May 2, 2026 • 45 mins
Mike D and his wife are moving, and he finally opened the box he’s been carrying with him for years… and he found some treasures! Morgan and Mike talk about their experiences with keeping things versus getting rid of them, and Morgan stepped back into the 2000s when she walked inside a retail store. Plus, they talk about their current interests by way of their FYPs on social media, and Morgan has a particular food she loves… but also hates.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Part one.
I hang a scene with a member of the show. Well,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
A happy weekend everybody, best bits time and this weekend
Mike d is joining me. What's up, Mike? What?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm back?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It feels good to be back. Everything's time is going
by really fast.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It always is. This week is a little bit like
messing with our brains because we did switch off with
you and Scuba in our life time frames.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It was earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is a little bit earlier, but only a week
because it was time still flying. But we need enough
tod because last time you were on a lot of
things were happening in your life at the time.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, there was a mysterious box that I needed to address.
We are in the process of moving, and I've had
this box probably over ten, maybe fifteen years, whenever I
first moved, I guess since I started, even when I
left my hometown and moved to Austin, I've just had
this box of stump that was like when I was
(01:00):
in a band. We would keep all of our merch
in it, and I guess it was the only good
box I had. So I've been filling it with things
for over a decade of my life, and then since
I moved into my current house, I have no idea
what was in there because it's been so long, moved in,
put in a closet and never looked at it again.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is it the same box or have you at least
transitioned the box.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, it's the same box because I wrote merch on it,
so it's an actual box we use for merch.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's funny. Okay, So did you go inside the box?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I did because I told you I thought of maybe
just throwing away the whole thing, because I was like,
I have to use it, and I haven't been in
there in seven years, probably don't need anything.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I did encourage you not to look in at Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But but glad I didn't just throw it away blindly,
because there was actually a lot of old pictures in
there that I had not I don't even know why
I have these pictures. They're like old family pictures, like
me as a kid. I found my sonogram.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait, Because before when you've
been on the best bits, you've been like, there's not
a whole lot of pictures of me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, I found a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This is where they've been hiding.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I thought they were at my parents' house. Apparently I
have them. I don't know where in my moves that
I got a hold of them. I don't know if
I took them on accident, but I had just stacks
and stacks of real pictures from disposable cameras and over
the years. Wow, like really like me, literally my Sonograham
(02:20):
where they wrote on it like hi mom.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's crazy. Yeah, I don't know emotional finding all of those.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I don't know why I have that. It was just
weird seeing me as a baby.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I think it's a Did you ask your parents about it?
Because sometimes parents want to keep all that stuff and
sometimes they wanted to go with the kids.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I didn't. I forgot to tell them about the sonogram.
I did tell them that I found a bunch of
old pictures, and she thought she my mom, thought she
had those pictures. I started sending her pictures of the
pictures and she was like, oh, yeah, I haven't seen
those in a while, So.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Is there any in there that you forgot existed? Because
again you had said, like, there's not a lot of
pictures of me. I haven't really seen a bunch.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So there's some of me with friends, which is crazy.
I forgot I had friends in the trailer park where
at the time when I was a kid, I was
super into wrestling, and I met other kids who lived
in the trailer park who were also super into wrestling.
So it's us like hanging out like there, we had
an old trampoline that it was completely destroyed, but we
(03:18):
just kept like the outer ring of the trampoline and
that was our wrestling ring. I totally forgot about this,
but it's like pictures of me and my friends standing
in front of the trampoline where we would wrestle.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Wait, would you guys do like masks and capes and
stuff too? Like I'm trying to think of what movie
that reminds me of, Like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Maybe one of my friends had a mask. But we
would just pick wrestlers and then have matches. Somebody would
be a referee, or we do three way matches.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And you were a wrestler, right. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So I had to explain to my wife, like why
I was doing these weird like our emotions dudes, because
I love the hardy boys and that's what they would do.
And every picture I'm freaking doing the hardy boys thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's wild. Does it make you want to pick up
wrestling again?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I mean, I still love wrestling. That was that was
my first dream of what if you ask me as
a kid, what do I want to be when I
grow up? It was a wrestler, and.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It was WWE because that's what you went and watched too, right,
it was.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
WWF at the time and it's now WWE. But yeah,
I was like, I'm going to go to wrestling school.
I'm going to learn how to be a wrestler because
I'd play the video game and you could create your
own wrestler, Like I'm going to be the risk Taker.
That was your name that you came. I just ripped
off the Undertaker, I guess, or Peacemaker.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Just somewhere in the middle. I mean, that's I feel
like a dream. You can still kind of chase if
you want to do.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I know, I watch a lot of wrestling documentaries. That's
not a good really, that's a hardcore profession.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now you know too much.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, the injuries are insane, the lifestyle is insane. It's
cool because everybody loves you and there's probably nothing like
getting that kind of crowd reaction. But the stuff you
don't see is yeah, pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So do you feel like you're glad that you didn't
chase down that?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't think I remember like fully committed to it.
I think soon after that I got into music, and
then my new thing was I want to be in
a band. So it was probably grades three through five
where I was like super hardcore about that, and then
a sixth grade I learned how to play guitar and
game over.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Isn't it funny how when we look back on the
things that we wanted to be as kids, they kind
of just developed very quickly over time.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What was your first thing?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
My very first thing I wanted to be was a
marine biologist.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I feel like we always go with animals as a kid, like.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, yeah, marine biologists. I wanted to be a zoologist,
a zoo keeper. I had a lot of like animal things.
I want to be a vet. At one point all
of those, I realized that I would have to deal
with the loss of animals and I was not prepared
for that.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And at that point where you're already not eating animals,
I was already a.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Huge animal lover. And yeah, I mean because I went
vegetarian at eight, So yeah, probably by the time I
was trying to decide what I wanted to do with
my life. That's I feel like six seven, eight, that's
where you is where they start to ask you what
you want to be, because up until that point.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You're just living your life, you know, cartoons.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, exactly, So I think I was already a vegetarian
and big animal lover at that point. But yeah, I
realized the other side of it pretty quickly that was
not a fit. And then I had senior actor a
news anchor, and then the news anchor one kind of stuck.
That's what kind of got me into journalism school.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You take like classes you oh yeah, news. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
In high school, I was part of like the broadcast
team where we do like the morning announcements. And then
in college I studied broadcast journalism. So I've i've full blown.
I even one of my internships, I was a news reporter,
Like I interned with the news station and I would
do my news beats. In college, I would do the
local news for our like college station, and that was
(06:51):
my whole plan, was a news anchor. And you know,
life didn't go down that path, so it stuck at
one point. I think once I hit high school, But
up until then I had a lot of different eras
of who I wanted to be for sure. Is there
any that you think would have stuck for you? What
was yours? Like? What was your last one to then
get to where you are now?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, I think before wrestler, I remember there was a
brief period where I wanted to be an architect. And
I don't even know why. I think I was like
in first grade, but I remember telling everybody I wanted
to be an architect because I wanted to design buildings
and I would like carry around like a little hammer
inside like the loop of my pants.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But that was just like Bob the Builder.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Maybe maybe I don't know. That was just some people
say firemen as a kid as that architect. Yeah, So
then it went to wrestler. Then I think for the
majority of my life I wanted to be in a
band and like tour and get on a record label.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Which you were still doing the band in high school.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, I did it through high school, and then when
I graduated high school, I moved from Walkstatchey to Austin
to pursue music, and I just happened to find the
internship on the radio show. I was doing those two
things at the same time, so I was still pursuing that.
I just kind of saw, like, I don't think I
want to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Do you think there's a part of you that would
ever go back to trying to do that? Now?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
If I would do it, it would just to be
just like to play for fun, like in a garage,
write some songs again. But I don't think I would
ever want to play shows again.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
M hmm, Yeah, that's fair. The just more of a passion, yeah,
like enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For in my head, it would be fun to like
reunite with my old band and like there was like
a group of bands that we all toured with and
just do like one show where it's basically just the
people who were in those bands attending the show. It's
not really a thing we do, but just like kind
of all perform for each other, Like that would be
like the only thing I'd want to do, like more
like a party where we all play music.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You don't feel like that would give you the bug
to try and pursue again.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, I don't think so. I just think that it
was such a grind to do, and we basically made
no money for so many years that I don't think
I would want to do it again to that extent.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that's fair. It's also fair as you get older,
you just realize the true sides of things.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I mean, I also haven't played guitar in like five years.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Like, that's wild that you also used to be a
pretty significant guitar player.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, Like I taught myself how to play. That's all
I would do. I would just play guitar, and then
I would say, probably until I moved here, is when
I kind of stopped playing. Like I played still like
the first couple of years I lived here, and then
just kind of stopped.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You're telling me you never played for your wife.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I did write her a song early on.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Did you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So that was probably around the tale, Yeah, because I
was still probably writing songs in like twenty eighteen, So
probably stopped fully in like twenty nineteen. Maybe picked it
up a little bit during the pandemic because there was
nothing else to do, and then since then I pick
it up maybe once or twice a year, But that's
about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's so cool. Did you record the song or did
you just play for it live in person?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I remember playing it for her over FaceTime, and then
I think I recorded it and sent it to her.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That's sweet. And then from there you really never mind.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And then even she kind of forgets that I played guitar,
like I haven't done it in so long.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Do you still have a guitar that you could play?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah? I have three, two electrics and one acoustic.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dang, Yeah, a lot, not just one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I mean that was my yeah. And like recently
there was My favorite guitar player is Tom DeLong from
Blnkelin eighty two, and he had this signature guitar that
I wanted so bad as a kid, but it was
like super expensive. And recently they did like a reissue
version of it, and I was so close to buying
it because I saw it on the rack. It was
(10:39):
like so close to be buying it. I was like,
I'm not going to play it. I was like, I
haven't played guitar in so long. Is this really going
to motivate me to want to play it again?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But it could be you love collecting things, that's true,
and that's a collector's item for sure. I would assume
especially in that genre.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
No, I mean it could be, but I think with
I mean, they reissue it and they make a bunch
of them, So I don't know if it's going to
have really any like collector value to it, but it
would be to me because for a long time you
couldn't even find that guitar.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, I just feel like it'd be a cool collection
on your and your videos that I see from your
podcasts set up. I feel like that would be a
cool add to that because.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That's kind of how I justify some things. I'm like,
I put in the background, it's a set beast.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It is. And I don't know, is that like something
that's super expensive?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That one? That was the other thing I saw it.
It was like on a pretty good deal and he
still did it do it was only like nine hundred
we still a lot of money, like nine hundred bucks,
but originally it was like fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Oh yeah, that's a great deal. You're almost like happy.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, that was the only thing. I was like, this
is such a good deal, Like why is this marked
down so much?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Your wife is gonna be like Morgan dot but you
should go back and get it.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I don't know if it's there anymore. But yeah, I
really I think. I don't even think I told her
when I saw it, really, so I said it to
my brother because he was like, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, And she was probably just like, you have three guitars,
what's this one? It's hard unless like you are a
person who understands which side of it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
She probably would motivate me to get it because she's like,
you never buy things for yourself. And she's like, if
something is cool, like you have worked hard, you can
buy it for yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That's probably why I didn't tell her, because then she
would convince me to do it, because I'm the one
who always talked myself out of buying something. Ever, I
don't like buying things. I don't really material things don't
really mean much to me. I'd rather spend money on experiences,
so I don't really get joy of owning just objects.
I'd rather do things. And I can always like just
(12:38):
it's so hard for me to justify it in my
head of like I'm gonna spend eight hundred dollars on this,
how many uses am I gonna get out of it?
If I only use it twice? That's four hundred dollars
of use. I always break it down by like.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Use, yeah, and in all fairness, like totally fair, because
I'm right there with you. I'd rather have trips and
experiences and spend money on life versus owning a bunch
of stuff. But something that's been part of your life
for so long. You definitely didn't text your wife because
you knew she was.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Going to encourage to do it. And I guess since then,
I kind of have been on like a search of
all like the childhood things that I didn't own, and
that's kind of been like my avenue of like collecting
things right now is like what are all the items
that I wanted as a kid and have never bought?
And I'm kind of on the search for those.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay, here's a little hail Mary moment. If it's still
there wherever you found it, I feel like that's a
sign that you're supposed to have it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm open to that. If it's still there and still
the same price and it wasn't a mistake.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Then you are supposed to own that guitar. That's crazy.
I never, I guess I just never. We've talked about
you having been in the band and stuff. But and
you playing guitars and stuff. Now, I feel like that
you could be a songwriter in that genre if you
wanted to. As like a passion side of things.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Is that genre? Yeah, I've never see. When I was
growing up, I didn't really know that that was the profession,
that you could write songs. I always assumed that all
the bands that listened to wrote all their own songs,
which for the majority they did, because there's a lot
of punk bands. But now like seeing that my favorite band,
Blank Gwin eighty two, they have like people writing some
of their songs. I'm like, wait a minute, you.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Could write a song for Blake two. That would be
a cool I don't know, just side passion, especially because
you also love to write. Yeah, I feel like that'd
be a cool creative outlet. But writing songs also different
than writing scripts. I can't do either, so but I
do know they're different. All Right, We're gonna take a
quick break, and I need to find out what else
was in the box, because it really got there one.
We'll be right back, all right, Mike, give it to me.
(14:42):
What else was inside the box?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So the other thing inside the box that gave me
a crazy nostalgia trip was my old Razor phone. Oh yeah,
I had a black Motorolla Razor that I bought off
of eBay used and I saved up all my money
for it, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I got it at a point where they really weren't
that cool anymore. But I was like, I have to
(15:06):
have one of those phones because I want to download
a bunch of ring tones and I want to do
the flip. And it just looked cool and it was
just all black, and I was like, Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They were cool for like ten years Sogo. I mean,
they were around for a hot minute. I feel like
they're probably gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
This is it. This brings up a good point. I
went into and this is definitely more of a girl thing.
But I went into a Victoria's Secret and they have
the secondary line that's called Pink. Have you ever heard
of Pink? So much more younger girl version versus Victoria's Secrets,
more for adult women. And it's like I walked in there,
I stepped right back into the two thousands. They had
(15:43):
the yoga pants that had the fold over them. Things
were written on the butts. There was matching sweatsuits. We're
back with like crew necks with things written on them.
I straight up thought, holy crap, I'm back in high school.
There's like all over again.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, two thousands are very back again.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh my god. Yeah. So I feel like maybe the
razor could also see it comeback, or wasn't there something
they were promoting that was a phone like that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I think they did bring back the razor. It doesn't
look the same, but I think they do have a
new Motorola rasor.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Okay, this is it is an interesting point because I'm
looking at all of that, what do you want to
not see make a comeback? Like, please do not bring
this back from the dead, And I have I have
one in my head, so I can like thank for
a second. But the first one that is come to
mind room is gauchos. Do you ever remember women wearing gauchos.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I've heard of them. My wife has explained them to
me before, but now I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, so they were like yoga pants, but they were free, flowy,
but they were also capris and they were just really bizarre.
And I love a flowy pant. I love a capri,
and I love a yoga pant I don't like all
of them combined. And honestly, if we bring back gauchos,
I think I will just throw myself into a pool.
(16:58):
That is the one thing I don't want to to
see maker comeback, but they probably will.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But what is your clothing item? For me was whenever
baggy stuff started to become cool again, I worked so
hard to fit into a pair of skinny jeans that
I'm like, are you kidding me? Now? Baggy stuff is
making a comeback, even though like as a kid, I
wanted you remember Jinkos, Yes, I do. Wanted a pair
of Jinkos so bad, and my parents would not buy
(17:24):
them for me because they're like, we're not buying you
those ridiculous looking pants that are super baggy, but I
like the designs on them, and then all the cool
kids would wear them, so I never had a pair
of Jinkos. And then once I finally lost weight and
was able to fit into skinny jeans because they were cool,
they became one cool again and now it's like baggy
is the style. I'm like, why did I do this?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah? And this is why. Also, I tried to not
follow a lot of fashion trends because they do change
all of the time, especially things that were in I
feel like nineties two thousand's. All of that stuff was
so short lived. Like I owned so much Lisa Frank things,
and then one day everybody was like, no, we only
like black and white. I was like, what my room,
(18:07):
Mike was hot pink and lime green. Those were the
two colors that I've painted in my room, Like, I
could not be brighter if you tried. When I had
come back from college, my parents were redoing their house
to they were empty nestras whatever, and I was like, dang,
I don't miss the hot pink and I'm green. I'm
not gonna lie like I It was a real real
choice in making that full color. So I was like
(18:28):
the full blown color girl. And then one day it
was like brown why black? I'm like, what what happened?
Jump scare? So there's that too. I just try and
avoid them. I try and avoid a lot of trends
if I if I can.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, I don't really hop on a whole lot of fashions.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They would they changed so fast. But this is where
my mom always loves to justify keeping stuff because everything old,
this all's new. Again, and she will have every single
one of those things somewhere in her closet, and they're
all evidently be a time where I go back and
get it. Do your parents keep things? Like? Do they
have a lot of stuff from when you were young?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah? I think so, because I think my mom was
just getting rid of some old my Like, my mom
is more like me now. She doesn't like junk, so
if something hasn't been using a long time, she gets
rid of it. My dad is a complete opposite, where
he will hold on the things forever and he's like,
I don't know what this is, but it belonged to
our kids, and I don't want to get rid of it. Oh,
(19:27):
you're very worried about that.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He's sentimental.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He either thinks like we're going to come back and
move in and we'll need our things, or if there's
anything that we own, no matter at what point in
our life, he keeps them.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh yeah, I mean though, when I did meet your
dad at your wedding, he is he just seems like
such like a gentle giant. Yeah, It's like the best
way I can describe it. He was just so kind.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He looks like he'd be mean, but he's not.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No, it's because of mustash.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Does he still have.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
His long slash?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He has a long mustache. He puts like mustache wax
in it, curls it on the edge on the end
of it.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, so you'd be like intimidated because cool stash. Cool
stash is always cool. Facial hair intimidates me in general.
I just feel like, you know more than I do.
It's the vibe that I feel. And he was like that,
and then I met him and he was just like
the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah. But his garage is his space and he doesn't
like anything moved out of there. So my mom will
try to clean it out. He's like, Nope, got to
keep all my stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Do not touch any of this. But the house is
free rein where she's kind of reorganized.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, that is he can just keep all those things
in the garage.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
That I understand. I am trying to be like that
as an adult. Like I cleaned out some drawers and
I had kept so many boxes from technology. Why why
did I keep boxes?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah? I just got rid of computer box and ipedbox
in an Apple pencil box that I was like, this
is a really nice box.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, and they're nice boxes, but like, why do we
keep boxes? What about our generation?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Are we like? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Boxes?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's just like when you have a really nice, put
together box, you just can't throw it away and you're like,
there's something I could put in this box.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But you never put something in the box. It hides
out on a shelf and you never use it again.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's just a nice box, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So I did get rid of a lot of mine.
I've been really trying to like get rid of things
that I just don't I have no reason for neating.
Is that what the you guys are in right now
because you're moving.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah. I got rid of so many things that I've
had that I don't have any use for. And me
even two years ago, one year ago, would have said, no,
keep it. I'm over everything. Like I could get rid
of everything that I own aside from my computer, and
I'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Okay, So you're telling me if everything I've been too today,
would you just sell all your stuff and just go
on with your lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
If I could just do like a whole sale, like
here's everything I own and sell it, I would be fine.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What are the five things you're keeping? If you sell everything?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Five things I would keep. One would be my secret
Wars eight comic that my wife got me for Christmas
and surprised me with it. It was the comic I'd
been looking for basically forever, okay, and it has the
first appearance of Black Suit Spider Man.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh your favorite?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, So that's my favorite item of my collection. Number two,
I have a signed letter from Donald Glover aka Childish
Gambino where he came on the show back when we
were in Austin on the Pop station. Bobby interviewed him
and then Bobby knew he was my favorite artist, so
as show prep, I wrote him like a letter. Bobby
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read it to him on the air, and then afterwards
he signed it for me and then got us tickets
to his show that night in Austin.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's so cool. Did you get a picture with him too,
I assume yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I have a picture with him. He signed a bunch
of stuff. My brother went up to the studio too,
and we're both huge community fans, so he signed like
my brother's Blu Ray and like a comic book. That's awesome,
and then we went to the show that night. But
I have that signed letter and I've had it since
that was probably twenty eleven. Yeah, so I would keep that.
That's my number two. Item number three. I recently got
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a Charizard Pokemon card, which was my favorite card growing up.
I had one at one point, and then this kid
in the trailer park kind of stole it from me,
but in a way that he thought was fair, where
I was just learning about Pokemon cards and he was
trying to teach me how to like battle with him. Yeah,
and then he was like, no, I wouldn't your charge
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are dang?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
He like scams.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And I had no idea what happened. And then, like
my other friends, tried to get it back for me,
and the kid wouldn't give it back. Dang.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I hope that kid gets a warm pillow these days.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I don't even remember. I remember where he lived in
the trailer park, but I don't remember his name. I
wish I did. I tried to track him down, like
you still have that?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, he probably does that.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I mean if he did, he probably sold it by now. Yeah,
that would be my number.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Three because I got one.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I went to a card shop here in town. They
had one. It wasn't like in pristine condition, so I
don't think I spent ten thousand dollars on it, but
I don't really care about that in my search of
finding things for my childhood, Like, I don't care what
condition it's in, I just want to own it in
some form of fashion, not spend my entire life savings
on it. Yeah, so that would probably be number three.
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Number four is probably my name plate that I got
when we went to go see We went to go
ride and Jerry Jones's helicopter. Oh so we went flew
to the game and then we got to watch the
game from his suite and at the suite they put
everybody's name on like this little cardboard like place, a
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little if you go to a wedding and they have
your name on the table. They had that from my
name and I kept it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That's cool though, And the Dallas Cowboys have been your
team your whole life.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, so that was just a crazy experience of going
and then being there watching my favorite team and then
being there as a guest was wild. So I have
that name plate. It says like mister Mike Distro on it,
and I also have some napkins from Jerry Jones bathroom
and they have the Dallas Cowboys star on him.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That's funny. Well, those are some good items, though, I
feel like those are sentimental while also still being really valuable.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, so those are all the things things that I
can't really rep I mean, I could technically replicate the
comic book and the card, some of the other things
I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Okay, Well, before we take a break, was there anything
else in the box? Or are you getting rid of
everything else?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I found some really old relics from the show from
way back in the day, even before Amy joined the show.
It was whenever the show moved from Austin to hear
I think Bobby let me clean out his desk and
said I could keep whatever I wanted. And there's like
some old it's literally like a pack of like sticky
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notes that has like the show logo on it, but
it's not Amy, which was really weird looking. And then
there's like a can of beans that they made. I
forgot what it says on it, something about gas or
it was some kind of promo idem but I.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Was just are you getting rid of them? Are you
keeping I'm keeping those.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I just felt like it's a cool piece of like
show history that nobody probably has anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So all of this is a you open back up
the box, the boxes stay. That's what I've learned from.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I got rid of like all the old cake because
it was like my box for all my music stuff
that we would tour with. So like there's like old
cables and like old microphones that were really disgusting because
we would take our own microphones and they got gross.
And then a bunch of like old random things that
I had no idea where they even came from.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Okay, so at least half of the box got tossed out.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Kept the phone, kept the pictures, kept the random show items.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hey that's progress. Yeah, what's in the box? We did it?
All right, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back, all right. I need to know if you
have this experience, because you're the only other one with
like full dietary restrictions like myself.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
It's hard, Like I'm vegan, my wife is gluten free.
It's hard to go out to eat. It's hard to
get recommendations of from people who like try this restaurant.
We're like, oh.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, but I will say gluten free is becoming easier.
Dairy freeze also start like dairy freeze at the very
beginning where we're seeing a big plant based movement happening.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
When you go to a restaurant and they have it
all labeled on there, Oh, it's so, it's so great.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I saw you guys went and tried flower Child, which
is one of my new favorites.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh, we'll be going there a while. Yeah. They used
to have it in Austin, and whenever they got one here,
we're like finally, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Except it all the way out in Franklin so forever.
But it's so good. I dream they have this like
corn couscous or like corn kuenwah thing. I dream about it.
That's how good it was.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I love it when I can go to a place
and I can get multiple things where I have it's
not just the one thing. And then you always kind
of feel like you feel lucky when they do have
a vegan option or a gluten free option. But then
when that's the only option, they're like, well we have
an option for you. I'm like, oh, but then I
don't don't really does sound good to me?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I know, And neither one of you guys are on
the have the ability like both of mine are are
more choices because I feel better besides vegetarian. That one
is just solid. There's no changing that. But there will
be times where somebody gets me to go try something
to eat and I eat it and I'm like, dang,
I shouldn't have eat that, but that was really good,
and I'm reminded of the experience when I wasn't gluten
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free and totally vegan. So I do have some of
those moments. But all of that to say I have,
I'm not sure if I'm weird in this, because there
are sometimes I really love eggs, sometimes love them they're great.
Other times hate them, despise them, want to not even
see them. Do you have any foods that are in
your list of things that you eat that you just hate?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Also, I hate cherry tomatoes, but do you also like them?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Sometimes I like.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Regular tomatoes, but I don't like cherry tomato Specifically, I
will love a regular tomato. I don't know. It's something
about the texture when you bite into them, because I
don't really like cold things. Okay, m h. When it
comes to salad, like being a vegan, it's so hard
for me to say I don't like salads because they're
like isn't that all you eat? No, I don't. I'd
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rarely eat a salad. Yeah, but I hate just the
cold salad with a bunch of cherry tomato. That's like
my worst thing. This is your nightmare, yeah, because my
worst food the foods I hate the most are cherry
tomatoes and arugula.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh a dang good tomato here. Okay, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It's something about the texture of biting into a tomato
and it like bursting in your math. It just I
don't like it. Yeah, And then arugula just tastes like
I'm going out to the lawn and just chomping down.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That is fair. Arugola, if not prepared correctly, definitely tastes
like dirt, yeah, for sure. And cherry tomatoes are crunchy
versus regular tomatoes. Regular tomato tomatoes can.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Be soft and you can slice them. Yeah, Like I
could eat a slice tomato, but something about a cherry tomato.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
You can't really slice those. I've tried to find myself
in that process. So okay, So you have things that
like it's a little odd, but Mike, thereby times where
I'm like, well, lately I've been making this homemade egg
salad that I'm obsessed with.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'll eat it with sweet potatoes. It's so delicious. And
then one morning I'll wake up and I'll have like
two bites and I'm like, I'm disgusted. I want to vomit.
Don't know why, don't know where it comes from. Like,
and I don't know if it's because of the vegetarian
side of me. Something about eggs. I'm very particular about
eggs that I'll eat, like they have to be like
fully organic. I know that they're actually roaming on a farm,
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not like fake roaming on a farm, you know what
I mean. And so I'm very like, the only way
I'll eat eggs if I know where it's coming from.
Most of the time we'll get them from the farmer's market,
that kind of thing. And I don't know if that's why,
but it will be the most random day. Nothing startled it,
nothing changed, But one day I just wake up and
I hate them. I feel like that's weird.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, I guess, cause I I only have so many
things that I eat. I can't get tired of what
I eat. There are there are moments where I get
to a point where I'm just like sick of cooking,
and like I could make the same thing that I've
always made, and for some reason, it just doesn't hit
the same yes, where I feel like I'm just eating
at a necessity because I'm hungry, and that's usual of
the night, we decide, okay, we're just going out to eat.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's fair. Okay. Because people will always ask me, what
are your favorite gluten free vegan restaurants, Nashville Flower Child
being one of them.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
My favorite all time is Avo. I've been going there
since they were like in this old shipping container. Now
they're like in a legit restaurant, but I go there
all the time, Like they know us there. We're like
friends with the owner and they're just it's just so
crazy when you can go into a restaurant and you
can eat whatever. Yeah, and my wife can't because some
things aren't gluten free. But I can go in and
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eat whatever and it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Like totally safe because it's all plant based.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah. And it's the one restaurant that I've taken people
to who are maybe hesitant of eating vegan food and
they end up liking it. They might not love it
and go back on their own but if they come
into town and we're like you gotta try yeah, and
they most oftentimes left like Okay, it's good. Like it's
not like what you think about vegan food, like it
all tasting like dirt or just all being salads.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
No, there's so many options. There's so many ways to
create vegan food now, like with different substitutions of things, cashews,
coconut being a lot of them. But also I was
really mad because there was one weekend where AVO did
an Italian like weekend, a full vegan, gluten free Italian food,
and I was so excited because it's hard. That's a
hard food to find that has all of the restrictions,
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and I was out of town.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, we went through that. It was good. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I was devastated. Like when I tell you that I
found out about it, I was like I have to go,
I'm going, And then next all the dates, I was
so sad. Yeah, I cried Mike because I was like,
I really wanted to try that.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, it's great because yeah, the two hardest restaurants for
me to go eat are Italian restaurants and seafood places,
because you can never find anything that's vegan. You're eating
the eating the cold salad. Yep, so it'd go and
they have Italian food, you can get whatever you want.
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So it was that. It was good. Yeah, I really
hope they do it again. That was a devastating day
for me. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah. They had like these giant rabbioli's really good.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, and like Mozarellasi, the.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Mostarelli sticks were good. Come on, man, we told them
that they got to make those a menu item.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I hope. I think it was really popular, so I'm
hoping it comes back again, and I think but I
will say though, there's a lot of at least on
the gluten free side. There's a lot of Italian restaurants
that have started becoming really good at either importing pasta
from Italy or coming up with things. But the vegan
side is what's hard with it because cheese is literally
everything in.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Pasta or meat, sauces.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, yeah, all the things. So all right, there was
that one. Then. Also, I'm not a spice girl, not
even a little.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Bit, not at all, not even a little bit. What
is your level of like, what's your threshold? Is it Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Sometimes pepper makes my ice water And I don't know
if I hate it so much because I'm also I
think potentially allergic to it because every time how I
eat spices, my lips start to blow up.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That could be a thing, Yeah, that could be a
medical condition.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I'm also afraid of it. There, But I want to
like spicy things. I want to I want and I
try so hard and every time I cry, like I
think I'm a baby in my food palette as far
as spices go. Wow, there was like a honey barbecue
that made me my eyes water honey barbecue, Like, what
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did they have in that that I made? I made
my fiance a vegetarian buffalo dip. You know most of
the time it's like a chicken buffalo dip, and it
was made with chickpeas, and I got really excited because
I was like, I can finally eat buffalo dip. And
I put the most mild buffalo sauce you can ever
put in there. I cried, and you know what I did.
It tasted so good that I kept eating through the tears.
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That's how bad it was. What about daside? Is there
any food that you love enough that you'll like painfully
allow yourself to go through it.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
See, Luckily, I grew up where spice was just all around,
so I kind of have a tolerance to it. Like
whenever Eddie made a sauce so that everybody else said
was way too hot, I had no, like I'd never thought.
I was like, what are they talking about hot at all?
I don't think there's anything I like. I'm luckily even
though I don't eat cheese. If I do eat cheese, like,
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I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, because yours is preference.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, it's not like an intolerance to that, which I
think that would I'd have a much different relationship with
that because I because I used to on Christmas, I'd
have my large cheese pizza bout myself and then I'd
wake up the next day and be totally fine.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Is there something you miss that you wish you could
eat every day with no consequence?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I mean when you were saying eggs, that was like
the last thing that I gave up that I did
not want to let go really like.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
And why eggs? Why did you let go of eggs?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Because if you can't be a vegan an eat eggs,
that was like the last thing, like I was like, okay,
I'll stop eating chicken and eggs are the last two
things because I just ate so much of it. I
was able to do chick, but I was like, man,
what am I gonna eat for breakfast? That's been my
entire breakfast for years, and I would just make I
would put eggs and everything, like even my dinner. I
would find a way working eggs. I know.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
And it's so weird. There's definitely a split on that
of for vegan diets. There's like half where they're like
eggs are fine, half where like you cannot eat eggs.
It's kind of like the pescatarian diet where like they'll
eat no meat but they'll eat fish. Yeah, it's like
one of those dilemmas. And I think that's why maybe
I I go have problems with eggs. Some days I'm wanted,
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some days I'm an over. I don't know, But have
you tried eggs again? No?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I haven't had eggs probably in eight nine years.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Wild.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, unless it's been like in one of my cheat days,
like as an ingredient inside of like cookies or something.
I haven't had eggs.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Okay, that's crazy. Your dedication over there. I told I
love it. What is your for you page right now?
Because speaking of thing food, I have a lot of recipes,
Like I'm pretty sure I hire for you page right
now is recipes and traveling. So I have places saved
where I want to go and food that I want
to make.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I don't get food anymore, which I used to love.
I used to just get people. There was like this
lady who was like in maybe South Texas or maybe
in Mexico. She would just be making things every day
and that was like my feed for a while. And
I was like, I haven't seen her videos in a
long time, and what did you do?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Dear for you page?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I don't know. All food is gone, that's funny, So
what is it now right now? Because of WrestleMania that
was a couple of weeks, it's a lot of wrestling.
I get a lot of Pokemon stuff. I would say
every third video is probably either somebody live ripping packs
or somebody going to Target to try to find Pokemon cards.
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That's probably my number two most thing in my feed
right now.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
You said riffing packs and I was saying, like ribbing cigarettes,
and I was like, that's not what he meant, and
it took me a second to register that you're talking
about like ribbing open Pokemon card fasts please.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
So that's my number two, and then number three is
probably just collectibles in general. I follow. I don't even
follow a lot of people, but I get a lot
of people just going to like different collectible shops and
just like, here's what they have in suck today. That's
a lot of my feed.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Isn't it funny how your for you page can change
so quickly?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, you can like two.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Things of one category and all of a sudden, that's
what you have.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah. Recently I watched like one video of Chris ker
Patrick from en Sync, and then for like two days
I got a bunch of Chrisker Patrick from n Sync
like I was the biggest in Sync fan.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
That's you're like, okay, yeah, I like the one video.
We don't need to give me everything of that one.
Isn't that weird? I did that to our show Instagram
for you too, because because somebody's not like so actively
on that page, you know what I mean, like just
constantly on the for you page. It was so random,
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and so I turned that one also into recipes or
like live hacks or cleaning things. I started trying to
turn it into something that, like at least when I
opened it, it wasn't like a jump scare. Every time
I opened the thing, I was like, I don't need
to see that. It was bad. It was really bad
that in our Twitter feed, which is so kind of
a dumpster fire. So I've tried to engage with random
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things to like change the algorithm over there so when
I am on it, I'm not totally being startled. So
our show Instagram for you page is cleaning videos, some
country videos because I'll still comment on those, trying to
make sure I know the country news. And then recipes,
like all kinds of recipes, and that's what our show is.
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But that's funny. Here's just food, traveling and everything wedding
that it does not help anything, Like I having so
many options hurts my brain, and social media all does
is make it worse. Like you get something you're like,
that was a really cool I'm so excited about that,
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and then you can get it on Instagram and you
all of a sudden have five videos of different things
you could have done. It's horrible, like a horrible mind.
If that's what happens to my brain in those situations
like and it's just crazy how much you realize how
much we're fed and how it like dramatically impacts our
(40:14):
everyday life you know. Oh yeah, yeah, Like I don't
even think I realize it until I watch my for
you page shift for what's happening in my life.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, I worry about that sometimes of like how much
my brain has changed. How much has been my own
willingness or wanting to change my way of thinking versus
how much has just been manipulated through an algorithm.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes, no, I'm not even kidding, Like I think.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Even me getting back into like collecting things has been
all because of what I've seen through TikTok of like
other people showing that it's more socially acceptable, but also
like getting fed videos of people like go into the
store and buying things. That's made me want to do
that more and lean more into that. And that's all
because of having an app on my phone.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yep, And you didn't then you want to be buying things,
you know, the basis for consumerism, I suppose, but it
hurts my brain. There's sometimes where like I'll lay in
bed and I and I still want to be on
my phone because I want to play my games. I
want to like do my little brain rotting, I guess,
as I call while also bed rotting, because most of
my day is very productive and I don't have that chance.
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But then I'm just like, why am I on this?
Why Why can't I just brain rot laying here without
doing anything for my brain or having to watch a
TV show or like even my winding down is consumed in.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That mean, Yeah, my winding down is watching TikTok till
my eyes hurt. That's not good.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yeah, Like I'll be falling as like my eyes are
closing and I'll be either like scrolling or I'm playing
a game, Like that's not good. You should be closing
your eyes like gently Finn asleep it's in the dark.
But I'm not. And I think about that a lot.
I've had rude awakenings a lot recently, if you can't tell,
I've also had a lot of crash outs and spirals.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
You personally or I was like, that's your algorithm. You
see other people crashing.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Out completely myself or I will just like be on
something for so long and it's it's partially from looking
at a bunch of vendors where there's like fifteen different things,
and I'm like, I have looked at the same photo
five thousand times and my brain just falls apart and
then I have a crash out because I can't. It's
like I'm you know, when you watch a computer try
(42:28):
and do too many things at once. Mine just did it.
It literally just like dies, that's what my brain does,
and I just completely crash out. It's a it's a.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Weird experience, just locks up. You get the circle of death.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Literally, and I'm just like. My fiance will come home
from work and I'm just like, I don't know, and
he's like, are you are you broken? Are you like
is there life inside of you? Like what is happening?
Have you never had a crash out or like a
spiral like that or your whole body just kind of
like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah? I haven't had in a while, though luckily I've
had to do therapy itself to manage those things in medication.
So luckily the tools I've learned have kept me from that.
I get close to it and I can feel it,
but no, not a super bad crash out recently.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah, Yeah, that's weird, but it's also like overloaded. I
think of all the stress that everybody is under on
any normal given day, like a job. Me and we
look at just our jobs in general. We have a
lot of things that we have to do and accomplish. Yeah,
and then you add life, social health and fitness, cooking
your food, taking care of like see, then I started
to crash out of it. I started thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
That's why I go for twenty mile runs. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Oh I yeah, I wish I could mike.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It's all that steam. Just that's where I'm not bothered.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
It's so true, and I would love to do that,
but I would crash out on the run. My body'd
be like, what are you trying to add to our thing?
And I would be like five miles from this is
like when I tried rollerblading for the first time to
like again, to pick it up as an adult and
give me something to do, and I crashed five minutes
from my house.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I think it's just a matter of finding something where
you're not being notified or you're not looking at anything.
Whatever that is it worked you're doing. Was it disc
all for a while?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, I'm trying everything the problem is finding time to
do set through and then I crash out trying to
I just there's a lot going on in my library.
It's really just like planning and organizing and all the things.
There's just a heavy mental load trying to do a
bunch of things at one time. I like, it's also
(44:33):
exciting stuff, but it's just you know, when you're your
to do list looks more long than your grocery list,
you're kind of like, Okay, one day that'll hopefully not
be there. But anyways, I just had a small crashout
right there.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
We wouldn't sitd in real time?
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Did you saw my brain doing it? But Mike, thanks
for joining coming on.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
This was good.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah, you're seeing we have a Oh my, I don't
know any more what I was trying to say. Tell
everybody where they can find you and hear you.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
You can listen to my podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast,
new episodes every single Monday, and I am on social
media at Mike Distro on literally everything.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
I love it. And you can follow the show at
Bobby Bone Show. And I'm gonna go before my bride
shuts down completely.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Bye everybody, Bye. That's the best bits of the Week
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The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Part one.
I hang a scene with a member of the show. Well,
what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
A happy weekend everybody, best bits time and this weekend
Mike d is joining me. What's up, Mike? What?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm back?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It feels good to be back. Everything's time is going
by really fast.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It always is. This week is a little bit like
messing with our brains because we did switch off with
you and Scuba in our life time frames.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It was earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is a little bit earlier, but only a week
because it was time still flying. But we need enough
tod because last time you were on a lot of
things were happening in your life at the time.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, there was a mysterious box that I needed to address.
We are in the process of moving, and I've had
this box probably over ten, maybe fifteen years, whenever I
first moved, I guess since I started, even when I
left my hometown and moved to Austin, I've just had
this box of stump that was like when I was
(01:00):
in a band. We would keep all of our merch
in it, and I guess it was the only good
box I had. So I've been filling it with things
for over a decade of my life, and then since
I moved into my current house, I have no idea
what was in there because it's been so long, moved in,
put in a closet and never looked at it again.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is it the same box or have you at least
transitioned the box.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, it's the same box because I wrote merch on it,
so it's an actual box we use for merch.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's funny. Okay, So did you go inside the box?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I did because I told you I thought of maybe
just throwing away the whole thing, because I was like,
I have to use it, and I haven't been in
there in seven years, probably don't need anything.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I did encourage you not to look in at Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But but glad I didn't just throw it away blindly,
because there was actually a lot of old pictures in
there that I had not I don't even know why
I have these pictures. They're like old family pictures, like
me as a kid. I found my sonogram.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait, Because before when you've
been on the best bits, you've been like, there's not
a whole lot of pictures of me.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, I found a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This is where they've been hiding.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I thought they were at my parents' house. Apparently I
have them. I don't know where in my moves that
I got a hold of them. I don't know if
I took them on accident, but I had just stacks
and stacks of real pictures from disposable cameras and over
the years. Wow, like really like me, literally my Sonograham
(02:20):
where they wrote on it like hi mom.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's crazy. Yeah, I don't know emotional finding all of those.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I don't know why I have that. It was just
weird seeing me as a baby.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I think it's a Did you ask your parents about it?
Because sometimes parents want to keep all that stuff and
sometimes they wanted to go with the kids.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I didn't. I forgot to tell them about the sonogram.
I did tell them that I found a bunch of
old pictures, and she thought she my mom, thought she
had those pictures. I started sending her pictures of the
pictures and she was like, oh, yeah, I haven't seen
those in a while, So.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Is there any in there that you forgot existed? Because
again you had said, like, there's not a lot of
pictures of me. I haven't really seen a bunch.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So there's some of me with friends, which is crazy.
I forgot I had friends in the trailer park where
at the time when I was a kid, I was
super into wrestling, and I met other kids who lived
in the trailer park who were also super into wrestling.
So it's us like hanging out like there, we had
an old trampoline that it was completely destroyed, but we
(03:18):
just kept like the outer ring of the trampoline and
that was our wrestling ring. I totally forgot about this,
but it's like pictures of me and my friends standing
in front of the trampoline where we would wrestle.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Wait, would you guys do like masks and capes and
stuff too? Like I'm trying to think of what movie
that reminds me of, Like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Maybe one of my friends had a mask. But we
would just pick wrestlers and then have matches. Somebody would
be a referee, or we do three way matches.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And you were a wrestler, right. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So I had to explain to my wife, like why
I was doing these weird like our emotions dudes, because
I love the hardy boys and that's what they would do.
And every picture I'm freaking doing the hardy boys thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's wild. Does it make you want to pick up
wrestling again?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I mean, I still love wrestling. That was that was
my first dream of what if you ask me as
a kid, what do I want to be when I
grow up? It was a wrestler, and.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It was WWE because that's what you went and watched too, right,
it was.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
WWF at the time and it's now WWE. But yeah,
I was like, I'm going to go to wrestling school.
I'm going to learn how to be a wrestler because
I'd play the video game and you could create your
own wrestler, Like I'm going to be the risk Taker.
That was your name that you came. I just ripped
off the Undertaker, I guess, or Peacemaker.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Just somewhere in the middle. I mean, that's I feel
like a dream. You can still kind of chase if
you want to do.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I know, I watch a lot of wrestling documentaries. That's
not a good really, that's a hardcore profession.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Now you know too much.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, the injuries are insane, the lifestyle is insane. It's
cool because everybody loves you and there's probably nothing like
getting that kind of crowd reaction. But the stuff you
don't see is yeah, pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So do you feel like you're glad that you didn't
chase down that?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't think I remember like fully committed to it.
I think soon after that I got into music, and
then my new thing was I want to be in
a band. So it was probably grades three through five
where I was like super hardcore about that, and then
a sixth grade I learned how to play guitar and
game over.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Isn't it funny how when we look back on the
things that we wanted to be as kids, they kind
of just developed very quickly over time.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What was your first thing?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
My very first thing I wanted to be was a
marine biologist.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I feel like we always go with animals as a kid, like.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, yeah, marine biologists. I wanted to be a zoologist,
a zoo keeper. I had a lot of like animal things.
I want to be a vet. At one point all
of those, I realized that I would have to deal
with the loss of animals and I was not prepared
for that.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And at that point where you're already not eating animals,
I was already a.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Huge animal lover. And yeah, I mean because I went
vegetarian at eight, So yeah, probably by the time I
was trying to decide what I wanted to do with
my life. That's I feel like six seven, eight, that's
where you is where they start to ask you what
you want to be, because up until that point.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You're just living your life, you know, cartoons.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, exactly, So I think I was already a vegetarian
and big animal lover at that point. But yeah, I
realized the other side of it pretty quickly that was
not a fit. And then I had senior actor a
news anchor, and then the news anchor one kind of stuck.
That's what kind of got me into journalism school.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You take like classes you oh yeah, news. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
In high school, I was part of like the broadcast
team where we do like the morning announcements. And then
in college I studied broadcast journalism. So I've i've full blown.
I even one of my internships, I was a news reporter,
Like I interned with the news station and I would
do my news beats. In college, I would do the
local news for our like college station, and that was
(06:51):
my whole plan, was a news anchor. And you know,
life didn't go down that path, so it stuck at
one point. I think once I hit high school, But
up until then I had a lot of different eras
of who I wanted to be for sure. Is there
any that you think would have stuck for you? What
was yours? Like? What was your last one to then
get to where you are now?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, I think before wrestler, I remember there was a
brief period where I wanted to be an architect. And
I don't even know why. I think I was like
in first grade, but I remember telling everybody I wanted
to be an architect because I wanted to design buildings
and I would like carry around like a little hammer
inside like the loop of my pants.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But that was just like Bob the Builder.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Maybe maybe I don't know. That was just some people
say firemen as a kid as that architect. Yeah, So
then it went to wrestler. Then I think for the
majority of my life I wanted to be in a
band and like tour and get on a record label.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Which you were still doing the band in high school.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, I did it through high school, and then when
I graduated high school, I moved from Walkstatchey to Austin
to pursue music, and I just happened to find the
internship on the radio show. I was doing those two
things at the same time, so I was still pursuing that.
I just kind of saw, like, I don't think I
want to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Do you think there's a part of you that would
ever go back to trying to do that? Now?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
If I would do it, it would just to be
just like to play for fun, like in a garage,
write some songs again. But I don't think I would
ever want to play shows again.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
M hmm, Yeah, that's fair. The just more of a passion, yeah,
like enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
For in my head, it would be fun to like
reunite with my old band and like there was like
a group of bands that we all toured with and
just do like one show where it's basically just the
people who were in those bands attending the show. It's
not really a thing we do, but just like kind
of all perform for each other, Like that would be
like the only thing I'd want to do, like more
like a party where we all play music.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You don't feel like that would give you the bug
to try and pursue again.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, I don't think so. I just think that it
was such a grind to do, and we basically made
no money for so many years that I don't think
I would want to do it again to that extent.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, that's fair. It's also fair as you get older,
you just realize the true sides of things.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I mean, I also haven't played guitar in like five years.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Like, that's wild that you also used to be a
pretty significant guitar player.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, Like I taught myself how to play. That's all
I would do. I would just play guitar, and then
I would say, probably until I moved here, is when
I kind of stopped playing. Like I played still like
the first couple of years I lived here, and then
just kind of stopped.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
You're telling me you never played for your wife.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I did write her a song early on.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Did you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So that was probably around the tale, Yeah, because I
was still probably writing songs in like twenty eighteen, So
probably stopped fully in like twenty nineteen. Maybe picked it
up a little bit during the pandemic because there was
nothing else to do, and then since then I pick
it up maybe once or twice a year, But that's
about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's so cool. Did you record the song or did
you just play for it live in person?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I remember playing it for her over FaceTime, and then
I think I recorded it and sent it to her.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That's sweet. And then from there you really never mind.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And then even she kind of forgets that I played guitar,
like I haven't done it in so long.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Do you still have a guitar that you could play?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah? I have three, two electrics and one acoustic.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dang, Yeah, a lot, not just one.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I mean that was my yeah. And like recently
there was My favorite guitar player is Tom DeLong from
Blnkelin eighty two, and he had this signature guitar that
I wanted so bad as a kid, but it was
like super expensive. And recently they did like a reissue
version of it, and I was so close to buying
it because I saw it on the rack. It was
(10:39):
like so close to be buying it. I was like,
I'm not going to play it. I was like, I
haven't played guitar in so long. Is this really going
to motivate me to want to play it again?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But it could be you love collecting things, that's true,
and that's a collector's item for sure. I would assume
especially in that genre.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
No, I mean it could be, but I think with
I mean, they reissue it and they make a bunch
of them, So I don't know if it's going to
have really any like collector value to it, but it
would be to me because for a long time you
couldn't even find that guitar.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, I just feel like it'd be a cool collection
on your and your videos that I see from your
podcasts set up. I feel like that would be a
cool add to that because.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That's kind of how I justify some things. I'm like,
I put in the background, it's a set beast.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It is. And I don't know, is that like something
that's super expensive?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That one? That was the other thing I saw it.
It was like on a pretty good deal and he
still did it do it was only like nine hundred
we still a lot of money, like nine hundred bucks,
but originally it was like fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Oh yeah, that's a great deal. You're almost like happy.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, that was the only thing. I was like, this
is such a good deal, Like why is this marked
down so much?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Your wife is gonna be like Morgan dot but you
should go back and get it.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I don't know if it's there anymore. But yeah, I
really I think. I don't even think I told her
when I saw it, really, so I said it to
my brother because he was like, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, And she was probably just like, you have three guitars,
what's this one? It's hard unless like you are a
person who understands which side of it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
She probably would motivate me to get it because she's like,
you never buy things for yourself. And she's like, if
something is cool, like you have worked hard, you can
buy it for yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
That's probably why I didn't tell her, because then she
would convince me to do it, because I'm the one
who always talked myself out of buying something. Ever, I
don't like buying things. I don't really material things don't
really mean much to me. I'd rather spend money on experiences,
so I don't really get joy of owning just objects.
I'd rather do things. And I can always like just
(12:38):
it's so hard for me to justify it in my
head of like I'm gonna spend eight hundred dollars on this,
how many uses am I gonna get out of it?
If I only use it twice? That's four hundred dollars
of use. I always break it down by like.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Use, yeah, and in all fairness, like totally fair, because
I'm right there with you. I'd rather have trips and
experiences and spend money on life versus owning a bunch
of stuff. But something that's been part of your life
for so long. You definitely didn't text your wife because
you knew she was.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Going to encourage to do it. And I guess since then,
I kind of have been on like a search of
all like the childhood things that I didn't own, and
that's kind of been like my avenue of like collecting
things right now is like what are all the items
that I wanted as a kid and have never bought?
And I'm kind of on the search for those.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay, here's a little hail Mary moment. If it's still
there wherever you found it, I feel like that's a
sign that you're supposed to have it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm open to that. If it's still there and still
the same price and it wasn't a mistake.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Then you are supposed to own that guitar. That's crazy.
I never, I guess I just never. We've talked about
you having been in the band and stuff. But and
you playing guitars and stuff. Now, I feel like that
you could be a songwriter in that genre if you
wanted to. As like a passion side of things.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Is that genre? Yeah, I've never see. When I was
growing up, I didn't really know that that was the profession,
that you could write songs. I always assumed that all
the bands that listened to wrote all their own songs,
which for the majority they did, because there's a lot
of punk bands. But now like seeing that my favorite band,
Blank Gwin eighty two, they have like people writing some
of their songs. I'm like, wait a minute, you.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Could write a song for Blake two. That would be
a cool I don't know, just side passion, especially because
you also love to write. Yeah, I feel like that'd
be a cool creative outlet. But writing songs also different
than writing scripts. I can't do either, so but I
do know they're different. All Right, We're gonna take a
quick break, and I need to find out what else
was in the box, because it really got there one.
We'll be right back, all right, Mike, give it to me.
(14:42):
What else was inside the box?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So the other thing inside the box that gave me
a crazy nostalgia trip was my old Razor phone. Oh yeah,
I had a black Motorolla Razor that I bought off
of eBay used and I saved up all my money
for it, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I got it at a point where they really weren't
that cool anymore. But I was like, I have to
(15:06):
have one of those phones because I want to download
a bunch of ring tones and I want to do
the flip. And it just looked cool and it was
just all black, and I was like, Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They were cool for like ten years Sogo. I mean,
they were around for a hot minute. I feel like
they're probably gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
This is it. This brings up a good point. I
went into and this is definitely more of a girl thing.
But I went into a Victoria's Secret and they have
the secondary line that's called Pink. Have you ever heard
of Pink? So much more younger girl version versus Victoria's Secrets,
more for adult women. And it's like I walked in there,
I stepped right back into the two thousands. They had
(15:43):
the yoga pants that had the fold over them. Things
were written on the butts. There was matching sweatsuits. We're
back with like crew necks with things written on them.
I straight up thought, holy crap, I'm back in high school.
There's like all over again.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, two thousands are very back again.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Oh my god. Yeah. So I feel like maybe the
razor could also see it comeback, or wasn't there something
they were promoting that was a phone like that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I think they did bring back the razor. It doesn't
look the same, but I think they do have a
new Motorola rasor.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Okay, this is it is an interesting point because I'm
looking at all of that, what do you want to
not see make a comeback? Like, please do not bring
this back from the dead, And I have I have
one in my head, so I can like thank for
a second. But the first one that is come to
mind room is gauchos. Do you ever remember women wearing gauchos.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I've heard of them. My wife has explained them to
me before, but now I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, so they were like yoga pants, but they were free, flowy,
but they were also capris and they were just really bizarre.
And I love a flowy pant. I love a capri,
and I love a yoga pant I don't like all
of them combined. And honestly, if we bring back gauchos,
I think I will just throw myself into a pool.
(16:58):
That is the one thing I don't want to to
see maker comeback, but they probably will.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But what is your clothing item? For me was whenever
baggy stuff started to become cool again, I worked so
hard to fit into a pair of skinny jeans that
I'm like, are you kidding me? Now? Baggy stuff is
making a comeback, even though like as a kid, I
wanted you remember Jinkos, Yes, I do. Wanted a pair
of Jinkos so bad, and my parents would not buy
(17:24):
them for me because they're like, we're not buying you
those ridiculous looking pants that are super baggy, but I
like the designs on them, and then all the cool
kids would wear them, so I never had a pair
of Jinkos. And then once I finally lost weight and
was able to fit into skinny jeans because they were cool,
they became one cool again and now it's like baggy
is the style. I'm like, why did I do this?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah? And this is why. Also, I tried to not
follow a lot of fashion trends because they do change
all of the time, especially things that were in I
feel like nineties two thousand's. All of that stuff was
so short lived. Like I owned so much Lisa Frank things,
and then one day everybody was like, no, we only
like black and white. I was like, what my room,
(18:07):
Mike was hot pink and lime green. Those were the
two colors that I've painted in my room, Like, I
could not be brighter if you tried. When I had
come back from college, my parents were redoing their house
to they were empty nestras whatever, and I was like, dang,
I don't miss the hot pink and I'm green. I'm
not gonna lie like I It was a real real
choice in making that full color. So I was like
(18:28):
the full blown color girl. And then one day it
was like brown why black? I'm like, what what happened?
Jump scare? So there's that too. I just try and
avoid them. I try and avoid a lot of trends
if I if I can.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, I don't really hop on a whole lot of fashions.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They would they changed so fast. But this is where
my mom always loves to justify keeping stuff because everything old,
this all's new. Again, and she will have every single
one of those things somewhere in her closet, and they're
all evidently be a time where I go back and
get it. Do your parents keep things? Like? Do they
have a lot of stuff from when you were young?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah? I think so, because I think my mom was
just getting rid of some old my Like, my mom
is more like me now. She doesn't like junk, so
if something hasn't been using a long time, she gets
rid of it. My dad is a complete opposite, where
he will hold on the things forever and he's like,
I don't know what this is, but it belonged to
our kids, and I don't want to get rid of it. Oh,
(19:27):
you're very worried about that.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He's sentimental.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He either thinks like we're going to come back and
move in and we'll need our things, or if there's
anything that we own, no matter at what point in
our life, he keeps them.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh yeah, I mean though, when I did meet your
dad at your wedding, he is he just seems like
such like a gentle giant. Yeah, It's like the best
way I can describe it. He was just so kind.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He looks like he'd be mean, but he's not.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No, it's because of mustash.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Does he still have.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
His long slash?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He has a long mustache. He puts like mustache wax
in it, curls it on the edge on the end
of it.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, so you'd be like intimidated because cool stash. Cool
stash is always cool. Facial hair intimidates me in general.
I just feel like, you know more than I do.
It's the vibe that I feel. And he was like that,
and then I met him and he was just like
the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah. But his garage is his space and he doesn't
like anything moved out of there. So my mom will
try to clean it out. He's like, Nope, got to
keep all my stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Do not touch any of this. But the house is
free rein where she's kind of reorganized.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, that is he can just keep all those things
in the garage.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
That I understand. I am trying to be like that
as an adult. Like I cleaned out some drawers and
I had kept so many boxes from technology. Why why
did I keep boxes?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah? I just got rid of computer box and ipedbox
in an Apple pencil box that I was like, this
is a really nice box.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, and they're nice boxes, but like, why do we
keep boxes? What about our generation?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Are we like? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Boxes?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's just like when you have a really nice, put
together box, you just can't throw it away and you're like,
there's something I could put in this box.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But you never put something in the box. It hides
out on a shelf and you never use it again.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's just a nice box, I know.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So I did get rid of a lot of mine.
I've been really trying to like get rid of things
that I just don't I have no reason for neating.
Is that what the you guys are in right now
because you're moving.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah. I got rid of so many things that I've
had that I don't have any use for. And me
even two years ago, one year ago, would have said, no,
keep it. I'm over everything. Like I could get rid
of everything that I own aside from my computer, and
I'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Okay, So you're telling me if everything I've been too today,
would you just sell all your stuff and just go
on with your lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
If I could just do like a whole sale, like
here's everything I own and sell it, I would be fine.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What are the five things you're keeping? If you sell everything?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Five things I would keep. One would be my secret
Wars eight comic that my wife got me for Christmas
and surprised me with it. It was the comic I'd
been looking for basically forever, okay, and it has the
first appearance of Black Suit Spider Man.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh your favorite?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, So that's my favorite item of my collection. Number two,
I have a signed letter from Donald Glover aka Childish
Gambino where he came on the show back when we
were in Austin on the Pop station. Bobby interviewed him
and then Bobby knew he was my favorite artist, so
as show prep, I wrote him like a letter. Bobby
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read it to him on the air, and then afterwards
he signed it for me and then got us tickets
to his show that night in Austin.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's so cool. Did you get a picture with him too,
I assume yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I have a picture with him. He signed a bunch
of stuff. My brother went up to the studio too,
and we're both huge community fans, so he signed like
my brother's Blu Ray and like a comic book. That's awesome,
and then we went to the show that night. But
I have that signed letter and I've had it since
that was probably twenty eleven. Yeah, so I would keep that.
That's my number two. Item number three. I recently got
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a Charizard Pokemon card, which was my favorite card growing up.
I had one at one point, and then this kid
in the trailer park kind of stole it from me,
but in a way that he thought was fair, where
I was just learning about Pokemon cards and he was
trying to teach me how to like battle with him. Yeah,
and then he was like, no, I wouldn't your charge
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are dang?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
He like scams.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And I had no idea what happened. And then, like
my other friends, tried to get it back for me,
and the kid wouldn't give it back. Dang.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I hope that kid gets a warm pillow these days.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I don't even remember. I remember where he lived in
the trailer park, but I don't remember his name. I
wish I did. I tried to track him down, like
you still have that?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, he probably does that.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I mean if he did, he probably sold it by now. Yeah,
that would be my number.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Three because I got one.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I went to a card shop here in town. They
had one. It wasn't like in pristine condition, so I
don't think I spent ten thousand dollars on it, but
I don't really care about that in my search of
finding things for my childhood, Like, I don't care what
condition it's in, I just want to own it in
some form of fashion, not spend my entire life savings
on it. Yeah, so that would probably be number three.
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Number four is probably my name plate that I got
when we went to go see We went to go
ride and Jerry Jones's helicopter. Oh so we went flew
to the game and then we got to watch the
game from his suite and at the suite they put
everybody's name on like this little cardboard like place, a
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little if you go to a wedding and they have
your name on the table. They had that from my
name and I kept it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That's cool though, And the Dallas Cowboys have been your
team your whole life.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, so that was just a crazy experience of going
and then being there watching my favorite team and then
being there as a guest was wild. So I have
that name plate. It says like mister Mike Distro on it,
and I also have some napkins from Jerry Jones bathroom
and they have the Dallas Cowboys star on him.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
That's funny. Well, those are some good items, though, I
feel like those are sentimental while also still being really valuable.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, so those are all the things things that I
can't really rep I mean, I could technically replicate the
comic book and the card, some of the other things
I can't.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Okay, Well, before we take a break, was there anything
else in the box? Or are you getting rid of
everything else?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I found some really old relics from the show from
way back in the day, even before Amy joined the show.
It was whenever the show moved from Austin to hear
I think Bobby let me clean out his desk and
said I could keep whatever I wanted. And there's like
some old it's literally like a pack of like sticky
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notes that has like the show logo on it, but
it's not Amy, which was really weird looking. And then
there's like a can of beans that they made. I
forgot what it says on it, something about gas or
it was some kind of promo idem but I.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Was just are you getting rid of them? Are you
keeping I'm keeping those.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I just felt like it's a cool piece of like
show history that nobody probably has anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So all of this is a you open back up
the box, the boxes stay. That's what I've learned from.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I got rid of like all the old cake because
it was like my box for all my music stuff
that we would tour with. So like there's like old
cables and like old microphones that were really disgusting because
we would take our own microphones and they got gross.
And then a bunch of like old random things that
I had no idea where they even came from.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Okay, so at least half of the box got tossed out.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Kept the phone, kept the pictures, kept the random show items.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Hey that's progress. Yeah, what's in the box? We did it?
All right, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back, all right. I need to know if you
have this experience, because you're the only other one with
like full dietary restrictions like myself.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
It's hard, Like I'm vegan, my wife is gluten free.
It's hard to go out to eat. It's hard to
get recommendations of from people who like try this restaurant.
We're like, oh.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, but I will say gluten free is becoming easier.
Dairy freeze also start like dairy freeze at the very
beginning where we're seeing a big plant based movement happening.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
When you go to a restaurant and they have it
all labeled on there, Oh, it's so, it's so great.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I saw you guys went and tried flower Child, which
is one of my new favorites.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh, we'll be going there a while. Yeah. They used
to have it in Austin, and whenever they got one here,
we're like finally, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Except it all the way out in Franklin so forever.
But it's so good. I dream they have this like
corn couscous or like corn kuenwah thing. I dream about it.
That's how good it was.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I love it when I can go to a place
and I can get multiple things where I have it's
not just the one thing. And then you always kind
of feel like you feel lucky when they do have
a vegan option or a gluten free option. But then
when that's the only option, they're like, well we have
an option for you. I'm like, oh, but then I
don't don't really does sound good to me?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
I know, And neither one of you guys are on
the have the ability like both of mine are are
more choices because I feel better besides vegetarian. That one
is just solid. There's no changing that. But there will
be times where somebody gets me to go try something
to eat and I eat it and I'm like, dang,
I shouldn't have eat that, but that was really good,
and I'm reminded of the experience when I wasn't gluten
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free and totally vegan. So I do have some of
those moments. But all of that to say I have,
I'm not sure if I'm weird in this, because there
are sometimes I really love eggs, sometimes love them they're great.
Other times hate them, despise them, want to not even
see them. Do you have any foods that are in
your list of things that you eat that you just hate?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Also, I hate cherry tomatoes, but do you also like them?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Sometimes I like.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Regular tomatoes, but I don't like cherry tomato Specifically, I
will love a regular tomato. I don't know. It's something
about the texture when you bite into them, because I
don't really like cold things. Okay, m h. When it
comes to salad, like being a vegan, it's so hard
for me to say I don't like salads because they're
like isn't that all you eat? No, I don't. I'd
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rarely eat a salad. Yeah, but I hate just the
cold salad with a bunch of cherry tomato. That's like
my worst thing. This is your nightmare, yeah, because my
worst food the foods I hate the most are cherry
tomatoes and arugula.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh a dang good tomato here. Okay, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It's something about the texture of biting into a tomato
and it like bursting in your math. It just I
don't like it. Yeah, And then arugula just tastes like
I'm going out to the lawn and just chomping down.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That is fair. Arugola, if not prepared correctly, definitely tastes
like dirt, yeah, for sure. And cherry tomatoes are crunchy
versus regular tomatoes. Regular tomato tomatoes can.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Be soft and you can slice them. Yeah, Like I
could eat a slice tomato, but something about a cherry tomato.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
You can't really slice those. I've tried to find myself
in that process. So okay, So you have things that
like it's a little odd, but Mike, thereby times where
I'm like, well, lately I've been making this homemade egg
salad that I'm obsessed with.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'll eat it with sweet potatoes. It's so delicious. And
then one morning I'll wake up and I'll have like
two bites and I'm like, I'm disgusted. I want to vomit.
Don't know why, don't know where it comes from. Like,
and I don't know if it's because of the vegetarian
side of me. Something about eggs. I'm very particular about
eggs that I'll eat, like they have to be like
fully organic. I know that they're actually roaming on a farm,
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not like fake roaming on a farm, you know what
I mean. And so I'm very like, the only way
I'll eat eggs if I know where it's coming from.
Most of the time we'll get them from the farmer's market,
that kind of thing. And I don't know if that's why,
but it will be the most random day. Nothing startled it,
nothing changed, But one day I just wake up and
I hate them. I feel like that's weird.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, I guess, cause I I only have so many
things that I eat. I can't get tired of what
I eat. There are there are moments where I get
to a point where I'm just like sick of cooking,
and like I could make the same thing that I've
always made, and for some reason, it just doesn't hit
the same yes, where I feel like I'm just eating
at a necessity because I'm hungry, and that's usual of
the night, we decide, okay, we're just going out to eat.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's fair. Okay. Because people will always ask me, what
are your favorite gluten free vegan restaurants, Nashville Flower Child
being one of them.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
My favorite all time is Avo. I've been going there
since they were like in this old shipping container. Now
they're like in a legit restaurant, but I go there
all the time, Like they know us there. We're like
friends with the owner and they're just it's just so
crazy when you can go into a restaurant and you
can eat whatever. Yeah, and my wife can't because some
things aren't gluten free. But I can go in and
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eat whatever and it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Like totally safe because it's all plant based.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah. And it's the one restaurant that I've taken people
to who are maybe hesitant of eating vegan food and
they end up liking it. They might not love it
and go back on their own but if they come
into town and we're like you gotta try yeah, and
they most oftentimes left like Okay, it's good. Like it's
not like what you think about vegan food, like it
all tasting like dirt or just all being salads.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
No, there's so many options. There's so many ways to
create vegan food now, like with different substitutions of things, cashews,
coconut being a lot of them. But also I was
really mad because there was one weekend where AVO did
an Italian like weekend, a full vegan, gluten free Italian food,
and I was so excited because it's hard. That's a
hard food to find that has all of the restrictions,
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and I was out of town.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, we went through that. It was good. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I was devastated. Like when I tell you that I
found out about it, I was like I have to go,
I'm going, And then next all the dates, I was
so sad. Yeah, I cried Mike because I was like,
I really wanted to try that.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, it's great because yeah, the two hardest restaurants for
me to go eat are Italian restaurants and seafood places,
because you can never find anything that's vegan. You're eating
the eating the cold salad. Yep, so it'd go and
they have Italian food, you can get whatever you want.
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So it was that. It was good. Yeah, I really
hope they do it again. That was a devastating day
for me. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah. They had like these giant rabbioli's really good.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, and like Mozarellasi, the.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Mostarelli sticks were good. Come on, man, we told them
that they got to make those a menu item.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I hope. I think it was really popular, so I'm
hoping it comes back again, and I think but I
will say though, there's a lot of at least on
the gluten free side. There's a lot of Italian restaurants
that have started becoming really good at either importing pasta
from Italy or coming up with things. But the vegan
side is what's hard with it because cheese is literally
everything in.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Pasta or meat, sauces.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, yeah, all the things. So all right, there was
that one. Then. Also, I'm not a spice girl, not
even a little.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Bit, not at all, not even a little bit. What
is your level of like, what's your threshold? Is it Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Sometimes pepper makes my ice water And I don't know
if I hate it so much because I'm also I
think potentially allergic to it because every time how I
eat spices, my lips start to blow up.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
That could be a thing, Yeah, that could be a
medical condition.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I'm also afraid of it. There, But I want to
like spicy things. I want to I want and I
try so hard and every time I cry, like I
think I'm a baby in my food palette as far
as spices go. Wow, there was like a honey barbecue
that made me my eyes water honey barbecue, Like, what
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did they have in that that I made? I made
my fiance a vegetarian buffalo dip. You know most of
the time it's like a chicken buffalo dip, and it
was made with chickpeas, and I got really excited because
I was like, I can finally eat buffalo dip. And
I put the most mild buffalo sauce you can ever
put in there. I cried, and you know what I did.
It tasted so good that I kept eating through the tears.
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That's how bad it was. What about daside? Is there
any food that you love enough that you'll like painfully
allow yourself to go through it.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
See, Luckily, I grew up where spice was just all around,
so I kind of have a tolerance to it. Like
whenever Eddie made a sauce so that everybody else said
was way too hot, I had no, like I'd never thought.
I was like, what are they talking about hot at all?
I don't think there's anything I like. I'm luckily even
though I don't eat cheese. If I do eat cheese, like,
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I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, because yours is preference.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, it's not like an intolerance to that, which I
think that would I'd have a much different relationship with
that because I because I used to on Christmas, I'd
have my large cheese pizza bout myself and then I'd
wake up the next day and be totally fine.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Is there something you miss that you wish you could
eat every day with no consequence?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I mean when you were saying eggs, that was like
the last thing that I gave up that I did
not want to let go really like.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
And why eggs? Why did you let go of eggs?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Because if you can't be a vegan an eat eggs,
that was like the last thing, like I was like, okay,
I'll stop eating chicken and eggs are the last two
things because I just ate so much of it. I
was able to do chick, but I was like, man,
what am I gonna eat for breakfast? That's been my
entire breakfast for years, and I would just make I
would put eggs and everything, like even my dinner. I
would find a way working eggs. I know.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
And it's so weird. There's definitely a split on that
of for vegan diets. There's like half where they're like
eggs are fine, half where like you cannot eat eggs.
It's kind of like the pescatarian diet where like they'll
eat no meat but they'll eat fish. Yeah, it's like
one of those dilemmas. And I think that's why maybe
I I go have problems with eggs. Some days I'm wanted,
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some days I'm an over. I don't know, But have
you tried eggs again? No?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I haven't had eggs probably in eight nine years.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Wild.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, unless it's been like in one of my cheat days,
like as an ingredient inside of like cookies or something.
I haven't had eggs.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Okay, that's crazy. Your dedication over there. I told I
love it. What is your for you page right now?
Because speaking of thing food, I have a lot of recipes,
Like I'm pretty sure I hire for you page right
now is recipes and traveling. So I have places saved
where I want to go and food that I want
to make.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I don't get food anymore, which I used to love.
I used to just get people. There was like this
lady who was like in maybe South Texas or maybe
in Mexico. She would just be making things every day
and that was like my feed for a while. And
I was like, I haven't seen her videos in a
long time, and what did you do?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Dear for you page?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I don't know. All food is gone, that's funny, So
what is it now right now? Because of WrestleMania that
was a couple of weeks, it's a lot of wrestling.
I get a lot of Pokemon stuff. I would say
every third video is probably either somebody live ripping packs
or somebody going to Target to try to find Pokemon cards.
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That's probably my number two most thing in my feed
right now.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
You said riffing packs and I was saying, like ribbing cigarettes,
and I was like, that's not what he meant, and
it took me a second to register that you're talking
about like ribbing open Pokemon card fasts please.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
So that's my number two, and then number three is
probably just collectibles in general. I follow. I don't even
follow a lot of people, but I get a lot
of people just going to like different collectible shops and
just like, here's what they have in suck today. That's
a lot of my feed.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Isn't it funny how your for you page can change
so quickly?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, you can like two.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Things of one category and all of a sudden, that's
what you have.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah. Recently I watched like one video of Chris ker
Patrick from en Sync, and then for like two days
I got a bunch of Chrisker Patrick from n Sync
like I was the biggest in Sync fan.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
That's you're like, okay, yeah, I like the one video.
We don't need to give me everything of that one.
Isn't that weird? I did that to our show Instagram
for you too, because because somebody's not like so actively
on that page, you know what I mean, like just
constantly on the for you page. It was so random,
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and so I turned that one also into recipes or
like live hacks or cleaning things. I started trying to
turn it into something that, like at least when I
opened it, it wasn't like a jump scare. Every time
I opened the thing, I was like, I don't need
to see that. It was bad. It was really bad
that in our Twitter feed, which is so kind of
a dumpster fire. So I've tried to engage with random
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things to like change the algorithm over there so when
I am on it, I'm not totally being startled. So
our show Instagram for you page is cleaning videos, some
country videos because I'll still comment on those, trying to
make sure I know the country news. And then recipes,
like all kinds of recipes, and that's what our show is.
(39:33):
But that's funny. Here's just food, traveling and everything wedding
that it does not help anything, Like I having so
many options hurts my brain, and social media all does
is make it worse. Like you get something you're like,
that was a really cool I'm so excited about that,
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and then you can get it on Instagram and you
all of a sudden have five videos of different things
you could have done. It's horrible, like a horrible mind.
If that's what happens to my brain in those situations
like and it's just crazy how much you realize how
much we're fed and how it like dramatically impacts our
(40:14):
everyday life you know. Oh yeah, yeah, Like I don't
even think I realize it until I watch my for
you page shift for what's happening in my life.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, I worry about that sometimes of like how much
my brain has changed. How much has been my own
willingness or wanting to change my way of thinking versus
how much has just been manipulated through an algorithm.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes, no, I'm not even kidding, Like I think.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Even me getting back into like collecting things has been
all because of what I've seen through TikTok of like
other people showing that it's more socially acceptable, but also
like getting fed videos of people like go into the
store and buying things. That's made me want to do
that more and lean more into that. And that's all
because of having an app on my phone.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yep, And you didn't then you want to be buying things,
you know, the basis for consumerism, I suppose, but it
hurts my brain. There's sometimes where like I'll lay in
bed and I and I still want to be on
my phone because I want to play my games. I
want to like do my little brain rotting, I guess,
as I call while also bed rotting, because most of
my day is very productive and I don't have that chance.
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But then I'm just like, why am I on this?
Why Why can't I just brain rot laying here without
doing anything for my brain or having to watch a
TV show or like even my winding down is consumed in.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That mean, Yeah, my winding down is watching TikTok till
my eyes hurt. That's not good.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yeah, Like I'll be falling as like my eyes are
closing and I'll be either like scrolling or I'm playing
a game, Like that's not good. You should be closing
your eyes like gently Finn asleep it's in the dark.
But I'm not. And I think about that a lot.
I've had rude awakenings a lot recently, if you can't tell,
I've also had a lot of crash outs and spirals.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
You personally or I was like, that's your algorithm. You
see other people crashing.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Out completely myself or I will just like be on
something for so long and it's it's partially from looking
at a bunch of vendors where there's like fifteen different things,
and I'm like, I have looked at the same photo
five thousand times and my brain just falls apart and
then I have a crash out because I can't. It's
like I'm you know, when you watch a computer try
(42:28):
and do too many things at once. Mine just did it.
It literally just like dies, that's what my brain does,
and I just completely crash out. It's a it's a.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Weird experience, just locks up. You get the circle of death.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Literally, and I'm just like. My fiance will come home
from work and I'm just like, I don't know, and
he's like, are you are you broken? Are you like
is there life inside of you? Like what is happening?
Have you never had a crash out or like a
spiral like that or your whole body just kind of
like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah? I haven't had in a while, though luckily I've
had to do therapy itself to manage those things in medication.
So luckily the tools I've learned have kept me from that.
I get close to it and I can feel it,
but no, not a super bad crash out recently.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah, Yeah, that's weird, but it's also like overloaded. I
think of all the stress that everybody is under on
any normal given day, like a job. Me and we
look at just our jobs in general. We have a
lot of things that we have to do and accomplish. Yeah,
and then you add life, social health and fitness, cooking
your food, taking care of like see, then I started
to crash out of it. I started thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
That's why I go for twenty mile runs. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Oh I yeah, I wish I could mike.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It's all that steam. Just that's where I'm not bothered.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
It's so true, and I would love to do that,
but I would crash out on the run. My body'd
be like, what are you trying to add to our thing?
And I would be like five miles from this is
like when I tried rollerblading for the first time to
like again, to pick it up as an adult and
give me something to do, and I crashed five minutes
from my house.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I think it's just a matter of finding something where
you're not being notified or you're not looking at anything.
Whatever that is it worked you're doing. Was it disc
all for a while?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, I'm trying everything the problem is finding time to
do set through and then I crash out trying to
I just there's a lot going on in my library.
It's really just like planning and organizing and all the things.
There's just a heavy mental load trying to do a
bunch of things at one time. I like, it's also
(44:33):
exciting stuff, but it's just you know, when you're your
to do list looks more long than your grocery list,
you're kind of like, Okay, one day that'll hopefully not
be there. But anyways, I just had a small crashout
right there.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
We wouldn't sitd in real time?
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Did you saw my brain doing it? But Mike, thanks
for joining coming on.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
This was good.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah, you're seeing we have a Oh my, I don't
know any more what I was trying to say. Tell
everybody where they can find you and hear you.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
You can listen to my podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast,
new episodes every single Monday, and I am on social
media at Mike Distro on literally everything.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
I love it. And you can follow the show at
Bobby Bone Show. And I'm gonna go before my bride
shuts down completely.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Bye everybody, Bye. That's the best bits of the Week
with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out
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