Speaker 1: These are the yays of our lives.
Speaker 2: Busy and happy are not the same thing. We too
Speaker 2: rarely question what makes the heart seeing. We work, then
Speaker 2: we rest, but rarely we play and often don't realize
Speaker 2: there's more than one way. So this is the platform
Speaker 2: to hear and explore the stories of those who found lives.
Speaker 2: They adore the good, bad and ugly.
Speaker 3: The best and worst day will bear all the facets
Speaker 3: of seizing your Yea. I'm Sarah Davidson or Spoonful of Sarah,
Speaker 3: a lawyer turned funentrepreneur who swapped the suits and heels
Speaker 3: to co found Matcha Maiden and matcha Milk Bark Sees
Speaker 3: The Ya is a series of conversations on finding a
Speaker 3: life you love and exploring the self doubt, challenge, joy
Speaker 3: and fulfillment along the way. Hi Bim, Third time lucky?
Speaker 4: Hi Bim? What what do you raw? A chicken with
Speaker 4: lettuce in its eyes?
Speaker 1: Jiggers is a salad?
Speaker 4: Oh? You know to get it?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I was there when you heard it the
Speaker 1: first time.
Speaker 4: I find a better one. Now hold up? What Okay?
Speaker 4: I don't have one. I'll think of one by the.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: I was so funny my father didn't.
Speaker 5: Coming times, I couldn't say, oh, I farted like all
Speaker 5: the other six times and started playing.
Speaker 3: We've had severe internet issues today and every time, and
Speaker 3: just managed to conjure up some kind of bowel related
Speaker 3: event for the occasion.
Speaker 1: I've got glad that you didn't. You weren't able to
Speaker 1: well this morning.
Speaker 5: We were late because I actually had a scheduled prove
Speaker 5: at nine eight am, remember, and women stat at night.
Speaker 5: And I was like, this is not.
Speaker 6: Going to work because I genuinely would probably be bringing
Speaker 6: you to the toilet and I can't really mute those
Speaker 6: kind of things, you know, So I didn't want to
Speaker 6: make it a bit of an R rated podcast, So
Speaker 6: and then I farted.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 1: For the folks, oh my god, this is what you've
Speaker 1: done to my brand. You've obviously brought.
Speaker 3: A lot of ya a lot of like laughs to
Speaker 3: the show, but you've also made us the target of
Speaker 3: all pooh memes, but not only poo memes, but like
Speaker 3: boo scientific explanations because people now think that we're like
Speaker 3: the Poo duo, And I'm like, whoa. I've spent so
Speaker 3: much time working hard to not be that person, and
Speaker 3: now I'm like the go to Pooh gal?
Speaker 4: Do you mean sometimes I do find Pooh weird?
Speaker 5: But then I forgot it so much that I'm like, well, it's.
Speaker 4: Your own fault. And had two thoughts this morning.
Speaker 5: One was does anyone else make themselves late to most
Speaker 5: things because of their bowels? And then two, I think
Speaker 5: my phone's listening to me because the other day my
Speaker 5: TikTok was showing me account called Poologist.
Speaker 3: Don't you think though, that's because you always talk about Pooh, Like,
Speaker 3: surely your phone is listening to you always.
Speaker 4: Making they're listening to me?
Speaker 5: No, they are, And it was like, what happens to Pooh?
Speaker 4: It's actually quite it's actually quite.
Speaker 5: An interesting fact. Actually, let me tell you. Did you
Speaker 5: know the poo that goes into the sewer system. Sewage
Speaker 5: system goes into like this big factory and then they
Speaker 5: filter out all the water from it and they kind
Speaker 5: of like dehydrate it almost and then turn it into
Speaker 5: like this dirt looking like thing, and then it and
Speaker 5: gets put into compost and all.
Speaker 1: Sorts of stuff, and they were turn it into what compost?
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Also, I'm going to steer this conversation right away from
Speaker 3: Pooh because I feel like we don't want to be
Speaker 3: the Pooh duo for the rest of ever.
Speaker 4: Well, no, it was just just a fan fact. Okay,
Speaker 4: just you know.
Speaker 5: People, people haven't talked about birds and the bees.
Speaker 4: This should be part of it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's true. That's true.
Speaker 3: I mean like ninety percent of Australians probably have some
Speaker 3: kind of gut related issue that they actually like it
Speaker 3: is actually an ata in their life. Like we could
Speaker 3: do a bow related issue. But I feel like if
Speaker 3: I dedicated a whole episode to that, then you would
Speaker 3: have to like not spread that into every single other episode.
Speaker 4: Ever. No, I can't find that contract. Oh I can't
Speaker 4: stop here.
Speaker 5: I can I can distribute my quota across the whole
Speaker 5: year rather.
Speaker 4: Than I'll agree to that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Okay, any way, moving right along. Are you going to
Speaker 3: do this every episode?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: Do I need to fire you from this position?
Speaker 4: Well? I think the audience can speak to that.
Speaker 1: Throw it out. We'll throw it out as a pole.
Speaker 1: Imagine if everyone was like more Pooh talk, I'd be like, what.
Speaker 3: Is what is happening to the show? What has become
Speaker 3: of the gayborhood.
Speaker 7: We'll throw it out to the audience of too go
Speaker 7: out and last Nick and Elizabeth. No, but no, we
Speaker 7: actually have more listeners than you think, because I came
Speaker 7: to work the other day and I just told you this.
Speaker 5: But again, they came to work the other day and
Speaker 5: my friend.
Speaker 4: Was like, and I listen to you guys for my
Speaker 4: whole trip.
Speaker 5: And I as much as I love, I really love
Speaker 5: doing this with you, I get really embarrassed.
Speaker 4: Like I've listened to it and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, oh no, don't do that, but also like do that.
Speaker 5: But I was like, oh, shy, shy. Anyway, she was like,
Speaker 5: she's like, oh, I listened to you this morning, Massy Cousy,
Speaker 5: and I like genuinely.
Speaker 4: Forgot what we spoke about last week. And I was like,
Speaker 4: what the heck is Mazzi Couzzy. I was like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, I was talking about her name is Meryl?
Speaker 5: Shout out to Meryl and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5: The things we talk about in hindsight are so odd
Speaker 5: I have to say, but you know what it sticks.
Speaker 3: So I mean I had totally forgotten until you just
Speaker 3: told me two seconds ago. In like take four hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty two or trying to make this episode, I
Speaker 3: was like, what is Mazzy Cuzzy. How did we end
Speaker 3: up calling the great Murray Kiri Mazzy Cuzzy, Like, who
Speaker 3: even are we?
Speaker 1: For one? Two I forgot entirely that we even spoke
Speaker 1: about that. Three.
Speaker 3: I'm actually so excited to bring this historical segment to
Speaker 3: life because I feel like there's so many people I've
Speaker 3: come across in this past week that I was like, yes,
Speaker 3: we need to do this person. And to your credit, yeahborhood,
Speaker 3: you've all been amazing at like sending in like you
Speaker 3: know when I go, oh, I wonder what the neighborhood thinks.
Speaker 1: Guys, please dear me.
Speaker 3: I don't actually expect anyone's actually going to do it,
Speaker 3: because I forget that we have more than a fan
Speaker 3: base of two. But you guys have had amazing suggestions
Speaker 3: like Mazzie Couzy, We're gonna do my Angeloe. Of course
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do Eddie Jacub, But please tell me if
Speaker 3: there's more. I've got like a full list going, which
Speaker 3: is so lovely, and also had a lot of messages
Speaker 3: from people who were also feeling as kind of either
Speaker 3: flat or just weird as we were and continue to
Speaker 3: be a little bit like I kind of remember what
Speaker 3: I've said this episode or not because we tried to
Speaker 3: record so many times today. But I feel like last
Speaker 3: week we were both just in a weird place, like
Speaker 3: we were still having a real hard time getting into
Speaker 3: the year. This week, I'd say we're both a little
Speaker 3: bit more into the swing of things, but probably not
Speaker 3: back to one hundred percent, like still having up and
Speaker 3: downs of motivation and a little bit of yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know, lacking routine, and still a bit of a
Speaker 3: lack of direction. But so many of you wrote in
Speaker 3: saying that even just hearing one other person say that
Speaker 3: they're having that experience really helps validated.
Speaker 1: I think, so you don't feel alone.
Speaker 3: So I'm so glad that some of you felt validated
Speaker 3: by it not always being all Pollyann arcs. The like
Speaker 3: part of you know, being joyful is also acknowledging when
Speaker 3: it's tougher, and it has continued to be a weird time.
Speaker 3: So I found a quote of the day. The good
Speaker 3: thing about having to re record this about seventy five
Speaker 3: times is that I had time to do my own
Speaker 3: homework for my own show and find a quote of
Speaker 3: the ya today, which is from Helen Keller, which I
Speaker 3: also really want to do Heskez a really great historical epiod.
Speaker 1: So Helen Keller, who is.
Speaker 3: The most extraordinary human despite what my abbreviation of her
Speaker 3: name might suggest. She was deaf, dumb and blind and
Speaker 3: still managed to learn how to speak, and she wrote
Speaker 3: like she could write and read braille, and just it's
Speaker 3: the most extraordinary story and again something that I think
Speaker 3: a lot of us we might have heard her quotes,
Speaker 3: but people who didn't study her at school or you know,
Speaker 3: have had no one read her materials or know about her.
Speaker 3: Is one of those women that I think we all
Speaker 3: need to know about. And so definitely she's on the list.
Speaker 1: For the historical episodes, which.
Speaker 3: I think should be called Yester Yay like Yesteryear but
Speaker 3: yesterya just dropping that in there, So feedback poll votes
Speaker 3: welcome at any time. But the quote from her was
Speaker 3: a bend in the road is not the end of
Speaker 3: the road unless you forget to take the turn. And
Speaker 3: I think that's such an amazing quote at a time
Speaker 3: in our lives where all of us were on this
Speaker 3: one particular road, even if we didn't know exactly where
Speaker 3: it would end up, most of us had some kind
Speaker 3: of idea of what our life is going to look like.
Speaker 3: Then COVID came and has caused so many bends in
Speaker 3: so many roads, and has led a lot of us
Speaker 3: to feel like it's the end of some things and
Speaker 3: the end of some good things. But I feel like
Speaker 3: in any case where there's a bit of a shift
Speaker 3: in your plan, if you decide to make the right turn,
Speaker 3: to make the right pivot from that, then it doesn't
Speaker 3: have to be the end. It can just be a
Speaker 3: change or and often it can be an improvement on
Speaker 3: the plan that you originally had. And I thought, for
Speaker 3: a woman who lived life with the most adversity you
Speaker 3: could imagine, even just to communicate what she was feeling
Speaker 3: was enormously difficult to have that kind of depth of wisdom.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: The quote just came to me at a time where
Speaker 3: I was thinking about bends in the road, and you know,
Speaker 3: quotes always find you when you need the most. I
Speaker 3: just thought, what an amazing quote, And it also linked
Speaker 3: so well to a Yeghborhood Watch item which just happened
Speaker 3: over the weekend the Australian Open finals about the great
Speaker 3: Ash Barty and her bend in the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a perfect time.
Speaker 5: Because I was talking to someone last night, like on
Speaker 5: My Friends last night, I had a similar concept in
Speaker 5: that she was feeling like in a bit of a
Speaker 5: rut because she wasn't where she thought she would be
Speaker 5: by this point, and I was like, you do forget?
Speaker 5: The last two years has been the most unprecedented And
Speaker 5: it's such a use word now, but there's no other word,
Speaker 5: but most unexpected. I guess bend in the road, like,
Speaker 5: how were you going to know that we're going to
Speaker 5: have a pandemic that's going to last two three years
Speaker 5: and achieve really big?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: She was in the schedule of life where people around
Speaker 5: you are having babies, getting married, getting engaged, buying houses.
Speaker 4: And I think it's actually quite hard.
Speaker 5: I reflected on that too, and I was like, everyone
Speaker 5: is on a different path, and I feel like there
Speaker 5: shouldn't be timing on milestones to determine how.
Speaker 4: Successful you at a particular age.
Speaker 5: I feel like everyone's on a different path and a
Speaker 5: different pace and they get to where they need to
Speaker 5: be whenever that is, and everyone's got different purposes, so
Speaker 5: it's really hard to compare to someone next to us
Speaker 5: the same age that a chief business and this because
Speaker 5: that might not be your path, Like that might not
Speaker 5: be what your life is and what you want. So
Speaker 5: I think, like that Ben in the road thing, it's
Speaker 5: quite nice to see that, you know, not everyone has
Speaker 5: a linear path to where they want to be. Everyone
Speaker 5: takes their own little journey in the bend might come earlier,
Speaker 5: and some people's bend might come later, and that turn
Speaker 5: might come earlier in that time come later.
Speaker 4: So I think someone is you just keep working towards
Speaker 4: what you want.
Speaker 5: That's the only thing you can ask with yourself because
Speaker 5: everything else study you can totally, you know, the whole way,
Speaker 5: control what you can control, and an except what you can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: And I think one of the things that's really unique
Speaker 3: about this whole past kind of two and a half
Speaker 3: years is that even if you let go of the
Speaker 3: comparison with other people and other people's timelines, then there's
Speaker 3: the issue of you comparing yourself with the timeline you
Speaker 3: thought you would have. So I think a lot of
Speaker 3: us have still held onto this. That's where I thought
Speaker 3: I would be, like I should be here, But because
Speaker 3: the world has been, you know, so messy, I'm not.
Speaker 3: And we have this parallel, like me where I should
Speaker 3: be versus me where I am, and I think because
Speaker 3: you can't change that that's happened. The more you worry
Speaker 3: about that and make that COMPARI, and the more you
Speaker 3: keep that hypothetical you alive, it just causes like upset,
Speaker 3: It just causes disappointment. It just causes all these feelings
Speaker 3: that by comparison, you're not reaching up to whatever you
Speaker 3: thought you would be at by now, the more you
Speaker 3: let that be a comparison, you're just going to feel
Speaker 3: bad about it, and you can't you can't go back
Speaker 3: to that hypothetical situation anyway. So it's sort of like
Speaker 3: the earlier that you can accept that this is what's
Speaker 3: happened to all of us, this is what's happened to
Speaker 3: the world. It's not ideal. It's caused a lot of upset,
Speaker 3: but you're exactly you know, you're only where you are.
Speaker 1: You're never going to be back in that hypothetical situation.
Speaker 3: So it's been a big thing for me to kind
Speaker 3: of let go of. Oh, but I would have been
Speaker 3: or me without COVID would have been at there's no
Speaker 3: point in looking at me without COVID, because it is
Speaker 3: that's not a real scenario. So I feel like the
Speaker 3: bend in the road situation also involves letting go of
Speaker 3: imagining that the road never bent and just still comparing
Speaker 3: yourself to the straight line, because that will just it
Speaker 3: will just never make you happy, right Like, it's always
Speaker 3: going to leave you feeling if so, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the more you focus on the road that you're on
Speaker 3: and the pivots you can make, the better it is
Speaker 3: for you. And you don't feel a loss of a
Speaker 3: loss of anything because you realize you actually haven't lost anything.
Speaker 3: You weren't necessarily going to have that life anyway. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like that's really interesting. It's so much about mindset.
Speaker 3: And the thing is that we were talking about in
Speaker 3: our first attempt at this episode was that everything really
Speaker 3: that happens to you is like there's an element of
Speaker 3: the physical facts of something, or your physical skill or
Speaker 3: your physical ability to do something, but most of the
Speaker 3: time it's your mental approach to that thing. Like, really,
Speaker 3: that's the bigger picture. And I was talking to a
Speaker 3: good friend, you know, I'm referring to she's just started
Speaker 3: an amazing business, Like has I had an extraordinary life?
Speaker 3: Has just started this amazing business. All the outside markers
Speaker 3: of that business in its first little while have been
Speaker 3: absolutely incredible. But through no actual event, she just spiraled
Speaker 3: into this like I can't do it, I should close it.
Speaker 1: This worst idea ever. And it's not got anything to do.
Speaker 3: With the physical facts of the market, the physical quality
Speaker 3: of her idea, her incredible skill to be able to
Speaker 3: do it. It's all about her brain, Like your biggest
Speaker 3: barrier is always mentally whether you can do it or not.
Speaker 3: And just with the chat to one person, we just
Speaker 3: went over it and went over the doubts until we
Speaker 3: could kind of quash them together. And by the end
Speaker 3: of it, she was like, I'm so excited to have
Speaker 3: this business. And we were reading about ash Party obviously
Speaker 3: has made history over the weekend, like I was bawling
Speaker 3: as if she was like my sister. I was bawling
Speaker 3: during her game because it was just like a moment
Speaker 3: for the nation, like she's come so far and she's
Speaker 3: only twenty five, and it was just so emotional. But
Speaker 3: I also read later like I think, like maybe even
Speaker 3: just this morning, I don't even know what time it is,
Speaker 3: but that she took a break from tennis like most
Speaker 3: people don't know that there was a chapter where she
Speaker 3: was so young and so successful, so young that the
Speaker 3: pressure was so much that she stepped away from the
Speaker 3: sport and not only stepped away just as a sideline,
Speaker 3: she also ended up playing it with cricket for the
Speaker 3: Brisbane because she's just so multi talented. But she fully
Speaker 3: left tennis and because of not because she couldn't physically
Speaker 3: do it, but because mentally it was too much. And
Speaker 3: it was Serena Williams who sent her a text saying,
Speaker 3: come back to the sport.
Speaker 1: How is that for?
Speaker 3: Like a nonlinear way ta like literally leaving the sport
Speaker 3: that she is now you know, making history in. But
Speaker 3: it took one person to address the mental barrier and
Speaker 3: be like, dude, come back, like you need to be
Speaker 3: in this is that amazing?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Actually, s Dubbs actually also Texan me the other day
Speaker 5: she said, don't come to tennis, and I was like,
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 3: I was going to, but you've changed my mind. I
Speaker 3: was going to make a campaign for twenty twenty three't.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't realize.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't even know, but I've actually been on
Speaker 5: a tennis break for the last twenty four years and
Speaker 5: just had a really long, really long pause.
Speaker 4: I just slipped.
Speaker 3: Around, you know, because I felt the pressure is a
Speaker 3: two year old was too much born.
Speaker 4: And then step, yeah it was.
Speaker 5: It was actually it was actually fetis year old and
Speaker 5: I was like, gonna take a break.
Speaker 1: Fetus year old and risk power. It was just the same,
Speaker 1: like we've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 5: I know, but you know, tennis piano, what are you
Speaker 5: going to choose?
Speaker 4: Panna, It's going to be.
Speaker 5: What we were talking about last time was as Bridey's
Speaker 5: mental game in her final and that and the Dalla's
Speaker 5: mental game in their final, which was I feel like,
Speaker 5: I know, the physical feet is incredible, which is why
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm I can't say I'm not phased
Speaker 5: by it, but I was like, I know it's a
Speaker 5: physical feit, but the mental battle of being you know,
Speaker 5: five games to one down or two sets to love
Speaker 5: down and then coming back and winning is like you
Speaker 5: imagine how many points have to be one in that
Speaker 5: and how many games have to be won in that
Speaker 5: to get you know, back to.
Speaker 4: Three sets up and then obviously win the whole championship
Speaker 4: for both parties.
Speaker 5: But I was like, I if I I was sitting
Speaker 5: on my couch having like spatse attacks, being like, oh
Speaker 5: you missed the shot or whatever. I was like, imagine
Speaker 5: if I was playing, I would have just spiraled into the.
Speaker 4: Corner straight away.
Speaker 5: But these players are just incredible, Like I am inspired
Speaker 5: also by their mental.
Speaker 4: Resilience than their physical endurance.
Speaker 5: I think, oh my god, so so so awesome to.
Speaker 4: Watch, and they were so respectful the whole time.
Speaker 5: They were just so focused on each point, and yeah,
Speaker 5: it was so awesome to see. I think Ashbuddy is
Speaker 5: one of the greatest athletes.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the goat.
Speaker 3: The goat and Dylan Olcott the other goat, Like what
Speaker 3: an absolute legend. And also I'm so old that, like
Speaker 3: a little while ago, I had to look up where
Speaker 3: everyone was talking about goats suddenly and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: greatest of all time gat, Like they're not literally talking
Speaker 3: about a goat. Wow, that's my life now looking up
Speaker 3: acronyms and not knowing what they made.
Speaker 4: But seriously, like, as you said those one time, and
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Go did you get it, like when you said it
Speaker 1: as a full sentence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like, oh, oh yeah, I got it.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, I was just going to say that
Speaker 3: I totally agree. Yeah, it's totally a mental thing. Like
Speaker 3: to anyone who didn't watch the games or who doesn't
Speaker 3: follow tennis, you don't need to understand to know that. Basically,
Speaker 3: in Nadal's final last night and Ashbardi's final the night before,
Speaker 3: there was a like really critical point where they were
Speaker 3: under and you know, pretty close to a possible loss,
Speaker 3: and like say, you need to win two out of three,
Speaker 3: like they had lost two out of three and there
Speaker 3: was a chance to come back, but the mental strength
Speaker 3: to come back. I mean literally I break an owl
Speaker 3: and I'm like, not, that's it. I can't do anything today.
Speaker 3: But they are like, you know, so close to losing
Speaker 3: everything and can still come back from that, And you
Speaker 3: think it's similar to you know, Samantha Gash. You guys
Speaker 3: all have heard her on the show a couple of times.
Speaker 3: Our good friend in her ultra marathon running, like she
Speaker 3: was never a runner by background, and she puts an
Speaker 3: enormous amount of physical conditioning into her training, but she's
Speaker 3: never been the most natural, naturally built athlete. She's never
Speaker 3: been the most naturally fast person, but she is the
Speaker 3: mentally strongest person. So it's like her body will do
Speaker 3: what her brain. It'll cave to her brains will, whereas
Speaker 3: most of us are the other way around, like you know,
Speaker 3: our mind caves first and our body, Like, my body
Speaker 3: can run way further than my brain will let it.
Speaker 3: It's just that my brain's like, oh, it's probably like
Speaker 3: I'm probably getting a bit solid, I probably want to
Speaker 3: leave now, but her brain is just like not, I
Speaker 3: will do.
Speaker 1: It's just so interesting after.
Speaker 5: The marathon, and it's so weird, just physiologically and psychologically
Speaker 5: that after the.
Speaker 4: Marathon, obviously we've just did this big train program, run
Speaker 4: forty two kmeters.
Speaker 5: I had so much fun, felt really good, and then
Speaker 5: now weeks after, both Laws and I are really struggling
Speaker 5: to run. We can't even run in like five k
Speaker 5: without making a really big deal about it, and like
Speaker 5: a really really big struggle, and I and I'm like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, we shut But it's the mental game,
Speaker 5: Like how can't you be physically able to run four
Speaker 5: into commerce and then a couple of weeks later just
Speaker 5: struggle to run four. It baffles me, But yeah, I
Speaker 5: think it's testament to how much it is a mental game.
Speaker 5: In a lot of sport, and it's particularly solo sport.
Speaker 5: But if you had to choose a sport, it's like,
Speaker 5: if you could be any professional sports person in the whole.
Speaker 4: World, what sport would that be?
Speaker 1: Connect four?
Speaker 5: Well, lucky you, because I was going to say, guess
Speaker 5: I reckon.
Speaker 3: Like part of me would like the discipline and intensity
Speaker 3: of an individual sport, but I love like I'm so
Speaker 3: I bounce off the energy of other people. If I
Speaker 3: am in a negative rut of for example, in the tennis,
Speaker 3: if I was like two sets down, I'd be like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, it's all over. Whereas if I was,
Speaker 3: you know, in a team environment, I feel like everyone's
Speaker 3: energy together and shit Like I love sharing things. I
Speaker 3: don't really feel like something's really happened until I've shared
Speaker 3: it with someone. So I feel like a team sport
Speaker 3: would be the go, But I don't know what team sport.
Speaker 3: I love lots of different sports. I can't say I'm
Speaker 3: like great at any of them, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it would be. What about you?
Speaker 3: What would you do?
Speaker 4: Excuse me? You're good at ducem? I hate people?
Speaker 1: You love people? Oh my god?
Speaker 4: I hate people. So I would choose clay shooting.
Speaker 3: You pretend that you're all jaded and like anti people,
Speaker 3: but you're like a ten years too young for that
Speaker 3: and be obsessed with humans.
Speaker 4: No, I don't hate people. I love people.
Speaker 5: But my sport, upon deep reflection, would be.
Speaker 3: Volleyball, which I feel like teleikua. Our other guest, the
Speaker 3: Olympian beach volleyball player, she owes you a text to
Speaker 3: be like, dude, come back to the sport.
Speaker 4: Please. How are your expectations, she texted me four days ago.
Speaker 1: We need you back in the sport.
Speaker 4: Don't come to the sport.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, see you guys.
Speaker 3: We're still absolutely one scattered as we were last week,
Speaker 3: just a little bit less email about it.
Speaker 1: So we're getting there.
Speaker 5: It's so true.
Speaker 4: We were like we feel ship.
Speaker 1: You feel ship, I feel I hear you and I
Speaker 1: fallowed it. You're feeling shit. I wonder if Mazy because
Speaker 1: he felt shit. So I'm really.
Speaker 3: And I'm so excited about Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I saw another meme today that was like I heard
Speaker 3: someone all a mental breakdown and mentib and I'm totally
Speaker 3: going to use that right now. I was like, why
Speaker 3: do I resonate so much we're having a mentib.
Speaker 5: We're can you know what, We're gonna lose any ability
Speaker 5: to be art to do it and imagine us in
Speaker 5: a formal interview one day, my god, and my favorite
Speaker 5: quote from.
Speaker 3: It was, if you're having a mentibe, just keep going,
Speaker 3: don't worry about the MENTIV.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like it's it's so bad.
Speaker 3: I actually so, we have a really exciting few episodes
Speaker 3: coming and I had to re record, like, and I
Speaker 3: haven't done this in years, but like, because done is
Speaker 3: better than perfect, and I kind of, you know, stopped
Speaker 3: re editing every single you know, question that I ever asked.
Speaker 3: But in the last two episodes, the guests have been
Speaker 3: extraordinary and I can't wait to share them. But I
Speaker 3: have had to rerecord a few of my questions because
Speaker 3: I'm I literally said in one of them, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I don't even know what I'm saying, but at least
Speaker 3: do you get what like, do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: And she was like, yeah, I get what you're saying.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh my god, that's so terrible. So
Speaker 3: I had to record the whole question.
Speaker 1: The worst with my brain cells are just like gone,
Speaker 1: a well, I don't even know what's happening.
Speaker 3: But quick question, quick time time related. We don't we
Speaker 3: usually do like quite evergreen content, but more timely related.
Speaker 4: For you.
Speaker 3: It is lunar New Year for you, how are you
Speaker 3: going to celebrate? Tell us about lunary?
Speaker 1: Yea, it is the year of the.
Speaker 5: Tig.
Speaker 4: Guy? Is that this year? Yeah? The tiger? Yeah? Today
Speaker 4: is Lar Eve New Year's Eve for us.
Speaker 5: And as I've grown older, I think I've grown a
Speaker 5: greater appreciation for my culture.
Speaker 4: And I'm really not a religious person, but I appreciate
Speaker 4: so much how much my parents.
Speaker 5: They're not like overly religious, but we grew up Buddhists,
Speaker 5: so we went to temples and there's like an altar
Speaker 5: at home and things like that. But there's so many
Speaker 5: traditions in the Buddhist Vietnamese culture that I've grown to
Speaker 5: want to know more about and continue to hold on too,
Speaker 5: And one of which is celebrating the lunar New Year
Speaker 5: with all its festivities and traditions.
Speaker 4: So for us.
Speaker 5: Culturally, and I'm sure every family will do different things.
Speaker 5: So in Vietnamese culture, it's different to what you know
Speaker 5: if you go to say Singapore or China or other
Speaker 5: people may experience, but very much is celebrated the same calendar,
Speaker 5: which a lunar calendar.
Speaker 4: That's why it called lunar New Year.
Speaker 5: But tonight we will be having a really big feast,
Speaker 5: and what my norma does, we'll go to our parents'
Speaker 5: place and have that. And what we normally do is,
Speaker 5: actually they do a lot of praying. So at twelve
Speaker 5: will normally burn the incense and invite our ancestors down
Speaker 5: to eat. This is all figure of figur but figurative
Speaker 5: obviously goodness may too much a messic cuzzy, Mazi cuzzy.
Speaker 4: Now I can't talk.
Speaker 8: So what we do is we burn incense, and that
Speaker 8: incense smoke goes up, and while the incent is burning,
Speaker 8: we say a prayer or send out invitation in.
Speaker 4: Front of the altar. And that's actually how we'd call.
Speaker 5: The ancestors down to join us for the meal for
Speaker 5: the night. And sometimes we used to burn paper clothes
Speaker 5: and that smoke going up would be gifting them clothes.
Speaker 5: So it's quite spiritual. I'd say, this whole process. So
Speaker 5: we'll do a lot of cooking. Mom will do a
Speaker 5: lot of cooking tonight. The other thing she does is
Speaker 5: like a lot of superstitious things, so cleaning their house
Speaker 5: and then sweeping dust out of the house at midnight
Speaker 5: to like sweep away last year's woes or whatever and
Speaker 5: then start the new year fresh. Yeah, really cool cultural
Speaker 5: things like that. So that'd be tonight and then tomorrow
Speaker 5: is Near's Day, and then normally what we do for
Speaker 5: that is we would wear our yi, which is a
Speaker 5: bit in me stress, and we will wish each of
Speaker 5: our parents and our grandmas well, which is for the year,
Speaker 5: and that's when we receive our red pockets.
Speaker 1: Oh she's going to be rich.
Speaker 4: Yeah. When you when you were kids, we were bully.
Speaker 5: We'd be like, now it's like five days here and there,
Speaker 5: thanks for your contributions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you see at the school, did we see
Speaker 4: like thousands of dollars?
Speaker 5: I was like, you're not because you go to your
Speaker 5: parents and then you go to Gramdmar's and your uncles
Speaker 5: and your aunties and it's the whole like they dish
Speaker 5: it all out. But anyone that gets married then has
Speaker 5: to start giving we call it lisy and once to
Speaker 5: get married, yeah, you have to wish.
Speaker 4: It's quite formal, so you got.
Speaker 5: To do the whole like crossing her hands and formal
Speaker 5: wish for the year, and then you receive it with
Speaker 5: two hands and they sit on the sofa and you
Speaker 5: stand in front of them like it's a formal hello,
Speaker 5: I wish you this. But obviously we suck and we
Speaker 5: always make it a joke. Like last year, I was like,
Speaker 5: I wish you have a great year and you live
Speaker 5: to one hundred and you find a boyfriend. Thank you,
Speaker 5: and but I was like losing it. She was laughing
Speaker 5: so much. But it's just all tradition. And then normally
Speaker 5: what we do for the rest of the day, but
Speaker 5: we've obviously all got work now is we'd visit temples
Speaker 5: throughout the day and continue the wish is in the
Speaker 5: for the year across all the temples, as many temples
Speaker 5: as Mulling Day can get to in the day around Melbourne.
Speaker 5: So we used to do like seven temples in the day,
Speaker 5: which was really a long day.
Speaker 4: Whoa, there's a lot of free food and a lot
Speaker 4: of festivities. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: When I was a kid, I used to just find
Speaker 5: it just such an arduous thing to have to continue
Speaker 5: to do every year. As I've grown older, I've realized
Speaker 5: one of the importance of it, not just to my parents,
Speaker 5: but in terms of holding culture as a second generation
Speaker 5: vien Mees person in.
Speaker 4: A different country.
Speaker 5: I have value it so much because what I would
Speaker 5: hate is for it to stop with me. Yeah, so yeah, tomorrow,
Speaker 5: I won't take work off, but we will all come
Speaker 5: home tomorrow after work and do our wishes in the
Speaker 5: evening and have another dinner. So it's really fun and
Speaker 5: really special. It's very different. It's not a party vibes
Speaker 5: like in Western culture, where it's very like celebratory. It's
Speaker 5: much more like formal and I guess superstitious and spiritual, which.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 5: I'll probably document a lot of it on Instagram tonight because.
Speaker 4: I realized that our culture or how.
Speaker 5: I've grown up is so different to people around me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love that it's and just cultural lessons.
Speaker 1: We haven't had one of those on your allies for
Speaker 1: a little while, so I really like that. And I
Speaker 1: also think that if anyone has been like us and
Speaker 1: has been having like a bit of a clunky start
Speaker 1: to the year, that we can all adopt Lunar New
Speaker 1: Year this year and just think of it as like
Speaker 1: our year officially starts tomorrow. That's how I'm doing it anyway.
Speaker 1: I'm like January was a writer. Flex, screw the whole
Speaker 1: start of the year. Year, I'll start again. Clear the slide,
Speaker 1: let's begin again tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Or just like it's a writer the work. Just choose
Speaker 4: another random calendar of the world.
Speaker 5: Like I'm pretty sure Nepal is in nineteen I mean
Speaker 5: two thousand and seventy five or something.
Speaker 1: What what do you mean They're up to twenty and
Speaker 1: seventy five.
Speaker 5: In their calendar is calendar? Yeah, they're like really far ahead.
Speaker 1: I really like our tip information.
Speaker 5: At the minute.
Speaker 1: What I don't understand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember well because I was when I was
Speaker 5: there and I did that trek all those years ago.
Speaker 5: I remember they had this big banner and that said
Speaker 5: like happy New Year, two thousand and opened in two
Speaker 5: thousand and like thirty and I was like, guys, it's
Speaker 5: twenty and fifteen.
Speaker 4: Hum.
Speaker 5: And then my Shirpa, my guide was like, no, like
Speaker 5: we in the Nepalese calendar, we're actually up to like
Speaker 5: two thousand and seventy odd.
Speaker 1: I want to wait.
Speaker 4: So that one was so cool.
Speaker 3: So like there was a sign that said open in
Speaker 3: two thousand and thirty yeah.
Speaker 4: It was like two thirty something.
Speaker 5: It was like for a town and I had this
Speaker 5: big banner they hadn't taken down and said, you know,
Speaker 5: opening dates, opening ceremony it had.
Speaker 4: Two thousand and thirty. Was oh my god, like sharing
Speaker 4: this is wrong.
Speaker 5: Well, like we're on in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: He's like, no, no, no, we use a different calendar.
Speaker 5: And so I because I remember asking him what his
Speaker 5: when his birthday was, because I was like, oh, maybe
Speaker 5: it's soon, like we can celeberate together, and he was like,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was like, what do you mean.
Speaker 5: He goes, oh, I don't because he was going for
Speaker 5: the Nepalese calendar.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: He couldn't. I don't think he could do it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but obviously they use watch our.
Speaker 1: Calendar, the Gregorian calendar or something or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, it definitely starts. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a silent m there's a silent Batman's there
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's what.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's close close.
Speaker 4: In two thousand and seventy.
Speaker 1: You know another random tidbit.
Speaker 3: I love our random tips because I also learned so much,
Speaker 3: like during these episodes. So in the Korean culture, your
Speaker 3: time I have to remember this correctly. So from the
Speaker 3: time you're born to I think it's on January one,
Speaker 3: So just say, like you're born, I'm born on March
Speaker 3: twenty fourth, so in Western culture that starts the clock
Speaker 3: at zero, and then next March twenty fourth I turned one.
Speaker 3: In the Korean culture, I'm zero, but then Onmber thirty
Speaker 3: first to January first, I turned one then and then
Speaker 3: I would turn two on March twenty fourth, So the
Speaker 3: calendar year clocks you over a year.
Speaker 1: I think that's how it works. All you're born at
Speaker 1: one one or the other, but.
Speaker 3: Often your Korean age is like one to two years
Speaker 3: older than your Western age, which again like so interesting
Speaker 3: that different cultures actually date people from different times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so same in Vietna's culture.
Speaker 5: So when you're your date starts when you're in the
Speaker 5: so that's like zero.
Speaker 4: So when you're born, I'm pretty sure you're one.
Speaker 1: By the would you be like nine months?
Speaker 4: No, I think they just I don't know when they started.
Speaker 5: But because studying on jennifers is way too hard to calculate, so.
Speaker 4: They are not for Korean and always come on, goodness me, you.
Speaker 1: Learned that last week? Oh my God, you learned that
Speaker 1: Bougie came from last week. We are so smart.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, we are smart. Mrt y. It's anyway.
Speaker 5: Mom and Dad always say when I was like seventeen,
Speaker 5: they're like, you're already eighteen. You readian Ada and I
Speaker 5: was like what And then always remember, in these age
Speaker 5: you're actually already eighteen. So it's a mix of following
Speaker 5: the lunar calendar and the fact that you're like already
Speaker 5: an age when you when you're born. O.
Speaker 4: That complicates all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: It's so complicated, but cute. I love that we've learnt
Speaker 1: so much amazing, so cute.
Speaker 5: Okay, so yeah, so happy in newsic happy a.
Speaker 1: Year, bimb do over. Let's all start again tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: In the meantime, cute yeahborhood watch things that you found
Speaker 3: this week include.
Speaker 5: Go oh no, you're starting You sent me all that stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so one that I just okay. Everyone who
Speaker 3: listened last week will know that we are obsessed with
Speaker 3: the train Guy, and I've shared some of the videos
Speaker 3: on the Instagram page so that you can be introduced
Speaker 3: to his absolute joyful life. And the Joe Jonas video
Speaker 3: is also on there. He's just the most yay field
Speaker 3: Like watching that guy get excited about a train honking
Speaker 3: its horn at him just you can't not feel happy.
Speaker 3: He is so amazing and I really want to get
Speaker 3: him on the podcast. So anyone who knows, anyone who
Speaker 3: knows him, please let us know, because we want the
Speaker 3: train Guy on the show. Francis Bourgeois in a similar
Speaker 3: kind of vein to him. This week's equivalent of the
Speaker 3: train Guy are the tap dancing guys. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you followed the Gardener brothers yet, Bim, have you
Speaker 3: seen them?
Speaker 4: Nu?
Speaker 1: So there, I'll have to send you the video. It's
Speaker 1: so cute.
Speaker 3: There's five time world champion Irish dancers. So they're Irish
Speaker 3: dancers and they have taps on their shoes so they
Speaker 3: do Irish dancing, but super happy. I'm super synchronized. They
Speaker 3: do it everywhere, like they got a request. They've got
Speaker 3: like six hundred thousand followers. They got a request to
Speaker 3: do it in front of Buckingham Palace, so they did
Speaker 3: this routine in front of Buckingham Palace. They're like, I
Speaker 3: think they're brothers that yeah, are just incredibly synchronized. They're
Speaker 3: tap dancing is insane. They're so in time, the beat
Speaker 3: is insane, but they're so happy and just wholesome. So
Speaker 3: that was to me when I found them this week.
Speaker 3: I saw them like maybe I don't know a month ago,
Speaker 3: but they've kept popping up in my feed and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh my god. Oh they're like the tap
Speaker 1: dancing version of the train guy. They're just so happy.
Speaker 4: I do know that.
Speaker 9: The cool thing about TikTok, It's brought like all of
Speaker 9: these like little niches to the forefront, like tap dancing
Speaker 9: and train watching and all these really awesome things that
Speaker 9: otherwise I would say, potentially you.
Speaker 5: Would be bullied for or yeah, you know, like it
Speaker 5: was such a like if you did that in high school,
Speaker 5: people like, oh, like tap dancing or like train watching.
Speaker 4: But now it's this is why I like TikTok.
Speaker 5: It just brings out people's joy.
Speaker 4: For things and then makes really happy. So I didn't
Speaker 4: actually know of the tap dancers.
Speaker 3: I love them so much, and I've like started to
Speaker 3: love getting on TikTok, even though most of my tiktoks
Speaker 3: are laughing about being a thirty year old on TikTok
Speaker 3: and not understanding anything that's going on as a consumer
Speaker 3: of TikTok as opposed to posting on it.
Speaker 1: I love that too. It's just joy.
Speaker 3: It's just things that make people laugh or things that
Speaker 3: you know are funny. There's no hectic curation of feeds
Speaker 3: or anything. It's just so much fun. I've found so
Speaker 3: many things on there. And another one that I found
Speaker 3: on TikTok as well was a surfer.
Speaker 1: Like even just the fact that.
Speaker 3: Good news can circulate so quickly, I think is so beautiful.
Speaker 3: A surfer has been writing names of people's lost loved
Speaker 3: ones on his surfboard so that they can ride one
Speaker 3: last wave. So he writes them on his surfboard. He'll
Speaker 3: get messages submitted for people who, like family members who
Speaker 3: might not be able to actually surf, but who's who's
Speaker 3: lost loved one never got their one last wave. He'll
Speaker 3: write their name and a message on his surfboard and
Speaker 3: then send them the video of him surfing it with
Speaker 3: their name on the board.
Speaker 1: I was like, that is just so beautiful, Dan Fisher,
Speaker 1: It's so sweet.
Speaker 3: Like just the fact that people think up that stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, when they do it for strangers, and I
Speaker 3: feel like we do get really pummeled with example like
Speaker 3: the worst examples of humanity, and then people like, oh,
Speaker 3: what's happened to the world. But I feel like if
Speaker 3: we gave an equal amount of time to strangers who
Speaker 3: do amazing things, it wouldn't feel so bleak because there's
Speaker 3: so many examples of that out there, we just don't
Speaker 3: hear about them as much.
Speaker 1: So beautiful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you sent me like five screenshots those guys did
Speaker 5: the Teddy bear donations?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but did you watch the video this time? Like
Speaker 3: the videos watching it this time? Last week we did
Speaker 3: a thing of fans throwing Teddy Bears onto the ice
Speaker 3: to donate to kids who don't have toys, and it
Speaker 3: was a soccer club.
Speaker 1: This time. It was an ice hockey club who did it.
Speaker 3: And the video of watching toys just like get thrown
Speaker 3: on and cover the entire ice rink.
Speaker 1: It's just like it just you just it stops my heart.
Speaker 3: It's so beautiful, the generosity and the thought and just
Speaker 3: even seeing that many plush toys together in itself is
Speaker 3: so cute.
Speaker 1: But that was, Yeah, I found that. I don't even
Speaker 1: know where I found that.
Speaker 4: That reminds me that inter of soccer.
Speaker 5: There was a video of a player and it was
Speaker 5: really big player. I'm gonna have to find it and
Speaker 5: then when you post it, send it to you. But
Speaker 5: he may just kid with cancer. And then the kid he.
Speaker 4: Says in Spanish for something.
Speaker 5: I think he's like, if you score a goal, please
Speaker 5: do this dance, and it does this special dance thing,
Speaker 5: and then they flip over to when this player scores
Speaker 5: his next go and then he actually does the dance
Speaker 5: for the kid and it is like I've it always
Speaker 5: pops up every now and then, and I just cry
Speaker 5: because the soccer fans that know no and they stiff
Speaker 5: this together and be like and they flush back to
Speaker 5: the original video of the kid.
Speaker 4: Being like if you do this, can you please do
Speaker 4: this dance? And they like all all the plays did
Speaker 4: it together. It was the cutest thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love that.
Speaker 4: But I have to find it and send it to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll post it on the page. And guys,
Speaker 3: also please keep your eye outfit. So what I'm going
Speaker 3: to do and I did a little poll on social
Speaker 3: media last week was as well as all the quotes
Speaker 3: on the CZA page, do people want like more good
Speaker 3: news stories and like designed into obviously a little CZA thing,
Speaker 3: so that there's a news element too in our continued
Speaker 3: protest against the negativity of the new cycle.
Speaker 1: So if you do see.
Speaker 3: Any good news stories, I would love to actually share
Speaker 3: them and turn them around so you know, turn them
Speaker 3: into a post so we can keep sharing them. So
Speaker 3: if you hear of anything like this, please do flick
Speaker 3: them over to us. Another one that on an environmental
Speaker 3: level that I think is amazing is California, which is
Speaker 3: not an obscure state right, It's like one of the
Speaker 3: biggest states. So the impact of this legal change is huge.
Speaker 3: Now requires grocery stores and food suppliers to donate all
Speaker 3: their edible food waste to a food rescue or food bank,
Speaker 3: which I think is extraordinary because it's outrageous when you
Speaker 3: think about it. That's so much food it gets thrown
Speaker 3: out just because it doesn't look like like apples don't
Speaker 3: look like a circle. Like how ridiculous is it that
Speaker 3: we're so discerning that it's like, oh, it looks a
Speaker 3: bit funny, like the ugly fruit gets thrown out.
Speaker 4: Do you know what?
Speaker 5: I actually speaking of sustainability and food waste, I'm not
Speaker 5: really one to have resolutions, but I was trying to
Speaker 5: set goals and things, and I really wanted to be
Speaker 5: a lot more conscious this year in terms of plastic
Speaker 5: and food waste, and laws love her to be so
Speaker 5: she is just so good with this stuff, and I
Speaker 5: was like, oh, I was going to be like you anyway.
Speaker 5: I did a for like a week and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm not a roll and then then I forgot So
Speaker 5: now that you've reminded me, I was like, damn, I.
Speaker 4: Got to get this kitchen caddy, Like I have the
Speaker 4: council center.
Speaker 5: This kitchen caddy thing, and I was like, yeah, you
Speaker 5: gotta do it, Like did it for a week, have
Speaker 5: mango peels and a stuff. I was like so proud
Speaker 5: of myself my green bin out there with like leaves
Speaker 5: and this food. And then now it's like my kitchen
Speaker 5: caddy's been sitting out in the body backyard and I haven't.
Speaker 5: So thank you for the reminder because I feel like
Speaker 5: this week's challenge for me all this next two weeks
Speaker 5: challenge for me is every day is not putting a
Speaker 5: single piece of food in the general wat spin.
Speaker 4: I think that's a good, good challenge. Will you do
Speaker 4: it with me? Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's a good one, absolutely, And I think it's also
Speaker 3: good to acknowledge that, like, even with the best intentions,
Speaker 3: habit change isn't straightforward, right, Like, it doesn't come even
Speaker 3: if you don't want to be behaving in a particular way.
Speaker 3: It's just habit often that you have to break, which
Speaker 3: is if it were easy, then half the world's businesses
Speaker 3: would go out of business. Like, it's not easy for
Speaker 3: us to change habit. So it's maybe better for you
Speaker 3: to set yourself like a smaller goal that's achievable week
Speaker 3: by week and just add to that rather than being like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I'm going totally plastic free and totally
Speaker 3: everything like in one week. Most change isn't sustainable when
Speaker 3: you do it that way.
Speaker 5: Yes, so she's taught me a lot, she's been awesome
Speaker 5: and that that's actually an easy thing to do. It's
Speaker 5: not a drastic change in your life. I think no
Speaker 5: plastic is actually really hard because a lot of it
Speaker 5: is value. Things are packaged in a way that sometimes
Speaker 5: it's really hard to actually avoid that. Whereas putting food
Speaker 5: into a food canny versus a like garbage bin is
Speaker 5: actually just your conscious choice.
Speaker 4: You can decide to do that it's just a lifestyle change.
Speaker 5: And the other thing, you, honest I doing is if
Speaker 5: I don't have my keep cup, I'm not allowed to
Speaker 5: take away drink.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Oh my god. I love that.
Speaker 1: I need do that too.
Speaker 4: That's amazing because it's just habit and lifestyle changes.
Speaker 5: But I think it's important because I feel like we
Speaker 5: and my children and your children's generations are gonna cop
Speaker 5: the brunt of it all in terms of climate change
Speaker 5: and yeah, all the things environmentally that are happening. So yeah,
Speaker 5: our touch space two weeks and we'll update each other.
Speaker 5: That's good accountability. And anyone else that wants to join,
Speaker 5: please feel free too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's such a good one, Such a
Speaker 1: good one. Vim.
Speaker 3: Well, I have a couple of other things on the list.
Speaker 3: These are all in celebration of women and their achievements.
Speaker 3: So history has been made by nineteen year old Zara
Speaker 3: rather Fitch. She became the youngest female solo pilot to
Speaker 3: circle the planet. Nadia Nadim fled Afghanistan at eleven after
Speaker 3: her father was killed by the Taliban. She scored two
Speaker 3: hundred goals for Denmark's national team. Speaks nine languages, juggled
Speaker 3: practice schedule while going to med school and this week
Speaker 3: became doctor Nadim. Incredible story, and they're just random ones
Speaker 3: that I came across. And then the one that we've
Speaker 3: spoken about quickly before, our favorite Maya Angelou, who is
Speaker 3: going to be the subject of one of our Yesterday episodes.
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, trying that yesterday on.
Speaker 3: Phasize she became the first black wool to be featured
Speaker 3: on the US Quarter.
Speaker 1: So there is a.
Speaker 3: US Treasury and US Mint program to honor, you know,
Speaker 3: amazing women who have played a big role in America's history,
Speaker 3: and I think it's called where is it the American
Speaker 3: Women Quarters Program. So it's going to honor eighteen amazing
Speaker 3: women who have contributed to the course of history, and
Speaker 3: they'll have custom coins designed that are designed with their story.
Speaker 3: You know, I've actually read the story by the designer
Speaker 3: of the Maya Angelou Quarter about how she used the
Speaker 3: negative space to represent certain things and you know, her
Speaker 3: arms are raised like wings. It's just there's so much
Speaker 3: thought behind it, but's so cool that they're using their
Speaker 3: currency as a way to honor someone who's like had
Speaker 3: that much of an impact on their history. So I
Speaker 3: thought that was amazing. But there's like a whole program
Speaker 3: just for recognizing women, so good.
Speaker 1: What are you even doing?
Speaker 4: I'm just.
Speaker 5: You know, I'll be successful people, and I'm here.
Speaker 4: Just beauty.
Speaker 1: Godby what are you doing?
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Speaker 3: Tell me about the projects for those listening again, we're
Speaker 3: always going to need like visuals. I'm always going to
Speaker 3: refer to visuals because obviously if you listen to the podcast,
Speaker 3: you can't see. But I am very sweaty because the
Speaker 3: room that I record in does not I can't have
Speaker 3: air gone on because you can hear everything in the background.
Speaker 3: So I've been patting my face with a makeup brush
Speaker 3: and just picked up a ballpoint.
Speaker 1: Pen and started doing it.
Speaker 3: Ielane a tutorial, Oh my god, you idiot, you can't
Speaker 3: get their mouth open technique?
Speaker 1: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: And the rold eyes what is it about? Okay, your
Speaker 3: homework for next week? Figure out why.
Speaker 1: Women can't do mascara without their mouth open. I really
Speaker 1: need to know.
Speaker 4: But I don't think it's a s reason. I think
Speaker 4: it might be everyone does.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't there be a scientific reason. I feel like there
Speaker 1: should be anyone listening if there's a scientific reason. Can
Speaker 1: you please let us know?
Speaker 3: And very last section for today recommendations, Mine is from You,
Speaker 3: which we watched together. And it's one of those beautiful
Speaker 3: documentaries that taps into a form of YA that you
Speaker 3: don't even have to ever think this is going to
Speaker 3: be your form of YA to appreciate, you know how.
Speaker 3: Sometimes well, in every episode, pretty much with a guest,
Speaker 3: I dive deep into a niche that I've never heard
Speaker 3: about or really known much about. And this movie is
Speaker 3: Andrew's favorite movie ever called Free Solo and it's about
Speaker 3: free soloing, which I also didn't even know was a
Speaker 3: thing called free soloing.
Speaker 1: So tell us about it, angeon why we should I
Speaker 1: watch it?
Speaker 5: It is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 4: That and Icarus.
Speaker 5: Icarus, those two movies I can watch again and again
Speaker 5: and again, and I always recommend it, and I'm always like,
Speaker 5: I'll watch it with you and then and then I've
Speaker 5: watched it like a six times. But essentially, Alex Ronald
Speaker 5: is a He boulders and he climbs rock, so he's
Speaker 5: rock climber, but he has this amazing want to climb
Speaker 5: our cap which is this huge I think it was
Speaker 5: like five thousand feet awesome, No, anyway, it's very it's
Speaker 5: huge climb that normally takes people, like sometimes people climb
Speaker 5: a camp on the rock face because it's quite an
Speaker 5: arduous climb. It's really long and there's lots of different pitches.
Speaker 5: Pictures are kind of segments on it that you climb. Anyway,
Speaker 5: his goal is to climate free soling, and free solwing
Speaker 5: or solowing is when they do it without any harnesses
Speaker 5: or anything.
Speaker 4: They're not clipped into anything.
Speaker 5: So he's genuinely climbing without ropes, without a harness, without
Speaker 5: any protective gear. It's just him and it's this incredible
Speaker 5: feat of human just achievement, and he climbs like obviously
Speaker 5: you know the result because he's not dead, because essentially,
Speaker 5: if you do one thing wrong, you fall thousands of.
Speaker 4: Feet and that's it. Like, that's just it.
Speaker 5: I think it's like a five thousand or three to
Speaker 5: five thousand feet just literally almost like a vertical rock
Speaker 5: face in Yosemity.
Speaker 1: It's insane.
Speaker 5: And you watch the documentary and he's got these little tiny,
Speaker 5: little pincer grip rocks that he's holding onto and you're
Speaker 5: just like, and his toe is what's holding him up
Speaker 5: or and he's climbing through crevices and he's going straight
Speaker 5: up anyway. So you just go through his whole story
Speaker 5: of how he gets up and how he achieves it,
Speaker 5: and just the training that's involved in the sycrifice that
Speaker 5: goes behind it, and then you understand the athletic abilities
Speaker 5: that he has to be able to do that. And
Speaker 5: the other thing that we really enjoyed, well, we didn't
Speaker 5: really enjoy it, but that was interesting to see was
Speaker 5: that his really great friends were filming and obviously had
Speaker 5: a lot of moral and a lot of cognitive dissonance
Speaker 5: in terms whether or not to film or not to film,
Speaker 5: because essentially, if he did one wrong move or maneuver,
Speaker 5: he would fall and die.
Speaker 4: And they had to accept the fact.
Speaker 5: That that they may be there and watching and filming
Speaker 5: that all happen. But yeah, watch the movie. It's it's
Speaker 5: one so many awards after it was. I think it
Speaker 5: started as a very independent film and has now won
Speaker 5: so many awards, and it's even if you've never bolded
Speaker 5: rock climbs anything before.
Speaker 4: It's really worth a watch, so highly recommend.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's similar to the Richard Harris story.
Speaker 3: The cave Diver, which you guys all know is still
Speaker 3: my favorite episode. You don't have to love or ever
Speaker 3: think you'll go technical cave diving to appreciate what it's
Speaker 3: like to see someone else's yay in that area, And like,
Speaker 3: one of the coolest things from a yay perspective is
Speaker 3: the idea that most people like can't think of anything worse,
Speaker 3: like he's yay, he's pure yea. The thing that he's
Speaker 3: meant to do and that lights him up the most
Speaker 3: is something that most people have such a stronger version to,
Speaker 3: which is just a reminder that like, no one's meant
Speaker 3: to be turned on by the same things or turned
Speaker 3: off by the same thing.
Speaker 1: So if you and something unusual to.
Speaker 3: Be aya, that that's like we're built that way and
Speaker 3: not and literally built that way. So my favorite part
Speaker 3: of the whole show was the medical Like there's a
Speaker 3: lot of He's obviously has some injuries, but also he's
Speaker 3: become the subject of a lot of studies of like
Speaker 3: why can he do this? Why is he so much
Speaker 3: better than other people? And if you've done a lot
Speaker 3: of work, you know, anything into any research into kind
Speaker 3: of neurology or neuroscience, the amygdala is the part of
Speaker 3: the brain responsible for fear and stress, and so all
Speaker 3: that self doubt and risk aversion lives in the amygdala.
Speaker 3: And there's a standard test that you can do where
Speaker 3: you kind of get shown like a shark and you
Speaker 3: get shown really fear provoking pictures and they measure your
Speaker 3: brain with an MRA to see what kind of activity
Speaker 3: is going on in your brain, and they can actually
Speaker 3: see that the average person has like a certain level
Speaker 3: of red activity and the amigdala because the fear in
Speaker 3: juicy pictures, Alex had nothing like actually no activity of
Speaker 3: fear whatsoever. He was literally built and born to have
Speaker 3: a higher threshold of fear than the average person, which
Speaker 3: means he's perfectly suited to this kind of activity because
Speaker 3: his brain actually doesn't register the fear like someone else.
Speaker 3: And that just for me, in a as a CZA
Speaker 3: focused person, was like, that's the key, right, We're all
Speaker 3: built for a different for different ingredients of stuff, and
Speaker 3: so why do we keep this narrative of like I
Speaker 3: have to do what everyone else likes and I have
Speaker 3: to hate what everyone else hates. It just blows my
Speaker 3: mind that that's still something we all kind of assume.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a mix of he was born
Speaker 5: with a different sense of fear, but also he was
Speaker 5: primed in that way. Also, he had been bordering since
Speaker 5: he was a kid, a really young kid, and he.
Speaker 4: Continued that for a very long time.
Speaker 5: Like if we look at when we were kids and
Speaker 5: the types of risks that we were taking, and you know,
Speaker 5: we were jumping off things, we all stopped doing that
Speaker 5: at one point, whereas he never stopped. He kept climbing
Speaker 5: all throughout his adult life. He lives in a van,
Speaker 5: and he was out of abound new climbs, rocks. He
Speaker 5: does it without harnesses. He has continued to do so.
Speaker 5: So his threshold for fear and what he needs to
Speaker 5: kind of get that part of his brain responsive is,
Speaker 5: like you said, a lot high.
Speaker 4: In his much higher first sholder. So perhaps so that
Speaker 4: we just all need to we can all be a
Speaker 4: little bit more childlike.
Speaker 5: A bit more to be able to be more fearless
Speaker 5: in life.
Speaker 1: More playa interest, return to the childlike sense of wow.
Speaker 4: Wow product placement.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you so much for him for joining
Speaker 1: me for another years of our lives. And guys, if.
Speaker 3: You do have any suggestions to add to our massy
Speaker 3: Couzy and his cares.
Speaker 1: We will get on too.
Speaker 3: We're kind of just still nutting out the structure of
Speaker 3: these historical episodes, but also let us know what you
Speaker 3: think of Yesterday as a name, but especially yeah, anyone
Speaker 3: that you would like us to do a little deep
Speaker 3: dive into. I think they should be structured kind of
Speaker 3: sim lead to the normal episodes as if we got
Speaker 3: to have that person on the show, but also maybe yeah,
Speaker 3: pull out a quote or something that they're really well
Speaker 3: known for. And my Angelou also definitely on there. I
Speaker 3: don't know what my Angelou's nice abbreviation should be, like
Speaker 3: mas Maya.
Speaker 1: Angie power. How did not pick that?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 1: So do you know?
Speaker 3: I'm still really proud that your episode of CZ, like
Speaker 3: your very first actual interview episode.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Also, I forgot so many people asked how did we meet?
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, We've told this story like so many times,
Speaker 3: but we can leave that for next time.
Speaker 4: I don't remember yes so many.
Speaker 3: Times the very first episode firstly, but also when it
Speaker 3: was your interview episode, which I'm still so proud I
Speaker 3: called changing the game. Please do yes, we get two
Speaker 3: quotes of the age day.
Speaker 5: I found the coat that I was Yeah, I found
Speaker 5: the we met with the whole acc Yeah.
Speaker 4: Everyone does things in their own time. Okay, so please
Speaker 4: que the oscars music.
Speaker 3: Also, just quickly, I am thinking about adding music. Should
Speaker 3: I have music like dramatic music?
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 1: Anyway, just something to think about.
Speaker 4: Keep going sound effects and sound effects.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool cool?
Speaker 5: Okay, so in post production, please cue dramatic music.
Speaker 4: Okay. Someone graduated at twenty one.
Speaker 5: But it waited six years to get a good job.
Speaker 5: Someone had no education but was a millionaire at twenty one.
Speaker 5: Someone got married at twenty but divorced five years later.
Speaker 5: And someone got married at thirty but found everlasting love.
Speaker 5: You're not late, you're not early, You're just on time.
Speaker 1: Oh been. That's such a good one. I love it,
Speaker 1: Mike Drap mic Drop, I love that one. We're all
Speaker 1: just on our own timeline. That's such a good reminder, guys.
Speaker 3: And yeah, if you're not feeling like New Year is
Speaker 3: tonight and news days tomorrow, that's absolutely fine.
Speaker 1: Just keep going on your own time. And thank you
Speaker 1: guys all so much for joining