August 30, 2025 • 25 mins
Morgan and Mike D answer listener questions! Mike D answers listener questions about his movie watching, running, and the old version of him. Plus, Morgan and Mike D share their favorite vegetarian meals and snacks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The best bits of the week with Morgan. It's Listener
Q daytime.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're Morgan in a show member answer almost all your questions.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's time to answer some listener questions and Mike D
is joining me.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
What's up Mike the questions?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Are you ready to answer all the questions?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I think I'm ready? Questions make me nervous?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Why do they make you nervous? They're always about movies
and you're running?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Yeah, I guess yeah. I think sometimes answering questions about
myself feels weird.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Oh well, at.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Least you're not the one like answering them, you know,
I ask you okay, so hopefully that makes it better.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Is Mike D still trying to be a Rotten Tomatoes
critic erin.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I've given up on that dream.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I applied for three, maybe four years straight, and I
don't even think they take applications anymore because they stop.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The criteria was so hard to get in.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
It led me to believe that they don't really accept
anybody like they have people who either they know or
you have to kind of be in some kind of circle.
Because I met every single requirement to become an official critic,
and they never allowed it like the first couple of
years they were like, now you have to do something
for a year. And I'd maybe started my podcast that
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same year that I applied, so that was twenty nineteen,
and they just never accepted it. Even after I'd been
doing it for one to two years. Send them all
my credentials. They're like, now you don't meet the requirements.
So it led me to believe that they don't really
take real people. And now that I don't even see
the applications open up, I just think it's all a sham.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You need to go down the conspiracy theory threat I
find not if your accusition's true.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I think the only thing legit on there is the
audience score, because you can sign up for an account
and contribute to that, and I'm like, I want to
do that. I'll do that on my letterbox for all
my podcast. But aside from that, I'm like, ah, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Done with you, Ron too.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Do you trust their scores still or have you also
backed off of that?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I also don't look at the scores anymore because when
I go watch a movie, don't.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I don't want to be influence anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
So if I know what the score is going into it,
it's going to change my mentality on it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And I won't even.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Go look at anybody else's review until after I've recorded mine,
because I don't want to accidentally take what they felt
about the movie or some kind of inspiration from those reviews.
So I'll go watch a movie, record mine, and then
dive into what everybody else is saying and maybe bring
it up later. But I just like to be completely
in my own perspective.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Okay, well, there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's why you're also the expert. Do you take notes
during the movie for your podcast? More and from Austin,
I do.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I set my phone to like the dark mode because
you can't see it, and then I'll take notes throughout.
If I see something that I'm like, oh, that'd be
funny to talk about, or an interesting point, I'll always
write the title of the movie and then all my
random thoughts. So before I sit down to record a review,
I just have all these things like weird camera angle,
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awkward facial inter interaction, or like weird line, or just
something about the plot or a song or something, and
then I'll just kind of go down through all my
notes as I do my review.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So always taking notes.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
If I don't take notes or hit my timer on
how long the movie is, I feel off.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Really yeah, do you feel like it takes away from
getting to enjoy the movie?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Do you ever go to a movie and not take notes?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
If it's a really big movie like a Spider Man
or Avengers, those are so big where I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Gonna forget any little details.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
So for those movies, I'll maybe take two to three notes,
and it's something like very specific that I see that
I'm like, I don't think everybody else is going to
pick up on that. I need to make a note
of that so I.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Can talk about it.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
But those movies I could go into and just freeball
it and not do anything and just just experience it
as a fan. Because since I do go to the
movies once or twice a week, there are some that
are gonna be movies that I would watch no matter what,
Like even if I wasn't doing a podcast, I would
still make it a point to go see them. But
there are some that I'm like, Okay, I gotta watch
a new movie this week. It's probably gonna be number one.
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I gotta go check it out. And some of those
feel a little bit. I still enjoy them, but at
times they feel like a little bit more of a
chore to watch, and I'm like, I gotta find some
angle here and to take some notes. So there are
some like the big ones, like Marble ones. Usually I
don't have to take notes.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
That makes sense. Well, you're also probably really amped for
those two.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, I'm just gonna remember that.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I'm just I'm gonna remember that forever, so I don't
need to take notes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
CALLI and Vegas.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
What is each of your go to vegetarian meals to
make and fun snack.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
For vegan meals?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
A lot of mine are tofu based, which I know
a lot of people have, like you think tofu is disgusting,
but I'm really grown to like it, and I think
with some seasoning and mixing it with things that like,
it absorbs all the flavor. So I would encourage anybody
who's thinking about vegetarian or vegan diet just looking up
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some recipes on TikTok. You can like put like batter
on them and like fry them, throw them in the
air fryer.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You can do all kinds of.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Things with tofu to make it delicious, And I like
find those type of recipes like chili.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Lime tofu like.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It's good like it to me, it is my version
of like like a chicken nugget.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
If I make it a certain way.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Can you make tofouo like a chicken nugget?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah, if you throw it in the air fryer with
like some spices and some kind of like oil, like
avocado oil, it gets pretty crispy.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I'm just gonna have to trust you on that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm one of them, like a chicken nugget kind of sewer.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Like You're gonna be very aware this is not a
chicken nugget, But as far as like having something that
has a bit of a crunch to it, that's as
close as you can get.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, I'm trusting you on that because I'm I'm not
a tofoo girl.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
What about your snack?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I'm really weird that I love dates. I think I'm
the only person I've ever met and loves dates.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I love dates.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, maybe I've met two people.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Now, Okay, I eat them with almond butter and sea salt.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah, I'll go to Costco and get the big thing
of dates, and usually I'll just eat them like that.
If it's like a like a weekend thing. I'll put
peanut butter on them.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It's a weekend snack.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's a weekend sag.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I have like different snacks that are like that's that's
a weekday snack, and that's a weekend snack.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
What's a weekday snack.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
A weekday snack is like something crunchy, Like my weekday
snack is like those pop corners, Like that's a weekday snack.
That's something like at the end of the day, like
I'm watching a TV show or something. It's a good
little crunch at the end of the day. On the weekend,
it's like I do something a little bit sweeter, a
little bit something that feels more like a celebration at
the end of the week. That's what I'll throw in
some dates with peanut butter. That's a weekend snack.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I love I just love when humans have fun things
like that.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I have stuff like that all Like I have certain
mugs that I use on certain days. I have a
Friday mug. I have a Saturday and a Sunday mug.
I have a specific fork I have to use every day.
I have different things assigned to different days in different
times all throughout my life.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I like that that some people might find that strange,
but I feel like that's cool.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't know humans are cool anyways.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
My vegetarian meal that I love to make are really
gear Like I really will lean towards Mexican food because
it's the easiest to be vegetarian with, and I love
making enchiladas of all kinds. I made breakfast enchilada sweet
potato enchiladas. Recently, I've been making these smoky black bean
and mango guacamole tacos with some crispy taco shells, and
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those have been really yummy because that's now my new
my new vecan clue free diet, and so those are
those have been good. And then snack wise, I like
making Trader Joe's has the best nuts and combination of nuts,
so I always get different, like I'll get some flower
seeds and I'll get their pistaschio nuts and meats is
what it's called, don't ask me why, and I'll get
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raisins and I kind of make my own trail max.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So that's one of my favorite snacks right now. I
love nuts.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, that was one of the things I was excited
to eat after I got my braces off because I
couldn't have any nuts or almonds, and I love cashews
and I love almonds.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So you can make your own trail mix. Now, have
you been a trader Joe had their nuts?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't think. I think I've had their cashews, but
not nothing like the mix things.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Okay, they're not. I make my own mixes.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I just get all the individual ones and like create
my own little trail mix.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You would like it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They have the best kind, but this would be the
tube for me. Is there any food you've missed since
going vegan? Jin in Oklahoma City? We did talk a
little bit about this whole journey and stuff on part one,
but I still want you to answer.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I'd say the only thing I really miss is like
a Pepperoni pizza. Like I haven't had a Pepperoni pizza
in probably over ten years at this point.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Would you have a Pepperoni pizza just to have like a.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Bite that would I don't know, Like I haven't had
meating so long, I don't know if i'd go pepperoni
pizza first. Yeah, I'd probably go like chicken tender before
I went pepperoni pizza. But I used to love going
to CC's and I would just crush, like just plates
of pizza. I would say that's the one thing I
missed the most because I've had like vegan pizza, which
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I don't really feel is like real pizza.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It doesn't really taste the same. Yeah, but there's just
something about that crunch of pepperoni.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's true that good old classic just og pizza when
the healthy ones are good, but the OG's.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, greasy, it's cheasy.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yes, I I for sure in my five days of
not having anything, I already miss chocolate. So there's that
anything sweet. I miss all of my sweets that would
be cool to have. So that's all I got. Mike
D's gone a lot longer, so this makes a lot
more sense. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Why do you not ever post any pictures of your
old self?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
We'd love to see the progress. This is from Jalen.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
That is an interesting question because I feel like I
used to do that a lot, maybe like when I
was five years or so away from when I lost
all my weight and where I felt like I was
documenting that a little bit more and I kind of
thought about it recently of even seeing like, even though
(10:06):
it's been pretty recent of like me getting my braces off,
it's weird to see me now with braces looking back
on that. So I think, really is that I don't
really recognize myself when I go back and look at
some of those pictures, not that I do it because
I'm a shamed there's also like I would say, maybe
three years of my life that aren't documented because I
didn't like taking pictures at all, Like I would take
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pictures of people, like of my family, but I would
never want to be in the picture. So I would
say maybe from like twenty eleven to like twenty thirteen,
there aren't even that many pictures of me just because
I hated it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I don't think I've made it a conscious thing to
like not post old pictures. But I think I haven't
really done like here's me ten years ago, here's me now,
Here's like how I did it, Like I just kind
of been a little bit more removed from that that
I kind of forgot that that was like a big
part of me for a while.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I know you did a video at one point where
you were like, here, this is my journey, and yeah,
this is what I did.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It's been a while since it, but I don't think.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You've ever not intentionally enough, and you've posted up I've
seen them. I just don't think you like scream it
all the time, post it all the time.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Yeah, I just like, I know that that is me
and those pictures, but it also doesn't feel like me
at this point. So even now, I think I'm going
to look back on pictures from like a couple of
years ago and be like, man, I look weird with racist.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Just judging yourself left and right, Mike, you the all
of those.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Are parts of your story.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Though I hope you know that and that's they're not
bad parts of your story.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You just see them as bad now.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yeah, because I think some people who maybe maybe they're
just stumbled upon me, probably don't even know that version
of me. And I think that's that's the only reason
I would do it, is because I think somebody could
stumble upon me like posting my long runs and think
like this is just some ushback who runs a lot
and post all of his workouts. But to know like
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where I came from, where like ten years ago, I
couldn't even walk a mile a little and run a mile,
So I think that would be the only reason I
would bring attention to that. Is it to be like,
I am not doing this because I'm like boasting about it.
I'm doing it because of like my journey to get
to that point, to be able to.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Do that, to where that is.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I guess I would say normal to me, But it
shouldn't be normal to me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I think you should start posting about it more just
for the sake of you deserve to tell that side
of your story, but also I think that's stuff that
people want to see and hear. People want people being
real and authentic, and I think that's a very real
part of your story.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I wish I had more videos of like me throughout
that journey that I could go back and look at.
But like I took like one picture before I started
losing my weight, which is the only one I could
usually post where it's like me with like no shirt
in front of a selfie. I don't I don't know
if I had an iPhone then I might've had a BlackBerry,
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But that was like the only picture I took that was.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Just for me.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I wasn't even I was never going to post that.
That was just for me to reference for myself. And
I think that first year I took a bunch of
progress pictures, but I wish I.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Had like like videos.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yea, I could kind of see it all and like
post a picture, post a video now with all that footage.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah that's true, but you could also still like you
still get the point across by doing your running videos
or anything and.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Like have your picture. There's ways we can talk about it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Part of me is thought of like, man, could I
go back and do that again? I don't. I don't
think I could.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I think the reason I don't want to say it
was easy for me, But the reason it was easier
for me is because I was in my twenties and
I think I still had like my metabolism on my
side then. Because I think of people who want to
do that now and like, like at my age or
thirties or even forties and fifties.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's hard to do.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
You don't have as much energy, it doesn't fall off
the same way. Your body is a whole lot different.
That's also when I was sharing my journey, I wish
I would have been more like I also did this
at twenty five, Like it's going to be different for everybody,
whether where you are at in your life, just because
body changes. I'm like, I don't know that I would
have as much success if I did it now then
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versus what I did it ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
See, but I think about talking about all those things
are important, and I think people want to hear that
and see you share those things. So I do think
you should if you feel comfortable in doing so, but
only if you do, because if you don't feel comfortable,
then the point is not going to be coming across
the same.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Have you ever been injured from running? How do you
mentally recover? Jordan in Wichitah.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I've I always take a tumble at least once a year.
And about a month ago I took a spill where I.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I was running and then I was paying attention to
my surroundings where I saw this car about a turn.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So I was like, all right, I gotta make sure
I either.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Turned before I get to them, so I don't like
do that awkward like oh I'm going to go, You're
gonna let me go type thing. And in between of
all that going on in my head, my foot got
like stuck in like a like a chunk in the
road where I didn't see it, and like my foot
immediately stopped and my body kept going. But I'm also
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so aware of it now at this point that I'm
a really good faller, Like I know how to fall
where I'm not going to injure myself. Like a lot
of people make the mistake of like trying to catch yourself,
and that's where you're going to like break something because
you're trying to catch yourself, You're gonna break like your
wrists or something. So I'm really good at doing like
the maybe it's like a gymnastics move or something where
you kind of take the tumble and you kind of
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roll in, you kind of roll into it. So the
only thing that got hurt from that, which I still
kind of have it is like I kind of like
caught my hand.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Just a little little bit.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I had like a scratch on my leg and then
my ankle didn't really I didn't really hurt it, but
it kind of just felt like that initial like I
feel like I just got punched there, so it didn't
really affect me that much, and once like my hand
kind of healed, like that was it. So I've been
really good about prepping my body before I run to
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make sure I don't get injured, because I think that's
where a lot of people do, is if you don't
stretch and you're not prepared for it, you just hop
right into it, which I could do back when I
was first starting out, Like I never stretched. Once I
hit thirty, I'm like, I gotta start stretching. So I
think stretching, I think it's whether you're running, whether you're
in the gym, lifting or just walking or doing whatever.
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I think stretching is really important because it's forming your
body up to reduce injury. So I've never been like
fully sidelined from running because I've I would feel fine
in saying that you're always kind of banged up, like
there's always something from running. That's why I don't even
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encourage it to people. You're always gonna be kind of
banged up because it is a physical thing that it
does take a toll on your body. Like luckily, like
all my joints and stuff were good, and like my
knees don't hurt, which is what a lot of people
try to discourage me from running. As much as I
do they're like, your knees are gonna hurt, You're good.
Like I was feeling that way when I wasn't doing
any physical activity. So it's like I don't know what
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to do here. I don't work out and my entire
body shuts down. I work out, and like, you also
have these injuries, So I'd rather do with the one
where I'm actually getting movement. But it is a physical
thing that it's gonna take a toll on you, and
there's always gonna be like your toe kind of hurts,
your ankle feels a little weird.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But it's kind of.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Like being hurt versus being injured where you're always gonna
hurt a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But if if you're.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Really injured where you're running and you're like, what I
do is the hop test before you run? If you
can like like a kind of like a high knee,
if anything hurts when you highknee, you should not run.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Okay, that's a good test.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That's the test.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I learned that on TikTok of like if you if
you hop kind of like you're just doing high knees
before you run and something hurts, probably shouldn't run. If
you can do that, and you feel fine, You're good
to go.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What if I feel that every day. Giving some perspective,
you're talking about Holleen, you always feel a little hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, that's just me. Every day.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I don't even run, So in perspective, my D is
right that you should just be active in general because
you're you're gonna be hurting about on.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Because it's not like I'm not at a point where
like my body is in pain at all times, but
it's just something where you're just kind of have wear
and tear. Much like you drive your car every day,
it's gonna have some wear and tear just from you're
gonna need an oil change. You're always gonna have something
that can probably have some attending to, which I feel
is also just a little bit with getting older. But
it's like anytime you do something physically, you're gonna just
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wear yourself out. Same thing like an athlete where they
might not get hurt every game that's going to keep
them from playing, but they're gonna get banged up. So
it's all about doing things to maintain yourself as much
as you can, like doing an EPs and salt bath,
doing some icy on, just doing things to kind of
help your body, which I would love to get a massage,
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but I cannot do it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
You can't do massage.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I can't physically put myself through them because it feels
so I can't stop laughing.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Seriously, they are the best. You wanna talk about relaxing
and nothing about anything. I just melt. I'm like a
piece of butter. Put me on the.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Bed and I just melt like I can't do anything
where somebody is like touching me and like I just
can't stop laughing.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's funny. It's having a runner body. You definitely need that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I would, yeah, I would love it because I feel
like it would be very beneficial to me to just
like have like these things because like my legs do
get very tight, so I do like I don't know
what that like that roller thing is called. You just
roll on it and that I feel so much better
after that, And like, man if I had like a
real legit massage, I know, it feels okay, okay, hear
me out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Maybe you take a gummy not the one that makes
you laugh, because there's different ones. There's one you'll definitely
laugh the more on, but there's ones that decompress you
and like stress goes down, and maybe if you take
one of those before a massage, but then you might
be dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I feel like you should try it.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I feel like this is how you can potentially you know,
this is a little and.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Then you and you do shorter ones because all the
ones I've seen are like an hour.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, you could do a thirty minute massage.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's just you get it's worth more to do an
hour massage because the payment is to be there. We
could definitely do a thirty minute massage and.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Like test it out.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, because I don't know if I could.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I I feel like thirty minutes would be a lot
for me, Like I'd be like maybe ten to fifteen,
but maybe meeting at thirty.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Are you overall ticklish or do you have certain ticklish spots?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
My calves are really take it just feels funny.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I think I am pretty pretty much overly ticulations in
every part of my body except like my feet.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Okay, well you could always go into one and tell
them be like, hey, guys, I'm a little tickles to see.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
How this goes, and you should be really gentle with
me and they'll like gear it towards you you need
to have a massage.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I think your body would appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
And sometimes I feel like I just need to be like,
you know, like the baking rolling pin, Like I just
feel like I need that over my whole body, just
like just like flattened out and like cranked out.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm sure you buy that online and I bet you
can happen that's what you need. Maybe A silly question
about how long do your shoes last after all of
that running Alida in Texas.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
This is a great question.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It's one of my favorite things is I love putting
wear and tear on shoes because I see people like
running influencers, they have like brand new shoes all the
time and they're never dirty.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'm like, it's not fun.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Like the fun part about getting running shoes to me
is how dirty I can get them. And right now,
I I've gotten to a point where I think it's
better to have two different pairs at the same time,
because before, I mean this was just this year that
I started doing this, I have like two pairs that
I kind of rotate between. I have one pair for
long runs that are they have a little bit more
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like ankle support. Just because I am conscious of like
how I did fall, Like I want to make sure
my ankle is supported.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
And then I have another pair that are a little
bit more.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Cushion they have, like they're thicker and a little bit
less support, but I feel like they're better for like
recovery runs of like I'm just cruising here. So for
each one of those, they say between three hundred to
five hundred miles, So for me, that's about if I
ran just in one pair, they would last me three months,
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which is like a good amount of run issues they
run through. So I was like, if I have two
different ones, I'm putting on half the miles on each
of them, maybe I can extend.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
But right now, with both the pairs I've been running
in for the last maybe two and a half months,
I'm probably nearing the end of them, and I can
kind of just tell by how dirty they get and
how much the souls just kind of start to wear out.
Whenever you can like feel the road and you feel
like a rock kind of hits you, You're like, Okay,
these are starting to wear out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I feel like a running company needs to be created
where it's kind of like a Bombas or like a
Tom's where and maybe there's this more donating somewhere else,
but maybe that you can donate your used running shoes
and they can recycle them to make new running shoes.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Is there something like that that exists.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I know Nike makes some with like recycled and they're
actually kind of cool because they have like that weird
like speckled material to them. I don't know if they
do it from old running shoes or where they get
those materials. I don't That could just be like recycled
plastics that they put in the soles.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Those do look cool. I have a pair of those.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I see, and that's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
But I feel like that would be so smart because
if you have this experience most people have like a
running any runner is gonna probably have a similar experience
if they run as much as you do.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
There should be a company that does this because it
would be so good for the environment. You make a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Because someone did ask me one time, like what I
do with my old shoes, and as much as I
would like to donate them, nobody would want. They're so
dirty and they smell so bad by the end of it,
especially in the summer.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Where it's just like all the sweat just goes to
your feet. You're like nobody wants.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
These, yeah, and so you have to throw them away,
but you could recycle.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I do feel bad throwing those things away because it's like, dang,
these are like shoes, like I know, but it's like
they're they're unusable.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Hey, I found your new business idea there.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It is one for one shoes.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, I feel like that would be a billion dollar company.
That one feels good to me because I feel like
it would work and you'd be helping because all the
runners would do it, especially if you get like a
high quality running shoes that you put together and you're runner,
so you know what those would be like just saying
shark shark tank.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Shark tank right here on best Bits, giving you ten
percent of my company for five.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Dollars, Yes, somebody do it.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Tell me just give me like two percent of the
company so I can just be part of it. All right,
we're gonna get out of here. Mike, thanks for joining me,
Thanks for answering all the questions.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Thank you, and.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Check out his podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
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want something else to listen to.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Two. Mine is not about movies, so it's much more heartfelt.
Mike D's heartfelt about movies. That's where we never and
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're Morgan in a show member answer almost all your questions.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's time to answer some listener questions and Mike D
is joining me.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
What's up Mike the questions?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Are you ready to answer all the questions?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I think I'm ready? Questions make me nervous?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Why do they make you nervous? They're always about movies
and you're running?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Yeah, I guess yeah. I think sometimes answering questions about
myself feels weird.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Oh well, at.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Least you're not the one like answering them, you know,
I ask you okay, so hopefully that makes it better.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Is Mike D still trying to be a Rotten Tomatoes
critic erin.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I've given up on that dream.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I applied for three, maybe four years straight, and I
don't even think they take applications anymore because they stop.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The criteria was so hard to get in.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
It led me to believe that they don't really accept
anybody like they have people who either they know or
you have to kind of be in some kind of circle.
Because I met every single requirement to become an official critic,
and they never allowed it like the first couple of
years they were like, now you have to do something
for a year. And I'd maybe started my podcast that
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same year that I applied, so that was twenty nineteen,
and they just never accepted it. Even after I'd been
doing it for one to two years. Send them all
my credentials. They're like, now you don't meet the requirements.
So it led me to believe that they don't really
take real people. And now that I don't even see
the applications open up, I just think it's all a sham.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You need to go down the conspiracy theory threat I
find not if your accusition's true.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I think the only thing legit on there is the
audience score, because you can sign up for an account
and contribute to that, and I'm like, I want to
do that. I'll do that on my letterbox for all
my podcast. But aside from that, I'm like, ah, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Done with you, Ron too.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Do you trust their scores still or have you also
backed off of that?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I also don't look at the scores anymore because when
I go watch a movie, don't.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I don't want to be influence anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
So if I know what the score is going into it,
it's going to change my mentality on it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And I won't even.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Go look at anybody else's review until after I've recorded mine,
because I don't want to accidentally take what they felt
about the movie or some kind of inspiration from those reviews.
So I'll go watch a movie, record mine, and then
dive into what everybody else is saying and maybe bring
it up later. But I just like to be completely
in my own perspective.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Okay, well, there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's why you're also the expert. Do you take notes
during the movie for your podcast? More and from Austin,
I do.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I set my phone to like the dark mode because
you can't see it, and then I'll take notes throughout.
If I see something that I'm like, oh, that'd be
funny to talk about, or an interesting point, I'll always
write the title of the movie and then all my
random thoughts. So before I sit down to record a review,
I just have all these things like weird camera angle,
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awkward facial inter interaction, or like weird line, or just
something about the plot or a song or something, and
then I'll just kind of go down through all my
notes as I do my review.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So always taking notes.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
If I don't take notes or hit my timer on
how long the movie is, I feel off.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Really yeah, do you feel like it takes away from
getting to enjoy the movie?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Do you ever go to a movie and not take notes?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
If it's a really big movie like a Spider Man
or Avengers, those are so big where I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Gonna forget any little details.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
So for those movies, I'll maybe take two to three notes,
and it's something like very specific that I see that
I'm like, I don't think everybody else is going to
pick up on that. I need to make a note
of that so I.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Can talk about it.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
But those movies I could go into and just freeball
it and not do anything and just just experience it
as a fan. Because since I do go to the
movies once or twice a week, there are some that
are gonna be movies that I would watch no matter what,
Like even if I wasn't doing a podcast, I would
still make it a point to go see them. But
there are some that I'm like, Okay, I gotta watch
a new movie this week. It's probably gonna be number one.
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I gotta go check it out. And some of those
feel a little bit. I still enjoy them, but at
times they feel like a little bit more of a
chore to watch, and I'm like, I gotta find some
angle here and to take some notes. So there are
some like the big ones, like Marble ones. Usually I
don't have to take notes.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
That makes sense. Well, you're also probably really amped for
those two.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, I'm just gonna remember that.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I'm just I'm gonna remember that forever, so I don't
need to take notes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
CALLI and Vegas.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
What is each of your go to vegetarian meals to
make and fun snack.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
For vegan meals?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
A lot of mine are tofu based, which I know
a lot of people have, like you think tofu is disgusting,
but I'm really grown to like it, and I think
with some seasoning and mixing it with things that like,
it absorbs all the flavor. So I would encourage anybody
who's thinking about vegetarian or vegan diet just looking up
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some recipes on TikTok. You can like put like batter
on them and like fry them, throw them in the
air fryer.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You can do all kinds of.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Things with tofu to make it delicious, And I like
find those type of recipes like chili.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Lime tofu like.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It's good like it to me, it is my version
of like like a chicken nugget.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
If I make it a certain way.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Can you make tofouo like a chicken nugget?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah, if you throw it in the air fryer with
like some spices and some kind of like oil, like
avocado oil, it gets pretty crispy.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I'm just gonna have to trust you on that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm one of them, like a chicken nugget kind of sewer.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Like You're gonna be very aware this is not a
chicken nugget, But as far as like having something that
has a bit of a crunch to it, that's as
close as you can get.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, I'm trusting you on that because I'm I'm not
a tofoo girl.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
What about your snack?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I'm really weird that I love dates. I think I'm
the only person I've ever met and loves dates.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I love dates.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, maybe I've met two people.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Now, Okay, I eat them with almond butter and sea salt.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah, I'll go to Costco and get the big thing
of dates, and usually I'll just eat them like that.
If it's like a like a weekend thing. I'll put
peanut butter on them.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It's a weekend snack.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's a weekend sag.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I have like different snacks that are like that's that's
a weekday snack, and that's a weekend snack.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
What's a weekday snack.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
A weekday snack is like something crunchy, Like my weekday
snack is like those pop corners, Like that's a weekday snack.
That's something like at the end of the day, like
I'm watching a TV show or something. It's a good
little crunch at the end of the day. On the weekend,
it's like I do something a little bit sweeter, a
little bit something that feels more like a celebration at
the end of the week. That's what I'll throw in
some dates with peanut butter. That's a weekend snack.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I love I just love when humans have fun things
like that.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I have stuff like that all Like I have certain
mugs that I use on certain days. I have a
Friday mug. I have a Saturday and a Sunday mug.
I have a specific fork I have to use every day.
I have different things assigned to different days in different
times all throughout my life.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I like that that some people might find that strange,
but I feel like that's cool.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I don't know humans are cool anyways.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
My vegetarian meal that I love to make are really
gear Like I really will lean towards Mexican food because
it's the easiest to be vegetarian with, and I love
making enchiladas of all kinds. I made breakfast enchilada sweet
potato enchiladas. Recently, I've been making these smoky black bean
and mango guacamole tacos with some crispy taco shells, and
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those have been really yummy because that's now my new
my new vecan clue free diet, and so those are
those have been good. And then snack wise, I like
making Trader Joe's has the best nuts and combination of nuts,
so I always get different, like I'll get some flower
seeds and I'll get their pistaschio nuts and meats is
what it's called, don't ask me why, and I'll get
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raisins and I kind of make my own trail max.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So that's one of my favorite snacks right now. I
love nuts.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, that was one of the things I was excited
to eat after I got my braces off because I
couldn't have any nuts or almonds, and I love cashews
and I love almonds.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So you can make your own trail mix. Now, have
you been a trader Joe had their nuts?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't think. I think I've had their cashews, but
not nothing like the mix things.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Okay, they're not. I make my own mixes.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I just get all the individual ones and like create
my own little trail mix.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You would like it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They have the best kind, but this would be the
tube for me. Is there any food you've missed since
going vegan? Jin in Oklahoma City? We did talk a
little bit about this whole journey and stuff on part one,
but I still want you to answer.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
I'd say the only thing I really miss is like
a Pepperoni pizza. Like I haven't had a Pepperoni pizza
in probably over ten years at this point.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Would you have a Pepperoni pizza just to have like a.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Bite that would I don't know, Like I haven't had
meating so long, I don't know if i'd go pepperoni
pizza first. Yeah, I'd probably go like chicken tender before
I went pepperoni pizza. But I used to love going
to CC's and I would just crush, like just plates
of pizza. I would say that's the one thing I
missed the most because I've had like vegan pizza, which
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I don't really feel is like real pizza.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It doesn't really taste the same. Yeah, but there's just
something about that crunch of pepperoni.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's true that good old classic just og pizza when
the healthy ones are good, but the OG's.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, greasy, it's cheasy.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yes, I I for sure in my five days of
not having anything, I already miss chocolate. So there's that
anything sweet. I miss all of my sweets that would
be cool to have. So that's all I got. Mike
D's gone a lot longer, so this makes a lot
more sense. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Why do you not ever post any pictures of your
old self?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
We'd love to see the progress. This is from Jalen.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
That is an interesting question because I feel like I
used to do that a lot, maybe like when I
was five years or so away from when I lost
all my weight and where I felt like I was
documenting that a little bit more and I kind of
thought about it recently of even seeing like, even though
(10:06):
it's been pretty recent of like me getting my braces off,
it's weird to see me now with braces looking back
on that. So I think, really is that I don't
really recognize myself when I go back and look at
some of those pictures, not that I do it because
I'm a shamed there's also like I would say, maybe
three years of my life that aren't documented because I
didn't like taking pictures at all, Like I would take
(10:26):
pictures of people, like of my family, but I would
never want to be in the picture. So I would
say maybe from like twenty eleven to like twenty thirteen,
there aren't even that many pictures of me just because
I hated it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I don't think I've made it a conscious thing to
like not post old pictures. But I think I haven't
really done like here's me ten years ago, here's me now,
Here's like how I did it, Like I just kind
of been a little bit more removed from that that
I kind of forgot that that was like a big
part of me for a while.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I know you did a video at one point where
you were like, here, this is my journey, and yeah,
this is what I did.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It's been a while since it, but I don't think.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You've ever not intentionally enough, and you've posted up I've
seen them. I just don't think you like scream it
all the time, post it all the time.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Yeah, I just like, I know that that is me
and those pictures, but it also doesn't feel like me
at this point. So even now, I think I'm going
to look back on pictures from like a couple of
years ago and be like, man, I look weird with racist.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Just judging yourself left and right, Mike, you the all
of those.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Are parts of your story.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Though I hope you know that and that's they're not
bad parts of your story.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You just see them as bad now.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yeah, because I think some people who maybe maybe they're
just stumbled upon me, probably don't even know that version
of me. And I think that's that's the only reason
I would do it, is because I think somebody could
stumble upon me like posting my long runs and think
like this is just some ushback who runs a lot
and post all of his workouts. But to know like
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where I came from, where like ten years ago, I
couldn't even walk a mile a little and run a mile,
So I think that would be the only reason I
would bring attention to that. Is it to be like,
I am not doing this because I'm like boasting about it.
I'm doing it because of like my journey to get
to that point, to be able to.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Do that, to where that is.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I guess I would say normal to me, But it
shouldn't be normal to me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I think you should start posting about it more just
for the sake of you deserve to tell that side
of your story, but also I think that's stuff that
people want to see and hear. People want people being
real and authentic, and I think that's a very real
part of your story.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I wish I had more videos of like me throughout
that journey that I could go back and look at.
But like I took like one picture before I started
losing my weight, which is the only one I could
usually post where it's like me with like no shirt
in front of a selfie. I don't I don't know
if I had an iPhone then I might've had a BlackBerry,
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But that was like the only picture I took that was.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Just for me.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I wasn't even I was never going to post that.
That was just for me to reference for myself. And
I think that first year I took a bunch of
progress pictures, but I wish I.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Had like like videos.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yea, I could kind of see it all and like
post a picture, post a video now with all that footage.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah that's true, but you could also still like you
still get the point across by doing your running videos
or anything and.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Like have your picture. There's ways we can talk about it.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Part of me is thought of like, man, could I
go back and do that again? I don't. I don't
think I could.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I think the reason I don't want to say it
was easy for me, But the reason it was easier
for me is because I was in my twenties and
I think I still had like my metabolism on my
side then. Because I think of people who want to
do that now and like, like at my age or
thirties or even forties and fifties.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's hard to do.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
You don't have as much energy, it doesn't fall off
the same way. Your body is a whole lot different.
That's also when I was sharing my journey, I wish
I would have been more like I also did this
at twenty five, Like it's going to be different for everybody,
whether where you are at in your life, just because
body changes. I'm like, I don't know that I would
have as much success if I did it now then
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versus what I did it ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
See, but I think about talking about all those things
are important, and I think people want to hear that
and see you share those things. So I do think
you should if you feel comfortable in doing so, but
only if you do, because if you don't feel comfortable,
then the point is not going to be coming across
the same.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Have you ever been injured from running? How do you
mentally recover? Jordan in Wichitah.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I've I always take a tumble at least once a year.
And about a month ago I took a spill where I.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I was running and then I was paying attention to
my surroundings where I saw this car about a turn.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So I was like, all right, I gotta make sure
I either.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Turned before I get to them, so I don't like
do that awkward like oh I'm going to go, You're
gonna let me go type thing. And in between of
all that going on in my head, my foot got
like stuck in like a like a chunk in the
road where I didn't see it, and like my foot
immediately stopped and my body kept going. But I'm also
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so aware of it now at this point that I'm
a really good faller, Like I know how to fall
where I'm not going to injure myself. Like a lot
of people make the mistake of like trying to catch yourself,
and that's where you're going to like break something because
you're trying to catch yourself, You're gonna break like your
wrists or something. So I'm really good at doing like
the maybe it's like a gymnastics move or something where
you kind of take the tumble and you kind of
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roll in, you kind of roll into it. So the
only thing that got hurt from that, which I still
kind of have it is like I kind of like
caught my hand.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Just a little little bit.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I had like a scratch on my leg and then
my ankle didn't really I didn't really hurt it, but
it kind of just felt like that initial like I
feel like I just got punched there, so it didn't
really affect me that much, and once like my hand
kind of healed, like that was it. So I've been
really good about prepping my body before I run to
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make sure I don't get injured, because I think that's
where a lot of people do, is if you don't
stretch and you're not prepared for it, you just hop
right into it, which I could do back when I
was first starting out, Like I never stretched. Once I
hit thirty, I'm like, I gotta start stretching. So I
think stretching, I think it's whether you're running, whether you're
in the gym, lifting or just walking or doing whatever.
(16:46):
I think stretching is really important because it's forming your
body up to reduce injury. So I've never been like
fully sidelined from running because I've I would feel fine
in saying that you're always kind of banged up, like
there's always something from running. That's why I don't even
(17:06):
encourage it to people. You're always gonna be kind of
banged up because it is a physical thing that it
does take a toll on your body. Like luckily, like
all my joints and stuff were good, and like my
knees don't hurt, which is what a lot of people
try to discourage me from running. As much as I
do they're like, your knees are gonna hurt, You're good.
Like I was feeling that way when I wasn't doing
any physical activity. So it's like I don't know what
(17:28):
to do here. I don't work out and my entire
body shuts down. I work out, and like, you also
have these injuries, So I'd rather do with the one
where I'm actually getting movement. But it is a physical
thing that it's gonna take a toll on you, and
there's always gonna be like your toe kind of hurts,
your ankle feels a little weird.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But it's kind of.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Like being hurt versus being injured where you're always gonna
hurt a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But if if you're.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Really injured where you're running and you're like, what I
do is the hop test before you run? If you
can like like a kind of like a high knee,
if anything hurts when you highknee, you should not run.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Okay, that's a good test.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That's the test.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I learned that on TikTok of like if you if
you hop kind of like you're just doing high knees
before you run and something hurts, probably shouldn't run. If
you can do that, and you feel fine, You're good
to go.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What if I feel that every day. Giving some perspective,
you're talking about Holleen, you always feel a little hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, that's just me. Every day.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I don't even run, So in perspective, my D is
right that you should just be active in general because
you're you're gonna be hurting about on.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Because it's not like I'm not at a point where
like my body is in pain at all times, but
it's just something where you're just kind of have wear
and tear. Much like you drive your car every day,
it's gonna have some wear and tear just from you're
gonna need an oil change. You're always gonna have something
that can probably have some attending to, which I feel
is also just a little bit with getting older. But
it's like anytime you do something physically, you're gonna just
(18:57):
wear yourself out. Same thing like an athlete where they
might not get hurt every game that's going to keep
them from playing, but they're gonna get banged up. So
it's all about doing things to maintain yourself as much
as you can, like doing an EPs and salt bath,
doing some icy on, just doing things to kind of
help your body, which I would love to get a massage,
(19:18):
but I cannot do it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
You can't do massage.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I can't physically put myself through them because it feels
so I can't stop laughing.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Seriously, they are the best. You wanna talk about relaxing
and nothing about anything. I just melt. I'm like a
piece of butter. Put me on the.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Bed and I just melt like I can't do anything
where somebody is like touching me and like I just
can't stop laughing.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's funny. It's having a runner body. You definitely need that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I would, yeah, I would love it because I feel
like it would be very beneficial to me to just
like have like these things because like my legs do
get very tight, so I do like I don't know
what that like that roller thing is called. You just
roll on it and that I feel so much better
after that, And like, man if I had like a
real legit massage, I know, it feels okay, okay, hear
me out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Maybe you take a gummy not the one that makes
you laugh, because there's different ones. There's one you'll definitely
laugh the more on, but there's ones that decompress you
and like stress goes down, and maybe if you take
one of those before a massage, but then you might
be dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I feel like you should try it.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I feel like this is how you can potentially you know,
this is a little and.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Then you and you do shorter ones because all the
ones I've seen are like an hour.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, you could do a thirty minute massage.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
It's just you get it's worth more to do an
hour massage because the payment is to be there. We
could definitely do a thirty minute massage and.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Like test it out.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, because I don't know if I could.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
I I feel like thirty minutes would be a lot
for me, Like I'd be like maybe ten to fifteen,
but maybe meeting at thirty.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Are you overall ticklish or do you have certain ticklish spots?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
My calves are really take it just feels funny.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I think I am pretty pretty much overly ticulations in
every part of my body except like my feet.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Okay, well you could always go into one and tell
them be like, hey, guys, I'm a little tickles to see.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
How this goes, and you should be really gentle with
me and they'll like gear it towards you you need
to have a massage.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I think your body would appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
And sometimes I feel like I just need to be like,
you know, like the baking rolling pin, Like I just
feel like I need that over my whole body, just
like just like flattened out and like cranked out.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'm sure you buy that online and I bet you
can happen that's what you need. Maybe A silly question
about how long do your shoes last after all of
that running Alida in Texas.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
This is a great question.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It's one of my favorite things is I love putting
wear and tear on shoes because I see people like
running influencers, they have like brand new shoes all the
time and they're never dirty.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'm like, it's not fun.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Like the fun part about getting running shoes to me
is how dirty I can get them. And right now,
I I've gotten to a point where I think it's
better to have two different pairs at the same time,
because before, I mean this was just this year that
I started doing this, I have like two pairs that
I kind of rotate between. I have one pair for
long runs that are they have a little bit more
(22:18):
like ankle support. Just because I am conscious of like
how I did fall, Like I want to make sure
my ankle is supported.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
And then I have another pair that are a little
bit more.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Cushion they have, like they're thicker and a little bit
less support, but I feel like they're better for like
recovery runs of like I'm just cruising here. So for
each one of those, they say between three hundred to
five hundred miles, So for me, that's about if I
ran just in one pair, they would last me three months,
(22:50):
which is like a good amount of run issues they
run through. So I was like, if I have two
different ones, I'm putting on half the miles on each
of them, maybe I can extend.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
But right now, with both the pairs I've been running
in for the last maybe two and a half months,
I'm probably nearing the end of them, and I can
kind of just tell by how dirty they get and
how much the souls just kind of start to wear out.
Whenever you can like feel the road and you feel
like a rock kind of hits you, You're like, Okay,
these are starting to wear out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I feel like a running company needs to be created
where it's kind of like a Bombas or like a
Tom's where and maybe there's this more donating somewhere else,
but maybe that you can donate your used running shoes
and they can recycle them to make new running shoes.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Is there something like that that exists.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I know Nike makes some with like recycled and they're
actually kind of cool because they have like that weird
like speckled material to them. I don't know if they
do it from old running shoes or where they get
those materials. I don't That could just be like recycled
plastics that they put in the soles.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Those do look cool. I have a pair of those.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I see, and that's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
But I feel like that would be so smart because
if you have this experience most people have like a
running any runner is gonna probably have a similar experience
if they run as much as you do.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
There should be a company that does this because it
would be so good for the environment. You make a
lot of money.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Because someone did ask me one time, like what I
do with my old shoes, and as much as I
would like to donate them, nobody would want. They're so
dirty and they smell so bad by the end of it,
especially in the summer.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Where it's just like all the sweat just goes to
your feet. You're like nobody wants.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
These, yeah, and so you have to throw them away,
but you could recycle.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I do feel bad throwing those things away because it's like, dang,
these are like shoes, like I know, but it's like
they're they're unusable.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Hey, I found your new business idea there.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It is one for one shoes.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, I feel like that would be a billion dollar company.
That one feels good to me because I feel like
it would work and you'd be helping because all the
runners would do it, especially if you get like a
high quality running shoes that you put together and you're runner,
so you know what those would be like just saying
shark shark tank.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Shark tank right here on best Bits, giving you ten
percent of my company for five.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Dollars, Yes, somebody do it.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Tell me just give me like two percent of the
company so I can just be part of it. All right,
we're gonna get out of here. Mike, thanks for joining me,
Thanks for answering all the questions.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Thank you, and.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Check out his podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
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want something else to listen to.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Two. Mine is not about movies, so it's much more heartfelt.
Mike D's heartfelt about movies. That's where we never and
follow them. Where where can they follow you?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Mike destro on everything Yep, and you.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
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web Girl Morgan. All right, see you later, guys.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
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Speaker 2 (25:35):
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