“I’ve Never Had a GF” TikTok Bachelor Mikey Narine Opens Up

Summary

LA PLATICA Podcast Episode Summary: “I’ve Never Had a GF” TikTok Bachelor Mikey Narine Opens Up

Release Date: March 24, 2025

Introduction

In this compelling episode of the LA PLATICA Podcast, titled “I’ve Never Had a GF” TikTok Bachelor Mikey Narine Opens Up, hosts Josh Leyva and Ryan Reynolds delve deep into the personal and professional journey of Mikey Narine, a rising TikTok sensation known for his charisma and engaging content. The episode, released on March 24, 2025, offers listeners an intimate look into Mikey’s self-discovery, social media growth, and perspectives on relationships and personal development.

Guest Background: Mikey Narine

Mikey Narine, the focal point of this episode, is celebrated for his authentic presence on TikTok, where he has amassed millions of followers by sharing content that resonates with a diverse audience. Described as the "TikTok Bachelor," Mikey stands out not only for his looks but also for his thoughtful and introspective approach to life and relationships.

Social Media Growth & Strategy

Mikey begins by outlining his foray into social media. Starting at age 22, he decided to take his online presence seriously after realizing that the content available did not reflect his own identity, particularly for men who were "thicker" and not conforming to the stereotypical slim physiques commonly showcased.

"I didn't see anyone who looked like me on social media. So I wanted to be a good role model for those guys who don’t know how to, you know." — Mikey Narine [05:04]

His strategic use of TikTok involved initially leveraging "thirst traps" — captivating, shirtless images — to draw attention. However, Mikey quickly evolved his content to include fashion advice and lifestyle tips, catering to men who sought guidance on dressing well and enhancing their personal style.

"What makes a great pair of glasses? At Warby Parker, it's all the invisible extras without the extra cost." — Mikey Narine [03:40]

Mikey emphasizes the importance of understanding one’s body and choosing styles that complement personal physique, rather than blindly following trends.

Personal Transformation and Self-Improvement

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around Mikey’s personal transformation. He candidly shares his struggles with self-image and the steps he took to improve his physical and mental well-being.

"I never thought I was a good looking guy. It was always my personality. I was always the funny guy." — Mikey Narine [08:26]

Mikey's journey included disciplined workouts, conscious dietary changes, and a commitment to personal growth. This transformation was not just physical but also deeply emotional, as he worked on building emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

"I think you really have to look like, why are you feeling these feelings? Why am I angry?" — Ryan Reynolds [11:47]

Relationships and Emotional Intelligence

Mikey delves into his unconventional relationship status, having never had a girlfriend, and how this has shaped his approach to relationships and self-understanding.

"I've never had a girlfriend. To this day." — Ryan Reynolds [09:36]

He discusses the importance of self-love and not rushing into relationships without fully understanding oneself. Mikey advocates for emotional intelligence, urging men to reflect on their feelings and motivations before seeking companionship.

"They have to start with you first." — Ryan Reynolds [11:20]

The conversation also touches on the dynamics of modern relationships, emphasizing mutual respect, open communication, and the importance of addressing insecurities together.

Listener Q&A: "Perspective of a Man"

A key segment of the episode is the "Perspective of a Man," where Mikey, Josh, and Ryan respond to listener-submitted questions about relationships and personal boundaries.

1. Modest Clothing at the Gym

   Question: Should a girlfriend compromise her gym attire for the sake of her boyfriend’s comfort?

   Responses:

   • Ryan Reynolds: Encourages open dialogue to understand each other's comfort levels.

     "I think it's a valid conversation to have." — Ryan Reynolds [62:03]

   • Mikey Narine: Emphasizes that no one should dictate another’s wardrobe choices, advocating for mutual respect and understanding.

     "Nobody should be telling each other what to do." — Mikey Narine [62:41]

2. Friendships with the Opposite Sex

   Question: How should boundaries be set in friendships between men and women in a serious relationship?

   Responses:

   • Ryan Reynolds: Suggests transparency and inclusivity, such as introducing the boyfriend to female friends to alleviate insecurities.

     "It's a conversation to be brought up, but it's like, what is that telling about him when I haven't done." — Ryan Reynolds [72:45]

   • Mikey Narine: Highlights the importance of maturity and mutually respectful relationships, discouraging jealousy and promoting trust.

     "It's part of having a mature relationship." — Mikey Narine [73:00]

3. Sexual Breaks in Relationships

   Question: Is it acceptable to request a sexual break in a relationship to focus on other activities?

   Responses:

   • Ryan Reynolds: Acknowledges the validity of the request, emphasizing the need for deeper connection beyond physical intimacy.

     "It’s very valid." — Ryan Reynolds [79:36]

   • Mikey Narine: Encourages open communication and understanding, stressing that relationships should encompass more than just sex.

     "It’s necessary for the woman to really make him feel comfortable and reassure him all the time." — Mikey Narine [75:56]

4. Inability to Have Children

   Question: If a partner cannot have children, is it acceptable for the other to seek another relationship to fulfill that desire?

   Responses:

   • Ryan Reynolds: Shares a personal stance against leaving a partner over such issues, advocating for selfless love and alternative paths like adoption.

     "I wouldn't leave." — Ryan Reynolds [87:00]

   • Mikey Narine: Expresses that such a decision would be devastating, emphasizing the importance of mutual support and exploring options together.

     "I would adopt. I'm not super... I would love to adopt, actually." — Mikey Narine [84:18]

   • Josh Leyva: Reinforces the idea of commitment and exploring solutions jointly, such as adoption or IVF.

     "I think the same. Yeah." — Josh Leyva [84:20]

Personal Insights and Reflections

Throughout the episode, Mikey Narine shares profound insights into personal growth and the importance of self-improvement. He discusses his motivations for leaving his previous job to focus on his passions, the challenges of maintaining a healthy work-life balance, and the significance of emotional resilience.

"The main goal was always acting. So I'm going to class now." — Ryan Reynolds [39:05]

Mikey also touches on the sacrifices and dedication required to pursue one's dreams, emphasizing that success doesn't come without hard work and vulnerability.

"You gotta do the Work. You gotta go to the classes. You got to do all that stuff." — Mikey Narine [91:40]

Final Thoughts and Encouragement

As the episode nears its conclusion, the hosts express their admiration for Mikey’s journey and encourage listeners to take risks, pursue their passions, and prioritize self-love and emotional intelligence in their relationships.

"You got to take that chance. You got to take that chance to do it. That's the only way you get better is by putting yourself in those uncomfortable situations." — Mikey Narine [100:51]

Mikey offers heartfelt advice on embracing personal growth, maintaining confidence, and fostering healthy, respectful relationships. The episode concludes with mutual appreciation between the hosts and Mikey, highlighting the positive impact of authentic communication and self-awareness.

"You carry yourself like amazing. You have an incredible heart, bro. Incredible spirit. It was honestly a pleasure having you on the podcast." — Mikey Narine [101:27]

Notable Quotes

• Mikey Narine:
  "I was like, I'm gonna be a good role model for those guys who don't know how to." [05:04]
  "It's about what you eat too. The diet is everything." [43:37]

• Ryan Reynolds:
  "I think many guys are insecure about their height, but confidence is key." [74:25]
  "If I didn’t do that, I wouldn't be doing social media." [39:33]

• Josh Leyva:
  "Guarantee you have to show up. No one's gonna do the work for you." [25:22]
  "Treat people with respect, knowing the right people." [99:31]

Conclusion

This episode of LA PLATICA Podcast offers a rich and engaging exploration of Mikey Narine’s life, his rise to social media fame, and his thoughtful perspectives on personal growth and relationships. Through candid conversations and insightful discussions, listeners gain valuable lessons on self-improvement, emotional intelligence, and the importance of authentic connections. Mikey’s openness about his journey serves as an inspiring testament to the power of self-awareness and purposeful living.

Transcript

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[Mikey Narin]

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[Mikey Narin]

That's right, guys. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode. This episode's a good one. All right, Se.

[Josh Leyva]

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[Mikey Narin]

Come on, man. Let's give a round of applause for sexy.

[Josh Leyva]

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[Jess]

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[Josh Leyva]

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[Mikey Narin]

Do we want to go there?

[Josh Leyva]

It's jolly, cuz I'm on a podcast with Josh Labor.

[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Josh Leyva]

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[Jess]

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[Josh Leyva]

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[Mikey Narin]

Damn, son.

[Josh Leyva]

Josh, take the other way. Come on, man.

[Mikey Narin]

Hey, you hear the voice right now?

[Josh Leyva]

I hear two sexy voices.

[Mikey Narin]

Hey, this is that kind of episode right here, ladies. Where we going to get down and. Ouch.

[Josh Leyva]

Ouch.

[Mikey Narin]

Yo, we got. We got a very special guest in the building today. Damn, My voice is on right now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Mikey Narin]

I hope you're listening. I know you're doing your makeup right now. You're going to want to do your makeup extra good today when you listening to this episode. This is a boys episode. A sexy boys episode. Guys, I'm very excited to introduce our guest for today. Before we get into introducing our guests, you know, I got to give a shout out to our friends over at Sea Geek, the number one rated ticketing app on the app store. Come on, man.

[Josh Leyva]

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[Mikey Narin]

Can you see the mics? Let's talk about it, guys. You heard a TikTok, but have you heard of the tick tock sex icon Mikey Noreen? Because he's in the building.

[Josh Leyva]

Come on, man.

[Mikey Narin]

Mike and arena in the building, everybody. Pleasure, man.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You guys are really handsome, by the way. I just want to say that it's.

[Mikey Narin]

Just a handsome episode today.

[Josh Leyva]

Super. Likewise, bro. Imagine like if somebody walks in and just sees four handsome bottles.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And Matt, that would be crazy.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Yeah. Damn. It's amazing, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

This.

[Josh Leyva]

Mikey, thank you for being on the podcast.

[Mikey Narin]

This is your first podcast.

[Ryan Reynolds]

First podcast. So I'm really. No way. Really Excited. Wow.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

First podcast and look at you guys. I'm here with you guys. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

I'm excited to talk to you. I've been, I've been following you for, for a good amount of time now. I want to say at least like six to eight months. And I've seen you explode on social media. What I was telling Seas and the team before you got here is your growth on social media has been very interesting because you popped off on Tik Tok first, right? And then you were able to transmit your audience to Instagram as well. And a lot of people have a difficult time doing that. So you were like, very lucky and blessed to be able to do that. Obviously, you're talented as well. But, like, talk to us about, first of all, like, how you got started, the. The growth of it all and how you were able. What's your secret, brother? Besides being dashing handsome.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So I started, I think when I was 20. I always dressed some type of way. I never really cared about what people thought about how I dressed. But it wasn't until like 20, I turned 22, where I. I thought to myself, I'm gonna take this serious. Because I was working a job that my heart wasn't in. I always wanted to do something else. And I was like, you know what? I am going to take this serious.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

As soon as I said that and as soon as I actually took it serious and started posting at my job, I would edit, post, kept checking, which sucks. You know, when you post a video and you keep checking. But I was doing that and I did that for six months. And then my tick tock started going up and I was like, I need a put the pride aside. My family's gonna see my videos on Instagram. Yeah, I don't care. People from my high school are going to see it. They're already clowning me. Don't care. Posted on Instagram. That started going up and I was like, this is fun. I'm having a blast. And I kept doing it. I'm like, I'm going to really try this. I didn't even know you can make money off it. But, you know, I, that that was never the goal. The goal was just of having fun. The dm, seeing people, like, I, I didn't see people on social media that kind of look like me. Like I was a little like thicker. I was 210 pounds. I'm only 5 10, so I'm at like 64 beast, you know, that you always see.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So I didn't see anyone who looked like me on social media. So I was like, I'm gonna be. Or I want to be like a. A good role model for those guys who don't know how to, you know.

[Mikey Narin]

So called, like the bigger dudes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, the bigger dudes.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm a little thinner now. I've been cutting.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, you've had a pretty crazy dream.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. You're not 210.

[Ryan Reynolds]

No more 205.

[Josh Leyva]

Wow.

[Mikey Narin]

No, no, hold on, hold on. Sorry. I'm sorry. I messed up. I messed up. I messed up. I want to see your 192.

[Josh Leyva]

Nah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Wow, bro. You seen something? Because I had.

[Mikey Narin]

No, I didn't see. I just know. I know.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You know about, you know, my body, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

You know my body. You know, he's like, he. He really knows. He's really good at knowing men's physiques.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

He checks them out all the time.

[Mikey Narin]

All the time.

[Josh Leyva]

Just. Just like how you were saying how like you didn't care about your high school homies or people that knew you in high school, your family. Isn't it a beautiful thing that when you actually start being yourself and it's not that they don't respect you now or that. That they. That they felt some type of way with you before, but isn't it amazing that when you start posting and you start getting DMS and comments and they're like cheering you on, isn't it an amazing feeling to know, like, wow, there's like so much other people here that actually fudge with me.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

It's like, it's like you realize that, like, damn. Being like, it's because the people that you're around with, you know, your whole life, sometimes it sucks because, like, they just clown on you, you know? But like, when you don't know, it's the people that you don't know that really uplift you sometimes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Seriously. It's weird because you. That the people that you grew up with and the people closest to you would be the ones pushing you.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But it's often strangers.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

On the Internet that are like, keep posting these.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. They give you the encouragement that you, like, you need. Yeah, bro. One thing I really enjoy about your content is that you've been really open about, like, your transformation, about like, just how you've have. You've done your glow up as a human and stuff. Right. So were you. And I don't mean to get like, too personal, but like, did you grow up kind of like, insecure or like, where. How was your Upbringing.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

So, because you really talk about how, like, the growth, like, see you, like, you do a lot of, like, arc videos. Like, this is where I was and this is where I'm at now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Like, growing up, it was. I was. I. I never thought I was a good looking guy. It was always my personality. Like, I was always the funny guy.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And that was what I was known for. And I was. I was cool with that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And it was until, like, I think, where I really wanted to, like, lock in. I always wanted to do acting.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So that was the main goal. I was like, if I want to do this, I got to stop eating, like, bad. I got. Because eating like that, like, makes you feel so gross when you wake up and you're like. You're like, oh. So I was like, I got to buckle in. And then I really started taking things serious. It was slow. And then I was on that journey. I was really. I just realized a lot of guys go through the same thing. They don't know what to do. They don't know. Like, they think. They think the worst part of themselves is the final. The final edition.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. So it's like, I agree.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They. They see guys on the Internet, like.

[Mikey Narin]

This is all I got. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

This is me. I'm accepting. I'm super overweight. I don't know how to do anything.

[Mikey Narin]

I don't know how dress. I don't know how to get a haircut. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I can't talk to women. This is it.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's never going to be me.

[Josh Leyva]

While you were going through this, did you have a partner? Did you have a girlfriend?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I've never had a girlfriend.

[Mikey Narin]

Ever.

[Josh Leyva]

Till this day.

[Mikey Narin]

To this day.

[Ryan Reynolds]

To this day. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Damn. Not after this episode.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. My DMs are open. No, it was one thing. Like, I didn't want to. I didn't want to be.

[Josh Leyva]

You saw how he said, My DMs are open.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. And he looks straight into the camera. Done this before.

[Josh Leyva]

I might too.

[Mikey Narin]

How about going there?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I didn't want to become a girl's man if I wasn't even the man of my own dreams.

[Mikey Narin]

Come on, Mikey.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Come on. Come on.

[Mikey Narin]

Let them know, baby. Let him know, baby. You know what I'm saying? Speak to him, dog. Speak to him.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's like, I'm not gonna waste a woman's time.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

If I'm not even sure who I.

[Mikey Narin]

Am if I'm currently wasting my time. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Exactly.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So I. I thought I would just wait. I'M not here to waste time. I'm trying to figure myself out before I can do that. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Damn. Damn, that's powerful.

[Josh Leyva]

So they're in your DMs right now, right?

[Mikey Narin]

They're going crazy. So.

[Josh Leyva]

So, so they're in your DMs. Have you actually like, like talked to one and I actually gone on a date.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, that's a good question.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I went on a date, but she was also on social media.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, she was like an influencer type.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I did slide in the DMs, though.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, so you did it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I did. It was a great day. Yeah, she was, she was amazing. But I, I told her the same thing. Like I'm not, I don't think I'm.

[Mikey Narin]

So you still feel like you're not necessarily ready?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Honestly, I think I'm way further than I thought I was. I thought when I moved.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Quit my job, do this. But now I like. But you. I'm still rediscovering myself in, in a different way that I don't think I need a relationship right now.

[Mikey Narin]

I got to commend you for your like self awareness of that because not a lot of men people have that kind of self aware. You know what I mean?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Definitely.

[Mikey Narin]

They're kind of like almost in denial of it and don't want to look inward. You know, they tend to like, see like everyone else is the problem. It's like, well, you got to start with you first.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think that's a big problem that a lot of guys are blaming women for not wanting them. But maybe you suck, you know, maybe you're not taking the steps into becoming a better man.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Because I'm sure like all these guys are emotionally intelligent, have no problem talking to women. To women.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You know, and a lot of guys aren't emotionally intelligent.

[Mikey Narin]

So how does one become emotionally intelligent?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think you really have to look like, why are you feeling these feelings? You know, like, why am I angry? Why am I sad? Why do I feel like breaking yourself.

[Mikey Narin]

Down, Breaking yourself up?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Because there's a reason why you feel all these things.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Whether it's childhood stuff. Yeah. Whether it's your self conscious. Yeah. Like a lot of these, these internal thoughts are stemmed from something. So once you really like take a second to pause and look inward, I think the world changes.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

100%.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And that goes with like life in general, right? Yes. I feel like also too. And sorry to interrupt you. I feel like a lot of guys and the Majority of us, like, the super majority of us, I think we're programmed in a way to live our young adolescent lives. Especially, like, even now a certain way, like, we almost have, like, an image of how we should be a man. Right.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And we never really think about, like, how we actually want to live our lives.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

We always kind of have it, like, kind of like on paper already. And we try to follow those rules. And I think those are the guys that. He's probably like that, you know, he's probably like, talking about the people that need to, like, stop. What do I want? I'm not happy yet. Why am I following these rules of needing to do this, being with women. Like, why do we need to be with women? Really? Right.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, like, ask those hard questions.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Like, ask those questions like, why do I want a girl?

[Mikey Narin]

Where am I finding my identity?

[Josh Leyva]

Instead of like, why don't I just. And fall in love with myself first?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes, exactly.

[Josh Leyva]

Right. It's like, because we all have program, like, guys, you don't have a girlfriend. And you know what else they say after that? Right. You know what I mean?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, it's like, you don't have a girlfriend. Why then. Then you're weird. Yeah. Or like, you get, oh, you're. Oh, you must have a lot of girlfriends.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Right. No, I don't. You know, but it's like we're programmed that way where we always either need to have somebody or need to have a lot of people.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I'm not saying that, like, you shouldn't. Right. But I'm just saying, like, it's. It's always written on paper of, like, what we should do.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And instead of looking back and like, like I said, and I'll repeat myself, like, instead of like, asking ourselves, let me fall in love with myself first, and then one naturally will come to me.

[Mikey Narin]

Exactly.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. I think when you do work on yourself, like, things start changing and people are more attracted to you in the way you want to be attracted.

[Mikey Narin]

Wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Not with your. Your face or not with, you know, how you look. It's. It's because, like, they. You can just tell when someone is listening.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And a lot of people don't listen.

[Mikey Narin]

That's a good, really good point.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. When. When they.

[Mikey Narin]

You could tell they're actively, intentionally listening.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And I feel like that's where you kind of want to be. And it's kind of hard to get there, though, so.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Yeah. Like, for yourself. What I was going to say earlier was, like, it's really Cool that you, You've shown how you've transformed your physical appearance down to, like, your, you know, you. The way you look to, to your style, everything. You've kind of shown that. And it's really cool to hear that, like, now you're working on trans. Changing your, your, the, Your inner you. You know what I mean? Like, the growth of you, like your mindset and how you perceive yourself and how you perceive the world and really asking those kind of questions are like, who do you want to be? The kind of person that you want to date? Like, those kind of questions. I think that's really cool to see, man. Like, it's just both sides. And a lot of people don't do that. A lot of people just, like, they fix the outside but are really messed up on the inside.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

You know, and don't take the time. They just want to, like, they heal their problems with like, dating people. Right. And then they will tend to blame that person for the mishaps that are happening in the relationship, which is not a good place to be.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Not a good place to be in.

[Josh Leyva]

Damn. So. So going back to like, the topic of like, what is the, like, you look like the type of guy that, like, if you, you ask you if you slide on the dm or if, like, you ask a girl out and you meet him in person. How, how do. We talked about it in a couple pods ago, right?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

What's the best way to approach a woman?

[Ryan Reynolds]

In person or.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, let's just say in person, you.

[Mikey Narin]

Know, do you, do you approach women?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I, I, like, I gotta be honest, like, if it's in the public, like, I'm not. I've said a couple times, like, hey, I think you're really attractive. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Pretty.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

My name's Mikey. And then if they give me their name, I'll continue, but if they don't, like, oh, thank you. I'll just walk away, like, yeah, thank you. Like, I hope you have a good day.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And guys don't know how to take rejection. I'm cool with that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm cool with rejection because, like, if you have to be cool, you have to.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Well, guys tend to take it personally.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And it's not always, it's not personal all the time. Like, maybe they have a relationship that they're committed to and they don't. You just, they're just, they, you, sorry, wrong place, wrong time, you know, or.

[Josh Leyva]

They just don't like you.

[Mikey Narin]

It's not you. Or they just don't like you. And that's okay too.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Guys, we always tend to like, why don't you like me?

[Mikey Narin]

Right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Right.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

So. So you start going on TikTok, Right. And did someone show you how to work TikTok? Is that something that you learned on your own? Is there a video that you like? You know what these, these are hitting. What videos? Like, oh, these are hitting. This is what I should be doing. This is what people really. Cuz I'm sure there's a lot of guys that follow you too, that like, you inspire them to be just like you.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. I'm not going to lie. It did start with like the thirst traps.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So shirtless on my motorcycle.

[Josh Leyva]

I'm shirtless. I'm on a motorcycle.

[Mikey Narin]

I have a beard.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So it was like, it was like that. And then I was like, you know what? I'm not just a shirtless man.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, I can be and I will be, but I'm not just.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I will be a time for time when I have a good pump. But I knew a lot of guys asked me what jeans I wore when I had the shirtless pictures. So I'm like, oh, you know, maybe. Maybe they let a lot of guys who don't know what jeans to wear.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

What boots to wear. What do I get? My boots. And so that's why I was like, let me, Let me want to. I want to help guys. So those are the ones that really like took it off.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, cool, bro. I saw this tik tok a while ago where this. And I think this is. Might have been the reason how I found out about you. This guy broke down.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Your style. And talked about how you have really figured out to how. How to style your body and like your, your, your whole identity. Does that make sense? Yeah, I think that one kind of went viral. Right. Like it popped off.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

This guy was basically saying, like a lot of guys just try to like wear the fashionable stuff, the stuff that's trending and don't really wear stuff that complements their bodies. They're not like, aware of that. Like, they don't really like dissect. Like, okay, I tend to be more stocky. Or maybe I should. I shouldn't wear like long te's. You know what I mean? And he was talking about how Mikey does an amazing job by doing that. Like, he understands his body. He understands like what works for him and then he applies that, which is why people are so gravitated towards his fashion.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

It was me who did the video.

[Josh Leyva]

Isn't it crazy how like, we start like, growing up when we get older and like in school instead of like doing like, trendy stuff and like, obviously we. I still dress trendy. Like you and myself.

[Mikey Narin]

You do too, but you have found your identity as well.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. So I feel like I have so many styles. Right. But it's cool. Like, when you grow up, you start figuring out, like, I need a dress and put on clothes that complement my body.

[Mikey Narin]

Yes.

[Josh Leyva]

And that, like, show people that, like, this is how my body looks and this is what these clothes look like. For example, like. Like Mikey has these really nice jeans on. They look like they fit him perfectly.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know what I mean? And sometimes when. When I wear like. Like say I wear some like black wranglers. You know what I mean? With some boots, it makes me feel like a fudgeing man. Right. Like, it really makes me feel like fudge. Yeah. And I used to be like, like in high school or like, right. Like in my early 20s, I'm like, I'm not wearing that shit because like, you can see my ass.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like it looks, you know, whatever. My snake ass, whatever I have back there is there though.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

But like, you know, I used to be like, like self conscious about that, so. But now I'm like, not. Fuck that.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, look at my ass.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, and then you just walking around like that, just showing your confidence. Like the way I dress, like, that's sexy.

[Mikey Narin]

Did you get to this point, like, how did you get here to figuring out like, your style and like, what works for you and what complements your body? Cuz you. I saw videos like you used to. Used to not always dress the way you do now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think it was eighth grade where I was a. Before that I was a skater kid. And eighth grade I fell in love with like greaser stuff.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And like Elvis. So that's when I started wearing boots and stuff like that. And then high school, I fell in love. Like, Fresh Prince of Bel Air was my favorite.

[Mikey Narin]

Come on, man. I love that show.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So Will Smith.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, hit me.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, with this fashion. So sophomore year is when I like from Fresh Prince.

[Mikey Narin]

Like that, that style.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So fresh. Like Will Smith. So like I would wear like a gold tracksuit to. To school and then I kind of like combine them. So like the 50s and then 90s. Because like, sometimes I wear like the baggies with the Timbs. Like. I love that too.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Sometimes I wear like the 50s to the 60s, 70s, you know, like, I just, I love just combining it All. Yeah, there was a bunch of, like, trial and error. Boots were always my staple because it's so easy to work with.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, you just throw them on and it just makes you look like.

[Mikey Narin]

Elevates the whole thing.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it does.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Kind of makes it chic. Like, it just. I don't know, it just takes it a whole different angle. Yeah, I agree with that.

[Josh Leyva]

If there was an era in your life that you would love to live in, that's not. Go right now and go back. What would that be?

[Ryan Reynolds]

This one? Yeah. I can't have an iPhone.

[Mikey Narin]

Because you can still do that. You can still dress like the 50s and just have an iPhone.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, I know. Not social media and stuff like that.

[Josh Leyva]

You. Josh.

[Mikey Narin]

I agree with Mikey, bro. This is the time to be in. Yeah. But okay. To make the conversation fun. Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Mikey Narin]

You know what I mean? I go to, you know, have you ever seen Knight's Tale with Heath Ledger? I think we just talked about this movie. So I'm like, you know it. Let's go there.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Mikey Narin]

You know, I'll be a knight a night, but I have to be a knight. Don't put me as a medium. Don't put me as a Scooping the. The pig's poop.

[Josh Leyva]

You know what I mean?

[Mikey Narin]

Like, be nice.

[Ryan Reynolds]

What about you?

[Josh Leyva]

I would say, like, the Elvis times.

[Mikey Narin]

Elvis would be sick.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like the 50s, the 60s.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Life is just simple, you know?

[Mikey Narin]

Have you seen Elvis with Butler? Yeah. Great movie.

[Josh Leyva]

Was sick. Did you see the one with Austin Butler when he's the motorcycle guy?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Bike riders. Yeah, that was. He looks nice.

[Josh Leyva]

I want to get a bike so bad. So bad. I'm just scared, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's scary, bro. I had my Harley and I slipped and I sold it, bro. It was not.

[Mikey Narin]

They say there's two types of riders. People who have fallen and people who will fall.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, there's no image on a bike.

[Josh Leyva]

I know. Because anything can happen. It's not about you crashing into somebody. It's somebody crashing into you. Slipping.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Slipping.

[Josh Leyva]

Which is like, the most common.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

But I want one so bad. Yeah. Like with some Wranglers. Just white shirt.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Maybe some marble reds right here. Don't, you know, like, slick back my hair, you know? Just sick.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's slim.

[Josh Leyva]

Just pull up to Alfred's. The coffee shop.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Latte.

[Josh Leyva]

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[Mikey Narin]

Extra.

[Josh Leyva]

That's pretty good, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

I always order my lattes extra hot. Do you do that? Did you say that was a joke? But I really do that.

[Josh Leyva]

No, I don't.

[Mikey Narin]

Especially when I do it.

[Josh Leyva]

I feel like you'd be annoying doing that.

[Mikey Narin]

No, when I do it on Postmates, I push the extra hot because by the time it gets there, it's like the perfect temperature.

[Josh Leyva]

So how do they make it hotter? Just put in the microwave.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, they put it in the microwave. The extra hot. 2.2 minutes, 30 seconds now.

[Josh Leyva]

But I like my lattes hot.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And ice.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Huh?

[Mikey Narin]

Bro, talk to us about, like, what. What has it been like? Like, you literally started from zero to having millions of followers across social media. Like, you're popping.

[Josh Leyva]

Making dumb feria.

[Mikey Narin]

Making dumb feria. Dms are going crazy. Like, how was your.

[Josh Leyva]

How do you even wake up, bro?

[Mikey Narin]

How do you stay grounded through all of this?

[Josh Leyva]

I would make out with myself in the mirror.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Do you make out?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Do you do that? I would. Yeah. No, it's like, it feels like I have been living this in my head already.

[Josh Leyva]

You always knew.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's like, I. I don't want to say I always knew, but I always wanted to do this. So it's like I always put myself in a position in my head that I was already there. So it's like when people take pictures of me, it feels so good. Like, I'm not saying, like my Pride. It just feels so good that to be, like, recognized as someone, to like, someone take pictures with. So, so it's like, I don't think, I think ego's horrible. I don't think. I, I, I, I think it's one of the worst things that it does nothing for you. Nothing.

[Mikey Narin]

Which I don't understand how people have so much like, arrogance and ego.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But I, I do have pride in what I do. So it feels good to be, like, recognized that, you know, you, when you bu, you guys both buckled down, there was a point in your life where you buckled down and you did the work and now look like you guys have a podcast.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

It's like, because, you know no one's gonna do the work for you. No, it's just, you gotta show up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

I've seen some of your comments, bro. Ladies go crazy. Like, do you, do you ever feel. This is kind of a weird question, but do you ever feel, like, objectified?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah. That's a problem that, like, but I do it to myself, you know, this is your doing. It is my doing. So I am self aware on that.

[Mikey Narin]

That's good.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, I, I wear tight clothes and I, I work out and sometimes I'm shirtless and sometimes I'm on boxers. But, like, I get it and I don't really have a problem with it. But sometimes, like, I know I'm not just a, A body, a piece of meat.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And because I know that I work so hard on other things. But it's my fault for not portraying it. Like, it's not, it's my fault for not portraying the personality part. So I can't be mad at it.

[Mikey Narin]

No, bro, that's so interesting you said. So I, When I started making videos, bro, I noticed that the videos that would get the most views would be me shirtless on the thumbnail.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Right.

[Mikey Narin]

So I would lean into that and then I kind. Going through a similar situation where you were, where, like, I was like, okay, I'm doing this to myself, and I wish people would get to know me better, but I'm not doing anything to make that happen.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And it wasn't until Sebas asked me to come on the podcast where I really got to, like, showcase my personality, showcase my heart, who I am, be vulnerable, that I was really able to show that side. So I think it's just about, like, finding ways that what makes sense for you to, like, be able to. Because, dude, you have an amazing personality. Honestly, I'm kind of like, taken away by how you carry yourself. But I don't know, maybe. Maybe you start a podcast.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Do our podcast.

[Josh Leyva]

That's why I love bringing people on the podcast, too. Like, people like, back at home. First of all, thank you for watching. They. They get to see you, and they're like.

[Mikey Narin]

They get to see you in a different way.

[Josh Leyva]

No, Mikey was like this.

[Mikey Narin]

Yes.

[Josh Leyva]

Or like, oh, I knew he was like this. You know, it's a really. A good breath of fresh air, for sure.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

But, yeah, even, like, it makes me happy that he says that, you know, that, like, people now, they're like, oh, he's not just chest nipples and abs, which I am.

[Mikey Narin]

But.

[Josh Leyva]

But there's more.

[Ryan Reynolds]

There's more to it.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Dude, how did this whole Abercrombie and Fitch thing happen?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Mikey Narin]

That's huge.

[Josh Leyva]

So is it Abercrombie or Abercrombie? I don't know. Yeah, I got it right.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I used to work at Hollister, by the way.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, did you really? Yeah, the little.

[Josh Leyva]

They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was cool.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I never thought I would be a model. There's no way I would have thought because I'm only 5, 10, so I.

[Mikey Narin]

Was like, I was still pretty tall. You're not sure?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I truly, I truly believe that, like, those, like, obviously, like, the majority of people, I think, are taller, but I think that's starting to be a thing of the past.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I, I. That's what.

[Josh Leyva]

Because it becomes relatable now. And, and, and, and, and, and big companies understand that. Honestly, it looks bad if you only have tall people.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, Victoria's Secret. Isn't Victoria's Secret like, it used to be in the 90s or 2000.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, you know what I mean? It's more like, you know, it's more the average girl now. Obviously, they still have their, like, you know, supermodels and st. But, yeah, I think that's a thing of the past. Just kind of like how tattoos now are more acceptable.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know, but, yeah, continue.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So, yeah, it was that, like, I was glad. I was happy to see that they were including something different.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Their rebrand is so good.

[Mikey Narin]

They're rebranding.

[Josh Leyva]

We were just talking about that, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

It is so sick.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, really, like, they changed it completely. Completely. Abraham.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it was.

[Josh Leyva]

It was.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But, like.

[Mikey Narin]

Okay, Jess, relax. Jess. Yes.

[Josh Leyva]

That.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That trip was so crazy.

[Josh Leyva]

That fit. You would. If, if you give. If you show me that video 20 years ago, I would say that's not Abercrombie and Fish.

[Mikey Narin]

I would have said that's like Gap or something.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Leyva]

So whoever running Abercrombie and Fish, great job.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And for picking you.

[Mikey Narin]

No, they figured it out. I figured.

[Josh Leyva]

So where was that at New York?

[Ryan Reynolds]

That was London. Oh. So. Yeah. So they DM not DM me. They messaged my manager and I didn't have my passport. I didn't have anything. I was full time working still.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, you didn't have like, you never even. You don't have a passport.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I didn't have a passport. Yeah. So they say that I tell my manager, I don't have a passport. I can't.

[Josh Leyva]

And it ain't easy to get a passport.

[Mikey Narin]

Overnight.

[Ryan Reynolds]

No, not overnight. And they were trying to fly me in two weeks.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So they, they didn't get like. They gave me a plane ticket already. They bought it.

[Mikey Narin]

Wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And then I took it to wherever. The passport you need to have.

[Josh Leyva]

You need to have your ticket first. And they'll.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, so they did that. I just worked like a 60 hour week, got off early. Remember my sergeant? I was a cop. My sergeant, I told you.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, he said he was a cop.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. My sergeant let me off early that day. Drove from Victorville all the way to lax. It was like a three hour drive.

[Mikey Narin]

Damn.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Almost missed my flight. Went there, had a blast. I wasn't able to like really like explore because I was just doing that. Flew back and went straight into a shift. So it was like, it was like. It's such a culture shock going from like that and then modeling. I'm like, oh my God, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

That is the biggest culture shock. Like you're a full on cop. Patrolling, right? I'm assuming like on the streets and arresting people, putting out your gun and stuff.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

To pulling out your guns. Yeah, man, I like that.

[Josh Leyva]

That's why you're good at your gun.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That was good.

[Josh Leyva]

So what are the difference between girls from California and girls from London?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, they like, like.

[Josh Leyva]

I know you talked to them.

[Mikey Narin]

You chop it up a little bit.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I did chop it up a little bit over there. Yeah. I don't really drink, so I didn't go out and drink.

[Josh Leyva]

You can go to a pub.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I didn't go to a pub. No, but they were like, they're like booming, but yeah, they were really nice.

[Josh Leyva]

You like, you like London girls accents?

[Mikey Narin]

I love their an accent in general.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Well, you have an accent to them.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

American boy.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. I was like, can I get a matcha? And they'd all turn away. You're from America.

[Josh Leyva]

Damn.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I was like, yeah, baby. Yeah, baby.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, baby. Howdy now. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm from Texas and I'm a cop too. You want ticket?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Great experience though. It was. That was eye opening, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

So first time you leave the country, you booked a modeling gig for Amber, Combi and Fitch in London. Yeah, bro. That is. What is your life like. You have to have those moments where you're like, damn. Just. I did overwhelm and just full of gratitude, dude.

[Josh Leyva]

First time, like just got his passport.

[Mikey Narin]

That's insane.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Cuz they had hit me up there saying like, hey, this is going to be a billboard. And I was like, what? And then I went to go see the billboard and that's. It was like one of those things I like, maybe I should really try, like, and get. Instead of giving my heart into another job and this one.

[Mikey Narin]

All in, baby.

[Ryan Reynolds]

All in.

[Mikey Narin]

All in.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So recently.

[Mikey Narin]

So you're not. You're not no longer a copy?

[Ryan Reynolds]

No, I quit in February.

[Mikey Narin]

Wow.

[Josh Leyva]

Wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

That must have been hard, right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

It was. It was one of the hardest things.

[Josh Leyva]

Especially because like in. I'm assuming, like in your type of job, it's very. It's like a community. Your boys, your friends, the girls, you know, it's like, why are you leaving, brother? Type of thing. Yeah. It's like, brother. Hold on. We can get more into that. Let's go on a short little break. Let's go on a commercial. Enjoy our commercial. And we'll be right back. Ladies and gentlemen, La Platica with Mikey.

[Mikey Narin]

Come on, man. Sex icon. Sex goddess.

[Josh Leyva]

Sex goddess. And he's handing out.

[Mikey Narin]

Wait, it's sex God, not sex goddess, right? Goddess.

[Josh Leyva]

Goddess is a chick. But you can just say whatever you want.

[Mikey Narin]

He have it. He. All the above.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Before we get back into this episode, guys, I have some exciting Taste Salud news for you. Taste Salud has officially launched into all of El super grocery stores across Southern California, which is crazy to me. I literally grew up shopping at El super. So to have this partnership with them means the world to me and it's honestly thanks to you guys. So if you guys head over to it Souped, you guys can now find Tasta Lud and you can even find Horchata, which has gone completely viral on TikTok and has been sold out online every day almost. I have two more major tastalud announcements coming soon. What we're trying to do is make Taste Salud as convenient as we can for you. We want you to Be able to walk in anywhere, any step you take, any corner you turn, you're going to be able to find taste. Alud. For now, walk into El Super. Let them know the Josh Leyva sent you. The. Don't forget the. The. They might not know who you're talking about. Get yourself some horchata and you'll be good to go, baby. Love y'all. Let's get back to this episode. We back? Are we back?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, we're back.

[Mikey Narin]

We're back.

[Ryan Reynolds]

If Mikey wants us back in business.

[Mikey Narin]

As you can see, Mikey's getting a little more comfortable now. Mikey's settling in. Ladies, welcome back.

[Josh Leyva]

That's awesome. Once again, Mikey, honestly, thank you for being on the podcast. We really appreciate. I feel like it's gonna do really, really good, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

I know. Yeah. I was hyped to like, get you on when I, like, I DM'd you and stuff. I was. I hope he lives in. First of all, I was like, I hope he lives in LA so it can work out and stuff. But I was glad you said yes, man.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, that was the first time you ever DM'd, Mikey.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I. By the way, Josh was so, so excited to show me, like, oh, Mikey's coming. Geeking over here.

[Mikey Narin]

I. I love.

[Josh Leyva]

Made me jealous. He doesn't dress that good. Whatever, bro. And then I got in the car. I'm like, he's so good.

[Mikey Narin]

I. Dude, I. I pride myself in, like, just, like, kind of keeping up with, like, the. The people that are, like, coming up and just kind of watching, you know, the culture and people doing their thing, and I just see you do your thing, bro. And I was just. I was just excited to. To talk to you and talk about, like, your growth and everything that you've had happen to you. I think it's cool.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I appreciate it. I'm very happy to be here.

[Josh Leyva]

You have a very exotic look. Are you Latino? What are you. Because your last name is Narin.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

What are you?

[Ryan Reynolds]

So my mom is from Jalisco, and my dad is from Guyana, which is, like, India Indian.

[Josh Leyva]

No way.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, no way.

[Josh Leyva]

I knew there was something.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So.

[Mikey Narin]

So you're, like, ethnically ambiguous.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

That's good. That's gonna help.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I feel like I look, like, just Hispanic, though.

[Mikey Narin]

You look Latino, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, well, you look Latino, but, like.

[Mikey Narin]

But still, like.

[Josh Leyva]

But still, like. I don't know. I just felt like there was something else.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Appreciate it.

[Mikey Narin]

No, it's okay.

[Josh Leyva]

But you understand it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I understand, like, not. I want to say quite a lot, but I Like, when you guys talk, I could hear.

[Mikey Narin]

You can pick it up. You can understand. Yeah, yeah. That's interesting.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, he understands, like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Are you guys both fluent in Spanish?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Blessed.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. But there's, like, levels to, like, being fluent, right? Like, I can obviously, I can understand it perfectly. I can hold the conversation and stuff. But like, Sevas can go, like, he can go in the cut and speak the lingo and speak the slang and stuff like that. That's the part that I lack, I guess. But. And then even he would say, like, well, yeah, I can't have a conversation with somebody who went to like a Cambridge of like, Mexico. Like, maybe. Right? Or maybe you can, but maybe like your vocabulary isn't as, like, extensive as somebody like that.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, I guess. Just depends where you're at in Mexico.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

But no, I just. My mom, like, she. Her native language is Spanish, right? That's all she talked to me.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And then obviously just like being in Mexico for months and months every year.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Because, like, my. My mom had a bunch of kids, so summer break, she would just send us to. To. I'm also from Jalisco.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, really?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. So she would just send us to Guadalajara, like all the time and not just be with my cousins.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, that's.

[Josh Leyva]

So that's how I would learn, you know?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And then every job. I never went to school, like, after high school. I never went to like, college or anything. And like during high school, I always had like, just like blue collar labor jobs.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

So what's in that? Yeah, you know what I mean?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

My dad's in construction, so, like. Yeah, all Latinos. And they obviously taught me the slang, so they made. They made me who I am today.

[Mikey Narin]

No.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Thank you.

[Josh Leyva]

I worked out.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, it worked out great.

[Josh Leyva]

Imagine if I went to college.

[Mikey Narin]

No, I don't. I wouldn't like educated, Sebastian.

[Josh Leyva]

Okay.

[Mikey Narin]

Wax.

[Josh Leyva]

If I was. If I was educated. What, what, what college do you think that I would land? Or where do you think I belong? In the university?

[Mikey Narin]

Ucla?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about. What about Mikey?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Me too.

[Mikey Narin]

I put.

[Josh Leyva]

Is he a Trojan?

[Mikey Narin]

I put him in Texas. Texas.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I would go. Texas?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Texas. I can see it.

[Josh Leyva]

Texas. What?

[Mikey Narin]

Just Texas. Texas University.

[Josh Leyva]

Texas University. What's Texas am?

[Mikey Narin]

Texas A M. A M. What's that? That's just another Texas school. It's like. It's like UCLA and usc.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, okay.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

That was like a liquor store.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, it could be.

[Josh Leyva]

What about you?

[Mikey Narin]

You see probably sc. Yeah. Yeah, probably. I see the Cali Bad boy, huh? It's funny, bro, because you were talking about how, like, your family came from Mexico, obviously, right? And then your mom would send you to Mexico for, like, like, summer trips and stuff like that. We've kind of talked about this, but for myself, it was, like, kind of the opposite. Like, my mom was one of nine. Well, technically one of 11, but two of them passed away. And when she, like, immigrated here, it was so important for her. Like, she really wanted to, like, she wanted us to be, like, here. Like, she didn't want us to, like, look back, essentially. So it was, like, important for her to. Obviously, I spoke Spanish. That was my first language, because that's all she knew. But she was always trying to talk to me in English because she wanted to. Like, really?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. You know, because your mom's native language is Spanish. Your mom speaks great Spanish, of course. Like, my mom.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was important for her to, like, to drive home that, like, we're here in America. This is where the life that we're gonna make for ourselves. And to the point that, like, even growing up, we would go to Mexico. But I never went to Sinalo, where, like, her family is from stuff. One, she was scared. And then two, she was like, I don't want to look back, you know, because of, like, everything that they had gone through. This is really interesting. Like, different. Like, like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, the immigration story.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, it's fascinating.

[Josh Leyva]

So, Mikey, what's, like, your day to day right now? Like, do you. Do you go to school?

[Mikey Narin]

Do you just model making out with yourself? What's next?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay, I'm trying to figure out my. My rhythm right now because I just quit my job.

[Josh Leyva]

And this was in February.

[Mikey Narin]

Well, that was last month.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, so, like, last month.

[Mikey Narin]

Holy.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So it's weird going from that to waking up in, you know, like. Yeah, but I, like, like I said, the. The main goal was always acting. So I'm going to class now.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, nice.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So that's trying to keep me busy.

[Mikey Narin]

How was that?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Today's my first day.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, no way after this.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. At 4.

[Josh Leyva]

So I was telling Jessica yesterday, I said, he looks like. I, I. I could have sworn that you look just like that one actor that's also very a sex God.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, sex God. The guy from 365.

[Josh Leyva]

Yes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. And him and Joey from Friends. Those are the main two.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but the guy from that 365, the one that he was in the Making Box movie.

[Mikey Narin]

Mariano is.

[Josh Leyva]

It's something Kelly or. Yes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

He was in the Movie with Megan Fox recently. Have you seen the movie?

[Mikey Narin]

This guy right here.

[Josh Leyva]

I haven't seen it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You ever seen it?

[Mikey Narin]

It's good. He's shredded in that movie.

[Josh Leyva]

Wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

See, that's a.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, you kind of look like that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The goal is to be shredded now. Not shredded. Like, I just want to, like, lean. I just want to be. I want to be healthy, Move around.

[Mikey Narin]

You want to get down to, like, 180?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, 180.

[Mikey Narin]

180.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Maybe 175 from 210.

[Mikey Narin]

Dude, that's. Yeah, that's a. That's. But that's possible.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I've been taking it slow, too, so I'm not. I still want to be like.

[Mikey Narin]

I lift.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. I still want to be like. But I've never been that lean, so I want to see how it's.

[Mikey Narin]

Damn. I don't think I've ever been that lean either. Right now I'm probably, like, 225. I've gone down.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You're 225?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Damn.

[Mikey Narin]

But I'm six two, so, like, that height distribution. Yeah, I've gone down to, like, 205. And that's pretty. I've been pretty lean there.

[Josh Leyva]

Dude. Josh is huge.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, you're huge.

[Ryan Reynolds]

205 lean.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's crazy.

[Mikey Narin]

But it's. It's hard, bro. It's staying that lean, too. Yeah, yeah, because, like, you gotta. You know how it goes. Like, just the eating and everything.

[Josh Leyva]

And the older you get, the harder it gets, too, bro. Pause again, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, it gets way. It gets way hard.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah. I'm. Dude, does anybody want to talk about my way, or is it just like.

[Mikey Narin]

This manager?

[Josh Leyva]

You guys just want to, like.

[Mikey Narin]

One more.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I was going to ask you.

[Mikey Narin]

I can guess your weight.

[Josh Leyva]

What if you do? That'll be kind of crazy because.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes, I'm a guess, too.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Let our guests.

[Mikey Narin]

Okay. Go ahead.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Me first.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Can you stand up for us?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm going say, I think you're 183.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, my God. He guessed it right.

[Mikey Narin]

Where? On my.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You were not going to say you were.

[Mikey Narin]

I wish I would have wrote it down, bro. I wish I would have wrote it down. I was going to say 183, I swear to God.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, I'm. I'm. That's my weight right now.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I might be something a little different now, but that's my weight.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know your body.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. I just ran a marathon, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, did you really?

[Mikey Narin]

26.2 a couple days ago.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, that's what I'M saying, I don't.

[Josh Leyva]

Know if I'm like, bro, when you run that much, like, yeah, the other day I ran 20 miles and I weighed 183 that morning. I weighed myself because I thought about. I was like, am I gonna lose weight today? You know, because all the sweat, that 178 when I got back home. That much, it's all water weight. You know what I mean? Yeah, but. Yeah, but I probably did the same thing the other day. But, yeah, I just ran a marathon.

[Mikey Narin]

What did your Strava say about how many calories you burned?

[Josh Leyva]

4,000.

[Ryan Reynolds]

4,000. Oh, did you post that? You were eating a pizza. Yeah, I would have done the same thing. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. I've been eating, like, whatever I want the past two days.

[Mikey Narin]

Absolutely. This is the time. Yeah, it's like guilt free. Like, you can literally eat whatever you want.

[Josh Leyva]

I feel bad about it and nobody can tell me because I just ran 26.26.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's hard.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. But, yeah, yeah, it was amazing, bro. It was a great experience. I don't want to talk too much about the marathon. I think on the next episode we can. I just want it all to be about you, I feel. But it was a great experience. I think anybody who's interested in doing it. I think anybody can do a marathon. If you have ever attended a marathon, I'd highly suggest going to one first. It's very, very inspiring.

[Mikey Narin]

Mikey, can you ask me if I have interest in running a marathon?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Hey, brother, have you ever ran a marathon or ever think about running a marathon?

[Mikey Narin]

Negative. No, and I never will, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

No, we did a half marathon.

[Mikey Narin]

We did a half marathon. I'm just not a runner, bro. Like, that's just not. You know what I mean? I don't enjoy. I enjoy getting a pump. I enjoy, like, bodybuilding. I love that. Like, that excites me more than running.

[Josh Leyva]

Nothing is better than getting a pump.

[Mikey Narin]

That's what I'm saying, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's kind of hard running six two.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

250.

[Mikey Narin]

That's a lot, bro. Yeah, just shredded 4% body fat, too.

[Josh Leyva]

Fish, you guys should kiss.

[Mikey Narin]

We will after that during the next break.

[Josh Leyva]

No, but I'm 183 right now. The leanest I've ever got was once 168.

[Ryan Reynolds]

How'd you feel right there, bro?

[Mikey Narin]

He was shredded.

[Josh Leyva]

I felt like it wasn't maintainable for my body. I felt like I really pushed the limit on that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, but he had abs. Yeah, he had the vascularity.

[Josh Leyva]

But I would like to be a little bit more like, fuller.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Fuller.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Because then my face gets all like, sucked in.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And then, like, I'm not saying I'm old, but like, I feel like I'm my age and I get sucked in like that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

How old are you?

[Josh Leyva]

Pause. 35. I'm about to be 35.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. In May. I'll be 35. May 29th. If you want to give me a.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Birthday, I'll give you a birthday.

[Josh Leyva]

If I got you and gift card.

[Mikey Narin]

To Amber Crombie and fetch.

[Josh Leyva]

I feel like when you start getting your 30s and stuff and you do get sucked in like that, like, you look startled, you start to look not age, but.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, you need to get like a little Botox here and there, you know, just kind of keep you, you know, I mean, not so droop.

[Mikey Narin]

You got to get the toxin.

[Josh Leyva]

But yeah, man, it's hard to cut, man. People don't understand that. It's all about what you eat too.

[Mikey Narin]

I mean, the diet is everything.

[Josh Leyva]

Right?

[Mikey Narin]

Like, do you do cardio?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, are you now, like, I really upped it because when I went to 210 to 195, I stayed there and just try to like, feed myself a lot. Stay there for like two months, three months now. I'm doing like a lot, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

Being somebody who's like been like in the over 200s, I, like, I know there's something special about like going the opposite way and crossing the 190s.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Was that trippy for you to like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It was weird because I. I've been 200 for the past 10 years.

[Mikey Narin]

That's what I'm saying. Like, me too. Like, basically, bro, I graduated high school at 18 at £200.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

So since then I've been £200.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So it's weird not seeing a two.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So obviously my first £200 was I was fat. So.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So I made the £200 into looking semi good. And then it's weird. Just, you're like, what the. Yeah, I'm waking up and I'm looking in the mirror like, whoa.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Hold up.

[Mikey Narin]

That's badass. Congratulations.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

That's huge. It's not easy. It's not easy.

[Josh Leyva]

Especially doing it natural.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, well, I can juicing up.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm not juicing.

[Josh Leyva]

Mikey. We have 24, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

You don't need to do.

[Josh Leyva]

You're 24?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Wow.

[Mikey Narin]

He just happens to look like a man.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know. Wow.

[Josh Leyva]

So you. When were you. You were chp?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I was sheriff's Wow. I joined the academy when I was 20.

[Josh Leyva]

That's what I'm saying. So like right after high school, but technically, right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, kind of.

[Josh Leyva]

Wow. So you were. Wow. Okay, cool. That's awesome. That's really cool to be like a cop, like at that age.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. You know, like, obviously this is what I want to do, but I do not regret that because it. It has taught me so many lessons that I would have never learned. And it has taught me to take the risk and that I can achieve everything and anything that I put my mind to. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't be doing social media.

[Mikey Narin]

It kind of makes sense why you're so mature, bro, just based on the career that you were in.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, well, because he's around other men that are older than him and who are, I would say, somewhat mentors. Right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. I want to touch real quick my mo. One of my like big bros. My partner passed away. He was great. Sorry about that, man. Just sucks. This just. It just sucks.

[Mikey Narin]

I'm sorry.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So. Yeah, I appreciate it. Just wanna. Hector Cuevas rest in peace.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, rest in peace, man. Really? I saw that on your stories.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

So was. Have you been through something? Like is. I mean, that's kind of like the risk that you like take being in like a, like a career like that, Right? Like that must have been like super hard, bro. Like kind of up.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, that's my first time, like losing a partner.

[Mikey Narin]

Damn.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, yeah, cuz he. Like when I, When I went to patrol, I. I was a little kid, I was 21 years old and I didn't know anything I was doing. Tick tock. So you already know how they feel about that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Yeah. Especially in that kind of career. Like the way they.

[Josh Leyva]

That's why it makes sense why he was saying that. Judgment or like they're making fun of him. I get it.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So he was one of the guys who, who didn't care. He was like, hey bro, whatever you need, call me. He would call me all the time. It just sucks. It just sucks because like, he was, he. He was the type of cop who would. We would be 16 hours writing search warrants, trying to be great cops. And he.

[Mikey Narin]

We.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I would be dressed out, leaving, and I'm like, hey bro, go home. He's like, nah, I got work to do. And he'd be the first one to come back the next day at 5am and it just breaks my heart, like, dedicated.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

He was a great father. He was a great, A great husband. Just.

[Mikey Narin]

That's sad.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Man, I wept so much.

[Josh Leyva]

Sorry about that, man. That's unfortunate.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Yeah. It's devastating.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, I saw that. I looked.

[Mikey Narin]

I was like, yeah, he had. He had brought it on. Yeah. Damn, man.

[Josh Leyva]

Damn. Yeah, but rest in peace, man. And like I said, at least he can leave you something that he showed you as well, you know?

[Mikey Narin]

Absolutely.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Josh Leyva]

But damn. Being. Being a sheriff at that young age, did you have some experiences that you're like, oh, I'm really in this.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Like, I've seen. I don't want to say everything, but I've seen a lot, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

Especially. What county were you in?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I was in San Bernardino county. So. Yeah, I. I worked patrol in Victorville. So it's not a good spot.

[Mikey Narin]

No, I was gonna say that's like a rougher area. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And out. I mean, I experienced it, so I'm glad I did experience it. But there was a lot of, like, times where I'm just like, what am I doing? Like, what is this, like, where I'm just like, is this worth risking your life? Yeah. Where I can't even buy a house. I'm not gonna. I don't wanna. You know, like, I can't even buy a house. And I'm over here. People want to kill me. So it's like, I don't know, I just.

[Josh Leyva]

You always have to look over your shoulder.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Hypothetically speaking, bro, is this something that you would revert back to ever? Like, if. Let's just say, like, the. Do you still have a passion for it? If, like, all else failed? Like, would you go back into that? Or is that something you're like, I did it. I'm done. I'm going. I'm gonna. I'll find something different in my life. If this doesn't work out for whatever reason.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Sometimes I. I think like that, but I don't want. Because I feel like if I think, like, I could go back to it.

[Mikey Narin]

No, I wouldn't try. Yes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's a cop out, but I know I was a good cop and I know I did good work, so I know I can do it. So if all needs to be, like, I was a good cop.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So if I had to, maybe. But like, I like creating and stuff like that. Like, I love the arts and stuff. I love theater.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's just. There's not really room for that over there.

[Mikey Narin]

But you were built for this. I feel like this direction that you're headed into in your life now, I think this makes sense for you, and I think it's pretty evident like, the men lie, women lie, numbers don't. You know, and numbers don't lie. So it's cool to see, man. Yeah. Should we segue into our perspective of a man, why we brought Mikey on, or did you have something to say?

[Josh Leyva]

No, no, it's cool. I was actually going to tell him. It doesn't matter, but I've always told Josh that one of my. One of my dream jobs was to be a, like.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, really?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, like a sheriff or CHP or anything like that. What kind of just man to man. Do you. What kind of. What's your favorite gun? Do you have a gun?

[Mikey Narin]

Kind of Glock you got, boy?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like handgun or.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, handgun, shotgun. Do you carry?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I carried until, like, I quit. They took my concealed carry. Yeah, so I carried a Glock.

[Mikey Narin]

He's like this Glock right here.

[Ryan Reynolds]

No, I had a Glock 43X. It's very, like, compact. I like locks.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. So do you have one at your house now? Like, you. You, like, have a gun? Yeah, yeah, I do. Is that the 43?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, that's the 43X. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Do you get to keep the 43?

[Ryan Reynolds]

That was my off duty, so my.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, got it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I carried a Glock 21, but they're huge.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And they shoot.45 caliber, so the bullets are huge.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Yeah. I have a Glock 19.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You have a Glock 19? Glock 19s are really nice too.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, they're just regular, like the traditional. Yeah, 19.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Nice. It's like a smaller handle, right? With the bigger.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Huh. It's a Gen 3, though. Like regular civilians like myself. We can only buy Gen 3 here in California. Yeah. Kind of crazy to talk about this. I never talk about having a gun on the podcast.

[Mikey Narin]

I don't have a gun. I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You got two.

[Mikey Narin]

I got two guns right here, baby. That's all I need. Yeah, that's all I need.

[Josh Leyva]

But mine's all souped up. Call of Duty style.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, is it? Yeah, you got a red dot and all that.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, everything nice.

[Mikey Narin]

It's like, to the max, like, overkill, like. Yeah, I got it all, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You had a big drum on it, too. I'm just kidding.

[Josh Leyva]

Extend those and everything real quick. Just like, man to man. Again, if. If. If I get caught, like, an Evan and extended clip, you get big trouble for that. Like, if I just. If I don't use an extended clip, but if I have one, do I get in trouble for that?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, let's say if you like, if.

[Josh Leyva]

Something happened at my house and then like the cops found out that I kind of used it, but I didn't like kill anybody or nothing, but like, damn, bro, like, you can't have that on your gun.

[Ryan Reynolds]

What can happen is it'd probably be on the report, whatever. Like, if you had it, it's probably a. You have to pull a report because they are illegal. Yeah. And they will go to the da. LA is different than San Bernardino. San Bernardino would drop it and.

[Mikey Narin]

Really?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, because like, I don't know, but it's like, let's just say what happened you. Someone came in, tried to kill you guys and you shot. That's burglary or home evasion and then self defense. But you still got to pull it like there was shooting involved. And it gets sent to the DAs and they're probably your victim at that point. They're probably not gonna harbor having an extendo, you know?

[Josh Leyva]

Got it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

When you're. When you're a sheriff and you're. And you're working. When you're out in a civilian, you can carry as a police officer.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it has to be concealed though.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

California.

[Josh Leyva]

But you can carry as a police officer.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it's just your. On our id, it just shows on the back saying this person is permitted to carry, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

We have a cop that works out at the gym that I go to and he's always has his gun on him. Yeah, he'll like, he'll like show us because I'll ask him.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Let me see your gun.

[Mikey Narin]

It's sick. Yeah, let me see.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, shoot one for me.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, yeah, that's interesting. That's cool. But yeah, so now we have a segment here on La Platica. We're pretty known for it. It's called perspective of a Man. Especially works out today because we have you and you are. And you are, man. One of the manliest mans we've had on the. The potty wife.

[Mikey Narin]

He might be the most manliest man we've had. What?

[Ryan Reynolds]

There's absolutely no way.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah, bro, for sure. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Who? I mean, Mark Cuban.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I actually seen. That's insane. How you get.

[Mikey Narin]

I still don't believe it.

[Josh Leyva]

I still don't believe it. He's so cool.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Is he?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, super cool, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

Every time somebody asks.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, man.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, my God, bro. Yes, yes.

[Josh Leyva]

He's like the man, you know?

[Mikey Narin]

He is the man.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but you're like, different kind of man. Like biker. I'm like, I have that, like sheriff. I have that like musk that. That musky smell. But women's just. Women's just. They're just. I don't even want to say.

[Mikey Narin]

What's your go to cologne?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I got three, so I. You know, Abercrombie.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. The Fierce shout out.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So nice.

[Josh Leyva]

Fierce is fresh.

[Mikey Narin]

It's. Yeah, I actually haven't smelled that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it's good, isn't it?

[Josh Leyva]

Isn't it? They're like the trademark cologne. Fierce, bro. It's like what the store smells like. Yeah, Yeah. I have fears. I use that. That, like, more like as a daily.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mikey Narin]

I like that. Going to the gym or something.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, you gotta get. Bro, you with it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah. You look like you like YSL myself.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, that one's good. That's one of my favorites, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, that's what I'm wearing right now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, really?

[Mikey Narin]

I knew they changed it. Yeah, there's like the glass bottle one. Then there's like a map.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The glass one was kind of hitting me more. I'm not gonna lie, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

I. I said the same thing because the matte one looks nicer and I'm like, oh, I was so excited and I was like, it's cool. But the glass one I like. I preferred way more.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuz YSL sends me pr. Yeah, they gave me matte. They gave me the map, but I was like, oh, this one's different. Or is it just new?

[Mikey Narin]

No, it's. It's a different. It's a different scent. It's in the same line, but it's a different sand, bro. The glass one is way better.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that.

[Josh Leyva]

I just had an idea.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Huh?

[Josh Leyva]

If you're down cologne, you know how, like, everybody like peso pluma just did one. A lot of celebrities have done it where they do myself commercials.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Have you seen it Myself commercials?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Can you pull up the.

[Mikey Narin]

They're like, badass.

[Josh Leyva]

Why don't we do recreate? Like, I'll hire the videographer, the wallpaper. It'll be in black and white.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, YSL obviously not gonna pay us or make us do it, but, like, we'll tag them and then they'll be like, damn, we need these guys, these foods from Mexico. Like, these Mexican ass foods. Just did a sick ass one. Like. Like, it's so good.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They need more Hispanic people on there.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Hold on. Watch, bro, we should do.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, we should. Not a parody to this. Like, we should like a dead ass.

[Josh Leyva]

But the Peso Pluma one.

[Mikey Narin]

But these are awesome.

[Josh Leyva]

Matt put this video on but, like, just obviously don't put the. The sound port forward. It's not there. It's on his Instagram. But yeah, we should do it, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

That'd be sick.

[Josh Leyva]

And then, like, we all kind of have like little lines, like the three sentences, like, I don't know, just kind of like, he basically says, like, blah, blah. You're saying myself. Something like that.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, perfect.

[Josh Leyva]

It's really cool. But, like, it's like, shot all sick, dude.

[Mikey Narin]

It's a cinema.

[Josh Leyva]

And then we all collaborate and then I'll feed off and, like, I'll get more followers because I do it with you guys.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You gotta be shirtless.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, Shirtless and everything. So we'll give ourselves three months.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, this is it right here. Yeah, we need three months. Yeah, this is dope, bro. Let's do it.

[Josh Leyva]

And it'll be like, all three, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

This is easy. This is just like a studio and good lighting, that's all.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but like, he's doing voiceover in the back and everything. Yeah, it's sick, bro. We should do that, right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, with these microphones too. The voice sounds. Really sounds good. Sexy.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, it sounds good.

[Josh Leyva]

But they're very expensive.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Very expensive.

[Josh Leyva]

These are the top of the line mics.

[Mikey Narin]

And you get appreciated because of the headphones.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes.

[Mikey Narin]

You know what I'm saying? Which a lot of people, like, they don't want to wear the headphones, but I'm like, bro, trust me, wear the headphones.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I'm such a geek when it comes to technology. Like, I'm so nerdy on, like, software and stuff like that. Like, I learned how to do this all by myself.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, really?

[Josh Leyva]

But one thing that I needed is, like. And I told Josh because even when Josh came on the podcast, we had different mics. Huh?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And I said, no, like, I'm gonna invest in, like, the best of the best.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, like, how much? How much?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, these are like seven.

[Josh Leyva]

Seven, six hundred bucks.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They're gonna say, geez, okay.

[Josh Leyva]

Nah, No, I bought myself a little 9008 Honda Civic.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

But nowadays, bro, nowadays you can get good mics for, like, pretty, like, inexpensive, bro. Yeah, they do full on, like, podcast setup. Mike. Yeah, not obviously, this. There's levels to it. But for people who want to start a podcast, like, you don't have to spend 700 on a mic.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but you know what, it's crazy because, like, you'll get the mics, right? And then we moved into the studio like, over a year ago, and they didn't sound like the Way they do now until we sound proof.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So that's really. That's major.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Yeah. That plays a big role as well.

[Mikey Narin]

All of it kind of plays a part. That's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but.

[Mikey Narin]

Because you can have a good mic, but if you have an echo. Ecky. Echo ass room, like, it's not gonna work. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

No, it's not. Yeah, it's not. I want to get into this next segment.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Mikey Narin]

You ready? We need you to be. We need you to give it all right here, bro. Vulnerable. Be honest. Be cruel. Be. Be like. You know what I'm saying?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Give me a heart, bro. Give me heart.

[Josh Leyva]

After the break, we'll be right back.

[Mikey Narin]

Perfect. That was a great segue, but don't ever interrupt me like that again.

[Josh Leyva]

I'm sorry.

[Mikey Narin]

Especially in front of our guests. Okay. Sage, I feel like that's such a. Like a People will give you for saying savage.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Right?

[Mikey Narin]

But it smells. Smells so good.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Every time you wear it, you get compliments.

[Mikey Narin]

I will say this. I. I do believe in, like, certain colognes, they come across differently depending on your own. Like, whatever. Like your own smell has a. It. Com. The combination of it hits different.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, I will. For the guys watching or even the girls watching right now, put your man on this. Even for yourself as well. La Labo. I wear the matcha.

[Mikey Narin]

Matcha's good.

[Josh Leyva]

And there's one called Bergamot, But I like to say Bergamonte.

[Mikey Narin]

We know.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. I go to the labo. They're fantastic. Yeah. They last forever. And just, like, they're very poignant.

[Mikey Narin]

That's all you need.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, really?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Okay.

[Josh Leyva]

Sage, you know what Savage means?

[Mikey Narin]

Savage?

[Josh Leyva]

I think so.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, you didn't even know. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Isn't it spelled exactly like savage?

[Josh Leyva]

No, there's a u in there. Favorite movie growing up as. As a kid in the 90s. Go.

[Mikey Narin]

You go first.

[Josh Leyva]

Little Giants.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I didn't grow up in 2001 Spider Man. One Spider Man.

[Josh Leyva]

What is crazy? Wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. And Hulk 2003 with Tobey Maguire. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

When he goes into the ring, he fights. Wow. What a great answer. And you had it ready already.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I was thinking about this yesterday.

[Josh Leyva]

Really?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Go.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, I said Little Giants.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Little Giants.

[Josh Leyva]

You never seen little Giants?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Giants.

[Josh Leyva]

Damn, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

Straight up. Titanic. I love.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Titanic's good, though.

[Josh Leyva]

Rookie of the year, Great movie. Angels in the Outfield.

[Mikey Narin]

Good movie.

[Josh Leyva]

You haven't seen any of these.

[Mikey Narin]

You haven't seen any.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Maybe I'm lacking. Maybe I didn't have a shot.

[Mikey Narin]

But These are, These are very 90s, bro. These are super 90s. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Okay, bro, you gotta watch it, man.

[Mikey Narin]

Start with angels in the outfield.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, okay.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Rookie of the year. So there's this kid, right? Just kidding. I would actually tell you, but let's just get into the. The thing. Perspective of a man. So basically there's a lot of people that go into these Google Docs and they ask like questions for us. So we give them our perspective. But instead of today, Josh and myself. Whoop. Chime in. I think people like to say chime. They chime in.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes.

[Josh Leyva]

So today you're gonna, you're gonna say what you think.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Josh Leyva]

Jess, our lovely producer, she's actually gonna tell you the question.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Josh Leyva]

Of the.

[Mikey Narin]

These were hand picked by Jess specifically for you, bro. So these are. Let's see what you got here.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. So let's get it, let's get it going. Spider Man 1 is sick.

[Jess]

All right, this first one is anonymous. The age range is 25 to 30. What is your opinion on asking your girlfriend to wear modest clothing to the gym? For example? My boyfriend does not want me to wear shirts that are short and don't cover my butt. I understand because the gym we go to is 90 male and I do have a good figure that men is going to look at. But should I change my gym outfits? Because he said so.

[Mikey Narin]

Mikey.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Me, I don't go to the gym and look at women like that. But I know men do, right? Men are weird. I could see both sides because like, like, are you self conscious that guys are gonna look or you know, guys are gonna look and you don't want us. Her to be perceived like that and she's. A word of opinion. I could see it being a conversation. I think.

[Mikey Narin]

I agree.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think it's a, it's a valid conversation to have.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Whether the output is something negative, it could go both ways. I think if your boyfriend is mature enough and I think if you both are mature enough, you guys are in a relationship together. So I think maybe you guys could go in an agreement. Like, why do you, do you feel comfortable wearing these things? Does it make your workouts better? Then I think that's okay. And then if you, if you feel confident enough and safe enough in the gym, I don't think he should have a problem with that.

[Mikey Narin]

So I think that's a great answer, bro. I feel like first of all, nobody should be telling each other what to do.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mikey Narin]

Already. But having that conversation, like if you, you're allowed to have your Own feelings, obviously. And if he feels uncomfortable, I think he can express that to her, like, saying, like, hey, this makes me feel uncomfortable. Can we talk about this?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Right. And then you guys can hopefully, if you. Like you said, if you guys have a mature relationship, you guys can get to a middle ground where.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

It could be resolved. Yeah. Yeah. It's. It's. It's mainly, like you said, it's like, we know being a man, we know how.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Men are.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

We know when a girl is wearing something like that, it's gonna draw attention. And. And it could. And it will draw the wrong attention.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Sometimes. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. If your girl. If that was your girl. Yeah, if that was my girl and she's dressing sexy to the gym, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

My girl does.

[Josh Leyva]

And she has a. Yeah. I'm. I'm all about. And you can even ask my wife, Pooh the. You want on. I don't care.

[Mikey Narin]

I'm the same way. It doesn't make me feel uncomfortable.

[Josh Leyva]

It doesn't make me feel uncomfortable because I. I trust her. Obviously. That's number one, right? Yeah. But sometimes there's some chicks I've seen at the gym where it's like, whoa.

[Mikey Narin]

But you can almost tell their intention.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but if that was your girl.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but what about that was your girl? Now would you say, like, yo, like, I. I get it, but, like, that's, like, you're asking for it.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know, and that's where I would.

[Mikey Narin]

Say that's where I'll have the conversation. Like, hey, this makes me feel uncomfortable. I'm not gonna tell you can't wear this, obviously, but I at least want to express to you how I feel.

[Josh Leyva]

But the whole, like, you could only wear shirts that go over your butt.

[Mikey Narin]

That's crazy. That's too much, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

Come on.

[Ryan Reynolds]

She's working on her body. She wants to show her body, Right?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. That even goes for guys, too. Like, bro, I feel so much when I wear, like, a specific type of shirt or, like, it just. The pump just feels better and just makes my workout better. I'm sure it's the same way for girls when they wear specific outfits.

[Josh Leyva]

Exactly. 100.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, when it's leg day for the girls, it's. It's. It's like, quads are out. They have that shirt that they go like this.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know, like, that's the style for us. When it's chest day, when I come inside, like, nice and tight, you know what I mean? Or a tank top when it's shoulders or something cut off loose.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

What about when it's leg day?

[Mikey Narin]

Short shorts.

[Josh Leyva]

Short shorts and a baggy shirt, five inch.

[Mikey Narin]

I do like the baggie.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I do sometimes, but I'll do like.

[Mikey Narin]

A fitted, like a dry fit shirt too. That's dope.

[Josh Leyva]

Regular AirPods or AirPod Maxes.

[Mikey Narin]

I go Max, baby.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I got little baby AirPods. I just haven't invested in them.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, no, the. I like the AirPods too, but yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I like the maxim.

[Mikey Narin]

Just bumping you get in the zone.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's a conversation, you know, see if it goes a little bit too much. I would have a conversation.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, yo, like, you know, and she do you. But now the question is, does she respect that?

[Mikey Narin]

Should she?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Should she respect that you had that, that conversation with her?

[Mikey Narin]

Absolutely.

[Josh Leyva]

Okay.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think so. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

That's part of having a mature relationship. Right. If she's just kind of like brushing it to the side, that kind of says a lot about the relationship as well. Yeah, but like, you want somebody to listen and really care about, like we were talking about earlier. Like, listen intently, like, okay, I want to understand why do you feel like that maybe. And then you got to self reflect. Like, maybe I am doing a lot at the gym and I could work on it. You know what I mean?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but like, like baggy T shirts to go over your butt. That's like, chill out, bro. Like, you know, like, you want your women to. You want your girl to feel sexy.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, when I go out and Karen's like, is this too much? Nah, go crazy. Like, you're with me. I'm flaunting you.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know what I mean?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. If they looking at you, it's because you're sexy. I like that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

My girl's bad. You know what I mean? My wife.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I gotta get used to not saying girl.

[Mikey Narin]

Girl.

[Josh Leyva]

I always say girl.

[Mikey Narin]

I kind of like.

[Josh Leyva]

I like. I like saying girl, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

I like girl. It's a girl, bro. You're not wrong.

[Josh Leyva]

You know, I just don't go home and go, what's up, girl?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I don't do that.

[Mikey Narin]

You don't?

[Josh Leyva]

No, I cut them all.

[Mikey Narin]

What's up, girl? Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

No, but when it's your wife, it's like you. You get used to saying wife.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, I like that, bro. I like that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Cool.

[Josh Leyva]

Great question. Next question.

[Mikey Narin]

Thank you, Jess. That was a great question.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Jess]

This next one's a little long, but bear with me. Another anonymous. 30 to 35. If a man and a woman are in a serious relationship. Where do you draw the line in terms of making friends or just having friends of the opposite sex? For example, should the guy be texting his female friends privately to ask how their day is going and so on? What about him hanging out with his friend that's a girl one on one without his girlfriend being there? If the girlfriend brings up concerns about this girl that's a friend of his, should the guy end that friendship? I'd love to hear your perspective.

[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Ryan Reynolds]

Well, I've obviously been single my whole life, but I have a friend that's a girl who is my friend genuinely since like 8th grade.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And we go out, we, you know, not even like, like that. Like we go out for coffee, catch up. I'll call her, update her, she'll call me. We text quite frequently and it is strictly platonic. So if I had a, a girlfriend come in and say that I can't be friends with her, I'm sorry, like.

[Mikey Narin]

I, that's a red flag. That's a no go.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But I get it. Like if you guys were in a relationship already and then he, you like make a friend, make a friend. That's a little to me that's like.

[Josh Leyva]

Because there's nothing wrong with making a friend. Right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

There's nothing.

[Josh Leyva]

But it just sucks because I feel like the majority of guys, like that's something else now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know what I mean?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. I think it's definitely more of a concern if like you guys are in a relationship, she don't really have guy friends, and all of a sudden she.

[Josh Leyva]

Has a guy friend.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, it's a little.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Because why. Why do you need a guy friend when you have me? Right. But then that kind of sounds bad, too.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It does sound bad. But, like, I get, like. Well, it's like, what do you. I. You guys didn't grow up together. You guys don't know each other.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, why do you need another guy in your life type of thing.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, but what do you.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, where did he come from? Like, why? Why? Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Now, circumstantial.

[Mikey Narin]

Circumstantial.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Circumstantial. It's. It's. You have to look at everything. Yeah, but I think statistically they always. Like, if there was another guy, it's always the guy's best friend. I mean, the girl's best friend. Like, the guy. Like, if they cheat or something like that.

[Mikey Narin]

Wait, say that again.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, if the girl. Your girl were to cheat, it would.

[Mikey Narin]

Be with one of her friends.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, one of her friends.

[Mikey Narin]

Interesting. One of her guy friends.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That kind of puts me in a. A pickle, though. Like, because my friend has a boyfriend. I. I would.

[Mikey Narin]

And you're cool with him?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm cool with him, yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, yeah, it's.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And I. I would hope he would feel comfortable with me hanging out with her.

[Mikey Narin]

Has he ever brought it up to her that you know of?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't think so. I don't think my friend would tell me, though.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. I was about to ask you, would she tell you, though?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, I don't know, But.

[Josh Leyva]

But, I mean, she still hangs out with you.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

So I'm assuming it's not.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, I assume it's.

[Mikey Narin]

And it's fair for the boyfriend to kind of ask questions. It is, right? Like, tell me about the relationship. How long you guys know each other? Like, you know what I mean? Did you guys ever hook up? Like, all those questions are totally fair.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah, I think that's all fair. Yeah. I think those. When you ask those questions, I don't think you should be upset that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, I personally don't have any girlfriends, so to say. Like, all my friends have girls. We talked about this on the other podcast, but I'm not, like, hanging out with a girl one on one, especially. I'm in a relationship, and I'm not making new girlfriends and, like, hanging out with them. And I can understand how that would be a concern for my girlfriend and even my friends that are girls that are through my guy Friends. I'm not texting them.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

You know what I mean? Like, if anything. Like, if I had to, like, text Karen, either I'll have Mo do it or I'll text you, like, within, like, our group. You know what I mean? Like, if it's like, a group of us. Like, a group.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, there's a code.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Which it sounds bad, too, because I think you should freely be able to text my wife.

[Mikey Narin]

That sounds bad. I think that's respect.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, but it's a respect that a man has with another man.

[Mikey Narin]

Of course.

[Josh Leyva]

But, like. Oh, Josh. Just, like, for example, my wife just told me yesterday. I don't know if it was a text or a dm, but one of my friends text my wife and said, like, hey, guess what? Like, I just signed up for a marathon because my wife's a big runner, and I didn't. Didn't feel any type of way. Well, that's awesome, you know?

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, I text him last night. I said, stop texting my wife.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, I agree. But I texted him too, like, yo, what the.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, you're dead, dude.

[Josh Leyva]

It's not a big deal, especially when you know each other. You guys all love each other, you know? And to be honest, if anything happens where like, like, weird starts to happen, it's gonna happen anyway.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it was gonna happen anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

There's nothing you can do about it. So why are you gonna live your life on eggshells?

[Mikey Narin]

So not to stir the pot, bro, but, like, so you're. You have a girl friend, right, Who's a friend?

[Josh Leyva]

Girl.

[Mikey Narin]

Common friend. You said if you started dating somebody new, and she was like, hey, I don't feel comfortable, you dating, being friends with this girl. I kind of need you guys to pull apart a little bit. You're like, no, that's not gonna happen. Do you think that she would do the same for you?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think she has. Is it. It's the thing, like, you have to be emotionally intelligent to know that relationships aren't like that. Like, we're like brother and sister, but we're not, you know, But. And I get that. But if you're going into a relationship where a guy feels threatened on a childhood friend, it's like, that's kind of a red flag within itself. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So it's like, I get it. And it's not. It is a conversation to be brought up, but it's like, what is that telling about him when I haven't done.

[Mikey Narin]

Anything to make you feel uncomfortable? I've been Open about our friendship. I'm open about every time we hang out. Like, everything is on the table. Why? Are you still feeling uncomfortable? Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And I think it's also the. The guy's responsibility to go meet the boyfriend or something like that. Make him feel comfortable.

[Josh Leyva]

It's a respecting. Again, a code.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Be his friend. And if you guys all go out, talk to him.

[Mikey Narin]

Yes, of course.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So I think it's like a boat. Like, you have a responsibility, too.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Because, like, naturally, like, you're a threat, bro. Right. Like you're gonna be a threat. That's how any guy would perceive another man who's friends with your girl.

[Josh Leyva]

Animal kingdom.

[Mikey Narin]

Exactly. Exactly. So I think it is important to let your pride down. Let your guard down. Really show. Hey, man, like, this is my childhood, man. I respect you guys. I love what you guys have going on.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And this is. I'm just telling you.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

But my girl ain't allowed to have notes, bro. Cool. Thank you, Jess. Did we answer that? Did we crush that? I think we all killed that. As dean.

[Josh Leyva]

Right? I think we crushed it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think the first and second were crushing it.

[Mikey Narin]

Hey, come on, man.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, we're good at. We're good at chiming in.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Chiming in.

[Josh Leyva]

I like.

[Mikey Narin]

Do people say chime?

[Josh Leyva]

I think people. I think Americans say chime.

[Mikey Narin]

If. If they don't say it, they're going to start saying it, cuz.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Thanks, man.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Jess]

Well, let's see how you chime in on this one. We got Jocelyn, 22 to 25. My boyfriend and I have been together for three years. I'm about 2 to 3 inches taller than him, hashtag short king. And I'm noticing he's somewhat insecure about our height difference. I hardly wear heels, which I loved wearing, to avoid drawing attention to him being shorter. How can I help him get past that insecurity?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't think she can help. I think he has to figure it out.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. This is a personal.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, he has to. They love each other, you know, I would hope so. And he needs to get over the fact that height means nothing. He. If. If a girl you. I would like if I. A girl was taller than me. Wear your heels. 5 inches. 10 inches. Put the 10 inches heels on. God damn. Go ahead. Because I'm good with my height. Yeah, but that's. I think the number one thing guys are insecure about is their height.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think when you accept that you're done growing, you're not gonna grow. You Accept it. You don't care about height and you don't care who's taller than you. So I think he needs to maybe. Yeah. Accept that he, he is shorter if he's shorter. If he's not, he needs to accept that he's not going to grow taller. Does he love this his woman? And if he does let her put the hills.

[Mikey Narin]

I will say this. I'm gonna play devil's advocate a little bit. Being someone who's sickness too. We're all pretty relatively tall.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

We don't really know what it's like to be a five, eight.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's true.

[Mikey Narin]

Kind of guy.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Or five night. Whatever it is. Whatever it is.

[Josh Leyva]

How, how tall is this guy?

[Jess]

She doesn't say.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. You know, we don't know, bro. That is, that's a tough, that's a tough challenge as a man to like feel like shorter. Especially like bro, five eight, like that's.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. People actually go to the extreme and actually do that surgery.

[Mikey Narin]

Exactly, exactly. So like I, I, it's just tough. It's self reflection. It's. If I'm not saying this falls on the girl by any means, but I'm saying like as like there, there should be a little bit of grace for the man because like I get it, I understand. It's something that hopefully they have a mature relationship where they can talk it through and the woman can reassure him. Like I don't give a. About your height.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

I love you for who you are. Obviously don't get that reassurance from their women and I think maybe that even taps into their instances insecurity even more.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Yeah. So I guess, yeah. The answer can be like, I think it's necessary for the woman to really make him feel comfortable and reassure him all the time.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Women only care about one thing. I mean they care about a lot of things. It's your confidence.

[Mikey Narin]

Yes, I agree.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Confidence.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Confidence.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. No, honestly, it's how confident a man can be. I see it all the time when I go places to restaurant stuff. The dude is just, is maybe not short, but shorter than the girl. But he's rocking. He's a pimp, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

If I was like a short king, which I'm not.

[Mikey Narin]

You're not.

[Josh Leyva]

It's five, eleven and a half. A short king.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Nah, nah, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

You're not short at all.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You're not sure at all.

[Mikey Narin]

Bro.

[Josh Leyva]

I would have a tall, I would have, if I was a short king, I'd have a tall like chick. I would Love that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know, because it. It honestly makes me feel powerful.

[Mikey Narin]

But like I was saying, it's easy for you to say being someone who's five. Eleven, bro. You're not five. Eight. You don't.

[Josh Leyva]

You.

[Mikey Narin]

Yes, I get you. In retrospect, I mean, like, you'd be like, oh, yeah, I think I would be. But you don't know.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I have a friend. He's five. He's five.

[Mikey Narin]

Five.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. And I asked him. He has no problem with women, and I love that. No problem. He works out. He's a good guy.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

He looks good and he has no problem because he doesn't care. But he's like, I'm sure that's what it is. So I feel like since that, like, exactly what confidence is.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Confidence is everything.

[Josh Leyva]

It's key.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And ideally, in a perfect world, like. Like, you should just be happy in who you are. Right. And the things that you work on, the things that you can change and accept the things that you can't.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes.

[Mikey Narin]

You know what I mean? And it's just one of those, like, if you're. If you're five. Five and you. And that is what it is. You own it, you know? Yeah. But not every guy has that mindset.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know.

[Mikey Narin]

That's what it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Which sucks.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. And clearly this guy doesn't because she's writing in about it, so she has felt.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, she's.

[Mikey Narin]

She's felt the shakiness of it. Love a guy. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I mean, he needs to just understand that. He needs. He needs to understand that you guys are together. So that's. You already got the hard part done.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, like, let him know. You know what I mean? Like, let.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, sure. Let him know.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I like it when you're so short.

[Mikey Narin]

Give him a little noogie.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Give me a little guy.

[Josh Leyva]

Come here, little guy.

[Mikey Narin]

Why? Yeah, exactly. Just kidding.

[Josh Leyva]

Not really. Yeah. So confidence is key, man. And that's confidence with anything.

[Mikey Narin]

That's true confidence right there. When you can be sure and your girl can give you a noogie and you find humor in it, that's like. You are comfortable in that pocket.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, I'm down. I'm down. If she did that to me. Just don't do that in public.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, right. Of course. Yeah, I totally agree.

[Josh Leyva]

I agree with that, too. Imagine, like, you're just at yard house.

[Mikey Narin]

That's insane.

[Josh Leyva]

Come here.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Everyone's looking.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, that's. That's.

[Josh Leyva]

And you're.

[Mikey Narin]

That's cool.

[Josh Leyva]

And you're already drinking a Michael of Ultra.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Which I like in the kids cup, just for whatever reason.

[Josh Leyva]

We got our next question. Yeah.

[Jess]

Another anonymous 25 to 30. Is it okay to ask for a sexual break and request to do other activities with someone you're dating? Yes. Physical attraction is key and very much enjoyable. But I personally feel that how. In other words, you don't have to be fucking like rabbits all the time. How would y'all feel about being asked that?

[Josh Leyva]

So basically she's saying, I don't want to have sex all the time. Let's do something else.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I don't want to be like a rabbit the whole time.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I would say that's very valid.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't think anything. Everything's sex, sex.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Yeah. 100.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Especially if you're trying to build a relationship with someone, you got to go deeper than that.

[Josh Leyva]

So I'm assuming that whoever's been hooking up, they.

[Mikey Narin]

That's part of the relationship.

[Josh Leyva]

I'm assuming whoever she's dating just wants to have sex.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Potentially.

[Josh Leyva]

So if that's the case, I get it. But now, cuz we like to play devil's advocate too. It makes things a lot like more interesting. And we can like go on both topics. Imagine if a girl went up to you and said, I don't really want to have too much sex anymore to you. How does that make you feel?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Are we. Is this my. This not my girlfriend though, right?

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, you guys are dating.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You guys are dating.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

What about. She tells you, like, I don't really want to have time with like.

[Mikey Narin]

No, obviously I'm going to dig deeper, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Right.

[Mikey Narin]

I'm not gonna just be like, oh, okay, cool. Like I want to know. Because that's a huge shift.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And it's a very important part of the relationship. Especially that's something they've been doing. Right. So it's like, okay, we gotta. Let's dive into this.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Where are you at? What's going on? Is it me? Like, you got those questions just gonna start coming rapid fire and it's like, no, just. That's all you want to do and that's fair.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay. Yeah, I would say, I would say that.

[Josh Leyva]

So you, you'd be okay, right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Okay. Because especially if they're like rabbits and he wants.

[Mikey Narin]

I'm not gonna say I'd be okay, but like I'd have to be able to be mature enough to like just take that and listen and obviously respect my girl if I, if I love her and I want to be with her.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. You know what? I mean, but Those questions are 100 valid.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That is.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah. Because with guys, guys will have sex all the time.

[Mikey Narin]

Right?

[Josh Leyva]

They don't care.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, they're ready to go on command. You know, we're. We're the whole time, we're. And loaded.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And with women, you have a lot. A lot of times guys don't understand, like, women, they're not. They. They're not like that. They're not. And, you know, for women, they want to feel fresh, they want to feel clean, they want to feel ready and, you know, I don't know how to say it. Like. Like they want to be aroused.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

A guy can get aroused like that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Like.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, you see what I'm doing to you right now, Josh?

[Mikey Narin]

I'm aroused.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, it's easy. It's easy.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I think, guys, you have to understand, like, it's not. Women are not like you.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

It takes.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. And I think it's cool that she is maybe, like, look, I feel like our relationship has just become physical, and I kind of want to dig a little bit deeper and get to know our relationship in a different. A different light. So I just want to take a pause for a second and just reflect on who you are and just, you know, go on a date and just be a date. Or we just get to know each other. Hey, I was wondering if we can.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, do something else.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Just naked in the bed.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, I'm just kind of like.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, Like.

[Josh Leyva]

Oh, like dinner.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Can you take me to, like, a basketball game or something? All we do is just Netflix and chill.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It is okay to ask that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. 100. I like that we crushed that one too, guys. And we killing it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

We are killing it.

[Jess]

That last one.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Jess]

Another anonymous. 30 to. To 35. If your partner was not able to give you kids and she suggests that you should leave and be with someone who will be able to fulfill that part of your life because she doesn't want you to miss out on being a dad, would you leave, bro?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Wow, that's big.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, my God.

[Josh Leyva]

If your partner.

[Mikey Narin]

That would break my heart. If my girl was the reason that we couldn't have kids. Right. She had some issues, and she was like, I want you to go be with somebody else because I can't fulfill that for you. That would, first of all, devastate me that she feels like that would. That is the only reason I'd want.

[Josh Leyva]

To be so real quick. The question is, I can't give you kids because I'm not physically able.

[Mikey Narin]

We don't know. But most likely most.

[Josh Leyva]

That's what it kind of feels like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Right.

[Josh Leyva]

It's not because I don't want to have kids.

[Mikey Narin]

Right. It's physically okay, bro. That would shatter me.

[Josh Leyva]

Me too.

[Mikey Narin]

Shadow.

[Josh Leyva]

I wouldn't.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I wouldn't leave.

[Mikey Narin]

I wouldn't.

[Josh Leyva]

I wouldn't leave either. There's so much other options.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

I wouldn't leave because that. I mean, that's your wife.

[Mikey Narin]

It's very selfless.

[Josh Leyva]

That's the love of your life to offer that, though. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

To be like, I know you want kids. Like, for example, me, I. I want kids more than anything in this world, bro. And like, if that. If I was in that situation would shatter me from what I even think. Like that. But I would have to commend her for being so selfless in the sense that, like, she really cares about me so much that she wants me to be. She's choosing my happiness.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Over her own, which is wild.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That'd make me fall in love even more.

[Mikey Narin]

Exactly. That's. That was what I was gonna get to. That's what I was gonna get to, that.

[Josh Leyva]

What would you do? Would you adopt or would you.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think maybe.

[Mikey Narin]

I think I would adopt. I'm not super. Even if I have kids, bro, I'm not even close off to the idea of adoption. I would. I would. I would love to adopt, actually. It's kind of like a little thing of mine that I would want.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

That's really cool. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

What about you?

[Josh Leyva]

I think the same. Yeah. Especially if it was like this kind of situation. 100. Especially if both partners want. Want kids. Okay, this is what we'll do. This is our option now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Are you guys just saying that because you guys do have girls at home and they might be.

[Josh Leyva]

No, no, no, no. I just feel like that's just the right thing to do, you know?

[Mikey Narin]

I think that's the right thing to do as well.

[Josh Leyva]

You know what's crazy?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't.

[Josh Leyva]

I was watching the Andrew Schultz comedy special. Have you seen that?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I haven't seen enough.

[Josh Leyva]

Hysterical shout out to him.

[Mikey Narin]

I started watching.

[Josh Leyva]

What a performance. He's brilliant, bro. Funny. And everybody should watch it. He talks about his. He had comedy special. His relationship with his girl and how, you know, they had problems having kids and they did the whole IVF thing. Hysterical, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

But it was hit. It was his.

[Josh Leyva]

It was his issue.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Josh Leyva]

He didn't. His sperm count was in or something like that. I don't know. I forgot. But where Was I going with this?

[Mikey Narin]

You're talking about testicles and.

[Josh Leyva]

No, I felt like I was going with something like this that really made sense, but I totally blinked.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You couldn't have kids and he. They're happy.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, it was something like that. Oh, my God. I totally missed what I was gonna talk about.

[Mikey Narin]

They have kids now, though, right? He has a daughter.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, he had a daughter. And I've ivf, but they did ivf? Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Can you remind me what that is again?

[Josh Leyva]

It's basically they inseminate.

[Mikey Narin]

Inseminate the.

[Josh Leyva]

I. I believe. I might sound stupid, but I believe it's. They inject continuously the woman with his semen. No. Like estrogen.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh.

[Josh Leyva]

So she becomes basically a super woman and extra fertile. And do you know how many eggs a woman produces a month? If they.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Produces.

[Josh Leyva]

No, like, you know, like, you know, like when you have an egg. Right. Am I getting it right? I want to say it right.

[Jess]

Releases.

[Josh Leyva]

Releases an egg. Right. Yeah. Once.

[Mikey Narin]

Right. Oh, yeah. Wow.

[Josh Leyva]

So basically, with ivf, you release a lot more than that. It tricks the body to release more. Correct. So basically, then when you do have those eggs, they grab those eggs from you and then they freeze them until your sperm is ready. And then they.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, what is that?

[Josh Leyva]

Possibly. And it's not even like 100. That you will get pregnant where women are fertile.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, what's that period called?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Ovulation.

[Mikey Narin]

Ovulation. So I heard, and I think this is true. Right. Like, women can only get pregnant during ovulation.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's what I heard.

[Mikey Narin]

Which is pretty wild to think about. Like, you can try and try and try, but if they're not ovulating, then they can't get pregnant. There's, like, so much to it. It's kind of crazy.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. But, no, I would not leave my girl or wife.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Unless.

[Josh Leyva]

But what about if. What about if you were just dating or, like, you had, like, two, three years with.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, my God. That's a good question. So, you know, you're dating, you're not married yet, and she cannot.

[Josh Leyva]

It's.

[Mikey Narin]

It's impossible.

[Josh Leyva]

It's okay to be selfish for the guy to. To maybe move on where I'm at.

[Mikey Narin]

In the relationship with that. Yeah, sure. But it's a little bit more. I'd be a little bit more inclined to.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, it'll be okay.

[Mikey Narin]

But it was my wife. It's a whole different situation.

[Josh Leyva]

Sure. Or like, if you're with her for 10 years, you know.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Blah, blah, blah. Wow. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Damn. Like, you. Let's just Say you start dating somebody, you're like six months in. You really start.

[Josh Leyva]

You're in love.

[Mikey Narin]

You're like, wow, you guys are. Honeymoon. Peak honeymoon phase. She hits you with that so that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I can't have kids.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm still right at you.

[Mikey Narin]

Write it out. Yeah, yeah, I think so, too.

[Josh Leyva]

For how many months?

[Mikey Narin]

Like, I'm just saying, like, peak honeymoon. Yeah, yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But once that honeymoon.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Phases out, I'm out.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. This was fun. Thank you. I'm out.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm just playing now.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Cool. That was it, huh?

[Mikey Narin]

That was it.

[Josh Leyva]

Wow. Mikey killed it.

[Mikey Narin]

Mikey. Yes. Give it up, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

Street Fighter's sick, huh?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Super sick.

[Mikey Narin]

Street Fighter, we had these, like, characters animated that resemble us.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh.

[Mikey Narin]

And they're. They're literally fighting each other every five minutes. Every five minutes they fight each other.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Who'd win?

[Mikey Narin]

You know, tune in and find out. No. Nobody wins. Cool, bro. So we're back. Back with Mikey. Mikey, you're currently single. You've never been in a relationship. Some people might say that's a red flag.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I. I made a Tinder video.

[Josh Leyva]

A Tinder video?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. It was like a brand new brand deal.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And I. I mentioned that I wasn't. I've never been in a relationship, and a lot of people, a lot of older people, like, 40s.

[Josh Leyva]

Red flag.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm like, come on, man.

[Mikey Narin]

No, 24, bro. I think you're still good. Yeah. How do you respond to that when people say, like, yo, never been in a relationship. Red flag.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I ask them, how have your relationships been? And usually there, if you view that as a red flag, their relationships all have ended bad.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And like I had mentioned before, I'm working on myself, and I think a lot of people who get in relationships who don't even know themselves doesn't end up well because you can't treat your partner well if you can't treat yourself well.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Well, also, you're not in your high 30s. Like, Josh, you're 24.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, what just happened right now? What just happened? Got him.

[Ryan Reynolds]

He's a young bug.

[Mikey Narin]

We're literally the same age.

[Josh Leyva]

It was a bit. It was good.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You gotta admit it.

[Mikey Narin]

You gotta admit it took me by storm a little bit.

[Josh Leyva]

And it was cool because I wasn't looking at Josh, you know, I got him, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

Anyways, I want to see his face, please.

[Josh Leyva]

Zoom in into his face. Yeah. And then, like, warp up to make him look ugly.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. I'm down for it all, baby. What I was gonna say, dude, something I appreciate about your answer. Is that, like, you're like, I'm working on myself versus a lot of guys. What's the typical answer? Why I've never been in a relationship. I haven't found the right one. Right. Like, such a easy answer. But, like, for you, it's like, no, there. She's out there.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

I just. I'm not the right one like we were talking about. So it's, like, working. So I think you have the most green flag answer of them all.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, I've been working on it.

[Josh Leyva]

It's probably.

[Mikey Narin]

Did that one hit? Did it hit?

[Josh Leyva]

It's crazy how, like, you feel like you still need to work on yourself, which is super sick and admirable, but to other women, you're probably the one.

[Mikey Narin]

I'll take you as you are.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Isn't that crazy?

[Ryan Reynolds]

And it screws me up because I'm like, like, what? What else do I need? But there is, like, I know myself. Myself, like, I know that that's just not where I want to be right now. I'm focused, so I like that. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. And you don't have to, like, answer what that looks like for people. Like, you know, like you said, like, you don't got to explain to anybody. Like, when you. When you know you're gonna be ready. It's like, look, I know I'm doing this work on my own. It's my own journey. Mind your business.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

What else are you working on right now? Like, what's going on with you?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, I was about to ask, like, is there something, like, in the. In the cut?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm just. Just really focused on the acting stuff. I don't know. Like, I'm sure you guys are in the. Like, you guys live here and stuff like that. So you guys know, like, more than me. I'm just trying to figure it all out. I have an agency. I have, like.

[Mikey Narin]

Cool.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm just. It's just weird to see, like, the steps that I'm taking because, you know, you. No one's gonna come up to you.

[Mikey Narin]

No.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And say, I want you to be in my movie.

[Mikey Narin]

They happen. But again, I can't expect that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I gotta put the, like, Brad Pitt.

[Mikey Narin]

That's how he got discovered. Like, in a bar.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You really.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. There's actors who have had that story.

[Josh Leyva]

This is true.

[Mikey Narin]

Yes. And then people lean on that, like, that's gonna happen to me. And then that, like, affects you because you're not doing any of the work. And the truth of the matter is, like, you gotta do the Work. You gotta go to the classes. You got to do all that stuff. You gotta get an agent.

[Josh Leyva]

That makes them so much cooler.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

It's like, imagine being so cool.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

That, like, you're like, hey, I'm this big. Hollywood.

[Josh Leyva]

Didn't have to do anything other than just be cool.

[Mikey Narin]

And I don't know what it is, but you've got it. And you're in. You're in my next movie. $100 million. $100 million budget favorite.

[Josh Leyva]

Brad Pit movie. Go.

[Mikey Narin]

Ooh, Troy.

[Josh Leyva]

Same.

[Mikey Narin]

But I also love him in Ocean's Eleven. Sorry.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That was actually a good movie too.

[Mikey Narin]

He's so sick in that movie.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Bastards.

[Mikey Narin]

O, great movie.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That was a good movie.

[Mikey Narin]

He switches it up right there too. Obviously, he's like a whole.

[Josh Leyva]

What a great movie.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, but he's a great actor, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

Troy is sick.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Have you seen Troy?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Troy? Yeah. Is that yours?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Troy. Troy.

[Mikey Narin]

Fight Club is amazing as well.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. He's in everything.

[Mikey Narin]

He's. He's Brad. He's Brad Pitt, bro.

[Josh Leyva]

I know.

[Mikey Narin]

We should get him on the pod.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Imagine that'd be sick.

[Mikey Narin]

Wow.

[Josh Leyva]

You know, tell him.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, Brad, I'll suck you off right now. Too much.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Not enough.

[Mikey Narin]

Not enough. So you want. So you want to do the acting? That's like the big dream. That's the overall.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. That's where I started everything.

[Mikey Narin]

Damn, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm not like. Like, that's always been too, bro.

[Mikey Narin]

It's gonna be exciting. You're 24 years old.

[Josh Leyva]

I know. I. I keep forgetting that everything is so new to you, so key. Because you just quit your job in February.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And like, you're talking about, like, being with an agency now. I'm assuming you just were. You. You just committed to an agency, right? Or like a management company.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I had a management for the past year, but I just signed with a big agency, so Gersh. So I started. I signed up with Gers. And then it just. It just feels good, you know? Like.

[Mikey Narin]

Like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it feels good.

[Josh Leyva]

Like, even.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, even meeting you guys, like, life feels good right now.

[Mikey Narin]

Let's go, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

You're doing all the right things, bro. I feel like you're. You're putting out the right energy in life. You. You're taking chances, you're taking risks, you're working on yourself. Like, things are going to fall into place perfectly for you. I appreciate you, you know? And if they don't, like, you're gonna grow from those moments, you know? And I was gonna say, like, even for myself, bro, when I started. That was my big dream. I wanted to get into acting.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And there's still a part of me that wants to get into acting, but I'm just so excited to see, like, where your life is gonna want to take you. Because sometimes we have one plan and God has another.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And it's just cool to see, like, where. Where it goes and the ride is. And if you have that attitude of just gratitude and appreciation of, like, I'm just so excited. I mean, I'm just excited to be here. It's. It's the best, bro. Yeah, it's the best.

[Josh Leyva]

And you're gonna get there so much faster because you're just focused on yourself.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It just feels good to, like. Even if it doesn't happen, I feel like I just don't want to be in my deathbed.

[Mikey Narin]

What if.

[Ryan Reynolds]

What if that's my biggest fear? What. What if I tried to be, like, I could have been an actor. I could have, but I would never know. At least now if I fail, I'm like, it. I don't want to be an actor no more.

[Mikey Narin]

Right. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. So it's like.

[Mikey Narin]

And, dude, you have all the room in the world to fail right now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

You know what I mean? Like, this is a time to fail. There's ever a moment of fail is right now.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, where. Where you're at and stuff like that. And the cool thing is, is, like, now we live in a time where, like, social media is, like, a big thing for you. So, like, while you're acting, you have the luxury of, like, being able to focus on acting because you're. You're doing the social media stuff.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Well, you don't have to be at a 9 to 5.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

You know what I mean? So it just allows you to, like, take that chance, bro.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

You got to take that chance.

[Josh Leyva]

It's also a lot of work, too. Like, focusing on yourself and creating content and creating good content and, like, taking time and doing that. Like, that's a lot of work as well.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Definitely privileged enough to leave the nine to five. I'm so happy. I. A lot of people don't know how it feels to work a job which is, like, it's. It's. It's mandatory. I think you have to.

[Mikey Narin]

Before you get into it.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Before you get into that. Because, like.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

At everything now is vacation.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. Like, he always says that. Like, he's just so lucky. Like, this is our job. Like, this is my life right now. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Like, yeah, exactly. Or you're gonna pay me to do this. Yeah, I would have done it for free for you. Like, it's like when you, when you, I think that 9 to 5, all that stuff, like, look so blessed to have, you know?

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. And it's crazy because like when you're actually doing it and that's your life and you're like, I did construction for years.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know, I landscaped. I. I've done it all, every type of job, restaurant, anything. And like, you get to yourself and you like, talk to yourself and you're like, bro, I can't wait to get off. Yeah, I can't do this. You, like, doubt yourself a lot. Especially when it's things that you don't want to do and you're just doing it for the check because you got bills.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. You got it. You got to make it.

[Josh Leyva]

And you come from nothing. Your dad doesn't give you money, your mom doesn't give you money. You try to make something so you can at least help them out with their own rent.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Or, you know, something. So when you work like that, you know, you're like, you're not happy. But you look back at him like, dog, I'm so glad I went through that, cuz that changed who the I am.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And like, I just appreciate everything in life, you know?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mikey Narin]

Something I feel like people don't talk talk about in like nine to fives. That comes with like obviously like a lot of the times most people. And I feel like I could say this, like most people in nine to five are miserable. They don't want to be there. Right. They're not fulfilled. They're. They're in hopes for like to do more with their life. But this is all they can offer at the moment. Something that is not really talked about is like the environment in those facilities, sometimes those places, how people are just so like negative and miserable and that is the. What they bring into your life that is also sucks the life out of you, bro. I. Yeah, it's just, it's just very interesting because I remember I've worked so many jobs. Where I started working, I was 15 and a half. As soon as I can get a worker's permit, I was working at Red Brick Pizza. It was like a pizza spot, very similar to like a Blaze Pizza. I've always worked, but I remember there was being certain places where like I was job to job trying to figure out what spoke to me, what was my passion. And I've done the warehouse stuff and I just remember Being those environments and how much people sucked, bro. Like their, Their perspective on life, they drain you. They're draining. Thank you. That's the word I was looking for. They emotionally, mentally drain you. And if you get stuck in that. And that is what your day to day life is for years to come. Dude, that's just insane to me. It's insane. So I always encourage people, like, take.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The chance, take the risk. Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Do it because, like, you know, to be miserable or to like, risk doing something that you could fall in love with and it could work out for you is so much more rewarding this side.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

100.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Even if you work less and have more freedom, but make less money, you're winning.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

You know what I mean?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think more people need to take more risk. More people need to create. I think a lot of people put the. Put their little, like, creative aspects in a hole.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

When they think they grow up, they don't need to, like, have their imagination anymore and stuff like that, like their creative outlets. It could be anything. It could literally be anything from drawing to talking to making jokes.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Like, stuff like that makes people, like, lose who they really are. Like the kid in them.

[Mikey Narin]

The imagination.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And when I was a cop out, no one's. No one. You, you know, you're not creative. You're not creating nothing. I love drawing. I love making jokes. I love theater. I love all that stuff. And. But like, when you're with other people, it's like in that environment, you think that's how you should start acting. And you start acting like that and then you realize, why am I so sad? And you realize, yeah, you're not so.

[Mikey Narin]

Serious all the time.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You're not doing the things that you used to love. Yeah. Yeah. So.

[Mikey Narin]

But.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But when you realize that and then you. You realize you want to get out of that.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah. So we're very fortunate, man, all of us, to like, be able to be in a position, a creative space like this. Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. But also what Mikey said too, is, you know, I'm very humble and. But I'm also very prideful. I am also very prideful of what I've. What we've created, what I've created in the past and what has gotten. Gotten me here as well today, you know, And I take pride in that. That's why I work hard as well.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Because I'm proud of what I've done. I'm proud of how I've acted. I'm proud of how I'VE treated other people as well to put me in this position, because that's what it's all about, too.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Treating people with respect, knowing the right people, you know, being. Going out there and talking to people. You know what I always tell myself? Why can't I go to, like, a coffee shop and just look at this guy that hops out of a Bentley and be like, hey, what do you do? You know, nobody ever does that. Yeah, but why isn't that acceptable? Because if you just did that, I promise you it would. He would be a nice guy or nice lady, and. And he would give you advice.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Or he would say, yeah, yeah, I do this, I do that. And just doing something like that. So simple. Nobody ever does that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Nobody ever looks at people that look like, you know, they're. They're living good. Not like, in a very, like, unhumble way. In a humble way, I'm doing good in my life. Nobody ever goes up to those people and say, hey, what do you do? Yeah, how can I, like, you know what, what, what. What can I do to be like you? Nobody ever does that. It's too much pride. We have to let our pride to the side as well.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And we have to be people persons.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

If you don't know how to talk to people, learn how to talk to people. Because that's major in life. Yeah, it's major in life.

[Mikey Narin]

And it's something you can learn. It's a skill. It's not something. Some people are born with it. Right. But you can develop that skill.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

To learn how to talk, to learn how to converse. Especially nowadays in the world that we live in, there's so much information out there. There's people that specialize in teaching people how to have conversations. Right. Like, you can learn all that. That stuff.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

And then it's also about, like, taking the chance. Like, you got to put yourself out there. You got to, like, see the guy and ask the question.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Right.

[Mikey Narin]

Like, you got to take that chance to do it. That's the only way you get better is by putting yourself in those uncomfortable situations, you know?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I like how you said, like, I have pride in my work, but I'm not prideful enough to ask for help. Like, I think a lot of, like, I'm not going to ask him for his advice.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. No, not at all.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Cool. Give me anything. If you got something to help me with. I'm one open bro.

[Josh Leyva]

And if we both help each other, you know what I mean? Like, that's money. It's always going to work that way.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, that's it. Mikey, what a great show.

[Mikey Narin]

This was an amazing episode.

[Josh Leyva]

Don't you feel like you've. You've known Mikey already, right? Almost like if we're from the same area, same hood, high school together. Something like that.

[Mikey Narin]

Bro, I'm. I'm blown away by you. You honestly have like surpassed my expectations, man. You carry yourself like amazing. You, you have an incredible heart, bro. Incredible spirit. It was honestly a pleasure having you on the podcast.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Thank you.

[Josh Leyva]

Very great guy, Mikey.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Thank you.

[Mikey Narin]

You are man.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Thank you. Love you guys.

[Josh Leyva]

Thank you, man. Appreciate that.

[Mikey Narin]

Thanks to Jess for pulling up those wonderful questions. Matt. Well, you're Matt, you know. I love you, man. Thanks, man.

[Josh Leyva]

Guys, welcome.

[Mikey Narin]

Welcome. He's so used to doing the intro. We're back, guys. And we're back, guys.

[Josh Leyva]

Remember notifications on follow up Latica. If you're new here, welcome. This is like up Latica the Josh, Leo and today we have the most very super handsome guy, Mikey. Can I say Narin or Narin?

[Ryan Reynolds]

You can say Narin.

[Josh Leyva]

Narin is Narin the proper way you could. It's like there it sounds.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's shortened. Yeah, it's a. It's a longer last name but like Narin say, okay, I'll do what I want.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, yeah. We gotta do a tik Tok too.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah, we'll do a tik tok for the ladies. Yeah, yeah. I'll film it and I'll film it. Members follow Sasson Studios too. Like follow it right now. Subscribe to the channel. Follow us on Instagram as well. The most powerful podcast network in the world. I never said that.

[Mikey Narin]

I knew you never said that. We have an original piece of content with Mikey on Sasson. So if you want to see some exclusive, subscribe to the channel.

[Josh Leyva]

We also have other podcasts that are owner Sasson Studios as well. Like and the IE investies check them out because she they popping. We only hand select the best hand selected, handmade, handcrafted. Yeah, no, but you can follow them. It's an amazing YouTube channel. Follow and like I said, do you.

[Mikey Narin]

Have a YouTube channel, bro?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I do, but I don't post.

[Josh Leyva]

So.

[Mikey Narin]

Okay. The main thing is Instagram. Tick tock. Like those. Okay, so follow Mikey on those platforms.

[Josh Leyva]

Follow Mikey. They already are.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah.

[Josh Leyva]

And yeah. Thank you so much.

[Mikey Narin]

Followers. Follow us all these guys.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah. Am I missing anything?

[Mikey Narin]

There it is. It is, man. There it is. What episode is this? 187. 187.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, that's murder.

[Josh Leyva]

Yeah.

[Mikey Narin]

We murdered this 187. 187. Because we got a 187.

[Josh Leyva]

Wow. Cool. Hope to see you soon, Mikey.

[Mikey Narin]

Oh, he's coming back.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'll come back.

[Josh Leyva]

Hopefully. We made, like, a good impression with you, you know, you go back. Those fools are tight.

[Mikey Narin]

That's his first podcast. Yeah, he won 87 at home.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Huh. Can't wait for the next.

[Mikey Narin]

Yeah, let's get it.

[Josh Leyva]

Mos venmos.

[Mikey Narin]

All right. See y'all.

[Josh Leyva]

Cheers.

[Mikey Narin]

Appreciate it.

[Josh Leyva]

I would make out myself in America.