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Speaker 1: What's up everybody Listener Q and a Time with Mike D.
Speaker 1: We are both cozy and our homes with the snowstorm
Speaker 1: apocalypse at City Nashville. Mike, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I love a snowstorm when I don't have to go out,
Speaker 3: like when I don't have to be anywhere.
Speaker 2: I love staying at home.
Speaker 3: My favorite part is at night, whenever there's that snow
Speaker 3: glow where you like look outside and it's like orange looking.
Speaker 3: It just feels so peaceful. That is my favorite part
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: You know me too. And I kept up my Christmas
Speaker 1: tree just so I could truly have a white Christmas.
Speaker 3: Same about there's snow outside, you have the Christmas tree on,
Speaker 3: it just feels cozy.
Speaker 1: Yes, And we have to have at least one of
Speaker 1: those moments a year and then I'll be okay taking
Speaker 1: it down.
Speaker 3: How long are you keeping all your Christmas stuff up?
Speaker 3: Because we're still full Christmas over here.
Speaker 1: Same, I don't have a plan date in this moment
Speaker 1: in time, so it could be up through the end
Speaker 1: of January could be up into February. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: last year I kept it up through the end of February.
Speaker 1: I just was really enjoying it, So we'll see if
Speaker 1: I can beat that time. When are you guys taking
Speaker 1: your sound?
Speaker 3: I think going into this, we were saying this is
Speaker 3: our last week. I think no storm might be the
Speaker 3: end of it. So we'll see you though.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're doing better than I am. Part of me
Speaker 1: is just also lazy, and I don't really once need
Speaker 1: the effort to take it down, all right. Starting with
Speaker 1: this shout out from Kathy and Boston, she said, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to say I love hearing him on the show,
Speaker 1: so shout out Mike.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that, Kelly.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like it feels weird to say I
Speaker 3: love hearing those things. But sometimes just like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: people know I exist.
Speaker 1: They absolutely know you exist. All right, we're getting into
Speaker 1: these questions now. This first one's like odd, but I
Speaker 1: obviously want to bring it up because I don't know
Speaker 1: how or why she thought this. Maybe because your wife
Speaker 1: tutors some of the kids in the family. But Katie said,
Speaker 1: is Mike's wife still a teacher?
Speaker 2: Never been a teacher.
Speaker 3: She did do some tutering. She's very smart, much smarter
Speaker 3: than than I am. She teaches me things, so in
Speaker 3: that sense, she is a teacher. No, she also doesn't
Speaker 3: tutor anymore. She did that in college and then just
Speaker 3: loves teaching kids and I think that's always fun for her.
Speaker 3: But now with her job, she just can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: And what is her job? Just so the people can
Speaker 1: know that she's not a teacher.
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know if she'd want me to say
Speaker 3: not that it's yeah, but she not a teacher.
Speaker 1: Not a teacher, Okay, just confirming for everyone out here.
Speaker 1: I think I'm assuming that's why they think that's because
Speaker 1: she did help tutor like Amy's kids and Eddie's too, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And she's talked about her job in college, which
Speaker 3: she worked at the University of Texas, so she's always
Speaker 3: been around education.
Speaker 1: Got it, Okay, So just some confusion there. Alissa and
Speaker 1: Illinois would like to know if you have any concerts,
Speaker 1: big trips events planned for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: You know, going into this year, I said to myself
Speaker 3: and said to my wife, I'm a little bit over concerts.
Speaker 1: Wow, And I think.
Speaker 3: It was last year, I kind of completed my list
Speaker 3: of artists that I'd never seen. I've now seen all
Speaker 3: my big favorite artists. I've seen Blanklin eighty two, I've
Speaker 3: seen Green Day, Post Malone in a stadium setting. I
Speaker 3: don't know that there's anybody else that I would want
Speaker 3: to see to pay the amount of money that concerts
Speaker 3: cost these days. Yeah, I think the only other person
Speaker 3: would probably be Tyler the Creator, but he just announced
Speaker 3: that he's doing Bonnerout, and I don't want to go
Speaker 3: to Bonnaroo. So there's really no one else that I
Speaker 3: am dying to see in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: And I think, why don't you want to go to Bonnaru.
Speaker 1: I like festivals were your thing though, especially like you
Speaker 1: used to do the the mosh pit festivals.
Speaker 3: Yea, but Bonnaru is like you have to go in
Speaker 3: camp and be out far away, like if that if
Speaker 3: Bonnarou was like in Nashville, I would go one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: But I'm not about that life of going somewhere and
Speaker 3: camping out, Like I would love to go to Coachella,
Speaker 3: but I don't want to do that whole experience.
Speaker 2: So I think I'm past going to festival.
Speaker 3: The only festival I could really ever see myself going
Speaker 3: to now is maybe Lollapalooza, but that's just because I
Speaker 3: love Chicago and usually has a really good lineup. But
Speaker 3: I think for twenty twenty five, unless it's a smaller concert,
Speaker 3: like a smaller band that I like that's playing a
Speaker 3: club or like a medium sized venue, I think outside
Speaker 3: of that, I'm not too into going to concerts this year.
Speaker 1: That's funny. It's funny you say that because I literally
Speaker 1: we had done a bowling thing the other night and
Speaker 1: it was really awesome. It was for a charity event.
Speaker 1: But I looked at Lunchbox and I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't think I can do all the events this year.
Speaker 1: I think I'm tired. Like last year, I feel like
Speaker 1: I tried to do everything and go to all the shows,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I tired.
Speaker 3: I think for me, like I feel like I'm a
Speaker 3: little bit jaded by the concert experience, just because with
Speaker 3: our job, we have been able to go to a
Speaker 3: lot of concerts, and I'm grateful for that, like we
Speaker 3: get free tickets a lot of time to go to
Speaker 3: these concerts. I guess it's that I want something a
Speaker 3: little bit more out of the experience, and unless somebody
Speaker 3: that I'm going to see is going to put on
Speaker 3: like a real production where there's which is obviously an
Speaker 3: expensive thing to do. Touring is more and more expensive
Speaker 3: for artists, so I can see why some things are
Speaker 3: scaled back. But unless I'm going to something that feels
Speaker 3: like a big art piece and they have a lot
Speaker 3: of different sets and stages and costume changes and it
Speaker 3: feels like a big production, I don't think at this
Speaker 3: point I could justify the price of having to pay
Speaker 3: for concert tickets and not getting something that I feel
Speaker 3: is worth my money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do feel like that's how a lot
Speaker 1: of people are starting to feel with concerts. So hopefully
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five the price has come down at
Speaker 1: least a little bit. I would be ideal for.
Speaker 2: Like real fans.
Speaker 3: That's what's the thing about, Like people who love these
Speaker 3: artists and want to go see them, and they can't
Speaker 3: go see them because tickets get bought up and then
Speaker 3: they're resold at an incredible amount and you can't even
Speaker 3: go see your favorite artists. So you're not even feeling
Speaker 3: filling these stadiums with real fans.
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, you know twenty twenty five. Let twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five be the year that all those ticket masters
Speaker 1: scammers are gone with the wind. Yeah, what do you
Speaker 1: do to discipline yourself for running and eating? Ride? This
Speaker 1: is from Bobby, not Bobby Bones Bobby with I E.
Speaker 3: I think with running, I set out every week to
Speaker 3: kind of have a mileage I want to hit, and
Speaker 3: I just make a point of my day to do
Speaker 3: it before I want to power down. So I try
Speaker 3: to whether it be usually like the first thing after work,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm gonna go get this run, and because
Speaker 3: if I wait and do it later, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to do it. And that's the only way I've been
Speaker 3: able to discipline myself of getting it out of the
Speaker 3: way as soon as possible. I think that's with anything,
Speaker 3: with running, going to the gym, ending in my life,
Speaker 3: the things I don't want to do, I try to
Speaker 3: do first because you do them, you get them out
Speaker 3: of the way, then it's not such a big deal,
Speaker 3: and then you're done. You have the rest of the
Speaker 3: day to do whatever else you want. It's about doing
Speaker 3: those things you don't want to do when you don't
Speaker 3: want to do them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, you're really good about that you have really
Speaker 1: good discipline, and discipline is something that you have to
Speaker 1: teach yourself. For sure. It sounds something that comes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Actually, I think for me, it probably took like
Speaker 3: a solid three months to kind of build that up
Speaker 3: in my head, and even like a full year until
Speaker 3: it really became like a part of my DNA. So
Speaker 3: it does take some time. Because I have shared my
Speaker 3: story of losing weight. I've lost over one hundred pounds
Speaker 3: and kept it off I think for going on eight
Speaker 3: or nine years now, and it's that kind of discipline
Speaker 3: you gain knowing that it's not going to happen super
Speaker 3: quick and not going to happen overnight that really allowed
Speaker 3: me to do it because I failed a lot of
Speaker 3: times before it actually stuck. And I don't talk about
Speaker 3: those times. Most people don't talk about those times. You
Speaker 3: remember the time that you actually accomplishment. Accomplish it. But
Speaker 3: there were a lot of times where I would try
Speaker 3: to develop these habits and I wasn't disciplined. I was motivated,
Speaker 3: and I'd get motivated for like two weeks maybe a month,
Speaker 3: but after that, I'm like, all right, I'll just go
Speaker 3: back and I fail this time. So there was a
Speaker 3: big difference in once I actually got disciplined of like
Speaker 3: put things in place and gave myself these parameters to
Speaker 3: work in that it ends up sticking. So it is
Speaker 3: hard to do. But I think it's once you form
Speaker 3: that habit. It does take a few months, maybe a year,
Speaker 3: that it'll kind of just get built into you and
Speaker 3: then now I just don't even think about it. It's
Speaker 3: just kind of how I roll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, you're you're great at that. You're you should
Speaker 1: be like the motivational speaker for discipline. You've nailed it.
Speaker 3: It's really all just about developing a routine. I think
Speaker 3: I'm about I love checking things off a checklist. So
Speaker 3: it's having that routine and having that checklist of like Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this, I'm going to do that, And
Speaker 3: as soon as that's checked off, that's just comforting to
Speaker 3: me because I'm like, Okay, I did it.
Speaker 2: I can move on.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I do love a checklist too. Isn't it weird
Speaker 1: how we all like love that feeling of like oh
Speaker 1: mark that off, oh mark that off, like the feel
Speaker 1: good feeling.
Speaker 2: Every day.
Speaker 3: I have a note that I'm like a working note
Speaker 3: where I just put all the things I want to
Speaker 3: do that day, and there's just some comfort of doing
Speaker 3: it and then clearing it off the list and clearing
Speaker 3: off the note.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. Absolutely. What is the latest braces update, Jenna.
Speaker 3: I have an appointment in a couple of weeks where
Speaker 3: I'm gonna basically say I need these things off because
Speaker 3: I was supposed to have them off last summer, and
Speaker 3: my orthodontists and my dentist have been working together to
Speaker 3: try to fix some things and there's a lot more
Speaker 3: going on in my mouth and just straightening my teeth.
Speaker 2: There is there's like teeth that.
Speaker 3: Don't line up a specific way, and I need to
Speaker 3: get implants in, and they're trying to shift my bite
Speaker 3: a little bit because I have like a weird not
Speaker 3: even just the overbite, but a crossbite, which I didn't
Speaker 3: really know was a thing I did either to me
Speaker 3: so miss a line that we spent the last six
Speaker 3: months of last year trying to get that fixed. So
Speaker 3: my teeth are straight and I could get them off
Speaker 3: now and move on to the next part of this,
Speaker 3: but I kind of allowed them to. I trusted them
Speaker 3: and saying like, hey, we think we can work on this.
Speaker 3: And get this fixed. But I think I'm at that
Speaker 3: point now where I think I just want them off,
Speaker 3: like it is what it is. I don't think I'm
Speaker 3: trying to get perfect teeth. I think I've already felt
Speaker 3: a lot more confident where they are now and in
Speaker 3: my appointment that I have coming on me, Like, yo,
Speaker 3: how can we just move on of this now like
Speaker 3: we tried it. I don't think it's going to get there.
Speaker 3: I'm just ready to have these things off. I'm turning
Speaker 3: thirty four this year. I don't think I want to
Speaker 3: turn another age and still have them on.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean you have to do whatever makes
Speaker 1: you feel happy and comfortable versus you know what everybody
Speaker 1: else is trying to get you to do too, so
Speaker 1: I bet they would. But also like, if you want
Speaker 1: to keep doing it, keep doing it if it feels
Speaker 1: good to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I don't mind having them like, it's more
Speaker 3: so the people who are comment on everything I post
Speaker 3: saying when are you getting those off?
Speaker 2: You've had those forever?
Speaker 3: Like I know, guys, like I am the person wearing these,
Speaker 3: I'm aware. I'm not unaware that I like, oh I
Speaker 3: still have them on. I'm aware and I am the
Speaker 3: one going to all my appointments and doing all these
Speaker 3: things and paying for it. I am fully aware that
Speaker 3: I've had them for a long time, and I think
Speaker 3: the thing I've just kind of felt in the last
Speaker 3: few months is like I'm also just sick of having
Speaker 3: them on my teeth, and like they've tried. They've added
Speaker 3: more things tom and more things poke me in my mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they affect the way I speak a little bit. So
Speaker 3: I think I've reached my endpoint on that where even
Speaker 3: I'm at that point where I don't want to move
Speaker 3: forward with them anymore as far as like trying anything else.
Speaker 3: So I've reached the point that some people have reached online.
Speaker 2: Of being sick of them.
Speaker 1: A dang online people man that I mean, it is
Speaker 1: not at all in any way the same, But there
Speaker 1: was a part of me, like I'll be lying if
Speaker 1: I said I didn't get rid of my banks because
Speaker 1: I was just tired of dealing with people call me
Speaker 1: about it, Like, I do understand that.
Speaker 3: It sucks when you post something it has nothing to
Speaker 3: do with it, and that's all people want to bring
Speaker 3: attention to. You're like, I just made this really great
Speaker 3: post and all he cares about what is on my
Speaker 3: face or what is on in my mouth.
Speaker 1: Literally, you're like, there's nothing else going on in your
Speaker 1: life that it's more important than asking that question. But
Speaker 1: that's why I say, like I did. I I got
Speaker 1: rid of mine finally because I was tired of stiling
Speaker 1: them because they were how much effort and work. But like,
Speaker 1: I did that for me, So just do it for you, though,
Speaker 1: don't do it for the fricking people online, because you
Speaker 1: gotta do whatever is gonna make you happy. They're gonna
Speaker 1: do it regardless, and unfortunately, even if you get them off,
Speaker 1: then they're gonna have something else new that they're gonna
Speaker 1: constantly comment on. So from after that, I listen, I
Speaker 1: don't know what they find. They find things, I promise
Speaker 1: you they find things. They're crazy over there. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: What movie are you most looking forward to in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five? This is from Ashley.
Speaker 2: Before I saw.
Speaker 3: The Superman trailer, it was the New Captain America. But
Speaker 3: I think after seeing that Superman trailer, I think that
Speaker 3: is the one I'm looking forward.
Speaker 2: To the most.
Speaker 1: Don't say that the New Captain America gets me hyped
Speaker 1: every time I see it.
Speaker 3: It looks great, Red Hulk looks great. I think Harrison
Speaker 3: Ford is going to be amazing in it. I can't
Speaker 3: wait to see how Anthony Mackie steps up, and now
Speaker 3: that they're using more about the fight between Red Hulk
Speaker 3: and Captain America, I think that is going to be amazing.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see what other characters are introduced,
Speaker 3: because they have to introduce some other people in this movie.
Speaker 3: I think this is gonna be a big piece for Marvel.
Speaker 3: But when you look at superhero movies right now and
Speaker 3: where people stand on them, I think what is gonna
Speaker 3: happen with the Superman movie is going to be so
Speaker 3: much bigger of a statement of superhero movies for the
Speaker 3: next one year specifically, but for the next five years.
Speaker 3: I think that is going to set an entirely different
Speaker 3: trajectory of creating that divide between Marvel and DC, which
Speaker 3: Marvel has always been seen as the best. DC has
Speaker 3: always been seen as the bomb. But I think if
Speaker 3: that movie comes out and is as successful and changes
Speaker 3: the tone and really shows you what DC characters are about,
Speaker 3: that is also going to make Marvel have to be better.
Speaker 3: So I think it's gonna be the competition between those
Speaker 3: two studios that we need. It's like Coke and PEPSI
Speaker 3: like those two are competitors and it makes sodas better.
Speaker 3: I think if DC can step it up and put
Speaker 3: out movies, then not only fans love, but also make
Speaker 3: a lot of money. That's going to challenge Marvel to
Speaker 3: keep making movies that are also still testing that because
Speaker 3: they're gonna have real competition, especially especially if they start
Speaker 3: putting out movies around the same time and battling against
Speaker 3: each other. So I have also not been the biggest
Speaker 3: Superman fan just in my lifetime.
Speaker 2: Like he feels a lot more classic to me.
Speaker 3: The comic itself dates way back before me, and I
Speaker 3: feel if they can humanize him a little bit more
Speaker 3: and broaden what people feel about Superman, I think that'll
Speaker 3: definitely change that perspective.
Speaker 1: You know what what made him a little bit more
Speaker 1: human for me was watching It's called the small ms Smallville.
Speaker 1: I think it's called Smallville with uh what'd you ask me?
Speaker 2: C W show?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was a CW show, uh or
Speaker 1: maybe Whovill, but it was it's about it's about Superman,
Speaker 1: but it's yeah, it's Smallville and it's like his entire
Speaker 1: like actual there's like eight or nine seasons of it
Speaker 1: and I've bench watched all of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was huge back in the day.
Speaker 1: M hm. That was one of the ones that when
Speaker 1: I was on my kick of rewatching things and I'd
Speaker 1: gotten on all like the superhero stuff, and I went
Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole of all the DC shows and
Speaker 1: then somebody's like, oh, you have to watch Smallville, and
Speaker 1: then I did. I was like, oh, shoot, this is
Speaker 1: actually really good. So that one that one did do that.
Speaker 1: So I will be curious to see if, like how
Speaker 1: that movie makes me feel with all of the connections
Speaker 1: now that I have to DC, because I feel like
Speaker 1: I've watched everything in the DC world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think now that James Gunn is taking
Speaker 3: over DC, who he's a great director. He did all
Speaker 3: of the Guardian's movies and he is kind of going
Speaker 3: to be the one who's going to be kind of
Speaker 3: controlling everything as far as like we need to have
Speaker 3: some cohesion here. These movies need to make sense and
Speaker 3: they need to all match together. I think with him
Speaker 3: behind it, I think it has the potential to be
Speaker 3: a really great movie.
Speaker 1: What's the other Is he the one that did Suicide Squad?
Speaker 2: Yeah? These Suicide Squad not the bad one, but the
Speaker 2: better one.
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, gosh see this is also the problem with these.
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, I get it that you've been trying
Speaker 1: to like make them better, but like the fact that
Speaker 1: there's multiple versions of the same thing stresses my brain out.
Speaker 3: I think that's what money's in a lot is there's
Speaker 3: different versions of Batman. They've had all these different characters
Speaker 3: and mostly things that didn't work. It's streamlining it for
Speaker 3: people who aren't that familiar with everything and making them like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is how we're restarting everything and this is everything now.
Speaker 3: It's a tough thing to do because even me sometimes
Speaker 3: I'm like, how does this connect again?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, what are you guys doing now? Okay? Favorite
Speaker 1: Post Malone country collaboration.
Speaker 3: For me it's the Tim McGraw song hm hmm, the
Speaker 3: first song on the country on his country album. Whenever
Speaker 3: I heard that, I was like, I got to hear
Speaker 3: this song live. And when I saw him performance live
Speaker 3: he opened up his concert with that in Nashville, I was.
Speaker 2: Like, Oh, this is perfect. This is exactly how I
Speaker 2: envisioned it.
Speaker 3: He has the flames and all the parts I thought
Speaker 3: he would have the flames.
Speaker 2: I love Tim.
Speaker 3: McGraw too, and I think them two together just feel
Speaker 3: it like has like this rock and field to it.
Speaker 3: And man, when that song hit, like something hitted me where.
Speaker 2: I just got excited. That's my favorite one. I also
Speaker 2: really like Paisley one.
Speaker 1: What is the title of the Tim McGraw one?
Speaker 2: Wrong ones?
Speaker 1: Okay? And then what's the title of the Brad Paisley one?
Speaker 1: Goes without saying, Okay, I think I've heard him, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've deep dived on them. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to go back and listen to these.
Speaker 1: But those that's interesting of like the two one there,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would have called those out
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm not even the biggest Brad Paisley fan. But post
Speaker 3: Malone covering that Brad Paisley song was kind of what
Speaker 3: a lot of people associated with him first diving into country,
Speaker 3: even though he'd been covering a bunch of stuff on
Speaker 3: YouTube before that, but that was the one that kind
Speaker 3: of blew up that people were like, oh, look, post
Speaker 3: Malome's doing country, and I feel like that relationship has
Speaker 3: always been there. So it was seeing them come together
Speaker 3: and actually do something and put it on the album
Speaker 3: that kind of made that feel like it came full circle.
Speaker 3: A really good catchy song.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm gonna have to go look at
Speaker 1: both of those favorite movie theater snack from Kate.
Speaker 2: I love taking my own.
Speaker 1: Coffee You're killing me or Mike.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 3: My favorite experience at a movie theater is my wife
Speaker 3: doesn't like horror movies. I love going to horror movies,
Speaker 3: so I love taking in my own own cole brew
Speaker 3: sitting right in the middle of the theater about two
Speaker 3: rows up from like the middle section. So I'm in
Speaker 3: that perfect setting racking a coffee, which sparks my kind
Speaker 3: of anxiety because I'm like, all right, I'm capping up
Speaker 3: and now I'm watching something scary, so it heightens that experience.
Speaker 3: And you can't get coffee at the movie theater, so
Speaker 3: I had to bring it myself. That is my perfect setting.
Speaker 1: Dang your movie, Mike, d Sneaking things in the movie theater.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's also like, what am I gonna eat at
Speaker 3: the movie theater, like they don't.
Speaker 2: They don't have anything for me.
Speaker 1: No, that's true, they don't. That's why I was like,
Speaker 1: I was curious what this answer would be. Well too,
Speaker 1: for all the all of us who do eat the
Speaker 1: next there, it's definitely popcorn with eminem's. Did you ever
Speaker 1: have that before you were on your vegan side?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I love throwing anything into popcorn and having
Speaker 3: it melt.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the meltings. And you have to have
Speaker 1: the perfect ratio. If you don't and those eminimums are cold,
Speaker 1: it is not the same experience. But those eminems have
Speaker 1: to be melted, and it is. I could just sit there.
Speaker 1: I'd eat the whole thing like you. The best part, though,
Speaker 1: is I am that person in the movie theater that'll
Speaker 1: be digging like you'll. You're the popcorn because I'm digging
Speaker 1: trying to get the eminence at the bottom.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Oh, last one to hear. Any plans. We did mention
Speaker 1: this a little bit on part one. Any plans to
Speaker 1: write a book, produce a movie about experiences with Bobby
Speaker 1: one day.
Speaker 3: I would love to write a book about I guess
Speaker 3: my entire experience with the show and just like my
Speaker 3: life from moving here. I started journaling my life right
Speaker 3: around twenty sixteen when I moved here, and I've been
Speaker 3: doing that consistently. Now twenty sixteen, how long I've been here?
Speaker 2: Nine years? Eight years?
Speaker 1: Wow? Wait, every single day or like once a week.
Speaker 1: What's the situation for.
Speaker 2: A period of my life here.
Speaker 3: I'd say from twenty sixteen to probably twenty eighteen, it
Speaker 3: was pretty consistently every day, if not the other day.
Speaker 3: And I was also traveling so much at that time
Speaker 3: that anytime I was on a plane or back of
Speaker 3: a car, I would journal. So I literally have this
Speaker 3: log of just years of my life. So I've always
Speaker 3: wrote that in thinking that someday I could turn this
Speaker 3: into a book, because I read a book probably around
Speaker 3: that same time where that is what the entire book was.
Speaker 3: It was like journal entries, and then in between it
Speaker 3: was a lot of narrative of this person's life. And
Speaker 3: I always thought that was a cool format because that's
Speaker 3: something that when you write it, it's so raw and
Speaker 3: it's just like, oh, here's this diary entry, but then
Speaker 3: you can go back and tell a story around it.
Speaker 3: I just thought that was an interesting format, and also
Speaker 3: for me who has trouble reading long books. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: think it's a good way to go back and forth
Speaker 3: of like here, I am reading a traditional book, but
Speaker 3: then there's a little excerpt here that really kind of
Speaker 3: gives you a dive into that person's life. So I
Speaker 3: have years of that and sometimes I'll go through and
Speaker 3: read it and I'm like, Wow, this is crazy that
Speaker 3: I stuff that I wouldn't remember. It could just be
Speaker 3: like a random Tuesday on a day where I was
Speaker 3: feeling something. At the time, it felt insignificant, but you
Speaker 3: look back on it like, oh, that was like a specific.
Speaker 2: Moment in my life.
Speaker 3: So I think I don't know that it would be
Speaker 3: entirely just my experience on the show, but it would
Speaker 3: be like a chronological of my life during those early
Speaker 3: stages of moving here for the show, and I think
Speaker 3: a lot of it probably would be about it because
Speaker 3: it's surrounded with the travel that I did, like for touring,
Speaker 3: going out for Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, that's
Speaker 3: all in there, So it's obviously going to be embedded in,
Speaker 3: probably more so like my and Bobby's relationship, because a
Speaker 3: lot of that was all what I wrote about, and
Speaker 3: just like how that dynamic was, Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1: That would be super interesting, Mike, Like, really, that would
Speaker 1: be like a cool book to read, and just the
Speaker 1: setup and stuff that the idea that you have.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, which is wild because of all the stuff
Speaker 3: I've been thinking about writing, I never thought of starting
Speaker 3: with that, and now that I talk about it, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I think that would be the easiest thing for me
Speaker 3: to start with, because I wan My goal this year
Speaker 3: was to write more create stuff and what I was
Speaker 3: better at in the past year. Of like I mentioned
Speaker 3: how I journal my life in the last year. Anytime
Speaker 3: I'd have any kind of idea for a movie or
Speaker 3: a script or a short story, I have this big
Speaker 3: wog of just all these small ideas that are titles
Speaker 3: and quick little synopsis of anything I hear that I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: that could be a thing, I write it down. So
Speaker 3: my idea was to go this year pick out some
Speaker 3: of the best ones, which I've already kind of started
Speaker 3: doing and fleshing them out a little bit. But that's
Speaker 3: totally like fiction and a lot harder to write, which
Speaker 3: I'm finding that it's hard to build a world, it's
Speaker 3: hard to write dialogue and to write something that somebody
Speaker 3: could take and turn into something else. So I think
Speaker 3: now I kind of have two directions to go in
Speaker 3: where I can't take some of the stuff I already
Speaker 3: have and it's already written.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, that's totally true. And doesn't it make you
Speaker 1: think of like stan Lee who came up with all
Speaker 1: the Marvel stuff and he was just like, how where
Speaker 1: you know what? I mean? Like, this is wow that
Speaker 1: people have the thoughts. But I think you sit down
Speaker 1: long enough, I think some of that sets just starts
Speaker 1: kind of flowing naturally. So I'm excited for you.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of it is just observing and
Speaker 3: being in tune with the things around you and hearing things.
Speaker 3: A lot of the things I write down are things
Speaker 3: we talk about on the show. Somebody will say a
Speaker 3: concept or say something and I think that could be something,
Speaker 3: and I write it down in the moment while we're
Speaker 3: doing the show, and I'll come back to it later
Speaker 3: and think about it more. Sometimes they're jokes, sometimes their
Speaker 3: movie ideas. Sometimes they're just things that I think could
Speaker 3: be a bit later. But I think it's just observing
Speaker 3: the world around you and taking time to write it
Speaker 3: down because that's the hardest thing of You can have
Speaker 3: a great idea, but if you don't write it down,
Speaker 3: you're not going to remember it. So I've just tried
Speaker 3: to get into the process of even if it seems
Speaker 3: like dumb, and even if I go back and look
Speaker 3: and think like why did I even write that down,
Speaker 3: just write it down because you never know what it
Speaker 3: could turn into.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, listen twenty twenty five for Mike d could
Speaker 1: be a big year Japan writing a book. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean the options are endless.
Speaker 3: I would have eighteen hours on a flight. I could
Speaker 3: definitely get some writing done.
Speaker 1: You definitely could. Maybe that's why you have to go
Speaker 1: so you have to sit in a place and you
Speaker 1: have to write for eighteen hours.
Speaker 2: Good idea.
Speaker 1: Oh, Michael, thanks for joining me, Thanks for taking time
Speaker 1: on our little snow day situation, and for being here.
Speaker 1: Tell the people where they can find you. Hear you
Speaker 1: all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: You Listen to my podcast new episodes every Monday, Movie
Speaker 3: Mike's Movie Podcast, Spoiler Free Movie Reviews. My wife Kelsey
Speaker 3: comes on it a lot and we talk about all
Speaker 3: the movies we go to see in theaters. Because unless
Speaker 3: it's a horror movie, she goes to see everything with me,
Speaker 3: so get it wherever you listen to podcasts Mike Distro
Speaker 3: on All Socials, are.
Speaker 1: You going to start making her a permanent co host?
Speaker 3: We do the one episode every single month where we
Speaker 3: recap everything, so she's has a permanent fixture on that.
Speaker 3: She also comes on occasionally now and does book reviews,
Speaker 3: which we found a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Like and enjoy.
Speaker 3: So we did one where she did her top ten
Speaker 3: books of twenty twenty four because she read like eighty books.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that one.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll do more episodes like that too.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well I love it. I'm proud of you,
Speaker 1: and you're already starting off the year very strong. Look
Speaker 1: at you go? Yes, yes, all right, people, we'll have
Speaker 1: a great weekend. Everybody, please stay safe wherever you are,
Speaker 1: whatever you're dealing with, and we'll catch you guys next time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. Bye everybody.
Speaker 2: Bie that's the best bits of the week with Morgan.
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