What’s in the Box Mike D Kept for Decades? & Everything Old Is New Again

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Bobby Bones Show

Episode: What’s in the Box Mike D Kept for Decades? & Everything Old Is New Again
Date: May 2, 2026
Hosts: Morgan & Mike Deistro
Source: The Bobby Bones Show, Premiere Networks

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Overview

In this laid-back, nostalgia-packed episode of The Bobby Bones Show's "Best Bits," Morgan sits down with Mike Deistro to unbox literal and metaphorical baggage—namely a mysterious box Mike’s been carting through life for over a decade. Their conversation meanders through childhood memories, shifting dreams, sentimental keepsakes, fashion trends, food quirks, social media algorithms, and the challenges of adulting, all wrapped in self-aware humor and honest reflections.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Legendary Box: Opening Decades of Memories

• What is the Box?
  Mike has toted a box labeled "merch" for 10-15 years. Originally a band merch box, it became an accidental time capsule during multiple moves.

  "I've had this box probably over 10, maybe 15 years...I have no idea what was in there because it's been so long." (Mike, 03:46)

• Nostalgic Finds:
  • Old family photos (including his sonogram).
  • Childhood pictures with friends, especially from wrestling days.
• Emotional Impact:
  • Surprise and sentimentality at finding so many lost photos:

    "This is where they've been hiding the whole time." (Morgan, 05:05) "I found my sonogram. ... It was just weird seeing me as a baby." (Mike, 04:58, 05:33)

  • Sharing rediscovered images with parents who’d forgotten about them.

2. Reminiscing on Childhood Dreams

• Career Aspirations:
  Both muse about how their childhood aspirations morphed over time:
  • Mike’s timeline: architect (“I wanted to design buildings.” 10:18), pro wrestler, then band member.
  • Morgan’s: marine biologist, zookeeper, vet, singer/actor, and then news anchor.
  • Discussion on how childhood dreams often shift quickly.
• Wrestling Nostalgia:
  Mike recalls wrestling with friends, mimicking the Hardy Boys, and dreaming of WWE fame—until documentaries highlighted the downsides of that life.

  "I had to explain to my wife, like, why I was doing these weird arm motions. ... It's because I love the Hardy Boys." (Mike, 06:57)

3. Music, Collecting, and Letting Go

• Music Career:
  • Mike once left home to chase band and music dreams in Austin.
  • Hasn’t played guitar much recently, but fondly recalls writing a song for his wife.
• Materialism vs. Experience:
  • Mike grapples with buying a collector’s edition guitar:

    "I'd rather spend money on experiences, so I don't really get joy out of owning just objects." (15:24)

  • Recent focus on reclaiming lost childhood items instead of amassing random stuff.
• Top Five Sentimental Items (if Mike sold everything else):
  1. Secret Wars 8 comic (first Black Suit Spider-Man)
  2. Signed letter from Donald Glover
  3. Charizard Pokémon card (replacement for one lost as a kid)
  4. Nameplate from Jerry Jones’ suite at a Dallas Cowboys game
  5. Old show memorabilia (sticky notes, novelty can of beans)

4. Everything Old Is New Again: Trends, Fashion & Tech

• Fashion Cycles & Technology Comebacks:
  • Rediscovery of his Motorola Razr phone sparks a deep-dive into 2000s nostalgia.
  • "Yoga pants with words on the butt” and other questionable trends analyzed.
  • The enduring cycle:

    "Everything old is always new again." (Morgan, 25:29)

• Fashion Regression Regrets:
  • Mike: Baggy jeans are back after working hard for skinny jeans. Never owned JNCOs due to parental veto.
  • Both agree that trying to keep up with fads is a losing game.

5. Family Sentimentality & Decluttering

• How Parents Keep Stuff:
  • Morgan’s mom keeps everything “because everything old is always new again.”
  • Mike’s dad is sentimental and saves all childhood artifacts; his mom is now a minimalist.
• The Paradox of Keeping Boxes:
  • Both laugh about the absurdity of saving empty tech boxes:

    "It's just a nice box." (Mike, 27:50)

6. Food Talk: Dietary Restrictions, Preferences & Pet Peeves

• Navigating Restrictions:
  • Mike is vegan, his wife is gluten-free; Morgan is vegetarian, mostly gluten and dairy free.

  "It's hard to go out to eat. It's hard to get recommendations from people." (37:15)

• Favorite Eateries:
  • Flower Child and AVO (Nashville) get high praise for accommodating special diets.
• Food Weirdnesses:
  • Mike hates cherry tomatoes and arugula, loves regular tomatoes, but not salads.
  • Morgan’s love/hate relationship with eggs.
• Spice Aversion:
  • Morgan: even pepper and mild buffalo sauces are overwhelming.
  • Mike: high spice tolerance from childhood, doesn’t have to miss out.

7. The Power (and Danger) of Algorithms & Social Media

• For You Page Influences:
  • Mike's algorithm: wrestling, Pokémon unboxing ("ripping packs"), collectibles.
  • Morgan's: recipes, weddings, travel.
• Algorithmic Manipulation:
  • How curated feeds shape purchasing, hobbies, and even personality.

  "How much has just been manipulated through an algorithm?" (Mike, 50:48)

  • Social media’s push for consumerism and constant option overload.

8. Mental Load, Burnout, and Coping

• The ‘Crash Out’ Phenomenon:
  • Both admit to algorithm-driven mental overload and “crash outs” (mental freezes due to overstimulation).
  • Mike credits therapy and running with helping to manage stress and avoid spirals.

  "That's why I go for 20 mile runs, honestly." (Mike, 53:56)

• Self-Awareness and Humor:
  • The episode closes with Morgan openly “crashing out” after a long, honest riff, to Mike’s amusement.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Refinding Old Pictures:

  "I found a lot of them. ... I thought they were at my parents house. Apparently I have them." (Mike, 05:03-05:07)

• On Childhood Wrestling:

  “I had to explain to my wife, like, why I was doing these weird, like, arm motions...I'm freaking doing the Hardy Boys thing.” (Mike, 06:57)

• On Regret and Nostalgia:

  “Now baggy stuff is making a comeback. Even though, like, as a kid I wanted...You remember JNCOs? ... Now it's like, baggy is the style. I'm like, why did I do this?” (Mike, 24:03)

• On Collecting Sentimental Stuff:

  "One would be my Secret Wars 8 comic that my wife got me ... Number two, I have a signed letter from Donald Glover..." (Mike, 28:36)

• On Cherry Tomatoes:

  "I hate cherry tomatoes. I like regular tomatoes, but I don't like cherry tomatoes. ... It's something about the texture." (Mike, 39:02)

• On App Algorithms Shaping Personality:

  "How much has been my own willingness or wanting to change my way of thinking versus how much has just been manipulated through an algorithm?” (Mike, 50:48)

• On Crashing/Mental Overload:

  “When you watch a computer try and do too many things at once, mine just did it. It literally just like dies. That's what my brain does.” (Morgan, 52:58)

• Closing Playfulness:

  “We witnessed it in real time.” (Mike teasing Morgan's live on-air crash out, 55:09)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• 03:15 – 05:40: Unpacking the box, rediscovered photos, sonogram, memories
• 06:02 – 08:24: Childhood wrestling stories, shifting career dreams
• 13:25 – 16:45: The collector’s guitar dilemma, collecting childhood items
• 21:25 – 27:13: 2000s nostalgia, fashion/trends coming back, parents & sentimentality
• 37:07 – 42:56: Dietary challenges, favorite spots, food quirks and dislikes
• 47:09 – 51:57: Flood of social media content, the power of the algorithm, technology’s influence
• 53:35 – 55:34: Dealing with mental load, “crash outs,” therapy, and the importance of finding quiet time

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Tone & Style

Warm, friendly, and self-deprecating with a healthy dose of nostalgia and dry humor. The episode moves quickly, almost conversationally, with both hosts trading stories, gentle roasts, and observations about life, memories, and the oddities of growing up in the 90s and 2000s.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a celebration of nostalgia, transformation, and the odd things we carry—both in boxes and in our identities. Mike’s “box reveal” becomes a lens for exploring old dreams, gratefulness for memories recovered, and the challenge of letting objects go in service of personal growth. Along the way, Morgan and Mike offer relatable reflections on fashion, food quirks, the consumerist tug of social media, and the universal struggle of keeping it together in a hectic world.

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

[Morgan (Host)]

What's up? And Happy weekend everybody. Best Bits Time in this weekend. Mike D is joining me. What's up Mike?

[Mike Deistro]

What up? I'm back.

[Morgan (Host)]

Thanks for being here.

[Mike Deistro]

Feels good to be back. It means time is going by really fast.

[Morgan (Host)]

It always is. Except this week is a little bit like messing with our brains because we did switch off with you and Scuba in our timeframe.

[Mike Deistro]

So it is earlier.

[Morgan (Host)]

It is a little bit earlier. Earlier, but only a week. So time's still flying. But we need an update because last time you were on a lot of things were happening in your life at the time.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, there was a mysterious box that I needed to address. We are in the process of moving and I've had this box probably over 10, maybe 15 years whenever I first moved. I guess since I started, even when I left my hometown and moved to Austin, I've just had this box of stuff that was like when I was in a band, we would keep all of our merch in it and I guess it was the only good box I had. So I've been filling it with things for over a decade of my life and then since I moved into my current house, I have no idea what was in there because it's been so long. I moved in, put it in a closet and never looked at it again.

[Morgan (Host)]

Is it the same box or have you at least transitioned the box?

[Mike Deistro]

No, it's the same box because I wrote merch on it. So it's an actual box we use for merch.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's funny. Okay, so did you go inside the box?

[Mike Deistro]

I did because I told you I thought of maybe just throwing away the whole thing because I was like, I haven't used it in. I haven't been in there in seven years. Probably don't need anything.

[Morgan (Host)]

I did encourage you not to look in it.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, but. But glad I didn't just throw it away blindly because there was actually a lot of old pictures in there that I had not. I don't even know why I have these pictures. They're like old family pictures. Like me as a kid. I found my sonogram.

[Morgan (Host)]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Because before when you've been on the best bits, you've been like, there's not a whole lot of pictures of me.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I found a lot of them.

[Morgan (Host)]

This is where they've been hiding the whole time.

[Mike Deistro]

I thought they were at my parents house. Apparently I have them. I don't know where in my moves that I got a hold of them. I don't know if I took them on accident, but I had just stacks and stacks of real pictures from disposable cameras and over the years.

[Morgan (Host)]

Wow.

[Mike Deistro]

Really old. Like me, literally. My sonogram where they wrote on it like, hi, mom.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's crazy.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Morgan (Host)]

Emotional finding all of this.

[Mike Deistro]

I don't know why I have that. It was just weird seeing me as a baby.

[Morgan (Host)]

I think it's a. Did you ask your parents about it? Because sometimes parents want to keep all that stuff and sometimes they want it to go with the kids.

[Mike Deistro]

I didn't. I forgot to tell them about the sonogram. I did tell them that I found a bunch of old pictures and she thought she. My mom thought she had those pictures. Really? I started sending her pictures of the pictures and she was like, oh, yeah, I haven't seen those in a while. So.

[Morgan (Host)]

So is there any in there that you forgot existed? Because again, you had said like, there's not a lot of pictures of me. I haven't really seen a bunch.

[Mike Deistro]

So there's some of me with friends, which is crazy. I forgot I had friends in the trailer park where at the time when I was a kid I was super into wrestling and I met other kids who lived in the trailer park who are also super into wrestling. So it's us like hanging out like there. We had an old trampoline that it was completely destroyed, but we just Kept like, the outer ring of the trampoline. And that was our wrestling ring. I totally forgot about this, but it's like pictures of me and my friends standing in front of the trampoline where we would wrestle.

[Morgan (Host)]

Wait, would you guys do, like, masks and capes and stuff, too? Like, I'm trying to think of what

[Mike Deistro]

movie that reminds me of, like, Nacho Libre. Yeah, maybe one of my friends had a mask. But we would just pick wrestlers and then have matches. Somebody would be a referee or we do three way matches.

[Morgan (Host)]

And you were a wrestler, Right? That's crazy.

[Mike Deistro]

I had to explain to my wife, like, why I was doing these weird, like, arm motions. It was because I love the Hardy Boys and that's what they would do in every picture. I'm freaking doing the Hardy Boys thing.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's wild. Does it make you want to, like, pick up wrestling again?

[Mike Deistro]

I mean, I still love wrestling. That was. That was my first dream of what? If you asked me as a kid, what do I want to be when I grow up? It was a wrestler.

[Morgan (Host)]

And it was wwe. Because that's what you went and watched too, right?

[Mike Deistro]

It was WWF at the time and it's now wwe. But, yeah, I was like, I'm going to go to wrestling school. I'm going to learn how to be a wrestler because I play the video game and you could create your own wrestler. I'm like, I'm going to be the risk taker.

[Morgan (Host)]

That was your name that you ripped off.

[Mike Deistro]

The Undertaker, I guess, or Peacemaker.

[Morgan (Host)]

Just somewhere in the middle. I mean, that's. I feel like a dream you could still kind of chase if you want to do now.

[Mike Deistro]

I watch a lot of wrestling documentaries. That's not a good.

[Morgan (Host)]

Really.

[Mike Deistro]

That's a hardcore core profession now.

[Morgan (Host)]

You know too much.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. You. The injuries are insane. The lifestyle is insane. It's cool because everybody loves you. And there's probably nothing like getting that kind of crowd reaction. But the stuff you don't see is. Yeah, pretty bad.

[Morgan (Host)]

So do you feel like you're glad that you didn't chase down that?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I don't think I ever, like, fully committed to it. I think soon after that, I got into music, and then my new thing was I want to be in a band. So it was probably grades three through five where I was like, super hardcore about that. And then in sixth grade, I learned how to play guitar and game over.

[Morgan (Host)]

Isn't it funny how when we look back on the things that we wanted to be as kids, they kind of just developed very quickly. Over time.

[Mike Deistro]

What was your first thing?

[Morgan (Host)]

My very first thing I wanted to be was a marine biologist.

[Mike Deistro]

I feel like we always go animals as a kid, like.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yes, yeah, marine biologist. I wanted to be a zoologist, a zookeeper. I had a lot of like animal things. I wanted to be a vet at one point and all of those. I realized that I would have to deal with the loss of animals and I was not prepared for that.

[Mike Deistro]

And then at that point, were you already not eating animals?

[Morgan (Host)]

I was already a huge animal lover. And yeah, I mean, because I went vegetarian at 8. So yeah, probably by the time I was trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life, I feel like 6, 7, 8. That's where you funny is where they start to ask you what you want to be. Cause up until that point you're just living your life.

[Mike Deistro]

You know when I go and watch cartoons.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah, exactly. So I think I was already a vegetarian, big animal lover at that point. But yeah, I realized the other side of it pretty quickly that was not a fit. And then I had singer, actor, a news anchor. And then the news anchor one kind of stuck. That's what kind of got me into journalism school.

[Mike Deistro]

You take like the classes where you. Oh yeah, TV news.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. In high school I was part of like the broadcast team where we do like the morning announcements. And then in college I studied broadcast journalism. So I full blown. I even one of my internships, I was a news reporter. Like I interned with the news station and I would do my news beats in college. I would do the local news for our like college station. And that was my whole plan was a news anchor. And you know, life didn't go down that path. So it stuck at one point, I think once I hit high school. But up until then I had a lot of different eras of who I wanted to be for sure. Is there any that you think would have stuck for you? What was yours like, what was your last one to then get to where you are now?

[Mike Deistro]

Well, I think before wrestler, I remember there was a brief period where I wanted to be an architect. And I don't even know why. I think I was like in first grade. But I remember telling everybody I wanted to be an architect because I wanted to design buildings.

[Morgan (Host)]

Love that.

[Mike Deistro]

And I would like carry around like a little hammer inside like the loop of my pants. But that was just like Bob the Builder maybe, maybe, I don't know. That was just some people say fireman as a kid I said architect.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

So then it went to wrestler. Then I think for the majority of my life, I wanted to be in a band and, like, tour and get on a record label.

[Morgan (Host)]

Which you were still doing the band in high school?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I did it through high school. And then when I graduated high school, I moved from Waxahachie to Austin to pursue music. And I just happened to find the internship on the radio show. I was doing those two things at the same time, so I was still pursuing that. I just kind of saw, like, I don't think I want to do that anymore.

[Morgan (Host)]

Do you think there's a part of you that would ever go back to trying to do that?

[Mike Deistro]

No, if I would do it, it would just to be just, like, to play for fun, like, in a garage, write some songs again. But I don't think I would ever want to play shows again.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah, that's fair. There's more of a passion.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

Like, enjoy it.

[Mike Deistro]

In my head, it would be fun to, like, reunite with my old band. And, like, there was, like, a group of bands that we all toured with and just do, like, one show where it's basically just the people who were in those bands attending the show. It's not really, like, a thing we do. We just, like, kind of all perform for each other. Like, that would be, like, the only thing I'd want to do. Like, more like a party where we all play music.

[Morgan (Host)]

You don't feel like that would give you the bug to try and pursue again?

[Mike Deistro]

No, I don't think so. I just think that it was such a grind to do, and we basically made no money for so many years that I don't think I would want to do it again to that extent.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah, that's fair. It's also fair as you get older, you just realize the true sides of things.

[Mike Deistro]

I mean, I also haven't played guitar in, like, five years.

[Morgan (Host)]

Like, that's wild that you also used to be a pretty significant guitar player.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, Like, I taught myself how to play. That's all I would do. I would just play guitar. And then I would say, probably until I moved here is when I kind of stopped playing. Like, I played still, like, the first couple of years I lived here and then just kind of stopped.

[Morgan (Host)]

You're telling me you never played for your wife?

[Mike Deistro]

I did write her a song early on.

[Morgan (Host)]

Did you?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, that's so sweet.

[Mike Deistro]

So that was probably around the tail. Yeah. Because I was still probably writing songs in, like, 2018, so probably stopped fully in, like, 2019. Maybe picked it up a little bit during the pandemic. Cause there was nothing else to do. And then since then, I pick it up maybe once or twice a year, but that's about it.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's so cool. Did you record the song or did you just play for it live in person?

[Mike Deistro]

I remember playing it for her over FaceTime. And then I think I recorded it and sent it to her.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's sweet. And then from there, you're like, nevermind, I'm good with guitar.

[Mike Deistro]

And then even she kind of forgets that I play guitar. Like, I haven't done it in so long.

[Morgan (Host)]

Do you still have a guitar that you could play?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I have two. Three. Two electrics and one acoustic.

[Morgan (Host)]

Dang, you have a lot. Not just one.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I mean, that was my. Yeah. And, like, recently, there was. My favorite guitar player is Tom DeLong from Blink 182, and he had this signature guitar that I wanted so bad as a kid, but it was, like, super expensive. And recently they did, like, a reissue version of it. And I was so close to buying it because I saw it on the rack. It was, like, so close to me buying it.

[Morgan (Host)]

Why didn't you.

[Mike Deistro]

I was like, I'm not gonna play it. I was like, I haven't played guitar in so long. Is this really gonna motivate me to want to play it again?

[Morgan (Host)]

But it could be. You love collecting things.

[Mike Deistro]

That's true.

[Morgan (Host)]

And that's a collector's item for sure, I would assume, especially in. In that genre.

[Mike Deistro]

No, I mean, it could be, but I think with. I mean, they reissue it and they make a bunch of them, so I don't know if it's gonna have really any, like, collector value to it, but it would be to me. Because for a long time, you couldn't even find that guitar.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. I just feel like it'd be a cool collection on your. In your videos that I see from your podcast set up. I feel like that would be a cool add to that.

[Mike Deistro]

That is kind of how I justify some things. I'm like, I put it in the background. It's a set piece.

[Morgan (Host)]

And I don't know, is that, like, something that's super expensive?

[Mike Deistro]

That one? That was the other thing I saw. It was, like, on a pretty good deal.

[Morgan (Host)]

And you still didn't do.

[Mike Deistro]

It was only like, 900. I mean, still a lot of money. Like 900 bucks. But originally it was, like, 1500.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, yeah. That's a great deal. You're almost, like, half.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, that was the only thing I was like, this is such a good deal. Like, why is this marked down so much?

[Morgan (Host)]

Your Wife is going to be like, morgan, don't say this, but you should go back and get it.

[Mike Deistro]

I don't know if it's there anymore, but, yeah, I really. I think. I don't even think I told her when I saw it.

[Morgan (Host)]

Really.

[Mike Deistro]

I sent it to my brother because he was like, that's cool.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. And she was probably just like, you have three guitars. What's this one? It's hard unless, like, you are a person who understands that side of things.

[Mike Deistro]

She probably would motivate me to get it because she's like, you never buy things for yourself. And she's like, if something is cool, like, you have worked hard, you can buy it for yourself.

[Morgan (Host)]

I love that.

[Mike Deistro]

That's probably why I didn't tell her, because then she would convince me to do it, because I'm the one who always talked myself out of buying something ever. I don't like buying things. I don't really. Material things don't really mean much to me. I'd rather spend money on experiences, so I don't really get joy of owning just objects. I'd rather do things. And I can always, like, just. It's so hard for me to justify it in my head of, like, I'm gonna spend $800 on this. How many uses am I gonna get out of it? If I only use it twice? That's $400 a use. I always break it down by, like, use.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. And in all fairness, like, totally fair, because I'm right there with you. I'd rather have trips and experiences and spend money on life versus owning a bunch of stuff, but something that's been part of your life for so long, you definitely didn't text your wife because you knew she was going to encourage you to do it.

[Mike Deistro]

And I guess since then, I kind of have been on, like, a search of all, like, the childhood things that I didn't own. And that's kind of been like, my avenue of, like, collecting things right now is like, what are all the items that I wanted as a kid and have never bought? And I'm kind of on the search for those.

[Morgan (Host)]

Okay, here's a. Here's a little Hail Mary moment. If it's still there, wherever you found it, I feel like that's a sign that you're supposed to have it.

[Mike Deistro]

I'm open to that. If it's still there and still the same price and it wasn't a mistake,

[Morgan (Host)]

then you are supposed to own that guitar. That's crazy. I never. I guess I just never. We've talked about you having been in the band and stuff, but and you playing guitars and stuff now. I feel like that you could be a songwriter in that genre if you wanted to. As like a passion side of things in that genre.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I've never see when I was growing up, I didn't really know that that was a profession that you could write songs. I always assumed that all the bands I listened to wrote all their own songs, which for the majority they did because there's a lot of punk bands. But now like seeing that my favorite band, Blink 182, they have like people writing some of their songs. I'm like, wait a minute, you could

[Morgan (Host)]

write a song for Blink 182. That would be a cool, I don't know, just side passion especially. Cause you also love to write. Yeah, that'd be a cool creative outlet. But writing songs is also different than writing scripts. I can't do either, so. But I do know they're different. All right, we're gonna take a quick break and I need to find out what else was in the box. Cause we only got to one. We'll be right back.

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[Kal Penn]

hey everyone, it's Kal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project, Hail Mary Massive sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from Earth.

[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections and it's like, okay, yo yo yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no. At this point it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story. If I don't go through it. There's places in this book that that deeply emotionally affected me and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like yeah dude, me too.

[Kal Penn]

Listen to Irsay the Audible and iHeart audiobook club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Morgan (Host)]

all right, Mike Give it to me. What else was inside the box?

[Mike Deistro]

So the other thing inside the box that gave me a crazy nostalgia trip was my old Razer phone.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

I had a black Motorola Razr that I bought off of ebay used. And I saved up all my money for it, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I got it at a point where they really weren't that cool anymore, But I was like, I have to have one of those phones because I want to download a bunch of ringtones and I want to do the flip. And it just looked cool and it was just all black. And I was like, that's cool.

[Morgan (Host)]

They were cool for, like, 10 years, though. I mean, they were around for a hot minute. I feel like they're probably gonna come back. Hmm. This is it. This brings up a good point. I went into, and this is definitely more of a girl thing, but I went into a Victoria's Secret, and they have the secondary line that's called pink. Have you ever heard of pink? So much more younger girl version versus Victoria's Secret's more for adult women. And it's like I walked in there, I stepped right back into the 2000. They had the yoga pants that had the fold over them. Things were written on the butts. There was matching sweatsuits. We're back with, like, crewnecks with things written on them. I straight up thought, holy crap, I'm back in high school. There's, like, all over again.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. 2000s are very back again.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. So I feel like maybe the razor could also see a comeback. Or wasn't there something they were promoting that was a phone like that?

[Mike Deistro]

I think they did bring back the razor. It doesn't look the same, but I think they do have a new Motorola. A razor.

[Morgan (Host)]

Okay, this is an interesting point because I'm looking at all of that. What do you want to not see make a comeback? Like, please do not bring this back from the dead. And I have. I have one that's in my head, so I can let you think for a second. But the first one that is come to mind for me is gauchos. Do you ever remember women wearing gauchos?

[Mike Deistro]

I've heard of them. My wife has explained them to me before, but now I don't remember.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yes. So they were like yoga pants, but they were free flowy. But they were also capris, and they were just really bizarre. And I love a flowy pant. I love a Capri, and I love a yoga pant. I don't like all of them combined. And honestly, if we bring back gauchos, I think I will just throw myself into a pool. That is the one thing I don't want him to see make a comeback. But they probably will. But what is yours?

[Mike Deistro]

Clothing item for me was whenever baggy stuff started to become cool again, I worked so hard to fit into a pair of skinny jeans that I'm like, are you kidding me? Now baggy stuff is making a comeback. Even though, like, as a kid I wanted. You remember jinkos?

[Morgan (Host)]

Yes, I do remember.

[Mike Deistro]

I wanted a pair of JNCOs so bad and my parents would not buy them for me because they're like, we're not buying you those ridiculous looking pants that are super baggy, but I like the designs on them. And then all the cool kids would wear them. So I never had a pair of Jinkos. And then once I finally lost weight and was able to fit into skinny jeans because they were cool, they became uncool again. And now it's like, baggy is the style. I'm like, why did I do this?

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. And this is why. Also, I tried to not follow a lot of fashion trends because they do change all of the time. Especially things that were In, I feel like 90s, 2000s. All of that stuff was so short lived. Like, I owned so much Lisa Frank things. And then one day everybody was like, no, we only like black and white. I was like, what? My entire my room mike was hot pink and lime green. Those were the two colors that I painted my room. Like, I could not be brighter if you tried. When I had come back from college, my parents were redoing their house. They were empty nesters, whatever. And I was like, dang, I don't miss the hot pink and lime green. I'm not gonna lie. Like, I was a real, real choice in making that full color. So I was like the full blown color girl. And then one day it was like, mm, brown, white, black. I'm like, what? What happened? Jump scare. So there's that too. I just try and avoid them. I try and avoid a lot of trends if I, if I can.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I don't really hop on a whole lot of fashion trends.

[Morgan (Host)]

They would, they change so fast. But this is where my mom always loves to justify keeping stuff because everything old is always new again. And she will have every single one of those things somewhere in her closet. And there will inevitably be a time where I go back and get it. Do your parents keep things? Like, do they have a lot of stuff from when you were young.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I think so. Because I think my mom was just getting rid of some. Like, my mom is more like me now. She doesn't like junk, so if something hasn't been used in a long time, she gets rid of it. My dad is the complete opposite, where he will hold on to things forever. And he's like, I don't know what this is, but it belonged to our kids, and I don't want to get rid of it. He's very weird about that.

[Morgan (Host)]

He's sentimental.

[Mike Deistro]

He either thinks, like, we're gonna come back and move in and we'll need our things, or if there's anything that we own, no matter at what point in our life, he keeps them.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, yeah. I mean, when I did meet your dad at your wedding, he is. He just seems like such, like a gentle giant.

[Mike Deistro]

Yes.

[Morgan (Host)]

It's like the best way I can describe him. He was just so kind.

[Mike Deistro]

He looks like he'd be mean, but he's not.

[Morgan (Host)]

No, it's because of his stache. Does he still have his long stache?

[Mike Deistro]

He has a long mustache. He puts, like, mustache wax in it, curls it on the edge on the end of it.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. So you'd be, like, intimidated because cool stash. Cool stash is always cool. Facial hair intimidates me in general. I just feel like, you know, more than I do is the vibe that I feel. And he was like that. And then I met him, and he was just like, the nicest guy ever.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. But his. His garage is his space, and he doesn't like anything moved out of there. So my mom will try to clean it out. He's like, nope, got to keep all my stuff.

[Morgan (Host)]

Do not touch any of this. But the house is free reign where she's kind of reorganizing.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, that is. He can just keep all his things in the garage.

[Morgan (Host)]

That I understand. I. I am trying to be like that as an adult. Like, I cleaned out some drawers, and I had kept so many boxes from technology. Why. Why did I keep boxes?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I just got rid of computer box, an iPad box, and an Apple pencil box that I was like, this is a really nice box. Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

And they're nice boxes. But, like, why do we keep boxes? What about our generation? Are we like, yeah, boxes?

[Mike Deistro]

It's just like when you have a really nice put together box, you just can't throw it away. And you're like, there's something I can put in this box.

[Morgan (Host)]

But you never put something in the box. It hides out on a shelf and you Never use it again.

[Mike Deistro]

It's just a nice box.

[Morgan (Host)]

I know. So I did get rid of a lot of mine. I've been really trying to get rid of things that I just don't. I have no reason for needing. Is that what you guys are in right now, because you're moving?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. I got rid of so many things that I've had that I don't have any use for. And me, even two years ago, one year ago, would have said, no, keep it. I mean, I'm over everything. Like, I could get rid of everything that I own, aside from, like, my computer, and I'd be fine.

[Morgan (Host)]

Okay, so you're telling me if everything upended today, would you just sell all your stuff and just go on with your life?

[Mike Deistro]

I would be. If I could just do, like, a wholesale, like, here's everything I own and sell it, I would be fine.

[Morgan (Host)]

What are the five things you're keeping if you sell everything?

[Mike Deistro]

Five things I would keep. One would be my Secret Wars 8 comic that my wife got me for Christmas and surprised me with it. It was the comic I'd been looking for basically forever. And it has the first appearance of Black Suit Spider Man.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, your favorite.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. So that's my favorite item in my collection. Number two, I have a signed letter from Donald Glover, AKA Childish Gambino, where he came on the show back when we were in Austin on the pop station. Bobby interviewed him, and then Bobby knew he was my favorite artist. So as show prep, I wrote him, like, a letter. Bobby read it to him on the air, and then afterwards, he signed it for me and then got us tickets to his show that night in Austin.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's so cool. Did you get a picture with him too, I assume?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I have a picture with him. He signed a bunch of stuff. My brother went up to the studio too, and we were both huge community fans. So he signed, like, my brother's Blu Ray and, like, a comic book.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's awesome.

[Mike Deistro]

And then we went to the show that night. But I have that signed letter and I've had it since. That was probably 2011.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

So I would keep that. That's my number two item. Number three, I recently got a Charizard Pokemon card, which was my favorite card growing up. I had one at one point, and then this kid in the trailer park kind of stole it from me, but in a way that he thought was fair, where I was just learning about Pokemon cards and he was trying to teach me how to, like, battle with them.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

And then he was like, no, I Win your charizard.

[Morgan (Host)]

Dang. He, like, scammed you before.

[Mike Deistro]

Scamming was a thing, and I had no idea what happened. And then, like, my other friends tried to get it back for me, and the kid wouldn't give it back.

[Morgan (Host)]

Dang. I hope that kid gets a warm pillow these days.

[Mike Deistro]

I don't even remember. I remember where he lived in the trailer park, but I don't remember his name. I wish I did. I track him down. Like, hey, you still have that?

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah, he probably does it.

[Mike Deistro]

I mean, if he did, he probably sold it by now. Yeah, that would be my number three,

[Morgan (Host)]

because you got one. You have a new one.

[Mike Deistro]

I went to a card shop here in town. They had one. It wasn't, like, in pristine condition, so I don't think I spent $10,000 on it. But I don't really care about that in my search of finding things from my childhood. Like, I don't care what condition it's in. I just want to own it in some form or fashion, not spend my entire life savings on it. Yeah. So that would probably be number three. Number four is probably my nameplate that I got when we went to go see. When we went to go ride in Jerry Jones's helicopter.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh.

[Mike Deistro]

So we went. Flew to the game, and then we got to watch the game from his suite. And at the suite, they put everybody's name on, like, this little cardboard, like, place a little. If you go to a wedding and they have your name on the table. They had that for my name, and I kept it.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's cool, though. And the Dallas Cowboys have been your team your whole life.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. So that was just a crazy experience of going and then being there, watching my favorite team and then being there as a guest was wild. So I have that nameplate that says, like, Mr. Mike Deistro on it. And I also have some napkins from Jerry Jones bathroom, and the napkins are. And they have the Dallas Cowboys star on them.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's funny. Well, those are some good items, though. I feel like those are cinnamon while also still being really valuable.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. So those are all the things.

[Morgan (Host)]

Those are good. Those are the things.

[Mike Deistro]

Things that I can't really replicate. I mean, I could technically replicate the comic book and the card. Some of the other things, I can't.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's true. Okay, well, before we take a break, was there anything else in the box, or are you getting rid of everything else?

[Mike Deistro]

I found some really old relics from the show from way back in the day, even before Amy joined the show.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, that's Cool.

[Mike Deistro]

It was whenever the show moved from Austin to hear. I think Bobby let me clean out his desk and said I could keep whatever I wanted. And there's like some old. It's literally like a. A pack of, like, sticky notes that has, like, the show logo on it, but it's not Amy, which was really weird looking.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's wild.

[Mike Deistro]

And then there's like a can of beans that they made. I forgot what it says on it. Something about gas or. It was some kind of promo item, but I was just.

[Morgan (Host)]

Are you getting rid of them or are you keeping them?

[Mike Deistro]

I'm keeping those. I just felt like it's a cool piece of, like, show history that nobody probably has anymore.

[Morgan (Host)]

So all of this is a. You open back up the box, the boxes stay. Is what I've learned from this.

[Mike Deistro]

I got rid of, like, all the old cake because it was like my box for all my music stuff that we would tour with. So, like, there's like old cables and like old microphones that were really disgusting because we would take our own microphones and they got gross. And then a bunch of, like, old random things that I had no idea where they even came from.

[Morgan (Host)]

Okay. So at least half of the box got tossed out.

[Mike Deistro]

Kept the phone, kept the pictures, kept the random show items.

[Morgan (Host)]

Hey, that's progress.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

What's in the box? We did it. All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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[Kal Penn]

hey everyone, it's Cal Penn. I'm the host of Irsay The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project, Hail Mary Massive sci fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone, very far from Earth.

[Ray Porter]

I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections and it's like, okay, yo yo yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it and I was like, no. At this point it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that deeply, emotionally affected me and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like yeah dude, me too.

[Kal Penn]

Listen to Irsay the Audible and iHeart audiobook club on the iHeartradio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Morgan (Host)]

all right, I need to know if you have this experience because you're the only other one with like full dietary restrictions like myself.

[Mike Deistro]

It's hard. I'm vegan. My wife is gluten free. It's hard to go out to eat. It's hard to get recommendations from people like, try this restaurant.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. But I will say gluten free is becoming easier, dairy free. Also start like dairy freeze at the very beginning where we're seeing a big plant based movement happening.

[Mike Deistro]

When you go to a restaurant and they have it all labeled on there. Oh, it's so. It's so great.

[Morgan (Host)]

I saw you guys went and tried Flower Child, which is one of my new favorites.

[Mike Deistro]

Oh, we've been going there a while. Yeah, they used to have it in Austin and whenever they got one here, we're like, finally.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. Except it's all the way out in Franklin, so forever. But it's so good. I dream they have this like corn couscous or like corn quinoa thing. I dream about it. That's how good it was.

[Mike Deistro]

I love it when I can go to a place and I can get multiple things where I have. It's not just the one thing. And then you always kind of feel like you feel lucky when they do have a vegan option or a gluten free option. But then when that's the only option, they're like, well, we have an option for you. I'm like, yeah. But then I don't. I don't really. Doesn't sound good to me.

[Morgan (Host)]

I know. And neither one of you guys are on. On the have the ability. Like both of mine are more choices because I feel better. Besides vegetarian, that one is just solid. There's no changing that. But there'll be times where somebody gets me to go try something to eat and I eat it and I'm like, dang, I shouldn't have eat that. But that was really good. And I'm reminded of the experience when I wasn't gluten free and totally vegan. So I do have some of those moments. But all of that to say I have. I'm not sure if I'm weird in this because there are some times I really love eggs. Sometimes love them, they're great. Other times Hate them, despise them, Want to not even see them. Do you have any foods that are in your, like, list of things that you eat that you just hate?

[Mike Deistro]

Also, I hate cherry tomatoes.

[Morgan (Host)]

But do you also like them sometimes?

[Mike Deistro]

I like regular tomatoes, but I don't like cherry tomatoes specifically. Why I will love a regular tomato, I don't know. It's something about the texture when you bite into them. Because I don't really like cold things. Like, when it comes to salad, like, being a vegan, it's so hard for me to say I don't like salads because they're like, isn't that all you eat? No, I don't. I'd rarely eat a salad.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

But I hate just the cold salad with a bunch of cherry tomatoes. That's, like, my worst thing.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's your nightmare.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. Because my worst. The foods I hate the most are cherry tomatoes and arugula.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, dang. Arugula is getting tomato here.

[Mike Deistro]

Okay.

[Morgan (Host)]

All right.

[Mike Deistro]

So it's something about the texture of biting into a tomato and it, like, bursting in your mouth. It just. I don't like it.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

And then arugula just tastes like, I'm going out to the lawn and just chomping down.

[Morgan (Host)]

That is fair. Arugula, if not prepared correctly, definitely tastes like dirt. Yeah, for sure. And cherry tomatoes are crunchy versus regular tomatoes. Regular tomatoes can be soft, and you can slice them. Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

Like, I could eat a sliced tomato, but something about a cherry tomato.

[Morgan (Host)]

You can't really slice those. I've tried. I've cut myself a few times in that process. So. Okay, so you have things that, like, it's a little odd, but, Mike, there'll be times where I, like. Well, lately I've been making this homemade egg salad that I'm obsessed with. Love it. I'll eat it with sweet potatoes. It's so delicious. And then one morning, I'll wake up and I'll have, like, two bites, and I'm like, I'm disgusted. I want to vomit. Don't know why. Don't know where it comes from. Like, and I don't know if it's because of the vegetarian side of me. Something about eggs. I'm very particular about eggs that I'll eat. Like, they have to be, like, fully organic. I know that they're actually roaming on a farm, not, like, fake roaming on a farm. You know what I mean? And so I'm very, like, the only way I'll eat eggs if I know where it's coming from. Most of the Time we'll get them from the farmer's market, that kind of thing. And I don't know if that's why, but it will be the most random day. Nothing startled it. Nothing changed. But one day I just wake up and I hate them. I feel like that's weird.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I guess because I. I only have so many things that I eat. I can't get tired of what I eat. There are. There are moments where I get to a point where I'm just like, sick of cooking and like I could make the same thing that I've always made and for some reason it just doesn't hit the same.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

Where I feel like I'm just eating out of necessity because I'm hungry. And that's usually the night we decide, okay, we're just going out to eat.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's fair. Okay. Because people will always ask me, what are your favorite gluten free vegan restaurants? Nashville Flower Child being one of them.

[Mike Deistro]

My favorite all time is avo. I've been going there since they were like, in this old shipping container. Now they're like in a legit restaurant. But I go there all the time. Like, they know us there. We're like friends with the owner and they're just. It's just so crazy when you can go into a restaurant and you can eat whatever.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

And my wife can't because some things aren't gluten free. But I can go in and eat whatever. And it's awesome.

[Morgan (Host)]

Like, totally safe. Because it's all plant based.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. And it's the one restaurant that I've taken people to who are maybe hesitant of eating vegan food and they end up liking it. They might not love it and go back on their own, but if they come into town and we're like, you gotta try it out.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

And they most oftentimes left like, okay, it's good. Like, it's not like what you think about vegan food, like at all tasting like dirt or just all being salads.

[Morgan (Host)]

No. There's so many options. There's so many ways to create vegan food now. Like with different substitutions of things. Cashews, coconut being a lot of them. But also I was really mad because there was one weekend where AVO did an Italian like, weekend. A full vegan, gluten free Italian food. And I was so excited because it's hard. That's a hard food to find that has all of the restrictions. And I was out of town.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. We went to that.

[Morgan (Host)]

You.

[Mike Deistro]

It was good.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, my. Gosh I was devastated. Like, when I tell you that I found out about it, I was like, I have to go. I'm going. And then I saw the dates. I was so sad.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

I cried, Mike, because I was like, I really wanted to try that.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, it's great. Because. Yeah. The two hardest restaurants for me to go eat are Italian restaurants and seafood places, because you can never find anything that's vegan. You're eating the. Eating the cold salad.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah.

[Mike Deistro]

So to go. And they have Italian food that you can get whatever you want. It was awesome.

[Morgan (Host)]

So it was. It was good.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

I really hope they do it again. That was a devastating day for me. I'm not going to lie.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. They had, like, these giant ravioli is really good. Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

And like, mozzarella.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, the mozzarella sticks were good.

[Morgan (Host)]

Come on, man.

[Mike Deistro]

We told them that they got to make those a menu item.

[Morgan (Host)]

I hope. I think it was really popular, so I'm hoping it comes back again. And I was. I will say, though, there is a lot of. At least on the gluten free side, there's a lot of Italian restaurants that have started becoming really importing pasta from Italy or coming up with things. But the vegan side is what's hard with it, because cheese is literally everything

[Mike Deistro]

in pasta or meat sauces. Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. All the things. So. All right. There was that one then also. I'm not a spice girl. Not even a little bit.

[Mike Deistro]

Not at all.

[Morgan (Host)]

Not even a little bit.

[Mike Deistro]

What is your level of, like, what's your threshold? Is it.

[Morgan (Host)]

Mike, Sometimes pepper makes my eyes water.

[Mike Deistro]

Wow.

[Morgan (Host)]

And I don't know if I hate it so much because I'm also, I think, potentially allergic to it because every time I eat spices, my lips start to blow up.

[Mike Deistro]

That could be a thing. Yeah. That could be a medical condition.

[Morgan (Host)]

I'm also afraid of it there. But I want to, like, spicy things. I want to. I want to. And I try so hard. And every time I cry, like, I. I think I'm a baby in my food palate as far as spices go.

[Mike Deistro]

Wow.

[Morgan (Host)]

There was like a honey barbecue that made me. My eyes water. Honey barbecue. Like, what did they have in that? I made my fiance a vegetarian buffalo dip. You know, most of the time it's like a chicken buffalo dip, and it was made with chickpeas. And I got really excited because I was like, I can finally eat buffalo dip. And I put the most mild buffalo sauce you can ever put in there. I cried. And you know what? I did? It tasted so good that I Kept eating through the tears. That's how bad it was. What about that side? Is there any food that you love enough that you'll, like, painfully allow yourself to go through it?

[Mike Deistro]

See, luckily, I grew up where spice was just all around, so I kind of have a tolerance to it. Like, whenever Eddie made a salsa that everybody else said was way too hot, I had no problem. Like, I never thought I was like, what are they talking about?

[Morgan (Host)]

It's normal.

[Mike Deistro]

I don't think there's anything I like. I'm luckily, even though I don't eat cheese, if I do eat cheese, like, I'm fine.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah, because yours is preference.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. It's not like an intolerance to that, which I think that would. I'd have a much different relationship with that. Because if I really. Because I used to on Christmas, I'd have my large cheese pizza by myself, and then I'd wake up the next day and be totally fine.

[Morgan (Host)]

Is there something you miss that you wish you could eat every day with no consequence?

[Mike Deistro]

I mean, when you were saying eggs, that was like, the last thing that I gave up that I did not want to let go.

[Morgan (Host)]

Really? Like, and why eggs? Why did you let go of eggs?

[Mike Deistro]

Because if you can't be a vegan and eat eggs, that was like the last thing. Like, I was like, okay, I'll stop eating chicken and eggs are the last two things because I just ate so much of it. I was able to do chicken, but I was like, man, what am I going to eat for breakfast? That's been my entire breakfast for years. And I would just make. I would put eggs in everything. Like, even my dinner. I would find a way to work in eggs.

[Morgan (Host)]

I know, and it's so weird. There's definitely a split on that of. For vegan diets. There's like half where they're like, eggs are fine, half are like, you cannot eat eggs. It's kind of like the pescatarian diet where, like, they'll eat no meat, but they'll eat fish.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

It's like one of those dilemmas. And I think that's why maybe I have problems with eggs. Some days I'm one and some days I'm another. I don't know. But have you tried eggs again?

[Mike Deistro]

No, I haven't had eggs probably in eight, nine years.

[Morgan (Host)]

Wild.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. Unless it's been, like, in one of my cheat days, like, as an ingredient inside of, like, cookies or something, I haven't had eggs.

[Morgan (Host)]

Okay. That's crazy. Your dedication over there. I told. I love it. What Is your for you page right now? Because speaking of thing, food, I have a lot of recipes. Like, I'm pretty sure my entire for you page right now is recipes and traveling. So I have places saved where I want to go and food that I want to make.

[Mike Deistro]

I don't get food anymore, which I used to love. I used to just get people. There was like, this lady who was like, in maybe South Texas or maybe in Mexico, but she would just be making things every day. And that was like, my feed for a while. And I was like, I haven't seen her videos in a long time.

[Morgan (Host)]

And I'm like, what'd you do to your for you page?

[Mike Deistro]

I don't know. All food is gone.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's funny. So what is it now?

[Mike Deistro]

Right now? Because of WrestleMania. That was a couple weeks. It's a lot of wrestling. I get a lot of Pokemon stuff. I would say every third video is probably either somebody live ripping packs or somebody going to Target to try to find Pokemon cards. That's probably my number two most thing in my feed right now.

[Morgan (Host)]

You said ripping packs, and I was thinking, like, ripping cigarettes. And I was like, that's not what he meant. And it took me a second to register that you were talking about, like, ripping open Pokemon card packs. Please continue.

[Mike Deistro]

So that's my number two. And then number three is probably just collectibles in general. I follow. I don't even follow a lot of people, but I get a lot of people just going to like, different collectible shops and just like, here's what they have in stock today. That's a lot of my feed.

[Morgan (Host)]

Isn't it funny how your for you page can change so quickly? Yeah, you can, like, two things of one category, and all of a sudden that's what you have.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. Recently I watched like, one video of Chris Kirkpatrick from nsync, and then for like, two, I got a bunch of Chris Kirkpatrick from Insane. Like, I was the biggest NSYNC fan.

[Morgan (Host)]

That's. You're like, okay, yeah, I like the one video we don't need to give me everything of that one. Is that weird? I did that to our show, Instagram, for you too. Because. Because somebody's not, like, so actively on that page. You know what I mean? Like, just constantly on the for you page. It was so random. And so I turned that one also into recipes or, like, life hacks or cleaning things. I started trying to turn it into something that, like, at least when I opened it, it wasn't like a jump scare every time I opened the thing. I was like, I don't need to see that. It was bad. It was really bad. That in our Twitter feed, which is still kind of a dumpster fire. So I've tried to engage with random things to change the algorithm over there. So when I am on it, I'm not totally being startled. So our show Instagram for you page is cleaning videos, some country videos, because I'll still comment on those. Trying to make sure I know the country news. And then recipes, like, all kinds of recipes. And that's what our. Our show it is. But that's funny. So yours is food, traveling and everything. Wedding.

[Mike Deistro]

Oh, yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

My. That does not help anything. Like, I am having so many options. Hurts my brain. And social media, all it does is make it worse. Like, you. You get something. You're like, that was a really cool. I'm so excited about that. And then you get on Instagram and you all of a sudden have five videos of different things you could have done. It's horrible. Like, a horrible mind. F is what happens to my brain in those situations. Like, and. And it's just crazy how much you realize how much we're fed and how it, like, dramatically impacts our everyday life.

[Mike Deistro]

You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

Like, I don't even think I realize it until I watch my for you page shift for what's happening in my life.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah, I worry about that sometimes. Of, like, how much my brain has changed.

[Morgan (Host)]

Seriously.

[Mike Deistro]

How much has been my own willingness or wanting to change my way of thinking versus how much has just been manipulated through an algorithm?

[Morgan (Host)]

Yes. No, I'm not even kidding.

[Mike Deistro]

Like, I think even me getting back into, like, collecting things has been all because of what I've seen through TikTok of, like, other people showing that it's more socially acceptable, but also, like, getting fed videos of people, like, going to the store and buying things. That's made me want to do that more and lean more into that. And that's all because of having an app on my phone.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yep. And if you didn't, then you want to be buying things, you know, the basis for consumerism, I suppose. But it. It. It hurts my brain. There's sometimes where, like, I'll lay in bed and I. And I still want to be on my phone because I want to play my games. I want to, like, do my little brain rotting, I guess, as they call, while also bedrotting, because most of my day is very productive and I don't have that chance. But then I'm just like, why am I on this. Why, why, why can't I just brain rot lane here without doing anything for my brain or having to watch a TV show or like, even my winding down is consumed in that.

[Mike Deistro]

I mean, yeah, my winding down is watching TikTok till my eyes hurt. That's not good.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah, like, I'll be falling as, like my eyes are close, closing, and I'll be either like scrolling or I'm playing a game. Like, that's not good. You should be closing your eyes, like gently falling asleep. It's in the dark. But I'm not. And I. I think about that a lot. I've had rude awakenings a lot recently, if you can't tell. I've also had a lot of crash outs and spirals.

[Mike Deistro]

You personally, or I was like, that's your algorithm that you see other people

[Morgan (Host)]

crashing completely myself or I will just like be on something for so long and it's. It's partially from looking at a bunch of vendors where there's like 15 different things and I'm like, I have looked at the same photo 5,000 times and my brain just falls apart and then I have a crash out because I can't. It's like I'm. You know, when you watch a computer try and do too many things at once, mine just did it. It literally just like dies. That's what my brain does. And I just completely crash out. It's a. It's a weird experience.

[Mike Deistro]

Just locks up. You get the circle of death, literally.

[Morgan (Host)]

And I'm just like, my fiance will come home from work and I'm just like, I don't know. And he's like, are you broken? Are you like, is there life inside of you? Like, what is happening? Have you never had a crash out or like a spiral like that where your whole body just kind of like, what are you doing?

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah. I haven't had in a while, though. Luckily I've had to do therapy and stuff to manage those things and medication. So luckily the tools I've learned have kept me from that. I get close to it and I can feel it. But no, not a super bad crash out recently. Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah, that's weird. But it's also like overloaded. I think of all the stress that everybody is under on any normal given day. Like a job. You and me, we look at just our jobs in general. We have a lot of things that we have to do and accomplish.

[Mike Deistro]

Yeah.

[Morgan (Host)]

And then you add life, social, health and fitness, Cooking your food, taking care of, like, see, then I start to crash out again. I started thinking about it.

[Mike Deistro]

That's why I go for 20 mile runs, honestly.

[Morgan (Host)]

Oh, I. Yeah, I. I wish I could, Mike.

[Mike Deistro]

It's all that steam. Just. That's where I'm not bothered.

[Morgan (Host)]

It's so true. And I, I would love to do that, but I would crash out on the run. My body would be like, what are you trying to add to our thing? And I would be like five miles from my. This is like when I tried rollerblading for the first time to like again to pick it up as an adult and give me something to do. And I crashed five minutes from my house.

[Mike Deistro]

I think it's just a matter of finding something where you're not being notified or you're not looking at anything, whatever that is. Weren't you doing. Was it disc golf for a while?

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. I'm trying different things. The problem is finding time to do said things.

[Mike Deistro]

True.

[Morgan (Host)]

And then I crash out trying to find the time. I just. There's a lot going on in my life right now.

[Mike Deistro]

Fair point, fair point.

[Morgan (Host)]

It's really just like planning and organizing and all the things. There's just a heavy mental load trying to do a bunch of things at one time. I like. It's also exciting stuff, but it's just, you know, when your to do list looks more long than your grocery list, you're kind of like, okay, one day that'll hopefully not be there. But anyways, I just had a small crash out, I think right there.

[Mike Deistro]

We witnessed it in real time.

[Morgan (Host)]

You did. You saw my brain doing it. But Mike, thanks for joining. Coming on.

[Mike Deistro]

This was good.

[Morgan (Host)]

Yeah. You're seeing me have a moment where I'm like, I don't know anymore what I was trying to say. Tell everybody where they can find you and hear you.

[Mike Deistro]

You can listen to my podcast movie Mike's movie podcast new episodes every single Monday. And I'm on social media ikedistro on literally everything.

[Morgan (Host)]

I love it. And you can follow the show obby boneshow and I'm gonna go before my brain brain shuts down completely. Bye, everybody.

[Mike Deistro]

Bye. That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks for listening. Sure. To check out the other two parts this weekend, go follow the show on all social platforms obbyboneshow and follow ebgirlmorgan to submit your listener questions for next week's episode.

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