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Morgan and a show member answer almost all your questions.
Bobby Bones
We have made it to part three of the Best Bits. Mike D. What's up?
Morgan
What up?
Bobby Bones
Thanks for being here. We got a lot of listener questions to answer, but we start out with shout outs to make you feel good. You ready?
Morgan
Yeah. This is the part I like the least.
Bobby Bones
The least because you don't like compliments. Max from Massachusetts. Love it when it's Mike D's week. Just a shout out to my two faves on Best Bits. That's from her. Now her name is written interesting. Megwyn, which is cool. How do you think that's spelled?
Morgan
M E A G W I N. Really close.
Bobby Bones
Just swap the A and the E. So M A E G W I N. She's from Illinois. I love the vulnerability Mike brings each week. That's from Jen in SoCal. Shout out. I've been hearing more Mike D one liners and quips on the show and I love it. Claire from Dallas, thank you.
Morgan
Thank you everybody.
Bobby Bones
Mike is visibly uncomfortable right now, but made you a little happy, right?
Morgan
Yeah, it's good.
Bobby Bones
We'll take it. Why was he unsure about going on the cruise next year? From Michael?
Morgan
I think it was what Lunchbox said. He said this would be a great experience if I wasn't working. So that line alone just stuck out to me of like everybody that comes who's just a part of the cruise for the fun part of it has a great time. But all you guys sounded like you went to war.
Bobby Bones
I'm not gonna say that we didn't, because we might have. But I will say definitely my social battery was. After that week, my social battery depleted.
Morgan
And I think that's my main issue with it, is I am not that social of a person. I don't feel like I have the personality to be on, like, that all the time. And I also feel like I'm not, Like, I'm probably underwhelming to be around for, like, a listener who is coming to party on a cruise. So I feel like my personality type wouldn't really thrive in that environment. So therefore, I wouldn't. I wouldn't put myself in that scenario of having to be so extroverted where I'm really not. And also for somebody to come and, like, have, like, this weird experience with me where I'm, like, not what they thought.
Bobby Bones
Okay, okay. I'll give a little bit of a. What's the word? I can't find words this week. Sorry. Forgive me. But I feel like on the other side of that, though, you're very kind when you meet people. And you. You are also very talkative in here when we do this. So I feel like there's a side of you that. That exists.
Morgan
Yeah, I think it exists in, like, increments. Like, when we do it, when we're touring, we do shows and, like, I was selling merch and meeting people. Like, I could do it in that capacity. But that's one city, one night for this. It's like a marathon. It's. It's a long time.
Bobby Bones
It's not a sprint to where I
Morgan
feel like I don't. Like, I need time to recharge and, like, go. Like, that's my favorite thing to go and retreat and go away. So I don't know that I could do it as long as you guys did or I don't know how long I have in me.
Bobby Bones
Well, I will say you could also choose to spend more time in your room. We didn't make that choice a lot of the time because we did feel like we should be out, like, mingling and hanging out with people. There'd be times where. But then lunchbox, and I would look at each other and be like, okay, I need, like, an hour. Give me a break. So I think you could have the moments you need and go back to your room when you need those moments. I don't know if we painted that picture well enough but it does exist and you did have that ability. And there were definitely moments of it where I had recharging. But you do anything for a week of that scope, it's gonna make you exhausted. So I don't know, I feel like this would be really good for you to go and do, even if it's just for a short part of it, maybe not the whole time. Maybe go do for like two days or a few days.
Morgan
Yeah, I don't know if I could just pick the two day option.
Bobby Bones
You'd have to do the whole time. I will say though, that the thing that was really cool about it that I kept going back to, even when. When I was really exhausted in my social battery was just gone out of the way. It was that how cool that we. That got to be our studio for a week, that we were on a cruise ship, that we went to the beach and it was work. You know what I mean? Like, it was a cool change of scenery. And I think all of us need change of scenery. I think that's a human thing to need instead of sitting in a room doing things. So, like, it was cool that I'd get up in the morning and I'm getting ready for work and the ocean is next to me and then I go and I'm like on a cruise ship doing a show. So the change of scenery helped balance that a lot. And maybe that will help you as well, because I know you like change of scenery too.
Morgan
Yeah, I do. So I think the buzzkill of it is also, like, the mechanics of how the show runs. Like, we can't all leave. Like, I think the people who stood back, like, it was really important to have that crew here. So I know you from a listener perspective, you probably don't see that, but there is that side of it too, of, like, some people do have to stay here for the sake of, like, not only the show running, but also, like, putting the show together. And if I was on a cruise ship for that amount of time, like, I couldn't do my job. I couldn't do all the other things.
Bobby Bones
Oh, yeah, you should have seen me doing exactly my job, not part nobody.
Morgan
I do not know how you guys did that.
Bobby Bones
I was. I was at 1am I was over here just typing blogs, trying to figure out, make sure everything's going up that needs to be up.
Morgan
There's that side of it. Like, we all have the things we have to do, but then there's like the physical side of like, someone actually having to stay here.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Morgan
And we Were, like, running on nobody here.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, yeah, it was. It's definitely a part of it. Okay, well, so maybe.
Morgan
Maybe.
Bobby Bones
Are you a maybe at least instead of, like, a hard no?
Morgan
Yeah, I'll say a maybe.
Bobby Bones
Okay. All right. Well, just in case. We did paint it so bad. There were good moments. There was a lot of glimmers. But I will admit, the social battery part was rough. If you could only have music or movies for the rest of your life, which are you choosing? Ashlyn and California.
Morgan
Oh, movies, for sure. There's also. There's music in movies, too. So I still get a cheat code. Unless they remove all the sound from all the songs from movies.
Bobby Bones
I guess that's true, too.
Morgan
I just watch musicals.
Bobby Bones
You just, like, you go running and you put a movie on.
Morgan
I just watch concert movies. Concert films.
Bobby Bones
That's how you.
Morgan
That's a cheat code.
Bobby Bones
That is a cheat code. I don't know that Ashlyn thought about that side of it when she was asking me that question, but I think
Morgan
overall, yeah, I think I would still go movies because I feel like just for entertainment value alone, like, I would. I would still want to be able to sit down and watch something versus being able to listen to something. Although runs would be really hard without music.
Bobby Bones
What I was about to say was you do long distance running, and that would be really tough.
Morgan
Dang, That's a good point.
Bobby Bones
You'd have to be a psychopath, like, lunchbox and not listen.
Morgan
I don't know that I could raw dog a run.
Bobby Bones
And the long runs that you do. Not just a run. Not just any run, but yeah, then I have to.
Morgan
I know some people listen to podcasts, which I always thought would be a really tough thing to do, but I guess that's what I would do. Or listen to audio books or just people yell at me. I would just have to listen to people yell at me.
Bobby Bones
I have a request.
Morgan
Okay.
Bobby Bones
One of your runs coming up. I want you to listen to a podcast or something and report back, because I'm never gonna do it. I'm never gonna be a runner.
Morgan
Listen to podcasts while I work out, and I'll do it, like, towards the end of a workout where it's, like, kind of more in the cool down. And that's. I get that part of it, but, like, running is just so, like, I need. I need momentum.
Bobby Bones
Well, and that's why I need you to report back. Like, I need. I need you to attempt this, and then I want to know how it goes, because I'm curious if you're like, you've just been putting it off, and maybe it was wrong, or maybe you do it for five minutes. You're like, absolutely not. I'll never do this again.
Morgan
I could try with, like, a mile. I'll do a mile with a podcast and see how it. See how it does.
Bobby Bones
Okay. And report back, because I'm just curious. Again, I will never personally do this study, so I need the information from you. Interstellar versus Project Hail Mary. Sean from North Carolina, that is tough
Morgan
because they are similar in the sense they're both space movies. And then it's also tough because I just watched Project Hail Mary and I'm still off the high of that movie.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. And you loved it.
Morgan
So if I think about what movie I would just want to sit down and rewatch on a regular basis, I would probably go, Project Hail Mary.
Bobby Bones
Didn't you also read the book? Was there a book for Interstellar?
Morgan
I don't think so. No. I think it was just Christopher Nolan wrote it.
Bobby Bones
Let me see. But I. I assume that would also add to that because you have a little bit more depth.
Morgan
Yeah, because I lived in the story while I read it. Then I got to see it on the big screen and compare, like, what they put in it, what they didn't. So I have, like, more background on it. I feel like I was more immersed in the world of Project Hail Mary than it was with Interstellar. And also when Interstellar first came out, I didn't fully love it. It took me at least two rewatches to fully appreciate that movie. Dang.
Bobby Bones
Really?
Morgan
I mean, while Project Hail Mary was, like, an instant left, it. Loved it. Perfect score. That type of movie. But I feel like my appreciation for Interstellar has, like, developed over time.
Bobby Bones
Okay, well, then that makes sense for that. And no, it was not based on a book. It was just a screenplay. So that I feel like that really does add a lot when you're so. You know, the entire depth of a storyline from a book to then a movie just adds more. You have more context, you have more to go off of, and you're just more. You want to be more involved in what's happening. Maybe I'm wrong in that, but I feel like that is the case for a lot.
Morgan
Yeah. Because you can spend a lot of time with the book. You picture more things in your head, and you just form, like, a deeper relationship than if you just watch the movie where I know people who have just watched the movie aren't going to read the book. And I kind of wish I Could, like, erase it from my memory and experience it that way, just to see if I would view the movie differently.
Bobby Bones
Okay.
Morgan
Because I don't know if it's. I feel like a contributing factor to me loving it so much was the fact that I already loved the book and I knew what was coming the whole time, so I was gonna love it no matter what. And I wonder if it holds up without the book knowledge.
Bobby Bones
I'll report back.
Morgan
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Because I have not read the book. I'm not as huge of a book
Morgan
reader, so I'm not either. But I. I just wanted that experience this time because I haven't done it since I read the Hunger Games.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Morgan
And that's been over a decade, and that was also much easier of a read. So I was just like. I want that satisfaction of, like, reading it, finishing a book, and then going to see it.
Bobby Bones
I think. I think it's very attached to it because the last ones that I had watched, I had did Harry Potter. My mom read the books to us, and then I watched them in theaters. Twilight. I read the books, watched them in theaters. Hunger Games, Read the books, watched them in theaters. And I have significant attachment to all of those movie, just those series and stuff because of their books. So I do think that plays such a huge role. But I will report back because I've not read Project Hail Mary, and I. I don't foresee myself reading it at this moment in time. So I will probably watch the movie before I read that.
Morgan
I mean, I know a lot of people who listen to the audiobook, which a lot of people recommended to me because they knew I didn't want to read the book. So I also heard that's like, a whole nother experience because I think they did a really good job and making that feel like another level of it. So I almost feel like that's one thing I haven't experienced from it.
Bobby Bones
Oh, so that's something you might be doing.
Morgan
I think so, yeah. Because I want to watch the movie again now that I've already seen it. I know what's included, what's not included. I need another rewatch of that without that. Any kind of expectation. And then I also think I need to experience the audiobook because so many people recommended it.
Bobby Bones
Okay, you report back. I'll report. We got to remember what we're reporting back next week. Time. Favorite animated movie. Wendy from Iowa.
Morgan
Favorite animated movie was a movie that came out and was the first time I identified with the Disney character and thought they finally got me.
Bobby Bones
Oh, and I Guess.
Morgan
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Coco.
Morgan
No. Oh, earlier than that. That was, like, cooler.
Bobby Bones
Okay, well, I also thought of Blue Beetle, but Blue Beetle isn't animated.
Morgan
Is blue.
Bobby Bones
It is blue.
Morgan
The character is blue.
Bobby Bones
Okay. And it's an animated movie, and it's. Wait. Blue clues.
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Okay. Just. I just had to check.
Morgan
I was gonna say Disney.
Bobby Bones
Okay. That's Nickelodeon, Disney and blue. The character is blue or the movie.
Morgan
The character is blue.
Bobby Bones
Okay. I'm thinking out loud.
Morgan
You probably think if you ever see this character, you might associate it with me.
Bobby Bones
See the character and associate it with you. But there's blue also. Okay. I feel like you've said this before. You've said it before, haven't you?
Morgan
Probably.
Bobby Bones
Disney movie, Blue. See you and think of you. Dang, I've watched so many Disney movies. I mean, like, there's Finding Nemo, but that doesn't. That doesn't associate you. For me. Is it an older Disney movie or a newer animated movie?
Morgan
Older. 2000s.
Bobby Bones
Older. 2000s in blue. We're gonna be here a while, probably because of my vertigo brain. So please just go ahead and tell
Morgan
me it is Lilo and Stitch.
Bobby Bones
No. Yes, I knew that. I did know that. I just was not going there. Because you identify with Stitch.
Morgan
Yeah, Stitch. Whenever I saw that movie of, like, how he felt. I mean, he's literally an alien, but felt like an alien, didn't have a family, and then discovers this family where other people say that's not a real family. Everything about his character being misunderstood, having, like, this displaced, like, anger and rage being created out of a situation he didn't want to be in, and then finding a family, finding a friend. I was like, man, that is, like me. Like, whenever he's, like, relating himself to the Ugly Duckling and, like, being lost, I was like, wow, that's. That's, like. That's how I felt as a kid. So that's been my favorite animated movie. It's my favorite Disney movie. I don't think it's the best Disney movie. I still think Lion King on paper, Pound for Pound, is the best Disney movie, but my favorite is Lilo and Stitch.
Bobby Bones
And you do a stellar Stitch impression that I do. Yeah, I should have put that. I feel so dumb right now. I knew that answer. All right, we're gonna take a break. We'll be right back.
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Bobby Bones
We talked about this in part one so highly encourage you to check it out. But I still think you should answer here. Brenda wants to know if seen Baby Billy gave you and Kelsey the itch to have a baby?
Morgan
Yeah, I would say like we've thought about it before this but it's kind of been like another. We're on the path to that.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, we and we really in depth talk about this on part one. We're talking about babies and having kids and all of that. So I love that question though. Any intent on running an Ultra staff from Ohio?
Morgan
I don't know. I don't think I would do it in a race setting because I feel like I approach races where it's going to hurt me because like recently I ran a marathon just because, because I on my Sunday long runs I usually do like 20 miles and I've been doing like 22 and I was like I feel like I could just do this on a random Sunday and just complete the whole marathon. And everybody tells me if you can do that you could pro. That's like the next step of an ultra. But it's just I, I guess the same way whenever I ran a half marathon I was like there's no way I could turn around and do that again and do a full one.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Morgan
And I just kind of know my body and I'm like I don't know that I could go the ultra route.
Bobby Bones
I was Looking at Ultra to find out what it was. And Google corrected me and said, what is an Ultra Beast? Pokemon. Because I was just looking at Pokemon from part. So There's.
Morgan
Is it 50.
Ryan Seacrest
So
Bobby Bones
ranging from 31 miles to 100 miles or more. So I think it depends on.
Morgan
Okay. I guess the ones I've seen were like 50 miles where I thought it was just double the little.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. It's like anything longer than a traditional marathon. So even if you do 27 miles, I think you're technically competing for Ultra. But yeah, the ones that. Where people do, they do like 50, 31 miles to a hundred miles, depending on who sets it up.
Morgan
Yeah. Cause in a race setting, I just get a little bit competitive where I run. I start out faster than I should and then I burn out. Like the last marathon I ran officially by like that mile 22, my legs were like done. And by like 25, 24 and 25, I had to try really hard, just like push myself along versus when I just did it on my own with no other, like people around me. There's no music, there's nothing like that. I was just able to kind of. I don't say it was easy, but I was able to not overexert myself. And that would be the only way that I could run any further is I can't. I get like quietly competitive when I'm running where if I see somebody else, I want to run faster than them. So if I did an Ultra in a race setting, I don't. I think I could barely do the marathon that way.
Bobby Bones
You'd have to pay. Have somebody pacing you.
Morgan
Yeah. Which is hard for me to do. I even tried that the last marathon I ran. We're like sticking with my pace. Like they are the people with the sticks that like have the runtime, the end time you want. But even that I'm like, I could probably beat him a little bit. I get a little bit further ahead. It's hard for me to stay with that group.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Morgan
Even though I know that it would be better for me.
Bobby Bones
I saw there's a people that I follow bare performance. I don't know if you do, but they do like these kind of really random challenges. And they did one where people ran throughout the entire day. It was like a 24 hour run where each hour they had to complete a certain amount. And then if they completed it within the hour, they got a break. Otherwise they were kind of continuing on and it was like the last man standing of it. Do you think you'd ever do Something like that. Wild, crazy challenge.
Morgan
No.
Bobby Bones
Isn't that crazy?
Morgan
Yeah. Those things where people, like, keep going, doing something where they don't sleep. Like, I'm out.
Bobby Bones
Right. Like, you need your sleeve. That's part of your whole training.
Morgan
Yeah. Cause, I mean, I know a lot of it is mental, but at some point, like, my mental state would just crash.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Morgan
And I just couldn't go any further.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I feel like you could do it for at least half a day. Then you just need sleep. You know what I mean? But you can at least accomplish it for what you'd be awake for the last.
Morgan
When I did the unofficial marathon, it took me four hours. I could maybe imagine if I really push myself doing another hour, but I think that would be my limit.
Bobby Bones
That would be your max.
Morgan
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Hey, that's more than most people, Mike. You say that like, bad thing, but that's more than most people. What is the weirdest thing a listener has ever said to you in public? Abby.
Morgan
In Tennessee, not so much what they said, but where they said it. I think it's being recognized in a bathroom. Like, while peeing.
Bobby Bones
I was gonna say while you're like.
Morgan
It's kind of one of those. You walk in at the same time, and then the first time you, like, kind of encounter each other sitting, standing next to each other, each other in a stall. That was probably the weirdest time.
Bobby Bones
And it's probably weird because it's probably just a reflex of they're just reacting to seeing you.
Morgan
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Versus them being like, oh, we're in a bathroom. I should say that right now.
Morgan
So it wasn't anything they said. It was just no matter what was going to come out of their mouth was just going to feel weird because we were both peeing at the stall.
Bobby Bones
I think the funny ones to me are when people compare me to somebody, like a celebrity, or, like, they say somebody's my doppelganger. Because it's really hard for me to not have a reaction to that.
Morgan
You know what I mean?
Bobby Bones
I'm like, oh, what? Okay, that's. Yeah. Like, if it's not one that you're used to or one that's just, like, out of left field, or if somebody's like, you really look like my daughter. And then they show me, and I'm like, I don't know what I'm saying.
Morgan
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Do I?
Morgan
I don't like the comparison thing either, because I get any Mexican dude with glasses.
Bobby Bones
See?
Morgan
And that's uncomfortable and doesn't even have to resemble me whatsoever. As long as their skin is brown and they're weari wearing glasses, you look like him.
Bobby Bones
And, like, you have to try and be nice. Right. But how do you respond in a scenario like that? That is nice, but also a little uncomfortable. Those are the ones that are funny for me, and I don't. I just handle it where I'm just like, oh, yeah, that's cool, whatever. But it's definitely the funny ones. They make me laugh after because then I'll go and look. I'm like, do I actually look like so and so or whatever? And those are always good. Do you see yourself with the Bobby Bones show five years from now? This is Alex. It's our last question.
Morgan
If we're here in five years. Yes.
Bobby Bones
Dang. Mike took a different route to that one.
Morgan
I just mean any. Like, if anything is here in five years. Like, who knows what the world is going to look like in five years.
Bobby Bones
Oh, okay.
Morgan
I just feel like there's so much uncertainty with everything. Like, I don't know if anything is going to be like we have in five years.
Bobby Bones
Okay. So I got some pushback on this, on the show of thinking that there's a possibility that we could be in an apocalyptic world ending type scenario in my lifetime. Do you feel like it could happen in your lifetime?
Morgan
I don't think so. And I think it's because I just watched that dinosaur show on Netflix. Oh, yeah. And they. It's pretty. Some of the things they embellish a little bit to make it a little bit more like the show, but they do a lot of history on, like, the world and how old it really is and how long it actually change, like, takes to change. And it's millions and millions of years, like, for things to shift for, like, the landscape to change. It's not only like 1 million years, it's like tens of millions of years that, like, all these different changes affected the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs adapted to different things. And I just kind of. That really helped me to put it in perspective of, like, how old the Earth is and how crazy it would be to end in our lifetime or, like, change some crazy apocalyptic thing to happen in our lifetime just because of how long it's been around and how we're like this little slice a sliver of that entire time.
Bobby Bones
But an argument to that would be that we were probably a lot harder on the planet than the dinosaurs were. The things that we've created, the stuff that we've done, how we've utilized our resources could be an argument for that because we're different species, we've used it differently.
Morgan
Yeah. But I also think, like, stuff way back then was even crazier of, like, how hot the world was and like, how cold it got and. But then I also see things like recently of like, asteroids and stuff, like kind of passing by or getting a little bit too close than we would. Like that we don't really know. Like, it could take just something like that just completely wiping us out. Like. Like things like that don't care that we're here.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. We don't have the. All the information of what happens in space. Right. So, like, we only have a. You talk about a sliver. We only have, like, this small portion of what we understand about what's out there. Something could easily come, like right now, and it just wouldn't. There's more. And maybe it's just because we're more knowledgeable of the fact that there's more unknowns and stuff, but I can see that. I could see how that could give you more peace and be like, oh, okay, there's a lot older. There's a lot of things we don't think about in the current moment that exists.
Morgan
I guess I just felt a little bit more insignificant watching something like that. Of thinking, like, not only like, us right here, like in this room. How, like, minuscule it is on the scope of, like, the world, but also just like all of humanity right now. Like a moment in time is just so small compared to how long this has been going on.
Bobby Bones
It's true. That is true. Like, do you ever go to a place? I do this often if I go to national parks or something and you just like, shout into a void and you do realize how small you are. How just insignificant. And that's not like a bad thing. It's a weird experience though, to be like, wow, I just really. The things that I thought are a big deal. The things that I experienced are just. They don't matter. And I'm just this teeny tiny little speck that's sitting here. And if you go all the way up into space, you'd never even see me. And those moments make me feel really small and insignificant. Like none of that really matters.
Morgan
I mean, I feel that way just looking up at the sky and like, seeing the sun or seeing the moon of thinking, like, how far that is and like, how big everything is around us. That is just like nothing feels like it matters sometimes.
Bobby Bones
This isn't meant to be morbid or anything. I was just curious because we. I talked about.
Morgan
I don't Think it should be more liberating. I think it's helped me to think of, like, even I don't want to spoil anything from Project Hail Mary. But also reading that book and there's a comparison of, like, how long you live. I think us as humans, to us, living to 75 is long to us. But to another species, it could be like, that's nothing. You only live that long. Like, that's crazy to me. You should really cherish that.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. And it is true. Like, I. You know, I may have that perspective where I'm like, yeah, definitely good in our lifetime, but I also have that same perspective where I'm like, I only have today. So what? Whatever else is going to come, there's nothing I can do about it. You know, we think about that a lot. My fiance and I were talking, like, do we become doom preppers? Do we, like, start preparing for the end of the world? And then we looked at each other, like, do we want to be alive when that happens, or do we just, like, want to be taken out with everybody else?
Morgan
From the TV shows and movies I've watched, I don't know that I would want to live that way.
Bobby Bones
Like, and that's what we talked about.
Morgan
Like, there's. I get the survival aspect, but I think at some point I'm just like, I don't know that I would want to do that.
Bobby Bones
Right. Like, and that's exactly what we said where we were like, you know what? Nah, that's not for us. We're just going to see what happens to us, and probably we're on the side of just, like, we'll go with everybody else.
Morgan
Yeah, because, like, even watching that dinosaur show, like, there is a sad part, like, after spoiler alert, the asteroid hits and it takes out all the dinosaurs, but, like, some still kind of survived. And you just kind of see them, like, walking and, like, getting slower and, like, taking a nap. And I'm just like. I feel like that's how I would just kind of ride it out.
Bobby Bones
Just be like, okay, but anyways, sorry. Hey, I. It's a fun little hole. I like to go down sometime. All right, Mike. They can find you and listen to you. Where?
Morgan
Movie. Mike's Movie Podcast. Brand new episodes every Monday. Even if you don't like movies, I give a lot of, like, my outlooks on life kind of like we do here, but just when talking about movies, because sometimes you watch a movie and it kind of resonates with you. So I do that. And then you can find me on socials ikedistrow on everything.
Bobby Bones
Love it. Yes. Go check all those things out and if you would like more of the show, obbyboneshow, lots of podcasts. There's everything. Just go to bobbybones.com if you really want to look for everything. It's all there but that is all for us. Goodbye everybody.
Morgan
Bye. 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 obby boneshow and follow ebgirlmorgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode.
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Date: March 28, 2026
Participants: Bobby Bones (host), Morgan (co-host), Mike D (special guest focus)
Source: Best Bits of the Week – Listener Q&A
This episode of "The Bobby Bones Show" features the popular "Best Bits" segment, with Morgan and Mike D answering a range of listener questions—everything from favorite movies to career longevity with the show. The main themes revolve around work-life balance, personal preferences (music or movies), identity and representation in film, marathon running, and existential questions about the future.
The conversation is casual, authentic, and laced with humor and genuine insight into both the on-air personalities' professional and personal lives.
[03:25 – 04:21]
“This is the part I like the least.” – Morgan [03:36]
[04:21 – 09:09]
Mike D and Morgan discuss whether Morgan should join the annual show cruise.
Morgan is hesitant due to her introverted nature and concern about sustaining high levels of social interaction.
“I don't feel like I have the personality to be on, like, that all the time.” – Morgan [04:57]
Bobby argues for the benefits—change of scenery and memorable experiences—while admitting the exhaustion is real.
Suggests maybe Morgan would benefit even from a partial experience.
Key dynamic: balancing extrovert-heavy events with inner needs for solitude and recharging.
[09:09 – 11:13]
Listener asks which they’d pick: only music or only movies for the rest of their life.
Morgan quickly picks movies, joking:
“There's music in movies, too. So I still get a cheat code… I just watch musicals.” [09:23]
Both acknowledge how hard running would be without music, Morgan reflects:
“I don't know that I could raw dog a run.” [10:11]
Challenge: Morgan will try running to a podcast and report back.
[11:13 – 13:53]
Listener question: which space movie is better?
Both compare the two, with Morgan preferring Project Hail Mary (due to reading the book and deeper personal connection).
Discusses how experiencing both book and movie deepens emotional investment.
“I feel like a contributing factor to me loving it so much was the fact that I already loved the book and I knew what was coming the whole time.” – Morgan [13:18]
Bobby plans to watch the movie without having read the book and will report back.
[15:06 – 17:25]
Morgan’s favorite animated (and Disney) film: Lilo and Stitch.
Deep personal identification with the character Stitch, discussing themes of feeling like an outsider and finding family.
“Everything about his character...being misunderstood, having this displaced anger and rage...and then finding a family, finding a friend. I was like, man, that is, like me.” – Morgan [16:38]
Bobby admits he should have known the answer, referencing Morgan's famous Stitch impression.
[21:23 – 25:33]
[25:34 – 27:06]
“As long as their skin is brown and they're wearing glasses, you look like him.” [26:56]
[27:36 – 29:04]
Listener asks if Mike D sees himself with the show in five years.
Mike D gives a philosophical answer, focusing on the unpredictability of the future:
“If we're here in five years. Yes.” – Mike D [27:36] “I just feel like there's so much uncertainty with everything. Like, I don't know if anything is going to be like we have in five years.” [27:49]
Leads to philosophical musings about apocalyptic scenarios and the longevity of humanity.
[28:09 – 33:10]
Extended discussion on the smallness of individual existence versus the vast timeline of Earth.
Morgan finds peace in the insignificance, referencing a dinosaur documentary. Bobby leans into “live for today” philosophy:
“You do realize how small you are. ...And that's not like a bad thing. It's a weird experience though, to be like, wow, ...I’m just this teeny tiny little speck...” – Bobby [30:39]
Discussion pivots to whether they’d want to survive in an apocalyptic scenario—consensus: probably not.
[33:20 – End]
“Even if you don't like movies, I give a lot of my outlooks on life kind of like we do here, but just when talking about movies...” – Mike D [33:20]
On Social Exhaustion:
“But all you guys sounded like you went to war.” – Morgan on the cruise [04:28]
On Choosing Movies:
“I just watch concert movies. Concert films… That's a cheat code.” – Morgan [09:36]
On Deep Book/Movie Connections:
“I wish I could erase it from my memory and experience it that way, just to see if I would view the movie differently.” – Morgan [12:57]
On Feeling Like an Outsider:
“Whenever I saw that movie of, like, how he (Stitch) felt…I was like, man, that is, like me.” – Morgan [16:38]
On Public Recognition:
“It's being recognized in a bathroom. Like, while peeing.” – Mike D [25:43]
On Unpredictability:
“Like, who knows what the world is going to look like in five years.” – Mike D [27:42]
On Insignificance of Human Existence:
“How, like, minuscule it is on the scope of, like, the world…” – Morgan [30:18]
“You do realize how small you are. ...And that's not like a bad thing.” – Bobby [30:39]
| Time | Segment / Topic | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 03:25 | Listener compliments for Mike D & Morgan | | 04:21 | Cruise experience & introversion vs. show events | | 09:09 | Only music or movies for life? | | 11:13 | Interstellar vs. Project Hail Mary | | 15:06 | Favorite animated movie & identifying with Stitch | | 21:23 | Marathon vs. Ultras, personal running stories | | 25:34 | Weirdest fan interaction in public | | 27:36 | Will Mike D stay? Thoughts on the future | | 28:09 | Philosophical talk: end of the world, significance | | 33:20 | Mike D's own podcast plug |
The tone throughout is candid and down-to-earth, blending lighthearted banter with meaningful personal reflection. Regular listeners will enjoy the continued intimacy and authenticity, while newcomers get a clear sense of each personality's quirks, values, and philosophies on life, work, and the meaning of it all.
Recommendation:
This episode is rich with personal stories and genuine laughter—well worth a listen for fans of the show and newcomers alike, especially those interested in the personal side of working in radio/entertainment.