A (1:35)

Okay, yeah. That's that part.

B (1:36)

It was just a natural thing. Valentine's Day would roll around, One of us would be sick. So we still try to do something, but we'd be, like, battling through a dinner of trying to get through a sickness. It's been awful. We tried to do a concert on Valentine's Day. It was awful. So now we have decided we are done with actually celebrating Valentine's Day. Now you're purposefully not doing anything purposely, Even the gifts. This year we're like, let's not do gifts. We. We're doing something different where we're just going to spend money on each other's hobby and go to that person's place of choice where they want to spend the money.

A (2:10)

Oh, okay. So do you know what each other's into?

B (2:12)

Yeah. So my Wife has recently got into needlepoint.

A (2:16)

Okay.

B (2:16)

Is super into it. Apparently, it popped off on TikTok and there's a big community there. So she started this maybe around Christmas time or beginning of the year. And apparently it's kind of an expensive hobby.

A (2:26)

Okay. In needlepoint, is it some version of sewing?

B (2:29)

Knitting, cross stitch, where she gets, like, these designs that. It's the template and she picks out the thread that she uses, and then she goes over the template and then creates something that could be turned into something later.

A (2:41)

Has she created anything yet?

B (2:43)

Yeah, her first. It's crazy to see how much better she's gotten in a month from where her first one is, like, not as detailed a little bit. Like, you can tell she didn't really know she was doing. Now she's, like, all in. And she's really good at it now. I mean, I think she wants to get better at it, but she's. She's learned quickly. Okay.

A (3:02)

Okay. So you guys are going to do an activity with needlepoint.

B (3:05)

We're just going to each other's store. So I'm going to go with her to that store and then help her pick out stuff.

A (3:09)

Is there a needlepoint store?

B (3:11)

There is a needlepoint store here.

A (3:12)

Really? I was thinking it was like a Michael's or Hobby Lobby.

B (3:15)

It's a specific store that opened just for this hobby. And it's. I've been in there one time with her, and it was so packed. And they even have, like, a couch for guys like me who go. And it was just crazy to see that many people there for a hobby I'd never heard of.

A (3:30)

That is wild. I didn't realize. Is it called the needlepoint?

B (3:33)

It's called, like, Kickass needlepoint.

A (3:37)

This is why. See, and niches are cool for that because they can just pop up at any moment.

B (3:41)

In TikTok, you just find your people and then you know all about it and you get dialed in. So it's really cool. I took home EC in maybe 8th grade, and I know how to, like, sew it pretty well. It's like one random skill I learned. I think if I really sat down and had the patience for it, I could learn, too.

A (3:58)

Do you think you're gonna try to learn on Valentine's Day?

B (4:02)

No.

A (4:02)

Not even a little bit?

B (4:03)

Nah, I don't think I can. I don't think I'll go that far. I'll help her pick stuff out. Like, I really want her to make me, like, a Pokemon one. Like a Pokeball. Okay. I was like, it only has A few colors. I think you could. I think you could do it.

A (4:15)

So maybe that's what she's going to start working on.

B (4:16)

Yeah, if she can find a template for it.

A (4:18)

Okay. And so that's her store. What's your store?

B (4:21)

Mine is a comic book store, naturally, where our local comic book shop, like, has had a rough time lately with whenever all the power was out, like, they went a week without sales. So I was like, we got to go support my local comic book shop. So she's going to go with me and pick out some stuff.

A (4:35)

Are you on the hunt for something in particular?

B (4:37)

No, I think I've gotten behind a lot of this, a lot of the comics I've been reading. So I just need to get a bunch of stuff to catch up. So just kind of stocking up.

A (4:46)

Nice. And after you guys visit the stores? Nothing, man. We just hang out with your hobbies.

B (4:52)

We hang out with our hobbies. And then we decided not to go out on Valentine's Day to dinner just because we don't want to pay a lot more for the same meal we would get.

A (5:00)

Yeah.

B (5:00)

And every time we've gone out on Valentine's Day, it's like the fixed menu, and then you feel so rushed, where you just feel like an item in the. In that restaurant where they're like, all.

A (5:08)

Right, come on, sit down.

B (5:09)

And it's so fast. So. Right, let's not do that. Let's not waste the money.

A (5:12)

Well, and I don't know if you feel this, but as a vegetarian vegan.

B (5:16)

It'S hard to do a fixed menu.

A (5:17)

It's really hard. There's not a lot of options there for you.

B (5:20)

I get why they say no substitutions, but it's like, I just can't. I can't eat this stuff.

A (5:25)

Yep.

B (5:25)

So, yeah, we're not doing that. And the only other thing that we've continued throughout all of our Valentine's Day is, well, I guess I'm the only one who makes the card. I make my own card every year.

A (5:35)

Like a custom.

B (5:36)

Like a custom. Like, I'll use construction paper, glue, markers, the whole thing. I like to physically make my own cards, card, and design all of it.

A (5:43)

Oh, that's cool. You should post pictures of them. Are they, like, really? I feel like they're really artistic. If I know you, if I have.

B (5:50)

Enough things to make it very artistic. I still need to go get my supplies for this year, now that I think about it, because I looked yesterday and I thought we had construction paper, and we don't. So If I can get some construction paper, I'll see what I can do.

A (6:01)

All right.

B (6:02)

Yeah.

A (6:02)

I want to see these. I love seeing custom cards.

B (6:04)

Yeah, it's fun.

A (6:05)

They're fun.

B (6:06)

And red and, like, pink are, like, my favorite colors. So I, like, get to use my favorite colors to design something.

A (6:11)

Red and pink are your favorite colors.

B (6:12)

I like shades of red. Yeah. Okay.

A (6:14)

And pink is like number two. More red is your favorite.

B (6:18)

More red. I don't know why I said pink. I was like, I meant like red and pink for the holidays. I just use it.

A (6:24)

Fair. I got it. Okay. I like this. This is a fun Valentine's Day plan.

B (6:29)

Yeah. It's low key.

A (6:30)

Yeah. Well, for our first Valentine's Day plan as a couple and as engaged, we're also not doing dinner.

B (6:38)

Okay.

A (6:38)

We decided to. We had originally had a reservation and then decided, no, it's not worth it to go out. So instead we're going to go try out a new brunch place that we've been wanting to go try. It's been on our list for a while. So we're going to have Valentine's brunch, and then we're going to go home and we're going to make homemade fondue that I can actually eat.

B (6:55)

How do you make that?

A (6:56)

It's just with chocolate chips, like different variations that are vegan, gluten free.

B (7:00)

Okay.

A (7:01)

Because I'm still on my diet restriction.

B (7:03)

Why did I think fondue was cheese?

A (7:04)

Fondue? Well, fondue can be cheese.

B (7:06)

Okay. So it's just the, like.

A (7:08)

Have you ever been to the melting pot, the restaurant?

B (7:10)

No.

A (7:11)

So they do fondue. There's. You have like a starter, which is cheese, and then you have. It's kind of like a broth, if you will, in the fondue that you can cook meat and veggies in. And then you have chocolate. So it's like a three course meal and you get to determine what you're cooking. But it starts cheese meats and then chocolate. So one of those is chocolate. And I love chocolate fondue. It's like one of my favorite things. And I've learned how to make it being safe for me to eat. So we got like different chocolate chips kind. We got like a white chocolate, a dark chocolate, milk chocolate. We got some crunchy peanut butter, some marshmallows, and make our own decadent chocolate fondue.

B (7:50)

That sounds fun.

A (7:52)

So that's. That's what our plans are for the evening when everybody's out in the, like, hustle and bustle of it. But it was Funny because he's not a big Valentine's Day. He's like, I just would prefer to, like, show up for you every day. That's, like, what I would rather do for you. And I was like, yeah, but honestly, I've had a lot of really crappy Valentine's Day. So if we could just do this one where we have something that would be fun for me, it's like, I can. I can make that happen. Because I notoriously have had just horrible moments happen on Valentine's Day.

B (8:21)

Like, just specifically that had to do with Valentine's Day or just, like, it's just, like, an awful day for you.

A (8:26)

It was always an awful day. Something disappointing always happened. Right. Where, like, somebody would not show up. I'd be in a fight with somebody. These are, like, past relationships, or they. I would found bad news out on one of those days about one of them. So I just really don't have Valentine's Day you want to talk about. Like, the crappiest holiday for me was Valentine's Day. So I'm like, I would like to rewrite the story of how I see Valentine's Day, because currently it's not a good one. It's not a good holiday to me.

B (8:56)

Yeah, that's. I guess I don't really have any historical good Valentine's Days either, because I was never in a relationship until my wife now, like, that I had on Valentine's Day. And all I remember was, like, in school, like, I enjoyed just getting the cards because the little Valentine's Day, because they were all, like, different characters that I like. But, yeah, I've never had, like, a. Oh, that was a great Valentine's Day.

A (9:19)

See, but at least you're rewriting it with hobbies that you love. Cause that makes you enjoy it. I would assume that's something you guys are doing.

B (9:26)

Yeah, I think it just. It's kind of like a forced fun day for us. We don't focus so much on, like, this is a day that we need to use to show how much we love each other. You were saying, like, you don't need a day for that. You can show that every other day. It's just like, okay, we're specifically gonna do something for this day.

A (9:43)

Just because it's like, you have to create intention around a day is kind of the reframing it instead of it being the very corporate Valentine's Day. I walked into Kroger the other day, and, man, it's like red and pink, blue up in there. I was like, what? And there's balloons everywhere and flowers and chocolates. And, like, I love those things, but I love those things all the time. I don't just like them for Valentine's, like, give me chocolates all the time. You know what I mean? And I like making flower bouquets, so. Very much so. But it's kind of funny. So we've. This week, though, I. I try and focus just in general, on really enjoying love in the week. I've. I've been trying to. Before I met my fiance, I really was trying to just embrace love during the week of Valentine's Day, especially being single. I was trying to, like, already re. Change how I thought about Valentine's Day. So one of the things I did this week, there was a Valentine's event with Russell Dickerson.

B (10:40)

I saw. Yeah.

A (10:41)

Yeah. It was like a Galentine sobriety, which was funny because Russell Dickerson was the only dude. He was, like, performing for us, but it was all girls. I think maybe 2 of the workers in there were guys, too. But beyond that, it was, like, all girl attendees. And it was cool because he did, like, a buffet at this really pretty esthetic, if you will, restaurant in Nashville. And he had massage chairs for people. Like the. You know where you see him in the mall and their heads are down.

B (11:06)

Yeah.

A (11:06)

And somebody's massaging.

B (11:07)

Oh, like the straight up. Not the ones that are like a recliner. No, like a massage chair you got to do work on.

A (11:12)

Yeah. Like somebody's doing something to you, like digging their elbow in your back. He had that set up. You had the food buffet. There was a bouquet bar where you can make your own flower bouquet. And then you could do an incense. Like, create a jar full of different concoctions to smell good in your house that you burn. Yeah, I think. I don't really know what I'm supposed to do with it now. Like, I created it, but I don't know. Like, do I light it on fire? How does that work? I don't know. I've never had incense before.

B (11:43)

I used to be really into incense. Really? Yeah. I would buy it all the time.

A (11:46)

So how would you burn it?

B (11:48)

I guess you just light it on fire, and it just burns slowly on its own. You kind of have to pay attention to it just to make sure it doesn't spark or anything. It just slowly burns and then releases the smell. And there's, like, the little cone ones. There's the ones that are, like, the sticks.

A (12:01)

Okay. See, I don't have, like, a thing to light, though. So am I just going to Light the eucalyptus on fire.

B (12:07)

Oh, yeah, I don't know about that. I don't know what you're working with there. Don't burn something down.

A (12:11)

It's got like, all this, like, dry the options to put in more dried fruit. There was like, dried oranges, lemons, strawberries. And then you had different plants to add in.

B (12:19)

And again, there could be some instance that you. Incense that you don't light on fire.

A (12:25)

Do I just smell it? Like, do I just walk up to it and smell it?

B (12:28)

More like potpourri.

A (12:30)

That's probably more of what it was than incense. I. I just. I think I associated them as the same thing up until this moment, if I'm being honest. Or potpourri. I always thought of the spray that people put in bathrooms.

B (12:40)

Oh, yeah.

A (12:41)

Is that the same thing?

B (12:42)

I think so, yeah.

A (12:44)

Because I. I remember seeing that little bottle in every bathroom is like, no poo. Poo smell or something. Do you know what I'm talking about? That's what I thought poo pourri was. And I'm learning now that it's not.

B (12:57)

I think it's both things.

A (12:58)

Okay. So I don't know. We did something. We created a little. Little jar. And it was cool. That was a cool way to celebrate. And he performed, so it was fun to watch. And I don't know, there's just not a lot of those. And like, a lot of the Galentine's Day is. It tends to be pretty cheesy, the messaging around Galentine's Day. It's like, get with your girls. And it's like a whole. I don't know how to describe it, but it feels very like, hate men way messaging, if you will.

B (13:25)

Anti Valentine's Day.

A (13:26)

Yeah. Which is fine. Like, you can be anti Valentine's Day, but I don't know, I just wanted something that was uplifting and that felt like it was. And then we went to. So Remy and I have stopped kind of volunteering at the resident home because of her Addison's disease. It kind of like stopped us from that. That disease. She can't get stressed out super easy. So I have to be very methodical about what I allow her to do, if you will, like, because I can't have her. Her stress spike in any way. And so we did, like, a test run to see if she could do it again, like, do therapy. And she did really well. And so I decided, I was like, I. I really want to bring them Valentine's because one of the hardest parts in there is that a lot of them don't get many visitors. There's. You have people that have family come and visit, and we'll come and get them out and stuff. But there's a significant portion of them there that don't just have a lot of. Of people stopping by every single day, every, you know, every hour. And couldn't you imagine having to stay somewhere and you never get to leave? And you get a visitor maybe once a week. Feels really sad, really, like, lonely, if you will, even though people are around you. And so I was like, I feel like Valentine's would be a good thing to, like, lift their spirits, maybe make them feel a little bit of love. And so we put together a bunch of little chocolates, and I got flowers from Trader Joe's. All these roses.

B (14:46)

Trader Joe's has great flowers.

A (14:47)

They have the best flowers. If you're gonna make a bouquet, that's where you.

B (14:50)

Where you like. I always feel bad, like, when I do get my wife flowers, I go to Trader Joe's. It feels like I'm going to the grocery store to get her flowers. But it's like they, like, really pay attention to, like, what they carry, and it's, like, very curated.

A (15:01)

Yes, it. Trader Joe's is a plus. I will never knock on somebody getting you flowers.

B (15:05)

Okay. So you don't feel like, oh, you got me flowers from the grocery store.

A (15:08)

No, that's the best place to get flowers. Truly. I mean, if you're, like, sending somebody a bouquet, sure. But you can put together your own bouquet from trader Joe's for 20 bucks.

B (15:17)

Yeah.

A (15:17)

And it's beautiful. So I will never knock on that.

B (15:20)

Even, like, the little plants that they have. I love it.

A (15:23)

I think they're cute. Listen, my dad always got my mom Walmart flowers. Growing up, we always gave him a hard time. We're like, walmart flowers, dad again. And it's because it was, like, this teeny bouquet that, like, had, like, five roses or something in it, and you could tell that they just threw something together.

B (15:38)

That's what my dad does, too. It's oddly, like, the only holiday that he remembers to get my mom something, like, very specific. So he's consistent. Like, every year he does it, he might forget. Like, he's not big on, like, buying people birthday gifts. He'll call you on your birthday, but he just. He doesn't really shop. But for some reason, every Valentine's Day, he always gets my mom, like, the Walmart flowers and then some kind of chocolate that she probably won't eat. But she. She enjoys it, see?

A (16:03)

And you know what? At least they're doing something, so we'll take it as. As a win. But we did give my dad a hard time. I don't know if you guys ever gave your dad a hard time about Walmart flowers.

B (16:11)

No, we were just, like, surprised he actually bought something. So we're like, all right.

A (16:14)

We're like, okay, there's a win. This is a win here. And they're. They're fine flowers. Now that I'm older, I'm like, I wouldn't mind Walmart flowers, but it was more funny. It was just a funny way of, like, you'd see these beautiful bouquets that people get. And then my dad was just walking in.

B (16:30)

Oh, I guess when I was saying Walmart. Walmart flowers, he wouldn't even get the fresh ones. He would get, like, the plastic specific, like, Valentine's Day ones.

A (16:36)

Yeah, okay. That's what I'm saying is, like, there's, like, the. You'd see people get. Especially on social media now. People get these beautiful, like, bouquets delivered or whatever. And then my dad had the one in the little plastic thing, and he'd show up, he's like, here's the. Here's the. The pretty flowers. And he get it a candy that she loved. But, like, now as I've gotten older, we gave him a hard time as we were younger, but as I've gotten older, I was like, that was actually really sweet, you know, like, to your point, at least, they were consistent and they did it. They showed up. But, you know, young Morgan just had to give my dad a hard time for everything, so that's where that tracks. But, yeah, we got roses for him, and we did, like, some little stuffies with little gummy treats and stuff. And we went and delivered Valentine's to all the seniors. And Remy was dressed up as Cupid. She had, like, a pink little tutu dress on. They loved her. They loved the flowers, and it was really sweet. Like, some of them with the stuffies, because some really like that, while some really like chocolates. They're all just individualized. But we'd walk past and they'd be, like, snuggling up with their little stuffy that they had, or some of them had already finished the chocolate by the time we passed in. And it was just really entertaining. We were there for, like, a couple hours just hanging out with them and delivering Valentine's. So this feels like the year that I'm finally getting to no longer have a bad view of Valentine's Day.

B (17:51)

It's a Good Valentine's Day memory.

A (17:53)

Yeah. I'm finally having good ones again. So we're gonna take a quick break. We come back, and I need Mike D's thoughts on the Bad Bunny halftime show.

B (18:01)

Okay.

A (18:01)

Yeah, well, I need to hear this because, Mike D, you are a Bad Bunny fan. Stan, if you will.

B (18:10)

I'd say he's top. Probably three artists for me right now.

A (18:13)

Yes. And he even overtook last time. I think we were talking. He even overtook Post Malone.

B (18:18)

I think. Yeah, I think he has overtaken Post Malone. Right.

A (18:21)

Based on last projects, including the super bowl halftime show.

B (18:25)

Yes, including everything.

A (18:26)

Then I need a full recap. I need to know your thoughts. Talk to me about it.

B (18:30)

I loved every second of it. That was the only halftime show that I was fully engaged with from the first performance to the very end of it. Mainly because when it comes to his music, I've been listening to it for so long now. And his last album is like my most listened to album of like the entire last year. Like, every single, like, if you look at my top 10 most listened to songs, they're all songs from that album. So it was really cool seeing all those live on that massive of a stage and now seeing other people discover his music. So aside from just the performance itself, it's like now that everybody's getting into him and listening to those songs, I'm like, this is awesome. And for me, as somebody who comes from a Spanish speaking background, that just felt so crazy to me to see like an entire show in Spanish and just paying tribute to people who look like me, who speak like me, but also unifying America, saying, like, we're all in this together. I just thought that was amazing. And he dominated that performance from every single set stage that he went and moved through. It was awesome. So I, like, didn't even think of anything else while I was watching it. It felt like I was watching a movie. Like when I watch a really good movie, I go to somewhere else where I'm not on this earth anymore. I'm like fully focused in out of body experience. Out of body. I'm totally into it. That rarely happens, especially during a halftime performance. You watch it a little bit, you get on your phone, you see if anybody cool comes out. I paid attention to every single second of that halftime show. He played pretty much all the songs I wanted him to play, except for the song he closed with, was the one I wanted him to play the most. But he really only sang, like a little bit of it. But that was the only part I was like Ah, man, I wish he would have played more of that.

A (20:16)

Okay. And I want to talk to you about the symbolism, because there was a lot of it in there. So what was the most striking, like, to you? What did you see reflected the most in your life?

B (20:25)

I think him showing all of, like, the jobs when he was walking through, and he goes through, like, all the little shops of the people, like, working. Like, that was that stuff I've never seen represented before. And there are just very specific things that I realize that are unique to the Latino experience of even that moment. I think it was maybe halfway through where he woke the kid up who was, like, asleep on the chairs. Like, that's kind of the something we don't talk about. Like, at a Latino party, there's always a kid who falls asleep because they go so late. I have so many memories of going to either, like, New Year's Eve parties or, like, Christmas parties where it's just all my family all together. And I would be the kid who would pass out on those chairs. My parents would have to wake me up at, like, 2 in the morning to go home. And it was these very specific images of, like, the two plastic chairs, which are on his album, that are very specific chairs that symbolize people who look like me and they're our family get togethers, where we sit on those types of chairs all hanging out and talking. And it was just really cool to experience that.

A (21:36)

And what do you think about. Because the couple that got married did actually get married. Did you know all that?

B (21:42)

Like, what was your thoughts on that moment? And I found out after, like, I think with everybody else, but it. I was like, those people seem like they're either really good actors or are they really getting married? Because it just seems so genuine. And I was like, man, that would be a really hard thing to, like, hire, like, professional actors to look like they're getting married and to look that happy.

A (22:02)

Yeah. And I want to know how he found them. Like, why them?

B (22:05)

Why?

A (22:05)

What was the decision behind that? Who decided, like. And what was the conversation like between the couple to decide we're gonna get married at the Super Bowl?

B (22:13)

Yeah.

A (22:13)

You know, all of those things. And I really loved the moment where he walked out and all the flags were behind him. I got goosebumps when this part came. And I don't know much Spanish besides what they taught me in sixth. Seventh grade that broken up between Spanish and French. So I didn't know a lot of what he was saying. But I was vibing, like, I was dancing my little Body was, like, feeling the VI lives and the. But the moment where he came with all the flags and he started calling out all the different places and really, like, trying to unify together. And the screen on the back, what did it say?

B (22:50)

The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

A (22:52)

Yes. And that was like. I got goosebumps. Like, I said goosebumps, referring to it. But tell me what you thought about, like, that moment.

B (22:59)

I mean, well, you said about the Spanish. Like, I guess I struggle with that. I know I speak Spanish, but I could watch a performance in a different language and still understand it. Like, if I watch a movie that is in a different language, I watch it with subtitles, but I still want to hear the language that you're speaking because I can feel it. I don't. I don't understand that criticism when it comes to music.

A (23:24)

Like, not being able to understand it.

B (23:26)

Like, if I listen to some, even country songs or rap songs, I don't know every single word those people are saying. Because sometimes it's really fast. Even with Bad Bunny, even though I know Spanish, he raps really fast. Where sometimes I don't understand it. I just feel like that's a barrier people are putting in between them on not wanting to like something. Like, I don't understand this. I get the language thing, but I think you're trying to find something to. A reason to say, this isn't for me, that you're putting up a barrier in front of yourself.

A (23:56)

Well, that's why I said, like, I. I didn't understand it, but, like, I was still vibing my body. Like, it so made me feel so good.

B (24:03)

If I quizzed you on some of your favorite songs on the radio right now and said, tell me what that song is about and tell me the lyrics, could you do it?

A (24:09)

No.

B (24:10)

We just hear songs and we don't know the lyrics to a lot of songs we've listened to for a long time. And if we suddenly get quizzed on it, we think, oh, yeah, I don't know all the lyrics. I know what the chorus says because it's the main part. So we're gonna criticize a type of music in a different language because we don't understand what they're saying. All right, well, tell me all the lyrics to your favorite songs.

A (24:29)

Well, and it's funny that you mentioned, like, the rapper thing, too. I saw somebody make that comment online, was like, well, I'm not gonna understand. I was like, well, I don't understand the rappers ever either.

B (24:37)

So, like, when Eminem does A halftime show. I don't know everything he's saying, but.

A (24:41)

To your point, like, the. In the symbolism, I. I knew watching it that it meant something, and I didn't know. I didn't have to know what it meant to know that it mattered. Does that make sense?

B (24:52)

Yeah.

A (24:53)

Like, you could. You can feel that. And I think that's what you're referencing, too, is when you're watching movies and you see this, you feel emotion. You feel that something's happening, but just because you don't, it's no different than, like, when I went over to Europe and I realized everybody speaks five different languages. And then there was me, and I was like, I only speak English, which I do have some French as part of my language that I can speak, but it's still. Like, I. I felt so inferior, and I should. Because we should speak multiple languages like everybody else in the world does. And then there's us, and we speak one language. Why? And I say we meaning most. A lot of America, we only speak English. Why? Or we use it as a dominant language. Why? And it's. It's wild to me that that's, like, the discussion around it when you can see on. On just so many different levels. Every other country, they speak multiple languages. Why don't we. Why don't we learn multiple languages? We should. Heck, like, our ancestors have. How much, like, they weren't freaking speaking English. You know what I mean? Like, and I think that's what you're referencing, too.

B (25:57)

And when it comes to music, I just believe it's a universal language, like, you know, based upon the instruments, based upon how the person is singing and how it makes you feel. Like, that's more important. So you're just shutting yourself off of, like, I don't know what they're saying. Like, you can feel if you really listen to it. You could feel it. And if. Still, if. I'm not saying that everybody has to listen to and, like, his music, there's just some music that you're not gonna like. But if you're only discounting it because of the language that you do not speak, and therefore you think, I don't understand this, you're doing yourself a disservice.

A (26:30)

Yeah, you very much are. You're closing yourself off to the potential to feel things that you maybe haven't felt before.

B (26:36)

Yeah, same thing. Like when I tell people, like, if you don't want to watch a movie that's in another lane, like, you're closing yourself off from an experience.

A (26:43)

I think my struggle with the movie watching is like, I get caught up watching their lips and they don't add up and it really throws me off. That's where I struggle.

B (26:51)

So you will watch it dubbed though. Like if you watch it and it's in there, it will match up.

A (26:57)

I don't, I don't know if I've ever like tried to watch anything that I've really watched or always just like the. I've never had one that's in a different language.

B (27:04)

Okay.

A (27:04)

Because I haven't watched like a lot of the horror movies and stuff have been.

B (27:07)

And I'm not like squid game or.

A (27:09)

Yeah, I'm not. I'm not really into like Thriller. I would be like a rom com kind of person. There's not a whole lot that like people recommend to watch in rom coms and other languages. Most of the time they like have multiple different ones for each one, if you know what I mean. There's not like a squid game for romance, so I haven't had that. But there's been times where like I saw a rom com and I clicked into it and it was like a French speaking one. And again, I speak some French, so I was like, oh, yeah, I'll try. And then, and then I was like, okay, well, I'm not really understanding. And then I was reading and then like I dubbed it over. I was like, oh, I can't watch that. Their lips are moving at different paces. The words are coming out weird. And then I just got overwhelmed.

B (27:51)

I know one, it's not a rom com, but it's more of like in the drama romance called Past Lives that goes back and forth between English and I believe, Korean where that's kind of the bridge in between it. Like you get a little bit of the English context, but then the characters speak two languages. So there are moments that are just in Korean where you just watch the subtitles. But you're still seeing those same actors who were just speaking English earlier now speaking a different language.

A (28:15)

I think I could do that. I've done something like that before. I've spent. I've watched some movies especially where they have like, they'll do Spanish and there's no. You don't know what's happening. You just watch, you know, you know the context of the scene. You can see what's happening on the screen. And then you're like, okay, we'll buy. Like, it's like what you're, you're mentioning like the feeling. I was like, I feel like that is not good. And then you Find out later. Yeah, that was definitely not good. So I. There's things that I've watched that have that.

B (28:38)

Where you have no trouble watching Star wars when they start speaking.

A (28:43)

Oh, my gosh. You know how many times I've tried to turn on closed captioning on Star Wars? The amount of time is. There is no limit. Every time I'm like, are they supposed to tell? Like, am I supposed to know what they're saying here or.

B (28:53)

No.

A (28:54)

And to your point, it's not supposed to be. You're not supposed to know. You're just supposed to see the emotion of what's happening in the scene.

B (29:00)

Yeah, but I know that character is freaking out based upon how they're speaking so literally.

A (29:04)

And you say past lives. I feel like I have this on my list to watch. Yes. Because she's in Morning show. She's also in.

B (29:13)

She was in the Tron movie. Last Tron movie.

A (29:16)

Yes, she was. She was in Tron. She's in a few things now. I have this on my list to watch. It's actually on one of my things.

B (29:21)

Okay.

A (29:22)

So I need to get into that one. Yeah, that stuff I can do. But yeah, my. Whenever I try and do any version of dubbing, I can't. The lip. It's like when I even edit videos, if I even see, like, a little bit, like, that bothers me, and I think that's where it comes from, but okay. Rap in a bow. Bad Bunny, super bowl halftime show.

B (29:42)

For me, it's hard to give anything a perfect score, so I'd give it a. Because he didn't play my favorite song enough. A 4.5 out of 5 people dressed as bushes.

A (29:55)

The people dress as bushes were great.

B (29:56)

I love watching their point of view.

A (29:58)

Yeah, it was good. And Ricky Martin. Ricky Martin showing up was cool. That was. He's. Is he known as Pretty Ricky? Did I make that up in my head?

B (30:09)

That's who you call him.

A (30:10)

I feel like I've heard him, like, identified as Pretty Ricky.

B (30:13)

I've never heard that until now.

A (30:15)

Okay. Maybe he's a different actor. I don't know. But I would like. Oh, it's Pretty Ricky. So he is pretty and he is Ricky Martin. So. All right, we're going to take a quick break. Thanks, Mike. Sharing your thoughts, Bad Bunny. And we'll be right back. You're the movie guy. So I always love throwing a movie question in here. And I had this topic come to mind when I was watching something on TV this week. One of my favorite things to do is just turn on YouTube TV, which is the closest kind of we have to like a cable version where they have a guide of different channels. And Matilda was on.

B (30:51)

Oh, it's a great movie.

A (30:52)

And I love Matilda. It like takes me right back to childhood where I'm sitting in my parents living room so close to the TV that I'm getting yelled at because I'm. I'm gonna go blind. That's what my parents love to tell me. Cuz I sat so close to the TV to watch things. Or that I was gonna. What was the other one like? One of those stipulations. I'd sit there and I'd like pop my. I just did it. I'd pop my fingers and my mom's like, you're gonna get arthritis and you're gonna go blind. Stop doing both of those things. And it took me right back there. And Matilda was just one of those movies that I loved. I still love, I can still watch and I love it. So what movie brings you back to childhood?

B (31:28)

Dang, you're talking about Matilda. That reminds me of like watching VHS tapes all the time. That's like if I associate certain movies with having the VHS tape, like Matilda is at the top of that list.

A (31:40)

Really?

B (31:40)

Of like we would go to garage sales and just search for VHS tapes. And I'm pretty sure Matilda was one of those where you don't even have the COVID you just have the actual tape. Yeah.

A (31:49)

And Matilda also ruined. Not ruined because I still eat it, but chocolate cake. For me, every time I see a chocolate cake, I'm like, Matilda. That's like my only frame of reference. Or a red bow. I see a red bow. Those are my two like Matilda things that cause it. Okay, so VHS tapes, I think for.

B (32:07)

Me, the movie that instantly takes me back to my childhood. And kind of what you were saying of finding a random movie on tv. When we were home for Christmas, we were at my sister's house and she still has like, like regular cable. And I'm like, wow, this is so old school.

A (32:17)

Oh, I love that.

B (32:18)

But Toy Story was on the original OG the original OG and then it ended up being like a Toy Story marathon. Apparently Disney Channel just plays a bunch of movies all the time now. So I watched all the Toy Story movies And Toy Story 1 just instantly takes me back to being a kid. And I haven't seen that one maybe in probably five years or so.

A (32:38)

I would imagine you probably rewatched for the. Before the fourth one came out.

B (32:41)

I did rewatch that. And I remember whenever they Added them to Disney. Plus they kind of remastered them so they, like, look a little bit better. Better. And watching Toy Story 1 is just so nostalgic for me and seeing, like, how much going from one to four, they've all changed so much. Yeah. But it's like I kind of found that I didn't like one as much anymore.

A (33:02)

Really?

B (33:02)

Yeah, it was.

A (33:03)

So which one was your favorite?

B (33:04)

I think now my favorite is three. I think three is the best. Toy Story.

A (33:08)

Remind me what happens in three three.

B (33:10)

They. Andy's going to college, so he's going to get rid of some of his toys, and he's going to take one with him to college. But Andy. I mean, but Woody doesn't want anybody to get split up. And then it ends up that some of the toys get accidentally donated to a daycare.

A (33:24)

Mmm. Okay. I remember this now.

B (33:26)

So they have to break out of the daycare. They got to make it back before Andy goes to college. And then it has one of the best ending scenes of all time. Really brings the whole franchise together.

A (33:37)

And I feel like when they finished Toy Story 3, that was supposed to be the ending.

B (33:41)

It was supposed to be it, but you can't kill that franchise. It makes Disney too much money.

A (33:45)

Yeah. But they really kind of concluded it like it was.

B (33:48)

Yeah, that was supposed to be it. And then they came back with four, bringing back Woody, adding in a new. The new owner of all the toys. I don't know how they're gonna pick it up with five, because then they were like, okay, now we're really ending it. Ending it with four. But they'll find some way to reunite Everybody.

A (34:04)

Speaking of 4, I reference 4 a lot in my life. If I don't, like, feel good or I don't feel like I look good or something, I love to say I am trash because of four. I actually really love working character and just constantly eating himself in the trash can. It's one of my favorite things. So I get the Toy Story movies. Those would. Yeah. If I watched one again, it take me back to childhood. Another one that comes to mind in the Disney realm is. Is Princess Diaries. I really associate Princess Diaries with being a kid. I love Princess Amopolis Genova. Princess of Genova is, like, not coming to my brain, honestly. A lot of the Disney stuff. Did you watch a lot of Disney stuff with the vhs?

B (34:49)

Yeah, I remember. I think the first movie I remember watching was the first Lion King. Yeah, like that. I think legend has it that was the first movie I went to, but I was probably 3 years old if it came out in 94. So I guess my parents took me as a 3 year old. I don't remember that experience, but I remember watching that for the first time maybe a couple years after that when I was like five or something. And that's the first movie I have a vivid memory of watching. Mainly because it's so traumatic and that's how I learned about death.

A (35:18)

It is traumatic. Like, why were they letting us watch that?

B (35:21)

I mean, I love that. I grew up with movies that taught me lessons. Like if it wasn't Lion King teaching me about death, it was Bambi teaching me about death. Or the Land Before Time teaching me about an entire species getting wiped out.

A (35:32)

Why do you have to reference all the three things that definitely made me cry?

B (35:34)

And now, like, everybody's too, like, afraid to kill off characters.

A (35:38)

Yeah, because it's sad we're not teaching.

B (35:40)

Kids about death anymore. Where all these Disney movies. Well, maybe a little bit, Coco, but all these Disney movies now, they don't really teach the hard lessons that I took so much value with growing up because my parents weren't able to teach me certain things. And I found a lot of things that I learned that were essential to me becoming a normal human I learned through movies. One of those being Lion King, teaching me about death. I don't think my parents have ever sat me down and really told me about people dying.

A (36:09)

There's an end to this.

B (36:10)

Yeah, I remember watching the Lion King and then I think when I was maybe 10 years old and my grandpa died and that was the first time I like really learned about death. But before that they never really talked to me about it. So it was movies, TV shows that I learned from other characters on those fictional things teaching me about real life. Things that I wonder if kids still have that because the Disney movies I still watched as an adult, I don't learn those lessons as much.

A (36:37)

Yeah, it's true. I mean, now that I'm like really thinking about current Disney movies, there's really not. Not death. And I get it, because death is like dark, if you will, but it is a lesson.

B (36:49)

And sell merch with death or people wanting to go to Disneyland with death.

A (36:53)

Hey, but there is the Death Eaters and stuff out there that I watched in Harry Potter. Yeah, yeah, now that you say it. Like, I really don't think a lot of things that I watch now, unless they're purposely meant for adults.

B (37:04)

Yeah.

A (37:05)

Are really have some of those hard lessons in them. They're maybe a little bit more discreet about Lessons than they used to be.

B (37:14)

Because even, like, I was a big Nick. Were you more Nickelodeon or Disney Channel?

A (37:17)

Disney, for sure.

B (37:18)

I knew you were gonna say, you're a Disney Channel kid. You could afford the cable. Premium package of Disney Channel.

A (37:24)

Okay. Scuba references last week, too. And I don't understand, because we just had cable and they were both on there.

B (37:31)

I didn't have Disney Channel.

A (37:33)

We didn't ever, like, at least from what I remember, like, when I finally started watching tv, there weren't packages. It was just like, you just had cable.

B (37:41)

I mean, I didn't have cable for a lot of my childhood. There was, like, a period where we got cable, and then I think the statute of limitations is up. We were able to hook it back up, so we were still getting cable but not paying for it after they cut it off. But we only had Nickelodeon. I was a Nickelodeon kid. But a TV show that I loved on Nickelodeon was Hey, Arnold.

A (38:01)

I loved hey, Arnold.

B (38:02)

Hey, Arnold taught you so many life lessons that I still hold with me to this day. Like. Like, there was a mom who was an alcoholic. It taught you about addiction. It taught you about abusive relationships. There were so many life lessons inside of hey, Arnold that I was thinking, I rewatch it just because I'm like, man, I learned so much from that show. And I don't know if TV shows or. I don't. I heard that kids don't even watch cartoons anymore. Like animated shows.

A (38:29)

Yeah. I think the closest one is Bluey.

B (38:31)

Yeah.

A (38:31)

Yeah.

B (38:31)

But, like, a show for, like, that. Hey, Arnold was like, I was probably, like, in my preteen, like, that era where it's not, like, super meant for, like, young kids, but it's like when you're in those grades where you're so, like, just trying to find that information of, like, how to deal with life. Like, that show taught me so much. Yeah.

A (38:51)

No, and now that you say that, too, I mean, I watched hey, Arnold and I loved it. Football Head Guy and Rugrats is another one that I watched. I just. I think I blocked out a lot. I don't know that I was old enough to really understand what I was watching or, like, really remember, per se. But now that you're, like, putting that back to the front of my mind, I do think you're right. I think there was more lessons in a lot of this stuff than there is now.

B (39:16)

How are you with nostalgia? Do you seek it out or do you. Is it just kind of like every now and then you're like, oh, yeah, I remember. Like, I Actively seek out like my TikTok feed is just serving me something nostalgic. Like every third video.

A (39:28)

Yeah, yeah. Like when I. I don't know if you do this, but it sounds like you might with. Hey, Arnold. I really love like my. When I need comfort, I'll watch comfort movies. Like I'll watch Princess Diaries or movies that remind me of like how I felt at a certain point in my life. You know what I mean? Like comfort shows.

B (39:48)

Oh, yeah. You want me to tell you about my Saturday morning routine right now?

A (39:51)

Yeah, yeah, I do.

B (39:51)

So I didn't have Disney Channel, but I remember on regular ABC they would do. It was called like Saturday Morning. It was like Saturday Morning. Now I can't remember the name.

A (40:03)

Was it on Cartoon Network?

B (40:04)

No, it was just on like regular tv. ABC and it was like essentially like Disney Channel but on regular TV for us who couldn't afford it.

A (40:13)

Okay, let me see. I don't know if I'm gonna watch.

B (40:15)

It every Saturday now that I can't think of the name.

A (40:18)

Hold on. I don't even know how to Google that. Disney on abc back in the day. We'll see if anything pops up. Disney Anthology. No, Back in the day. There is something called Back in the Day Disney on abc back in the day featured long running anthology series the Wonderful World of Disney.

B (40:37)

It was called One Saturday Morning. That's what it was.

A (40:39)

There it was. I almost got to it.

B (40:40)

There it is. One Saturday Morning. What it was, it was essentially kind of like tgif, which if you don't remember that it was like a block on ABC that was like Family Matters, Full House, Step by step. But instead it was on Saturday Morning. One Saturday morning. And it was Recess, Pepper in and a bunch of other animated Disney shows.

A (41:01)

Okay.

B (41:01)

Yeah. And it would start with like this big theme song and then go into the cartoons and there'd sometimes be like little like like two hosts maybe in between them that would like set everything up, have little storylines. But what I do is on YouTube you can go watch One Saturday Morning and it's like straight up broadcast from back in like the early 2000s that have all the commercials in it, have all the TV shows in it. So it's just like you're watching Saturday morning TV as a kid.

A (41:27)

That's cool. How long are they.

B (41:29)

They have like, it's like two hour videos on YouTube. I don't, I don't. I usually only watch like, I really just need that kick of that theme song and then going into the. Right. The first episode and like, have it.

A (41:40)

On the background for the morning.

B (41:41)

I, like, listen to it and I, like, watch it. And it, like, just puts me in a good mood. Or, like, I need that on the. Like, Saturday is, like, my one day where I, like, completely just reset and going back to something, like, so nostalgic just kind of, like, cures me a little bit.

A (41:55)

I'm gonna have to try this because I do, like, nostalgia just makes me feel good, especially the state of the world that we're in right now.

B (42:02)

I think that's what it's been for me lately. Like, I just need something that, like, I can disassociate and go back to thinking of, like, when everything was. That's all I worried about. It's like, man, how many episodes am I going to get to watch?

A (42:12)

When you're a kid and you didn't.

B (42:13)

Know any better, but there are, like, other feeds on there you can watch, like, Nickelodeon, and it has all the commercials in there, which. Nickelodeon had great commercials. It made me want to buy Nickelodeon magazine all the time. But there are these cool feeds where you can just go, like. Like you're watching TV in any decade.

A (42:28)

Okay, I'm gonna have to try that, because I am. I do have comfort shows. Like, I put on all I've watched, like, the Cheetah Girls I've watched. It's mostly the ones that I really remember when I was, like, a kind of early teen, because the Disney ones, to your point, are a little sad. So I don't, like, get depressed over the whole Simba situation and the Lion King. But I will put on, like, old Disney movies and stuff that I used to watch when I just need to, like, feel comfort. It's like a warm hug.

B (42:56)

Yeah.

A (42:57)

Throw on some chocolate chip cookies and then I'll really be hugging, you know, full vibe. Well, Mike, thanks for joining this weekend and talking about all the things you have anything else to add before we jump out of this one?

B (43:07)

No. Now I'm gonna go watch YouTube videos.

A (43:09)

You're just gonna be on there all weekend. That's what you're gonna. Instead of the comic book or after the comic book store, you're gonna go cartoon all weekend. Tell the people where they can find you and all that good stuff.

B (43:20)

You can check out my podcast movie Mike's Movie podcast, new episodes every single Monday. And you can follow me on social media at Mike Diesro on everything.

A (43:28)

Love that. And I am @webgirlmorgan on everything. You can follow the show at Bobby Boneshow. And that is it. Go enjoy your nostalgia for this weekend, or your love weekend, or doing absolutely nothing. Whatever suits your fancy.

B (43:41)

Go find a hobby.

A (43:43)

Bye everybody.

B (43:44)

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 and follow ebgirlmorgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode.

A (43:59)

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