Mike D Stood in Line For Pokemon & The Most Quoted Movies in Our Homes

Summary

The Bobby Bones Show: Mike D Stood in Line For Pokémon & The Most Quoted Movies in Our Homes

Date: March 28, 2026
Host: Morgan (with guest Mike D)
Podcast: The Best Bits with Morgan (Bobby Bones Show replay)

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Episode Overview

This "Best Bits" episode with Morgan and Mike D is a fun and personal behind-the-scenes catch-up. The main themes include Mike D's evolving feelings about parenthood after spending time with Bobby’s baby, the influence of movies and movie quotes in their lives, a deep dive into the most-quoted films in pop culture and their households, and Mike D’s return to Pokémon fandom—including standing in line at Target for special edition cards. The episode wraps with chatting about moving, decluttering, and some lighthearted geek/nerd banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mike D on Parenthood and Changing Perspectives

• New feelings about babies: Mike D shares how meeting Bobby’s baby made him feel unexpectedly warm and optimistic about having kids.
  • "Being around a baby has made me a little bit happier. Like seeing Bobby's baby... it just brings like this weird warmthness that I haven't felt in a long time." (03:41)
• Personal evolution: For most of his life, Mike never envisioned marriage or parenthood for himself, but seeing friends move into that life phase is changing his mind.
  • "I never thought I would get married, and then now I can't picture me not married. And in the same way, I never thought I would even want kids. And now it's like, oh, I can see that now." (08:48)
• Conversations with his wife: Both are now thinking about when or if they’d be ready for kids, noting how different people’s experiences inform (and sometimes mislead) expectations.
  • "Her seeing how other people adjust to it... it's a little bit healthier than some people have kind of presented it in the past." (06:59)

2. The Myths of Movie Love vs. Real-Life Relationships

• Movies set expectations: Both reflect on how film and Disney delusions misguide real-life romance.
  • "I thought I'd just show up, like, on a girl's lawn with the boombox and, like, play a song and that would be it." – Mike D (11:38)
• How relationships actually develop: Mike discusses how his relationship with his wife was gradual, not marked by one "grand gesture," contrasting with cinematic ideals.
  • "We didn't say I love you till like, a year in... I just approached it completely different because I didn't know what I was doing." (10:43)

3. The Power of Quoting Movies and Shared Pop Culture

• Top quoted movies in their homes:
  • Mike D quotes "The Simpsons" daily (his wife, despite not liking the show, now quotes it too!).
    • "I've said things so many times that she'll start quoting them now to you and doesn't realize that they're Simpsons quotes. And I love that." – Mike D (13:14)
  • Morgan’s family always quotes "Top Gun" (“Talk to me, Goose”), and she loves referencing "Mean Girls" (“None for Gretchen Wieners”, “You go, Glen Coco”).
  • Discussion about combining quotes and misremembering lines.
    • "The other day, my fiancé was like, I don't think that was the line in the movie. I was like, you're right. It Wasn't. I definitely combined those two." – Morgan (15:32)
• Most quoted movies of all time (discussion):
  • Mike D guesses "The Wizard of Oz" for its staying power and universally known lines.
  • They reference iconic quotes like “You’re not in Kansas anymore”, “May the force be with you”, “I’m king of the world”, and “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn”.
  • "There's a difference between, like, the most famous and the most used, I would say." – Mike D (25:39)

4. Fandom: From Mandalorian Doubts to Pokémon Nostalgia

• Mandalorian movie skepticism:
  • Mike D is wary that Disney is turning high-profile TV shows into movies as a business tactic rather than focusing on quality.
    • "I want the best thing possible... It doesn’t feel like a Star wars event... I’m not feeling that for this yet."(27:42–28:25)
• Star Wars vs. Star Trek vs. Geek/Nerd Culture:
  • The distinction between "nerd" (mainstream, e.g., Star Wars and Marvel) and "geek" (deeper fandoms like Star Trek, D&D).
  • Star Trek is perceived as more “hardcore” and “sophisticated” sci-fi; Star Wars is for the masses and kids (more toys, more spectacle).
    • "The average nerd loves Star Wars. But if you're a geek, you love Star Trek... it’s a little bit more dedication." – Mike D (31:11)
• Pokémon obsession rekindled:
  • Mike D talks about getting back into Pokémon because of the 30th anniversary, replaying old Gameboy games and hunting new cards.
  • "The nerdiest thing I've done recently was go to Target, right when they opened at 8am last weekend to get a Pokemon drop." (35:30)
  • He shares a hilarious story of joining the wrong line (BTS vs. Pokémon) at Target (36:13–36:48).
  • He describes the collector's dilemma: to open or not open his rare packs, and the economics of scalpers.
    • "I bought two, and they were just like assuming that everybody want two. So like, if everybody else is buying two, I'm gonna buy two." – Mike D (45:49)

5. Decluttering, Moving, and Fresh Starts

• Moving to a new place:
  • Mike D and his wife are preparing for a move, using it as an opportunity to purge old stuff.
    • "I used to be somebody who would hold on to things for, like, emotional attachment... I've kind of left that phase of my life..." (51:27)
  • The catharsis (and anxiety) of "blind donating": getting rid of boxes that haven't been opened in years.
    • "I haven't even looked at it in six years... so I'm just gonna throw it all away." – Mike D (53:56)
  • Morgan recommends letting his wife check first for anything important, just in case.
• Neighborhoods and community:
  • Excited for the new “walkable” neighborhood, Mike describes running in the new area before moving in.
    • "I'm already way too familiar with it that people probably have seen me now and think I already live there." (59:17)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On parenthood:
  • “Like seeing Bobby's baby… it just brings like this weird warmthness that I haven't felt in a long time.” – Mike D (03:41)
• On movies shaping real-life expectations:
  • “I thought things were supposed to play out a certain way... there was not going to be a prince come and find my glass slipper.” – Morgan (11:20)
  • “I thought I would just show up, like, on a girl's lawn with the boombox and, like, play a song and that would be it.” – Mike D (11:38)
• On quoting movies:
  • “My entire life is quotes from other things that I've watched.” – Mike D (12:38)
  • “I've said things so many times that she'll start quoting them now… and she doesn't realize that they're Simpsons quotes. And I love that.” – Mike D (13:14)
  • “None for Gretchen Wieners.” – Morgan (15:10)
  • “You go, Glen Coco.” – Mike D (15:29)
• On Wizard of Oz:
  • “I could probably think of 5, if not 10, Wizard of Oz quotes... it has to be up there at least in the top five most quoted movies of all time.” – Mike D (18:09)
  • “Every time somebody hears where they're like, where are you from? I'm like, Kansas. They automatically say to me, you're not in Kansas anymore.” – Morgan (17:42)
• On Mandalorian movie skepticism:
  • “It doesn’t feel like a Star Wars event… I’m not feeling that for this yet.” – Mike D (27:42)
  • “I want the best thing possible.” – Mike D (27:42)
• On nerd culture:
  • “There was always kind of a difference between nerd and geek… The average nerd loves Star Wars. But if you're a geek, you love Star Trek.” – Mike D (31:11)
• On Pokémon collecting:
  • “The nerdiest thing I've done recently was go to Target, right when they opened at 8am last weekend to get a Pokémon drop.” – Mike D (35:30)
  • “If you ever go to Target and see a large group of nerds waiting in a line, you'll see me there.” – Mike D (35:54)
  • “I've become the wait-in-line person for Pokémon cards.” – Mike D (45:12)
• On decluttering:
  • “I'm getting rid of the box, yeah... I think I'm just gonna dump the whole box because I didn't even get into it.” – Mike D (53:55)
  • “It makes me never want to buy anything again. I had a whole different outlook on consumerism after this…” – Mike D (52:00)
• On moving and community:
  • “I'm already way too familiar with [the neighborhood] that people probably have seen me now and think I already live there.” – Mike D (59:20)

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Important Timestamps

• 03:41 – 04:10: Mike D discusses how Bobby’s baby changed his feelings about parenthood.
• 08:48 – 09:02: Mike D compares never envisioning marriage to now being ready for family life.
• 11:20 – 11:43: The dissonance between movie romance and real life.
• 13:03 – 14:05: The impact of "The Simpsons" quotes in Mike D’s marriage.
• 15:10 – 16:11: Mean Girls and Top Gun as quotable family staples.
• 17:42 – 18:12: The universal status of "Wizard of Oz" quotes.
• 25:39: Mike D on the difference between the most famous and most used movie quotes.
• 27:42 – 28:55: Worries about Mandalorian as a film rather than a show — is it a business move?
• 31:11 – 32:41: The nerd vs. geek pop culture divide between Star Wars and Star Trek.
• 35:30 – 36:40: Mike D’s Pokémon collecting story — standing in line at Target.
• 45:02 – 46:56: Mike D debates opening his collectible packs vs. saving them.
• 51:08 – 53:56: Preparing for a move, decluttering, and letting go of unnecessary stuff.
• 59:17 – 59:37: Mike D immerses himself in his new neighborhood before the move.

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

The episode is lighthearted, nostalgic, and relatable. Mike D and Morgan share authentic reflections, from changing life stages to the quirky role pop culture plays in their daily lives. The tone is conversational and full of personal anecdotes, peppered with humor and playful self-awareness. Listeners will enjoy insights into the show's personalities, a sense of generational pop culture camaraderie, and the comfort of knowing everyone, even podcast hosts, struggles with decluttering and choosing which movie quotes make it into the family lexicon.

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Find Mike D on social: @ikedistrow
Check out his podcast: Movie Mike’s Movie Podcast
Follow the show: @bobbyboneshow / @webgirlmorgan

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[Mike D]

of the week with Morgan Part 1 Behind the Scenes with a member of the show.

[Morgan]

Hello, friends and happy weekend. It is Best Bits time and this weekend Mike D is joining me. What's up, Mike D. Let's go. How are you? You look very rose colored to me right now.

[Mike D]

Oh yeah? Do I look like orange or like straight up rose?

[Morgan]

You look really tan.

[Mike D]

Oh, cool. I'm a healthier shade of brown.

[Morgan]

Yeah, you look like you've been at the beach for a little bit. How are you doing? How are things going? I haven't seen you in a hot minute. You guys have been in the other studio with baby Billy in the building. So how are you?

[Mike D]

I think being around a baby has made me a little bit happier.

[Morgan]

Interesting. Okay, tell me more.

[Mike D]

Like seeing Bobby's baby, I've seen her a couple of times now, even we're still saying her, but it just brings like this weird warmthness that I haven't felt in a long time that it just kind of makes you happy. Like the first day I met her, I was literally having a bad day and that completely turned it all the way around.

[Morgan]

Okay, so Mike D is a baby guy. Did you think this about yourself?

[Mike D]

I don't know if it's just any baby. I think if you brought me any baby, I wouldn't feel the same way. But the fact that it's Bobby's baby, it feels different. It's the only time I've seen, like a friend that close have a baby that made me think that I could do that.

[Morgan]

Oh, okay. I want to get into this. How are you feeling about babies now? Do you have baby fever?

[Mike D]

I don't know if it's baby fever, but it makes me feel a little bit more ready, like it's possible, like it's attainable. And I think it's just because Bobby and I are very similar in like, the way we think. And there's just something about that, that seeing him with a kid now makes it feel like, oh, people can do this.

[Morgan]

Interesting.

[Mike D]

Yeah. And I've had a lot of close people in my life have kids before and I've never felt the way I do right now.

[Morgan]

Do you have any family members that have babies. Do you have any nieces or nephews?

[Mike D]

No, no. In my family, I have one older brother, older sister. They're about seven to eight years older than me, and none of us have kids.

[Morgan]

Okay, and does your wife had any nieces or nephews?

[Mike D]

No, because her brothers are both younger and her oldest brother's about to be 21 and the other is 16, I think just turned 16. So they're younger. Yeah, she was their parental figure kind of, because she was maybe like in like seventh or eighth grade when they were born. So she kind of had that experience of they were her younger brothers, but also she like, raised, like, took care of them.

[Morgan]

She was also kind of a kid going through a lot of that too. I will say, like, the experience you're having right now is very closely assimilated to when I had nieces and nephews born. And I very much, like, felt a type of way about them, but I never felt that way about other babies. It was just about them because they were now, like, part of me. It helped. The two of them were like namesakes. We have share a name. And that was also really emotional. But I could see how this particular instance could put you on the path to potentially having kids in the near

[Mike D]

future, I guess, because when I was younger and people would have kids, it was always an accident. Like, I had a lot of cousins have teen pregnancies, and I was always. I was always around babies when I was younger. But it's not like I'm completely new to it, but I think it's just being in a different phase of life now and seeing people in a totally different, like, part of their life and like, oh, this, this can happen.

[Morgan]

Yeah, well, when your cousins were having that, you were also probably young, so that wasn't even a thought in your. But now you're married, you're in a great relationship, you have this life that you love, and the idea of bringing a kid into that, you're like, oh, this can happen. This is part of that, the next step.

[Mike D]

Yeah, it's crazy. It's a weird feeling is how does

[Morgan]

your wife feel about all of it? Like, have you guys had conversations because of this? Has it started more conversations?

[Mike D]

Yeah. And I also think, like, a lot of her friends recently have had kids. Like, her best friend has a one year old now. And I think her seeing how other people adjust to it and how it's a little bit healthier than some people have kind of presented it in the past, where it's always seemed like your life ends when you have a kid and she's had some friends who've had kids and have adapted to it in a, Like, a healthy way, in a different way that I think we kind of see that some people maybe led us astray a bit.

[Morgan]

Yeah, it's very. It's such an individual decision, and it very much should be so. But it's hard because so much of. Until you have it, you don't know what it feels like. But, like, having it is a big deal. You know what I mean? You can't exactly practice around having a child and be like, yeah, no, that's. That's not for me. You know what I mean? That's not how it works. So it's one of those decisions where it's concrete, and once you make it, you've made it, but you don't. You only have so much research. You only have so much data to go off of.

[Mike D]

Yeah. It's not like buying a car. You can test drive it or you can even buy. Buy it and be like, I want to sell it.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And every couple handles kids differently. So, like, you could have five who have really great experiences and five who have really horrible ones. And that's your data, and that's what you get to deal with. You know what I mean? So I do get it, but it does. I feel like we have watched. We have three friends that are having kids this year. We have three friends that are getting married. Big year in friends. There's a lot happening. And so it just creates more conversations. I feel like when that happens around you, it creates more conversations in your relationship. Often did that happen when you guys got, like, married or engaged? Were there people around you that were also having the same thing?

[Mike D]

Yeah, yeah, kind of. I mean, I think. I mean, Bobby and I got engaged within a week of each other.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Mike D]

And then, I mean, that's the crazy part about me, too, is like, I never thought I would get married, and then now I can't picture me not married. And in the same way, I never thought I would even want kids. And now it's like, oh, I can see that now.

[Morgan]

Life is evolving. Why did you think you'd never get married?

[Mike D]

Because I dated people and nothing. I never had a relationship until the relationship I'm in now. So I just thought, like, yeah, maybe I'm just one of those people who never finds anybody.

[Morgan]

And what about, like, your siblings? Are they. Are they married?

[Mike D]

Oldest sister's divorced and my brother is married.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

So you've seen it in your life. It's happened in your life, but you still were like, nah, maybe not me.

[Mike D]

No. I mean, not even that. It wasn't around me. Like, a lot of people around me were married. I just thought in my car cards, like, I'm not going to be able to form a relationship where somebody is going to want to date me, let alone marry me.

[Morgan]

Boy, you were wrong, Mike.

[Mike D]

Yeah, but, I mean, I was 27 years old.

[Morgan]

Yeah. What do you talk to your wife about that?

[Mike D]

About? No one else wanted me.

[Morgan]

I did not say that. How you thought nobody else was going to or that you wouldn't get married. Is that, like, a topic of conversation for you guys? I would imagine that it would bring feelings for you, especially when it happened. You're probably really emotional when you realize, like, that you were gonna propose to her.

[Mike D]

Yeah, it kind of happened also naturally that it. I guess there was never, like, one crazy moment that I, like, realized it. It was just kind of. We got to a point where I realized I couldn't see my life without her anymore. And I was like, oh, this is what it feels like. I think from watching a lot of movies, I was convinced it was going to be different. I thought there'd be one, like, grand gesture or some crazy moment that wipes over you and you live happily ever after. But it was almost like building this relationship. I mean, we didn't say I love you till, like, a year in.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Mike D]

So it was. I guess I went into it so kind of, like, guarded because of. I had no point of reference that I wanted everything to work out. I didn't even introduce her to my family till like, a year and a half after that, because it, like, with my family, anybody you brought around, that meant, like, that was the one. So, yeah, the whole. I just approached it completely different because I didn't know what I was doing.

[Morgan]

Well. And you know what? Maybe that's related to movies. They often say Disney ruined me. You know, I thought things were supposed to play out a certain way and they're supposed to look a certain way of how they were going to play out, and they don't.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

You know, they're like. Much to my surprise, in real life, there was not going to be a prince. Come and find my glass slipper. Like, that wasn't going to happen, but for a lot of my childhood, I believe that's how love happened. Then you get older, and that doesn't exist.

[Mike D]

Yeah. I thought I would just show up, like, on a girl's lawn with the boombox and, like, play a song and that would be it.

[Morgan]

Yep. Did you ever do that for Kelsey? Did you ever act out a movie thing in your relationship?

[Mike D]

I mean, everything I've learned has been for movies. So probably in some aspect or another, maybe I picked something up, but I never explicitly did something like, I'm gonna do this from this movie.

[Morgan]

Okay, that's fair. I didn't know. Like, because you're such a. You're such a movie guy that oftentimes movie emulates real life. You know what I mean? Like, you often do things because you've seen it in a movie or you've seen it in a TV show, you've heard it in a song, and you're kind of like, oh, that's a good idea. So I don't know if you ever planned a date or did something that was inspired by something you saw on a screen.

[Mike D]

I've probably, like, ripped off some movie quotes as, like, my own line. So that's probably as far as that has gone.

[Morgan]

Your pickup lines, the moment you're like, oh, that might have been from a movie. Is it funny when we do that and we relate things to what we've seen and you know you've seen it somewhere else. Like, it's not yours. You didn't create it, but you don't know where it came from?

[Mike D]

Yeah. I mean, my entire life is quotes from other things that I've watched.

[Morgan]

And it's like, can you pinpoint every single quote that you reference? You know, where it came from?

[Mike D]

I would say at this point, yes. Maybe some have become so a part of my vernacular that I forget that they are quotes. But I think if I broke it down, I could remember everything.

[Morgan]

What are your top three quotes that you use that aren't yours?

[Mike D]

Oh, my top three that I use? Like in daily life.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Or something that you reference a lot. Maybe not every single day, but reference.

[Mike D]

I mean, I probably reference the Simpsons every single day.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Mike D]

And so much so that my wife will reference things. And she doesn't like the Simpsons. Like, she's like, that's the one show that you love that I just. I can't watch it. I support your. Your fandom for the show. I'll buy you, like, Christmas themed Simpsons stuff. But she doesn't like that show. And I have it to a point where I've said things so many times that she'll start quoting them now to you and doesn't realize that they're Simpsons quotes. And I love that.

[Morgan]

That's funny. So she's just quoting them because you've been using them so much.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But she has no reference of where it came from?

[Mike D]

No. No idea. Like, there's one, like, I call the big one Bitey, which was a reference to a Simpsons episode where Homer discovers, like, a mass amount of, like, possums living inside of something. And I'll just say that randomly we see, like, a possum or something. And so that is one that's just, like, she has no idea what that is from, and she thinks I'm just being funny.

[Morgan]

Have you showed her at least the scenes from which they come from? So she's obviously not going to watch

[Mike D]

the whole thing, but, yeah, some of them. Because there's one, like, whenever it's, like, a cold day and we to stay just in bed, I'll say, like, I feel like a warm, toasty cinnamon bun. And it's because Homer stayed home from church and he, like, cranked up the heat and was just in bed wrapped in a blanket. And then so she'll reference that. She's like, ah, I feel like a warm, toasty cinnamon bun. And I've showed her that scene.

[Morgan]

That's so funny. I love that she's just taking it on even though she's not interested in Simpsons. There's one that we used a lot growing up. My dad is such a huge Top Gun fan, and so he always used Talk to Me Goose. And so that's just a quote in our family. Just all the time, randomly. Like, if he calls or he'll make some reference to Top Gun on a voicemail. Like, that's his, like, quotes that he uses. But Talk to Me Goose is the one. Like, if we call, he's like, talk to Me Goose. Like, within our. Our normal thing. And I quote Mean Girls a lot. Mean Girls is one that I say that I love saying. None for Gretchen Wieners.

[Mike D]

Oh, yeah, that's the one that pops around our house.

[Morgan]

Yes. Like, if something relates to none, I'm like, none for Gresham Wieners. But I combined it with another one within Mean Girls. What is it? So there's. There's another scene in there. And of course, now I can't blank it. Also having. I have vertigo brain right now.

[Mike D]

The one from our Mean Girls vernacular is you go, Glen Coco.

[Morgan]

Yes. Okay, that's it. I combine those two, and I'll say, never you, Glen Coco. And I combine the two quotes, and they're literally. The other day, my fiance was like, I don't think that was the line in the movie. I was like, you're right. It Wasn't. I definitely combined those two.

[Mike D]

That is one that I forgot was from Mean Girls until we watched it again, like, last year, and I was like, oh, yeah, that's what that's from. That's just become, like, a saying.

[Morgan]

What is that scene? The Glen Coco scene? Why can't I remember it?

[Mike D]

I think. I mean, I know this isn't narrowing it down, but it's something. They're like, voting for something in class or I think they're voting for something.

[Morgan]

Is it Damien that says it? He's like, you go, glen Coco.

[Mike D]

It's either they voted for something or. Cause it's not the assembly.

[Morgan]

Let me see. Because if they're both Damian, that also makes sense why I'm putting them together.

[Mike D]

I don't remember specifically where it's from, but it just kind of comes out of nowhere. That when I heard it, I was like, oh, yeah, that's what that's from.

[Morgan]

This is funny. Okay, let's see. It's shouted when Damian is dressed as Santa and he's handing out candy cane grams.

[Mike D]

That's what it was.

[Morgan]

Okay, so they are combined. They're all in the same scene, the ones that I'm combining together. Cause he's like, you go, then, go, go. And then he also says, no for Gretchen Wieners. So instead, I just number you Glen Coco. That's. That's one of my most quoted ones. What do you think is the most quoted movie of all time?

[Mike D]

Of all time? Mm, I. That's hard.

[Morgan]

And I don't have an answer. I was just curious if there's something that came to mind.

[Mike D]

I mean, of my lifetime. It's probably super bad because I think that was, like, an era of. Any comedy that came out was so heavily quoted. Probably like a super bad or hangover from my life, what I would imagine, because I can think of, like, the T shirts that were made with all the quotes from those movies. Like, that was an era of graphic tees.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's probably true.

[Mike D]

But I feel like it probably has to be something older. So probably the wizard of Oz. Just because it's been around for, like, 100 years and there are so many famous quotes that everybody knows is probably the wizard of Oz.

[Morgan]

You know what? My. This is what I hate. Because I'm from Kansas. And every time somebody hears where they're like, where are you from? I'm like, kansas. You know, they automatically say to me, you're not in Kansas anymore.

[Mike D]

See, that's why. For that reason alone.

[Morgan]

But I know it so much Because I'm from Kansas and it's so closely connected to that state. But I didn't know if other people like use that phrase very often if they're not have any connection to Kansas.

[Mike D]

I mean, I've said it and I'm not from Kansas.

[Morgan]

Really. Well, you'd be like, we're not in Kansas anymore.

[Mike D]

Yeah. So I mean, I could probably think of 5, if not 10 wizard of Oz quotes, like off the top of my head. So I feel like that has to be up there at least in the top five most quoted movies of all time.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's a really good one. I was trying to think if there's other ones from like Titanic or.

[Mike D]

I mean, there are probably bigger movie quotes like King, I'm king of the world is like probably a top 10 movie quote. But I think from Titanic there's probably that one. And

[Morgan]

I'm looking up what is the most famous movie quote of all time to see if we're even on.

[Mike D]

It's probably like Casablanca or the one

[Morgan]

that did come up right away is the Gone with the Wind. Wait here. Hold on. We're gonna take a break and I'm gonna come back with these top ones. Mic check, one, two. Are we recording? Hi, I'm Michelle Bernstein, an award winning chef, restaurateur and mom. I have a lot on my plate,

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[Jake Mbetta]

What we always do is answer what is the future of computing? Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together? It's our DNA. To answer the question of what is the future?

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff.

[Jake Mbetta]

Yes.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Building actual physical machines.

[Jake Mbetta]

Yeah. It's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature, right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far away from that point with

[Jake Mbetta]

quantum by 2029 we'll build the first fault tolerant quantum computer that is one that can run a very, very large, large problem.

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[Morgan]

You were right. We were in like the older, older time. The first one that came up was Gone with the Wind. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[Mike D]

Good one.

[Morgan]

Which is a really top one. And then I'll be back. Yeah, from the Terminator. Toto. I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. Wizard of Oz and here's looking at you, kid from Casablanca. Yeah, those are the ones that come up at first. Other notable ones are may the force be with you.

[Mike D]

Oh yeah.

[Morgan]

I just don't feel like a lot of people fully use that in their terminology. It's very specific.

[Mike D]

Yeah, it's like a good quote, but I wouldn't use it.

[Morgan]

Yeah, like I love Star wars and I don't use that quote.

[Mike D]

It's like a good mantra to have, but I don't know that I would say it in every day. Like I don't think I've ever quoted Star Wars.

[Morgan]

No, I think I would quote Hunger Games more than I quote Star Wars. What's the famous line in Hunger Games?

[Mike D]

Volunteers tribute.

[Morgan]

I volunteer tribute. I've used before in my vernacular. And then I've also used the, there's something with like the Challenge Games. May the odds be ever in your favor. Ah, yeah, I use that one more than I use may the force be with you. Something about that might be more evil though. I don't know. Then there's you talking to me. Taxi Driver.

[Mike D]

Oh yeah. Robert De Niro talking in the mirror.

[Morgan]

Okay, I don't think I know that one. Bond. James Bond Again. Another one that I just don't feel like is used like every day.

[Mike D]

Probably just quoted inside of other movies and TV shows.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Then you got there's no place like home. Lizard of Oz, another one. So two from wizard of Oz. You're on par with the wizard of Oz. Then the last one I see is I see dead people.

[Mike D]

Six cents.

[Morgan]

But Another one. Like, if you're saying I see dead people in real life, then yeah.

[Mike D]

There's a difference between, like, the most famous and the most used, I would say.

[Morgan]

Right. Like, those are obviously the most famous, but I feel like the ones that we talked about are definitely more.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Used, per se. I don't know. Okay, so I need to know. What are you. Are. Are you looking forward to the Mandalorian movie like I am this year?

[Mike D]

I'm not really, because I love the TV show. Season one. Perfect. The last season, though, I thought was kind of mid okay.

[Morgan]

And I would have to go back and watch, honestly, to know. To differentiate between the two, because I've even rewatched it and watched them kind of all together. So I don't know that I could differentiate between season one and season two

[Mike D]

is because I thought the action was so good in season one. And then by the last season, I felt like it was a little bit disconnected with the overarching story where it almost just felt like every episode was like its own adventure. It got a little bit more family friendly. The action wasn't as intense, and there wasn't as much on the line in that last season to where I feel like they kind of sanitized the show just a little bit. And then I'm worried with the movie that they're not just making essentially the next season of the Mandalorian, but putting it in movie form.

[Morgan]

That's a good take. I haven't thought about that because maybe they aren't releasing any more TV shows because of this.

[Mike D]

I think they're kind of putting a halt on a lot of their big TV shows that could make money in theaters. Like, Moana 2 was supposed to be just a Disney plus series, and they were like, let's actually put it out in theaters. Same thing with the live action. Lilo and Stitch. They were like, we're gonna put this out on Disney Plus. You know what? Let's put it out in theaters where it has a little bit lesser quality than we are used to with, like, a normal movie. So I'm worried that the overall quality won't match what I want out of a movie versus if it was just a TV show.

[Morgan]

Well, and I don't know that they were wrong because didn't those things do end up doing well.

[Mike D]

Exactly.

[Morgan]

So I guess it makes sense business wise, but not for the person who's watching.

[Mike D]

Yeah, I think it for them as the business, it's like, a great thing to do, but for us, it's like, I want the best thing possible. And from what I've seen of the trailer, it doesn't look any more cinematic to me. Like, I like things if it's a TV show, I want it to look elevated on the big screen where they spent more money on it. Everything looks better. The action sequences are huge. And for me, after watching the trailers I've seen from it, it doesn't feel like a Star wars event. Like every Star wars movie that comes out in theaters, it's an event. It feels different. It feels big. It feels like there's this big anticipation around it and I'm not feeling that for this yet. And maybe it's just because it started out as a TV show and really haven't seen this in the Star wars world, where now it's a full blown movie.

[Morgan]

Do you feel like too, because it was such a big TV show when it first happened and it was so climactic, everybody loved it. It was like it came out and everybody couldn't stop talking about it. That then it makes it hard for anything to follow up from it.

[Mike D]

Yeah, it probably has lost for me a little momentum. Like if they would have done this after the first season, I'd be all in. But now that we've had multiple seasons, I don't know if this is the right time for them to make a movie. That's why I feel like it's more falling into their business plan of how they've been releasing things.

[Morgan]

I hope you're wrong.

[Mike D]

I do too.

[Morgan]

Mostly because I just. I love Mandalorian. I love Grogu.

[Mike D]

Me too.

[Morgan]

And so I want it to be good, but you are convincing me. I just hope you're wrong.

[Mike D]

Yeah, I want it to be good. I love Jon Favreau. The director who did a lot of the first season has done some really good movies, so I believe in him over everything. But I just worry that maybe there were some business decisions made that might lead to it being a little bit lackluster.

[Morgan]

You mean that corporations will choose a business decision over us? How dare they?

[Mike D]

I mean, yeah, sarcasm, that is what I'm worried about. But I still want to see. It's still like one of my most anticipated movies of the year. Yeah, I'm just going into it, not expecting it to blow me away. And maybe it'll. It'll surprise me.

[Morgan]

Okay. I hope it does. I hope it does, for all of our sakes. But you, you are movie Mac for a reason, so you're probably right. Did you ever get into Star Trek at all?

[Mike D]

I tried, like I watched the movies. I had one friend who was super into Star Trek and he tried to get me into the TV show the Next Generation, and I just could not get into it.

[Morgan]

Okay. Because I'm. I watched Starfleet. There's a new TV show that came out on Paramount. And you know me, I just love, like anything that gives me a version of sci fi or something. I just kind of will get drawn into it. And so that's what happened with the new Starfleet show. And I really enjoyed it. I would say Star Trek in general is the lowest caliber of all of them, which makes me sad because I feel like there's so much that could be done with it. But I also feel like it's now oversaturated that there's so many. There's. You have Star wars and you have all these. You have all these different franchises in sci Fi that. And maybe I'm being a little hater of Star Trek, but I feel like there's a reason it doesn't get the full respect that it deserves. And it has a little bit more cheesiness to it. I don't know. But I mean, like, the. The effects of it are great. Like, I loved it. I enjoyed the show. I'm now watching another show called Star Trek Discovery because of it. Like, I enjoyed it enough that I wanted more, but I see why people are haters of it. And on another side of it, I don't know, maybe. Is that a weird take?

[Mike D]

Is that, like, I could see that. I always saw it as. I could say this because I'm a nerd. There was always kind of a difference between nerd and geek. Geek was a little bit more hardcore and it takes a little bit more dedication to that lifestyle. Yeah, I respect him for it, but I feel like the average nerd loves Star Wars. But if you're a geek, you love Star Trek, where you got to be a little bit more hardcore. Like, I am nerdy in the sense that I like comics, I like Pokemon, but not nerdy in the sense that I can get super into Dungeons and Dragons. I don't look down on it, but I'm just not that intense of. I'm going to dedicate a part of my life to learning something like this that is so in depth. But this other level, you go down into the geek world, that is what they are into. It's a little bit more dedication. The dedication I don't have. If I did, I would do it. So I feel like those people are also into Star Trek where it's a little bit more. I would say Star wars is probably more for like a mass audience. It's a little bit dumbed down. And when it comes to Star Trek, it's a little bit more sophisticated. Sci fi is how I would see it. Where Star wars appeals to kids, that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to sell toys. Star Trek, I feel like, appeals more to the hyper sci fi person who wants like a crazy space story with like way more of that inside of it where it's less like, here's Grogu doing funny things. Yeah.

[Morgan]

There's a lot more dryness to it.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

There's no comedic relief, really.

[Mike D]

There's no like super crazy characters like a Chewbacca. It's a little bit more like straight ahead sci fi.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And I think that's why there's a part of me that enjoys it, but there's still a part of me that's like, I wouldn't like. I just wanted to start this new show, so I'm losing a little bit of information that would probably help me, but I couldn't get myself to watch all of it. You know what I mean? I just wanted to watch something about the Star Fleet and that kind of storyline because I was just watching the new cadets and enjoyed that show. But I couldn't give myself to walk down the whole path. Like when I saw the Marvel and Star wars stuff, I walked down the whole path.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

But this one, I couldn't convince myself to do it. And maybe because I know that both of those took me a lot of time to watch every single Marvel movie. And that was before all of the new ones had come out and watch all the Star wars movies and shows. So maybe I just don't have the time investment now. But I'm intrigued. I'm like on the corner hanging out with some of the half nerds, half geeks, a little bit of both. But to your point, I could see it because also Big Bang Theory is. I watched and I love that show. Super related to. They talked about Star Trek a lot.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And those were like very intelligent people who had science backgrounds and chemistry backgrounds and they knew everything that was happening. Whereas me watching, I got a journalism background. So I'm like, I don't know what that means, but I like it. That's a cool space. You know what I mean? So maybe that's why. But that's what I've been into lately. Feels weird. I feel like, you know, I'm doing the. What is their Thing I just know the hand. I don't.

[Mike D]

Live long and prosper.

[Morgan]

Live long and prosper. But I see him do it. And finally I've met Sprock's dad. So that's about all I know, though

[Mike D]

I think you meant in real life. I say, really? Leonard Nimoy, Right?

[Morgan]

Wouldn't that be cool? No. The guy who plays, I guess, Brock's dad, he looks a lot like Sprock. And maybe he was. I don't know. I don't. I don't know any of the background parts of it, but that's my nerd coming out right now. You have any nerd moments in you recently?

[Mike D]

I mean, I've gotten back into collecting Pokemon cards pretty hardcore.

[Morgan]

Why? What was the change?

[Mike D]

It all started what's the 30th anniversary of Pokemon this year. And they re released a Game Boy game that came out in 2004 on Nintendo Switch. And that's like the only gaming console I have. So I bought that. It was like 20 bucks. And I thought maybe I'll play this for a little bit and it'll kind of relive my childhood a little bit. I've been playing it for a long time, and every time you. You kick it back on, it, like, tells you how many hours you put into it. I think I've put in like 24 hours at this point. So like a full day of, like, playing it throughout, like, the last few weeks. And that has kind of led me back to one. I, like, went back and dug up all my old cards again and then have started buying cards again.

[Morgan]

So you had all your other ones you never got rid of?

[Mike D]

I never got rid of them. I just kind of had them in a binder that I would never really look at. And then I re got them out just to kind of see if anything's gone up in value. Not a whole lot. And then there's a lot of stuff coming out for the 30th anniversary. So the nerdiest thing I've done recently was go to Target, right when they opened on 8am last weekend to get

[Morgan]

a Pokemon drop and something newly dropped at Target.

[Mike D]

That's how this works. A lot of these. These cards sell out so fast. They put out like, these bundles or these boxes, these different sets that come out. So if you ever go to Target and see a large group of nerds waiting in a line, you'll see me there. And that is what people are waiting for. Where I felt so weird waiting in this line because it was on the same day that BTS came back and they put out like a Target exclusive. So there was one. There was one line of people there for BTS and one line people there for Pokemon. And you could tell who was there for what because I got in the wrong line at first. And I was like, I'm in a line with a bunch of women and then I see a bunch of dudes over there in glasses and like, skin problems like me. I should probably be in that line.

[Morgan]

You totally stereotyped the Target employee.

[Mike D]

Because I was like, oh, no, those guys over there, they all look like me. I'm in the wrong line.

[Morgan]

Did you ask somebody to confirm what was happening?

[Mike D]

You know, as soon as I saw the Target employee come out, they were like, yeah, this line is K Pop. This line is Pokemon. So I was like, all right, go in that line. So luckily.

[Morgan]

Wait, did you guys all go in at the same time?

[Mike D]

I got there right when they opened. I think some people were already waiting in line. I just kind of timed it out where I'm like, if I get there and I. And I roll up on the right time, I'm not going to wait in line. I'm not that crazy about it. So right when I rolled up, doors were open. There was already a line.

[Morgan]

Wait. Okay, hold on. We have to take a break and we're coming back to this. This is a great story. I love this for you. Psoriatic arthritis symptoms can be unpredictable.

[Mike D]

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Hello. Hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Gambetta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing at IBM Research.

[Jake Mbetta]

What we always do is answer what is the future of computing? Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together? It's our DNA. To answer the question of what is the future?

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff, building actual physical machines.

[Jake Mbetta]

Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experienced the culture of building hard things that others have not done before.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature, right?

[Jake Mbetta]

Yeah.

[Malcolm Gladwell]

My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point

[Jake Mbetta]

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[Morgan]

Okay, Mike, please continue. You roll up, you're in the line.

[Mike D]

So Target opens at 8am I roll up right at 8. I'm parked, I'm ready to go. I walk in. And immediately when you walk in, like right there where you like return stuff, that is where the lines are. So behind the counter is where they put all this stuff because they have a limit on how many you can buy. Because otherwise what happens with Pokemon cards is scalpers just go and they load up their carts and then they buy it all and then resell it online.

[Morgan]

First of all, shocked one that scalper, you know scalpers are like lazy, right? Yeah. They can't go get another job for, for a reason.

[Mike D]

I mean, some of them that that's their job. Like people buy them, flip them, they go to car shows, they sell it. Like that is a business and it

[Morgan]

is, but it's also like get a real job.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

You know, like, don't be a scalper.

[Mike D]

Yeah, I hate on scalper. I do hate on scalpers. But if that's like they've learned how to do their business, like I, it hurts me as a fan because I can never get anything cool when it comes to Pokemon because it always sells out because all the scalpers buy it. And then they re like there's, there's so many cool things that have come out that I haven't been able to buy.

[Morgan]

See, because we're hating on scalpers. Yeah, but respect for the drive. I get it.

[Mike D]

Like at the end of the day, they don't care who buys it. They just want to sell it. So it sucks for us. But that is why they have these lines because they come out crazy in demand. They don't want people fighting over them. So the good thing that Target actually does is limit it to two items Per person. So luckily I roll up right when they open. And there was. Even though I got in the wrong line, there was only like five people, maybe six ahead of me. And I looked at the. They basically had all the cards on like this big shelf behind them. And I was like, they only limit it to 2. I think I should be good. So I was waiting in line and then everybody just kind of starts looking at you because everybody's coming in to do their normal shopping. And then if you see a line, just out of instinct, you're like, why are people waiting in line?

[Morgan]

Like, do I need to be waiting in line?

[Mike D]

Do I need to be waiting in line? That's what happened. This lady behind me got in line out of nowhere and then she realized there were Pokemon cards. So she called her son and was like, hey, there's this new Pokemon card coming out I guess today. Do you want any? And he was like, no. I was like, I can't imagine a kid getting a call from his mom wanting to buy him Pokemon cards and be like, nah, I'm good. That would have been the greatest call ever for me as a kid.

[Morgan]

Yeah, well, and maybe like that kid is like 25 years old and was

[Mike D]

like, yeah, I just don't know how old the kid was.

[Morgan]

Yeah, like if it was a young kid, probably would have been like, yeah, I want anything. But maybe she's calling like her 40 year old son and was like, hey, I know once upon a time.

[Mike D]

Good point. I didn't know how old the kid was. I assumed he was like 10 years old.

[Morgan]

It's a fair assumption because it's probably true. But I'm just thinking like she called her 40 year old son to be like, you liked Pokemon once upon a time.

[Mike D]

But I waited in line. It only took like maybe 10 minutes. But that whole time I was just like questioning my entire existence of like, I've become the wait in line person for Pokemon cards. But I went, I bought them. They were 16.99 for one pack. So it had like a few packs in each of them. I haven't even opened them yet because now they're selling online for like 50 bucks. So I spent.

[Morgan]

Wait, the whole pack that you bought?

[Mike D]

Yeah, so it's like it's this. They're called the first partner. It's like a box and it has like three packs inside of it. And then now each of those is selling for like 50 bucks online. So that's a pretty. I mean, if that's somebody like go in there buying it. I spent 33 bucks. You can now make a hundred bucks. Can make 70 bucks off of that. Not bad.

[Morgan]

So did you buy two sets?

[Mike D]

I bought two and they were just like assuming that everybody want to. So like, if everybody else is buying two, I'm gonna buy two.

[Morgan]

Well, cause now you could have one and one you sell.

[Mike D]

That's. I am gonna open one. Although it's really hard for me to open them now at this point, knowing that it could only go up in value. And I'm trying to eliminate that from my brain because I'm. That I'm like, that's not how 10 year old me would think.

[Morgan]

No, you're doing this because you enjoy it.

[Mike D]

Because I wanna. But I was like, I got two, I'm gonna open one. Because they come with like this promo pack where I'm trying to get like all the starters that were like the Pokemon that I grew up with. Like the three starters from my childhood are like the ones I want to open. I'm like, I want to open it and get those. That would be the best case scenario. That way I keep the other one and just hold it because I've never really held anything like that before.

[Morgan]

Okay, who are the three starters?

[Mike D]

I'm so unfamiliar with Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle. So like Squirtle? Yeah.

[Morgan]

Who is naming a character Squirtle for kids anyways?

[Mike D]

So like those are the three that you could. That I'm trying to get. And if I open the one that I said I'm gonna open, I get those. That's like best case scenario for me. That way I have one open and then I keep the other one probably forever.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Mike D]

But I'll. I'll never, I'll still never sell it. Like, even though I collect things that I feel like could go up in value, I never could imagine a world where I would sell them. But it's just kind of cool to know because there's like some cards that I saw on the shelf maybe a year or two ago that were like 100 bucks at the time, like $1,000. I was like, I should have bought them while I had the chance.

[Morgan]

Well, and it's two things. One, there could come a time where you need that money actually, like there could come a time in your life where you're like, this is the time I'm going to sell it to. If you do choose to have kids, then you could walk down that path where that becomes an inherited thing and something that they get to keep and you get to share. With them. Because what happens if Pokemons go extinct for some reason? Like, what happens if all the cards go away? Because I'm selling Pokemon cards one day, and then they would be really valuable. Yeah, I don't know that they would. Because Pokemon so popular and printing cards is really easy, but it could things sometimes just go away one day.

[Mike D]

Because, like, my favorite videos to watch right now are people discovering, like, old packs from, like, the 90s that are completely unopened and how valuable those are now, you could sell one of those for, like, $20,000 for one. That's why, depending on what you find or how many you find, I'm like, what if this is that in another 20 years where somebody's like, wow, you still have that unopened completely. So I think of that that I would just like to post a video in 25 years. Like, this is what I found in my attic. Still have it.

[Morgan]

Well, and that's, like, super hard, though, because that would mean you as a kid chose not to, or your parents chose to give you one. And you know what I mean? Because no kid by choice is like, I'm not gonna open that.

[Mike D]

Never. I would open them on the way home or open them in the store. Like, I never in a million years would have thought to hold one of those.

[Morgan]

Had to be an adult Pokemon person who at the time liked Pokemon as an adult.

[Mike D]

Or, like, a kid who got in trouble and his parents took him away, put him in the attic, and then kind of forgot to ever give it back to them.

[Morgan]

You know what's really funny is Remy, when I adopted her from the shelter, she had a Pokemon character name. And I've been trying to look it up because I'm trying to remember what it was now, but it was a Pokemon character. Was her original name.

[Mike D]

Interesting.

[Morgan]

It started with an M. An M. This is gonna bug me now that I can't remember it, because normally I can. I'm gonna try and text my fiance

[Mike D]

first, because I told him what somebody would name a dog that starts with the M. Because I don't think Mew or Mewtwo fits.

[Morgan]

It was named after. Okay, let me respond quickly. Let me see if he remembers. I think it was an M. No. Maybe it was an N or in Pokemon. I was literally looking it up, trying

[Mike D]

to find if I had a dog and would name it after a Pokemon. I'd probably name it Eevee.

[Morgan]

Not Evie. She's brown. She was all black and, like, a little fluffy thing. Is he responding? I'm going to call him this is going to bother the crap out of me. I can't remember this, but I remember it was a Pokemon name. I looked it up because I was like, who named somebody this name? Like, this name doesn't even make sense.

[Mike D]

Oh, so it doesn't fit it?

[Morgan]

Not really.

[Mike D]

Okay. Because I was trying to think of something that would fit a dog.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And it didn't because I was like, what a weird. Gosh. It's like on the tip of my tongue. You know how much I hate that my vertigo brain is so real right now. I cannot access anything. He's going to be busy and not answer me. We're going to have to come back to it. Maybe at the end. What was it? I'm even looking up. Talk more about Pokemon. I'm looking up Pokemon characters as we speak.

[Mike D]

Yeah, if I had a dog, I'd probably name it. Yeah, I think I would probably name it Eevee or like Bulbasaur.

[Morgan]

No, no, that would make sense, though, because I did call her a T. Rex when she was a puppy. She's basically a little bit of a dinosaur the way she bit things. This is gonna bother. Hopefully by the end of this in the next four or so minutes, I'll either remember it or he will text me back. Yeah. What else is going on in your life besides standing in line at a target for Pokemon cards?

[Mike D]

I'm getting ready to move.

[Morgan]

Did you guys get the place you wanted?

[Mike D]

Yeah, we did.

[Morgan]

Nice.

[Mike D]

So I feel like both of us are just, like, ready to start fresh to where it feels weird staying in the place we are now when we know, like, all the things we want to do in the new place.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Mike D]

So we're kind of just like gearing up everything to move. And I think mentally we have moved already.

[Morgan]

So when is the. Nevermind. I don't want to say. Your official mistake. I was asking that, knowing that not to give me that answer. But are you guys already, like, are you bringing all your stuff over? Are you getting rid of stuff?

[Mike D]

That is the process we are in right now is we just got rid of a bunch of stuff and it feels so good. And I used to be somebody who would hold on to things for, like, emotional attachment, like, oh, this has some sentimental value. I've kind of left that phase of my life, and I'm in the process of just getting rid of things that if I haven't used it in a year or the last time I was cleaning out stuff, I'm just getting rid of it. So we donated, like, four bags of Clothes and then probably had, like, two trash bags full of stuff that was just worthless.

[Morgan]

Really?

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Is that wild, how much stuff you just accumulate over time?

[Mike D]

It makes me never want to buy anything again. I had a whole different outlook on consumerism after this of, like, getting rid of things that I bought at one point. And I. And it's just like, this is just junk. This is nothing.

[Morgan]

Well, and because you're like, I remember the name. It just came to me. Volprix.

[Mike D]

Oh, okay.

[Morgan]

Not Immern in Vulprix. Sorry. That was a weird moment. Anyways, what does Vulprix look like?

[Mike D]

It's the. It has the multiple tails. It's. It's not black, though. It's like. It's kind of reddish.

[Morgan]

Vulprix. I don't know that I've ever looked it up. Sorry that. I did not mean to interrupt you now.

[Mike D]

Vulpix.

[Morgan]

Vulpix, okay. She kind of looked like a Vulpix when she was a baby. She was Fluffy.

[Mike D]

That's a good dog name.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I feel a lot better now that that came to my brain.

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[Morgan]

I feel like, as an adult, Stu, you realize, like, my parents always keep a bunch of stuff, and so I watched them keep a bunch of stuff. So now I don't want to keep a bunch of stuff. But then, like, I'll go to him and be like, hey, do you have that shirt from, like, 10 years ago? Once in a blue moon. And they'll be like, see, there's a reason I kept everything. But how often does that happen where you actually miss the things that you get rid of?

[Mike D]

Never. Maybe, like, once in my life where I was like, oh, I did get rid of that.

[Morgan]

I know.

[Mike D]

And it's usually not that I got rid of it. Usually when I lose something, I'm like, oh, man, I can't believe I have no idea where that is. But rarely do. I think I shouldn't have thrown that away. I just completely forget about it.

[Morgan]

Yeah. So that's what. That's what you're having right now is that moment of what's worth keeping and what's time to let go of.

[Mike D]

Because I have, like, a box of stuff that I've just moved with me from every place since I lived in Austin. I'm like. And I'm like, oh, I'll unpack that at some point. And I haven't unpacked that in almost a decade. So I'm like, why do I need anything in that box?

[Morgan]

Now you were talking about that last best bit, so have you decided you're getting rid of that box.

[Mike D]

I'm getting rid of the box, yeah.

[Morgan]

Did you even go through it or were you like. I'm not even looking at it.

[Mike D]

I think I'm just gonna dump the whole box because I didn't even get into it. That's like the one closet we haven't fully cleaned out yet. And I don't even want to look at what's in there because then I'm going to convince myself that I might need it. But I have not looked at the contents of that box. Probably. Probably in six years. Whenever. Yeah, I haven't even looked at it in six years because it moved. It moved into that closet and hasn't moved since. So I'm just gonna throw it all away.

[Morgan]

Blind donate.

[Mike D]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

What if it has, like, really important records in it? No, you just don't necessarily need.

[Mike D]

I think it's probably a bunch of old cables that I thought those are still good cable. Mean, there's a really good, like, iPhone box in there from like, seven iPhones ago.

[Morgan]

Okay. Alternative suggestion. Have your wife look at it and just make sure there's no, like, really important things that, you know, maybe.

[Mike D]

Or there's like, anything that has, like, important information on it. Yeah, I highly doubt. I feel like it's all a bunch of, like, old headphones and, like, an old keyboard.

[Morgan]

And if that's the case, then she's just not going to tell you and she'll get rid of it.

[Mike D]

Get rid of it.

[Morgan]

That way you don't have to put your eyes on it and be like, justify a way of keeping it, but that way, you know, and have, like, the safety in your mind that you didn't get rid of something that you're like, I didn't realize it was in that box because there's always that one thing that you don't really look at. Maybe it's a photo album. Maybe it's a. I don't know, like just something that you don't really look at unless it comes up or you remember that you have. It could be in that box.

[Mike D]

Yeah. Another thing about it, there are. I know I have some pictures somewhere because I can't think of anywhere where I would have old pictures of myself. Like, it's really hard for me to find old pictures, like, from when I was a kid that I know exist. Like, I've been trying to do a post of, like, me as a young Pokemon fan, and I'm like, there's no. I know there's pictures of me that Exist of like, me with my old Pokemon cards with my hat, and I'm like, I have no idea where those are.

[Morgan]

So it might be in that box.

[Mike D]

It could be in that box.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Just have her go to Narnia. You do not go to Narnia. That could be like, your compromise for the box. Because I do know what that's like. Once I see something, I will have put it away for a while and I'll be like, always, once a year, go back through it to be like, should I get rid of some of this stuff? And I always look at it and I do the same thing where I'm like, I should keep it. I might need that at one point. So having a fresh set of eyes on it would be helpful, maybe. Or maybe just blind donate the box.

[Mike D]

Yeah, I like the blind donation.

[Morgan]

You could always be reunited with your pictures from somebody on TikTok. I have seen that happen a lot, too.

[Mike D]

I've always wanted to see my clothes out in public.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Mike D]

Like, if I donate something and then see somebody else who maybe buys it or finds it, like, I always want to see it out in the wild. And if I could spot it.

[Morgan]

Do you think you would spot it, though? That's my question. Because I. I feel like the things that I donate, I don't wear anymore.

[Mike D]

I feel like I've donated some jackets that are a little bit distinct, that I can notice that they were mine. Aside from that. Probably not. Because I don't. I don't think I would see a T shirt and think I had a T shirt just like that. But I think certain jackets that I've donated, I'd be like, that's my jacket.

[Morgan]

Well, and I do wonder, too, how many things get donated that actually make it to potentially have somebody buy it. Because, like, I donate things, I feel like it's in really good condition, but maybe my really good condition is not their really good condition. You know what I mean?

[Mike D]

Yeah. Or if they, like, don't even go here, they go, like, somewhere else out in the world. Yeah.

[Morgan]

Like, do they get shipped in a completely different country? You're going to be, like, walking the streets of Amsterdam Dam one day. Like, that's my jacket. I don't know if that's how that works. The donating system is wild. Well, that's exciting. That's a very big. Another new chapter for you guys.

[Mike D]

Yeah. I just feel like it's gonna be like, a good fresh start and kind of like a new jumping off point. And I just feel like I've kind Of needed something like that in my life.

[Morgan]

And moves are stressful. Are you hiring movers?

[Mike D]

Are you guys doing. Oh, yeah. Not even a question of whether or

[Morgan]

not are you bringing new furniture or are you bringing your furniture or are you getting new furniture, bringing art?

[Mike D]

We're trying not to do everything at once. Moving is so expensive. So I want to be in that space first and kind of see, like, what fits. Because my wife is more like, let's go right now and buy everything and have it in the new place for when you get there. I'm like, yeah, but, like, once we're there, we're going to know more of, like, what we need and what we want the vibe to be that I say we wait and then kind of figure out what we want to get rid of and what we want to have new.

[Morgan]

And that's tough because, you know, say you want a new couch, but you do move the couch, and then you have the couch there, and then you have to get rid of the couch if you want a new couch.

[Mike D]

Yeah, I thought it was like, I'd rather do that than get a new couch and be like, I don't know if this is the right couch.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, it's tough. There's not. There is not a good answer there. Moving in general is just really hard. It's really nice once you're there and once you're in it and once you get to. But I feel like, even still, I've lived in my house now since, gosh, 2019, and I'm still, like, I should add something there. I should get something for that. I haven't done that yet. Or like, I've been thinking about painting one of those small bathrooms and doing something. It's been almost seven years. I've not done anything, like, you know what I mean? So I do think it takes a long time to finally get settled into the house once you're there. So. But I'm excited for you guys.

[Mike D]

Yeah, I've already been, like, running in my new neighborhood.

[Morgan]

Oh, so you started taking laps.

[Mike D]

Yeah, Just see what you're running. I want the vibe of, like, the neighborhood and what it's like. So, like, I'm already way too familiar with it that people probably have seen me now and think I already live live in that neighborhood. And then once we actually live in the neighborhood, it's not going to feel any different.

[Morgan]

Maybe this is where you meet a new running friend.

[Mike D]

Maybe.

[Morgan]

Maybe what you needed was just a change of scenery, you know, something new. I have high hopes.

[Mike D]

Yeah, I Don't. Yeah, maybe. I guess it's from where we are now. I feel like there are more people out and about where I don't really have that now.

[Morgan]

Wait, where you're going to be?

[Mike D]

Yeah, where we're going to be.

[Morgan]

Like, there's not as many people out.

[Mike D]

There are like. It feels more like a neighborhood vibe where there's like things you can walk to where now we just kind of go in and out of the house.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I was going to say where you guys are at now. I was like, I don't feel like that's like an area that there's a lot of people walking around.

[Mike D]

No, no. It's kind of like oddly developed more now where it still feels weird. Where it's like, ah, this isn't really those type of neighborhoods.

[Morgan]

Well, good. And maybe you'll find your new favorite coffee place.

[Mike D]

There is.

[Morgan]

Things are walking. That's fun.

[Mike D]

I'm kind of looking forward to that part of it of being able to walk places. It's not like a downtown, like you can walk to everything type place, but it's like a little bit more of like there's stuff around it.

[Morgan]

That is the cool part about Nashville. If you live anywhere within kind of near the city, there are walkable things that are happening in a lot of the little areas of. I don't call them suburbs because they don't really feel suburb hyped. Suburb to me is like completely secluded from a city, but like their neighborhoods within the city limits. And that means that there's businesses and stuff within them, which I think is really cool. It gives New York vibes. Yeah, but not fully New York, you know, not the same. But you know what I'm talking about. Like, that's the feeling. Anyways, I'm done. My brain is going in a million different directions. But Mike, thanks for being on. Tell the people where they can find you.

[Mike D]

You can find me on all socials. Ikedistrow. And check out my podcast Movie Mike's Movie podcast.

[Morgan]

Love that. And you can follow the show on everything at bobbyboneshow. Lots of content up there. And goodbye everybody. Have a great weekend.

[Mike D]

See ya. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the other two parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms. Obbyboneshow. And follow ebgirlmorgan to submit listener questions for next week's episode.

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