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Happy Weekend! Mike D opens up about struggling to make new friends as an adult. Morgan went to a Chappell Roan concert and now she understands all the hype. Plus, they talk about how they shop for things and why are advertisements everywhere!?
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Part one. Behind a scene with a member of the show, What's up, everybody? Happy weekend? I'm excited to be joined by Mike D. Mike, how you feeling.
I'm feeling good.
Yeah, that was good.
You are feeling warming up? My voice good?
The test the do rey me thing. When that happened on the show, I was like, oh, I have not warmed up my voice enough to be doing a singing competition. Okay, we have lots of happening on the show this week. Rascal Flats stop by. It was their first time together in five years. In our studio, Eddie had a personal tell me something good. Lunchbox geeked out over snooky. Yes that's snooky from Jersey Shore. A stranger yelled at Eddie's sun. We had Luke Bryan in studio. Lunchbox saw something disturbing in his neighborhood, and we all admitted the things that make us think less of other people. So that's all on part two if you want to catch up on the Bobby Bone Show. But the reason you're here is to hear some updates on life and everything in between. Mike D, tell me what's going on with you, what's new in your life right now?
You know, I'm at a point where there's not a whole lot of new. It's a lot of just trying to maintain myself and maintain my sanity. I think that's where I'm at.
That feels like adulthood.
Yeah, Like I've been in the process now of like trying to make friends and I just haven't been able to. But also I haven't really tried. But I think that's where I'm at right now in life, thinking that looking at like home life is good, wife and I are good, but it's also like that when I go home, that's my only human interaction. We had this kind of conversation the other day of like she thinks that I need to go hang out with other people who aren't work related so I can have a little bit more of like I guess I'm startling kind of with like an identity outside of this job. Oh, because it's like here, this is everything, go home, still working, but I and then now on the weekends, I kind of like disconnect myself from everything. I'll watch movies, I'll read comics, I'll disconnect. But I don't think that's good for me. Because I'm just like separating myself from the world in order to kind of decompress. But I'm not doing anything for me to kind of give me another avenue to connect with people.
Okay, Okay, So I know everybody moved fun of me because I had a friendship coach on my podcast, but she did give some really good advice and maybe this can help you. The way to make new friends is to go to a setting one that like you really enjoy, but you go back to it multiple times to see if you can start interacting with familiar faces. So for you, what are some places that you really enjoy going?
Well, the first thing I was thinking of doing was like a run club because I love running. Yes, and there's a couple there's like a run club I've been following on Instagram now for like I say, six months, and I'm like, I'm gonna go to that. I'm gonna go to that, and I've never gone to it.
Really, Yeah, okay.
Just because it's that step for me to go try something new and also find time for it, which is probably the hardest thing for me, is carving out an hour of my day even in the week. It's hard for me to do, and I've just never been able to have all those things line up where I have the time and also have like the mental capacity to go do something like that, because for me, it takes a lot to plight myself up to go hang out with people I don't know, because in any situation, even when I'm with people that I do know, I don't say much. I hang to the corners of the room and just kind of exist. It's hard for me to put myself out there with people I'm comfortable with, and going into a situation where it's just me. I don't have my wife to fall back on to like start conversations and me hop into and just be me feels terrifying to me. It feels like going back to the first day of school, which I hated.
Yeah, that's fair though, I mean that obviously making friends is something that's very a very vulnerable place for you, So it makes sense why you haven't wanted to go and be like, I don't want to put myself into that. That seems miss in the time that I do have, I just want to do what I enjoy versus like going and emotionally putting myself through this.
Yeah, because that's The other thing I'm struggling with is like, do you reach a point in adulthood where it's like you don't hang out with friends because you have so much going on? And also like, we don't have kids yet, But do you reach a point when you do have kids that like you don't even think about friends. So I'm like, I don't know if it's just me getting older in a place in my life where I kind of missed the boat on friends, or like, what is happening.
I don't think you missed the boat on friends, and I do think you should absolutely have some because I think it adds to your life, right. I think having close friendships is super beneficial for you in a lot of ways. And I don't think you can't not make friends now. But to your point, it is going to be emotionally physically taxing and adds another thing to your to do list that you have to actively go and do. But I think you can do a run club because a run club's easy for you, right. You can show up right at the right time and you don't really have to socialize, and you can just watch and you go on your run and then you leave and you experience it that way right as you work things up, then you can start to show up a little bit earlier and be like, Okay, I'm gonna say hi to somebody this time, or there isn't this huge like dedication to that, and you get your run in, which is something that you like to do anyway. I think that's a great option for you to like start this now. Another thing that you can do because you love comic books is go to a comic book store and like hang out at a comic book store for a while and see if somebody's there, because that's something you also enjoy doing. That one's not as intimidating because it's not a massive group of people. Yeah, that's just more individual interactions.
I've had casual encounters at comic book clubs, but I guess for me, it's like taking that next step of like, hey, you want to hang out?
It is it's hard, but maybe a natural progression from the comic comic book store is like hey, like maybe you both get one and you're like, hey, do you want to go like read these there's a coffee shop down the store. And I know that sounds so funny you hear that come out of my mouth and you're like, oh, I don't want to say that, but I think people want connection more than we give us ourselves credit for. Right. People want to feel connected and they want to like hang out with other humans. And there's probably somebody else out there, not just one person, but multiple people who feel the same way you do, and they don't want to take the first step either. So what both of you just aren't going to take the first step, and then you're both just not ever going to be friends.
Yeah, you know, good point, But this.
Way, I guarantee you if you can do it. One at a comic book store and then go for a run club like those those are two easy first steps, right You just you go for the run. You don't have to talk to me anybody you go. You just go and you show up right on time. You do the run, you see it, experience it, and be like okay, you know, work your way up to things so it's not so this big intimidating moment. And then you stop at a comic book store and maybe say hi to somebody. Those are really the easy, like non intimidating steps, right, Yeah, those are those are easy ones versus you looking at it from the picture of Okay, I have to go to this run club. I'm gonna have to socialize. I need to talk to people. I have to invite them to hang out with me. Don't don't look at it that way. If you look at from that way, you're never gonna go. If you just go and be like I'm gonna go run and just join this because it's good community versus like I'm gonna go and I have to make friends. I think it takes away some of that intimidation.
Taking the standard out of it of like, yeah, it needs to be a direct result of this, just like just experiences.
Yeah. Because also, these things are stuff that you already love as hobbies. You're just further pushing your hobbies into your life. And the hobbies are a great thing to have as an adult. It's another thing that a lot of adults don't have because we don't have a lot of time. So all you're doing is really investing more into your hobbies, and by way of that, you might just make some more friends.
Yeah. I've never really thought about it that way.
Hey, I'm telling you this friendship coaches, right, Yeah, this is all me just like kind of spitting out what she ingested into me, like back into you. I think you can do this, Mike, and I think you deserve this.
Yeah. I think that way sounds a lot easier and less intimidating, because I even remember, like earlier in my in my twenties, I tried like the bumble bff yeah, and that felt weird. It felt like I was trying to date somebody.
It does. It does feel that way because you're.
Like talking back and forth. And then I met a dude who was also into comedy. I was like, should I ask him to go to a comedy show with me? But this feels like I'm trying to ask them out. It does.
Also friendships are like that, right. You know what's funny is I've been rewatching sex in the City and they had made a comment and they're like, well, what if we're the soulmates and guys are just like the fun things you know that we hang out with on the side. And that was a funny perspective, but it's also true because you can develop really deep connections with a friend and it does feel like dating. And there's also like memes that are like if people don't think you and your best friend are dating, then you're not really best friends like it is dating. It's just more of a platonic dating. And it does feel weird at first, but it's so common, Mike, Like that is so common. Nothing about asking somebody to hang out is weird. I promise. I know it feels weird, but it's so common, and they're not gonna be like, are you hitting on me? That's not how that's gonna be sick.
I'm married, but we want to hang out.
Yeah, this, this would be really good for you. And it sounds like it's a space that like you really want to be into, so I don't want you to shy away from it.
Yeah. I think that that's the way easier route for me to take. And then I'm gonna look at this week coming up and I'm gonna make one of those drunk clubs.
Yeah you are, and guess what, You're just gonna go run.
Yeah, that's it.
Just don't don't put any pressure on it. If there is one thing I've learned in life, the minute you stop taking pressure off something, the easier it becomes. Yeah.
I mean that's kind of how it was for dating with me. I think, like for a solid three years I would just like, gotta find the one, to find the one, And as soon as I stopped thinking about that, started working out.
Yeah, well, see, you're teaching me something that's really difficult to do. So I'm saying things that I know are really hard to do, but I think you can. Okay, so we got we got the friendship level. That's what's trying to happen in your life?
Yep?
Is there anything else outside of the friendship? How's the comic book collection going? Do we have any new tattoos? Is there any big things that have happened outside of serious topics?
Book collections going good? I've stopped kind of looking for the really expensive Grail comics because the ones I do want are like Hella expensive of like five hundred hundred, like, not one hundred thousand, like a thousand bucks. So I don't think I'll ever pull the trigger on those, just because it's like I don't know if I could do. I got the one that I wanted, and I'm good there. I'm just like reading current issues and maintaining a few series that I've been enjoying this year. So that's kind of where I am with comics tattoos. I've heavily been looking into another. Yeah, because I want to get one by the end of the year, and I'm trying to decide on what to get. Like everything I see on Instagram right now that I like, I'm screenshotting and I have a folder in my phone or just like tattoo inspiration. And I haven't really decided exactly what I want to get yet, but I have a lot of ideas and I have a couple of artists in mind that I'm looking at. Okay, the location, I'm definitely thinking of that. When we talked about of like my arm if not, there's like a cool design I think would be cool, like on my upper leg and those are the leg tats.
Yeah, dang, Mike, you getting serious.
Yeah, because I've always wanted a leg tat because being a runner, like the short side I wear, I always thought it'd be cool to have one that's like right at that line. Okay, I just like the way it looks. Also, Quinn Yours from Texas has one right there, and I was like, yeah, the quarterback at Texas got it, and he has like this it's like a kind of like a skull, but it's like right there at the short line and it just looks cool.
Got it? So we're seeing what looks cool, and that's all.
I don't think that's what tattoos should be at the end of the day. They I think people put a lot of emphasis on the meaning behind them, like having this big meaning. The way I look at tattoo is like they got to look cool. They need to answer the way that I look and be in cool placements where you can show them off. If they have a meaning, that's bonus for me. But I want something that is important to me and I think is a representation of me, but also has to look cool.
M okay, dang, okay. So we got we got friendship movement going, We've got new tattoo. How's the Spider Man tattoo going?
Great?
That's good, totally okay. I met like the most I've ever loved it.
Oh peak, We've hit peak most peak. Okay, this is all good, see good things. Everything else is moving in the right direction, which means the friendship stuff can only move in the right direction too. That's how we're gonna put it on in the universe.
Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, worst that happens is like I don't make a friend, which I already don't really have.
So it's like that is true, Like you look at the worst thing that happens and somebody's just like, okay, yeah, I'm good. But then you just move forward. But also I say that knowing like rejection is real. Yeah, that feeling is not fun. So I understand that perspective too. But you deserve to have you have all of us as friends here, but you deserve to have deep friend connections.
Yeah, And I guess that's what I want to clarify. It's like, not that I don't have people here that we talk to you as friends, that we interact as friends, that we do hang out with here. It's also we're all in points of our life where we don't hang out as much outside of work, and we when we do, it's probably a work related event, like with the traveling with you know, Bobby and Eddy, So I do have that connection in bond Like when we go do twenty five Whistles trips, it's like a bonding trip because it's all the guys together doing something fun, traveling, staying in hotels together, driving in rental cars, Like there is that part of my life, but that's also still connected to work, and I feel like I need a disconnect from that, with the relationship that my identity is it rooted in the fact that i'm quote unquote Mike d like I want it to be just me, like that I'm not associated with this at all, and I think it just I kind of need it because I think I need an avenue where I'm not thinking about all that this job entails, where I can disconnect. That's why I do do things like go to the gym, go running, because it's those times where I'm not thinking about those things in my life that I just feel better, and after I do them, I feel like like I have a reset. So I think that's why I'm looking for that friendship.
Well, you should also use this as evidence, Mike, Like when you're going into those scenarios and you're freaked out, Like, use this as evidence, like you have friends, you've made friends, you're just trying to make new friends. So like, use this in your mind when like the anxiety creeps in and you're like, I don't want to do this and I'm scared, use it as evidence that, like you have been able to make friends, so it's not something that you're not capable of doing. This just looks a little differently of how it's going to come to be. So use it as like an evidence for you to be like, Okay, I'm not totally foreign in this, even though this feels really foreign to me. Like I did make friends. I do hang out with like Bobby and Eddie and we go on all these things and we have a great time. Like I am a good friend. I just want to make more.
Yeah, And I think for now that I think about it, I think is that I kind of want to make like a best friend, which is hard to do. It is like I have my wife obviously, and I have Bobby who I've been close with for a long time, but I don't have a friend that I can just go to their house randomly and I feel like, yo, you have that right, Yeah, you could just show up, like I need to hang out with somebody, Hey what are you doing that I could text so freely and say hey could I come over? Yeah, come over? Or hey I'm doing some right now, come over later. Like I don't think I have that friendship because it's like the friends I do have that I'm like at that level with all have you know, wives and kids, and it's like, that's why, I don't know if it's just like an age thing that I'm at right now that that's gone, or it's just I don't have that type of friend.
No, it's for sure an age thing. There's that association with me too. But it's also that as you shift in age, you can also continue making friends that can keep being that for you, you know what I mean, Like, you can continually make new friends. That's always an option. It's always an option. It doesn't matter how old you are. Think about it, like I got to the retirement home and they're all new friends. It's true they didn't know each other before that phase of their life. You can always make new friends and it's always going to be there for you and available. It's just how much you want to go after it. And so I think it's both. I think the answer to that is both.
It's also hard because you've probably experienced this too, and you do move away from like where you grew up and where you made all those friends, Like I do have those friends don't live here any like they don't live here. Oh yeah, if I moved back to Texas, I'd be like I wouldn't have this conversation because I would have those people that I could just go over to their house and hang out with. But it's that starting over in your twenties, like like the most where you've already established all these relationships, going to a new city and having to start over, which is I think the thing I never had time to do because as soon as I moved here in twenty sixteen, I was dropped into it got super busy, was traveling, Like there's two years of my life that I just have as like a blur because I wasn't even here to maintain a relationship evenen I tried to. That was also when I didn't really even date because wasn't even here.
Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, And so now you have to you're kind of backpedaling and trying to do it now, which is harder, right, Like the older you get it, the harder it is. But it's not impossible, and it does exist and people still make new friends. I just made three new friends in the last six months that I never had. Like, you can do it, but it is a level of putting yourself out there that is very vulnerable and allowing people to to be vulnerable with you. That's hard, Like vulnerability is hard. It doesn't matter which way you look at it, platonically, romantically, whatever, So none of it's easy. But I do think you're you can find it and you're capable of it, and it's out there. It's just like you getting through like your wall that you've put up. You know, yeah, because you have and it exists. I promise it does. You're evidence of that. Yeah, you're like okay.
I even got to a point like, hey, should we rush the kid process along just so I have a friend out. I was like, that kid'll hang out with me until he's like.
Can Okay, Yes, that's true.
We saw like a family going to take their kid to see maybe it was Wild Robot, and I was like, Hey, that'd be cool to take like your kid to go see a movie. Have to be so excited. I like, like I look forward to that part of it. Yeah, like taking a kid to a movie, like experiencing that, Like that sounds fun to me. Of like, oh, they get to do the things that I still like to do.
Yes, that's an option, and you will have a friend in your kid when that happens. But you should also have adult friends too.
Adult friends too hard. Let's create a.
Human On that note, We're gonna take a little break here. We'll be right back. Speaking of little kids, Mike, I went to Chapel Roone at First Bank Amphitheater out in Franklin here, and there was so many little kids there, really yeah, and they were so cute. Yes, everybody was dressed up. I have never been to a concert that had a more electric crowd. Like you know when you go to a concert and everybody's all about the artist or whatever. This crowd was all about like everybody being together and they everybody was so nice to each other and comb I have just never seen so much kind human interaction in one setting with that many people. And then when she came out on stage, it was it was like everybody was one. Everybody just became like one giant fan of Chapel Rode. It was such a cool experience to be in that crowd.
That's also like the prime time to see her like in her career right now of like where she is the biggest and there is just like that energy. Like I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I always get just completely intrigued by somebody who has that passionate of a fan base like grows that quickly and just like dominates at everything. Like I'm so fascinated with just like that rise to fame and having like that much power to where like they play a show, it's like thousands of people. They put out a song, it gets millions of streams in like seconds, Like I'm just fascinated with those types of people, and she does.
And that's it, and that's the community she's created, like speaking on that, like she I'm not kidding. When I walked in here, I just felt something so different. And we go to concerts all the time, not just for our job, but just in we are music people. We like to go. I've been to so many that for me to sit here and say this is one of the most electric crowds I've ever been part of for somebody that's at that point in their career is wild. She was so good And now not only did I like enjoy the crowd and the experience that I had there, but I only listened or knew like five songs before I went, And ever since I left there, I've been like down her whole deesography. I'm like, let's see what else do you got like I had so much fun. So that's how you also know it was a good time, right because you want to dive into them further, versus it being like, okay, I'm good, Like I'll just know my five songs. So it was really good. Definitely suggesting her even if you're not a huge fan, I think you'd become a massive fan.
How are like on stage? Is like like the production is there like a lot of things going on, a lot of dancers, is like a big set. Really she had.
An all female band, which was awesome. It was two guitar, like a guitar, bass and drums and her.
Oh wow, I kind of imagined her having like sculptures on stage like big sets.
It's really her that's that big, like really big character. I mean she had an outfit, she ripped off a skirt at one point, her makeup was all done up, and there was lots of graphics on the screens and stuff. But beyond that, I mean pretty bare bones as far as like the way that you would imagine it to be so shocking to me too, but she took up that whole stage. I mean she had that much energy and that much character that she really like owned that entire stage, and maybe that's why they don't have any of that up there.
Yeah, it could be like maybe next tour is like that because she's also like at this like the still like the rise of her fame in this tour, maybe didn't know that it was going to be as big as it is, or like no, or like even like having the money to create a stage, like because that's what I would picture for her, is like a huge thing.
And maybe it's just as they keep rising right like that that has to be the next level versus this level right here. Yeah, I don't know. And to your point, they just might. She might a skyrocket so fast they weren't ready for it, you know, they didn't sit there and prepare for two years. And because I do, I do imagine like a Lady Gaga esque type yeah vibe. But no, it was very I mean her whole Midwest princess thing. It was very that she was wearing camo. She had like a camo outfit on and a camo dress. So it was really good though. I highly suggest going to one of her shows. And then I also went to a Dan and Shay thing that was really fun and I there's one song on this new stuff they're working on that changed my life, Mike. Hell, it made me incredibly emotional, but also just that we already know that Shane Mooney is incredibly talented, right, Like, we know that he's a great vocalist, but this just like shot him just over a freakin grand canyon.
Is it his singing in the song or is it what the song is about?
His singing?
Interesting?
Yeah, where I'm just like, oh in it. If I could elaborate on it more and make more sense, I don't know what I'll like. Cannon can't say at this moment, but all I know that when it comes out like it just made me like stop in my tracks and see something differently that I've seen before. Does that make sense?
Yeah?
I'm explaining that very well without being able to say anything. So there was that too. So I had two life changing moments this week.
Do you like music just because somebody is a good singer? Like? Do you just look for good singers and automatic things I'm gonna like their music?
No, I normally listen to lyrics, Yeah, because I don't like if I look at all my favorite bands throughout my entire life, I don't know that I would consider them any of them to be like great singers.
Yeah, that's but that's true though you don't you're not attaching to somebody. That's I think that's why this was so life changing because it made me literally stop.
I mean cause stand and shaken out. Both they can sing well and they can write really good songs. Yeah, but I think that's probably a very select case. I just think over like any music, like the most popular people probably aren't the best singers. It's like their lyrics and their connection more. Because I just always find it interesting whenever you say, discover somebody like in random place you can sing really well, or you discover like somebody you know it can like just really sing and you think you should be famous. I've never really seen that as like, well, I think anybody could sing really well, Like that's a little bit more common. It's more rare to have somebody who can write really good songs and put it to music that connects with people. That's a harder thing to do, like singing, Like, yeah, you could take lessons, you could be classically trained, but you can't really teach something like how to be a dynamic songwriter.
That's so true. You kind of are you aren't? Yeah, like you have Like I look at, I don't know if you've ever there's thoughts that come to mind, like, oh, that could be a really good song, but I have no idea how that would actually transpire. That's are really good words, and that's a really good thought process that like putting that to a song and a melody and all of that. Oh heck no, yeah, you know what I mean. I don't know if you've ever had that thought process, but it's so true now that you say that. And I look at like all my favorite people, I most of the time love them for their life lyrics and the way that the songs connect to me versus like I'm truly listening. It's only it'll be like a shock. I'll be like, oh wow, oh she can sing. He can sing? Well, didn't didn't know that was coming. It's kind of like tea pain.
Yeah.
When I listened to his stuff, we had a connection. There was a nostalgia factor because we listened to it in childhood and then he did mass singer. I was like, oh, oh he can sing, you know what I mean? So I think you're right. I just never thought of it that way.
Yeah, because there's some artists that are like really great singers, like elite, but they're songs that, to me don't really say anything. Some people like love them, and I'm like, I just can't get into it. Yeah, I need more than just like they're an amazing singer.
That's fair. Well, just know that this particular one is because he's insanely good at singing that it stops me in my tracks.
I mean, yeah, Shane Mooney vocals is like an entirely different level. Like it's just interesting to listen to his like isolated vocal tracks. So like just how he sings, how Dan like puts all the airing on it. It's like an instrument.
This is a version of that. And I think that's why it was so impactful, like a true isolated Oh insane. I wish I could elaborate on it further. Again, I'm not sure what I'm allowed or not to say. All I know is that when people are here, they're gonna be like, what the crap?
All right? I want to hear it now.
So that and maybe I have to it up too much. Dang, now, never mind, I take it back.
It It was horrible. You know, actually they're not releasing the song not that good.
It's really bad. Okay, we're gonna take another quick break and we'll be right back, all right, Mike, what is okay? This is? I realized this is something that I do and maybe this is really good. Weird adult Morgan. But I like to when I really like something, whenever sale happens, I'll buy multiples of it and I'll keep stocks of it instead of like going throughout the year and trying to buy it for normal price. I have like stocks of multiple things in my house because I've bought them on sales. Do you do this or is this weird? Morgan? Oh?
This is my wife one hundred percent really yeah.
So she'll go, like she finds something she likes and then she'll wait for sale, buy it all and she'll just have it and it'll be like on stock.
Yeah, whenever something is on sale, she's stocking up on it. And whenever she finds something she likes and is on sale, she'll get it in every color. Like that's kind of her her thing, Like I like it, I'm gonna get it in every color.
See what it's so listen, I love this Adult version of us because it's so smart. If you think about it. Most of the time, the things you end up really liking are a little bit more expensive, and then you're like, dang, I really don't want to pay full price for that. But then you realize, like at Christmas time it'll be like fifty percent off or something like I'm getting ten of them.
I have entered the light the part of my life where I don't buy anything that's not on sale, like like a major thing, anything at all, anything at all. I'm always like, I feel like, in the last few months, I've kind of made this decision. If it's not on sale, I'm not getting it yet, because I've just noticed like if you wait at least three maybe four months, it's gonna go on sale, that is true. And always find it on sale or a promo code or something. Because there have been times where I've bought something full price and then a couple months later it's on sale at like a drastic amount, I'm like, if I just waited. And also it proves to me, like I'm very much when I buy something, I probably think about it way too much and think of like, Okay, do I really need this? Do I still want it now or am I acting on impulse? So also giving myself that time to wait until it's on sale makes me decide do I still want it? Because if I want it now in the moment where it's full price, maybe I'm just playing off some emotion. I shouldn't get it yet. But if I still want it in those two three months, I know it's the right purchase to make.
That's really healthy of you. Honestly, that's actually really smart.
It's taking me a lot to get there, just because like in the like probably in my twenties, I would just buy things randomly, like why do I have this? I don't need this, I don't want this.
Does this pretend to also close and stuff too? Is this everything? Or is it just really bigger purchases?
I would say, like I've gotten to the point now where it's even close to interesting seeing shoes. I'm like, it's gonna go on sale at some point.
See, but if you leave it in your car, you put in your car, then you will get a coat for you.
Yeah. The only thing I will still act on if it's something that I know is going to sell out, like a collab or something that's coming out, and I know it's not going to be around long that it's not even this the case that could go on sale eventually. That's the only thing that I'd be like, all right, I've been wanting this for a while. It's finally coming out. I'm gonna get it.
Like limited edition stuff.
Yeah, anything limited edition or something that's just like Okay, they're probably not going to make any more of this, or in the past it is sold out before and I wasn't able to get it, So now like, oh it's back in stock and I still want it. I got to pay the full price.
Okay, that's fair. That's actually I really need to adapt that. Honestly. I need to start like waiting til picts are on sale because I did. The reason thiss got brought up, not even just because of my My girlfriends will go in my bathroom cabinets and there's just like stocks of beauty products and they're like why, I'm like, I bought it all on sey Oh okay, this is really smart. I do it with soaps, Like if I get soaps, that's also a thing that I buy multiples of. It's been a whole thing and this has got passed down from my mom. So this is where this comes from. But the reason got brought up is because I've bought now three pairs of these sweatpants that I have. I'm so obsessed with them that I can't stop buying helpers of them. Not that I need five pairs of sweatpants, but I really love them, and now I own multiples. And to your point, I did not wait for them to go on sale. I just really loved them. So now before I buy my six pair, I will wait and hopefully they go on sale. So appreciate that life lesson Mike. Also, I wanted to talk about to speaking of shopping, have you been to a store where you've had to put like your card in and stuff. I know a lot of people shop online and stuff now, but have you been somewhere like it can even be a Target or whatever where you put your card in at the register? Did you get multiple ads?
I have not that get no?
Okay, So your girl went to best Buy. I needed an SD car like stat So I go to bed bye and I'm standing at this thing and I hit my card right, Mike, I kid you not. There were five advertisements that popped up first. I would you like to join our club. Next was it would you like to donate? Those are the two that I'm used to, right, And then the fall was like, oh we have this other new club also there here's an ad and I was like, that's not even best buy. And after that ad, then another one popped up to join a sister version of something, and I was like, what is happening? Just hit yes, no, I just I need to pay for the thing. Five advertisements on this teeny tiny register and that hasn't happened to you yet.
Well that's happened. Like that reminds me like going to get gas at the gas station where it's like do you want to save five cents? Do you want to get a car? Wiche? Do you want to join our rewards plan?
Like?
What are your biggest fears? Dude, I'm just trying to pay for gas.
There's so many you know. What it reminds me of is Ready Player one when he's about to sell the ad space. I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not ready for this. I'm like, listen, I get it. It's on our phones. You're listening to me all the time, but had a freaking register. Man, I'm just trying to pay for it.
I just want to tap and get there, right, and.
That's what I'm trying to do, and they keep your cart like some of them don't have the tap, so my card's in it, so I just have to keep waiting for it to like pass through to get my card back. I was so mad. I got so frustrated, and I kind of looked at the girl and she was just totally oblivious to what was happening. I was like, for real, so that I just had to voice some that experience and now it's probably gonna happen to you. Yeah.
I think we're going to get into a space in the next four to five years where their ads like in places that we've never had as before. Like I think it's going to get to a point where we're like seeing stuff in this sky floating. I mean, there's like the little pop, but there's going to be like stuff where it's like on the road signs, here's the exit, but also here's an ad.
I do think it is. I'm not kidding well. I think that's why I love Ruddy Player one so much. So I look up like, honestly, probably our life this is gonna happen in some former fashion and that ad space. How he's like, oh, we can sell up to ninety five percent of the view field without ruining their whatever. Yeah, And I was like, this is gonna that, that's gonna happen. They're gonna straight up put it everywhere, and I think you're right.
Yeah. I mean I was even watching football like it's on Amazon on Thursdays now and during their commercial breaks it's obviously Amazon based commercials, and it's like, here's this product here scanned this QR code and by this it's just and they.
All have QR codes, so like they get you that way because they're like, here's your use it for your phone.
Stupid. The Amazon thing is weird to me, like watching things on Prime and how they haven't really done it so much yet, but how much they're integrating, like buying things from Prime while you're watching things on Prime. I feel like we got so used to like this big corporation also being in like media like so easily, Like no, this is where we get like toilet paper and like random house things.
The lines have gotten very blurred.
And now they're making really great TV shows and showing life sports. They're gonna start selling us the stuff we're getting to our house.
Yup. Oh it's so true though. Okay, that was my only rant for the day. I had to voice that. Thank you for a lot. Although now I really need to adapt your shopping strategy because of what's about to happen, because I really will be like I'll just feel bad. I'm like, okay, I'll buy it. Just get it out of my face, you know, like I panic. It's kind of like when somebody goes to to they hand you and they're holding the credit card reader and it has the tip on it and I panic and I'm just like, nah, that one. Just don't look at it. I don't know, just press the big button.
That one always makes me feel bad.
It does when they're straight up holding it and you can tell that they see it and you're like, uh, okay. This happened to me at a plant store, Mike. I tipped a plant lady. She didn't do anything. There was a zero help that I received, And I said, this plant lady twenty percent because I panicked. It was so bad.
Yeah. I feel that at some places where I go to, where like a smoothie place where yeah, you can have your smoothie made maybe tip on that. But you also can grab things that you just grab them like that's already ready and pay for it, but they still have the tip line on there, like I wouldn't grab it. It's just like a bottle of water, Like it feels weird. It feels weird to say no, but you did nothing. You just scanned it.
I know when they're watching you, it's like their eyes are on you, like they know what's happening.
The last one that happened to me is I went to a like a drive through car wash and they have somebody who like comes around and like does a pre scrub before you go through an automatic car wash, and they're like, do you want to tip the scrubber today?
Well, they now asked you to tip the scrub and I was like, You've been doing that forever for free.
I've never really thought of like tipping that person, but now there's a pressure to tip that person. And if I don't tip that person, because I'm looking at it right now and they're gonna scrub my car, I feel like a jerk. So I still tipped them a dollar, but it's like, oh, that's that seems like an added service to entice me to come to your place because you add this little thing to it is.
And it's crazy when you think about because you're like, now a ten dollars car wash has now turned into a twenty dollars car rush because of all the different tips that you have to do. Yeah, that's what it gets to the point of, right, it just keeps like piling on. That stresses me out. It makes me not want to come.
Out of my house exactly.
And this is why everybody buys uff online now because nobody wants to go to the store and have those interactions. Okay, well, you know, just watch out for the ads on the registers when you go to places. Okay, we're gonna wrap this up. Mike, Thanks for joining things, for being vulnerable talking about friendships.
There's a lot of different areas of conversation in this day.
I like to go lots of different ways, and I really appreciate you just coming with me on them, but being vulnerable talking about what's going on in your life and also voicing our frustrations with ads.
Yeah, we had the whole range of emotions today. We did.
We were inside out basically all of them came to play. They were pressing buttons. All right, tell the people where they can find to hear you all that good stuff.
You can find my podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Coming up this week, I have Freddy Krueger on, which is cool.
The guy who played him, did he wear his mask?
He did not. But it's the fortieth anniversary of the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie, So I had Robert England on to talk about like the whole making and behind the scenes of that movie, which is really cool for me because that was obviously one of my favorite horror movies growing up. I'd put it in like the top three of all time, and like to have somebody who is so iconic and also like the face of a horror franchise which you don't really have, Like Michael Myers has a mask, Jason has a mask, Chucky as a doll.
Oh, Freddy Kruger doesn't have a mask.
He's like has makeup on. But like when you actually see him, you're seeing the character Freddy Krueger. All those other characters is just completely different people. Okay, So it's like a whole different level of fame that he dealt with that.
We talked about that's so cool. That's a huge git, like, that's a great interview, I imagine.
Yeah, that was awesome, and it was hard to do because, as I imagine it, like forty years everybody has asked him everything possible, so I had to kind of find a way to ask him things in a different way so it'd be like, oh, that was interesting. And he gave me like a cool compliment at the end of it, so you got to listen to check it out.
You better, you better kept that compliment in Oh yeah, okay, I was posting that teaser, like check out what he said.
I'm good I did that.
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