The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - 73 Questions w/ Michael Bosstick - Secrets, Hacks, Systems, Resources, & Embarrassing Moments

Episode Date: March 22, 2019

#177: On this episode we follow up Lauryn's 73 questions (#174) episode with Michael's! Mimi Evarts plays co-host and asks the questions we have all been wondering. What are Michael's favorite tips, tricks, hacks, and resources. What are his deepest secrets and regrets. What are his most embarrassing moments and what are his most treasured memories?  To connect with Mimi Evarts click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by Skillshare. Skillshare is an online learning space offering more than 20,000 courses. Join the millions of students already learning on Skillshare today with a special offer just for our listeners: Get two months of Skillshare for just 99 cents. That’s right, Skillshare is offering The Skinny Confidential listeners two months of unlimited access to over 20,000 classes for just 99 cents. To sign up, go to www.skillshare.com/skinny. 

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. free. That's right. Skillshare is offering the Skinny Confidential, him and her listeners, two months of unlimited access to over 25,000 classes for free. Hard to beat that. To start your two months now, that's Skillshare.com slash Skinny. Again, go to Skillshare.com slash Skinny. Start learning. Enjoy. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her podcast. Today we have a very, very special event. It's 73 questions, but not with Lauren.

With Michael Bostic, the Christian Bale lookalike himself. With Mimi. Hi. I'm back. Hold on. It took you that whole time to come up with that introduction? That was subpar. Terrible, actually.

That took 20 minutes to think of and write down. Oh my god, dude. A little hungover. You're lucky we have thisrible, actually. That took 20 minutes to think of and write down. Oh my god, dude. A little hungover. You're lucky we have this partition, Taylor. I honestly want to physically beat you a lot of the time that we record together. Really, really irritate me. Is your mic hot? It's on. It's recording right now.

You feeling good? I feel horrible. Is my screen ready? My screen's good? I was just telling Mimi, I know you did this with Lauren, I did not listen to that episode at all because I wanted to come into this with a fresh perspective did not listen to that episode at all because i wanted to come into this with a fresh perspective i didn't want it to sway me i'm gonna after i list after we do this i'm gonna go listen to that episode see what you guys did but i can tell

you this one's probably gonna be better because i wonder if your answers will be similar i feel like you're taylor and i went to this concert last night and i feel like we're both a little bit slow today you don't say you're looking like a weathered old saddle. Taylor's operating and thinking like he looks every day. I feel fucking horrible right now. See? I slept in my car. What? Yep.

He slept in his car. I didn't even make it into the building. Taylor. We were getting in the Uber last night. We went and saw this Vlogging Molly concert. And honestly, guys, we're all too old now to be in mosh pits and getting beat up i just can't handle it anymore michael got punched in the head and my arm look at my arm look at that it's disgusting someone grab you i think so i think there was some grabbing

yeah i think some guy was sucking on the back of my arm in the mosh pit um but taylor and i were laughing hysterically because he was so drunk we were getting in the uber shocking yeah shocking we were getting in the uber shocking yeah shocking we were getting in the uber and the driver got out you know like nice guy opened the door for us and taylor started yelling at him and arguing with him telling him like hey buddy that's our uber get away from the uber that's ours and i was like that's our driver what were you doing man so embarrassing i honestly i don't even remember that that's how i was definitely drunk he was like get out of here that's ours like we called that.

And I was like, that's our driver. Wow. It's because I, I, I, someone's once stolen my taxi before that. I think that's where that came from. Do you remember that one time that you got into an Uber pool on accident and you were like an hour late to meet us? Yeah. That's happened one time too.

You know why? Because he was probably too scared of like normal people. This is, this is Taylor and i show normal people like whoa shit there's somebody in my uber that just pulled up sorry called the wrong one i will not be getting this i gotta cancel and get in another one nope not taylor he will get in it and take a ride for an hour he'll ride it out to people yeah he'll ride it out it makes a good story though so how do you how do you begin this thing how do you do this do you want to just go into it i typically just go right in.

All right. First question. Wait, wait, hold on. That's how you're going to go. That's a little bit too strong. So what's the premise? The premise is we're doing 73 questions. The premise is I went through a bunch of 73 questions by Vogue and I picked all the best ones.

I went specifically for all the ones with Zoolander for you. I feel like they're probably applicable. Okay. And I wrote them all down and you just have to answer that's it see I like short answers okay the short answer 73 questions now the audience knows nobody's gonna be blindsided you tell stories the same way my wife does where you just kind of like don't compare me to crow crow when she was giving these answers it was like three different answers people see would you see what I'm saying you jump

to the end where people on this show let me teach let me tell you let me show you how to do a story uh mimi and i when lauren's squawking and being annoying and complaining we have called her we call her crow because crows have that squawking noise and very high pitched little inside joke that we have we talked about that on lauren's 73 questions so the insiders she's probably listening to this and squawking about it right now. Crowing. Or she will listen to this. Okay.

She won't like it. Let's get into it then. All right. 73 questions. Taylor, have Google open for me. Do not stroke. And I want that mic. Don't.

We've got to have our references. Speaking of crow too, just to a reference in the last episode, I told the story of how my grandpa ate crow. Like, like figure it out literally physically oh yeah okay so he literally was it alive you know what go through the feathers no he did not like scoop it up off the ground well hold on this is you need more you're acting like everyone out there just knows how to properly eat a crow like where did he get this thing did he shoot it did he get in a store did he like how does he you're like my grandpa's not an animal he was eating crow the right way yeah

your grandpa fully sounds like a savage animal yeah well i don't know the reasoning behind it or why but it was i mean unless it wasn't crow and he was just joking but i'm fairly certain he wasn't some he wasn't a humor are you sure he wasn't doing like giving you one of those sayings real bit back in the day like hey sometimes you got to eat some crow no no he was legitimately talking about literal crow grandpa crow isn't it is this the same grandpa that made you sit at the dinner table all night yeah that same one okay makes a lot of sense all right we're getting you know we're not we're the audience is probably like what the hell's going on let's get in okay did you name your first car?

No. How did you start your day today? We don't need a whole long story, but. I woke up feeling like I had a jackhammer in my head. I was so hungover from the Flogging Molly concert. I was bruised all over my body. And I woke up to look at my wife staring down at me and just telling me I was pathetic. I feel like she had like laser eyes.

Today was an off day. Usually I get up super she had like laser eyes. Today was an off day. Usually I get up super early and get after it. Today was a bad day. It was St. Patrick's Day last night. What one person did you have on your wall in high school? This is a little out there. I bet it's something people would not guess, but it was Tupac. Really?

I had a poster of Tupac on my wall. I have lots of Twilight. You're a huge Tupac fan. Yeah. Huge. Well, still, not worse. Still am. The greatest of all time.

Can you sing a verse well he's a rapper mimi he doesn't sing you don't sing no i don't sing i know listen i know my limits i don't do that i have never in my whole life i do i sing in the car i sing in the car by myself you do everybody does you don't everybody does i would love to put a camera in there and see it what show would you make a cameo in it's always sunny in philadelphia not narcos with your new glasses narcos would be cool but i feel like it's always sunny would be way cooler okay here's a question for the audience who's your favorite it's always sunny character mine yeah we've talked about the main character like who's the best on the show well mac's probably the best on the show

well dennis is dennis is probably my favorite mac's probably the best on the show well dennis is dennis is probably my favorite mac's probably the best on the show because he goes he does all the like he fully commits that's true but the dennis system is like one of the best ever did you know that's his wife who is in the dennis system with him wait you're talking you're saying he fully commits uh danny devito fully commits for sure yeah but he's not my favorite he's funny though he's got some they're all good the whole cast is good. Caitlin Olsen, Mac, Rob McElhenney. Is that how you say his name?

Yeah. Charlie Day. Okay. What is a movie that made you cry? While you think, I've got a good one for that one. I want to say it's probably the only movie that made me cry that I can remember. Actually, two. Two movies.

One, Armageddon with Bruce Willis. I don't know why, but towards the towards the end well that is a sad movie when he kills himself or he blows himself up sacrifices himself cried and then the second one this one I remember I was crying so hard that I like my mom had to and I was older too I was well not old but it was star what is it called uh Stargate there's a part in the end when one of the characters gets blown up and for some reason I cried I don't know why you are have so many issues I don't I gotta I gotta come back to that cried i don't know why you are have so many issues i don't i gotta i gotta come back to that one i don't really cry that much in movies

favorite album of all time oh favorite album of all time probably ride the lightning by metallica if you could be a rock star who would it be oh another good one maybe axl rose in the heyday of guns and roses maybe obviously everyone's gonna to say someone like Mick Jagger, right? James Hetfield, Metallica, they've had a very long run. I like a lot of metal music. I feel like I wouldn't want the rock star life of like you know, maybe the more

trendy, successful ones. It's not about the money and the lifestyle for me. I just feel like the type of music, there's probably some version of some of the heavy metal bands in the 80s. What would your spirit animal be oh maybe a mongoose maybe a mongoose yeah mongoose why i don't know they're just badass they can eat the shit out of snakes and go after them i was thinking a coyote for you because i looked it up and you're a fire spirit that's like your sign because coyotes can like handle a lot of fire i guess but you said this is my animal sign. Like what would your spirit animal be? Maybe a vulture. Okay. I see that for you too.

Lauren said a crow. A crow? Yeah. That's what she said. Because I told her to say that. Your go-to karaoke song. Maybe Down Under by Men at Work. I like that song. It's classic. Everyone can get into it. I could never imagine you doing karaoke in my entire life. Wouldn't you love to see it though? I could never imagine you doing karaoke in my entire life. Wouldn't you love to see it, though? I could never imagine you not interrupting my 73 questions. But keep coming. When you're not working, what is one thing you love to do? Read.

Do you like sports? Yeah. I don't think that's true. I don't like team sports. Okay. I did them when I was a kid. Played hockey. What did I do?

I played soccer, hockey, football. I think I did something else. Boxing? Well, that's what I'm saying i like boxing muay thai um i like individual sports where you can like where i can compete with myself team sports you're not a great tennis player no but i never said it was why'd you say that just i was just thinking about it you're really not good i when have you played tennis with me i'll beat you in tennis i bet i beat you in tennis i doubt it i used to take lessons do you have a hidden talent? Harmonica? Many talents. Harmonica.

Some say I'm an amazing lover. Oh, I don't need to know that. What advice would you give your 20 year old self? Be patient. Slow down for sure. You have a lot of time. A lot of 20 year olds get in trouble because, and we've had this conversation, you and I, where they crave the end result more than the process.

And I think like that was me for a very, very long time and getting ahead of myself and thinking that I needed to do everything right away. To me, 20 feels like yesterday and also forever ago. And I feel like, you know, if you really think about my career, it's really only been 10 years, 21 to 31, 32. And if you think about how much gets done in those 10 years, like if people could understand like how much time 10 years really is. And if you could step back and be like, okay, I'm 20 years old, I'm graduating college and think, okay, what I do now is I look at guys like my role models. I'm like, okay, look at that guy. He's 40. Okay. I have 10 years to get there. Oh, look at that other guy. That's 50. I have 20 years to do that or 60. And so like, I try to kind of really put in perspective of like what I can do in a 10 year

period. And I think people should think about it like that. That's a good reminder. Cause sometimes I look at you guys and like, I want that number one piece of advice you've ever been given. Hmm. That's hard. I've been given a lot of good advice. Probably from your dad. My dad gave me a lot of good advice. I don't know one, like in what, in like what aspect of life. Just like if you had to have like one tagline of the best piece of advice you've ever been given, like one line that you would give to everyone. I think it's going to center around integrity, right? Like my dad was somebody that, you know, basically said no matter what, like never break your

word or like sacrifice your honor because the rest of the stuff, money, fortune, fame, like all that stuff comes and goes and it comes and goes really, really quick. Like people don't realize like how quickly, like I wouldn't be surprised. I hope this doesn't happen, but tomorrow the world can turn upside down on me in terms of my business relationships. Like that could happen. That's very possible. Uh, but if you keep your word and your honor and your respect during all that, people are going to want to gravitate to help you. If you don't, if you sacrifice those things and take shortcuts, then when the world turns ugly on you and it gets bad, people aren't going to rally around to help you and you're going to have a much harder time in life. So I feel like if you're a good person, if you have strong integrity, if people trust you when you're down and when you're out, people will always rally around you to help you. And if you don't, then nobody will and you're going to go through life miserable.

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for free. Hard to beat that. To start your two months now, that's Skillshare.com slash Skinny. Again, go to Skillshare.com slash Skinny. Start learning. Enjoy. What is your worst habit? Talking too much. Interrupting. Yeah. You're really bad at that. Can you do an impression? Yeah, I can do lots of impressions. I can do certain accents like this where I sound and talk with a low drawl.

This one's pretty good. I can do Stone Cold Steve Austin and that's the bottom line. No. I can do stuff like that. Taylor, what else can I do? I can do lots of stuff. Can you do a range? Can you can you go high high like a high pitch that's pretty hard that was actually impressive yeah i could do weird i could do weird shit with

my voice but i have a i have to hear like if i hear somebody talking or see something i can do it better more of a method actor would you say say? Let's not. What's your best habit? My best habit is that I force myself to read and learn constantly. And I'm not saying that makes me so smart. I just, I'm in the habit of constantly seeking knowledge to that, so that, you know, it could be in anything, right? I was telling you the other day, like, I am always somebody that likes to be very well rounded, never necessarily an expert at everything, but I have a little bit of base knowledge. Like one thing that impresses me with individuals is when maybe they, I don't know, maybe they're an athlete, but all of a sudden they can start speaking on like molecular

science or something like that. You're like, wow, I wouldn't expect that. And so I like to have a broad range of knowledge. And I think that the habits that have enabled me to do that is constantly learning and reading and seeking out knowledge i think that's an important trait curiosity smart what age will you let your daughter date oh fuck man i was an animal when i was younger ask you can ask your dad he knows knows. He caught me with your sister very young in the closet. And if karma is a real thing, I feel like my daughter is going to give me a really, really hard time. Lauren and I's parents tried to stop us and we just did it anyway.

Like that's what kids do, right? I feel like... If you say yes, then they probably do it later. I'm going to take the approach, you know, like a lot of people don't know this about me, but I've never done a hard drug in my life. Right. I think I've talked about on the show, like I've never ever done cocaine or anything like that. My dad was, you know, a child of the sixties and seventies. So he would, he would always tell me what those experiences were like. So I never went through life with like the curiosity of needing to do it.

So I always felt like very fulfilled. I have no, no problem if people are doing whatever they want to do. But for me, I was like, like okay I know what that sounds like and looks like so I didn't need to seek it out I feel like with dating I'll be very upfront to say okay this is what it's going to be like this is what you can do not do and then hopefully raise a child that can make an educated decision but like I said karma's a bitch who knows like really hope I don't have some daughter that's just out giving blowies out like 12 years old you mean like how you were getting them? Yeah, I really don't like.

That really makes you uncomfortable to think about. Yeah. Okay, if you were not where you are now, what would you be doing? That's a typical question because I don't know. I never thought I'd be where I'm at now, right? I never thought I'd be doing what I'm doing. I don't know what that would be. I think.

Maybe commercial real estate? No, that sounds a little boring to me. I'm somebody that has to be constantly challenged, right? Like this, this latest venture, obviously with this, with this female focused podcast network is, is a, is a brand new challenge for me. There's it's territory that hasn't necessarily been explored by a lot of people. There's not like a manual really. I would be doing something that you probably wouldn't expect me to be doing and that you probably wouldn't expect me to be doing that i probably wouldn't be expecting myself to be doing right like of course investing in certain typical deals and doing you know stuff like real estate or marketing like that's but i would be

finding other things to do as well i don't know was that a humble brag no no no i just think i need something that's i don't like to go into waters that have been necessarily previously explored so much who's your style icon? Fuck, depends which day of the week. Style icon? Like, I don't know. Like, I go back and forth. Like, sometimes I just want to be, you know, super casual.

But sometimes, like, if I go to London or if I'm in New York or guys are dressed up, like, probably like a James Bond style icon. Like, you know, James Bond was old. Like, the Sean Connery days, he was always all buttoned up. He's an icon. I don't know. Like, rock stars of the 80s sometimes. I kind of go back and forth because I can't, you know, I'm not really that and I'm not really the other thing. So what advice would you give to your

little siblings? AKA me and Tara and Jordan and Miles. Listen to your, listen to your big brother. He knows everything. Your favorite scent. My favorite scent. My wife, she smells good all the time. Even when she smells bad. Turned on so i think that was more so like asking about your perfume preference but oh maybe like a wood scent you don't want to give it away no like it's like a cedar you know if i'm being specific about like no brand names no i have well i wear what's a cologne i wear but beret yeah beret how do you say that beret no idea b-y-r-e-d-o guys michael does this thing though where it's like he liked the perfume and so then he went and he bought like the hand soaps the body lotion the body wash the hairspray i do the same thing i found these pants from john elliott that i like i got them in all colors

that's my that might be one of my worst habits actually when you now that you're asking shopping if i find something i like i'll get them in all colors like he has i'm not exaggerating 40 of the exact same james purse t-shirt yeah if i find something i like i kind of just get it in all the variations what is your favorite food pretzels hot dog from disneyland those are all good from the red wagon is that what it is at disneyland that's a corn dog don't get it remember that one day we were sitting in traffic and we're like let's go get a corn dog yeah lauren got so pissed off well because that's not a casual detour to just detour into disneyland we did it we went in we you know what that was like a 500 corn dog because i had to get you a ticket me a ticket lauren a ticket we had to get into disneyland we had to park and then we had to

get the corn yeah she was pissed We went on one ride and left. That was the most expensive corn dog I ever had. Worth it. Worth it. But it's not my favorite food. Maybe Italian. Then what is your favorite food? Maybe Italian.

Scantonelli? Scalino Telly? Yeah. Least favorite food? Goat cheese? I hate goat cheese. I don't care if it's good for you. If somebody told me goat cheese would add four inches to my dick and make me grow

off another foot I wouldn't do it I hate it most memorable if that nope don't care I hate it you kidding me I would be fucking sucking that thing down well yeah you need all the help you can get zing what is your nerdiest quality I've always been like a really really into comics and star wars and like sci-fi stuff and games like you know stuff like video games yeah so i don't know if that's nerdy i think that's pretty cool now i think the way that you're a nerd is like you don't like to go outside the box sometimes like what like give me an example like i just feel like sometimes lauren are like trying to have fun and like stay at dinner a little bit later and you're like no let's go no no i gotta go to bed no no here's what happens you guys go to the same places and have the same thing every time

so it becomes routine i don't like routine that's why like everyone's like what's your morning routine what's your evening routine i have to go in and out of routine because it gets boring so it's like you and lauren like to do repetitive things you both go to the same fucking restaurant all the time yeah and order the same thing. We like consistency. Yeah. Okay. What was your most memorable moment while podcasting?

Oh my God. We've had so many so far for me. I mean, we've interviewed, I don't want to like single any, get one guest out. But like for me, when we got to meet and interview, Robert Green was very, very surreal for me because I'm such a fan of his me because I'm such a fan of his work and I'm such a fan of all of his books. I like, you know, read all of them and I never would have thought three years ago doing this that I would ever one have the pleasure of meeting him and to the pleasure of like sitting down and interviewing him and getting his like personal

phone number to be able to ask him questions. It's just like that was probably a highlight for me just because i never thought that we'd get there and obviously there's been a lot of other moments forming through media partnering with dba like all like signing amazing talent we've done but like for me that personally was a highlight yeah what was your first job my first job well i had like three in conjunction when I was 13 years old my dad had me go work with the landscaping company and so I would drive around in the trucks with all the landscapers and it was really humbling because we lived in a nice area but I would show up in like full gardening outfit and I would have to work on the homes of the guys and the girls that were a grade older than me and they would all be out like by the pools in the summertime like you know laughing and squirting each other with squirt guns whatever

the hell they were doing and i was in the corner like in a gardening outfit with a rake like pulling their weeds and off and off the side but honestly i remember finishing those like whoever like when you're fighting the earth as a job for anyone that's like i like when i people see people doing that i'm like respect that's like some of the hardest work you do. I would come home every day covered in dirt and just flop down on the floor and pass out that one. Then I worked at McDonald's for a while, worked at a car wash for a while. But here's another side story where I found out that I could never have a job again. This is me. I could never, ever have a job. Enough times pass now. I don't know if I've ever told you this story, but we used to play, me and my friend Josh, we used to set up these home poker games and we were like 15, 14, 15 years old. We used to play

poker with like all the kids in the neighborhood and he would charge an entry fee and charge like these things called blinds and poker. And he would, the house would collect the blind. So he would make money and we'd split it at the end. So I'd bring the people and we play. And then if you want any money, you'd stay. And so fast forward through that, I was working at McDonald's and we had fake IDs at the time because we were degenerates. But we used these fake IDs. There was the Indian casinos in Barona, here in California. And we would get out of school and sneak to the casinos and we'd play all the old drunk guys that were there in poker. And you'd show up with a $100 bill and either you left with nothing because you'd lose it or in the reverse

case you'd win a lot so i remember the first day we went i went there and won like 700 bucks and i was like you know 16 years old at the time i remember i walked into mcdonald's the next day i was like i quit done because that's what i would make for like two two weeks of hard work and so i did i was like okay i'm done with jobs and then i would go play poker and they kept putting together a bankroll. And so I'd always go and say, okay, if I show up with a hundred, I can only lose a hundred, but I could win a lot more. So if I'd lose, I'd go home. I never would cash back in and make it. And I started making thousands and thousands of dollars in my junior and senior year of high school. And I just said, okay, like there's no going back now. That was the first step towards like an entrepreneurial career.

Would you suggest me to go to the casino? No, but I think like it also like required a certain, like there was something exciting about it, like going up against grown men and like gambling like that. I think there's some people that should do it and some people that shouldn't. I'm too tired. What is the most terrifying thing you've ever done? Maybe skydiving if you consider that terrifying.

Describe yourself. i know what it is what talk to my wife before 9 a.m that is frightening before she's had coffee and before she's meditated there's a whole checklist of things that she needs to do in the morning before i'm able to talk to her or discuss anything with her but the thing is like i've already been up for four hours by the time this happens. So I'm already like all the way turned up. And that usually always backfires in my face when I don't let that routine kind of get through. I am so scared of her sometimes when it's early in the morning and she hasn't meditated yet. Yeah. I would rather like sit in the rain outside than speak to her before she's meditated. I would rather fight a Wolverine.

Describe yourself in three words. I'd say intense, loyal, curious. That's a good one. That's good. One misconception about you. I don't know. I think people think that I'm like this like guy that wants to just like, you know, be running around and be in the social scene and do this. But like, honestly, if I get a moment alone, like all I want, I'm a very, very independent person. It may not look like that sometimes because like I'm with people all the time and there's not really by choice though yeah but i honestly like my dream is that i would get a four out like i i'm never gonna get this in the foreseeable future but i would have like a four hour um window of time in the afternoon where i could just sit in one place by myself, think and read. Like I'm a very calm, like independent person. With your dogs? Yeah. Yeah. I just like to just

sit and relax and a lot of like, I don't need like constant stimulation or activity. Like I really appreciate being alone sometimes. Your biggest strength? Part of my wife. That's a true answer. Like if you can find somebody in your life where you can partner in a very specific way like lorton really complements things that i don't have sometimes like if i get if i start to go down the rabbit hole and get like panicked or start to get a little out of control she grounds me she makes me take a step back a lot of the time and like look at things from a different angle and i think like having a secret weapon like that like when you get a counterpart in a relationship like it can be your biggest strength i mean look at you, the show and what we've done with that. So yeah. The other day she was telling me about how the other day she was laying in bed and she said that

you came in and you had a meeting with like someone important that day and you were wearing like a full tuxedo with cowboy boots. And she said that she just like ridiculed you for like 10 minutes and then you came back in and it changed. That's true. And the other was wearing a pistachio sweater color sweater which i actually still think looks good and she's like no that's not gonna happen so like that's my that's what i'm saying she helps me kind of frame things out because if not i would have gone into that meeting with like maybe wearing a tux as a breakfast meeting isn't the best it wasn't a fucking tux she's so ridiculous there was cowboy boots which i do wear a lot but it wasn't it wasn't appropriate for this outfit whoa or this occasion what does family mean to you well i think it means a lot of things right like you know they

all say blood's thicker than water it's true but i i think like for me family doesn't always necessarily just need to be blood like there's a lot of people that i consider family that my partner wes and i consider him like brother like a real like taylor like a brother like taylor and i've been he's definitely like a distant cousin maybe it depends but you know he's he's the he's the brother that I don't like to talk about so frequently. No, I'm just kidding, Taylor. You know, we're not blood, but for the last 10 years, we've been through a lot. Yeah, we've been through eating crow together.

Yeah. I've never gone that far. And I don't want to know a lot of what he's doing in the private hours of the night. No one does. But like, honestly, like when you think about like family and brother like i think to me family just means people that you fully let inside your life in multiple ways and like you know we have i think it's just like anybody that you can get to that deep relationship with like a lot of times you don't even need to say anything it's just understood i don't know there's a lot of things family means to me but like that's a good way to put it very

deeply love people that i can you don't have to explain yourself. Who is your biggest inspiration? Don't say your wife again. No, no, no, no. She's not my biggest inspiration. I'm inspired a lot by just people who have set out and live life on their own terms. Like for me, like it's not about money or fame or platform. It's really just like being able to wake up every day and say, yeah, that today was like on my terms or like that career was on my terms or that relationship was built on my terms. I know that's somewhat sounds selfish.

I think it's okay for people to be selfish when it comes to living life the way they want. I think so many of us get caught up doing things because their parents think they should do it a certain way or their boyfriend or husband thinks or girlfriend or whatever, um, or society. And for me, like, I really want to look like if I could look back on my life as an old dying man, I want to say like, OK, I did that my way. And when I when I read about inspiring people, it's the people I'm the most inspired by are the people that like really set out to do things in a different way. And so I don't know if that's one individual. I think there's a lot of individuals that kind of compile that list for me. But just people that set out and kind of trailblazed

and set a path on their own. Talking about influences, remember when Lauren gave that quote and then she said, Ulysses S. Grant or something, or was it like Colonel Mustard or something? It wasn't Colonel Mustard, but might as well have been.

Didn't Colonel Mustard kill all the Indians? No, I mean, that's Custard, Colonel Custard. No, there's the book, you know, by Ulysses, and it was like somebody on our show came and i got i can't remember off the top of my head right now because i'm a little hazy came on a little hung over yeah i'll think of it as we're going through which show that was on but they basically gave a quote from the book of ulysses and lauren's like wow ulysses s grant said that and it was not

ulysses okay what is your favorite cocktail i would say i like the classics either a margarita old-fashioned or like if i have it my way most of the time it's like just a straight whiskey with um maybe ice or no ice yeah i'm very simple i can't have a lot of sweets in my cocktails oh you know what's really good though a ramos gin fizz when you're hungover you ever know what that is no sounds nice a little bit gin a little bit of egg white, shaking up. I think it's like rose water or orange. That sounds fruity. You shake it really hard. It tastes like a cloud.

You have to make one for me. Yeah. You always are saying that you're this like connoisseur of alcohol and you have all this stuff at your house to make these fancy cocktails, but you've never made me anything. Well, that's because you know what I was saying. I have a strong knowledge base. So like there was a long period of time where I had to learn how to make proper cocktails. Right. And I actually can't ask Taylor. Yeah. There was a period in down San Diego, not at his most recent house, but the one previously where he'd make a lot of drinks.

He actually got me into it too, like simple syrups and he would go full Lord everything. But you have to know for me, like you have to know how to make like a proper manhattan i could do that you have to know how to make a proper martini you have to know how to do that margarita you have to know do an old-fashioned a sazerak or you just have to have someone who knows how to make it like you like why do i have to learn when you know how to do it well that's what i'm saying but i need to know how to make these cocktails just because i feel like you have to have a base like i don't know how to get into like all these craft drinks with you who knows how to do it yeah but you but for me it was more like learning like proper measurements and how to balance a cocktail like if you could do that

speaking of his old house that's where i discovered your biggest secret ever i don't know if i should air it on the podcast what is it i remember you were growing a beard and like it had a red hint to it your beard was red yeah and you started to just tell people I was like your beard's not red anymore you're like I know it just started growing darker and then I went to your house embarrassing well because you're die on the counter there was um what is it just for men and it was like brown well because what happened is like the beard hair for some reason started like turning red and then my my wife was just not having it. We were making so much fun of you. As you sit there with your dyed pink hair.

How dare you. It's cool. How dare. It was so red. No, no, no, no. It wasn't that red. It was like literal Ron from Harry Potter. Fuck you, Ron Weasley.

No, it wasn't. It was not that red. It was just like red specks. You were really into that. We're going to have to share that picture of me with my beard yeah okay moving on what did you want to be when you grew up you know it's funny people always ask me this like my and i think i've talked about in this podcast my example of like you know you for me it was like my dad and i would just see him come home every day like either from like he was in real estate for a long time from construction sites or from meetings. And he used to take me to meetings very, very early on the

rules at the time, like, you know, if I was eight, nine, or 10, or 11, or like young, I would just, he just said, Listen, you can come to all these meetings, just sit there and listen and just watch the way people meet and watch the way people talk. It was really beneficial to me, because I think it taught me very early on to watch. I he would like to sit in and watch all these meetings and watch confident men and women talk business and so for me like i always when i think about what i wanted to be when i was a kid it wasn't like an astronaut it was like i wanted to be a businessman at the time i didn't know what that looked like um but it enabled me to be in a position now like where i'm very i learned a lot of lessons very early on watching those types

of meetings i think there's a certain cadence and watching adults speak like that and see how those meetings are conducted and I always looked at it like okay well if that's how it's done like why can't I just do that and and now I do I always looked at your mom when I was growing up because she would wear these like amazing suits and I'm like I want to wear suits like her when I'm older she still works her ass off yeah good for her um good for you mom yeah who is one person alive or dead who you'd want to go to coffee with you're so interested in so many different people oh my god it's i think arnold schwarzenegger yeah well i would love to go with arnold um but i'm trying to think of somebody who's dead that i would really want

to go with hemingway would be rad to go with he's just like a crazy life writer julius caesar you know who i'd really want to go with gang is con really yeah because that guy was a straight savage that yeah a lot of people don't know this the mongolian empire was the largest land empire at the time like they had the most they took over almost all of asia they pretty much it and they started baiting into russia and all sorts of places so he was and he did it you know he was what does that say about you well sometimes you're a little napoleon-esque well napoleon would be cool to go to dinner with too you know these people that are just like did these like when you think about i mean napoleon because you're short but continue i i get i knew you were going to someone i acknowledge what is the next vacation you're taking? I don't like to ruin surprises.

I really want to go to Charleston. Never been. And I heard it's amazing. We have some friends over there. And so I want to go there. I don't know if that's like a vacation or just a spot. Cabo. I'm going to go to Cabo.

I got to go down there. Cabo is one of the best places on the planet. And it's so close. You could take Hawaii all day long. I don't want it i'm going to cabo funniest thing your dad has ever done well he told me he's never thrown up in his entire life and i believe it what the hell is that about what kind of person's never thrown up in their entire life your dad that's kind of funny yeah absolutely i tell everyone about that the guy my dad's funny

all the time he's got he's funny when he's just sitting there he's one of those guys it's like him and my wife have a lot in common they're like always the loudest people in the room sometimes people will think they're rude because they're so loud and like unaware of like what's going on but it's like it's always from the best intentions they just don't really they just they just don't have i call like they give zero fucks in public settings they just scream and do what they want and i think think that's, I'm attracted to that. He's like one of my top 10 favorite people. The first app you open in the morning.

It's probably at this point, it's, I think it's probably like Headspace. That's like the first thing I tried to, like we've talked about in the show. I try to do, to not go into email. Definitely don't go into social media. Like don't do that first thing in the morning. And it's, so it's probably like something like Headspace or a Spotify. Cause I'll go and like play some relaxing music or something. Best fast food restaurant. I think it's so it's probably like something like headspace or a spotify because i'll go and like play some relaxing music or something best fast food restaurant i think it's like mcdonald's mcdonald's if you're being consistent but like if you're going for taste and like what's the best

probably in and out i know a lot of people say shake shack i don't think so shake shack i don't think so i think that's just east coasters who don't have the access to in and out they don't get it maybe i've never had shake shack oh my god's so good. I get it like three times a week. Kenzie, the host of the show I Love You So Much, just brought me Chick-fil-A. Oh yeah, Chick-fil-A. I heard that's good. Have you not had it? I've only eaten it, I want to say three times, and I just kept ordering the same thing. When I was in high school, we used to always go there. What is your coffee order? Black. Either iced black coffee or black coffee. what is something you always travel with i have to have this little charger that has like four little usb plugs in it

because my wife always takes my my charger so i have four cords so i can plug it into one wall and get you know i could charge ipad i could charge the phone i could charge her phone i could charge her stuff like that is that the one with the adapters for the different international cash in cash i always travel with cash you never know listen people are like oh that motherfucker's got cash now we're gonna rob him don't do that i will roundhouse kick you but sometimes i sneak a couple dollars yeah i don't doubt it but you don't want to be stuck in a situation like yeah credit card isn't that when we're traveling we go for it yeah cash little cash not a lot but just you know enough yeah what was the biggest

moment in your career this far you know i talk about this a lot i'm like a dog chasing a car right like i always use that analogy like if i caught it i wouldn't know what to do with it so every time i have a milestone moment i feel like i don't i need to do a better job at celebrating and taking a step back like wow that was really great well like at first i thought it was like oh wow we launched jetbed then it was like oh we're like getting this client but then then it was oh you know like uh the podcast and it's like the dear media is like i think for me i don't necessarily celebrate i don't look at them as milestones i just like constantly need to feel like i'm progressing um and i should probably do a better job at celebrating but there's been a lot of big moments i think probably in the last year dear

media for sure but i'm constantly like wowed and amazed by just the podcast and not even on the success of like on the financial side but just like the level of conversations and people we get to meet in the audience we get to connect with i'm all extremely grateful for that like i would stop everything but i would never stop doing this show because i just think like the connection we made with the audience and the conversations that Lauren going to have are too interesting. Do you have a pickup line? Me now? My pickup line? Listen, it's been 10 years.

I wouldn't even know where to begin. I would be the worst. I'd be like, I'd be like, do we, do we buy dinner? And then do we do the dance or what are we doing here? Do I go out four times, three times? I have zero game at this point, my game is so bad. It's been so long that I can't even remember a time. I can't even remember what I did used to say, if anything. It'd be terrible.

I would love to see it. It would be interesting. I wouldn't even know what to do. I try to give relationship advice on the show, but dating advice? I have no dating advice. I don even know what to do i look you know i try to give relationship advice on the show but dating advice i have no dating advice i don't know what to do guys if you're listening i don't know how to pick up a girl you know what i'd probably be like hey my ex-wife's the skinny confidential that'd be my line i'd be like that's her i did okay with her for a while and she seemed to like it and kept me around for a while it didn't work out you know and um on to other that would be my line i'd probably share a couple

maybe posts of her in it you know do something like that i'd be like listen this hot chick was into it for a while and maybe you might be too maybe not i bet that would be a good line if i was a dating app my my tinder profile would just say the skinny confidentials x and i feel like i'd get some swipes yeah not because of me people would go yeah he's got a good resume yeah not because of me they just like oh well she's like she's legit and she saw something like it wouldn't even i feel like the women wouldn't even care about me they would just mostly care about her and be like okay like he might have a chance because he they would care about your height which is not the best i'm fucking 5 10 okay that's not that bad what's your most used emoji um probably the the the rock symbol you know

the two like yeah devil horns i like that one the best gift you've ever received oh my god i hate receiving gifts i hate it don't ever get me gifts you know that yeah you know why a big gift guy because i feel like if somebody gives me a gift i gotta one-up them i gotta get them a better gift and so it's this never-ending insecure cycle i don't know what happened to me as a child. What's a really good... What happened to you? What's a really good gift? I don't know.

Oh, I had... Maybe the scrapbook that Lauren made you when you were little? Yeah, that was it. For sure. What about the bird drawer book she gave you for your wedding? Ooh, that was good. She used to make this book with all these naked pictures of her. That was good. Yeah, that's the best gift.

Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. Don't give me gifts, anyone. Don't send me anything. Nothing. I don't want it. Yeah, he just wants to be left alone. I get very uncomfortable.

I appreciate it when everyone does it. I want everyone to know I appreciate it, but I just get very uncomfortable with the act of receiving a gift. Would you rather be sent in the mail? Because your birthday is next week. I don't want anything for my birthday. Mimi, do not tell people how old I am on this podcast. I'm 32.

He's 32. Yeah. Okay. Here's a good one. Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck? Oh, shit. 100 duck-sized horses. Well, I feel like, hmm.

Do they have the abilities of a duck or a horse like it's like it's like a full like power of a horse see i like these questions these are more these are more fun for me these are more your um i would rather fight a hundred duck-sized horses because i feel like i could kick them imagine the giant well and because think about it they're on four legs and their legs would be small and so i could just kind of like step on them and squish them and like crush their little bones oh my god now i feel terrible that is morbid to think about but i'm mad but if you fight a fucking duck the size of a horse dude duck is somewhat large like their beak would just oh my god we i can't even fight a horse-sized horse we know i don't yeah it doesn't

matter if it's no i i yeah a hundred duck-sized horses for sure not because taylor's right like i can't even fight a normal-sized horse nor would i want to that would be hilarious like what's your first move if you fight a horse do you go for the neck i guess punch it in the eye no yeah you can't attack it from the rear because it does the kick thing. Dude, have you ever seen a serious horse? I saw you ride a horse once and it was the most uncoordinated thing I've ever seen. I know. My sisters can all ride horses.

I never got that. You're not gifted. What was the last book you finished? I just reread Gaijin, which is a book by James Clavel. He also wrote Shogun, Taipan, and Noble House. That one. Good to Great by, I think it's Jim Collins. If not, like Taylor, we have to link correctly or maybe link correctly.

Whoever does that now. Okay. There's another one called The Last or The First Tycoon. No, it's The First Tycoon. And it's a biography by core about cornelius vanderbilt that was really interesting i can't remember the author we have to link that yeah those are the ones okay i try to read i've done a post on this i try to read a fiction a non-fiction and a biography at the same time because sometimes you know like um fictions they

kind of keep me you know you can go to sleep to them biographies sometimes are hard and you have to like really they're big and meaty. And then nonfiction, sometimes they can be a little dry. So I need to disconnect from a little bit and then come back to it. If you could solve a mystery, what would it be? I would like to solve the mystery of why my wife is so fucking late all the time. I've never been able to solve that or crack the case. Actually, you know what?

I would just like to solve the mystery of women in general. I don't think men have ever been able to crack that case actually you know what i would just like to solve the mystery of women in general i don't think ever men have ever been able to crack that case also the reason it's it's an anomaly is she shows up super late to everything and then she's mad at you yeah and then she's mad at you like we've got to hurry come on we can't be doing this i'm thinking you were the one that showed up late so it's it's definitely mind-boggling bouncing off that what is lauren's worst habit late being not on time for sure it's not cute anymore lauren i know you're listening it's not cute anymore okay we only have two more questions the best vacation you've ever taken the best vacation um there was a vacation that i did

people are gonna think it's with lauren it's not there was a vacation i did when i was 14 years old with my dad and he rented a car or bought a car i don't remember what he did in europe and we drove all around together from germany to italy to france i think through switzerland at one point and i was 14 and it was like a real bonding moment father and son it was like the first time I had ever really like drinking any alcohol properly but like you know properly drinking wine in like an actual restaurant and like learning how to not be an idiot while doing that um just going to museums because at 14 you're not we weren't going to clubs and parties like it was a very cultural trip, and it opened my eyes to the possibilities of the world.

And it got me very, very interested in history and learning and new cultures and just travel in general. And it was just like a really special moment for my dad and me to bond. So I think that was probably the best vacation that I ever got to take. And if I ever am fortunate enough to have a son or a daughter, I would do something similar like that, where, you know, right before they're at the age where they can kind of run around on their own, you take them and just kind of show them the rest of the world. I think anybody that has the benefit of being able to travel, it doesn't have to be some extravagant trip or some luxury trip should do it because it broadens your eyes to the world around you. And I think you're doing yourself a disservice by not getting out there and seeing the rest of the world and seeing what different cultures look like and how

different people live in different parts of the world. And so it's really important to do. What would your superpower be? Probably time travel. That's what I said. Yeah, for sure. Time travel. That's the best one. Because you could go back and I can meet all the people that I previously wanted to meet or see, and I can like actually go see with my eyes. And obviously you can study history and read in books.

But going back and seeing it and also going forward. I don't know if I'd be that as interested in going forward. Yeah. Which is funny because it's interesting. Because I don't think about the past ever in my own life. And there's a screensaver I keep on my computer by Seneca. And it's like two things must be therefore rooted out once for all. It's like the fear of future suffering and the recollection of past suffering since the former

concerns me not yet and the latter concern does not concern me anymore i think i probably just butchered that but it's like that that sounds generally right yeah well so i try not to think about the past like i really in my own life don't think about the past at all i think it's counterproductive you don't do memory lane no i don't do memory lane i'm not like remember that time it actually one of my biggest pet peeves when you see somebody from a long time they're like hey remember when we did all that and it's like okay and then i don't i try i do this too much i think about the future too much um but in my if i could time travel i would do the reverse i'd go to the past more and i probably wouldn't go to the future so it might be interesting like oh maybe I like, you can like see the next Uber coming,

maybe invest in it. But that's not that. But I think if you know the outcome, it's not as interesting because then you're just like rigging the system. It's more interesting to go back. Would you rather fight like Mike Tyson or talk like him for the rest of your life?

What do you mean? That's the easiest thing ever. Fight him? Yeah. Oh, fight him. Yeah. Oh, fuck that, dude. Mike Tyson.

Wait, Mike Tyson is a bad man. He's a really good podcast right now, too. And he's like, you know, it's funny. He's really like change and he doesn't want anything to do with fighting at all. So I feel like now he wouldn't even try. Like he wouldn't want to fight me. Even if I tried, he'd probably like talk me out of it. Fuck, man. Talk like him. I would probably have to fight him. Imagine talking like him. That would be so funny. I'd probably have to fight him.

And regret, I say that very hesitantly because that would not end up well for me. But I don't think I could do the talking like that forever. Would you rather be really, really hairy everywhere or be bald? Ooh. We all know how much you care about your hairline. Oh my God. I got the weirdest small shaped head ever it sucks my fucking head sucks if i didn't have this hair i would look like a freak listen you would look so strange like some guys like really look good bald like you know you look at like jeff bezos like he's good like you look at like the rock like they're good like stone

cold steve austin like he's fine oh but i think i would look like a freak now i'm staring your head it might be time for some more botox yeah mimi just wait okay you fucking how do you 21 yeah fuck you okay things are great so what's your answer uh i i i don't i don't think i could be hairy everywhere i think like i think about like sweating everywhere oh i think i'd have to go bald and just get like a like rock a really sick toupee you would wear a toupee i don't know i think or maybe like a hat yeah i don't know i've never had that issue but i feel like you know some guys it's not a big deal like bruce willis like no big deal like it's not like iconic for me i don't think so i think i'd have to but at the same time i don't think i could be hairy everywhere it sounds very uncomfortable would you rather always

get stuck in traffic like literally every time you're on your way to work it takes like an hour or always have really really slow internet connection uh traffic for sure i hate when i if my if my i almost you don't you never had to deal with this when you were a kid we used to have to tell remember we used to dial in and the phone would be like and it would like take forever and then like if somebody like if grandpa got on the line it would like disconnect your connection you'd be like grandpa get the fuck off the phone i'm on the internet and then um we had to deal with that like web page is not loading and i cannot go back to those days like now if something doesn't load immediately i always opt in for the most expensive internet because i can't stand going slow i gotta go quick would you rather

have your most embarrassing moment captured and put on social media or face your greatest fear? Like me finding your beard cream. Well, first of all, the embarrassing moments are put on social media every day by my wife. So that's already happening. So that. Would you rather be a foot and a half taller or, or no, would you rather be a foot and a half taller or or no would you rather be a foot and a half shorter or a foot in general wait what why would i want to be a foot in general like what the

fuck are you talking about why no you know what so i i have i have the option of being one foot tall or what would it matter or or four or let's be real three eight no i'm five ten i'll fucking stand on anything that anyone wants you to um so that's a no to the foot in general i would not want to be a foot tall like what the fuck am i gonna do there you'd be so small imagine like what you could jump up on i don't think there's that's even humanly possible no it's i mean we would dress you like a baby. You'd wear onesies. No, I would not want to do that.

I'd probably just have to be like four foot something. That's fine. Michael, you'd be three foot something. No, I'm not. You'd be able to have really good social media presence. It's so true. You'd be like the smallest man in the world. Easily.

Oh, wow. What a great trade off. You're one foot tall, but you have all the fame and all the money yeah great perfect your wife could carry you around in her handbag oh yeah i'm sure she'd love that would you rather fight mike tyson or have to live with 10 laurens what kind of stupid question is that of course i would want to i would rather live with 10 lorns i could have a 11 some every night like sister wives why would i i don't want to fight mike tyson unless it's like the last thing in the world that i have to do like fuck that i think i should have picked more like scenario ones you're right but this is for people to get to know you and they know

these other things before well hopefully they know me a little bit more now guys thank you for listening to this show. If you like these type of episodes, let us know. Mimi, you're managing a lot of the social now, right? I am. You see a lot of the inbound. So Mimi will see it and she can help structure some shows. Maybe Lauren and I could do a version of like what ifs one time.

That'd be kind of fun. That'd be good. Taylor, thank you for chiming in as usual. Looking forward to you going home and having a nice crow dinner. Guys. I hope you don't sleep in your car tonight. I'm looking forward to sleeping in a bed. We will be back next week.

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