Speaker 1: The best bits of the week with Morgan. It's Listener
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Speaker 2: Happy weekend, everybody. It is still birthday week for mister
Speaker 2: Mike Distro. It's kind of like a birthday celebration this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it is.
Speaker 2: Still It's belated, but it's still a celebration because I
Speaker 2: think everybody gets a week to celebrate their birthday, at.
Speaker 1: Least a week. I'm hard taking a day, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, but you deserve to feel special for an entire week,
Speaker 2: if not a month. I mean it's your birthday month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I've always just been weird about birthdays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think you should be celebrated. So that
Speaker 2: is why you're joining this best But I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's to you is a president, it's a present
Speaker 2: to me, So might need to figure that out. Anyways,
Speaker 2: we got Listener Q and a Time. Mike d is
Speaker 2: joining me. Did have a fun birthday this week. If
Speaker 2: you want to hear about that, We'll talk about some
Speaker 2: other stuff on part one, but for now, Carly from
Speaker 2: Oregon would like to know your must see movies this summer.
Speaker 2: So you are movie Mike dstro you have a movie podcast.
Speaker 2: People consider you an expert in theaters.
Speaker 1: My number one movie, not even just of the summer,
Speaker 1: but the entire year is Wolverine and Deadpool.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's coming out in July.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, at the end of July. And I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for this movie for so long because, first of all,
Speaker 1: Marvel is kind of scaling back on how many movies
Speaker 1: they do a year. This is it, this is all
Speaker 1: we get this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just one.
Speaker 1: They're getting kind of out of that world of building
Speaker 1: all these things. They're still going to do an Avengers
Speaker 1: movie probably in a couple of years. But for Marvel fans,
Speaker 1: like this is the event of the year, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are saying that this is going to
Speaker 1: be the one they need to put them back on
Speaker 1: the map, which I don't really fell in my eyes
Speaker 1: that Marvel has falling off, but a lot of people
Speaker 1: feel like their quality is kind of diminished, and you
Speaker 1: make a few bad movies and then suddenly people jump ship.
Speaker 1: I haven't jump ship. I love Wolverine. He is a
Speaker 1: top three year superhero for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, because Spider Man's number one Who's.
Speaker 1: Spider Man's that number two? Batman is number two, not Marvel,
Speaker 1: but in just Superheroes, it's spider Man, Batman. Wolverine is
Speaker 1: in that third slot.
Speaker 2: Got it? Okay? Okay, So do you think it's going
Speaker 2: to live up to the expectations?
Speaker 1: I hope. So we just well, if my wife hadn't
Speaker 1: seen any of the Deadpool movies, so we just watched
Speaker 1: one and two, I forgot how good they are.
Speaker 2: Did she like them?
Speaker 1: She did like them, okay, because you kind of have
Speaker 1: to be into the R rated humor and she's just
Speaker 1: a big Ryan Reynolds fan that she ended up enjoying them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are a bit vulgar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I still think part one is better than
Speaker 1: Part two. But I feel like with the third one
Speaker 1: combining Wolverine and I kind of forgot like how much
Speaker 1: he made fun of him in one and two and
Speaker 1: how much this movie actually makes sense because for a
Speaker 1: while there I just kind of felt like it was
Speaker 1: a cash grab. They're bringing back Hugh Jackman to be Wolverine,
Speaker 1: They're throwing them in a Deadpool movie. But when you
Speaker 1: look at the movies, that actually makes sense that oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he would be in a Deadpool movie eventually, so I
Speaker 1: think it's good to live up to the hype.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they are friends in real life, so that also,
Speaker 2: I think builds a lot of chemistry between two people
Speaker 2: just in general friendships relationships. I feel like that, like
Speaker 2: real life friendship chemistry is gonna come to life on screen.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm hoping for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a big part of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where they really mess with each other all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Because for me, I get a little bit tired
Speaker 1: of Ryan reynolds humor because I feel like he is
Speaker 1: the same in every single movie. But I feel like
Speaker 1: it's Deadpool and that persona that's really amplified that and
Speaker 1: people know him for so if I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: watch Ryan Reynolds, b Ryan Reynolds, I want to see
Speaker 1: him as Deadpool, nothing else. Like I wish you would
Speaker 1: do different types of characters in different movies. But he
Speaker 1: is at a level where I guess he's so a
Speaker 1: list and people kind of expect that that it's kind
Speaker 1: of his thing. Like I went to go watch his
Speaker 1: kids movie IF earlier this year, and I just felt
Speaker 1: like he didn't really give it as all there. So
Speaker 1: I feel like, what did you think of.
Speaker 2: Him in Free Guy? Still that same beginning, He's.
Speaker 1: Still just Ryan Reynolds, which if you can do it
Speaker 1: so well and people enjoy you for it, same thing
Speaker 1: with The Rock. I feel like they're kind of on
Speaker 1: that same type of celebrity and status where they can
Speaker 1: be the same thing in every single movie. They still
Speaker 1: make a lot of money because people love him when
Speaker 1: they do that. But for an actor like him, I
Speaker 1: wish he would branch out and do a little bit
Speaker 1: of different types of roles.
Speaker 2: You want to see him in a horror movie.
Speaker 1: I mean he has done in the past, like that
Speaker 1: Buried movie. Yeah, he has.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine Ryan Reynolds being serious, and that's to
Speaker 2: your point. I can't even imagine that.
Speaker 1: Because he was a A list celebrity before Deadpool. But
Speaker 1: I feel like that kind of cemented him as a
Speaker 1: movie star. He's been in a lot of movies that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he started in comedy. I remember a movie
Speaker 1: called Waiting he did back in like the early two
Speaker 1: thousands that it's so much different Ryan Reynolds and now
Speaker 1: he was in Van Wilder, So I feel like he
Speaker 1: had his root in comedy, did a bunch of different
Speaker 1: types of movie. I mean, he was all different types
Speaker 1: of superheroes too. He was Green Lantern.
Speaker 2: Reviews.
Speaker 1: But I guess I would kind of like to see
Speaker 1: what the other Ryan, Ryan Gosling, who I feel can't
Speaker 1: go back and forth a little bit more between. I
Speaker 1: want to see more death comedy and he has more
Speaker 1: depth and Gostling would be more in the in the
Speaker 1: category of like being nominated for Best Actor. I don't
Speaker 1: think Ryan Reynolds is there. But I mean, if you
Speaker 1: can make the money, who cares about awards?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's so true. Okay, Well, I don't want
Speaker 2: to make you go on more spiels about Ryan. That
Speaker 2: was fun though, because I do. I love him and
Speaker 2: Blake gladly has doing the movie podcast changed your love
Speaker 2: of watching movies, Rebecca in New Mexico.
Speaker 1: At times it does, because sometimes there are movies I
Speaker 1: don't want to see, but for the sake of having
Speaker 1: a movie to talk about on my podcast, I'll go
Speaker 1: watch it. So I feel like sometimes it feels like work.
Speaker 1: But with the movie, even like Wolverine in Deadpool, that
Speaker 1: will never never feel like work to me. I can
Speaker 1: go watch that, just enjoy it. With other movies I
Speaker 1: watch them, and then as I'm taking them in, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of thinking, how am I going to review this?
Speaker 1: What's going to be my take on this? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I feel like some movies it's taken away a little
Speaker 1: bit of the enjoyment of me being there just for
Speaker 1: the sake that I have a movie podcast.
Speaker 2: When's the last movie you went just to watch it,
Speaker 2: not to review it, not to put it as part
Speaker 2: of a content piece that.
Speaker 1: I didn't review at all.
Speaker 2: You didn't even talk about it on the pod, like
Speaker 2: you went just for the own sake of yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't really think that happened. I think that happens
Speaker 1: at home. Okay, Okay, that's only mainly at home rewatching
Speaker 1: old movies or just watching movies from like the two
Speaker 1: thousands that and there's really nothing here that I'm going
Speaker 1: to get out of it, and maybe my wife wants
Speaker 1: to watch it, or I just want to watch something
Speaker 1: just to kind of cleanse my palate.
Speaker 2: Okay. So there's nothing really new though that you'll watch
Speaker 2: without utilizing.
Speaker 1: No, because if I'm going to the theater that is
Speaker 1: getting reviewed somewhere, either in a main review or every month,
Speaker 1: we do it like a recap of everything we've watched
Speaker 1: in the month. I'll throw it in there some way
Speaker 1: or another. If I go see something in theaters and
Speaker 1: take the time, it's it's gonna be used as content.
Speaker 2: This is not a listener question, but I have a
Speaker 2: follow up because you're just like talking about this and
Speaker 2: how much you go and see movies. Do you now
Speaker 2: because you get paid for your podcasts, do you now
Speaker 2: ride off your movie tickets for taxes? Because that is
Speaker 2: a work expense now for you.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I know it's a gray area.
Speaker 1: I think I looked into it at one point, and
Speaker 1: the way I do it, I don't think I can
Speaker 1: Bobby explained.
Speaker 2: It to me one time, Okay, because I feel like
Speaker 2: those those tax laws with entertainment influencer podcast stuff changes
Speaker 2: pretty much every year because it's so new, they're trying
Speaker 2: to figure out, you know, what's great what's not. So
Speaker 2: I do feel like that might have changed recently. I
Speaker 2: don't know how often you looked recently, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 1: looked into it, so maybe it's changed. The thing is,
Speaker 1: I don't really spend a whole lot on movies. I
Speaker 1: have that Regal Unlimited, where I paid twenty six a
Speaker 1: month and I can go as many times as I want,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm one of the only people who
Speaker 1: utilize it of going.
Speaker 2: No, that makes sense. So for you paid for it
Speaker 2: by just going to two movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two movies. I do that in a weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So twenty six dollars a month for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, different around different parts of the country. For Regal,
Speaker 1: I guess they I don't know, maybe bigger cities they
Speaker 1: charge people more, but we're here it's twenty six bucks.
Speaker 1: But I think it's around like that, twenty two to
Speaker 1: twenty six bucks on average. And yeah, two movies. You
Speaker 1: pay for it and you can go to it as
Speaker 1: many as you want. I've never encountered any issue that makes.
Speaker 2: So much since that. Okay that helps now now, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm glad to ask the question. Nobody asked that one,
Speaker 2: but I asked it because I mean, I go to.
Speaker 1: Five to six movies a month.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why I was like, I was talent it all,
Speaker 2: Like you're getting to my mass sucks. Say tickets fifteen dollars,
Speaker 2: Say you go to five, You've got what seventy five bucks?
Speaker 2: A month roughly. I think that's right. Yeah, watching them No,
Speaker 2: in my head, I'm not sure, but that's a lot
Speaker 2: and over the course of time, and you're doing that
Speaker 2: every single month, and sometimes there's more. Sometimes you're watching
Speaker 2: stuff at home, which means also renting, yeah, gas, going
Speaker 2: all these places.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's just like an overe make sure
Speaker 2: you can get any text right off, not to have irs.
Speaker 2: I'm looking to you like a Lundbox situation. I was
Speaker 2: genuinely curious because I do think it could fall in
Speaker 2: that gray area that it is a work expense for
Speaker 2: you at.
Speaker 1: This point, just saying, yeah, maybe I look back into it.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a way you can do it that you
Speaker 2: couldn't do it before, but maybe now there's a way.
Speaker 2: Like I said, there's ways because there is, like for
Speaker 2: influencer stuff, they have very specific tax things that you
Speaker 2: can do, but things you can't do. So I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: look into it, all right, Okay, are you glad you
Speaker 2: didn't get your face tattoos some years ago before your
Speaker 2: girlfriend will now wife Kelsey Jin in California.
Speaker 1: I would still get it. I want more tattoos after
Speaker 1: getting my last one. I'm already plotting out more. I
Speaker 1: feel like your skin is just your skin, Like I
Speaker 1: don't really like you get a tattoo and then people
Speaker 1: just see you and they associated with you and it
Speaker 1: just becomes a part of you. You get used to it.
Speaker 1: Like I was born in Mexican, my skin is brown.
Speaker 1: I can't change that. At least I can put tattoos
Speaker 1: on me to that's something I actually pick.
Speaker 2: I see what you're saying. Okay, it's like creative outlet
Speaker 2: for your body.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you would now still get one on your face,
Speaker 2: and you're you wouldn't have had regrets even if you
Speaker 2: did it.
Speaker 1: If I really wanted to, I would. I think as
Speaker 1: I get more, I realized how permanent they are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I really committed to finding things that i'd be
Speaker 1: either to love for a very long time or look cool.
Speaker 2: Is there any that you have on right now that
Speaker 2: you regret? No?
Speaker 1: I mean I only have two as of now. But
Speaker 1: the next one I'm gonna get is gonna be a
Speaker 1: big one, because it's gonna be like the one that
Speaker 1: I can't cover up with like people, which is just
Speaker 1: gonna see because it'd be like on my forearm working
Speaker 1: on the sleeve mic sort of because it's like I'm
Speaker 1: focusing all on my right arm right now, and the
Speaker 1: next one is gonna be like in my forum, not
Speaker 1: the inner forum, but like on the front where no
Speaker 1: matter what situation I'm gonna be in having short sleeves,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see it. Yeah, So I feel like right
Speaker 1: now mine are kind of hidden for the most part.
Speaker 1: My other one peaks out when I wear short sleeves,
Speaker 1: but you don't really see me in associate tattoos with
Speaker 1: me yet.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: But the next one, I get, it's going to be
Speaker 1: very visible. And then, like you said, if I don't
Speaker 1: have sleeves on, it's like almost my whole arm now
Speaker 1: covered now, not only like the in between spaces. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of negative space still. But I think that
Speaker 1: next one will kind of be like, Oh, that one's
Speaker 1: actually for real because people are going to see that
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like I have this theory that it's
Speaker 2: either creative or people in the military are the only
Speaker 2: ones that often have lake tattoos, Oh, other tattoos, but
Speaker 2: leg tattoos specifically.
Speaker 1: I well, let me think of people I see at
Speaker 1: the gym. That's where I've noticed the most tattoos. That's
Speaker 1: where I get my most inspiration.
Speaker 2: Because people are a little bit more exposed.
Speaker 1: In the Yeah you see legs, people are wearing shorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there could be a theory to that, because
Speaker 1: I do see a lot of people in the military
Speaker 1: who have like military related tattoos and it happens to
Speaker 1: be on their cap it looks cool.
Speaker 2: Oftentimes it's on legs. And I'm telling you, there's no
Speaker 2: research back behind this, no study. This is just a
Speaker 2: hypothesis I've created.
Speaker 1: There's this one guy who has like the perfect amount
Speaker 1: of tattoos that I like in all the style that
Speaker 1: I like at the gym, and he does have a
Speaker 1: lot of leg tattoos really, and they're rare because it's
Speaker 1: usually that you run out of space somewhere else that
Speaker 1: you're getting leg tattoos. So that takes a different type
Speaker 1: of person, usually a creative person, maybe an artist or
Speaker 1: a tattoo artist themselves. I feel like it's going to
Speaker 1: commit to the leg tattoo. It's also a little bit
Speaker 1: more painful down there. Yeah, so there are people who
Speaker 1: can take pain. There's your military.
Speaker 2: See theory, ask this guy if you ever, if you
Speaker 2: ever decide to talk to him, just find out what
Speaker 2: he does.
Speaker 1: Oh, this guy is definitely some kind of artist.
Speaker 2: The guy.
Speaker 1: It could be a tattoo artist. He looks apart.
Speaker 2: Okay, well just in case, just looks like me. But
Speaker 2: we could find out he's a lawyer who knows and
Speaker 2: it's all covered up.
Speaker 1: During the day. That would be a good series. I'm
Speaker 1: want to go talk to people who have tattoos, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Find out what they do and good advice. But it's
Speaker 2: not all tattoos. It's just specifically legs.
Speaker 1: Because I do want to ask some people who get
Speaker 1: a tattoo here, just some advice because of like how
Speaker 1: the artwork is going to live, because that's what I'm
Speaker 1: starting to think of now. The places I've used I've
Speaker 1: had more meat to work with, But once you get
Speaker 1: into areas that it has to curve around your body
Speaker 1: a little bit. I would just like to know, like
Speaker 1: what works, Like what don't you want to get like
Speaker 1: spilling over interesting. I'm also thinking of like ten years
Speaker 1: down the line, as they bleed a little bit, like
Speaker 1: how close together can you get other things?
Speaker 2: That's so true? Well, you know, my sisters fiance has
Speaker 2: a full sleeve m hm, So he has experience of
Speaker 2: what's on there. But he's not an artist touto artist
Speaker 2: by a distress, So but he could at least help
Speaker 2: you in what he decided to.
Speaker 1: Get on them, because obviously I would ask an artist,
Speaker 1: but I would like to ask somebody who just has
Speaker 1: them and lives with them and doesn't have any kind
Speaker 1: of like bias on like they're not gonna they're not
Speaker 1: getting paid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll totally tell you.
Speaker 1: I just want to know the truth of like, hey,
Speaker 1: this kind of look weird after I like from where
Speaker 1: I had the concept art to where it was tattooed
Speaker 1: and now it's like fading weird or something. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll totally shoot you his Instagram. You can just
Speaker 2: be like, hey, yo, I have a I all think
Speaker 2: it's larious. He'll love it. Okay, we're gonna take a
Speaker 2: quick break. We'll be right back. I think Corey from
Speaker 2: Tennessee is a little far behind on her podcast, but
Speaker 2: she's catching up, so that's okay. She wants to know
Speaker 2: how excited were you for post Malone at Million Dollars Show?
Speaker 2: And what about him doing all that country music stuff now?
Speaker 1: Oh, that was amazing. That was like one of the
Speaker 1: only out of body experiences I had. Whenever I was
Speaker 1: standing backstage and he arrived like an hour and a
Speaker 1: half early, he was closing the show and they thought
Speaker 1: he may or may not show up at that point.
Speaker 1: Not only did he show up, but he was there
Speaker 1: like way before because he wanted to watch the show
Speaker 1: from backstage. And when he is, like entourage walked, I
Speaker 1: didn't like started to notice it, and then he walked
Speaker 1: right past me, and then it was just me looking
Speaker 1: down at me standing there, total out of body experience,
Speaker 1: and it was amazing.
Speaker 2: Did you feel like Doctor Strange in the first movie
Speaker 2: where exactly I think it's the first movie right where
Speaker 2: he's like levitated over.
Speaker 1: His own body. Yeah, or whenever he like punches Spider
Speaker 1: Man and he goes like out suit and just goes
Speaker 1: into Tom Hollands. But like I felt like that.
Speaker 2: That's what you're feeling. Dang, that's crazy. What about like
Speaker 2: him coming to Nashville. He's doing all this country music stuff.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna try and go to a bunch of it?
Speaker 2: Are you? Like, no, I'm og post Malone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just announced his tour, so I signed up
Speaker 1: for the pre sale. Hopefully i'll get those. He's doing
Speaker 1: the stadium here, which is interesting that he's not quite
Speaker 1: at just the stadium tour level, but a handful of
Speaker 1: dates are at stadiums. He's more in that amphitheater arena.
Speaker 2: Still. I feel like he could sell out stadium.
Speaker 1: I feel like he could, but I think he strategically
Speaker 1: hasn't jumped to that level of like here, I'm doing
Speaker 1: a straight stadium tour. I think he's done it a
Speaker 1: good way because he's built up. If you go like
Speaker 1: straight to stadiums and then you don't sell them out
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh crap, I got to go back
Speaker 1: to doing I feel like he's done a good job
Speaker 1: at building selling out arenas and then doing a handful
Speaker 1: of stadium shows on this tour. Is the first time
Speaker 1: I've seen him do that, because when I was looking
Speaker 1: at dates, I was like, Oh, he's not doing the
Speaker 1: arena here, He's doing the stadium. So I think that's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting because I haven't seen I mean,
Speaker 1: I've seen him literally a club that holds like five
Speaker 1: hundred people to a stadium, like I've seen him work
Speaker 1: his way up through every different type of venue through
Speaker 1: his career, so I'm excited to see how that translates
Speaker 1: into a giant like space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, based on watching him after that
Speaker 2: million dollars show, I could place bets that he likes
Speaker 2: the smaller venues because he's very interactive with his fans.
Speaker 1: And he's also for the majority of his shows he
Speaker 1: does like just him. And I think on this tour
Speaker 1: he's doing like a full backing band.
Speaker 2: Oh, that'll be like Post Malone produced. That's gonna be wild,
Speaker 2: because you know, you do see him stripped down a lot,
Speaker 2: like you do see him running around the stage for
Speaker 2: some hype songs, but more often than not, at least
Speaker 2: the videos on social media of him are pretty stripped down,
Speaker 2: like he's in a guitarist chilling, hanging out, maybe solo
Speaker 2: standing on stage. It's pretty like there's not a whole production.
Speaker 2: And stadium shows are tough. You do kind of want
Speaker 2: a whole production for them, because you got it's like
Speaker 2: one spectrum. You got like a George Strait situation right
Speaker 2: where he kind of stands there the whole time, or
Speaker 2: you have Taylor Swift who like takes the entire arena
Speaker 2: where's he gonna fall on that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I mean when I saw him at the
Speaker 1: arena here, he did have like a big cat walk
Speaker 1: with flames and that kind of production. But I don't
Speaker 1: know how much he's gonna am, Like what that's going
Speaker 1: to translate to in the stadium, Like you gotta still
Speaker 1: have the flames or it's just gonna be like yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, more straight ahead, like a George Straight show,
Speaker 1: or it's just like because it's also he's not doing
Speaker 1: his normal show. He's doing all country songs from his
Speaker 1: album and covers, so it's like he's at the biggest
Speaker 1: stage that he's been at, but in a more stripped
Speaker 1: down sound. So how does that translator? Like, what what's
Speaker 1: he going to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be so awesome. I think I saw your
Speaker 2: posts too that he's doing the Ryeman also, so he'll
Speaker 2: have a Ryman show and a show at Nissan.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's doing like a like a secret show that
Speaker 1: you can't even buy tickets for.
Speaker 2: How do you get them?
Speaker 1: You have to like sign up on Bloodlights, Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 1: I do it. Yeah, okay, right, So that's that's in
Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks. So I won't. That's how
Speaker 1: I got into that first show that he did at
Speaker 1: a club. It's kind of like you just kind of
Speaker 1: get lucky.
Speaker 2: Does he like love bud Light? I feel like he's
Speaker 2: been doing something bout.
Speaker 1: Oh that's like this thing. Yeah, okay, like whenever he
Speaker 1: first started, he just came out that he loves budd Light,
Speaker 1: drinks it all the time, and he does I have
Speaker 1: his bud Light.
Speaker 2: Can Yeah, so he's still still can you know?
Speaker 1: It was one of those things, is like an artist
Speaker 1: just loving something and turned into a brand and now
Speaker 1: like just part of his identity seeming with like him
Speaker 1: and canes and you Maine Rocks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might need to start a little post malone podcast.
Speaker 2: I feel like you can talk about this forever. Danny
Speaker 2: would love to hear more about your weight loss from
Speaker 2: start to finish, like number of pounds and your diet.
Speaker 1: I transition started. I think it was almost ten years
Speaker 1: ago now, probably like twenty four twenty. At the end
Speaker 1: of twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen is when I lost
Speaker 1: one hundred pounds, or it could be fourteen to fifty.
Speaker 1: I think it was fourteen to fifteen, So almost ten
Speaker 1: years since I started in almost ten years that I've
Speaker 1: kept it off, and it's been difficult for me to.
Speaker 1: It was always hard for me to like start the
Speaker 1: process of it because I'd been overweight like basically my
Speaker 1: entire life. I tried to lose weight before, and it
Speaker 1: really wasn't until I told myself that, like, I just
Speaker 1: need to do this for me and I needed to
Speaker 1: hold myself accountable. I think I just tried before to
Speaker 1: maybe nothing felt permanent. So all I really did was
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, the reason it hasn't worked before is
Speaker 1: because I tried to do it all at once. I
Speaker 1: tried to like change how I ate. I tried to
Speaker 1: start going to the gym, and then I just ended
Speaker 1: up being miserable and I would only last for like
Speaker 1: a month because it's just like, oh, I'm taking away
Speaker 1: all the things that I love to do and now
Speaker 1: doing these things that make me feel terrible and tired
Speaker 1: all the time. I quit in like a month. So
Speaker 1: it was me thinking that, Okay, if I just make
Speaker 1: small steps and add on to that, I can actually
Speaker 1: do something that's a little bit more sustainable. So it
Speaker 1: started with me like stopping drinking soda, drinking more water.
Speaker 1: I didn't start going to the gym at the very beginning.
Speaker 1: I just started walking. Walking led to walking for ten minutes,
Speaker 1: walking for fifteen minutes. Eventually I built up that I
Speaker 1: could run. So it was really just me making small
Speaker 1: changes in my life gradually leading up to that goal
Speaker 1: and always having a goal of like trying to lose
Speaker 1: ten pounds, trying to lose twenty pounds. So I always
Speaker 1: had a goal in mind and just made little small
Speaker 1: changes to get there.
Speaker 2: How do you stop my Like, for me personally day
Speaker 2: to day, my hardest thing is not falling into the cravings.
Speaker 2: Like nutrition I feel like is super hard. The exercising
Speaker 2: is it's hard to start, but once you can get
Speaker 2: it implemented, you can kind of keep up with it.
Speaker 2: There's a motivation behind that. The nutrition side is tough
Speaker 2: and you are very dedicated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say that's the hardest part because that's you
Speaker 1: can't really outwork a bad diet, is what I learned. Like,
Speaker 1: you can go to the gym seven days a week,
Speaker 1: stay in there for an hour, but if you go
Speaker 1: home and wreck it, then it's it's almost for nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I feel like it is tough. Especially it was
Speaker 1: tough for me because I was just like I would say,
Speaker 1: addicted to eating badly, Like it was just something that
Speaker 1: I did the cope with stress, did to cope with anxiety,
Speaker 1: I did to cope with depression that I would just eat.
Speaker 1: So it was hard to kind of break that cycle
Speaker 1: of here's this thing that I used to cope with
Speaker 1: these other things going along with me that now I
Speaker 1: can't do that anymore. So I think it was, to
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't really know how I did it.
Speaker 1: I think I was just so ready for cha. I
Speaker 1: was so ready for a change that it's once you
Speaker 1: hit that rock bottom moment that you realize that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not just doing this to screw around anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: doing this for real. So you kind of have to
Speaker 1: have that rock bottom moment of what that is for you.
Speaker 1: For me, it was seeing a picture of myself and
Speaker 1: not recognizing myself and being like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be that person anymore. And I aspire to having a
Speaker 1: post where I posted before and after because I saw
Speaker 1: other people doing that and I was like, I want that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to look at pictures and see me
Speaker 1: not recognizing myself and not wanting to even post pictures.
Speaker 1: There's a period of my life where I'm not documented
Speaker 1: for because I didn't want to take pictures. Probably from
Speaker 1: like twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, there's no pictures of
Speaker 1: me because I was like, oh, I'll just take the picture.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be in it. So it's having
Speaker 1: something that in your life that makes you realize you
Speaker 1: want to make a change, and once you have that,
Speaker 1: you realize that you're doing it for you and it's
Speaker 1: a lot easier to commit to. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: with anything, like people who suffer with addiction, like you
Speaker 1: have to have that will inside of you. Like people
Speaker 1: can help you, people can send you to rehab, but
Speaker 1: if you don't have the will inside you to want
Speaker 1: to change and want to do it, it's really not going
Speaker 1: to matter. I kind of have that same thing of
Speaker 1: wanting to lose weight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's totally true, And this kind of goes along
Speaker 2: with that. Oscar in New Jersey wanted to know your
Speaker 2: biggest hurdle in keeping a healthy lifestyle, which you may
Speaker 2: have just kind of answered all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard, Like I still struggle with it now,
Speaker 1: even though like I've kept the weight off for the
Speaker 1: majority of the time, Like I don't look at the
Speaker 1: scale anymore, m hm, because I feel like I got
Speaker 1: to a point where I got obsessed with how much
Speaker 1: I was losing and probably got like a little bit
Speaker 1: too underweight at one point where it wasn't healthy for me.
Speaker 1: And it's hard out there seeing people talk about diet,
Speaker 1: talk about exercise. So I don't even like talking about
Speaker 1: the part of like here's what you should eat, because
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't have that, Like I know
Speaker 1: what worked for me, but it's not going to work
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because everybody is genuinely in the aspect, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So I've never been like, oh, you got to eat this,
Speaker 1: and people ask me that, Like I really don't want
Speaker 1: to tell you because not that I'm keeping the secret.
Speaker 1: That's some there's some hidden formula. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to know. It's just what I did might not work
Speaker 1: for you. I would say a general rule for me
Speaker 1: was like going to the grocery store and eating like
Speaker 1: foods from around the perimeter of the grocery store, like
Speaker 1: real food, I think is a big part of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever you like, fruits and vegetables that aren't super process.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of like the core of it
Speaker 1: of eating just foods that nourish your body and fuel
Speaker 1: your body, whatever that looks like for you. But it
Speaker 1: is hard for me now to like think of like
Speaker 1: things I want to do and enjoy life. And also
Speaker 1: I have a fear of like going back to what
Speaker 1: I was before. Yeah, So it's kind of a slippery
Speaker 1: slope of like I just want to enjoy things now,
Speaker 1: but I also still have that fear of like I
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to where I was. So
Speaker 1: it's not something at any point you figure out completely.
Speaker 1: It's something that in my mind now, I know that
Speaker 1: I can maybe have like a couple of weeks where
Speaker 1: I don't feel the best and maybe I don't eat
Speaker 1: the best, But I got to look at the big
Speaker 1: picture of like just living life, like I'll get back
Speaker 1: there because I've done it before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think something that you know, I don't
Speaker 2: have near all the answers on this topic, and I'm
Speaker 2: nowhere near an expert, but I think, or at least
Speaker 2: I can imagine for you that you have hit that
Speaker 2: goal and knowing that you can is always there now,
Speaker 2: so you're never Also you felt how good that felt,
Speaker 2: So you're never going to go back so far from
Speaker 2: that because you feel so good right now. You know,
Speaker 2: once you've reached that point, you're like, how did I
Speaker 2: ever do this before? It's kind of I feel like
Speaker 2: where you're at in your life, Yeah, that there's no
Speaker 2: possible way you're ever going to go back so far
Speaker 2: off of that just by enjoying your life, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like you've adopted a healthy lifestyle, You've
Speaker 2: made changes, so much of the health and wellness is
Speaker 2: having it a part of your everyday life. I feel
Speaker 2: like you did that. You did that in a really
Speaker 2: good way. But just like you mentioned, there was unhealthy
Speaker 2: ways along the path, but now that's not the case,
Speaker 2: and now you're like, okay, balance, here's my balance point.
Speaker 2: So I feel like you're in a really awesome spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. From my perspective, I think so like I think
Speaker 1: I think of I get like glimpses of the life
Speaker 1: I used to live. Even whenever Eddie was eating those shrimp, Dude,
Speaker 1: I probably like back in the day, probably could have
Speaker 1: done that and not even thought about it. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I feel like how far I've come from like those
Speaker 1: days that in my head, I feel like I could
Speaker 1: fall back and become that person again. But when I
Speaker 1: look at all the changes I've made and have stuck
Speaker 1: to and knowing that I've done it before that I
Speaker 1: could do it again, it's almost like my brain is like, no,
Speaker 1: you can. You're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so awesome. Okay, well, last question. We're going
Speaker 2: to wrap it up. Any updates on you working for
Speaker 2: Rotten Tomatoes from Andy?
Speaker 1: No, I don't even think that they put out the
Speaker 1: application process again for this year, okay, because they usually
Speaker 1: send it out every year. And the last email I
Speaker 1: got with them saying that I still didn't qualify, and
Speaker 1: I was like I had been working on like another
Speaker 1: package to send them, just because like on the show,
Speaker 1: I started doing the movie report where I was like,
Speaker 1: I will now have a database of everything I've done.
Speaker 1: Here's another history of me reviewing things for another year,
Speaker 1: because that was always the thing that they held against me,
Speaker 1: that I hadn't been doing it long enough. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I started my podcast in twenty nineteen, Like, how how
Speaker 1: long do you know? How long do I need to.
Speaker 2: Maybe seventy years old before we can do this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So yeah, I would still love to you, just
Speaker 1: because I would love to contribute to run Tomato scores.
Speaker 2: Make them a little bit more fan friendly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not some critic based exactly, because if you look
Speaker 1: at movies for the most part, if you pay attention
Speaker 1: to the audience score, it's a little bit more right on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I always trust the audience score. I don't
Speaker 2: really look at the critics score, honestly, because.
Speaker 1: There's different there's almost different things that can happen. You
Speaker 1: can have a high critics score and a low audience score,
Speaker 1: which to me says it's like an indie movie that
Speaker 1: appeals more to like the Oscar crowd, Like this is
Speaker 1: going to be very high brow and if you don't
Speaker 1: get it, you're an idiot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hate that. There are some movies that have a
Speaker 1: high audience score and a low critics score, which is
Speaker 1: probably like your your superhero movies that people love. I
Speaker 1: love they have a you know, a big fan base,
Speaker 1: but technically probably great movies and a real legit critic
Speaker 1: is going to pick them apart because that's what a
Speaker 1: critic does. Yeah, and then there are some that are
Speaker 1: just all over the board, and you kind of got
Speaker 1: to decide for yourself.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe what you do, Mike is you start making
Speaker 2: audience radiance, because you can do that right on Rot Tomatoes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you go and you just make them so good and
Speaker 2: you make people go and like like your comments that
Speaker 2: they have no choice but to page.
Speaker 1: I could do that too.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's a route you can start going
Speaker 2: and then they just start trusting you over the critics.
Speaker 2: You're like, Okay, I'll win listen.
Speaker 1: It is kind of my biggest compliment that people say, like,
Speaker 1: I'll go see how you're ready to movie and base
Speaker 1: it off of that. That's why I take my reviews
Speaker 1: and my score is very serious. And the way I
Speaker 1: still use that five point basis to me how I
Speaker 1: break it down, like a five is a movie that
Speaker 1: changes me, a movie that I'm going to keep watching
Speaker 1: for a very long time. I want to revisit and
Speaker 1: I feel like is as perfect as it can be,
Speaker 1: and that for the most part, anybody who watches this,
Speaker 1: unless they just want to hate it, we'll find some
Speaker 1: joinming out of it. That is a five for me
Speaker 1: at the most, maybe two fives a year. A four
Speaker 1: point five can still be a great movie. But there's
Speaker 1: something that I feel doesn't put into that category of
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a classic. Okay, so a
Speaker 1: four is can be great. Anything kind of below in
Speaker 1: that three to four range, it's still a good movie,
Speaker 1: but it's it's still passing. So like A three is
Speaker 1: still good. I still think it three is good. I
Speaker 1: think it three is slid.
Speaker 2: You think I would be life changing at this point,
Speaker 2: you're watching so many they don't have to be life
Speaker 2: changing if they're going to be that high of a score.
Speaker 1: And then anything below a three is like probably not
Speaker 1: worth your time. I think in the two is still
Speaker 1: a streamable movie. Anything below a two in the one
Speaker 1: is don't watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the Unfrosted movie, don't watch that. Well, if
Speaker 2: you do start doing the audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes,
Speaker 2: make sure you tie your podcasts like you really shove it.
Speaker 2: Shove it at them all right, Mike, thanks for joining me.
Speaker 2: Tell the people where they can find to hear you
Speaker 2: all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: You can listen to my podcast, movie Mike's Movie Podcast,
Speaker 1: New episode. It's every single Monday, spoiler free movie reviews,
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