Speaker 1: The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan. Part one.
Speaker 1: I hang a scene with a member of the show. Well,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 2: A happy weekend everybody, best bits time and this weekend
Speaker 2: Mike d is joining me. What's up, Mike? What?
Speaker 1: I'm back?
Speaker 2: Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: It feels good to be back. Everything's time is going
Speaker 1: by really fast.
Speaker 2: It always is. This week is a little bit like
Speaker 2: messing with our brains because we did switch off with
Speaker 2: you and Scuba in our life time frames.
Speaker 1: It was earlier.
Speaker 2: It is a little bit earlier, but only a week
Speaker 2: because it was time still flying. But we need enough
Speaker 2: tod because last time you were on a lot of
Speaker 2: things were happening in your life at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a mysterious box that I needed to address.
Speaker 1: We are in the process of moving, and I've had
Speaker 1: this box probably over ten, maybe fifteen years, whenever I
Speaker 1: first moved, I guess since I started, even when I
Speaker 1: left my hometown and moved to Austin, I've just had
Speaker 1: this box of stump that was like when I was
Speaker 1: in a band. We would keep all of our merch
Speaker 1: in it, and I guess it was the only good
Speaker 1: box I had. So I've been filling it with things
Speaker 1: for over a decade of my life, and then since
Speaker 1: I moved into my current house, I have no idea
Speaker 1: what was in there because it's been so long, moved in,
Speaker 1: put in a closet and never looked at it again.
Speaker 2: Is it the same box or have you at least
Speaker 2: transitioned the box.
Speaker 1: No, it's the same box because I wrote merch on it,
Speaker 1: so it's an actual box we use for merch.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Okay, So did you go inside the box?
Speaker 1: I did because I told you I thought of maybe
Speaker 1: just throwing away the whole thing, because I was like,
Speaker 1: I have to use it, and I haven't been in
Speaker 1: there in seven years, probably don't need anything.
Speaker 2: I did encourage you not to look in at Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but glad I didn't just throw it away blindly,
Speaker 1: because there was actually a lot of old pictures in
Speaker 1: there that I had not I don't even know why
Speaker 1: I have these pictures. They're like old family pictures, like
Speaker 1: me as a kid. I found my sonogram.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait, Because before when you've
Speaker 2: been on the best bits, you've been like, there's not
Speaker 2: a whole lot of pictures of me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I found a lot of them.
Speaker 2: This is where they've been hiding.
Speaker 1: I thought they were at my parents' house. Apparently I
Speaker 1: have them. I don't know where in my moves that
Speaker 1: I got a hold of them. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I took them on accident, but I had just stacks
Speaker 1: and stacks of real pictures from disposable cameras and over
Speaker 1: the years. Wow, like really like me, literally my Sonograham
Speaker 1: where they wrote on it like hi mom.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah, I don't know emotional finding all of those.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I have that. It was just
Speaker 1: weird seeing me as a baby.
Speaker 2: I think it's a Did you ask your parents about it?
Speaker 2: Because sometimes parents want to keep all that stuff and
Speaker 2: sometimes they wanted to go with the kids.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I forgot to tell them about the sonogram.
Speaker 1: I did tell them that I found a bunch of
Speaker 1: old pictures, and she thought she my mom, thought she
Speaker 1: had those pictures. I started sending her pictures of the
Speaker 1: pictures and she was like, oh, yeah, I haven't seen
Speaker 1: those in a while, So.
Speaker 2: Is there any in there that you forgot existed? Because
Speaker 2: again you had said, like, there's not a lot of
Speaker 2: pictures of me. I haven't really seen a bunch.
Speaker 1: So there's some of me with friends, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: I forgot I had friends in the trailer park where
Speaker 1: at the time when I was a kid, I was
Speaker 1: super into wrestling, and I met other kids who lived
Speaker 1: in the trailer park who were also super into wrestling.
Speaker 1: So it's us like hanging out like there, we had
Speaker 1: an old trampoline that it was completely destroyed, but we
Speaker 1: just kept like the outer ring of the trampoline and
Speaker 1: that was our wrestling ring. I totally forgot about this,
Speaker 1: but it's like pictures of me and my friends standing
Speaker 1: in front of the trampoline where we would wrestle.
Speaker 2: Wait, would you guys do like masks and capes and
Speaker 2: stuff too? Like I'm trying to think of what movie
Speaker 2: that reminds me of, Like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of my friends had a mask. But we
Speaker 1: would just pick wrestlers and then have matches. Somebody would
Speaker 1: be a referee, or we do three way matches.
Speaker 2: And you were a wrestler, right. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: So I had to explain to my wife, like why
Speaker 1: I was doing these weird like our emotions dudes, because
Speaker 1: I love the hardy boys and that's what they would do.
Speaker 1: And every picture I'm freaking doing the hardy boys thing.
Speaker 2: That's wild. Does it make you want to pick up
Speaker 2: wrestling again?
Speaker 1: I mean, I still love wrestling. That was that was
Speaker 1: my first dream of what if you ask me as
Speaker 1: a kid, what do I want to be when I
Speaker 1: grow up? It was a wrestler, and.
Speaker 2: It was WWE because that's what you went and watched too, right,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: WWF at the time and it's now WWE. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to go to wrestling school.
Speaker 1: I'm going to learn how to be a wrestler because
Speaker 1: I'd play the video game and you could create your
Speaker 1: own wrestler, Like I'm going to be the risk Taker.
Speaker 1: That was your name that you came. I just ripped
Speaker 1: off the Undertaker, I guess, or Peacemaker.
Speaker 2: Just somewhere in the middle. I mean, that's I feel
Speaker 2: like a dream. You can still kind of chase if
Speaker 2: you want to do.
Speaker 1: I know, I watch a lot of wrestling documentaries. That's
Speaker 1: not a good really, that's a hardcore profession.
Speaker 2: Now you know too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the injuries are insane, the lifestyle is insane. It's
Speaker 1: cool because everybody loves you and there's probably nothing like
Speaker 1: getting that kind of crowd reaction. But the stuff you
Speaker 1: don't see is yeah, pretty bad.
Speaker 2: So do you feel like you're glad that you didn't
Speaker 2: chase down that?
Speaker 1: I don't think I remember like fully committed to it.
Speaker 1: I think soon after that I got into music, and
Speaker 1: then my new thing was I want to be in
Speaker 1: a band. So it was probably grades three through five
Speaker 1: where I was like super hardcore about that, and then
Speaker 1: a sixth grade I learned how to play guitar and
Speaker 1: game over.
Speaker 2: Isn't it funny how when we look back on the
Speaker 2: things that we wanted to be as kids, they kind
Speaker 2: of just developed very quickly over time.
Speaker 1: What was your first thing?
Speaker 2: My very first thing I wanted to be was a
Speaker 2: marine biologist.
Speaker 1: I feel like we always go with animals as a kid, like.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, marine biologists. I wanted to be a zoologist,
Speaker 2: a zoo keeper. I had a lot of like animal things.
Speaker 2: I want to be a vet. At one point all
Speaker 2: of those, I realized that I would have to deal
Speaker 2: with the loss of animals and I was not prepared
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: And at that point where you're already not eating animals,
Speaker 1: I was already a.
Speaker 2: Huge animal lover. And yeah, I mean because I went
Speaker 2: vegetarian at eight, So yeah, probably by the time I
Speaker 2: was trying to decide what I wanted to do with
Speaker 2: my life. That's I feel like six seven, eight, that's
Speaker 2: where you is where they start to ask you what
Speaker 2: you want to be, because up until that point.
Speaker 1: You're just living your life, you know, cartoons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, So I think I was already a vegetarian
Speaker 2: and big animal lover at that point. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: realized the other side of it pretty quickly that was
Speaker 2: not a fit. And then I had senior actor a
Speaker 2: news anchor, and then the news anchor one kind of stuck.
Speaker 2: That's what kind of got me into journalism school.
Speaker 1: You take like classes you oh yeah, news. Yeah.
Speaker 2: In high school, I was part of like the broadcast
Speaker 2: team where we do like the morning announcements. And then
Speaker 2: in college I studied broadcast journalism. So I've i've full blown.
Speaker 2: I even one of my internships, I was a news reporter,
Speaker 2: Like I interned with the news station and I would
Speaker 2: do my news beats. In college, I would do the
Speaker 2: local news for our like college station, and that was
Speaker 2: my whole plan, was a news anchor. And you know,
Speaker 2: life didn't go down that path, so it stuck at
Speaker 2: one point. I think once I hit high school, But
Speaker 2: up until then I had a lot of different eras
Speaker 2: of who I wanted to be for sure. Is there
Speaker 2: any that you think would have stuck for you? What
Speaker 2: was yours? Like? What was your last one to then
Speaker 2: get to where you are now?
Speaker 1: Well, I think before wrestler, I remember there was a
Speaker 1: brief period where I wanted to be an architect. And
Speaker 1: I don't even know why. I think I was like
Speaker 1: in first grade, but I remember telling everybody I wanted
Speaker 1: to be an architect because I wanted to design buildings
Speaker 1: and I would like carry around like a little hammer
Speaker 1: inside like the loop of my pants.
Speaker 2: But that was just like Bob the Builder.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I don't know. That was just some people
Speaker 1: say firemen as a kid as that architect. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: then it went to wrestler. Then I think for the
Speaker 1: majority of my life I wanted to be in a
Speaker 1: band and like tour and get on a record label.
Speaker 2: Which you were still doing the band in high school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did it through high school, and then when
Speaker 1: I graduated high school, I moved from Walkstatchey to Austin
Speaker 1: to pursue music, and I just happened to find the
Speaker 1: internship on the radio show. I was doing those two
Speaker 1: things at the same time, so I was still pursuing that.
Speaker 1: I just kind of saw, like, I don't think I
Speaker 1: want to do that anymore.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's a part of you that would
Speaker 2: ever go back to trying to do that? Now?
Speaker 1: If I would do it, it would just to be
Speaker 1: just like to play for fun, like in a garage,
Speaker 1: write some songs again. But I don't think I would
Speaker 1: ever want to play shows again.
Speaker 2: M hmm, Yeah, that's fair. The just more of a passion, yeah,
Speaker 2: like enjoy it.
Speaker 1: For in my head, it would be fun to like
Speaker 1: reunite with my old band and like there was like
Speaker 1: a group of bands that we all toured with and
Speaker 1: just do like one show where it's basically just the
Speaker 1: people who were in those bands attending the show. It's
Speaker 1: not really a thing we do, but just like kind
Speaker 1: of all perform for each other, Like that would be
Speaker 1: like the only thing I'd want to do, like more
Speaker 1: like a party where we all play music.
Speaker 2: You don't feel like that would give you the bug
Speaker 2: to try and pursue again.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I just think that it
Speaker 1: was such a grind to do, and we basically made
Speaker 1: no money for so many years that I don't think
Speaker 1: I would want to do it again to that extent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. It's also fair as you get older,
Speaker 2: you just realize the true sides of things.
Speaker 1: I mean, I also haven't played guitar in like five years.
Speaker 2: Like, that's wild that you also used to be a
Speaker 2: pretty significant guitar player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I taught myself how to play. That's all
Speaker 1: I would do. I would just play guitar, and then
Speaker 1: I would say, probably until I moved here, is when
Speaker 1: I kind of stopped playing. Like I played still like
Speaker 1: the first couple of years I lived here, and then
Speaker 1: just kind of stopped.
Speaker 2: You're telling me you never played for your wife.
Speaker 1: I did write her a song early on.
Speaker 2: Did you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 1: So that was probably around the tale, Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: was still probably writing songs in like twenty eighteen, So
Speaker 1: probably stopped fully in like twenty nineteen. Maybe picked it
Speaker 1: up a little bit during the pandemic because there was
Speaker 1: nothing else to do, and then since then I pick
Speaker 1: it up maybe once or twice a year, But that's
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: That's so cool. Did you record the song or did
Speaker 2: you just play for it live in person?
Speaker 1: I remember playing it for her over FaceTime, and then
Speaker 1: I think I recorded it and sent it to her.
Speaker 2: That's sweet. And then from there you really never mind.
Speaker 1: And then even she kind of forgets that I played guitar,
Speaker 1: like I haven't done it in so long.
Speaker 2: Do you still have a guitar that you could play?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I have three, two electrics and one acoustic.
Speaker 2: Dang, Yeah, a lot, not just one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that was my yeah. And like recently
Speaker 1: there was My favorite guitar player is Tom DeLong from
Speaker 1: Blnkelin eighty two, and he had this signature guitar that
Speaker 1: I wanted so bad as a kid, but it was
Speaker 1: like super expensive. And recently they did like a reissue
Speaker 1: version of it, and I was so close to buying
Speaker 1: it because I saw it on the rack. It was
Speaker 1: like so close to be buying it. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play it. I was like, I
Speaker 1: haven't played guitar in so long. Is this really going
Speaker 1: to motivate me to want to play it again?
Speaker 2: But it could be you love collecting things, that's true,
Speaker 2: and that's a collector's item for sure. I would assume
Speaker 2: especially in that genre.
Speaker 1: No, I mean it could be, but I think with
Speaker 1: I mean, they reissue it and they make a bunch
Speaker 1: of them, So I don't know if it's going to
Speaker 1: have really any like collector value to it, but it
Speaker 1: would be to me because for a long time you
Speaker 1: couldn't even find that guitar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just feel like it'd be a cool collection
Speaker 2: on your and your videos that I see from your
Speaker 2: podcasts set up. I feel like that would be a
Speaker 2: cool add to that because.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how I justify some things. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I put in the background, it's a set beast.
Speaker 2: It is. And I don't know, is that like something
Speaker 2: that's super expensive?
Speaker 1: That one? That was the other thing I saw it.
Speaker 1: It was like on a pretty good deal and he
Speaker 1: still did it do it was only like nine hundred
Speaker 1: we still a lot of money, like nine hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: but originally it was like fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a great deal. You're almost like happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the only thing. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is such a good deal, Like why is this marked
Speaker 1: down so much?
Speaker 2: Your wife is gonna be like Morgan dot but you
Speaker 2: should go back and get it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's there anymore. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: really I think. I don't even think I told her
Speaker 1: when I saw it, really, so I said it to
Speaker 1: my brother because he was like, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And she was probably just like, you have three guitars,
Speaker 2: what's this one? It's hard unless like you are a
Speaker 2: person who understands which side of it.
Speaker 1: She probably would motivate me to get it because she's like,
Speaker 1: you never buy things for yourself. And she's like, if
Speaker 1: something is cool, like you have worked hard, you can
Speaker 1: buy it for yourself.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: That's probably why I didn't tell her, because then she
Speaker 1: would convince me to do it, because I'm the one
Speaker 1: who always talked myself out of buying something. Ever, I
Speaker 1: don't like buying things. I don't really material things don't
Speaker 1: really mean much to me. I'd rather spend money on experiences,
Speaker 1: so I don't really get joy of owning just objects.
Speaker 1: I'd rather do things. And I can always like just
Speaker 1: it's so hard for me to justify it in my
Speaker 1: head of like I'm gonna spend eight hundred dollars on this,
Speaker 1: how many uses am I gonna get out of it?
Speaker 1: If I only use it twice? That's four hundred dollars
Speaker 1: of use. I always break it down by like.
Speaker 2: Use, yeah, and in all fairness, like totally fair, because
Speaker 2: I'm right there with you. I'd rather have trips and
Speaker 2: experiences and spend money on life versus owning a bunch
Speaker 2: of stuff. But something that's been part of your life
Speaker 2: for so long. You definitely didn't text your wife because
Speaker 2: you knew she was.
Speaker 1: Going to encourage to do it. And I guess since then,
Speaker 1: I kind of have been on like a search of
Speaker 1: all like the childhood things that I didn't own, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of been like my avenue of like collecting
Speaker 1: things right now is like what are all the items
Speaker 1: that I wanted as a kid and have never bought?
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of on the search for those.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's a little hail Mary moment. If it's still
Speaker 2: there wherever you found it, I feel like that's a
Speaker 2: sign that you're supposed to have it.
Speaker 1: I'm open to that. If it's still there and still
Speaker 1: the same price and it wasn't a mistake.
Speaker 2: Then you are supposed to own that guitar. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: I never, I guess I just never. We've talked about
Speaker 2: you having been in the band and stuff. But and
Speaker 2: you playing guitars and stuff. Now, I feel like that
Speaker 2: you could be a songwriter in that genre if you
Speaker 2: wanted to. As like a passion side of things.
Speaker 1: Is that genre? Yeah, I've never see. When I was
Speaker 1: growing up, I didn't really know that that was the profession,
Speaker 1: that you could write songs. I always assumed that all
Speaker 1: the bands that listened to wrote all their own songs,
Speaker 1: which for the majority they did, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of punk bands. But now like seeing that my favorite band,
Speaker 1: Blank Gwin eighty two, they have like people writing some
Speaker 1: of their songs. I'm like, wait a minute, you.
Speaker 2: Could write a song for Blake two. That would be
Speaker 2: a cool I don't know, just side passion, especially because
Speaker 2: you also love to write. Yeah, I feel like that'd
Speaker 2: be a cool creative outlet. But writing songs also different
Speaker 2: than writing scripts. I can't do either, so but I
Speaker 2: do know they're different. All Right, We're gonna take a
Speaker 2: quick break, and I need to find out what else
Speaker 2: was in the box, because it really got there one.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back, all right, Mike, give it to me.
Speaker 2: What else was inside the box?
Speaker 1: So the other thing inside the box that gave me
Speaker 1: a crazy nostalgia trip was my old Razor phone. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a black Motorolla Razor that I bought off
Speaker 1: of eBay used and I saved up all my money
Speaker 1: for it, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1: I got it at a point where they really weren't
Speaker 1: that cool anymore. But I was like, I have to
Speaker 1: have one of those phones because I want to download
Speaker 1: a bunch of ring tones and I want to do
Speaker 1: the flip. And it just looked cool and it was
Speaker 1: just all black, and I was like, Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2: They were cool for like ten years Sogo. I mean,
Speaker 2: they were around for a hot minute. I feel like
Speaker 2: they're probably gonna come back.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: This is it. This brings up a good point. I
Speaker 2: went into and this is definitely more of a girl thing.
Speaker 2: But I went into a Victoria's Secret and they have
Speaker 2: the secondary line that's called Pink. Have you ever heard
Speaker 2: of Pink? So much more younger girl version versus Victoria's Secrets,
Speaker 2: more for adult women. And it's like I walked in there,
Speaker 2: I stepped right back into the two thousands. They had
Speaker 2: the yoga pants that had the fold over them. Things
Speaker 2: were written on the butts. There was matching sweatsuits. We're
Speaker 2: back with like crew necks with things written on them.
Speaker 2: I straight up thought, holy crap, I'm back in high school.
Speaker 2: There's like all over again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two thousands are very back again.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah. So I feel like maybe the
Speaker 2: razor could also see it comeback, or wasn't there something
Speaker 2: they were promoting that was a phone like that.
Speaker 1: I think they did bring back the razor. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look the same, but I think they do have a
Speaker 1: new Motorola rasor.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is it is an interesting point because I'm
Speaker 2: looking at all of that, what do you want to
Speaker 2: not see make a comeback? Like, please do not bring
Speaker 2: this back from the dead, And I have I have
Speaker 2: one in my head, so I can like thank for
Speaker 2: a second. But the first one that is come to
Speaker 2: mind room is gauchos. Do you ever remember women wearing gauchos.
Speaker 1: I've heard of them. My wife has explained them to
Speaker 1: me before, but now I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Yes, so they were like yoga pants, but they were free, flowy,
Speaker 2: but they were also capris and they were just really bizarre.
Speaker 2: And I love a flowy pant. I love a capri,
Speaker 2: and I love a yoga pant I don't like all
Speaker 2: of them combined. And honestly, if we bring back gauchos,
Speaker 2: I think I will just throw myself into a pool.
Speaker 2: That is the one thing I don't want to to
Speaker 2: see maker comeback, but they probably will.
Speaker 1: But what is your clothing item? For me was whenever
Speaker 1: baggy stuff started to become cool again, I worked so
Speaker 1: hard to fit into a pair of skinny jeans that
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you kidding me? Now? Baggy stuff is
Speaker 1: making a comeback, even though like as a kid, I
Speaker 1: wanted you remember Jinkos, Yes, I do. Wanted a pair
Speaker 1: of Jinkos so bad, and my parents would not buy
Speaker 1: them for me because they're like, we're not buying you
Speaker 1: those ridiculous looking pants that are super baggy, but I
Speaker 1: like the designs on them, and then all the cool
Speaker 1: kids would wear them, so I never had a pair
Speaker 1: of Jinkos. And then once I finally lost weight and
Speaker 1: was able to fit into skinny jeans because they were cool,
Speaker 1: they became one cool again and now it's like baggy
Speaker 1: is the style. I'm like, why did I do this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And this is why. Also, I tried to not
Speaker 2: follow a lot of fashion trends because they do change
Speaker 2: all of the time, especially things that were in I
Speaker 2: feel like nineties two thousand's. All of that stuff was
Speaker 2: so short lived. Like I owned so much Lisa Frank things,
Speaker 2: and then one day everybody was like, no, we only
Speaker 2: like black and white. I was like, what my room,
Speaker 2: Mike was hot pink and lime green. Those were the
Speaker 2: two colors that I've painted in my room, Like, I
Speaker 2: could not be brighter if you tried. When I had
Speaker 2: come back from college, my parents were redoing their house
Speaker 2: to they were empty nestras whatever, and I was like, dang,
Speaker 2: I don't miss the hot pink and I'm green. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna lie like I It was a real real
Speaker 2: choice in making that full color. So I was like
Speaker 2: the full blown color girl. And then one day it
Speaker 2: was like brown why black? I'm like, what what happened?
Speaker 2: Jump scare? So there's that too. I just try and
Speaker 2: avoid them. I try and avoid a lot of trends
Speaker 2: if I if I can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't really hop on a whole lot of fashions.
Speaker 2: They would they changed so fast. But this is where
Speaker 2: my mom always loves to justify keeping stuff because everything old,
Speaker 2: this all's new. Again, and she will have every single
Speaker 2: one of those things somewhere in her closet, and they're
Speaker 2: all evidently be a time where I go back and
Speaker 2: get it. Do your parents keep things? Like? Do they
Speaker 2: have a lot of stuff from when you were young?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so, because I think my mom was
Speaker 1: just getting rid of some old my Like, my mom
Speaker 1: is more like me now. She doesn't like junk, so
Speaker 1: if something hasn't been using a long time, she gets
Speaker 1: rid of it. My dad is a complete opposite, where
Speaker 1: he will hold on the things forever and he's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is, but it belonged to
Speaker 1: our kids, and I don't want to get rid of it. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're very worried about that.
Speaker 2: He's sentimental.
Speaker 1: He either thinks like we're going to come back and
Speaker 1: move in and we'll need our things, or if there's
Speaker 1: anything that we own, no matter at what point in
Speaker 1: our life, he keeps them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean though, when I did meet your
Speaker 2: dad at your wedding, he is he just seems like
Speaker 2: such like a gentle giant. Yeah, It's like the best
Speaker 2: way I can describe it. He was just so kind.
Speaker 1: He looks like he'd be mean, but he's not.
Speaker 2: No, it's because of mustash.
Speaker 1: Does he still have.
Speaker 2: His long slash?
Speaker 1: He has a long mustache. He puts like mustache wax
Speaker 1: in it, curls it on the edge on the end
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you'd be like intimidated because cool stash. Cool
Speaker 2: stash is always cool. Facial hair intimidates me in general.
Speaker 2: I just feel like, you know more than I do.
Speaker 2: It's the vibe that I feel. And he was like that,
Speaker 2: and then I met him and he was just like
Speaker 2: the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But his garage is his space and he doesn't
Speaker 1: like anything moved out of there. So my mom will
Speaker 1: try to clean it out. He's like, Nope, got to
Speaker 1: keep all my stuff.
Speaker 2: Do not touch any of this. But the house is
Speaker 2: free rein where she's kind of reorganized.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is he can just keep all those things
Speaker 1: in the garage.
Speaker 2: That I understand. I am trying to be like that
Speaker 2: as an adult. Like I cleaned out some drawers and
Speaker 2: I had kept so many boxes from technology. Why why
Speaker 2: did I keep boxes?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I just got rid of computer box and ipedbox
Speaker 1: in an Apple pencil box that I was like, this
Speaker 1: is a really nice box.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're nice boxes, but like, why do we
Speaker 2: keep boxes? What about our generation?
Speaker 1: Are we like? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Boxes?
Speaker 1: It's just like when you have a really nice, put
Speaker 1: together box, you just can't throw it away and you're like,
Speaker 1: there's something I could put in this box.
Speaker 2: But you never put something in the box. It hides
Speaker 2: out on a shelf and you never use it again.
Speaker 1: It's just a nice box, I know.
Speaker 2: So I did get rid of a lot of mine.
Speaker 2: I've been really trying to like get rid of things
Speaker 2: that I just don't I have no reason for neating.
Speaker 2: Is that what the you guys are in right now
Speaker 2: because you're moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got rid of so many things that I've
Speaker 1: had that I don't have any use for. And me
Speaker 1: even two years ago, one year ago, would have said, no,
Speaker 1: keep it. I'm over everything. Like I could get rid
Speaker 1: of everything that I own aside from my computer, and
Speaker 1: I'd be fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you're telling me if everything I've been too today,
Speaker 2: would you just sell all your stuff and just go
Speaker 2: on with your lifestyle.
Speaker 1: If I could just do like a whole sale, like
Speaker 1: here's everything I own and sell it, I would be fine.
Speaker 2: What are the five things you're keeping? If you sell everything?
Speaker 1: Five things I would keep. One would be my secret
Speaker 1: Wars eight comic that my wife got me for Christmas
Speaker 1: and surprised me with it. It was the comic I'd
Speaker 1: been looking for basically forever, okay, and it has the
Speaker 1: first appearance of Black Suit Spider Man.
Speaker 2: Oh your favorite?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's my favorite item of my collection. Number two,
Speaker 1: I have a signed letter from Donald Glover aka Childish
Speaker 1: Gambino where he came on the show back when we
Speaker 1: were in Austin on the Pop station. Bobby interviewed him
Speaker 1: and then Bobby knew he was my favorite artist, so
Speaker 1: as show prep, I wrote him like a letter. Bobby
Speaker 1: read it to him on the air, and then afterwards
Speaker 1: he signed it for me and then got us tickets
Speaker 1: to his show that night in Austin.
Speaker 2: That's so cool. Did you get a picture with him too,
Speaker 2: I assume yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a picture with him. He signed a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff. My brother went up to the studio too,
Speaker 1: and we're both huge community fans, so he signed like
Speaker 1: my brother's Blu Ray and like a comic book. That's awesome,
Speaker 1: and then we went to the show that night. But
Speaker 1: I have that signed letter and I've had it since
Speaker 1: that was probably twenty eleven. Yeah, so I would keep that.
Speaker 1: That's my number two. Item number three. I recently got
Speaker 1: a Charizard Pokemon card, which was my favorite card growing up.
Speaker 1: I had one at one point, and then this kid
Speaker 1: in the trailer park kind of stole it from me,
Speaker 1: but in a way that he thought was fair, where
Speaker 1: I was just learning about Pokemon cards and he was
Speaker 1: trying to teach me how to like battle with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he was like, no, I wouldn't your charge
Speaker 1: are dang?
Speaker 2: He like scams.
Speaker 1: And I had no idea what happened. And then, like
Speaker 1: my other friends, tried to get it back for me,
Speaker 1: and the kid wouldn't give it back. Dang.
Speaker 2: I hope that kid gets a warm pillow these days.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember. I remember where he lived in
Speaker 1: the trailer park, but I don't remember his name. I
Speaker 1: wish I did. I tried to track him down, like
Speaker 1: you still have that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he probably does that.
Speaker 1: I mean if he did, he probably sold it by now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be my number.
Speaker 2: Three because I got one.
Speaker 1: I went to a card shop here in town. They
Speaker 1: had one. It wasn't like in pristine condition, so I
Speaker 1: don't think I spent ten thousand dollars on it, but
Speaker 1: I don't really care about that in my search of
Speaker 1: finding things for my childhood, Like, I don't care what
Speaker 1: condition it's in, I just want to own it in
Speaker 1: some form of fashion, not spend my entire life savings
Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, so that would probably be number three.
Speaker 1: Number four is probably my name plate that I got
Speaker 1: when we went to go see We went to go
Speaker 1: ride and Jerry Jones's helicopter. Oh so we went flew
Speaker 1: to the game and then we got to watch the
Speaker 1: game from his suite and at the suite they put
Speaker 1: everybody's name on like this little cardboard like place, a
Speaker 1: little if you go to a wedding and they have
Speaker 1: your name on the table. They had that from my
Speaker 1: name and I kept it.
Speaker 2: That's cool though, And the Dallas Cowboys have been your
Speaker 2: team your whole life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was just a crazy experience of going
Speaker 1: and then being there watching my favorite team and then
Speaker 1: being there as a guest was wild. So I have
Speaker 1: that name plate. It says like mister Mike Distro on it,
Speaker 1: and I also have some napkins from Jerry Jones bathroom
Speaker 1: and they have the Dallas Cowboys star on him.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Well, those are some good items, though, I
Speaker 2: feel like those are sentimental while also still being really valuable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so those are all the things things that I
Speaker 1: can't really rep I mean, I could technically replicate the
Speaker 1: comic book and the card, some of the other things
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, before we take a break, was there anything
Speaker 2: else in the box? Or are you getting rid of
Speaker 2: everything else?
Speaker 1: I found some really old relics from the show from
Speaker 1: way back in the day, even before Amy joined the show.
Speaker 1: It was whenever the show moved from Austin to hear
Speaker 1: I think Bobby let me clean out his desk and
Speaker 1: said I could keep whatever I wanted. And there's like
Speaker 1: some old it's literally like a pack of like sticky
Speaker 1: notes that has like the show logo on it, but
Speaker 1: it's not Amy, which was really weird looking. And then
Speaker 1: there's like a can of beans that they made. I
Speaker 1: forgot what it says on it, something about gas or
Speaker 1: it was some kind of promo idem but I.
Speaker 2: Was just are you getting rid of them? Are you
Speaker 2: keeping I'm keeping those.
Speaker 1: I just felt like it's a cool piece of like
Speaker 1: show history that nobody probably has anymore.
Speaker 2: So all of this is a you open back up
Speaker 2: the box, the boxes stay. That's what I've learned from.
Speaker 1: I got rid of like all the old cake because
Speaker 1: it was like my box for all my music stuff
Speaker 1: that we would tour with. So like there's like old
Speaker 1: cables and like old microphones that were really disgusting because
Speaker 1: we would take our own microphones and they got gross.
Speaker 1: And then a bunch of like old random things that
Speaker 1: I had no idea where they even came from.
Speaker 2: Okay, so at least half of the box got tossed out.
Speaker 1: Kept the phone, kept the pictures, kept the random show items.
Speaker 2: Hey that's progress. Yeah, what's in the box? We did it?
Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 2: right back, all right. I need to know if you
Speaker 2: have this experience, because you're the only other one with
Speaker 2: like full dietary restrictions like myself.
Speaker 1: It's hard, Like I'm vegan, my wife is gluten free.
Speaker 1: It's hard to go out to eat. It's hard to
Speaker 1: get recommendations of from people who like try this restaurant.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I will say gluten free is becoming easier.
Speaker 2: Dairy freeze also start like dairy freeze at the very
Speaker 2: beginning where we're seeing a big plant based movement happening.
Speaker 1: When you go to a restaurant and they have it
Speaker 1: all labeled on there, Oh, it's so, it's so great.
Speaker 2: I saw you guys went and tried flower Child, which
Speaker 2: is one of my new favorites.
Speaker 1: Oh, we'll be going there a while. Yeah. They used
Speaker 1: to have it in Austin, and whenever they got one here,
Speaker 1: we're like finally, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Except it all the way out in Franklin so forever.
Speaker 2: But it's so good. I dream they have this like
Speaker 2: corn couscous or like corn kuenwah thing. I dream about it.
Speaker 2: That's how good it was.
Speaker 1: I love it when I can go to a place
Speaker 1: and I can get multiple things where I have it's
Speaker 1: not just the one thing. And then you always kind
Speaker 1: of feel like you feel lucky when they do have
Speaker 1: a vegan option or a gluten free option. But then
Speaker 1: when that's the only option, they're like, well we have
Speaker 1: an option for you. I'm like, oh, but then I
Speaker 1: don't don't really does sound good to me?
Speaker 2: I know, And neither one of you guys are on
Speaker 2: the have the ability like both of mine are are
Speaker 2: more choices because I feel better besides vegetarian. That one
Speaker 2: is just solid. There's no changing that. But there will
Speaker 2: be times where somebody gets me to go try something
Speaker 2: to eat and I eat it and I'm like, dang,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have eat that, but that was really good,
Speaker 2: and I'm reminded of the experience when I wasn't gluten
Speaker 2: free and totally vegan. So I do have some of
Speaker 2: those moments. But all of that to say I have,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I'm weird in this, because there
Speaker 2: are sometimes I really love eggs, sometimes love them they're great.
Speaker 2: Other times hate them, despise them, want to not even
Speaker 2: see them. Do you have any foods that are in
Speaker 2: your list of things that you eat that you just hate?
Speaker 1: Also, I hate cherry tomatoes, but do you also like them?
Speaker 2: Sometimes I like.
Speaker 1: Regular tomatoes, but I don't like cherry tomato Specifically, I
Speaker 1: will love a regular tomato. I don't know. It's something
Speaker 1: about the texture when you bite into them, because I
Speaker 1: don't really like cold things. Okay, m h. When it
Speaker 1: comes to salad, like being a vegan, it's so hard
Speaker 1: for me to say I don't like salads because they're
Speaker 1: like isn't that all you eat? No, I don't. I'd
Speaker 1: rarely eat a salad. Yeah, but I hate just the
Speaker 1: cold salad with a bunch of cherry tomato. That's like
Speaker 1: my worst thing. This is your nightmare, yeah, because my
Speaker 1: worst food the foods I hate the most are cherry
Speaker 1: tomatoes and arugula.
Speaker 2: Oh a dang good tomato here. Okay, all right, So.
Speaker 1: It's something about the texture of biting into a tomato
Speaker 1: and it like bursting in your math. It just I
Speaker 1: don't like it. Yeah, And then arugula just tastes like
Speaker 1: I'm going out to the lawn and just chomping down.
Speaker 2: That is fair. Arugola, if not prepared correctly, definitely tastes
Speaker 2: like dirt, yeah, for sure. And cherry tomatoes are crunchy
Speaker 2: versus regular tomatoes. Regular tomato tomatoes can.
Speaker 1: Be soft and you can slice them. Yeah, Like I
Speaker 1: could eat a slice tomato, but something about a cherry tomato.
Speaker 2: You can't really slice those. I've tried to find myself
Speaker 2: in that process. So okay, So you have things that
Speaker 2: like it's a little odd, but Mike, thereby times where
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, lately I've been making this homemade egg
Speaker 2: salad that I'm obsessed with.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: I'll eat it with sweet potatoes. It's so delicious. And
Speaker 2: then one morning I'll wake up and I'll have like
Speaker 2: two bites and I'm like, I'm disgusted. I want to vomit.
Speaker 2: Don't know why, don't know where it comes from. Like,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if it's because of the vegetarian
Speaker 2: side of me. Something about eggs. I'm very particular about
Speaker 2: eggs that I'll eat, like they have to be like
Speaker 2: fully organic. I know that they're actually roaming on a farm,
Speaker 2: not like fake roaming on a farm, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. And so I'm very like, the only way
Speaker 2: I'll eat eggs if I know where it's coming from.
Speaker 2: Most of the time we'll get them from the farmer's market,
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. And I don't know if that's why,
Speaker 2: but it will be the most random day. Nothing startled it,
Speaker 2: nothing changed, But one day I just wake up and
Speaker 2: I hate them. I feel like that's weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, cause I I only have so many
Speaker 1: things that I eat. I can't get tired of what
Speaker 1: I eat. There are there are moments where I get
Speaker 1: to a point where I'm just like sick of cooking,
Speaker 1: and like I could make the same thing that I've
Speaker 1: always made, and for some reason, it just doesn't hit
Speaker 1: the same yes, where I feel like I'm just eating
Speaker 1: at a necessity because I'm hungry, and that's usual of
Speaker 1: the night, we decide, okay, we're just going out to eat.
Speaker 2: That's fair. Okay. Because people will always ask me, what
Speaker 2: are your favorite gluten free vegan restaurants, Nashville Flower Child
Speaker 2: being one of them.
Speaker 1: My favorite all time is Avo. I've been going there
Speaker 1: since they were like in this old shipping container. Now
Speaker 1: they're like in a legit restaurant, but I go there
Speaker 1: all the time, Like they know us there. We're like
Speaker 1: friends with the owner and they're just it's just so
Speaker 1: crazy when you can go into a restaurant and you
Speaker 1: can eat whatever. Yeah, and my wife can't because some
Speaker 1: things aren't gluten free. But I can go in and
Speaker 1: eat whatever and it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Like totally safe because it's all plant based.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's the one restaurant that I've taken people
Speaker 1: to who are maybe hesitant of eating vegan food and
Speaker 1: they end up liking it. They might not love it
Speaker 1: and go back on their own but if they come
Speaker 1: into town and we're like you gotta try yeah, and
Speaker 1: they most oftentimes left like Okay, it's good. Like it's
Speaker 1: not like what you think about vegan food, like it
Speaker 1: all tasting like dirt or just all being salads.
Speaker 2: No, there's so many options. There's so many ways to
Speaker 2: create vegan food now, like with different substitutions of things, cashews,
Speaker 2: coconut being a lot of them. But also I was
Speaker 2: really mad because there was one weekend where AVO did
Speaker 2: an Italian like weekend, a full vegan, gluten free Italian food,
Speaker 2: and I was so excited because it's hard. That's a
Speaker 2: hard food to find that has all of the restrictions,
Speaker 2: and I was out of town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went through that. It was good. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I was devastated. Like when I tell you that I
Speaker 2: found out about it, I was like I have to go,
Speaker 2: I'm going, And then next all the dates, I was
Speaker 2: so sad. Yeah, I cried Mike because I was like,
Speaker 2: I really wanted to try that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great because yeah, the two hardest restaurants for
Speaker 1: me to go eat are Italian restaurants and seafood places,
Speaker 1: because you can never find anything that's vegan. You're eating
Speaker 1: the eating the cold salad. Yep, so it'd go and
Speaker 1: they have Italian food, you can get whatever you want.
Speaker 1: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: So it was that. It was good. Yeah, I really
Speaker 2: hope they do it again. That was a devastating day
Speaker 2: for me. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They had like these giant rabbioli's really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like Mozarellasi, the.
Speaker 1: Mostarelli sticks were good. Come on, man, we told them
Speaker 1: that they got to make those a menu item.
Speaker 2: I hope. I think it was really popular, so I'm
Speaker 2: hoping it comes back again, and I think but I
Speaker 2: will say though, there's a lot of at least on
Speaker 2: the gluten free side. There's a lot of Italian restaurants
Speaker 2: that have started becoming really good at either importing pasta
Speaker 2: from Italy or coming up with things. But the vegan
Speaker 2: side is what's hard with it because cheese is literally
Speaker 2: everything in.
Speaker 1: Pasta or meat, sauces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all the things. So all right, there was
Speaker 2: that one. Then. Also, I'm not a spice girl, not
Speaker 2: even a little.
Speaker 1: Bit, not at all, not even a little bit. What
Speaker 1: is your level of like, what's your threshold? Is it Mike.
Speaker 2: Sometimes pepper makes my ice water And I don't know
Speaker 2: if I hate it so much because I'm also I
Speaker 2: think potentially allergic to it because every time how I
Speaker 2: eat spices, my lips start to blow up.
Speaker 1: That could be a thing, Yeah, that could be a
Speaker 1: medical condition.
Speaker 2: I'm also afraid of it. There, But I want to
Speaker 2: like spicy things. I want to I want and I
Speaker 2: try so hard and every time I cry, like I
Speaker 2: think I'm a baby in my food palette as far
Speaker 2: as spices go. Wow, there was like a honey barbecue
Speaker 2: that made me my eyes water honey barbecue, Like, what
Speaker 2: did they have in that that I made? I made
Speaker 2: my fiance a vegetarian buffalo dip. You know most of
Speaker 2: the time it's like a chicken buffalo dip, and it
Speaker 2: was made with chickpeas, and I got really excited because
Speaker 2: I was like, I can finally eat buffalo dip. And
Speaker 2: I put the most mild buffalo sauce you can ever
Speaker 2: put in there. I cried, and you know what I did.
Speaker 2: It tasted so good that I kept eating through the tears.
Speaker 2: That's how bad it was. What about daside? Is there
Speaker 2: any food that you love enough that you'll like painfully
Speaker 2: allow yourself to go through it.
Speaker 1: See, Luckily, I grew up where spice was just all around,
Speaker 1: so I kind of have a tolerance to it. Like
Speaker 1: whenever Eddie made a sauce so that everybody else said
Speaker 1: was way too hot, I had no, like I'd never thought.
Speaker 1: I was like, what are they talking about hot at all?
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything I like. I'm luckily even
Speaker 1: though I don't eat cheese. If I do eat cheese, like,
Speaker 1: I'm fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because yours is preference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like an intolerance to that, which I
Speaker 1: think that would I'd have a much different relationship with
Speaker 1: that because I because I used to on Christmas, I'd
Speaker 1: have my large cheese pizza bout myself and then I'd
Speaker 1: wake up the next day and be totally fine.
Speaker 2: Is there something you miss that you wish you could
Speaker 2: eat every day with no consequence?
Speaker 1: I mean when you were saying eggs, that was like
Speaker 1: the last thing that I gave up that I did
Speaker 1: not want to let go really like.
Speaker 2: And why eggs? Why did you let go of eggs?
Speaker 1: Because if you can't be a vegan an eat eggs,
Speaker 1: that was like the last thing, like I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll stop eating chicken and eggs are the last two
Speaker 1: things because I just ate so much of it. I
Speaker 1: was able to do chick, but I was like, man,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna eat for breakfast? That's been my
Speaker 1: entire breakfast for years, and I would just make I
Speaker 1: would put eggs and everything, like even my dinner. I
Speaker 1: would find a way working eggs. I know.
Speaker 2: And it's so weird. There's definitely a split on that
Speaker 2: of for vegan diets. There's like half where they're like
Speaker 2: eggs are fine, half where like you cannot eat eggs.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the pescatarian diet where like they'll
Speaker 2: eat no meat but they'll eat fish. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: one of those dilemmas. And I think that's why maybe
Speaker 2: I I go have problems with eggs. Some days I'm wanted,
Speaker 2: some days I'm an over. I don't know, But have
Speaker 2: you tried eggs again? No?
Speaker 1: I haven't had eggs probably in eight nine years.
Speaker 2: Wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless it's been like in one of my cheat days,
Speaker 1: like as an ingredient inside of like cookies or something.
Speaker 1: I haven't had eggs.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's crazy. Your dedication over there. I told I
Speaker 2: love it. What is your for you page right now?
Speaker 2: Because speaking of thing food, I have a lot of recipes,
Speaker 2: Like I'm pretty sure I hire for you page right
Speaker 2: now is recipes and traveling. So I have places saved
Speaker 2: where I want to go and food that I want
Speaker 2: to make.
Speaker 1: I don't get food anymore, which I used to love.
Speaker 1: I used to just get people. There was like this
Speaker 1: lady who was like in maybe South Texas or maybe
Speaker 1: in Mexico. She would just be making things every day
Speaker 1: and that was like my feed for a while. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I haven't seen her videos in a
Speaker 1: long time, and what did you do?
Speaker 2: Dear for you page?
Speaker 1: I don't know. All food is gone, that's funny, So
Speaker 1: what is it now right now? Because of WrestleMania that
Speaker 1: was a couple of weeks, it's a lot of wrestling.
Speaker 1: I get a lot of Pokemon stuff. I would say
Speaker 1: every third video is probably either somebody live ripping packs
Speaker 1: or somebody going to Target to try to find Pokemon cards.
Speaker 1: That's probably my number two most thing in my feed
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: You said riffing packs and I was saying, like ribbing cigarettes,
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's not what he meant, and
Speaker 2: it took me a second to register that you're talking
Speaker 2: about like ribbing open Pokemon card fasts please.
Speaker 1: So that's my number two, and then number three is
Speaker 1: probably just collectibles in general. I follow. I don't even
Speaker 1: follow a lot of people, but I get a lot
Speaker 1: of people just going to like different collectible shops and
Speaker 1: just like, here's what they have in suck today. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of my feed.
Speaker 2: Isn't it funny how your for you page can change
Speaker 2: so quickly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can like two.
Speaker 2: Things of one category and all of a sudden, that's
Speaker 2: what you have.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Recently I watched like one video of Chris ker
Speaker 1: Patrick from en Sync, and then for like two days
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of Chrisker Patrick from n Sync
Speaker 1: like I was the biggest in Sync fan.
Speaker 2: That's you're like, okay, yeah, I like the one video.
Speaker 2: We don't need to give me everything of that one.
Speaker 2: Isn't that weird? I did that to our show Instagram
Speaker 2: for you too, because because somebody's not like so actively
Speaker 2: on that page, you know what I mean, like just
Speaker 2: constantly on the for you page. It was so random,
Speaker 2: and so I turned that one also into recipes or
Speaker 2: like live hacks or cleaning things. I started trying to
Speaker 2: turn it into something that, like at least when I
Speaker 2: opened it, it wasn't like a jump scare. Every time
Speaker 2: I opened the thing, I was like, I don't need
Speaker 2: to see that. It was bad. It was really bad
Speaker 2: that in our Twitter feed, which is so kind of
Speaker 2: a dumpster fire. So I've tried to engage with random
Speaker 2: things to like change the algorithm over there so when
Speaker 2: I am on it, I'm not totally being startled. So
Speaker 2: our show Instagram for you page is cleaning videos, some
Speaker 2: country videos because I'll still comment on those, trying to
Speaker 2: make sure I know the country news. And then recipes,
Speaker 2: like all kinds of recipes, and that's what our show is.
Speaker 2: But that's funny. Here's just food, traveling and everything wedding
Speaker 2: that it does not help anything, Like I having so
Speaker 2: many options hurts my brain, and social media all does
Speaker 2: is make it worse. Like you get something you're like,
Speaker 2: that was a really cool I'm so excited about that,
Speaker 2: and then you can get it on Instagram and you
Speaker 2: all of a sudden have five videos of different things
Speaker 2: you could have done. It's horrible, like a horrible mind.
Speaker 2: If that's what happens to my brain in those situations
Speaker 2: like and it's just crazy how much you realize how
Speaker 2: much we're fed and how it like dramatically impacts our
Speaker 2: everyday life you know. Oh yeah, yeah, Like I don't
Speaker 2: even think I realize it until I watch my for
Speaker 2: you page shift for what's happening in my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I worry about that sometimes of like how much
Speaker 1: my brain has changed. How much has been my own
Speaker 1: willingness or wanting to change my way of thinking versus
Speaker 1: how much has just been manipulated through an algorithm.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, I'm not even kidding, Like I think.
Speaker 1: Even me getting back into like collecting things has been
Speaker 1: all because of what I've seen through TikTok of like
Speaker 1: other people showing that it's more socially acceptable, but also
Speaker 1: like getting fed videos of people like go into the
Speaker 1: store and buying things. That's made me want to do
Speaker 1: that more and lean more into that. And that's all
Speaker 1: because of having an app on my phone.
Speaker 2: Yep, And you didn't then you want to be buying things,
Speaker 2: you know, the basis for consumerism, I suppose, but it
Speaker 2: hurts my brain. There's sometimes where like I'll lay in
Speaker 2: bed and I and I still want to be on
Speaker 2: my phone because I want to play my games. I
Speaker 2: want to like do my little brain rotting, I guess,
Speaker 2: as I call while also bed rotting, because most of
Speaker 2: my day is very productive and I don't have that chance.
Speaker 2: But then I'm just like, why am I on this?
Speaker 2: Why Why can't I just brain rot laying here without
Speaker 2: doing anything for my brain or having to watch a
Speaker 2: TV show or like even my winding down is consumed in.
Speaker 1: That mean, Yeah, my winding down is watching TikTok till
Speaker 1: my eyes hurt. That's not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I'll be falling as like my eyes are
Speaker 2: closing and I'll be either like scrolling or I'm playing
Speaker 2: a game, Like that's not good. You should be closing
Speaker 2: your eyes like gently Finn asleep it's in the dark.
Speaker 2: But I'm not. And I think about that a lot.
Speaker 2: I've had rude awakenings a lot recently, if you can't tell,
Speaker 2: I've also had a lot of crash outs and spirals.
Speaker 1: You personally or I was like, that's your algorithm. You
Speaker 1: see other people crashing.
Speaker 2: Out completely myself or I will just like be on
Speaker 2: something for so long and it's it's partially from looking
Speaker 2: at a bunch of vendors where there's like fifteen different things,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I have looked at the same photo
Speaker 2: five thousand times and my brain just falls apart and
Speaker 2: then I have a crash out because I can't. It's
Speaker 2: like I'm you know, when you watch a computer try
Speaker 2: and do too many things at once. Mine just did it.
Speaker 2: It literally just like dies, that's what my brain does,
Speaker 2: and I just completely crash out. It's a it's a.
Speaker 1: Weird experience, just locks up. You get the circle of death.
Speaker 2: Literally, and I'm just like. My fiance will come home
Speaker 2: from work and I'm just like, I don't know, and
Speaker 2: he's like, are you are you broken? Are you like
Speaker 2: is there life inside of you? Like what is happening?
Speaker 2: Have you never had a crash out or like a
Speaker 2: spiral like that or your whole body just kind of
Speaker 2: like what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I haven't had in a while, though luckily I've
Speaker 1: had to do therapy itself to manage those things in medication.
Speaker 1: So luckily the tools I've learned have kept me from that.
Speaker 1: I get close to it and I can feel it,
Speaker 1: but no, not a super bad crash out recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's weird, but it's also like overloaded. I
Speaker 2: think of all the stress that everybody is under on
Speaker 2: any normal given day, like a job. Me and we
Speaker 2: look at just our jobs in general. We have a
Speaker 2: lot of things that we have to do and accomplish. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then you add life, social health and fitness, cooking
Speaker 2: your food, taking care of like see, then I started
Speaker 2: to crash out of it. I started thinking about it.
Speaker 1: That's why I go for twenty mile runs. Honestly.
Speaker 2: Oh I yeah, I wish I could mike.
Speaker 1: It's all that steam. Just that's where I'm not bothered.
Speaker 2: It's so true, and I would love to do that,
Speaker 2: but I would crash out on the run. My body'd
Speaker 2: be like, what are you trying to add to our thing?
Speaker 2: And I would be like five miles from this is
Speaker 2: like when I tried rollerblading for the first time to
Speaker 2: like again, to pick it up as an adult and
Speaker 2: give me something to do, and I crashed five minutes
Speaker 2: from my house.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a matter of finding something where
Speaker 1: you're not being notified or you're not looking at anything.
Speaker 1: Whatever that is it worked you're doing. Was it disc
Speaker 1: all for a while?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying everything the problem is finding time to
Speaker 2: do set through and then I crash out trying to
Speaker 2: I just there's a lot going on in my library.
Speaker 2: It's really just like planning and organizing and all the things.
Speaker 2: There's just a heavy mental load trying to do a
Speaker 2: bunch of things at one time. I like, it's also
Speaker 2: exciting stuff, but it's just you know, when you're your
Speaker 2: to do list looks more long than your grocery list,
Speaker 2: you're kind of like, Okay, one day that'll hopefully not
Speaker 2: be there. But anyways, I just had a small crashout
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't sitd in real time?
Speaker 2: Did you saw my brain doing it? But Mike, thanks
Speaker 2: for joining coming on.
Speaker 1: This was good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're seeing we have a Oh my, I don't
Speaker 2: know any more what I was trying to say. Tell
Speaker 2: everybody where they can find you and hear you.
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Speaker 2: shuts down completely.
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