The Bobby Bones Show - Family Holiday Traditions & Mike D’s Best Lessons He’s Learned From Bobby

Episode Date: January 3, 2026

Morgan and Mike D answer listener questions. Shoutouts to start, then we get into Mike’s relationship with his in-laws, family traditions, the best lessons he’s learned from Bobby, the movie he’d want to be cast in, run club attendance, running the distance, any dietary changes, and family plans.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Where Morgan and a show member answer almost all your questions. It is time for some listener questions and we answer. That's how Q&A works. That's what this is all about. Starting with some shoutouts though. Mike D is joining me. What's up, Mike? What's up?

Just sending love to two of my faves. It's from Stacey in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ready to see Mike's new look regarding his hair or a different vibe. Let's go. That's from Hillary and San Antonio. We did talk about that in part one a little bit, kind of. Yeah, I did hit a roadblock. Yeah.

First time I've seen Mike without his braces, his teeth look great. I think she's referring to the photo I posted with the questions. So they look awesome. Love when I hear him giggle in the background. When you and Mike do episodes together, they are my favorite. That's from Becca and Ohio. Hey. Love a good positive start.

Do you get along with your in-laws? This is from Katina and Indiana. I do. I think it's hard for me to form a relationship with anybody. So that was the hardest thing for me is just like, what do I talk to you guys about? Did you find some things to talk about, some common, I guess, interests? I think what my role in developing a relationship with them is making jokes. That's the only thing I got. So I still don't have like my go-to things. Like with my father-in-law, we can usually talk about Texas football because he's also big Texas football fan. I also like asking him about his job. He's in law enforcement. So it's like I just have so many questions there. I'll just ask him about like, what's if you like to get tased? And then he goes on a whole thing.

You're just asking like crazy questions. Every year you go have one crazy question to ask. And then he'll like show myself. I'm like, man, that's wild. That's funny. Okay, but at least you guys do get along. Yeah. You're not like outrageous. They're not outrageous. No. And the great thing about it is like our, both of our families get along. So we'll get to, which is really great for us over the holidays. It's not unusual that we all get together for one thing. I think one of the funniest we went home for Thanksgiving and we all made the malice and it was just both of our families together. Oh, that's fun. So that's like a whole other level of not only do I get along with my in-laws. I think it was a big thing for me for my family to also get along with her family.

I think that's something we've always done. I don't know if it's a Mexican culture thing, but like both those families come together a lot. Like we always just mixed everybody together. So if you're with somebody and your families don't get along, like that's a tough thing. Yeah, for sure. And that's so cool.

That makes life a little bit easier for you guys where you don't have to pick. Yeah. Who you go see, how you go see and what time. It's like everybody's just together and we're all hanging out. Who hosts that when you guys do that? We usually go to my wife's house, parent's house, in-laws. I don't know why. That was hard for me to say.

I was trying to think of where we go. Yeah, that's easier because it's kind of the middle point because my parents are about an hour and a half-ish north. My sister and brother are about an hour south. So we all come together in the middle and it's just like easiest on everybody. Oh, that's so fun. I love that. Hopefully I have that one day or the in-laws get along like that.

That'd be cool. Yeah, it makes everything easier. We did have my parents were in town for Thanksgiving and my sister and my boyfriend's parents were also in town. So they ended up coming over to the house and all hanging out together. And that was cool. Him and I just kept looking at each other like, this is awesome. Everybody's hanging out. And we hang out with my sister's husband's family a lot.

So her in-laws. And like they all mingle too. I'm like, dang, we're just going to have a bunch of mingling in-laws. And this is going to be fun. And everybody seems to get along. So it is cool. And that happens. It's rare.

I feel like, unfortunately, but it's cool when it does. I mean, TV and movies made me think that would be impossible. Right? Like, everything that I know about in-laws is like they're horrible. Like, I've had great experiences so far. What family traditions do you have over the holidays? Christine from Ontario, Canada. Like I mentioned earlier, making tamales, that was the thing that we've been doing for a long time.

I was always on the assembly duty. So essentially you take the what is called Masa, which is like what the actual thing is made of, like all the corn meal and all that mixed together. Yeah. And you slap it on the corn husk. So I would do that and then just prepare those. Okay. And do you eat the corn husk?

No. I've always wondered this about tomas. No. So you take the masa, you put it on the corn husk, then you put your chicken or your meat and then your salsa on top of it. And then you fold it up and like a little, like fold it over, fold it down. And then you put them all in a big pot.

And they're in the corn husk so they can cook in that. Oh, okay. kind of like all the steam cooks the insides, and then when you take it out, you just... And that the, you call it mesa? The masa, yeah. Masa. Is that like a wrap? No, the masa is like the actual, like, it's like the, I guess it would kind of be like if you're

making bread like the dough. Oh, okay, okay. Like the breading part of it. Okay, I wondered how it was all held together. I'm like, do you just open up the cornhouse? It's like cornmeal and like salt and pig lard. It's all like disgusting things you put in there, but it tastes the, Okay, and it holds all that together.

Yeah, so it's essentially the foundation of it. Okay. And then whatever you want in it, sometimes we'd make someone like just cheese in there. You can make like sweet ones. You can do all kinds of different things. Okay. Kind of like having an enchilada, but it's more of a process to cook it? Or no?

No, because enchilada is just like a tortilla and, I mean, kind of. I've always wondered this about tamales because I see him and I've always wanted to try it, but I never have. You've never had a tamale? Mostly because I can't find cheese ones. Like when you're vegetarian, it's really hard to find tamales that you can eat. They make a lot of meat ones. Yeah. So I've never been able to find ones like.

We would always just experiment with things. I'd be like, what do we just put beans in this one? Yeah. Okay. You might have to teach me how to make them sometimes. Oh, they're kind of hard. Okay, I'm just going to have to come to Texas sometimes your parents are going to have to make me so. Because, like, my mom is like responsible for making the actual the masa.

I don't really know what you all you put in it. I just know once that is made, I can assemble it. Got it. Okay. I'm following it. The hardest part is making that part of it. What I do is like the easy part. I love that.

One of our traditions is also making food, but it is a lot easier than that. It's just sugar cookies. And it's funny. The recipe that we have is one of us, I think it's my sister who wrote it when she was a kid. And we still have it to this day where she's like this really bad writing. Sugar. Literally. It's like six ingredients.

I'm pretty sure some of the words are spelled wrong on it. And we make them and then we iced them all together. it's a fun little Christmas activity and they're the best sugar cookies ever because they're homemade. What's in the icing? The icing we get from different, we've tried a bunch of different kinds.

So the icing itself, we buy from other places. Oh, okay. We typically get like cream cheese icing. But the sugar cookies, man, once you've had a homemade sugar cookie, it makes all those store-bought ones really difficult to eat. I love the storebought.

Yeah. And if you had like a, I'm going to try this year to make vegan gluten-free version of it, if I accomplish it, I'll bring you one. I will eat one of those. Because I can also tell if it's going to taste the same or not. I'm very particular about baking sweets that taste good.

If I'm going to make you eat it without all the normal ingredients, if it tastes good, I'll bring it. If you don't get one, just know it failed. Gluten free is really hard to do because my wife is gluten free and she always has me like taste test things. Like, is this actually gluten free? I'm like, I can tell. I'm like, it's just not quite there.

Yeah, and I've actually, I've gotten to an art a lot with cooking and baking with gluten-free stuff and vegan. Like I've found the right butters I should be using the right one-to-one ratios of things. I'm adjusting. So now this is going to be the big plunge to see if I can replicate Christmas treats that way. So you'll either get one or you won't because it won't be good. I mean, there are some things when it comes to like baking things that you can make vegan, you'd never tell.

Yeah. Like the chickpea brownies I make, they're the best brownies I've ever had. I'm not kidding. I've had a whole lot of brownies in my life. And these things are the best. And people would be deterred from them just because. They're like, oh, they're vegan. They must be gross.

And they're not. Because they're like fresh ingredients. It's different than like, yeah, you get a bunch of sugar and stuff. But something about eating fresh ingredients, your body kind of knows it. And it's like, oh, that's actually really good. I didn't know I didn't need the other stuff. That's weird how that happens. What is the best lesson you've learned from Bobby?

Izzy B in Houston, Texas. I think probably the first thing I learned from him is like just show up. Because I think that was the key to me even being here. It was, because I wasn't, whenever I started, I messaged him on my spacing. I want some advice on starting a podcast. This was back in 2010 when podcasts really weren't a thing yet. He invited me up to the radio show back when they were still in Austin. And I saw all the interns there that they had.

And I was like, I want to do that. And whenever I started, I realized there was maybe five people who were better than me in every aspect. And I was like, how can I get this job that I want that's been. been my dream and make it a reality when all these people are better than me. And I realized it didn't really have to do with talent. It was more about showing up. So we were only required to come in two days a week. I started coming in three days. Some other people started coming in three days. I came in four days until I was coming in every single day and showing up and just being reliable. And that's what I learned from him. It's not about how much talent you have or where you come from. It's about how

you can show up and just kind of be there. I think reliability and showing up is more important than anything. It's a really good skill to have and one that's also difficult right now. Honestly, I feel like it's hard to find people who want to show up. We're in a crazy state right now, you know, like not state, the actual state, but state of the world. It's hard to find that right now. So those are good quality traits.

That's a good lesson. If you could be cast in any movie, new or old, what would it be, Amanda and Indiana? So I could go back and be in an old movie? You could be in whatever you want, according to Amanda. I want to go back to 1939 and be in the first Wizard of Oz movie. Oh, what character would you play? I would want to, I don't even know that I'd want to be a main...

I would want to be the wizard. Give me the wizard role. Okay. You don't want to be a munchkin? No. I think I would take the wizard role because it's an important role, but also like not the biggest role. And I would really just want to go back to 1939 and see. the crazy things that went into making that movie.

Yeah, because it was so iconic. Wasn't it the first color movie? It was not the first color movie, but it was one of the first to really like utilize all aspects of it. Okay. Because they really emphasize that one scene wherever it goes from like black and white to color. So I think that was like the most inspirational part of that. But I think there were a few other color movies before that made more than that.

Dang, I've been lied to this whole time. I really thought that was the first color movie. For sure it is, especially growing up in Kansas. I'm pretty sure we own that. It's the first color movie ever. Yeah, you know, I can't believe everything you hear. Probably the most famous first of the era color movie. That's a lot of words in there that were not included when I got told about that.

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Oh. I was part of the ensemble. Damn, that's cool, though. It was a fun experience. My sister and I did it together, so. I think I was in one play growing up, and I had one line, and then up until the actual performance, and they cut my line. Oh, see, that's the worst.

They gave it to somebody else, and I was never explained why. You were probably as a kid, like, pretty hurt by that. I really wanted by one line. And I remember it because it. It was a play about America. And I had to deliver a line about the first, I think this was back whenever the first gold coin came out, speaking of gold and things.

And it was like about Sacagawea. And I had that line. I was like, I memorized it. I was ready to go. And they were like, yeah, someone else was going to do that line.

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Oz cleaning. Yeah. I did a few of those shows growing up, but they were always like the big ones that you'd know about. But no, I never had big girls. I was not Annie. I wasn't Dorothy. Just a little flying monkey. Did Mike finally attend Run Club, Rebecca in New Mexico? I did not. Mike. Never did. You had all of 2025. I know. And they even added like a long longer run club where they start earlier and they run like six to seven miles, which is probably more like why I would be interested in. But no, I even had the opportunity recently and I was like, I just don't think that's for me. Okay, so now have you changed and you don't think it's for you? No. I think it's not because I feel like the social aspect of it I won't enjoy when it comes to

running. I think I need to find something different because when I was so close to actually going to one, I started thinking about like the time I was going to be invested in it. I was like, I could just do this on my own, get more enjoyment at a running by myself than I would if I went and had the social aspect of it. I just think I think it needs to be separate. I tried to combine the thing I enjoy doing with the thing I want to do is, you know, form some friendships. And I just don't think that's the route I want to take. That's fair. You could always find, friends and find out that they like running and then maybe it becomes like you have a running buddy at some point just like one instead of a whole group of them yeah might be more of the right alley but

that's fair okay so in 2026 new year you're going to try to find a new way yeah just find some some other social thing there's some other one throw it out there tips to increase running distance katie in tennessee my suggestion is you can go a lot further than you think So no matter what... I don't feel that way, my... No matter what distance you're doing, add one more and just try it. Heck no.

Just that be your goal. You make me add one mile to my already one mile. I'll die. I will be picking me up from the side of the road. And I feel like I might have a little bit of a disconnect with this at this point because recently one of my wife's friends signed up for what she thought was a 5K and it ended up being five miles.

Oh gosh. And I was like, that's not that. much. I'm like 3.1 to 5 and I realized to like an average person maybe that is adding a lot. To me that's not much. Like I'll go run. Yeah, you can't ask you. You run it for a fucking half mile every morning.

I'll say like, okay, I'm going to run 10 and I end up running 13. And to me that's normal. And I'm like, oh, I guess to people who don't run as much as I do, adding an extra two miles is a lot. It is a lot. So did she end up doing it? She did it. But she like, I'm going to kill you? But I would say

Just add a little bit more to what you set out to do I still do that If I want to go do 10 and I feel good, I'll do 11 I'll push myself Because that's kind of how you grow When it comes to adding on Mileage to long distance Because really it's all mental

And I think if you're trying to train for maybe A half marathon If you can run 6, you can run 13.1 I think in a race setting you can always do double what you can do normally. So you're saying I can do two miles? Yes. Because that added an adrenaline of being in that race environment of like seeing people there.

You got your bib on. You're like psyched up. You're pumped. That adds a lot to the mental part of it because there's this other force driving you as you go along. The first time I ran a marathon was here. And what really drove me to finishing was thinking I cannot go back to the show. not completing this. The shame of it?

The shame of me not completing this. That was so hard for me that first time doing it and I was miserable but I remember at one point thinking I cannot quit because I'm not going to go in on Monday and say I didn't finish.

Listen, the shame of the show will give you a whole lot of things I understand. That's good though. That's good advice and it is a mental game for sure. Could I run more miles? Probably.

I don't want to though. I literally add the mental block myself and I say, nope. I immediately, I'm like watching my watch the whole time. One mile, okay, wrap it up. Those are good tips. Hopefully, Katie, you can do some running like Mike, half marathons on every Saturday.

Do you ever eat the foods you used to eat on your Christmas purge? It's from James and Virginia. Kind of hit on this. Yeah. I don't anymore. Yeah. Because the purge, I used to go, like, I would map out everything from breakfast to dinner. I would add in, like, I always look forward to having pancakes.

but I haven't had a pancake in gosh, three or four years. Dang. Okay, I've had a pancake, but I haven't been able to master a vegan one I've mastered a gluten-free one. Yeah, my wife's had gluten-free ones that she really enjoys.

But you haven't tried to die in those adults? And then the other things I would have, I mean, I've had, I guess I haven't had real pizza in a while, which I feel like I don't want to eat vegan pizza because I don't feel like that's real pizza. It's not.

I don't want the thing that tries to resemble something else. There are some things that are really close that I can't tell the difference between pizza is one of those things that will never translate. No, you know what, vegan cheese, I've actually found some that I like, but it being melted. Yeah, it's hard to melt. It's hard. Like, I like it if it doesn't have to be melted. It tastes fine. But the second you melt it, we got some other tastes happening in there.

And it's not even the cheese when it comes to vegan pizza, but it's the things that people will associate with. being good toppings for a vegan pizza. Like I don't want a salad on top of my pizza. Yeah. You like just straight up like cheese and pepperoni pizza? Yeah, that's tough. So I'm like, I just won't even attempt to make a vegan version of this. You know what's funny though?

When my family was in town, they all wanted pizza from the spot that we've loved for several years now. And we got it. And I tried it. And I was about three bites in. I was like, this doesn't taste the same to me anymore. That was a weird experience. Whereas like I've like cleansed my body of a whole bunch of stuff. I was like, I don't think you like that anymore.

I was like, that used me my favorite pizza. I had like an identity crisis in that moment. It was weird. So I do wonder if pizza would taste as good to you now. I think it would. I think that's the one thing I miss. Really? Because like I used to, that was like my main food group back at the day.

Like going to C.C.S. for 599, like that was my favorite thing to do. Okay. So then when you go and try and eat pizza again, I need you to go have a CC's pizza. And I need you to tell me if you had the same experience or if like, same, taste it. You loved it. Still good. I literally had this thought the other day of like I have so many great memories from about maybe six to 24 of going to Cece's pizza. But Cece's the one that had the dessert pizza? Yeah?

Yes, I loved that place. Like the pineapple one. They had the brownies. They had the rolls. They had like the chocolate pizza. Is it the one though? No, I'm thinking of one that had like crumbles and icing on it. They had that one too.

Yeah. I think it was like pineapple. No, because I don't like pineapple. Oh, maybe it was cinnamon. Okay. Maybe it was cinnamon. Maybe they had a different versions of it. Probably did.

But I need to know. If you ever do decide to test this again, I need to know your thoughts. I think the last time I had CCs was when I was training for my first half marathon. And I was like, I got a carb load CCs. Awesome. And it tastes a good then. Yeah. And that was maybe nine years ago.

Okay. So that's been a long time. I need a report back. No pressure for it to happen at any point in time. But if you do. I went to CeC so much that the manager knew me and my brother. That's amazing. Did you get discounts?

No, but he already knew exactly like we would always get the cheapest version. We'd get two buffets with waters. I feel like you should have got like some coupons at some point. I mean, he recognized you. Keep coming back. All right. The last one. Any family plans?

Love Mike's podcast with his wife. The Best Book Inspo. This is from Isabel in Texas. I'm assuming this is referring to maybe having kids. I'm not entirely sure. I'll say family. Yeah, we're hanging out with family. I think that's more what she was relating to.

I would say we're in like talks of like seeing a future of us having kids. I think this is the closest we've been to talking like it's a reality. Okay. That's a step. I can go any step. I'll cheer you guys on no matter what. Because I think was it like. Like 2020, we said within the next, or maybe 20, I guess when we got married in 21, we said within the next five years.

And now we're like closing on that gap. I think we want 2026 fully to be the year we do all the things that we won't be able to do once we have kids. So you're going to have a year of what lunchbox calls the datchelor party? Yeah, because my wife still has some places she wants to travel to that we haven't been yet. and then I think I have some things I want to do that I just need to do before before I have any more responsibility. Okay, I love this.

Well, and then you never know what you guys decide. You could be like, well, we're having too much fun. It's fine. Yeah. I get it. And I think it's also right now we know so many people who are pregnant and having kids that it just feels like there's something like around us

like not really a sign, but just feels like. Like unintended pressure, but not. Yeah, it's not. not pressure. It's just like a weird coincidence because I don't think all these people we know just decided we should all get pregnant around the same time. Yeah. But I think it's just something a little bit more comforting knowing that there's other people around you that you know that could give you advice. Where I think when you're younger, you're like you have a kid and you're like, there's nobody I can go to except my parents. Like nobody else is going through this. Yeah.

So I think it's kind of like knowing that there's a support system out there that if we have like questions or help with something like there are people around us because it's also hard for us because our families aren't here. You need a village here. Yeah. You need a community. Yeah. That's very important. It's a big part of that whole process too. Well, exciting. Sorry. That's a weird question. I was like, as I was reading, I was like, I realized that maybe you should have mean that. Okay. Well, we're wrapping up here, Mike. Happy New Year. It's 2026. I know. In our brains. And thanks for being here tell the people where they can find you and all that stuff. You can find my podcast, movie mics, movie podcasts, wherever you listen to podcasts.

And I'm at Mike Destro on everything. Love that. And you can hang out with me at Web Girl Morgan and check out the show at Bobby Bone Show. Lots of work in those social media stuff. So go check those out. And once again, happy New Year. Yay. 2026.

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