy.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's how I felt too. I mean, I don't you
have the deeper connection to Spider Man, which I did
see you post one time your Spider Man tattoo. Yeah,
it's super cool. I was freaking out just for the
Marvel aspects. It's to be near a major Marvel movie
filming would have been insane.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's just I mean, that's a historic thing to witness,
because just all the shots from that filming look amazing,
and I want to know how I can't wait to
see how that fits into the story. And now I know,
like Lunchbox was there witnessing that.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
I know, I knew both of us were gigging out
of it like all people, but you got to see
it really so funny, Okay.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
And then number one.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Spot number one was wicked. That was just the out
of all the days, that was like the only event
we had planned for that day, And I'm glad we
did it that way just because it all kind of
led up to that moment. It was perfect. And I
think out of everything we did on this trip, that'll
be the one thing I probably remember the most.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Will you be going back for more? Musicals.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yes, I made a list, like I want to go
see the Book of Mormon, which is from the South
Park guys. Yeah, and I want us to go see
something that's probably Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
I feel like you have to see Hamilton. That's another
like up there. But Book of Mormon is when I've
heard of a lot, so it's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
And then my wife is seeing Hamilton. He's also seen
not Jersey Boys, the Outsiders, which is based on the book.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh, you could also go see Lion King.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
That one, yeah, I would like to see that.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Mulan Rouge would be a good one.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
There's also the Harry Potter the Cursed Child.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Oh my gosh, you could have seen what's his name
the actor because he was.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Was he honest?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Please saying it. My brain is not working right now
in this moment. Uh. What's the bad kid in Harry Potter?

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Draco Malfoy.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yes, that actor, he was in the Broadway musical and
he was Therelton. Yes, thank you. My brain was not
going there. I had to get there, not operating.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
He was there doing the musical. I think when you guys.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Were there, maybe, yeah, I know that music is like
four hours plus maybe.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
But it'd be so cool. It would see like Harry
Potter too, don't you. Yeah, that would be awesome.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
But I don't know that he's doing it full time.
I think he was just doing it as a special
guest appearance for a couple months and then he was done,
so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Maybe he'll go back.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
So those are all Yeah, those are all on my list.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah a lot.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Now now not just baseball fields, but now, how many broad.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Musicals can you guys? See? Okay, we're gonna take a
quick break.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
We'll be right back, all right, anything else to note
of your vacation before we start talking about some other stuff.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
I just love New York. I came back exhausted, like
I was physically exhausted, because while we were there, it
never really hit me. I just like I went for
a run a couple runs in Central Park, which I
also love because every time you go to Central Park
to run, it feels like you're running a marathon because
you see so many people there who look like freaking athletes,
like they're dudes, like in groups with like the short

(16:45):
short runner shorts that you're like, dude, I know that
guy is logging like sixty to seventy miles a week,
and there's just that atmosphere. Even though it's not an
official race, it feels like it and it's cool to
see that many people doing things outdoors in a city
where there is no outdoors, Like it literally goes from
all city and then there's this giant park and then

(17:06):
all these people like bike riding with their dogs. It's
just it feels so alive and like, I don't even
like those runs don't even register with me as far
as like I don't even get tired because I'm just
taking it in the entire time.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
You have a lot of things to look at.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Use your mind back, you know. It's funny.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
When I was you were talking about how many steps
you guys walked.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
I was looking at.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
My watch after we were in Universal and Disney. We
walked forty seven miles in four days.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's how much like we walked. Did you ever do
you ever look at your after You're like, no, I
know I had a long day.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
I don't look at the mile equivalent, but I know
we were hitting like forty five thousand miles. I mean
forty five thousand step step forty five thousand miles.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
No, you know superhuman right now? That's crazy, isn't that wild?
That in a normal day, that's what people normally do. Yeah,
in places like that, but more like here and I
barely hit like two.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Thousand steps those ten k here.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Speaking of running and run club, do you know, yeah,
did you join a rub club?

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Have you made club.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
That's a different club we don't want to.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Have you joined a run club? Or have you made
a new friend anything updated in that space?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
No, I've been lurking in the shadow still of the
run group. I can't even say a run group, say
rub club of the run group I would been looking
to join, but no I have not.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Why are you still working in the shadows?

Speaker 1 (18:34):
I don't know, but you.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Got to give me something more than I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
The club that I look at that they're called like
we're not really runners, and I feel like i'd feel
the best in that one because it's people who just
like I don't even consider myself a runner, Like I
know runners, like runners who are like really good and
fast and they're they probably did track in high school
and like are more competitive at it. I never really
feel like I'm a runner, just because I don't feel

(19:01):
like I have that same mindset, like like I'm not
that fast, but I I identify more with the people
who do it more as like a recreational thing and
more for like a mental health thing. I get that
That's kind of where I'm at now, Like I don't
do it to be the fastest or the best, or
to compete, even though I do get quietly competitive with
people who don't realize I'm competing with them on the trail.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
That's a different competitive aspect.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, but the runklov I look at that. They're called
like we're not really runners because they're like, hey, we
just do this for fun. We're not competitive here. Some
people walk, some people run slower. And the thing that
keeps me from going, which is probably the thing I
need to push myself on, is like before and after
they start, they have like one on ones where you
just like talk to somebody, and I'm like, I can't

(19:47):
do that. How you make a friend? I know? But
they literally like they all get in lines and then
you're standing across from somebody and I guess, I don't know,
you do some exercise or something.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, at least that takes out the awkwardness of like
forcing a conversation there you just are like, okay, this
is what they do, and you're staying there. Hey, how's
it going.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I think that's less awkward than you having to force
someone on one with somebody.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, but that just that sounds like torture to me,
because I'm so mad at like, like, I don't think
people realize how hard it is for me to speak
to someone I don't know and to not be inside
my head and to form like small talk. Like I
like small talk, I cannot do because I am so
comfortable with not saying anything that it makes other people

(20:33):
very uncomfortable. Because I could say two things and be
like all right, I'm good, Like I don't need to
move this conversation along. I don't need to respond to anything.
It's hard for me to follow up in normal like
interactions with people. I guess I'm in that sense, very
matter of fact and like that's it, all right, cool.
I'm not here, and even I hate myself for it,

(20:56):
Like I'll run into people here in this building at
like in like the kitchen, and like I try to
be friendly and I got nothing here.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Man, I don't think you should hate yourself for it.
I do think you have people who are more skilled
at just randomly talking to strangers. I don't think there's
anything wrong with that, but I do think in order
for you to make the friend that you would like
to make, you are going to have to put yourself
out of that comfort zone.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, I know, like I know I need to do.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
You could just say to that friend be like, listen,
I really hate small talk, but I'm trying to make
some friends and I'm trying to do bad and maybe
that's going to break an iceberry. Maybe the other person's
be like, you know what me do? And you guys
can start talking about something else. But you'll never know
unless you try that. Yeah, and you could do this
one time, Mike, and you could hate it and be like,
I'm never going back, and you know what, but at
least she did it.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
You know what's the worst that?

Speaker 3 (21:49):
What's the worst thing that could happen of you going
to one of these what's the worst thing that could happen? Uh?

Speaker 1 (21:56):
In my head, I go, I get paired up with somebody,
I have nothing. I mean, I guess I'll have one
thing in common with them, which is the easy part,
but that I'd kind of be like a dud.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Okay, but how are you ever going to work on
those skills unless you're adud?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
At one point, It's true. I guess I've also just
gotten so comfortable and like not interacting with people that
I'm like, do I still need it at this point?

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Every person not only needs friendship, but they deserve friendship.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
You deserve to.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Have people in your life that are not work related
or your wife. That is a that is a natural
human need, and yes, you do need it because especially
as you get older. What's really interesting is, as like
talking especially to a lot of the seniors, you lose
a lot of friends over time, and one thing that

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people crave the most is connection. And as you get
older and life happens and you lose maybe you lose
your partner, or maybe you lose your kids, any number
of things that could happen, and god forbid it ever
does you never want it to. But you need to
have multiple different community connections so that you don't ever
have to feel that moment of loneliness. You always feel

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like you have somebody or something, and the only way
to do that is creating them.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
So yes, you need them. It's a necessity for every
human being.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
And you also because you just deserve to have friendship
because you're a great guy, Mike, like you deserve to
have friends.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
The only thing stopping you from having friends is you.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
So yes, you need it, and I think you can
do it.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think you just have to one day go and
not think twice about it and just say, you know what,
the worst that happens is i'ma dud and that's okay.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I can live with that. Can you live with that?
I feel like you could.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
I mean I already kind of live with it.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
So maybe yeah, you'd be like, Okay, well I didn't
do that great there, But maybe it might spark you.
Because of how determined you are and you're a hard worker.
I feel like you'd be like, Okay, how can I
do better next time? I feel like that spark will
be lit under you if that happens. But I don't
think that's what's gonna happen. I really don't, especially because
most of the people that do go to those.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Things are trying to make friends. So you're gonna try
and create a conversation, You're gonna try and.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Pull out all the stops that you pull. This is
what happens at those kind of events.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I've been to them.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna be like, what kind of running shoes
do you have?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
That's fine? Like those are cool? Where did you get those?

Speaker 3 (24:25):
And it might like spark a conversation about a collection
of shoes. You could be like, I have a special addition,
Spider Man, and then you guys start talking about Spider Man.
Maybe you find somebody else who loves Spider Man.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
I am going to the re release of Spider Man two.
That's my like, man, could I find a friend here?

Speaker 2 (24:40):
You could, but you have to talk to them.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
You can always find a friend in any scenario, but
you have to be willing to talk to him.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's something that every also. Mind you, most people are
afraid of that. That's not just a you thing.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, because for me, I mean it's not like a
recent development. This has been me my entire life. That like,
that is like the one thing I envy with people
of like being able to go into a situation where
they don't know anybody, like go to a party and
like have like an instant connection with people to where like, hey,
you guys want to hang out tomorrow, like I've never
had that, and I was like, dang, I envy those

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people because I have people in my life who are
like that, probably more so family. But like Eddie is
somebody who could just go to a party where he
knows nobody and make friends with three people.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
M hm, but you could be you have the choice
to do that. And also, most people don't have instant connections.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
I will tell you, Like most people will say they're
going to hang out the next day, they never do.
That happens a lot, So the instant connection thing is
kind of it's very rare.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
That part is very rare.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
But you could easily go and make a new friend
that if you're intentional, you could see again. But it's
all about the intention most people will go. Especially I
can only say this about Eddie because I can say
it about myself. I'm the same way, Like I'll go
and meet people be like yeah, yeah, we should get
to get you.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Just say it because that just it feels right, It
feels natural and not of like any ill will.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'd love to see him again, I just am I
probably gonna put the effort to seeing a stranger again.
Probably not, but every so often there's that one moment
where it clicks. You're like, yes, I'm gonna make the
point to see this person again, and that might happen
for you.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
You see why dating was so hard for me?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yes, but you also did it? Do you think about that?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Like, that's how I think about how I was more
ambitious in my in my mid twenties and like when
I really because I didn't really even start dating untill
I was. I mean I lost weight probably when I
was twenty five. That's when I really started. I never
dated before that. I was just more ambitious than into
like I'm only gonna get better at this if I

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go on more dates. But up until I met my wife, like,
I had no second dates ever. Ever, So this is
telling you my track history of like this that was
also me practicing yeah hard and not forming connections with people.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Okay, so it's like I get it.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
This is I'm also not coming from like I know,
I don't I haven't made any advancements lately to try
to make friends. But I'm also using my data when
I was dating, how hard it was just to go
on a second date with somebody like that is I'm
applying that information to what I would do now, and
I've only gotten weirder and more isolated.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay, how about we reframe this because you're missing a
key part of that information because you did put yourself
out to date you met your wife. You would not
be married today with an amazing wife if you didn't
decide to put yourself out there. Okay, key information that
you're leaving out of the equation. When you're thinking about

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all these like non second dates. You had a second
date that turned into your wife. Also, you're trying to
convince yourself that like the worst thing is going to happen.
And you're more into who you are than you've ever been.
So when you say weirder and you have all these
other things, you're just more who you always wanted to be.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
And that means you're more confident. You're more secure about
who you are. Am I wrong in that you know
who you are?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
My wife says, since I've gotten my new tooth, that
I've gotten a little too confident.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Bad. I don't know the situation here, but good.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
But you're now more confident than ever and that means
you're going to be easier to make friends because you
know who you are and you know what you're looking
for in a friend.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
I think you've.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Only put the bad data into this conversation with yourself.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's true. I'm a man of data. Though.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Okay, well there's other data that you're leaving out that's
good data.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
So I'm trying to help you.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Remember there's multiple data. I get you because I love
data too. I love looking at things and be like, well,
this is the information that I've received, this is what
I've experienced. But even I had to do that after
a crap done, a bad relationship.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Heck, the fact that I could believe that.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
There was even another good guy out there was like
didn't exist. Good point, But I still kept trying, you know,
because like, okay, well there's a little bit of data
that proves otherwise. And I really had to hang on
to that good data to be like this little slipper
of hope, to be like, no, this is what makes
it worth it. Just like we were talking about with
going to cities, this is what makes it worth it,

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just saying the good data.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
The good data.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
You gotta bring in the good data to start one,
and you gotta like hold on to it with a
vengeance that like that good data is what's worth it.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
I think you can do this, Mike. I have no
doubt that you can. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
I mean obviously I have my doubt, but I think
I can do it too.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
See, but you just listen. My boyfriend does this to
me every time when I go to work. He's like,
you can do hard things.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
I'm like, nah, I really don't alloway.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
And I'll be like, yes, you can. This is gonna
be a good day.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
You you got hard things, but it's gonna be great,
and you have to change. I have a lot of
negative self talk that I'm trying to rewrite the narrative on,
which is something that.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
You have to do too.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I mean, self talk can be positive exactly.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Supposed to be, and we're just mess ourselves up a
little bit, you know. So you gotta reframe it in
a different way, and I think you'll be able to
at least take the first step. And if you never
do it again, fine, but at least you can say
that you did it and you tried.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
How often in life do you look back and be
like I wish I did this.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah a lot.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, stop stop looking back on your life in which
you did it. This is our monthly bi monthly time
where I encourage Mike to do this.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
One of these times, he's gonna come back on and
be like I did it, And I'm gonna hold out
hope for that.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah one day.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
See, I'm holding onto the slipper. This is what we do. Okay,
we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
You want to talk about like going into a complete
hole and just not socializing and stuff, Mike, That's what
I'm doing right now. How so, Well, I started like
the official detox cleans to hopefully get rid of my
long COVID.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
But if it's changed my.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Life a lot, what's the first step in that, Well, my.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Whole diet had to change, So no longer eating dairy,
gluten free was I'm I was already kind of doing
so no no dairy, no gluten, I'm not drinking any alcohol.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
This is going to go on for probably about two months.
Oh yeah, two months, yeah, strong shrink change happening here.
And I'm still vegetarian, so basically vegan, So.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I say we're pretty close. I eat gluten, but all
the other things I don't do.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, So uh there's that. And then now in all
of my waters. I have to put salt in my
waters because I really need to make sure I'm.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Hydrating normal table salt or like I pist sea.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Salt because it makes me feel like, you know, I
don't know, like it's a little bit free year.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know. I'm talking about the little like flake easy saungah.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, that's why I put into it, because it helps
with hydration when you're he's going through a lot of changes.
I have to do a sono mat once a day,
so I have to lay in this mat and like
sweat my whole body off for fifteen minutes. I have
to do red light therapy every day, which is like
holding a red light, and I wear the funky you
know that you've probably seen them. You've probably never been
in one but a taining bed where you had to

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wear the tanning goggles.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
I have to wear like little goggles when I do
my red light.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
So I like to sit there and I like a
little alien doing my red light. I have to do
extended fast so once a week, I can't eat for
twenty four to thirty six.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Hours once a week for two months yep.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
For now, and that's my body.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
I pick Thursdays, that's like my day because it tends
to be my busiest for work.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
So I'm like, well, if I can keep myself busy
most of.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
That time, you don't think about it eating.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
I don't want to eat except now that like I'm
intentionally doing a fast.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Now all I want to do is eat.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
So it's a struggle, but it's it's supposed to be
this thing where your body after twenty four hours, your
body goes into a taphagy, which your heels, your heels,
I literally can't talk to that.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Your cells start to heal themselves.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
And if you're eating all the time and you never
give it a break, your body never has a chance
to heal.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
And that's the hope.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
And I'm taking a bunch of supplements that are detox
and a supplement to help get my smell Back's just
all kinds of things.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's a lot to put in and take out of
your body.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, there's a lot happening, but it's like and we
prepared it. Like I'm doing it with a woman.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Named Kara Clark.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
She had been on my Take This Personally podcast and
she was like, I can help you, Like I know
that I can tell you're struggling, and like I got you.
And so I finally got to a point where I
was like, I have to do this, Like I didn't
want to do Vertigo again, Like I hope in my
life I never have.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
To go through road to go again. That would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Even when we were at like Disney and Universal, I
kept being like, when's it gonna happen? Going on all
these rides. Is a vertigo gonna hit again? Because heck
you could get it folding laundry, let alone on a
freaking ride like that. And I want to be able
to smell again.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's been really cool not having to smell bad things,
but like, I'd like to smell good things again.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Be cool.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
And my lung capacity sucks. I can't run, you know.
I can't do a lot of things that I used
to be able to do. My brain fog is horrible.
It's like you're basically talking to Dory. Some days, I'm like,
I have no idea what you said five minutes ago,
and that never used to be me.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
So all of those things.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
I finally reached a point where I was like, I
have to do this, and this is significant lifestyle change.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Does you're not being able to smell effect how you
taste things. If you taste things.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Less, no, not less.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
But there'll be random moments where something tastes like soap,
like everything's normal, and then.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
I'll just be eating something.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I'm like, this dastes like cleaning solution, and I'll have
like my boyfriend or somebody who's with me try it
and they're like, yap definitely doesn't taste like soap. That's normal,
and I'm like, oh, so there's definitely things And I
can't pinpoint what ingredient causes that, because cilantro does. But
that's always been a thing for my life, so I
don't know if we just like really amplified that cilantrojan

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and made other things taste like soap. So very few
and far between, but it'll hit me randomly, so I
can eat mostly normal, and I don't know if that's
like my memory remembering foods that I've had, you know,
I don't know, but I try new things and it
doesn't do it, So it's weird. There's definitely like neurotransmitters
and like my you know how you have all the

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bunch of like little what are they in your I
told you my brain not working. You have a bunch
of like little sensors in your nose.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
I'm trying to think about other.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Things, smell things, sensors, receptors, whatever, all the things, but
it literally feels like they're dead. Like I can't feel
anything in my nose. It's like nothing exists. Like you
could take off my nose and I probably wouldn't know.
So that would be cool to feel my nose again
and just know that it exists and it's working operationally.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
So all of that and yeah, and also like you know,
my animals are going through it. So I literally have
like I'm like I don't exist to the world.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
I go to work and I go home, I have
to do all my stuff and I go to bed
at like eight pm.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
I mean it's a lot of stuff to do.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, That's where I'm not in my life right now.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Mike. It's like your entire body got out of alignment,
literally and it's just like been screwed up, like when
you're trying to like wobble something back into place.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
M h. And the only way to reset it one
is like majorly a lot of nutrition, which is like
the nutrition change, and then also just doing other things
to assist your body to quicker, like drain essentially the
COVID that's still remaining in my body, that's wreaking havoc.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I'm a whole system. That's where I'm at right now.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Mike. When you get sick, now, does it hit you
worse than it did before?

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Yeah, and it happens more often. Like I never used
to it sick. I would be completely fine, but now
it's like I always have allergies or I always have sniffles,
or I always have a cough.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
It's like I'm never fully getting better.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Eight You know when you get sick and you wake up,
when you're like, oh, it's finally gone. I can finally
feel this, this is everything's gone. Yeah, I don't ever get.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
To figure your bottom line is kind of changed as
far as your threshold literally.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
And oh yeah, I'm more like sixty probably, And I
just was functioning and so just sluggish and everything just
fell off.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
So it sucks though.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Like yesterday we had a tailgate party at work and
I used to.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Be able to cookies and brownies and I had to leave.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
I was like, I can't be in here because I
don't have self control quite yet I'm still like working through.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
I also feel like I'm coming off of.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
You know, when you eat sugar so much and you
come off of that, it's like your body doesn't know
how to react.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
I feel like I'm kind of in this like I
took something out of my body and it doesn't like it.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Kind of like like an attic would kind of of something.
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I remember that when I stopped
eating sugar where it was, it felt like my body
was like craving it and like kind of lacking in
that because that was like all I was giving my body,
and it's like, hey, where's the where's the sugar we
normally get.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Yeah, when you just like dead stop it, your body
like ah.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
And it's weird how your body adjusts to it, because
now I find things really sweet that aren't that sweet
at all. Like I'll have some fruit, I'm like, man,
that is so sweet, but it's probably bland to most people.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
No, but you know what, So Kara had told me this,
this was so interesting. She's like, when you reset your
body nutrition wise, like when you kind of take out
all the additives and take out all the sugar and
all these processed stuff, your body resets to what whole
foods taste like, and you like whole foods, because I
was describing to her like I would try a whole

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food meal sometimes. Most of the time, I was really
balanced with food, so I was still eating a lot
of whole foods and I'd go out to eat on
the weekends or something.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
But there would be times.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Where I'd put together like a whole foods meal and
I would literally like throw it back up because I
was like, Ah, that tastes horrible.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I don't like that.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
And she's like, your body is craving processed stuff because
it's been taught like that's what you're supposed to eat,
when in reality, like that bland food is what is
gonna actually taste better when this is all over, I'm like,
that's wild.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, I mean I think I am the opposite of
the way I was probably ten years ago, because like
ten years ago, like all I would eat was fast food,
and my body would just crave it. I would eat it,
and I'd feel better after that. Now I think it's
kind of the complete opposite, where like if I don't
have a vegetable in like a day or so, my
body's like, hey, what's going on here? And I like,

(39:32):
I don't even put fast food in my radar anymore.
I don't really miss it. I also don't really miss sugar,
Like i'd say, the only thing I miss is like
a greasy like cheeseburger, Like that's the only thing that
ever sounds good to me, like how you were saying
with like the cookies here, like I never really crave sweets.
For me, it'd be like, oh man, if I went
back to eating meat, I'd want like a cheeseburger. I

(39:53):
want like some chicken tenders and like a pizza.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Do you ever think about because obviously vegan has helped
you in the journey that you've been on, but do
you ever think about going back to eating meat because
meat isn't the worst of things.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah, Like my wife really wants me to, just so
we can make more meals together when we have. I
don't think i'd never probably go like I was never
big on red meat except for like fajitas. But I
think I would go back to like eating chicken and eggs,
which I mean I ate a lot of and I
liked mm hm. So I think the deal I made
with her is like whenever we have kids, like, I'll

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definitely go back just because it's going to be hard
to be a vegan and your kids want like chicken
nuggets in to go out to places where it's like, yeah,
I probably can't stick to veganism into being a parent.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
But you your body doesn't have a like turn out.
You just have done vegan because it's made you feel
a lot better.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, I feel a lot better, like you were saying earlier,
like I don't I don't get sick, Like I rarely
get sick. The only time I really get sick is
like at the end of the year, and that's more
of like a all right, done with this year. My
body can shut down from all the stress type thing. Yeah,
but I used to get sick a lot, Like I
would eat, I feel bad, and I wouldn't think, like
why do I feel bad. It's like, Oh, it's because
what I was putting in my body that I felt

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bad and my stomach hurt all the time. And I
don't really have that anymore. And I don't know if
it's just my diet or like the fact that I
do stay active, but like I'm like, I don't really
want to mess up with my balance here because I
just feel better, Like overall, I just have energy, and
I see a lot of people who are my age,
like all the memes of like once you get thirty,

(41:27):
all your things start creaking and you start like breaking down,
Like I don't feel that right now, and I'm like,
I'm not fighting it, but I don't feel that. And
if it's attributed to my diet and like my lifestyle,
I don't want to really change it.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
That's very much what she was saying too, was like
once you feel this way, once you feel how good
you feel, it will be harder for you to want
to consume anything else because you're just gonna want the
things that make you feel good.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
And that's crazy that like a reset like that can just.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Make you go back after years of just this wrong
diet and all these wrong things. It's crazy to me
how much that's such a factor and stuff. And I
know that's also different because you know, back in the
nineteen eighties and nineties, I don't think they were having
those same issues. Whatever's different now is obviously contributed to

(42:19):
a lot of what's in our food and stuff. But
it's crazy that our food is impacting us, that much.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
I mean, yeah, when I even think about like other
things about like my physical like I used to have
like really bad acne whenever I did eat like that.
And as soon as I started drinking more water, I
think it did wonders for my skin, Like just having
more just water in my everyday life. I think that
changed a lot too, not even just the foods I

(42:45):
was eating, but just reintroducing that and stopped drinking soda.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
M hmm.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
See, so you get it.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
You know all the things that I'm not all of them,
but you know a lot of the stuff that I'm experiencing.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
The only thing I can't imagine is not eating for
a day. Yeah that's hard. And I don't even want
to bring up how hard that would be for me
because you're going through it right now.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
I know.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
And I'm like thinking of trying to get through to
the thirty six mark and see if I could do that.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
I think I could if I'm busy enough.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Because I think that's something that maybe some people don't
think about me. But I eat a lot like I do,
Like whenever I do my long runs on Sundays, I
am a bottomless pit that day. But the stuff I'm
putting in my body is just stuff to fuel me.
Like that's kind of how I see food is like
I see it as energy. I see it as things
that are going to keep me going. So like, I'll

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eat a lot.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
And I want to get to that point.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
I don't want to be where you are because I
am such a foodie and I want to stay a foodie.
That will I don't know that that will ever change,
because I love trying new restaurants and stuff, but I
at least want to have the tools to know what's
happening when I'm consuming something.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
And I don't feel like I've ever quite had that.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
I like, I've known it, and you kind of have
these inclinations and you feel your body and making changes,
but I don't know that I had all the right
tools and resources to truly be like, oh, this is
what that's doing to my body. I mean, she walked
me through the whole like the whole body and how
each one works in your liver and your kidney and
all these different things, and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
What, why didn't they teach me that in school? I
could have used a lot of this information for my life.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah, I wish I would have known that like ten
years ago, because I went off like a few things
right on the internet, but there wasn't as much information
as there is now. There wasn't as many like experts
on TikTok that I could go and like get actual
advice from them. Because whenever I did lose all that
weight and then I started going to the doctor, they
were like, you lost how much on you like by yourself?

(44:35):
And they had to like run all these tests on
me just to make sure there wasn't like something wrong
with my body that attributed to me losing that much
weight in a year.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Oh, because you know what, what does that mean? I
haven't read a girl uh was weight by herself or something?

Speaker 2 (44:49):
You have you seen those?

Speaker 1 (44:50):
You probably have.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
It's probably not your I get that.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
It's always it's like a meme of like, you know,
people make fun of somebody for doing something or they
like can't believe they'd do and they're like, well, you know,
gosh forbid it, girl, work out.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
I don't know, but that's the that's what made me
think of that.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
But is that crazy that you had that experience where
you're like, no, I literally just started eating healthy and
they wouldn't believe you.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah, they thought I had like some weird issue or
maybe some illness that I was unaware of that attributed
to that. Oh, I was like, I don't think so,
you can check it out.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Even more admirable that you did all that too without
so many resources, and that you were just like, you
know what, I just needed to make this change. Also
that you were in your twenties and you made that decision.
I feel like that's something that a lot of people
make when they're fifty or sixty, and it's almost like,
well there's a lot of damage that's been done, and
you try and rewrite it, and you can. You really
put in the work and the effort, but that's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Mike.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
I'm you know, always impressed by your story.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
But that was I mean, yeah, that was kind of
the trajectory of my whole life of like I made
that decision to get healthy and lose weight, and then
once I lost it, there was this weird realization of
I thought it would fix everything, and it did it
because I was like, well, my teeth are still kind
of messed up, and that led me to that journey

(46:10):
and then it was like, Okay, I'm fixing my teeth.
Now I've been alone for like twenties whatever years at
this point. Now I got to move and try to
find somebody. So it's weird achieving something you've been trying
to achieve your entire life, and once you have it
and you realize it's not everything. It's hard, like getting
your dream job or you know, getting to your dream city.

(46:34):
Sometimes it's weird to get there and you realize this
would be different. I thought this fix all my problems.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
M hmm.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
There is very much a dream aspect to that, where
you think that if you could just do this or
you could just do that, everything will be okay. And
I think that's where a lot of people get caught
up living in more future moments of like well I
just got to get to this, or I just got
to do this, or I wish I would have done this,
or future when you have to force yourself to be

(47:03):
in the present and be like, no, I have to
be happy, Like you should have been happy for how
much you did for yourself and your health that a.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Lot of people don't do.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
And you took that step and that was a really
cool thing, and then like you know, okay, cool, Yeah,
now I'm ready to find somebody, and you start doing
it instead. It became this well, dang, I didn't think that.
You know, this would not fix everything. This should have
fixed everything.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
It's that's hard.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
I think a lot of people get stuck in that
trap of that living in past or future moments rather
than just that present moment and accepting it for what
it is and how awesome it is.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
I think it's also helped me not envy other people,
because sometimes I would I get jealous to people, which
I don't really do any more of, like see, like
somebody who gets an opportunity, like man, if I just
could have been given that opportunity, or if my dad
just happened to be the head of this company, like,
I would be so much more set in life. And
I think it's made me not compare myself to others

(47:58):
as much because I think, like everybody else is kind
of doing the same thing, and they probably all feel
the same way and feel like they're falling behind. Like
I don't have to envy where anybody else is. It's
not really good to change where I am. So I
think me feeling that of like achieving something that I've
been trying to achieve my entire life and then feeling
kind of like I'm not quite there yet. It made
me think like, oh, nobody has it figured it out,

(48:19):
and nobody probably feels great at where they are. Even
seeing somebody like like a Jelly Roll like headline in
a stadium, he's probably still like, man, that was cool,
but I want to headline a stadium in another country. Like,
You're never going to achieve like that top level for you,
so you kind of have to enjoy it and then
just focus on you.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Yeah, and not you said the key thing. Nobody has
it figured out.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Not a single person on this earth has figured out anything.
We're just all bumbling our way through trying to hope
for the best, and that's all we can do. That's
what life is, right. You have to enjoy the journey
because if you keep trying to chase the journey, soon enough,
you're gonna be ninety five.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Years old wishing you enjoy the journey little bit more.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
And nobody wants that. So that's a good place for
us to end on. Look at you, Mike, Yeah, see,
you can talk to people. I believe in this, and
I believe next time you come on you will have
joined a run club or at least gone and tried.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
That's my hope.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
I can at least try.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
You can try.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
See you don't want to be ninety five wish and
you did it differently, right. That's where we're ending this on.
Thanks for being here and thanks for hanging out.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Mike. Tell the people where they can find you.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Hear you, you can hear my podcast, Movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
New episodes every single Monday, spoiler free movie reviews. I
talk about new movies I'm excited about coming out, which
I just talked about a movie that I feel like
you would never watch. It's a horror movie from the
perspective of a dog.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
No no I saw I saw previous.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
I was like, there's no way Moregan can see this
because everybody's speculating what happens to the dog at the
end of the movie. I'm like, no, this is this
is not you.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
I wouldn't even make it five minutes into that the
dog is so cute.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Of course it's cute, and you know what, I'll see
it online. So just you can after every wee get off, Mike,
you can tell me what happens is I won't watch it.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
But yeah, go check it out.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
His podcast is awesome, especially if you want to check
out movies and things that are happening.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
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Speaker 2 (50:22):
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Speaker 1 (50:23):
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