The Bobby Bones Show - Best Bits: Morgan’s Festival Stories & Mike D Has Learned To Be Present

Episode Date: May 11, 2024

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend! Morgan shares some behind the scenes stories from the iHeartCountry Festival in Austin, Texas. Mike D opens up about how therapy has taught him to be in the present moment and how much it has helped him. They give their thoughts on the new movie ‘Unfrosted’ on Netflix, and reveal their version of the Met Gala. Plus, guilty pleasures and cicadas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Best Bits. I'm Morgan and I'm joined by the lovely Mike D. Hey. How you feeling today, Mike? I'm feeling good. How about you? I'm feeling good. It's a weekend. I'm happy. Well, it's about to be because, you know, we don't record this. Yeah. In this world, it is the weekend. Yeah, that's where we're getting to. All right, before we get into some stuff, best bits, in case you've missed it, what you're going to catch on part two. We've got how to approach women when dating draft of nicknames for money. I will tell you who won, who lost after you hear it. lunchbox taking things at our Art Country Festival. Very expensive things.

Thomas Rett stopped by the studio to talk about new music. We had the Bobby Bone Show Cinema Club, chose a new movie. Abby's huge concert is officially happening where she's making a lot of money. And Bobby Nettie wrote a personal song for a listener. That's quite the week. You know, every time I recap, I'm like, dang, we had a lot happen. For us, I think we just take it each day at a time. Yeah.

But then when I recap, I'm like, there's a lot happening. Okay, Mike, how's life? What's been going on with you lately? Life is good. I'm trying to be less stressed. I've been focused in therapy of like finding ways for me to relax a little bit and enjoy life. So speaking of the weekend, the weekend has now kind of become my time that I've kind of gained back. So it's just kind of nice to, in the last, I would say maybe month or so, that I've really allowed myself to break away from work. and just enjoy life. I think I was in a period of my life where I kept like waiting for a life to happen

and thinking like, oh, once I get to this point, I can enjoy things. And then I've kind of realized like life is happening now. You should be enjoying and taking time to do things you enjoy, to relax and to not do anything. If that's what you feel like doing like now. Like I can't wait for it. I think it's like whenever a New Year starts, I'm thinking, okay, I'm waiting for the spring. That's what it takes where to start happening. spring comes, I'm waiting for summer.

Summer comes. I'm waiting for fall. Like, that's where all the life things happen. But I've never just enjoyed the moment of where I am. Not living in the present moment. Yeah. I'm always like waiting and anticipating something. Usually anticipating something bad because I struggle with anxiety a lot.

And I'm always thinking of all the bad things that are going to happen. I try to prepare for that. And I never just allow myself to, okay, I'm here now. It's the weekend. I want to sit back and enjoy something. I want to read something. Spent some time of my wife and do things now that are just, like it's what I should be doing.

How does that feel that transition, like now that you are finally doing it, are you feeling more like, okay, I can make this happen, or are you still a little bit anxious about that process? I think my anxiety levels have gone down a lot. I think just overall, even like my wife has noticed that I've been a little bit more calm and I've done little things like turning off my email notifications on the weekend or even sometimes like during the week when there's a set time, Like I live and die by my phone.

I'm always looking at it. I get an email and I immediately have to clear that off and do something. That is how I am. So I've become, that's kind of one thing I've done has been more intentional of at times turning it off and having like a set time of, okay, now I'm going to sit down and go back dive into this. Instead of just letting me have these constant little stressors hitting me throughout the day, I sit down at a time designated to that. And then that's when I'm going to focus on that. I think that's something I learned in therapy of like having. all like the stress that I usually have in anxiety is give yourself that time to deal with it

figure out what is ruining your day or what is keeping you from doing what you want to do do it in that time and then move on yeah that's super important this is a huge i feel like step for you based on just all the things you've talked to me about this is huge yeah it feels a lot better it's hard though because i think going to therapy i've always wanted to have like this moment where I'm like cured. Like I thought there was like a medicine of you do it. You take it. Oh yeah.

No, that's not how adult life works. I also thought it was like all you had to do is go to therapy and not do anything else outside of it. You still learn tools in that that you have to implicate into your life. So I think that's where I struggled a little bit. I just because I had all these things going on and I was like, okay, I can set apart this time for therapy and then go back to doing everything else. But you have to take.

It's like homework. You have to go to school and then do the homework in order for it to really work. And homework that you have to do throughout the rest of your life. It's not just after therapy or the weekend after. It's throughout the remainder of your time on earth. Yeah. Like even if you say you stop going to therapy, you still have to use the tools that you've learned, like, throughout your life. Like, okay, I can't really do this anymore, but I can still take everything I learned.

That can't go away. Yeah. Kind of like the same way I approached to whenever I lost all my weight of, like, exercising. Like, if you just go to the gym once and expect to get healthy, that's not really good. work. No, but you know, that would be really cool. Yeah, that would be amazing. Like, you just have to walk in. Yeah. Yeah, I think because sometimes I would go to the gym and be like, oh, just because I come here, like, I'm good, but you also have to go there, put the work in, do things that are going to help you later. So it's showing up, yes, is important, but it's also doing the work outside of it

and making sure you're kind of working all encompassing to help yourself instead of just, okay, here's this part of it. Yeah, dang. Well, that was, I started to us up. strong, Mike D. That's like a, I feel like a big thing that's happening in your life when you just came out guns blazing. I think that's just how I've been feeling lately, especially like with our job of, I've become more, I've kind of learned how to structure everything better. So I don't think there will ever be that work life balance.

It's perfect because some weeks it just, we have more work. We have travel. It'll always kind of flare up. But it's kind of learning to have like this internal thing of like how to take that on and able to deal with it instead of it just being like so draining on me all the time. Yeah, you know, I can relate to that. I feel like I've really become in a good place and maybe it's just this time period of our lives. Maybe they're, you know, maybe the moon is perfectly aligned. I don't know. But I feel that way. I've really tried in the last year or so to just put work, work is work.

And I get to have a life. I get to do and be somebody else outside of my job and my life here. and that's hard. It's harder than you think. Really hard for me. Yeah. I think for me it's been telling myself, is this going to matter in like another month? Yeah.

In six months or in a year. Like, is this really going to matter right now? Like, I'm always going to do my job to my best, the best of my ability. But sometimes it's just like, is this thing really worth like crushing myself over right now?

And if it's not, then okay, I'll get to it later or maybe I screwed it up. I could not agree more. Is it like, I like to think when I am laying in whatever sweet little ending of my life I have, what's actually going to matter? And when I look at that, it's very little things that are on that list that exist. You know what I mean? And they're not, me making sure our tweet got sent out at this perfect amount of time. Exactly.

Yeah, so I feel like, well, I'm really happy for you. And it's also led to me sleeping better, which was like the root of where I really, where the first time I went to go see. a doctor because I was so like just not sleeping, not resting well. And I'm, I take sleep medication. But as of late, I've just been having better sleep that I find just changes my overall mood. And also like when I go work out, I have more energy. And it's weird how important sleep truly is and how much it just like refreshes and recharges your body. Oh yeah. It's it's literally our battery. If we had a battery like a phone, sleep is our battery. It's like a magical process. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. Well, Mike D is, I mean, you're, you have a little bit of a kind of glow about you, but it's not like, you know, when people like her start dating or a woman's pregnant or whatever, it's not that kind of glow. But you do feel like just, you feel calm. You don't feel like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Yeah. I think it's allowed me to be a little bit less high-strung, which I found like, I don't think most people I meet would take that away from me. Most people think I'm a pretty chill, calm guy. But inside I'm like,

like, freaking going crazy inside my head. It's like your inside and out character is which one? Well, from the new movie, probably anxiety. Okay. I was like, well, I think of like how when I describe my internal feelings, like mine is this little butterfly that keeps wanting to come out in all different ways. Maybe yours is like a ping pong and it's just hitting all the different walls. Oh, you should mean inside out like just inside or you meant the movie?

Because I was thinking of the emotions in the movie. I was thinking of both. I didn't really articulate that very well. But I was thinking inside out of the movie, but like your own version. Like what that kind of looks like. I always attribute myself to being like a cat that's not used to being around people. Yeah. Like whenever you go to somebody's house and they have a cat, they're not used to being around

people and they kind of like see everybody freak out and they like run away. Like that is me internally. I like it. That's a better inside out character. Okay. Well, I have two stories from our I heart country festival that I want to share with you. If you're cool with that. They're like these behind the scenes one.

So one of them, I got to take a pre-show shot with Old Dominion. That was exciting for me, mostly because I haven't had a tequila shot in a long time. Yeah, I can't remember. I think the last time I had one, we went out to dinner on vacation somewhere. Maybe it was New York, and they give you a free tequila shot. And I don't drink tequila, but they were like, it's free. I was going to say, you can't turn down free shots. But it was like really warm and not great, but I was, hey, it's still fun.

It was free. Yeah, it's part of the experience of getting something for free. but no, I went in there and it was funny. Apparently they do this every time before every show. Before they ever get on stage, they take a pre-show tequila shot together. It's like their way of coming together before the show starts. I was like, dang, I'm not part of Old Dominion. This feels cool.

But there was like 50 other people in there. They still did it with Old Dominion. Yeah, it was cool. And then Matt Ramsey and I sat there and talked about dogs for like 20 minutes. And his guy was like, dude, we got to go. And I'm like, sorry, talking about animals. Yeah, Matt Ramsey's are really. nice guy. Speaking of like vacation and old Dominion, one time we were in Lake Tahoe, me and my wife,

just randomly, I go into the bathroom at the restaurant and Matt Ramsey is in there and he's like, hey, what's up? Like, what are you doing here? It's like, what are you doing here? So random. But they're super nice guys. So that's funny. Did you ever find out why they were there where they had a show or something? They had a show the night before. Got it. And then they stayed for an extra night and they just happened to be at the same restaurant during the same time. Like we had show vacation and they were out there too. But of all the people that are running into the bathroom. And all the places in the world. That were both there at that restaurant in the bathroom.

It's always funny. Isn't that called like serendipity or something? It's meant to happen. Yeah. Is that the right word? So that was really cool, like behind the scenes moment. And then I got to meet the actor who you may know, Adet Annabel.

Have you heard that name? It's from Supergirl. Yeah. She's the villain, Rain, and Supergirl. And I loved her in that. She's also in a movie called You Again. Which I don't know if you've seen it with Kristen Bell and Jane. I think her name's what's the, who is the lady in Freaky Friday, the older lady?

Her name is a escape, Jamie Lee Curtis. Yes, thank you. Sorry, I knew start with a Jay. Well, you had me on Jay. I was like, Jay Fonda. No way, no, Jamie Lee Curtis. I know, I wanted to say Jane Fonda, but I knew that was the name that came to my head in that moment. Yeah, also, also a great movie.

But yeah, she was the actor and I totally geeked out. Like nobody else, so people knew her because she's also on Walker, I guess. on CW, which I haven't started watching yet. But I saw her and I was like, oh my God, why do I know her? I saw her multiple times. She was in the back like green room where we were. And I just kept kind of looking at her like, why do I know you? And then finally, finally, it took me, gosh, Mike. I mean, we were towards the end of the night when I finally figured it out. And I stopped her when she came back and I was like, I'm so sorry to do this. But like, I loved you and Supergirl. You were so amazing. And we sat there and geeked out about Supergirl for like 10 minutes.

I thought you could tell her, what do I know you from? I thought you gave up. I thought about that. I did think, because I was being so frustrated with myself. Because you can't, like, take a picture of somebody and, like, Google that, can you? You can, yeah, actually. Well, that'd be creepy. You could take a picture over and then throw it into Google and it would show you all the results.

That's probably true. That's probably true. But I did not. So I didn't get to that point. I thought about it, though. If I couldn't remember I was going to, because I knew she was actress and I just couldn't remember what she was in. but then when I finally realized it because Supergirl is one of my favorite

like superhero TV shows just the women empowerment side of it and a female superhero and I like Gator who is one of our kind of bigwigs sat there and he's like I feel like I just watched a superhero podcast like I was sitting there geeking out

the whole time he was like but he did great he was like you weren't like overboard I was like are you sure because I kind of felt like I was and then we took cute pictures together and she was really nice so I had a great interaction I really got into all the CW superhero shows. I dove in.

I went like full body jump in the pool on those. I did all of them. I did watch the flash finale just because I love the finale, the series finale to anything. So I'd never seen an episode of that show, but I was like, oh, the finale's coming on. I want to see how they end this whole thing. Didn't really know what was going on. Yeah, you would have had to watch a lot to know what was happening in that finale. Because that was the finale of eight seasons.

Yeah, it was on forever. Yeah. And did you ever watch the finale of? Arrow. Arrow was another one that was long. Didn't see that one. Okay. So, yeah, you've got Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow were the ones that I think I watched. And I, yeah,

I went hard on all of them. That's where I have a little nerdy. And so, yeah, that's what's going on in my life right now. Also, I'm going to Fort Worth. I'll be in Fort Worth. Well, this podcast will have aired after I'd been in there. I get sent for like 24 hours to go to Fort Worth to go to a Warren's Ider show for

Wild Turkey. And you never been in to Fort Worth? Never been to Fort Worth. Have you been? Yeah, I mean, I was from, I'm from DFW, which is Dallas, Fort Worth. Got it. So Fort Worth was, like, west of where I grew up in Waxahatchie. But between Dallas and Fort Worth, I would hardly go to Fort Worth, just because Dallas was so much closer. And, like, in my head, Fort Worth is kind of the rival of Dallas, even though it's one big metroplex. But, like, they have the stockyard there.

The only time I really remember going as a kid, they have an amazing zoo in Fort Worth. That is all you remember from Fort Worth. Yeah. We would go like, oh, we're going to the Dallas Zoo. We're going to the Fort Worth Zoo. All right. Like, that's the Good Zoo. Dang, they had the Good Zoo over Dallas.

Yeah, and then I would go to a lot of shows there because a lot of the bands that I liked would always play this theater in Fort Worth. Okay. So that would really be the only time. It's not Billy Bob's is it? Because Billy Bobbs is where we're going, I guess. I've still never been to Billy Bob's, but it was called the Ridgely Theater. I think they, I think it's still open.

Okay. Like old school kind of theater? Like a smaller theater? Yeah, like a smaller theater. Okay. So you have no food recommendations for me or anything? Not really. But it's like the more Texas side of the DFW.

Like Dallas is a little more fancy, ritsy. And then you find the real cowboys in Fort Worth. Well, dang. Okay. Real cowboys. I will be flying into Dallas and Ubering out to Fort Worth when my friends lives out there. But yeah, I've never been. And now I'm a little confused on my what to expect from Cowboys in Big Texas.

but I like it. I like it. So yeah, that's what's going on with me. Anything else you want to share before we take a little break? No, I just want to know how Fort Worth goes for you. You're smiling like you know something that I don't know. I guess the last time I was there was when we went for too much access to TCU. Is that also where it is? Gosh, there's so many freaking cities in Texas that are big.

And I just, they kind of all mesh together for me. Yeah. I know that's weird. Texas is just so huge. You could drive eight hours and still be in the state. Yeah. And I think, I know Austin. in so well because we've gone there a lot.

But like Fort Worth, Dallas, what's the other ones? They all blend together. San Antonio, Houston. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I genuinely think they're all the same. I don't think I've ever been to any of those, so I genuinely think they're all the same. That doesn't help me. But you keep smiling like, I don't know something about Fort Worth.

You're saying, I can't wait to see how it goes, makes me think something's going to happen. Yeah, I just never really hear people just going specifically to Fort Worth, but I guess because of the venue. Yeah, the venue, Billy Bob's and Warren's Island. and wild turkey. I mean, they're paying me, so that's pretty cool.

I'd go to Fort Worth for that. Right. And I have heard great things about the stockyards and Billy Bob's. Billy Bob's, right? Yeah, I mean, it's like a historic venue. A lot of people play there. And it's Warren Ziders. He's fun to watch, right?

You are giving me some... I've never seen him. All right. We're going to take a quick break. Mike's freaking me out. I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him. Hi, Dad. And just when I said that, my mom comes out of the kitchen and she says, I have some cookies and milk.

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WTF was my question, literally. I don't know how this movie got made or how Jerry Seinfeld thought it was funny. Mike, when I got down watching it, and I should say got done watching it, I fell asleep towards the end because I gave up. I was like, I have no idea what's happening. Not like no idea what's happening in the movie, just like genuinely, why is this on my TV screen? I thought I just had like really bad humor and I was like, maybe I just don't get it. hit it. Is it me? No, I think this is a movie that it's, they think it's funny and maybe on paper it was funny, but it felt like a bad Nickelodean TV show. Oh, it just, it was so weird on so many,

it wasn't even like, and it makes me feel better that you feel that way, because sometimes you see things differently than the way that I would see you. So I generally was like, oh, dang, I, I feel like I don't know what's happening. Because I think what it's trying to be is like a parody of all the brand movies that have come out recently. Like Air was the Nike story. Yeah. Or the Air Jordan story. They had the Blackberry movie last year, the Barbie movie.

So it was kind of trying to find something like, what could we make a funny not real biopic about for a product? And they chose Pop-Tarts. Which I think that the idea of it is funny. Or like an SNL sketch, maybe. Yeah. A whole movie. No. Like, and it just kept.

going. And the thing, and there was so many massive stars in it. Yeah. So my theory is Jerry Seinfeld directed this movie. The first movie's ever directed. He, I just hate that he thinks he's like the authority on what is funny. He does. And I don't think he's funny. Like, Seinfeld back in, you know, I never really got into Seinfeld. No, you guys made me watch it and I hated it. You know, like I just, like I get on paper why it's funny and why people would find it funny. But I think if he did that TV show now, it wouldn't be as successful. So, and then when comes to his stand-up, I've never been a fan of his stand-up. I don't find him that funny. And his real big thing in comedy is like finding very mundane things and making fun of them

and these odd observations. I just never found it funny. So for him to be like this authority on like telling even like what kind of people are funny and to have like the seal of approval, it's just weird. And I think a lot of people who are in the movie probably said yes because they wanted to do a project with Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah. So he could get anybody because every I don't know, six, seven minutes, there's another cameo. Seriously. There were so many big stars on that name. And, but not only that, like, has Jerry Seinfeld even put out anything recently besides this?

I mean, he still tours, but I mean, the last... But, like, as far as a movie or TV show? The B movie. Okay, yeah, and he wasn't even, like, physically in that. Yeah, animated character. And when it comes to movies, he's not really an actor. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was, I, like, my...

I kind of... I thought I was tripping a little bit. I genuinely was trying to understand what was going on on my TV screen. Yeah, I just felt like such a waste of time. Yeah. And a waste of all these actors and stars. And I love parodies and I like comedy movies and stuff. And it just wasn't bad.

Parodies are hard to make funny for an entire movie. There hasn't been a great parody movie probably since the scary movies from the 2000s. I feel like they could have done a comedy movie with like the undertone of some parody. And that would have gone over better. it felt like to your point that it was very, the whole thing was a parody, like an S&L skit. Yeah, just a really poorly done one. Oh my gosh, yeah. Okay.

Well, I just want to share thoughts because I, I'm not kidding. Like, Mike, I was like, did I take drugs and I just don't remember it? If you probably took drugs, you would have found the movie more funny. Probably. Probably would have made me feel like. Like, I was like, am I? Like, what am I missing? Because there was so many stars in it.

And I, like, Melissa McCarthy is hilarious to me. Yeah, I think whenever you have. that many stars in a movie. It's kind of a sign that a movie isn't going to be good. Whenever they're just like, look at who is all in this movie. That usually means it's not very good because they just found a bunch of stars and put their name on the poster and they sell that more than they sell the actual product. Because I can't believe you go to a screening or the premiere for that and think, man, that's a good movie. I can't see anybody who would sign off on that. I do wonder. Just because Seinfeld is on the name. That's so true. I wonder what it has on

Rotten Tomatoes. I would assume, oh, probably by the look of your face, it probably has higher than we're thinking. So I'm going to say 49%. I mean, higher than it definitely should be. It's not that quite high. It's 39% from critics. Okay.

55% from the audience. Wow, really? Sorry, 57. Yeah. I would feel it'd be much lower than that. I'm shocked. It feels more like in the teens for me. Oh, yeah.

Like, I'm not kidding. It should be in the zeros. I've only seen one other person who enjoyed it after I posted about it. Okay. I actually liked it. I was like, well, dang, good for you. What was their reason for liking it? I guess they just found it funny.

Top critics said, well, that person gave it 0.5. Yeah, no. See, this is why they won't let me on Rotten Tomatoes. I'd bring down that score. You would, but these top critics didn't like it either. It is eight. What do you call it when it fails on Rotten Tomatoes? A splat.

Splat. Yeah, it's a full splat. But it should be more of a splash. If that movie would have come out in theaters and not straight on Netflix, it would have bombed terribly. my gosh, you would have seen the first round of reviews came in and nobody else would have gone to see it. And those are the type of movies that I hate right now because they are ruining movies for everybody because, like, oh, it's a new movie on Netflix.

You see it and it's terrible. It makes you not want to go watch any other movie. No, I still will. I still will. That one, I'm like, that is just an isolated incident. All right. What is your Met Gala? I was thinking about this because every year, like, there's so many big events, but like the

Met Gala happens and people freak out over the Met Gala. I don't quite understand it. It's fine. It's cool. I think it's cool to see the content. It's like Halloween for rich people. It really is. Did you know it's $75,000 for a ticket?

I did not know that. One person to go to the Met gala. Have you ever been to the Met? I haven't. It's really cool. I kind of forget that it happens at the same place because they make it look completely different where everybody enters in and the steps and everything.

But the actual Met is really cool if you ever go to New York. Is it a museum? Yeah, it's like a giant museum. Okay. I did see Ariana Grande perform there. That was like a hidden video. I guess that wasn't supposed to be taking because you're not supposed to have phones in there.

Oh, yeah. Interesting. And apparently they also have performances at the MetGala and Ariana Grande perform. Yeah, it's super secret. Yeah. Oh, wow. So, okay, so maybe the Met Gala is your Met Gala. Is there anything else that could?

I would like to go to the Met Gala. I would, because it's also like you've achieved a level of fame where you're cool enough to be invited, like to actually be a part of it and go inside. I bet it's probably not as cool we all think because any of those events, once you actually go there, it's like, ah, this is fine. But it's, in our head, it's probably like, $75,000 a ticket? It's $75,000. That's insane. Yeah, so I would, that would be cool just because that means you made it. And also, I would get real into the fashion side of it.

Because for the most part, the guys wear pretty standard, like, tuxed you could wear to anything. Yeah. Some people step it up a notch. And I think you have to for something like that. You have to go full Hunger Games capital style. Oh my God. Yeah. Everybody on TikTok was comparing it to The Hunger Games. Yeah. Hilarious.

All in everybody's comments. Anybody who posted from the MetGala is like, this is the Hunger Games. Hilarious. So yeah, I think I would also enjoy that aspect of it of like finding a really cool designer to make something up that just looks MetGala-ish. Yeah. That's so true. Listen, if I didn't have to pay $75,000 a ticket, I would 1,000% be there.

Like I would be all about the dressing up. I would love to dress up every weekend. being on like cool outfits and things that are like I don't have to pay for or whatever yeah that'd be awesome yeah but besides that don't want to pay that ticket my like for me the thing that I get so crazy about kind of like how people go over the met gala is Comic-Con oh yeah that's another one I love seeing the content from Comic-Con and someday I hope to attend it and like be there experience it and dress up as a superhero don't know which one but one of them and like be a part of that that's my Metgala Like the OG San Diego or New York.

OG going out to San Diego. Also because I've never been to San Diego. Yeah, me neither. And I feel like that would be a cool experience. But then like that, the San Diego one is where all the cool superhero stuff happens. Yeah. That's where they like announce all the movies and everything. Yeah.

And then I get like truly geek out in person. I'd be like one of all the people dressed up like something happening. I don't know. That's just my MetGala. When that content comes out and it's like these are the things happening. I'm like, yeah, this is awesome. Or they see like all that. Because, like, the actors and actresses are what, like, fascinate me.

Because we don't interact with those very much. You know what I mean? Like, the artists and stuff, I'm like, yeah, that's awesome. But that's because they always come here. Yeah, it's normal for us anyway. Exactly. So, like, the Comic-Con, those superheroes, man, I'm like, that's so cool. Because I think I would freak out even just people

cosplaying as the characters more so than seeing, like, the actual people. Because that's, like, screen-accurate costumes. They look just like them. Oh, when they pay 100. of dollars to make them look like that too like and they they are all decked out that it you want to talk about Halloween that's also like and those people are celebrities in themselves because they're all like influencers who like have tons of followers and they go to comic con specifically that people want to see what they're going to cosplay as yeah see so cool that would be so much fun that's my metgala

do you have another one I know you like the met gala do you have another met gala I mean mine's probably also like a comic con also like just for the comics alone of like going to see all those like really rare comics being able to shop because also like smaller people go there who have like startups and you can find a lot of cool stuff there too so I would also spend just like another day just shopping yeah I'm with you okay well I wouldn't be comic shopping but we'll both be on at Comic Con in San Diego we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back for a little bit more I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him hi dad and just when I said that my mom comes down to the kitchen, and she says,

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of uncertainty that none of us likes. Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, Mike, what is your? Dang, I wish they weren't right moment recently. And I'll tell you mine and it'll give you something to kind of think about. Ray Mundo was right, which I never thought I'd hear myself say, you know, because he comes in brings a lot of crazy stuff on.

He was right. He just missed it by a couple years. the freaking cicadas. Yeah. I did not anticipate what a cicada takeover would be like. Like he had shared, what was that like four years ago that he thought it was happening? Yeah, it had to be 2020 or 2021. I think it was before COVID.

Yeah. But they have taken over my backyard. Mike, I'm so grossed out. I am so, there is bug carcasses all over my fences. and they have these creepy crawly little red bugs that like swarm them. And then if you walk by them, they all spread out. And it's all over my fences. I can't do anything about it.

They're just chilling. They've like taken up brinit in my backyard. And I am officially grossed out and unfortunate to say that Raymond was right. Just right a little too early. So that's my moment. Yeah, they're pretty. I've only seen like a couple of them all dead. No, they didn't.

And they are creepy, curly little creatures, and then they're loud. And then they eat all the plants. And I am finally having a sweet flower bed garden that looks great. And you know what's about to happen? It's all going to die. Outside of cicadas, do you have a bug thing? Like, bugs freak you out in general? Not normally.

It's only when I'm, for whatever reason, when I'm doing, like, outside stuff, like, I have these carpenter. I have a weird situation that's happening in my. my backyard. And I wish it was like animals. Because if you bring me like possums and armadillos and foxes, I'd be like, yeah, you can stay. But for whatever reason, there is a bug situation happening. I've had a carpenter bee that's been harassing me. Every time I go into my flower garden, I've had these stupid cicadas that have taken over all the fences. I found a dead bird the other day and there was a lot of insects around it. I don't know what's going on. And then there's snails. Okay. These snails, while I'm mowing, somehow find their way to,

on me. Where do they even come from? I don't know. And then I always walk through these stupid spider webs because there's so many trees that surround my fence. So whenever I'm mowing, I'm running through spider webs. It's a whole thing happening. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk about what's happening in my backyard. You did not know a can of worms. Literally, you just opened. That has been my experience happening outside recently. So there's that. Do you have anything? Did I remind you of anything? I mean, Mine is like a more life thing of people were right saying that you're not going to be, like the things you're into aren't going to be cool forever and eventually the things that you like are going to be lame to the younger generation.

Yeah. I was like, no, that's never going to happen. Like everything I'm into is still going to be cool. But now like in my 30s, I realize that everything I think is still cool to like the younger generation is so lame. Is there anything in particular? It's probably music in particular of like all the bands I grew up. up listening to in my head they're all still really cool and still like new and younger like even like

blink 182 but the kids now like that's viewed as like older dad rock and it's like a weird position to being of like oh this this happened to me like it does happen like growing up thinking like what your parents are into is so lame because your parents like it and what you're into now is like the coolest thing now it's like fully cycling into me and I think I'm just in a weird place of like being 30 about it I mean, I might be 33. So. And you're not even old. Yeah.

Not even a little bit. But it's weird seeing now people like even like I probably thought 30s was old like when I was 18 or even in my 20s. I thought my older scissors who were in their 20s were old when I was young. But I was trying to join like a run club here in town and one of the questions on the Q&A was is 32 like too old? And I was like I never even like thought of that. Dang.

Of like joining a run club and being in my 30s of being like the older. person in the group. Wait, so it asked, is 32 old? Yeah. Well, there was like, they did like a Q&A of people just asking like, how far is it? Like, what type of people? And somebody just asked like, is 32 old to be a part of this run club? And they're like, no, we welcome all ages thinking like, I'm going to go and being the old guy up

on 32. Okay. That felt weird. Were you the old guy or was there people that were older? No, there's older people too. Okay. But it just feels like, I guess primarily the run group is like college age kids. So like people like 20.

22, 24 in that range. So I guess I'm like 10 years younger and older. Okay, well, I think you take it as a compliment because you're in physical fit enough to keep up with the college kids. That is what I tried to tell. I mean, yeah, that is what I told myself. I'm like, yeah, I am 32, but it's like and keep up with him. I'm not like huffing and puffing.

Exactly. So, you get credit for that. For me anyways. I don't know if I'm not. Yeah. It's just weird. Like, I kind of forget, like how I don't feel. 32. Even like my body, I don't feel 32. A lot of people say like once you turn 30, like your

body starts breaking down, you don't recover as fast. But I don't really feel that yet. And that's probably going to be the next thing of they were right when I feel it. Yeah. But you know, I can relate to something on there because I did the wobble at a bachelor's party at a bar. And my knees hurt very badly. I did the wobble. I think that song is like four minutes long. And I got done and my knees still hurt today from doing that stupid wobble. And I didn't even go down that low. So like, I get it. It sucks.

It sucks getting older. But we are not old. You and I, like, we're not old. It's true. Like, we really are. Lunchbox, he is. I'll stand by that. And he probably doesn't think he's old.

No, no. He's like, I'm not old. He's like a little kid at heart. So that's what makes him a little bit younger. Okay. Last, last question. Guilty pleasure, TV show, or movie. that you maybe can't believe you keep watching.

You're like, why am I doing this? The last one I just rewatch was the Lizzie McGuire movie. Oh, so good. And that's just a good movie. But I feel like to other people, like, why are you watching a Lizzie McGuire movie? Yeah, why did you pick Lizzie McGuire movie of all the things? I forgot. I think it just celebrated the 20-year anniversary, and that popped up on Instagram.

And I was like, we should watch it. Me and My Life watched it. Okay, I have to tell you this because it's hilarious. Whenever this movie gets brought up, there is a scene where the Burnett Lizzie is like, er, no, no, no, the blonde Lizzie is singing to the crowd and her body is like shaking. And every time I'm like, this isn't real. I can tell it's not real because a body doesn't move that way.

Oh, yeah. Do you know what I'm talking about? We were picking out that scene too because it's clear whenever they switch to the stunt double. Yeah. But even in that moment, it looks like a 50-year-old woman steps in for her. Yeah, and she's like, she's facing the crowd. The videos on her, this is such a specific scene. And I don't know why it bugs me every time I am obsessed with this movie.

But every time I see the scene, she's literally, her hands are up and she kind of shakes her butt. And the body doesn't move in a normal way. And every time it throws me off. So that's what I think of when I think of that movie. Now, I don't know why. It's such a weird thing. But, yeah, great movie. Not a weird one, though.

Good, guilty pleasure pick. I like it. And then my TV show would probably be like a Nickelodeon show like Icarly. Like, I've probably seen every episode of that. Did you watch the reboot? I never finished it because I think I got Paramount Plus just to watch it. Yeah. I watched the first season, started the second season.

And then I think I didn't want to pay for Paramount Plus anymore. So I didn't finish it. But I remember what happened, like what everybody was freaking out about in that. I don't spoil it. Okay. Tell me after because I did watch it and now I can't remember. I didn't want to go back and watch it just for that episode. Yeah, I was, I mean, it was interesting.

It was like, I didn't hate it. I mean, I didn't love it. I wasn't like, this is groundbreaking work. But it was like cool, nostalgic, like, fun watch. And I wish, like, they were supposed to reboot Lizzie McGuire in the same way, but they canceled it because they thought it was too adult. Like, they wanted to. I would have loved that.

That would have been perfect. Like, we needed that. Hillary Duff is such an underrated actor. Like, I say underrated in the sense that we just don't hear about her and all the big blockbusters and stuff all the time. But every time she's in something, I love it. She's so great. Like, I watched the, how I met your father.

Yeah, I watched that too. Good. It's great. I think I got canceled too. It did. And Younger is another thing she was in, which was also really great. So, dang Hillary Duff. See? She's underrated. She just can't catch that big break. It's back in the day. Maybe because she had her,

I don't know, whatever. Mine is definitely something I shouldn't be watching, but it's selling sunset and so we know see. Horrible TV shows. I watched the first season of that. Maybe a little bit of the second season, but I was more fascinated with the houses. And then they stopped showing houses. I was like, why am I

watching this. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a trash, it's like one of those things. You're like, I can't look away. And like, I see a new season. I'm like, God, watch it. Don't know why. Do not know why. Don't give a crap what's going on in these people's lives. Don't follow any of them. But for whatever reason, I keep watching it. I don't understand myself anymore, Mike. Yeah, that one's kind of addictive a little bit. It is. Because all the drama. Yeah, it's like the reality, trash TV, whatever, because they just dropped like a new season of selling the OC. and it's always, I always find them interesting when they have like real life news that connects to it. And that, uh, the guy on there is the ex-husband of, what was her?

Brittany Snow and pitch perfect. And so there was like this big scandal with all that. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. But like, I'm not the kind of person that, like, is out here on Reddit threads and like really into these trash reality shows. I just, for whatever reason, like to watch them. And I can't figure out what part of my brain. Sparks that. I guess that would be another one for me, but except I stopped watching it.

Yeah. So I sense it, that is. Yeah. I don't know why. But I'm with you. I like seeing all the things. Mostly because they show like $50 million house. I'm like, who owns that?

And sometimes they show them, I'm like, wow, that's so cool. It's like seeing like a recluse come out. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then me, I started like criticizing the house. I'm like, I wouldn't have that. No, and I couldn't afford this ever. But I'm like, no, that waterfall in the bedroom?

Like, ah. That's tacky. There was one that had a bedroom that the whole ceiling opened up and the bed rotated to look at the sky. I was like, that is when you know you've made it. Yeah, there was one that had like an infinity pool. But then when you're like in the living room, you can like see people swimming because it's like carved out or like the glass is like the roof. That feels like some weird fantasies are being played out. Oh, if I was rich, that's what I would be doing.

Okay, Mike, thanks for joining me. Tell me where they can find you, hear you all that good stuff. You can listen to my podcast, movie mics movie podcasts. I do movie exploration topics, a lot of movie history, spoiler-free movie reviews, and then I break down trailers of all the new stuff coming out. So you can subscribe to that. And you can hit me up on every social media platform at Mike Distro. I love it.

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