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Welcome to Mostly Offline, the podcast about being a little less online and a little more present.
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I'm Maria.
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And I'm Justin.
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We're here to talk about phones, social media, and all the ways being constantly connected can start to feel like a lot.
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Today we're talking about boredom and how we almost never let ourselves feel it anymore.
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The second nothing is happening, the phones come out, we can't even watch TV without scrolling at the same time.
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Basically, a second screen for the screen we're already watching.
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Exactly.
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And I want to start with this.
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When was the last time you were actually bored?
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I try question.
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I don't even know.
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I think like I I guess.
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Like I'm bored sometimes.
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But it's when I like don't take my phone somewhere.
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Like if I go to the grocery store, but then I'm not bored.
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Yeah, because.
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you get overstimulated.
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Yeah, like being actually bored, like sitting in a park?
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I don't even know.
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A long time ago, probably.
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Like I don't even think I've done that this year.
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Have you?
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I have.
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I feel like I get bored whenever I'm hiking.
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But then when I'm on the hike, I don't know how to describe it.
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I like almost dissociate.
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I also feel like at the gym I get bored really easily.
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Like I purposely don't listen to music and I purposely go in and just try to get everything done.
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And I'm just thinking about my sets.
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And it gets really repetitive.
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Like if you're weight training.
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So I would say I get bored pretty much every day weight training.
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And then when I really don't have it in me, then I play music and it really hypes me up more.
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But I am trying to be more on task and make the task the job.
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Yeah.
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I actually thought about this a little bit more and I'm bored every time I drive.
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Like if I drive somewhere, I'm bored.
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I'm like the worst because.
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I just get so bored.
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Like if I'm not listening to a podcast or something or music, I'm bored.
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I always listen to music or a podcast in the car.
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Yeah.
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I sometimes I do most of the time.
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Sometimes I don't, but it's just like due to laziness because.
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I don't want to put something on.
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Well, yeah, it's really interesting too, because.
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we were kind of talking about how humans are really bad at multitasking.
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But yet when you're driving, you're listening to music or you're listening to a podcast or trying to do something else.
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And how that's been an increase in car accidents.
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But just sitting in silence in a car and driving by yourself, like that is an awful experience.
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I don't think it's that bad because.
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I like think, like I do a lot of thinking while I'm driving, I guess, but I could see where it is.
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I was Max and I were driving the other day, and he there was like a stressful situation.
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I turned the volume down and he was like, I don't need you to turn down the volume.
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I can multitask.
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And I was like, You actually can't.
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Yeah, you're like, Science says you can't actually do that.
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But it's funny how like as we when we're driving and there's a stressful situation, you like turn the music down, like that's gonna make it different.
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But it just does though.
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It totally does.
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I just don't know when we started to reach for our phones the second nothing is happening.
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I honestly I go it goes back to like social media.
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I think because.
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we're also addicted to social media, you get into an elevator or you get into a situation where you need to or you have a free moment and you pick up your phone.
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Even when your friend goes to the bathroom at a restaurant, you're like, you're not sitting there thinking, you're or looking at the surroundings, you're picking up your phone and you're texting people back and you're doing stuff.
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You can't even be in the elevator for 30 seconds without your phone.
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Nick told me I have a staring problem because.
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I don't actually pick up my phone, I'll just stare at people.
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I like to like look around, I think it's fun.
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There's a lot of things going
on, but I like people watching too, so I'm just like, yeah.
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But then if you're people watching and then you notice one of those people are staring at you, then it makes you want to reach for your phone.
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Yeah, because.
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it's awkward.
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But I've gotten really good at just the stare.
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I find I pick up my phone more times when I'm awkwardly in a situation than when I'm like just because.
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I've been actively trying to not be on my phone as much.
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But if there's an awkward situation, I will go on my phone.
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I'm probably not even listening to anything I or looking at anything.
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I'm just like going on my phone so that people don't talk to me.
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I have been so anxious that I've told my partner at the time, this is like years and years and years ago, but I got invited to this party and I remember being like, if I text you an emoji, can you just like text me random things so it looks like I'm texting someone?
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Because I felt so awkward.
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That's so funny.
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Max does not text back that quickly, so he would that would never work.
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I could phone him though, but it's like when I wear headphones in public, though, like if I'm in an awkward situation, or like not an awkward situation, but like if I'm in a situation where like I don't want someone to talk to me, I'll just wear headphones.
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Like on the street.
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I don't want people to try to sell me things, whatever else.
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That's why I got the AirPro Maxes, because.
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they're so big.
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They are huge.
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That it's like obvious that you're wearing I just am like, oh, I'm on a conference call, sorry.
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But I'm trying to like talk to people more on the street in like my little off most, like my mostly offline era.
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I'm trying to like engage with society more.
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So I'm trying to wear headphones less because.
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I find it's a little rude, even if you're at like the grocery store.
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It I think it's like rude for the person because.
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they're like, Are you listening to a podcast?
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Are you talking to me?
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Yeah, and you don't always know.
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I also think we talked about this earlier, but becoming a regular at a space, it makes such a big difference, too.
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Because then you know the employees and it's not as awkward, and you can kind of have that relationship.
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Even at the grocery store, the people know me.
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I go there three or four times a week.
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The staff seem to like know who you are.
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Probably don't, but they act like they do, they're nice.
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Like the supplement store I go to, she's like always so nice because.
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I'm in there all the time.
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They definitely know you.
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Yeah, it's true.
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They probably do.
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1000%.
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Yeah, they probably do.
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I don't, I don't know.
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I think we reach for a phone.
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I think there's so much going on in society nowadays, and everyone's under so much pressure and immense stress that we reach for a phone as an escape from what our brain is actually thinking about.
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Because we're all so worried about everything, I think.
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So then you reach for your phone and you go on TikTok, and that make helps you to turn your brain off and helps you to stop overthinking.
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I think our society is just so I think we're all just kind of overwhelmed.
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I think so too.
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But then it's like if you grab your phone and you go on TikTok, it actually could make you more anxious because.
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you don't know what the algorithm's gonna push at you that day.
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So you could log on and it could be like the world is ending, and then you're like, wait, what?
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And then you have to do like a deep dive on what is actually happening.
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Yeah, we're recording this as the midterms are happening, so that's it.
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I think that's on our mind.
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But I think I had a really good habit for a while where I was picking up my Kindle or my Kobo instead of my phone, and that was really good.
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I wish my phone shout out Kindle, because.
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Kindle actually has this, but Kobo doesn't.
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But your phone books can like sync to your phone.
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Mine can't, so I have to like get my e-reader, which is annoying.
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But I think that's a lot healthier to pick that up in a time of boredom.
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I'm trying to like journal more and do that stuff, but it's so hard because.
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the thing you have with you is the thing you're gonna pick up, right?
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So if you're
not at the, if you're not at home and you don't have your journal or you don't have your e-reader, you're just gonna pick up your phone.
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And it's hard.
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I don't know.
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I think we try to fill the void.
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I also feel like it's really easy to look at yourself and feel like you're the only one that feels awkward.
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But actually sitting in the awkwardness is what I feel like has helped me grow a lot in the sense where now, and I don't know if this is necessarily true, but say I'm in a social situation and I feel awkward.
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I just think in my head, there's probably 10 other people in this room that feel the exact same, but I'm just gonna keep on talking and I'm gonna keep on trying to make connections.
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Yeah.
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Because I'd rather that than leave and then just feel awful or like I missed an opportunity to connect with someone.
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Yeah.
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I think especially in like new situations, like at the gym, I always try to find if there's like a new person, I always try to like give try to like open up to them a little bit and like just introduce myself so that they feel more comfortable.
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But yeah, I think we as humans only grow when we're in uncomfortable situations.
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So you have to put yourself into those situations.
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I do hate that though, when for instance, we are really good about that.
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When new people come to the gym, we know that they're new, so we'll be like, hey, what's up?
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I hate getting invited to a party or a social situation where everybody is like best friends and you're the outsider.
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Honestly, that is really awkward.
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And I really, whenever I go to those situations, I just pray that there's people that have personalities like you and I who will actually be like, oh, here's the backstory to that joke, or here's what we're talking about.
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Because if you don't give backstory and you like can't see those social cues, it becomes awkward and then you're more likely to just grab your phone.
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So if you want to actually be social and for people not to grab their phone, make sure that they're feeling like they're part of the group.
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Yeah.
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Also, I don't I feel like I'm way more comfortable in situations with people that I know.
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Like if I go to a like you invited me to a party on a Halloween party on Friday, and it was like two people I know and a bunch of people I don't know.
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That is a nightmare for me because.
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I'm like, I want to have, I know the two of you and I'm gonna have fun, but I'm not gonna feel good in like the with the rest of the people, and it like takes me so long to like get warmed up to people.
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I just like it's so hard.
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Well, that was me.
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We went to a 2000s birthday party, yeah, and I knew some of the people there, but I didn't know a lot of them, and I just felt so awkward.
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Like I because.
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I also don't want to be the person that's like velcro to someone else.
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No, but that night I literally told you, I was like, I'm gonna be velcro to you because.
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I feel really awkward right now.
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Yeah, that's like a big friend group too.
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So it's really hard because.
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they're all very social, like socialites, and I'm not a socialite, so it's difficult because.
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they thrive in those situations, and I don't.
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Well, I think too, I want to sit down, and we've talked about this before.
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When I meet someone, I actually want to talk about genuine things.
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So if it's just like a passing conversation that's gonna lead to nothing, I just would prefer not to really have it.
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Yeah.
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You know, we've talked about this before.
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Like, yeah, I don't care about the weather.
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Don't talk to me about the weather.
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Tell me like your deepest, darkest secret.
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I like when people are the most unhinged, like when a receptionist out of business is unhinged and they tell you the craziest things.
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Tell me the lore.
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I don't care about the weather.
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I don't want to have small talk.
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Small talk to me kills me.
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Like, I don't hate I just hate it.
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I can't do it.
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Yeah, me too.
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When's the last time you watched a TV show without scrolling on your phone?
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Hmm.
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When I was probably 18 years old.
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Shut up.
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Oh my god, you should try it.
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I've been doing it.
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It's it's nice.
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Like I said, I've been like putting my phone away, which I do miss a lot of phone calls, I will say that.
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But I just set up a shortcut on my phone
now so that when I connect to my Wi-Fi, it puts it on a ring.
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So now it goes on to ring when I'm at home and it doesn't, it's not on ring when I'm not at home, which has been helpful.
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But I put my phone away.
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And like I said, I think I said last week I've been watching TV with ads again.
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And so then I'll pick up my phone during the break.
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But I don't, yeah.
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It uh was a hard transition, but I like watching TV for the if you're gonna watch TV, I think you should watch it, do it for the purpose of watching TV, not just putting on background noise.
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I think so too.
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I just think because.
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I have so many mini side hustles going on in the background and I'm trying to escape the nine to five.
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When I sit down to actually relax, it's not only with TV, it's like with everything.
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My brain is like, now is the time to look at videos that you could be making.
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Now is the time to edit these videos.
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Like, I just feel like sometimes there's not enough hours in a day, but then it's just feeding the loop of me being on my phone.
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So I need to come up with like when I do watch TV, just put my phone away.
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Or maybe I should do the commercials thing, and then when the commercials come on, then I edit a video.
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Or just like or something.
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If you're gonna go on your phone, go on your phone and don't turn on the TV, right?
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Because you're not actually watching the TV if you're on your phone.
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So then you're just overstimulating yourself and it's not worth it.
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Like you might as well just like turn your phone, you might as well just have your phone as the primary task and don't turn the TV on.
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Well, I did notice actually that's a lie.
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I watched a movie, well, I watched multiple movies when I was bedazzling, I can't even speak right now.
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Bedazzling.
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When I was bedazzling my mic pack.
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Yeah.
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Because I had to really be focused on every single gem.
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You have this special pen.
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Yeah.
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And you dab like a little bit of glue and then you put a little diamond on it, and you have to be really specific.
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So I guess I did that for seven hours straight with TV on in the background and didn't grab my phone.
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Yeah, that's nice.
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Yeah.
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I just think I think for me a big thing has been like one task at a time or like one screen at a time has been kind of my rule.
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I've been slipping a little bit because.
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I do watch some like TV that doesn't take a lot of attention to to do.
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But I found when I was trying to get into it, I was watching Young Royals and I watched it in Swedish.
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So I had to watch the I had to use subtitles because.
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I couldn't can't speak Swedish, obviously.
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And that really helped because.
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you really have to put your phone down if you're watching a show like that that has a lot of dialogue, it's very dialogue heavy and it's in a language you don't speak.
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If I watch like Spanish shows, I can pick up enough Spanish that I can look at my phone.
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But if I watch a show that in a language that I've never spoken, then it's really hard.
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I need to start doing that.
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I also find lately with newer movies, I'm getting bored, actually.
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Like, and I think that's why I grabbed my phone, if that makes sense.
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Like, I feel like the script, this sounds really bad.
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Hot take.
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Take it, believe it, don't believe it.
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I don't care.
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I think that a lot of scripts are made with AI now.
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I mean, possibly.
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In the sense of like, I feel like older movies, maybe they were like slower to get to the plot.
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And I have seen newer movies that I do like, but it's just for TV shows, like I feel like the quality isn't there for me.
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Like, I want to watch a show that actually like sucks me in and that I'm actually invested in.
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Yeah.
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But it's hard for me to find that.
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Yeah, I don't think it's like I don't think it's that shows are made with AI now.
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I think it's that there is 75 streaming services, and the barrier to getting your show onto TV is very low.
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Whereas like you used to have to like pitch NBC to get your show on, and they were like, oh, you wanna like I just watched the Matthew Perry documentary, and it was like friends went on at 7 p.m.
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on NBC or ABC or whatever, and it was like, this is amazing because.
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this is the most sought-after time slot.
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There's no sought-after time slots anymore.
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Hockey Night in Canada's shutting down, like there's no sought-after TV time slots, so they can just make slop and put it on Netflix and put it on Prime and put it on Apple TV, and there's eight million shows.
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I think I think we're also too invested in like you don't have to finish a movie if it sucks, right?
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Like I used to, like I I used to take a lot of time picking a movie.
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I would spend two hours picking a movie just to find a movie that I want to watch all the way through.
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Max will just pick a movie.
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But if it's bad in 10 minutes, he'll turn it off.
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And we picked a movie the other night and it was ended up being a really good movie.
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It was a Steven Spielberg movie.
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I had never heard of it.
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It was an MGM original or something, but I think there's too much media now.
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So there's no there's no level of like quality assurance because.
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you can just make a TV show.
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It's actually so true.
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And then by the time you find something good, you just are exhausted because.
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you've spent so much time trying to like go through what actually is good to determine.
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Yeah, I mean, it's really hard to find good TV.
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I find reality TV is good because.
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it's the only thing that's really original anymore.
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Like, there's not a lot of original TV, there's no not a lot of original ideas.
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So I watch a little bit of reality TV, but I also try not to watch too much TV.
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I just don't I don't there's not a lot of TV I enjoy.
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So I'm trying to like play PlayStation a little bit more, like that's way better for your brain.
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Or just go on if I'm gonna go on my phone, I will just intentionally go on my phone for an hour instead of putting the TV on and then ending up on TikTok anyway.
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I need to start doing that.
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I also find, so I was watching Dragon's Den.
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This is years ago.
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I love Dragon Sten.
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And shout out Arlene, one of the pitches was a monthly shipment box for your kids to play outside and be creative.
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Like I find everyone always says, oh, like kids are so playful, this and that.
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But it's because.
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I feel like we are introduced or we have introduced social media and we've introduced email, text messaging, all these things that are embodied with being a professional, but we're not embodying being bored because.
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I feel like boredom used to lead to hobbies, ideas, and creativity.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, like when you're a kid, you're you're being you're going outside and you're doing things, you're exploring, you're climbing a tree, you're building a tree house, whereas now it's like you could just build a treehouse in Minecraft, right?
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They love Minecraft.
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I mean, I still love Minecraft.
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Minecraft is a great game, but it's it's a creative game though, so I think it's actually good for kids.
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There's not a lot of games where I'm like, wow, that's a great game for children.
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I think Minecraft is good because.
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it's safe.
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Like you're not, it's not like Roblox or like is it Roblox, the one where they're like there's a lot of predators and stuff on there?
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Wait, what?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I didn't know about it.
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Yeah, no, no, no.
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There's like a it's a big problem because.
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there's all these like online communities and they're like, yeah.
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Oh no, it's a big thing, yeah.
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But on Minecraft, a server has to be like private, right?
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So you can't really like do I'm sure there is areas like that, but that's scary.
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Yeah, I mean the internet's a scary place.
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Club Penguin was similar, like there was people on Club Penguin trying to take advantage of people.
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I guess that's really true, but I just never thought Club Penguin was that deep.
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Like I loved Club Penguin, yeah, but I wouldn't have in-depth conversations with people on Club Penguin.
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Yeah.
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There's a lot of these.
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I mean, the internet's not the safest place in the world, right?
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We have to protect children.
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There's a lot of countries putting in laws for that, but yeah.
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But Minecraft, I think, is one of the better ones.
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I think it's a very creative game.
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And I think you need to be bored to push yourself to do things.
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Write a book.
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I don't know.
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Like, you know what I mean?
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Like it you don't have to, you don't have to be an author that's published already to write a book.
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My brother writes quite a bit.
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His writing is really, really in enthralling.
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Like, I'm in a book club with him, and the last book or two books ago, there was a book, and I was I said, You your writing is better than this book we read.
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I couldn't even get into it.
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It wasn't exciting, it was boring, I didn't like the way it was written.
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But pick up a hobby, learn to play the piano.
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I have a friend who's learning to play the piano.
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And it feels silly to do those things as an adult, but I think it's really good to have hobbies and have things you like to do.
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But I also feel like to grow, you need to get outside of your comfort zone.
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So that doesn't mean that, like, say you're scared of heights.
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It doesn't mean that you have to like completely leap out of your comfort zone and the next day jump out of a plane.
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Just like do small things.
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Like, I mean, I told you I went to that party, I got somebody to text me while I was at this party because.
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I felt anxious.
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How I got over that is it's gone to the point now where like I don't even want to bring my phone to parties and I don't really care.
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Or like if I'm looking around a room and I see someone notice that I'm people watching, I'll just look at them and there's like no shame.
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And I feel like that's also super weird.
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Like Nick will be like, Why did you just make eye contact with that person for like five seconds?
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And I'm just like, well, they just noticed I was people watching, and I just like caught their eye.
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Like, I'm not immediately gonna look away.
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I don't feel shame for what I'm doing.
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Like, I think you need to get a brick, honestly.
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I think like I would love to leave my phone at home too, but it just doesn't make sense.
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The brick is nice because.
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you can just brick your apps and you don't have access to those apps until you go home.
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It does kind of suck when someone's like, What's your Instagram?
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Or they want to follow you on Instagram.
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But I'm just I just say, like, follow me on Instagram and I'll follow you back when
I get home.
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Like it's yeah, not that deep.
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Yeah.
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Why do you think we feel anxious when we aren't being entertained?
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We're just so used to it.
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I think we're so used to being stimulated that when uh it's really hard.
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Hard to feel bored.
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And it's really scary to feel to have no external stimulation because.
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as a society, we're always listening to something, the radio's on.
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Even when I was a kid, my friend's parents would have a radio on in their house all the time.
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And I'm like a silence person.
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Like a lot of people are uncomfortable in that.
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But like I like to just be silent.
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Sometimes I will turn on like classical music or something if I'm really feeling like I need noise.
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But some people have a radio on in their house 24 hours a day.
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And that to me is like scary.
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I cannot deal with that level of stimulation all the time.
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Or even in the gym, when you go to the gym, I love going to my gym in my building because.
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there's no music.
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But when you go to a normal commercial gym, there's always like some music playing.
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Actually, on that, I had a panic attack because.
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actually I had multiple.
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And I'd never experienced a panic attack before.
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But I signed up to this really big commercial gym.
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And then at the times that I was going, they actually hired a DJ.
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And the DJ would be like absolutely blasting tunes to the point where I was like, oh, I'm gonna go in the morning.
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I went in the morning at like 6 a.m.
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Guess who's there?
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The DJ.
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Guess who's blasting tunes at 6 a.m.?
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I literally went into the bathroom.
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I had a full-on panic attack, and there was another girl there, and she was also having a panic attack.
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Like I was like, why is the music like this?
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She's like, girl, I don't know.
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I'm like, I don't want to work out.
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Like, I can't do this.
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What gym is this?
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I just need to know so I don't ever go there.
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Oh, the one that you go to?
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Yeah, I'm not going there.
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It's by Max's house.
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He wants to go there.
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I'm not going there.
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The DJ has left.
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Oh, thank God.
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And I haven't seen the DJ.
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And I actually became friends with the DJ, and he's really nice.
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And so I told him that he actually induced a panic attack.
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That's great.
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And then when I would come in, he would turn down the music.
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But it was like too much.
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Like I'm talking.
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You know how loud the music gets when I'm teaching my tennis classes?
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And how I turn down the beat and then I turn it up to full.
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Imagine it full blast, but like in a huge gym.
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Like just massive.
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It's just like unfair to me to play music in a gym because.
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most people are listening to their own music or podcast or whatever they want to listen to.
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And I think like to overstimulate people that much is just causing, it's gonna cause people to have panic attacks or like anxiety.
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Is we have more anxiety in society than we've ever had before.
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Like yesterday, I was anxious.
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I don't even know why.
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I just was anxious for no reason, and it ruined my whole day.
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I think it was the full moon.
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Maybe it's possible.
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I was also super anxious.
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I don't know why.
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It just ruined my whole day.
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So, and I'm just it's overstimulating.
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Everything's overstimulating.
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There's always like lights, there's always flashing, there's an ad, there's this, that, this.
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I can't handle it.
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I can't either.
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And like, you know that I do aquascaping and I love fish, but I killed all my fish.
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So now I'm just doing plants in my tank.
00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:10.880
It sounds really silly, but just having plants in your tank, if you just like sit and you watch the plants, yeah, it actually makes you feel a lot better.
00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:11.359
Yeah.
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No, there's a lot of things you can do that aren't that aren't watching TV or going on your phone or those types of things, right?
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You can
just sit with yourself, be bored, read a book.
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There's a hobby like aquascaping.
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Very niche.
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But I also feel like the reason why I'm anxious is it's not due to external factors.
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It's because.
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I'm on the grind and because.
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I'm anxious that if I don't do the things that I say I'm gonna do and I don't succeed with them, that I'm gonna feel like a loser.
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And I feel like on social media, especially because.
00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:57.519
I'm an entrepreneur, I follow other entrepreneurs, and these entrepreneurs are like, oh, like you have to keep grinding.
00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:01.839
Like when you feel like crap, you have to do whatever it takes to succeed.
00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:03.680
And I do feel like that's true.
00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:09.359
I feel like you have to have a dog in you, but I feel like that's leading to more burnout because.
00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:10.319
that's not normal.
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That's like saying to be a professional marathon runner or a professional athlete that you should never break in your workouts.
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You should never have a rest week.
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Like that's not gonna actually help you in the long run.
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:24.480
No.
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And I think, yeah, when you have a lot of things going on, like I volunteer, I do the podcast, I'm doing all this other stuff.
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:38.799
When you have a lot going on, it is like a pressure to be performing all the time.
00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:42.160
But you have to tell yourself it's okay to take a break too.
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Like those people are not, they're saying that on TikTok and they're like, oh, every day's a grind, every day's a grind.
00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:49.759
But they're taking a break too.
00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:51.920
Otherwise, they would get burnt out.
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They're just lying about it.
00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.720
Yeah, and you actually don't even know if they have a successful business.
00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:03.519
Like correct, you could technically pop up on Instagram and be like, I made $24,000 this month.
00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:04.880
You didn't make any money.
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You can say whatever you want on Instagram.
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Yeah, you don't have to be telling the truth at all.
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Maybe we should make a new social media platform that's not called Instagram, it's just called facts, and people just literally post it has to be 100% accurate.
00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:27.440
And we have an AI bot that goes around and it anything's like fake, it like literally will ask you to fact-check it.
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I don't think people would use
it.
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I think people like Instagram.
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There's so many like Instagram clones that have come out because.
00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:43.759
like people are like, Oh, I I really want a normal feed again where my friends are in it, and it's not ads and stuff, but then these companies come out and then they go bankrupt because.
00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:45.680
Instagram people just don't leave Instagram.
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Yeah.
00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:50.240
Like there was one called PixelFed, I think.
00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:58.319
And it was like open source platform, just like Instagram, like the original Instagram, everything's chronicle chronological order.
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I think I'm the only person I know that has an account.
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:02.720
Like no one uses it.
00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:04.400
I was hoping it would take off because.
00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:11.359
everybody was like, oh, we hate meta, we hate meta, we want a new version of Instagram, but no one leaves Instagram.
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.039
So then it's like everybody says they want to leave Instagram, but they don't.
00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:16.799
So then it's like, what do you want to do?
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:18.240
Like, what do you want people to do?
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:20.720
I just love Instagram, and I think it's because.
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:21.680
it's nostalgic.
00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:23.200
Like, I think it's because.
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:27.599
that's the app I've been using since I was a teenager.
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:28.319
Yeah.
00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:30.079
See, I hate Instagram.
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:32.319
I used to like Instagram when it first came out.
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:38.079
I loved Instagram, but now I go on Instagram so infrequently that all I see is ads.
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:38.480
Yeah.
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:42.000
And it's not really like somewhere I see my friends' posts or anything.
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:43.680
I use it for basically messaging.
00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:51.119
And then if I look at a story, how many stories you see, like two stories now, and then there's like five ads.
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:53.599
I'm clicking out, I'm not watching any more stories.
00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:57.759
So if you're not in the first two stories on my Instagram, I'm not seeing your story, unfortunately.
00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:59.279
Yeah, which is fair.
00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:01.200
What are some that's really sad?
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:05.759
What are some things you used to do before you spent so much time online?
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:06.480
I don't know.
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:13.440
I was thinking about this when we had like when I had a flip phone, I guess I just hung out with friends more.
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.359
I just did more things in real life.
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.440
I don't I can't think of what I used to do.
00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:25.119
I definitely wasn't doing anything productive, but listen to music, I guess.
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:26.640
I guess just hang out with friends because.
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:28.559
it was my like early 20s back then.
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:33.359
So then I'm like, but I don't know what I used to do.
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:42.480
I guess I would do the things that I do now, like reading or yeah, reading or like a project or something.
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:43.839
What about you?
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:48.559
Yeah, I feel like my friends and I, again, super niche.
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:58.319
We used to make this is when I was a kid, but we used to make like little clay animals all the time, or we did like a ton of crafts, which I feel like I'm starting to do now.
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:00.960
Yeah, and it feels really good.
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.759
Like one of my friends, shout out to her.
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:15.599
I won't say her name, but we've been friends since grade three, and we have our old Tamagotchis, and we'll meet up and we'll literally let our Tamagotchis from grade three play together.
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:16.160
I love that.
00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:17.680
And then we'll do a little craft.
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:21.680
And I feel like having that wholesome connection is really good.
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:36.160
But I also feel like I was on a ton of sports teams, and so losing that identity and not actually being on like a team team is really hard for me.
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:50.319
I feel like I got a lot of my cup filled by those social experiences, and also when you play rugby or you're playing basketball, you're playing with like at least 15 other people, like for basketball.
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:56.960
And you have all those people to message, or you do practice and they'd be like, hey, we're gonna go do this, we're gonna go do that.
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:02.000
And it was so much more convenient, I guess, to do these random side hustles.
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:07.200
Yeah, even if if it was just going to Walmart and like buying Cheetos, like I had the best time ever.
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:07.920
Yeah, you know?
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:16.160
Yeah, I think that'd be really hard to have to go from having like a built-in friend group to doing something different and like having to find those things.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:18.160
It's yeah.
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:27.039
I guess I would like watch TV when I was like before cell phones, I would like watch TV, but I would watch TV that actually had structure and like real shows.
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:31.759
Like I feel like shows used to be more deep, if that makes sense.
00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.720
Like they actually had stories.
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.880
Remember when like the OC was like 24 episodes per season?
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:41.039
You're lucky if you get like eight episodes and it comes out every three years now.
00:31:41.039 -->
00:31:42.240
Like the Outer Banks.
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:50.480
I said to Max, we watched the most recent uh season of Outer Banks, and I was like, if we don't get closure of this season, I'm not watching the show anymore because.
00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:57.039
you can't drag this out anymore, and you can't take three and a half years to release eight episodes of a show.
00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:59.119
Like, what where are you producing this?
00:31:59.119 --> 00:31:59.839
The moon?
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:00.559
Yeah.
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:08.480
I just don't know why it's so there's way less media and it's way lower quality.
00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:11.039
Yeah, like I feel like it's just not the same.
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:14.319
Like, I like to watch the original Anne of Green Gables.
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:16.319
I don't think I've ever watched it.
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:17.119
It's so good.
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:19.200
Like, I'll literally pop it on VHS.
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:23.279
My parents still have one, and I'll literally pop it in and I'll watch it at home.
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:24.079
That's so funny.
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:28.240
I watch, I mean, I've watched Jurassic Park 2,000 times probably.
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:30.720
And it's from like 1987.
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:32.880
It's a great movie or 90-something.
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:33.519
I don't know.
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:34.799
Great movie.
00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:36.720
Old movies are better.
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:42.000
They're there was a lot more artistic work put into them.
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:44.480
Like CGI, sure, it's great.
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:52.319
You can have some great futuristic or like scenes and visuals you couldn't do.
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.279
Like, you can't make Avatar without CGI, right?
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:58.319
But they made Titanic without CGI.
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.319
And that's pretty crazy, right?
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:10.240
Yeah, like I feel like they should bring movies back where they're not using it, but it probably costs so much more to not use CGI.
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:15.200
But I think that's the issue, is like that's literally nail on the head.
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:17.519
I feel like they're cutting money because.
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:19.599
they can just use CGI.
00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.400
They're not actually being that creative.
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.640
They're just like, oh, we're gonna create this with CGI.
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:26.319
Yeah, we've and then it's done.
00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:30.559
Which I feel like CGI also is really creative in itself.
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:32.160
I don't know how to do CGI.
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:33.440
I don't know how CGI works.
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:33.680
Yeah.
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:34.079
To be honest.
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.759
No, CGI is a creative, it's an art artistic thing.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:55.519
I mean, you can trace back a lot of societies
like of the downfall of these things that we like, like Instagram, even like Instagram or movies or anything to just capitalism, unfortunately.
00:33:55.519 --> 00:34:08.880
The the shareholders expect the most revenue, as much revenue as possible, and they want to cut out everything that's not bringing in revenue.
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:14.400
So they have to make a movie for as little money as possible and sell it for as much money as possible.
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:16.719
That's that's how it goes.
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:19.199
That's all of society, really.
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.000
It's like produ how products are getting worse.
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.840
You remember like TVs used to last 20 years.
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:29.440
Uh you're lucky if a TV lasts you five years now.
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:30.480
Or phones.
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.800
I guess phones didn't last that long because.
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:46.559
the technology was so behind compared to what we have now, but phones nowadays do last quite a long time, considering this is more there's more processing power in this phone than the spaceship they sent to the moon.
00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:48.719
So yeah, oh yeah, for sure.
00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:49.360
Are you serious?
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:50.480
Way more.
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Way more.
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:52.880
Okay, that's crazy.
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:53.440
Yeah.
00:34:53.440 --> 00:35:04.159
Like the computers they use to project the moon landing and all the science behind that, there's way more technology in your phone than that.
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.199
Do you think that the moon landing was real?
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.199
Hot take, no.
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:10.480
What?
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:10.960
Why?
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:23.199
Yeah, and I actually like I believe that I actually believe that it was possible to get to the moon in that era, but I don't think I believe that they were able, they would be able to get off the moon and back to Earth.
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:27.199
Like, I think we had the technology to get to the moon, but not the technology to get back.
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:35.119
I think that it's much more, I'm not a rocket scientist, but I think it's much more logistically difficult to get back from the moon.
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:43.280
I think that the US government, I think we've been to the moon, but I don't think we went to the moon that exact time, if that makes sense.
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:53.039
I think that the US government needed to prove to Russia that they had the technology to go to the moon so that Russia would be scared of their intercontinental ballistic missiles.
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:54.559
Because that was the Cold War, right?
00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:57.679
They needed to prove to Russia that they were more technologically advanced.
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:02.639
So I do think that they maybe faked the moon landing, the initial moon landing.
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:04.320
Now, do I believe that we've been to the moon?
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:04.719
Yes.
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:09.519
But I don't believe that we were to went to the moon in that one time in the 50s.
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:11.039
Why haven't we been back?
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:13.280
Because there's nothing on the moon.
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:14.480
But why haven't we been back?
00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.239
I just don't understand why you wouldn't go back.
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:20.480
There's surely there's more to explore in the 80 years that have passed.
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:23.519
Haven't there been other moon landings though?
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:24.159
Am I crazy?
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:24.639
I don't know.
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:25.360
Can you look this up?
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:26.239
I'm gonna look it up right now.
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:28.400
I feel like other people have gone to the moon.
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:33.360
If I am wrong, Justin, if you're editing this, cut this out so I don't sound dumb.
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:35.119
No, I don't think it's sounding dumb.
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:36.800
I think it's being curious, right?
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:46.159
This is the kind of stuff that this is the kind of stuff that being bored makes you think of.
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:47.199
This is true.
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:48.719
You have to keep talking though, because.
00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:49.679
I'm editing.
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:51.599
Well, I just feel like it's real.
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:52.480
I don't know why.
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:55.440
Maybe it's humans have landed on the moon six times.
00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:04.079
These crew missions were all part of NASA's Apollo program, which took place between 1969 and 1972, according to Siri.
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:06.559
Yeah, there's been more moon landing.
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:08.239
So we've been to the moon a few times now.
00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:09.519
I just seem dumb because.
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:11.920
I was thinking we only went there once.
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.280
No, they've taken samples from the moon.
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:24.239
Because they wanted to know basically if they could grow anything on the moon, and then they were trying to figure out if there's water on the moon.
00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:27.599
That's why there's a huge thing with Mars, is because.
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:29.280
there's water on Mars.
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:29.679
Yeah.
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:36.400
But then if you were to actually go on Mars and live on Mars, they're saying that we would have to live underground.
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:38.719
And the gravity is also really different.
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:39.599
Yeah.
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:45.280
I don't think I think that Mars is kind of a cop-out for saving the Earth.
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:48.639
Like, why don't we just try to not wreck the planet?
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:50.559
You know it seems
like an easier plan.
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:52.079
I don't understand.
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:58.880
Why are we going to the moon and Mars when we haven't even explored the oceans?
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:03.840
I feel like they saw something at the bottom of the ocean, they were like, absolutely not, and then they're like, let's go to space instead.
00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:05.519
I feel like it's so scary down there.
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:06.079
I don't know.
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:07.920
We know more about space than the ocean, though.
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:08.480
That's the truth.
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:09.519
It's terrifying.
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:11.199
I want to know what's down there.
00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:17.199
So, but why did we go to the moon six times between 1961 and 1972?
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:19.199
We haven't been back to the moon in 60 years.
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:20.960
Surely there's much more technology.
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.119
Like we've sent rovers to Mars.
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:26.480
Surely there's much more technology where we could like look at the moon more.
00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:28.079
Maybe there's just nothing on the moon.
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:29.039
Maybe it's just like dirt.
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:30.079
That's what it is.
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:36.480
Is I think that they like have analyzed the samples and they've basically deemed it unlivable.
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:42.320
So they're like, this is the moon, this is what it does, this is what the components of the soil are made out of.
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:49.760
Maybe they want to go back and they want to get more data, but I don't think that there's like anything for them on the moon.
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.000
I think that's why they just stopped.
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:58.880
I guess I just don't understand why exploration needs to be only for places we can live.
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:03.519
Like if they're like, oh, we can't live on the moon, so they give up exploring the moon.
00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:07.119
I just don't understand why it has to be always be something about like where can we live.
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:15.840
But I also think that they are trying to figure out if something had lived on the moon or if it was livable.
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:16.880
Like, because.
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:20.480
on Mars, I think that there's bacteria.
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.239
I also might be really wrong.
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:23.199
I don't know.
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:31.280
I think that there might be like bacteria that's living on Mars, but no like animals or like what we would say.
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:40.079
No, there's something I've read something about this too, where it's like Mars would have been inhabitable thousands and thousands and or millions of years ago.
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:42.960
Mars would have been more inhabitable than Earth or something.
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.440
Like, and things have changed.
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:50.639
The sun has changed in a way that made Mars way colder and Earth way warmer.
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:54.480
So the life on Mars died and life on Earth started.
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:55.519
If that makes sense.
00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:56.000
Yeah.
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:57.039
Like there's something.
00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:02.159
Like I've read things about that, but I mean the solar system is so huge.
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:04.239
There's it's crazy.
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:08.639
But yeah, I've there is like some sort of life on Mars sort of thing.
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:16.639
But also, we're spending a lot of money to try to like go to Mars when there's people like starving on this earth.
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.280
Yeah.
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:21.280
And like home I walk by people that don't have homes.
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.400
And that's really sad.
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:28.400
And like, why can't we help those people instead of trying to go to Mars?
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:31.840
Well, I also think it's crazy, but it's definitely a money thing.
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:42.719
But did you know when they are up in space that to get water, they have a filtration system that actually converts their pee into really clean, drinkable water?
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:44.159
That doesn't shock me at all.
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:46.639
Because there's where else would you get water in space?
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:48.559
You'd get it from.
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:51.280
Where would you get water in space?
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:52.960
I don't think that you would.
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:57.280
I don't think that there's anywhere you could get it besides it getting shipped out to you.
00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:57.840
Yeah.
00:40:57.840 --> 00:40:59.119
I saw this thing the other day.
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:03.519
It was like, if there was if there was a ship going to another planet, would you go on it?
00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:10.559
Like if it was like a 400-year journey, like you knew you knew you would never get to the planet, but like your grandchildren, great-grandchildren would.
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:12.079
And I saw like this comment.
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:17.280
It was like, imagine 200 years from now you're on this ship and a newer, faster ship passes you.
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:20.000
That it's like, that's that'd be so funny.
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.119
It's so scary.
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:23.039
Like how fast technology changes.
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:24.239
I would die.
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:25.360
Yeah.
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:30.239
I think I don't know, but yeah, I don't I don't know if I believe I believe in the moon.
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:31.440
I believe we've been to the moon.
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:33.840
I just don't believe in the initial moon landing.
00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:35.519
It just was all too convenient.
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:46.159
There's a lot of things that are very logistically difficult, like
broadcasting video from space to Earth.
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:50.400
And I'm just not sure that we had the technology back then, but maybe the government did.
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:55.039
There's or they have aliens technology in Area 51.
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:56.079
I guess because.
00:41:56.079 --> 00:42:00.159
they said that they streamed it online or not online.
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:15.039
I don't know if they streamed it, but like it wouldn't have been I it I can't imagine it was real time, but the spaceship they probably filmed it and then from the spaceship shot that footage to Earth, like via satellites.
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.039
Maybe I'm not 100% sure.
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:19.519
This is not a science podcast, full disclosure.
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.199
We're not, we are not scientists.
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:23.119
We're this is not a lifestyle podcast.
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:27.440
We are not we're just yapping at this point, but we're yeah, I don't know.
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:28.880
I don't know if it's real or not.
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:32.239
We're gonna deep dive into this, but not a full podcast.
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:33.519
But yeah, maybe next episode.
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:40.000
We'll have to do like a subscribers-only deep dive into deep dive um conspiracy theories.
00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:48.880
So do you think trying to be bored on purpose more and seeing what happens, do you think that that's something that could help you in everyday life?
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:49.840
And maybe Yeah.
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:50.400
Yeah.
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.320
I just think honestly, just put your phone down.
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:56.559
I know it's hard, but just put your phone down.
00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:59.519
You just it's so easy to get sucked into it.
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:03.679
If it's 25 feet away, there's a barrier to entry.
00:43:03.679 --> 00:43:04.639
Like the brick.
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:10.880
The brick is 10 feet away from me, and I will not go like 10 o'clock, my phone goes bricked.
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:17.280
I can't get on social media, and I simply just will not stand up to go get it.
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:18.559
That's how lazy I am.
00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:20.800
And that has helped so much.
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I think putting your phone down, keeping things that are more, keeping things that are good for your brain closer to you, like a Rubik's Cube or a book instead.
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I don't take my phone in my bedroom anymore.
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That's been a big help.
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But yeah, try to be bored, try to, I think trying to be more intentional about being bored.
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I I guess it's hard to say like being be intentional about being bored, because.
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boredom is a kind of a result of having nothing to do.
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But there's nothing wrong with like daydreaming or not listening to a podcast in the gym or not listening to music in the gym.
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I think that can create like a boredom that is that spurs creativity.
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That's a huge one though, because.
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people I feel like everyone assumes that you have headphones in.
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And the fact that I don't listen to music at the gym, when people realize that, they're like, what do you mean you don't listen to music at the gym?
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Like I actually feel like a weirdo.
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I know Yeah.
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Once I started doing it, I still wear headphones though, because.
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it I think it freaks people out when people don't have headphones in that gym.
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So I still wear headphones.
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I just don't play anything.
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Oh, I just don't have anything.
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Oh, see, that freaks me out.
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Why does that freak you out?
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I get looks.
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I definitely get too much.
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It's just because.
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I think I don't know.
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I'm like, what are you?
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I'm like, what demons are you working with here, my dude?
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But it's also like when I do that, the music is already playing at the gym.
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Oh, my gym doesn't have music.
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Okay, I would still do it if there was no music.
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So but I wear headphones, I just wear headphones at the gym.
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I guess I use it.
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I do it for like noise canceling.
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Like if other people are being loud, I can still like turn the noise canceling on and I can still have like my piece.
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But now that I've started to not listen to music at the gym or a podcast, it I find it a little overstimulating when I do.
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Like I almost would rather not listen to anything.
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Yeah, me too.
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It's kind of crazy actually, because.
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it does seem absolutely psychotic to not listen to some anything at the gym.
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But yeah, I don't know.
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I don't mind it.
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Some days I do, some days I don't.
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I also will just fully read a book at the gym, and I think that that's a little bit crazy too.
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I like that though.
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I do that too.
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I think people will judge you a little bit when you're like reading a book, but everybody else is on their phone on TikTok, so what's the difference, right?
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I know that's what I don't get.
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I'm like, I do feel like more Kindles or Kobos are like showing up at the gym though.
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Yeah.
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I wish I could go to the gym without my phone, but like my entire workout plans on here and like timers and all these things.
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So it's it'd be really hard not to, but maybe I should like repurpose my iPhone mini for that and just have like just my workouts and then leave my phone at my apartment.
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Yeah, you should.
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Because it's yeah, kind of like an iPod kind of thing then.
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I could just brick it, I guess, before I go to the gym too, if I wasn't being lazy.
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So this week, let's try one small thing.
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Be bored on purpose.
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10 minutes, no phone, no TV, no podcast.
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Just see where your brain goes.
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And if you're listening, tell us what's something you used to do for fun before you spent so much time online.
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Thanks for listening to Mostly Offline.
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We'll see you next time.
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Until then, take a breath, put your phone down for a minute, and remember boredom is where the good ideas start.