Speaker 1: The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan Part one
Speaker 1: behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 2: What's Up, Everybody Happy? Best Bits Weekend? I am joined
Speaker 2: by Mike d via Zoom.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 2: It's been a busy week, so whatever there's a crazy one,
Speaker 2: we typically link up on Zoom for less stress on
Speaker 2: all of us, and that's what this weekend is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels different doing it in this setting. I
Speaker 1: got I feel more comfortable here because I'm in my
Speaker 1: home studio setting where I have like my movie podcast setup,
Speaker 1: and it just feels like totally different vibe.
Speaker 2: It's true. But you know, the bonus of doing Zoom
Speaker 2: is I do have video, although I've never done anything
Speaker 2: with it because like Mike' seen me right now too,
Speaker 2: where I'm just like at my worst, so I'm like
Speaker 2: I am, there's no makeup, We're just rolling, all right.
Speaker 2: We do have some fun best bits this week from
Speaker 2: the show. We've got the dyslexia test that went down,
Speaker 2: Lunchbox has the Kindness Challenge happening for two weeks. Doctor
Speaker 2: Lorie v came on to evaluate Amy's Madame Alexander Dolls
Speaker 2: Eddie made his son cry. We did some reviews of
Speaker 2: things that we have in our lives currently. Barbara Corkran
Speaker 2: also came on and gave advice to Amy and Eddie
Speaker 2: and lunchbox s geeked out because shark tank and we
Speaker 2: also had a thousand horses on. So like a lot there.
Speaker 2: It's always crazy, Mike. When I look back at our
Speaker 2: show from the week, I'm like, we did a lot.
Speaker 1: It's always like the weird things too that get me,
Speaker 1: Like all the interview stuff sounds normal, and then it's
Speaker 1: like Eddie making his kid cry, trying to be nice.
Speaker 2: I really like to throw people off, you know. All right,
Speaker 2: So I do have some things to talk with you about.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about our dumbest injuries ever. And
Speaker 2: you may have a few of them, or you may
Speaker 2: have none. But the reason I'm bringing this up is
Speaker 2: because I I was shredding cheese the other day and
Speaker 2: apparently I'm like in the Stone Ages because I was
Speaker 2: using a handheld shredder when there's so much more technology
Speaker 2: now there is. Yeah, I'll tell you, but like you
Speaker 2: can see my finger right now. I'd posted a picture
Speaker 2: of it, but like I destroyed, I shred it. There
Speaker 2: was like a piece of my finger, like hanging on
Speaker 2: by a thread. Like I straight up shredded my thumb.
Speaker 1: It was like a metal one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a metal like old school like
Speaker 2: kind of mandolin looking thing. And I felt so dumb, Mike,
Speaker 2: like I did that. I was like, I knew what
Speaker 2: I was doing and I just shred my finger for
Speaker 2: no apparent reason other than to cause myself pain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those things can cause some damage. You don't really
Speaker 1: think about.
Speaker 2: It, no, but you know, thankfully listeners like sit me there, like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you just need this little crank thing which I ordered.
Speaker 2: It just arrived at my house, this little like you
Speaker 2: stuffed the cheese in and it just cranks. It's super easy.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why couldn't anybody have told me about before
Speaker 2: this happened? So my dumbest injury, do you have something
Speaker 2: that comes to mind for you?
Speaker 1: I mean all of mine are probably when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I got hurt so much that my mom
Speaker 1: just like, just keep him out of trouble because he's
Speaker 1: good to get injured. But I think my dumbest one
Speaker 1: was probably in first grade where I walked backwards for
Speaker 1: no apparent reason and then I tripped over a chair
Speaker 1: and I landed like on the concrete edge of a doorway.
Speaker 2: No, put my.
Speaker 1: Head open, and all I remember is falling down on
Speaker 1: the ground and then I like, I've kind of felt
Speaker 1: something on the back of my head and I touched it,
Speaker 1: and then my entire hand was covered in blood.
Speaker 2: No, was it like super deep?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was deep that I had to go
Speaker 1: to the nurse's office. They wrapped me up in like
Speaker 1: this giant bandage, and then my mom had to take
Speaker 1: me to the hospital to get stitches.
Speaker 2: Oh how many stitches did you have?
Speaker 1: I don't even remember.
Speaker 2: Is it so like there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like the entire back of my head is all
Speaker 1: messed up. Because that was one of any injuries I
Speaker 1: had as a kid. There's another time I was just
Speaker 1: like standing on this green like I don't know, like
Speaker 1: power thing in the trailer park, and I fell off
Speaker 1: of it. It also landed on concrete and cracked my
Speaker 1: head up And didn't have to get stitches that time.
Speaker 1: But like, if you just look at the back of
Speaker 1: my head, if I ever have it like cut shorter,
Speaker 1: you can just see all these marks because of all
Speaker 1: the times I fell as a kid.
Speaker 2: What was happening to you that you kept repeatedly falling
Speaker 2: backwards on the cart.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty adventurous kid, like I always got into things.
Speaker 1: I was just very curious, so I would jump on things,
Speaker 1: I would get into things, and I would always injure myself.
Speaker 1: The other dome one I have is one that I
Speaker 1: still have on my hand is whenever I was really
Speaker 1: inspired by watching Jackass, so I would want to do
Speaker 1: everything like Johnny Knoxville and STEVEO. So my cousin and
Speaker 1: I would ride skateboards, and then I got this idea
Speaker 1: to go down this giant hill on a skateboard, but
Speaker 1: i'd like laid down on the skateboard. So then as
Speaker 1: I'm going like top speed, like way too fast to
Speaker 1: be on a skateboard, I was wearing a sweater and
Speaker 1: the sweater got caught in the wheel.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, it just like.
Speaker 1: Started twisting around and then my hand just all the
Speaker 1: way down the pavement was just scraping and it left
Speaker 1: like this huge scar on my hand. It was just
Speaker 1: totally shredded up and bloody. And that was the other
Speaker 1: one I got. So it's really me doing dumb things
Speaker 1: as a kid, where all my injuries probably led me
Speaker 1: to the point of not doing dumb things as an adult.
Speaker 2: That's fair. You're at least learning from yours, but you
Speaker 2: have none as an adult. Like these are great ones
Speaker 2: as a kid because like you're learning, but you have
Speaker 2: none as an adult.
Speaker 1: It's probably like kind of like what you had of
Speaker 1: like things in the kitchen. It's usually like accidentally stabbing
Speaker 1: myself either like trying to take the pit out of
Speaker 1: the avocado or trying like to cut something open with
Speaker 1: a knife. And I'll just kind of like the quick
Speaker 1: stab the.
Speaker 2: Other day avocados.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty cautious. Whenever I turned thirty, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to retire from skateboarding because I don't want
Speaker 1: to have any dumb injuries.
Speaker 2: It's so true, like when you're talking about yours, Like
Speaker 2: just a few came more came to mind. This is
Speaker 2: just top of mine because I obviously did this this week,
Speaker 2: but I broke my tailboard my tailbone skate roller skating.
Speaker 2: First five minutes, I was holding onto the back of
Speaker 2: a golf cart like I was standing up and we
Speaker 2: hit a bump and I just go flying backwards and
Speaker 2: I had scrapes from head to toe all the way
Speaker 2: on my front side. And then I fell off of
Speaker 2: a bike when there was a tornado like right behind me,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I kinda go really.
Speaker 1: Fast and you're trying to take the tornado on your bike.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the tornadoes are like we knew there was
Speaker 2: bad weather, and I was with my dad and my sister.
Speaker 2: We knew there was bad weather coming. But the tornado
Speaker 2: dropped really quickly. And you know it's Kansas because you're
Speaker 2: kind of used to tornadoes at that point, but it
Speaker 2: was so close to us that the sirens were going off,
Speaker 2: and so I'm like pedaling, you know, my little legs
Speaker 2: are going as fast as they can, and I hit
Speaker 2: this huge like sand and just go flying. My dad
Speaker 2: had to carry me home, and my sister had to
Speaker 2: like ride her bike and bring my bike home, and
Speaker 2: we like barely made it before like the tornado came,
Speaker 2: like all the wind came by. Yeah, you're welcome, great kids.
Speaker 2: The story and then gosh, there's so many other Oh
Speaker 2: a boy, when I was sitting on a swing, you
Speaker 2: remember the tether balls that were like attached to a pole.
Speaker 2: For some reason, he took the ball, the tether ball
Speaker 2: off of the pole and I was sitting on a
Speaker 2: swing and I assume he was florting with me. This
Speaker 2: is when I was in like fourth grade and I'm
Speaker 2: just sitting there swinging and he throws it at me
Speaker 2: and I like put my hand up to like block
Speaker 2: it from hitting my face. Broke my middle finger. Ooh,
Speaker 2: so really dumb things have happened to me. Also, does that?
Speaker 2: Does that help? Does I give some sympathy for yours?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Ex wor now is the thirty year old I'm still
Speaker 2: doing them and you've learned.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's the worst thing though, when you do something
Speaker 1: to react to something and then you hurt yourself. Like
Speaker 1: I always think about it when it where like I
Speaker 1: always comes back to knives. But when I like drop
Speaker 1: a knife and I think I want to grab it
Speaker 1: so it doesn't hit you, No, I probably shouldn't let
Speaker 1: that thing go.
Speaker 2: Like we're not we're not superheroes. We can't actually do
Speaker 2: that stuff. Have you ever actually grabbed a knife when
Speaker 2: you've dropped it?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I dropped knives a lot. And the other weird thing about.
Speaker 2: Me is like I have you never lost a toe?
Speaker 1: No? O. I have a weird thing about injuring my feet.
Speaker 1: So anytime I drop a knife for anything that could
Speaker 1: possibly hit my feet, I like immediately have like this
Speaker 1: quick reflex of like moving moving so they are out
Speaker 1: of the way.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Do you have like a toe injury phobia?
Speaker 1: Well, if we're gonna get into the real root of
Speaker 1: it is. Growing up, I had like terrible feet, Like
Speaker 1: I would get ingrown toenails a lot, and I go
Speaker 1: to the potiatrists like several times to get them removed.
Speaker 1: And if you've never had an ingrown tone, now they
Speaker 1: are extremely painful and they bleed a lot, and if
Speaker 1: somebody steps on them, it is going to be You'll
Speaker 1: feel the immediate pain because it feels like somebody is
Speaker 1: stabbing your foot, but then your toe will also gush blood.
Speaker 1: So I remember going to concerts with ingrown toenails and
Speaker 1: having them stepped on and by the end of the night,
Speaker 1: my white socks were completely covered in blood. So ever
Speaker 1: since then, yeah, it was pretty extreme. I don't I
Speaker 1: think every single one of my toes at one point
Speaker 1: was ingrown, so it had to go get them removed.
Speaker 1: And essentially it's them like clipping the sides of your toenails,
Speaker 1: and it's extremely painful. They have to put your toe
Speaker 1: under and.
Speaker 2: Ever since under anesthesia, just like the one toe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they get like this thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what was in the syringe, but they stabbed my toe
Speaker 1: with it, inserted that and then I could feel nothing
Speaker 1: as they were operating on it. One time though, my
Speaker 1: big toe did not want to go down, so they
Speaker 1: put whatever that stuff was in my toe and then
Speaker 1: they started working on and I could still feel it
Speaker 1: and they saw me in pain. They were like, do
Speaker 1: you still feel this? I was like yeah, and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's give you some more. So ever since then, I
Speaker 1: have a fear of getting ingrown toenails again, and a
Speaker 1: fear of just anything touching my toes.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's a very reasonable fear that you
Speaker 2: have after what you went through. Wow, sounds really painful.
Speaker 2: Have you had any again since you were a kid.
Speaker 1: No, I've been a lot better at taking care of
Speaker 1: my feet, aside from the amount of miles that I run.
Speaker 1: They don't they just don't look good. You just don't
Speaker 1: want to see my feet.
Speaker 2: Wait, but I feel like that's a genetic thing, right
Speaker 2: Like when you were a kid, it had to be
Speaker 2: like a genetic thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my parents also have their feet I got from them.
Speaker 2: But like that, so you say, like taking care of
Speaker 2: your feet, is there things you can do to like
Speaker 2: avoid it?
Speaker 1: Now, Well, I don't know how true it is, but
Speaker 1: apparently you get them if you like cut your toenails
Speaker 1: like too close down or you cut them like crooked.
Speaker 1: It has to do with that, just how you cut
Speaker 1: your toenails. So very cautious about it.
Speaker 2: Now, Well now I'm scared to cut my toenails.
Speaker 1: I'm still Yeah, I let them too longest because I
Speaker 1: don't want to clip them.
Speaker 2: Thank you for unlocking a new fear in me that
Speaker 2: came from yours. Okay, now I want to talk about
Speaker 2: the last time you got like seriously humbled. And the
Speaker 2: reason I want to bring this up is because I
Speaker 2: took a pilates class for like the first time. Basically
Speaker 2: I'd gone like a few other times before me. I
Speaker 2: think I deleted it from my brain and I went
Speaker 2: this time.
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 2: I thought I was in really good shape, Like I
Speaker 2: really thought, Hey, I work out all the time. It
Speaker 2: was fine. I did that pilates class. I wanted to die.
Speaker 2: I was like drenched into everybody else around me is
Speaker 2: like their little ballerinas, and I was like the little
Speaker 2: Krimlin that couldn't get off the reformer, and I was
Speaker 2: very humbled, you know, like cool, got it. I am
Speaker 2: not fit or in shape, no dude, So once that time,
Speaker 2: you were like humbled maybe in that way, maybe another way,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Kind of in that same way where maybe both experiencing
Speaker 1: that now is like I don't really feel a whole
Speaker 1: lot older, and I feel like in my physical health,
Speaker 1: I'm probably the best and the strongest I've been, just
Speaker 1: because I've just prioritized it for so long now. But
Speaker 1: I think maybe in the last year, I've kind of
Speaker 1: realized that I am in my thirties. And I think
Speaker 1: the other it was like maybe a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: when I was out for a run and there was
Speaker 1: like this group of probably college age, like across country group,
Speaker 1: and I tried to keep up with them, and they
Speaker 1: were going so fast that I couldn't keep up with them.
Speaker 1: And that was when I realized, like, Okay, I can
Speaker 1: run pretty good, but I'm also running pretty good for
Speaker 1: my age, because they's just something different about somebody in
Speaker 1: their twenties running that I shouldn't try to compete with them,
Speaker 1: and I do get competitive when I'm like quietly competitive
Speaker 1: when I go and run, so I try to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, outpace people. But there was nothing happening there,
Speaker 1: Like they're just elite and they're young.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's tough, man. There's nothing like being humbled
Speaker 2: about how old you are, like especially when you There's
Speaker 2: times that I've walked in somewhere and it'll be like
Speaker 2: a young barista and like, what would you like, ma'am?
Speaker 2: And I know they're probably being nice, but like that, man, man,
Speaker 2: it sticks them to my heart.
Speaker 1: I feel like the mam probably hurts worse than the.
Speaker 2: SIRR, maybe because I don't know, Like I feel like
Speaker 2: I've said sir more often, even to like other people.
Speaker 2: I mean, I say ma'am and sir too. Like if
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get somebody's attention, like a server or whatever,
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to be nice, I'm like, ma'am, ma'am.
Speaker 2: So like, I don't know why I'm so offended by it,
Speaker 2: but for whatever reason, when like a young person says
Speaker 2: ma'am to me, I'm like, oh, stab me in the heart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But you don't feel that way with sir.
Speaker 1: Not as bad. I remember like the first time I
Speaker 1: got called sir, and it felt a little bit weird
Speaker 1: because in my head I was like, maybe like in
Speaker 1: my twenty like mid twenties, I'm like, I'm not a
Speaker 1: serve by any means, like I still watch cartoons. Don't
Speaker 1: call me sir. But now I feel it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kids, maybe ten years younger than I am, who
Speaker 1: called me sarah. I'm like, yeah, that probably makes sense now,
Speaker 1: even though I don't want it to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe we have to like hit a certain
Speaker 2: point where like, yeah, respect, I am a man, sir.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just like we're in that special sweet spot
Speaker 2: where we're like not quite yet. Please.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, once you know your credit score, you're
Speaker 1: probably a surah or a man.
Speaker 2: That's probably true. I think we both are. You know,
Speaker 2: we're at that stage, Mike. But I am sorry that
Speaker 2: you couldn't keep up with a cross country team, although
Speaker 2: you're clearly keeping up like in running in general, because
Speaker 2: you do those runs and I couldn't touch that with
Speaker 2: a ten foot pole, like you were crushing it. What
Speaker 2: was your one recently? I feel like you hit a
Speaker 2: really high mileage in like the last six months.
Speaker 1: I think it was. My total mileage for twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three was like, I don't I don't even remember it
Speaker 1: now because I didn't set out to do it. It
Speaker 1: was probably in the thousands or something that I don't
Speaker 1: even remember it wild, but it wasn't something I set
Speaker 1: out to do. It was just once I looked at
Speaker 1: the number from the end of the year, I was like,
Speaker 1: it was just impressed with myself, Like I don't even
Speaker 1: know that I put that many miles on my car
Speaker 1: and I ran that much.
Speaker 2: Hey, well, you know what. You may be hard on
Speaker 2: your feet, but your feet are getting you through a
Speaker 2: lot of miles, so I think there's some pretty good feet.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna take a quick break and then
Speaker 2: I got some more stuff to talk to you about.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Mike, I need to admit something
Speaker 2: that is so embarrassing. But it was very like not
Speaker 2: intentionally embarrassing. Okay, where's this speaking of feet, I had
Speaker 2: packed a bag. So you and I both do this
Speaker 2: after work. We typically see each other at Planet Fitness.
Speaker 2: We typically go work out from work because it's better
Speaker 2: than like coming home and you get tired and you
Speaker 2: don't want to go work out. So I had packed
Speaker 2: a bag to go to Pilates after work. And as
Speaker 2: I'm leaving and I like changed into my workout clothes
Speaker 2: at work, I realized I didn't pack proper shoes to
Speaker 2: go with my workout outfit. I had booties on from work,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't put the booties on with the workout
Speaker 2: out of it. And I'm like, Okay, I could either
Speaker 2: just like run home and like cut my losses, or
Speaker 2: I could just leave my socks on and walk barefoot
Speaker 2: to my car and into the Plate studio in my socks.
Speaker 2: And that is exactly what I did. And it reminded
Speaker 2: me of the trend. How there's people out there that
Speaker 2: are doing like the whole barefoot walking and don't wear
Speaker 2: shoes anymore. And Mike, I got so many stairs, like
Speaker 2: in the five minutes, not in our parking garage, there's
Speaker 2: nobody's really in there, but in the five minutes that
Speaker 2: I parked my car and walked into the Piloti studio,
Speaker 2: all the people that were out having lunch like thought
Speaker 2: I had lost my mind. I'm just like trotting along
Speaker 2: like in my little sock east and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: this feels weird, but like I do feel like it
Speaker 2: was kind of a grounding experience and I now understand
Speaker 2: what that means, where like they feel more connected to
Speaker 2: the earth and their surroundings by like not wearing shoes.
Speaker 2: I did. Although I felt very uncomfortable and people were
Speaker 2: one hundred percent judging me, I did feel like really
Speaker 2: good about myself, Like I had a little pep in
Speaker 2: my step even though I didn't have but whear, and.
Speaker 1: You didn't step on anything sharp or hurt your.
Speaker 2: Feet, no, and maybe help because I had my socks on.
Speaker 2: I didn't go like full, you know, barefoot walking. I
Speaker 2: had my socks on, but I you know, I was good,
Speaker 2: and I was like I could do this not all
Speaker 2: the time. I'm way too awkward for that. Like if
Speaker 2: people judge me, I'd be like, oh, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 2: know I'm weird, but I do understand now why this
Speaker 2: is a trend and why people do it. Like it
Speaker 2: did feel.
Speaker 1: Grounding, Yeah, I don't. I wouldn't feel as embarrassed as
Speaker 1: far as the people looking at me. I guess I
Speaker 1: would be more concerned and paranoid of my fear of
Speaker 1: having something wrong with my feet that I would step
Speaker 1: on something. And it just feels like, of all the
Speaker 1: things that people throw out, you're gonna either step in
Speaker 1: something gross or step on a nail or something.
Speaker 2: That's so true. And I was in a busy parking lot.
Speaker 2: I was on a busy sidewalk. I didn't step on anything.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's because it's a clean area. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm also like, isn't it too what is the shot
Speaker 2: that you have to get when you step on like
Speaker 2: a nail atnis? Yeah, and isn't that really brutal?
Speaker 1: I yeah, I think that the shot itself is painful too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that would be alone of reason for me
Speaker 2: not to do this. But I just have to give
Speaker 2: people props because I do understand it now. And I
Speaker 2: felt good, like I do feel like I had a
Speaker 2: little pep in my stuff, even though I looked like
Speaker 2: a crazy lady. So what trend? Maybe have you tried recently?
Speaker 1: Well, before we get to that, that just reminded me
Speaker 1: of another injury I have with my foot. In my trailer,
Speaker 1: I stepped on a nail.
Speaker 2: No you didn't.
Speaker 1: It's because we had this whole couch that we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have gotten rid of. But I don't know. We either
Speaker 1: got it for free or we just it was our
Speaker 1: only couch and it was literally falling apart, so there
Speaker 1: was all these like metal things sticking out of it.
Speaker 1: I even have like a scar on my leg from
Speaker 1: the time it like sliced me when I sat down.
Speaker 2: You got like a Harry Potter scar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have a Harry Potter scar, like in
Speaker 1: the inside of my knee. But the other time is
Speaker 1: it had like these little wood panelings on like the
Speaker 1: armress part of it, that were like these little squiggly
Speaker 1: designed things, and they fell off, and I guess I
Speaker 1: didn't see it fall off, so I stepped like right
Speaker 1: on it, and it had a nail, and I just
Speaker 1: have the image of me screaming in pain, and then
Speaker 1: I think it was either my dad or my mom
Speaker 1: pulling it out of my foot.
Speaker 2: No, did you have to get the tennis shot?
Speaker 1: I don't think I did. I was probably like four
Speaker 1: or five years old, so I don't know. If I
Speaker 1: really don't know if I got the tennis shot, probably not.
Speaker 2: I wasn't say because I got like a young kid
Speaker 2: get that shot. I can only imagine, Oh my gosh, Mike. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: I'm really glad your bad foot injury days are behind you.
Speaker 2: You have a lot, you got a lot of foot trauma.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything bad that happened between for me physically was
Speaker 1: all like before the age of ten.
Speaker 2: So maybe you shouldn't try the grounding. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: I don't try the trends that result in any kind
Speaker 1: of injury.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair, but maybe you tried like another trend. Is
Speaker 2: there any trends that you can think of where you're like,
Speaker 2: I saw it, and you're like, I'm gonna give that
Speaker 2: one a try.
Speaker 1: I think I'm just always so skeptical of every single trend,
Speaker 1: especially with the like the rise of trends and TikTok
Speaker 1: that are all like, do you do this and it
Speaker 1: makes you feel better? I just don't believe them, and
Speaker 1: if unless they've been around for a very long time,
Speaker 1: I'm always skeptical of any kind of trend because I
Speaker 1: feel like it's somebody just starting something for the stake
Speaker 1: of putting something on their profile. They're like, hey, this
Speaker 1: person says you try this, and then they go viral
Speaker 1: for it, and it's so weird and bizarre that yeah,
Speaker 1: it gets picked up an article. So I see a
Speaker 1: trend and I'm like, nah, I'm not gonna do it, not.
Speaker 2: For me, So no trends for you. You're and you're
Speaker 2: on TikTok a lot, like I feel like you're on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I really don't see those all that often
Speaker 1: like people doing those types of trends. It's usually like
Speaker 1: when I'm looking for like research for the show, where
Speaker 1: it's like everybody's doing this trend and it's always something.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous that is true. So what is your like for
Speaker 2: you page look like on Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 1: I think right now it is. I've been getting a
Speaker 1: lot of running videos lately. I always get like the
Speaker 1: people getting hurt tiktoks. I think the last one I
Speaker 1: saw it's always tough when it's somebody older. The last
Speaker 1: one I saw it was like a grandma getting on
Speaker 1: her first boat. I think it was just the boat
Speaker 1: she's like.
Speaker 2: When she fell. Yeah, okay, wait, so does this mean
Speaker 2: you've also seen I think there's like a subway in
Speaker 2: Australia or it's a train, I'm not sure, but there's
Speaker 2: like a just like that Lady video, there's this huge
Speaker 2: gap in between the platform and where it is, and
Speaker 2: there's like multiple videos of people falling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you seen that? I have seen that. One.
Speaker 2: Those are crazy that you want to talk about, like
Speaker 2: anxiety if I felt down that I would never recover. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's fun, that's funny.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of fail videos. I see a
Speaker 1: lot of Internet theory videos of like not so much
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, but just like these weird like UFO type theories.
Speaker 1: I get a lot of those, obviously a lot of
Speaker 1: movie stuff, and then I get a lot of just
Speaker 1: like indie TikTok artists.
Speaker 2: Okay, who's your favorite indie TikTok artist right now?
Speaker 1: The one that I'm super into right now that I
Speaker 1: discovered in like literally the last week, but I think
Speaker 1: they might be my new favorite artist of the year
Speaker 1: is this. It's a solo artist, but it's called slow Joy,
Speaker 1: and it's like a very almost like nineties rock inspired,
Speaker 1: just like kind of emo ish a little bit. And
Speaker 1: it's like this Mexican dude from California, so he kind
Speaker 1: of like as like a similar background as me. But
Speaker 1: it sound is just like refreshing in a way but
Speaker 1: also feels familiar. So I think I'm kind of into
Speaker 1: this genre of artists that's like one person, but they
Speaker 1: give themselves like a name that's like that sounds like
Speaker 1: a band, same way, like Dashboard Confessional. Really just one person.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know, that's just always what I've been
Speaker 1: drawn to. And whenever I heard this artist, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this could probably be my favorite artist of the year.
Speaker 2: And they're called slow Joy m hm, do I get there?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay? All right, well Indie and it indeed, why did
Speaker 2: I say Indians at Indy? I am now putting together?
Speaker 2: You know when people say like you're coded something, you're
Speaker 2: Jackass coded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the movie.
Speaker 2: Not like the name, like the TV show, the movie,
Speaker 2: all of that, Like.
Speaker 1: That's you that. Yeah, I've always loved it. For some reason.
Speaker 1: I don't like the thing is I don't like getting
Speaker 1: hurt myself, but seeing other people get hurt as long
Speaker 1: as they're okay, it's hilarious to me.
Speaker 2: That's probably because you had a lot of crazy injuries
Speaker 2: when you're a kid and you're like, yeah, I'm good now,
Speaker 2: but like I could put you through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was like so inspired by that early
Speaker 1: in my you know, watching Jackass, like I wanted to
Speaker 1: do those types of things, like if YouTube would have
Speaker 1: been more prominent when I was younger, Like I definitely
Speaker 1: would have been doing that all the time.
Speaker 2: That's so funny and now just everything aligns. I just
Speaker 2: finally put that together that that's your code. Any other
Speaker 2: updates going on in your life? Like, is there anything
Speaker 2: new since the last time you've been on here and
Speaker 2: you want to talk about or share?
Speaker 1: I got a tattoo?
Speaker 2: You did?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: Is it the Spider Man tast It is a Spider
Speaker 1: Man tattoo?
Speaker 2: It happened, yeah, okay, okay, how do you feel? Do
Speaker 2: you love it?
Speaker 1: I love it. It's still in the healing process right now.
Speaker 1: So I got it about a week ago and it
Speaker 1: takes two weeks to fully heal. And it was one
Speaker 1: of those things that I've been wanting to do for
Speaker 1: a long time. In my last I only this only
Speaker 1: my second tattoo, the last one I got in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: so after I got that one, which is on the
Speaker 1: inside of my arm, and it's my favorite band's logo, Lemeria.
Speaker 1: The thing you after you get a tattoo is you
Speaker 1: realize how permanent it is. And I had like this
Speaker 1: weird feeling of like, oh man, this is on me forever.
Speaker 1: I got lucky because I'm glad this is something that
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna not enjoy and never going to not
Speaker 1: appreciate what it represents. But it made me be very
Speaker 1: cautious of getting my next one, because I thought, if
Speaker 1: I don't like something, like, there's really no taking it off.
Speaker 1: You can have the tattoo removable surgery, but it's extremely
Speaker 1: painful and more expensive than the tattoo. So after that,
Speaker 1: I was really just I put a lot of thought
Speaker 1: into what I wanted to get, So it took me
Speaker 1: all these years to finally decide on something, and then
Speaker 1: it was also me thinking more about it of I
Speaker 1: feel like people have always approached tattoos is you have
Speaker 1: to get something with so much meaning and it has
Speaker 1: to represent something, which I think is important. But I
Speaker 1: think it also has to look cool, and it can
Speaker 1: also be dumb and just look cool for the sake
Speaker 1: of looking cool, because really, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: a tattoo is kind of a dumb process. Like you're
Speaker 1: gonna get something that's on your skin forever. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: have that much wisdom behind it. You should just be
Speaker 1: able if you want to go get a tattoo, go
Speaker 1: get a tattoo because it's fun to do. And so
Speaker 1: once I was like, Okay, I'm gonna have something that
Speaker 1: will have some meaning, but also that I'm not really
Speaker 1: going to care about what anybody thinks. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the thing I struggled with is because I've been
Speaker 1: in the nerdy stuff for a long time. It is
Speaker 1: just who I am, and it really wasn't until twenty
Speaker 1: twenty where I feel like it became a little bit
Speaker 1: more normal to be nerdy, whenever we were all locked
Speaker 1: down and people got back into their nerdy hobbies like
Speaker 1: Pokemon cards started to pop off again and people were
Speaker 1: just able to enjoy it more freely. That that was
Speaker 1: the time period I thought, well, there are other people
Speaker 1: out there who were just like me, grew up like
Speaker 1: I did, and they are into these things. They're into Pokemon,
Speaker 1: they're into comic books, they're into superheroes, and I don't
Speaker 1: really have to be ashamed about it anymore. And a
Speaker 1: Marvel tattoo was something that I always wanted because it's
Speaker 1: been my favorite thing forever. And Spider Man was the
Speaker 1: superhero that I first attached myself to because I felt
Speaker 1: like he was the one character that anybody could be
Speaker 1: Spider Man because you just see a guy in a mask.
Speaker 1: He's not black, white, Mexican or anything. He's just Spider Man.
Speaker 1: So I think that was always important for me as
Speaker 1: a kid, because we didn't really have that representation of
Speaker 1: there's a Mexican superhero, but behind the mask, you really
Speaker 1: don't know who it is. And it was me realizing
Speaker 1: that I could embrace that and get it because it's
Speaker 1: something that I've loved for so long that I don't
Speaker 1: really care how anybody else is going to interpret it.
Speaker 1: They could call me a nerd, they could call me
Speaker 1: a loser, but it is something I've always wanted, and
Speaker 1: now that it's on me, I love it and I
Speaker 1: think once it's fully healed, I can't wait to show
Speaker 1: it off and post pictures about it, because right now
Speaker 1: it doesn't like look well quality. It takes those two
Speaker 1: weeks for it to get all like the peeling and
Speaker 1: scabbing off, and then if I posted it now, pe'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh, it looks terrible. You should get your
Speaker 1: money back.
Speaker 2: No, I bet it still looks awesome. And if you're
Speaker 2: excited about it. You're right, that's all that matters, and
Speaker 2: you like are glowing talking about this tattoo right now,
Speaker 2: like you're so excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty painful at least for Actually, I've
Speaker 1: kind of forgot how bad it hurts on like the
Speaker 1: first few like maybe the first ten minutes, and the
Speaker 1: entire thingk the entire thing took four and a half hours,
Speaker 1: So those first ten minutes I was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this really feels like some just stabbing you in the arm.
Speaker 1: And then after a while you just forget about it
Speaker 1: and it just becomes more of a waiting game because
Speaker 1: I was just laying on the table for four and
Speaker 1: a half hours. That it wasn't even more so the
Speaker 1: pain in my arm, because I kind of forgot about that,
Speaker 1: but it was just like getting used to just sitting
Speaker 1: there for that long and you can't really do anything
Speaker 1: because you can't move this arm. You can't really do
Speaker 1: anything with the other arm because you're laying down on it.
Speaker 1: So I was just staring at a clock literally for
Speaker 1: four and a half hours.
Speaker 2: Wait, so do you like And I don't know because
Speaker 2: I don't have any tattoos, So this maybe a dumb question,
Speaker 2: But do would it make sense to like have a
Speaker 2: few drinks or like, you know, whatever your vice is
Speaker 2: before you go in, Like does that make it better
Speaker 2: or does it make it worse?
Speaker 1: I feel like it would make it worse. And I
Speaker 1: know there's kind of that thing that people say about, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you go get tattoos drunk, like that was apparently a
Speaker 1: thing at some point. I really don't see how you
Speaker 1: could because you think of a tattoo parlor being like
Speaker 1: kind of a seedy place or like having like this
Speaker 1: weird edge to it. But when I was there, I
Speaker 1: realized this is just a regular place of business. This
Speaker 1: feels like a doctor's office. Everybody here here is totally chill.
Speaker 1: If somebody came in here drunk or totally messed up,
Speaker 1: I don't think they would, you know, even work on them.
Speaker 1: And it's such a professional setting and they're so particular
Speaker 1: about like cleanliness and making sure everything's just by the
Speaker 1: book that I think it would probably hurt you if
Speaker 1: you went in trying to get a tattoo drunk to
Speaker 1: compensate for the fear of the pain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that makes sense, And like I said,
Speaker 2: I have zero shirt, so I'm leaning on you here.
Speaker 2: What about like during that, can you watch stuff on
Speaker 2: your phone? Can you like listen to music? Or are
Speaker 2: you just like in silence, not able to move.
Speaker 1: I think it reached a point where it kind of
Speaker 1: felt a little bit senterrapeutic to me. And I had
Speaker 1: brought headphones with me so I could listen to music
Speaker 1: or listen to a podcast, or I was going to read,
Speaker 1: but I kind of just allowed myself just to lay
Speaker 1: there and it was really like the one time in
Speaker 1: that week that I just got to do nothing, So
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm going to enjoy this.
Speaker 1: I think the hardest part was just literally looking at
Speaker 1: the time as it went down. It was kind of
Speaker 1: like being on a treadmill where you're just so focused
Speaker 1: on the time. But I kind of wish I would
Speaker 1: have maybe watched a movie or something. But I think
Speaker 1: looking back on it, I'll probably remember it more because
Speaker 1: I was paying attention to all the other people getting tattoos,
Speaker 1: and I just allowed myself to be in the moment.
Speaker 2: This is your version of R and R. You ain't
Speaker 2: got like your tattoo you wanted exactly. Okay, I'm so
Speaker 2: glad I got that update. I knew there was something
Speaker 2: there was I I had, like Mike updates, and I
Speaker 2: just wasn't sure because I saw you post from a
Speaker 2: tattoo parlor. But I was like, did he do it?
Speaker 2: I don't know because you didn't post a picture. It
Speaker 2: not makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it definitely makes me want to get more
Speaker 1: now that I'm I'm just like a fan of the
Speaker 1: process now now and I realized that it's not that
Speaker 1: big a deal to get something, So I'll probably get
Speaker 1: another one at least in a year.
Speaker 2: All Right, Mike the tattoo Guy, you're not movie Mike anymore.
Speaker 2: You're Mike the tattoo guy too. Just a new thing
Speaker 2: touch to your name. Okay, we're gonna take a quick
Speaker 2: break and we'll be right back. I couldn't go a
Speaker 2: Best Bits part one without asking you some type of
Speaker 2: movie thing. But I was thinking about this the other day, Mike.
Speaker 2: So I was choosing things to watch, and is there
Speaker 2: a certain actor or actress that you will watch anything
Speaker 2: that they're in just because of that actor actress, Like
Speaker 2: it is a matter of the genre or anything. You're
Speaker 2: just always gonna watch it because they're in it.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I have a lot of those, Okay, give
Speaker 1: them to me. I think at the top of the
Speaker 1: list is Ryan Gosling. I feel like he has been
Speaker 1: considertent now for over a decade, and I also feel
Speaker 1: like he takes on movies that aren't always the same thing.
Speaker 1: So I feel like, not only am I going to
Speaker 1: get a good movie, but I'm also probably gonna watch
Speaker 1: something that I haven't seen before, and he kind of
Speaker 1: surprises me too. I think the one I was most
Speaker 1: skeptical about was whenever he got cast in Barbie. I
Speaker 1: was like dusting in a Barbie movie. But once we
Speaker 1: saw the trailer, once we actually saw the movie, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, that totally makes sense. Why did I
Speaker 1: ever doubt him. But he's also going to be in
Speaker 1: a new movie called The fall Guy coming out later
Speaker 1: this year that I'm also excited about, and it's like
Speaker 1: him playing a stud performer again. It's like something that
Speaker 1: I really haven't seen before, even though it is a remake.
Speaker 1: But I always feel like he is just money when
Speaker 1: it comes to watching something that's going to be a
Speaker 1: really fun time in theaters.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the one with him on it that
Speaker 2: was on Netflix? I think Chris Evans was also in it.
Speaker 1: The gray Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that a new role I felt like for him
Speaker 2: and it was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't really say a whole lot in that movie.
Speaker 1: He also does action really well, which is like something
Speaker 1: that's pretty rare for an actor who can also do
Speaker 1: like a high stakes drama to be able to also
Speaker 1: be an action star. So I think, yeah, some of
Speaker 1: the best action movies in the last ten years. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite movies of his is a movie called
Speaker 1: Drive where he plays a getaway driver, and for the
Speaker 1: longest time that was like my favorite movie. So I
Speaker 1: think it was that movie in particular that made him
Speaker 1: one of those actors that, no matter what he's going
Speaker 1: to be in, I'm gonna watch it.
Speaker 2: That's so true. And I think all he did was
Speaker 2: solidify that with Ken like being kN I mean, he
Speaker 2: just was like, Yeah, I'm just gonna sink all of y'all. Okay,
Speaker 2: who else? Is there anybody else on that list?
Speaker 1: For a while, it was Shilah buff But I feel
Speaker 1: like he has kind of fallen off out of that tier.
Speaker 1: There was a period where he was just putting out
Speaker 1: consistently good movies, and now after a string of he
Speaker 1: also changed a lot as a person, and so he
Speaker 1: was the like my number one slot for a long
Speaker 1: time just because I was a big fan of him.
Speaker 1: It's like back in the Disney Channel days, but it's
Speaker 1: probably following out of that slot. But along those same
Speaker 1: lines of I mean they've worked together a lot too.
Speaker 1: Is Emma Stone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a great actress.
Speaker 1: Anything she is in is either gonna be funny, or
Speaker 1: it's gonna be weird, or it's gonna make me cry.
Speaker 2: Hers I feel like, are always come out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: like they're kind of zingers that kind of like throw
Speaker 2: me where. I'm like, I didn't expect to like it
Speaker 2: as much as I was going to do. You get
Speaker 2: that vibe with.
Speaker 1: Her stuff, Oh definitely. And she's also like at a
Speaker 1: point now she's almost on like that Leonardo DiCaprio level.
Speaker 1: Of any movie she does, she's probably doing good because
Speaker 1: it's gonna get her Oscar nomination. Like she's just that
Speaker 1: good now mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Because like I think of Easy A like that was
Speaker 2: such a like just random movie but it's so funny
Speaker 2: for no reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she was dominating like the teen comedy
Speaker 1: back when she first started, she was also like in super.
Speaker 2: Bad mm hmmm, so good. And I what there was
Speaker 2: something else that she was in that was a comedy
Speaker 2: movie and now I can't remember it totally lost me.
Speaker 2: But that was a good one. Okay, any others I
Speaker 2: can tell you mine too, because you may have opinions
Speaker 2: on the ones I choose some of yours. So like
Speaker 2: a newer one for me is Brie Larson. I am
Speaker 2: obsessed with her, especially like I liked her and Captain
Speaker 2: Marvel and obviously she's one of my favorite superheroes. But
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed the TV show that she just did
Speaker 2: on Apple TV plus. Did you watch that one? By chance?
Speaker 1: I've seen it on there for the longest time, and
Speaker 1: I've been meaning to watch it, but I still haven't.
Speaker 2: And now now, of course the titles escaping me. But
Speaker 2: it was so good that it may me be like
Speaker 2: now that TV show made me want to now again
Speaker 2: watch everything Brie Larson. Is it? Like I was already
Speaker 2: kind of there because of the Marvel stuff, but now
Speaker 2: after that TV show, like kind of like m Stone
Speaker 2: like Solidify or Ryan Goslina's kid, like that solidified it
Speaker 2: for me. Lessons in Chemistry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so good. So she's like a newer one
Speaker 2: for me. What do you think of her?
Speaker 1: I like her a lot too, definitely from her Captain
Speaker 1: Marvel role. But I feel like in the last few
Speaker 1: years she's done just like really big blockbusters now and
Speaker 1: she's kind of become that name of like on level
Speaker 1: with like other actions starts because of Captain Marvel, Like
Speaker 1: she was in the Fast X movie and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, b really large and than this two, and
Speaker 1: it makes sense.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize she was in that. I'll be honest.
Speaker 2: The last Fast of Yours movie I saw it was
Speaker 2: on your birthday.
Speaker 1: I just still watch all of them. They've gotten considerably
Speaker 1: terrible more terrible since now Allen, but there's just something
Speaker 1: about those movies that I just still go back to
Speaker 1: them time and time again.
Speaker 2: They're just like, you're guilty pleasure, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because they're just going to keep making them forever until
Speaker 1: it's been Diesel retires and they're just gonna get more ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So they're still funding me.
Speaker 2: That's fair. You have like a nostalgia part. I assumed
Speaker 2: to that too. The other two that I have, I've
Speaker 2: got Ryan Reynolds the other Ryan. I just like his
Speaker 2: comedic timing. I mean, he nails it every time, and
Speaker 2: he's not somebody who's like I guess you could say
Speaker 2: it a lot. He did do rom comms and he
Speaker 2: was really good at those, but I feel like comedy
Speaker 2: is really where he sticks out. He's done action, but
Speaker 2: he's still comedic in those roles. I just really love
Speaker 2: him as like a comedic actor so much. If it's
Speaker 2: if he's there, I'm gonna watch it because I know
Speaker 2: I'm gonna laugh. Yeah, he's a big pick for.
Speaker 1: Me, and he kind of took a year off last year.
Speaker 1: I don't think you put out a single movie. But
Speaker 1: this year he's coming in strong with Deadpool and Wolverine
Speaker 1: and also that kid's.
Speaker 2: Movie If, which both are gonna be awesome. I just
Speaker 2: I have hope because it's Ryan Reynolds, right, Him is Deadpool.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he feels this way, but like
Speaker 2: him is Deadpool is just like Chef's Kiss.
Speaker 1: I think like that is the most quintessential role, Like
Speaker 1: everybody has like their one role that they were meant
Speaker 1: to play, Like that is definitely it for him, and
Speaker 1: I think he was kind of in that point of
Speaker 1: his career where he was already super famous, already well established,
Speaker 1: but it was almost him playing Deadpool took him to
Speaker 1: another level because it gave him like that one golden
Speaker 1: role that people would just Ryan Reynolds, He's Deadpool. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like too, like they're one and the same,
Speaker 2: because even when he does like advertisements or posted on
Speaker 2: social media, I'm like, that's Deadpool.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think sometimes he has it to a fault though,
Speaker 1: because it gets a little bit if you're not a
Speaker 1: super fan of him, it gets a little bit tiring
Speaker 1: to see him be the same in every single movie.
Speaker 1: So it works. It was abandoned because that's what people
Speaker 1: expect from men, and if you love it, great, But
Speaker 1: sometimes for me, I do enjoy him, but every now
Speaker 1: and then, I'm like, dude doing something a little bit different.
Speaker 2: I feel like the most variety that I've seen for
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds was like when he was in The Proposal.
Speaker 2: That's the only time where I really haven't seen him
Speaker 2: be like super comedic. There's still comedic parts, but Sandra
Speaker 2: Bullock really took that over that movie, you know, and
Speaker 2: he was more like the serious one.
Speaker 1: I think the movie for me where I kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to see a different side of him. I thought
Speaker 1: the movie is still fun. It was that free guy movie,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna make another one. But I felt like
Speaker 1: that was just being him being him, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I need a little something different here. It just feels
Speaker 1: like I'm watching Deadpool again in a video game.
Speaker 2: See. That's why I loved him, because I'm so up
Speaker 2: fine riddles, you got your ride, I got mine. That's
Speaker 2: how that works exactly. But and one will win and
Speaker 2: singing what's gonna win in comedy. The other one I
Speaker 2: have was Gerald, which is like a kind of out
Speaker 2: of left field. But I'm never gonna say this, right,
Speaker 2: Gerald Butler so interesting. I love him, and I think
Speaker 2: it's because, like, ps, I love you white House Down.
Speaker 2: Like I think this White House Down that he was in,
Speaker 2: there was a few House Down things movies, a lot
Speaker 2: of films, right like, and I really love like some
Speaker 2: some act movies with him, and I just love his accent,
Speaker 2: like it gets me every time.
Speaker 1: I think. I was just watching I think it's called
Speaker 1: Geostorm with him the other day where it's like this
Speaker 1: worldwide storm that's destroying the entire world and he has
Speaker 1: to stop it. And I have like a fascination with
Speaker 1: disaster movies, even though people think they're terrible and on
Speaker 1: paper they're not the best movies. But give me any
Speaker 1: disaster movie, I will watch it and I will love it.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good in that and it was good. I
Speaker 2: don't think i've heard of Geostorm.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like gonna change your life good.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that it's like a good movie.
Speaker 1: But if you like disaster movies and like you, you
Speaker 1: like him, you'll probably find some enjoyment. And I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, you should watch it, I recommend it.
Speaker 1: But if you're into both of those things, it's like
Speaker 1: a good cross between your ven diagram.
Speaker 2: See, Okay, I like it. I'm gonna check that out
Speaker 2: this weekend. All right, that's all I had for a
Speaker 2: movie conversation, unless you had anything else you wanted to
Speaker 2: add for movie stuff.
Speaker 1: I think my only other one actor that's my go
Speaker 1: to that's burned me a little bit, but I'm still
Speaker 1: like confident in him is Joaquin Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, why has he burned you?
Speaker 1: I didn't like Napoleon, and I feel like it was
Speaker 1: a little bit on him of like not doing the
Speaker 1: best job in that role. And I also found it
Speaker 1: weird of how quickly I will write off an actor
Speaker 1: because an actor could be my favorite. But I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: am I really that shallow that they do one bad
Speaker 1: role and I start to question them a little bit.
Speaker 1: But it just kind of shows you, like how hard
Speaker 1: it is to keep people as fans, like even me
Speaker 1: who I've been a fan of Joaquin Phoenix since like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been in movies forever, like since the
Speaker 1: early two thousands. I've loved all of his work, but like,
Speaker 1: one bad movie and I'm like, huh, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I love swie him as much anymore.
Speaker 2: Mike, you're turning into a critic. I know what's happening.
Speaker 1: I think that happens with people, even with like The
Speaker 1: Rock and Black Adam, which was so hyped up and
Speaker 1: they came out and it was way below expectations for people.
Speaker 1: I feel like that movie changed the perspective that some
Speaker 1: people have on the Rock, and even somebody as beloved
Speaker 1: as he is does one role that people don't like
Speaker 1: and then it's hard for them to be invested in
Speaker 1: the next role. I think once you burn people on
Speaker 1: something that they spend money on, that's kind of where
Speaker 1: things start to come into question. Even now with Dakota
Speaker 1: Johnson facing all the backlash with Madam Webb, I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be hard to recover with. And even before
Speaker 1: that movie, I was saying that Dakota Johnson was one
Speaker 1: of the most underrated actors in Hollywood because she's done
Speaker 1: so many consistent movies, and then that one comes out,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, maybe I have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a different opinion on her. But then she does one
Speaker 1: more great movie on like, oh, yeah, she's back.
Speaker 2: It's just a little bit. You just like take it
Speaker 2: down a little notch, is what it sounds like. But
Speaker 2: you totally sound like a critic. Hey, I'm excited for
Speaker 2: you because you're a movie Person's that's the goal, I think,
Speaker 2: right to become.
Speaker 1: A critic, I think. So I try not to let
Speaker 1: that like alter my love of movie cause that's why
Speaker 1: I started, because I just enjoy watching them. But I
Speaker 1: think it's because I've watched them for with intent for
Speaker 1: so long now that at times I expect a little
Speaker 1: bit more and the amount of movies that I watch,
Speaker 1: I think it's harder for me to be really excited
Speaker 1: about something because if it's something that's not completely life
Speaker 1: changing or people, you know, trying to break the mole
Speaker 1: in movies, I get a little bit bored with it.
Speaker 1: So that's the only kind of thing I have to
Speaker 1: overcome is that I've exposed myself to so much, and
Speaker 1: I got to remember that not every single person is
Speaker 1: watching as many as I am, so I kind of
Speaker 1: have to hone it in on what makes one specific
Speaker 1: movie great.
Speaker 2: That's true, and you never really think of that too
Speaker 2: when you like look at critics and stuff, right that
Speaker 2: they've seen so many things, so something really has to
Speaker 2: stand out to them. And I could imagine it'd be
Speaker 2: really hard to just be like, no, let me forget
Speaker 2: everything that I've seen her done and focus on this
Speaker 2: one movie. I mean, you can't even do that in
Speaker 2: life liked all the movies you watch.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing we have with music, Like we're
Speaker 1: exposed to so much with the industry we work in
Speaker 1: that it takes an artist to come along that's really
Speaker 1: different and really just stands out like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: actually going to change the way that the music landscape
Speaker 1: is going, Like it takes something like that for people
Speaker 1: like us to really like shake us and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is somebody we need to invest time in, and
Speaker 1: that somebody that's gonna be great, not just now, but
Speaker 1: for a very long time. Those come fewer and further
Speaker 1: in between. I feel that same way with movies, just
Speaker 1: because we're exposed to so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're so true. Listen, We've got We've got tattoo
Speaker 2: Mike d who is coded Jackass, who is also now
Speaker 2: a movie critic, Mike Drop.
Speaker 1: It's literally coded jackass. Things. Sounds like an insult, but
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 2: No, and I hope everybody knows that that's a movie.
Speaker 2: People are gonna hear that and they're gonna make mortgage
Speaker 2: such a mean person. But you don't take that way right.
Speaker 1: It just sounds funny. If like somebody just heard that clip,
Speaker 1: they'd be like, oh.
Speaker 2: Interesting, you know, maybe I'm gonna have to put that
Speaker 2: up to teaser clip, you know, give it to myself.
Speaker 2: Support All right, Michael, thanks for joining me, hanging out
Speaker 2: with me on zoom even though we are not in
Speaker 2: our normal setting, and I still had fun.
Speaker 1: This is great, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, tell the people where they can find you. Hear
Speaker 2: you all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: You can listen to my podcast, new episodes every single Monday,
Speaker 1: Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Follow me on TikTok, Instagram at Mike Distro.
Speaker 2: Awesome and that next episode of Best Bits this weekend
Speaker 2: is going to be up and roughly an hour so
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed this. I hope you're having a
Speaker 2: fabulous Saturday. Mike. Thanks again, everybody. We'll see you later later.
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