WEBVTT - Poppin’ off on Crying in the Shower, Voice Notes, and Height Requirements 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.120 Hey, besties, Hello Sunshine. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.959 Today on the bright Side, we're popping off undition on 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.000 the biggest pop culture moments of the week with comedian 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:13.400 Rachel Samples. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.760 Do you cry in the shower like Benny Blanco? 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.840 Move over texting our voice notes the new way to communicate, 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.560 and we'll get to the bottom of the age old question. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.240 Is love truly blind? It's Friday, February twenty First, I'm 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:28.520 Danielle Robe and. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.080 I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side from 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:36.880 Hello Sunshine, Happy Friday, Danielle. I am so happy to 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.840 see that you're feeling and sounding better. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.199 Yep, a little bit, thank you. You know it's wild. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.640 The CDC just announced that this is the worst flu 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.159 season since two thousand and nine, and judging by what 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.320 I had this week, I believe it thirty million Americans, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.600 including yours, truly have gotten sick. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:57.320 Crazy. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.720 So here's the question, will you beget the flu shot 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.000 next season? Because I did not get a flu shot. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.240 I actually never really get a flu shot, but I 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:06.399 definitely did get the flu. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.520 You got the flu this year? 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.160 Yeah? Like January? 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.920 Oh man, you know what, We're all going to be 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.240 chugging Vitamin C and vitamin D and zinc and all 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:16.039 the things. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.960 All of that stuff helps, but you know what they say, 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.000 laughter is the best medicine. So hopefully our guest today 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:23.800 can help us get back on track. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.800 Absolutely well. Joining us today is the hilarious Rachel Samples. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.640 We had so much fun with her last time she 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.679 was on the show. We knew we had to have 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:32.200 her back. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.680 Rachel, Welcome back to the bright Side. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.960 Oh, happy to be back. Hey Danielle, Hey Simon, and 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.679 thanks for having me. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.160 Two timers. Get an air horn. Oh we get an airhorn. Yeah, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.119 I love that. I love that. That's all good. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.280 All right, bestie is if you are not already following Rachel, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.840 what are you doing with your life? She's so silly 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.680 and we love that so much. We talked about your 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.520 impressions and your dad videos the last time you were here, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.840 and then week we saw you dressed up as George 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.640 Washington and a leprechaun to film a sketch as a 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.320 plate's instructor. How do you come up with these ideas 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.880 like take me into your inspiration your creative process. 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.480 Okay, that sketch in particular is very much inspired by 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.480 Peloton that I feel like every time I open that app. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:25.040 They have somehow taken a like level B national holiday 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.480 and made an entire themed class out of it, And 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.840 I was like, what if we just took this to 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.720 a different place of like President's Day truly becoming a 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.280 president George Washington coded for the class and just ran 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.760 with it that way, just like a heightened insane Zaney 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:42.480 version of it. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.840 Wait, a level B national holiday is very funny. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:46.359 You know what I mean? 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.400 Like I feel like, like, yes, it's there, but like 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.880 Arbor Day, Yeah, what yah? 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.480 I know it's tree. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.720 Adjacent, tree related, but I'm like, we never really go 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.360 hard for Arbor Day, probably the way we should, but 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:59.120 at like a level B. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.240 I feel like, to do what you do, Rachel, you 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.120 have to completely be okay with like the the cringe 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.079 factor and like making fun of yourself like in public. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.960 When were you able to like kind of lose that 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.680 fear of being judged while filming these videos. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.400 I actually think something changed when I like am in 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.200 my like dad character because I feel like I'm not 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.320 really me and therefore I can't like get in trouble 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.000 and things like that. But I still have a little 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.280 bit of, like I guess humility. I got kicked out 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.400 of a Trader Joe's trying to film a sketch. 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:35.480 They were like, boom. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.880 And when I get I'm like a rule follower truly, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.080 but I feel like for these fits, I'll push it 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.280 and like try to get in places and things like that. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.240 But Trader Joe's was like, girl, you gotta go. It's 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:46.840 like all right, all right, I get it. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:47.480 I get it. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.480 What were you wearing when they kicked you out? Oh 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.760 my god, that was a It was a sketch I 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.920 was playing. It was a seasonal sketch, but Pumpkins manager. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.839 So I was going into Trader Joe's and like, look 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.120 how good I am at my job. All these pumpkined 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.160 you know, treats and candles and all that jazz. And 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.280 it was like within minutes it was almost like security, 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.279 like secret service level. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.080 Boom. Trader Joe's was on it. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.320 I was like, okay, I'm out paying, but yeah, you 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.880 just have to just go in like you're focused on 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.600 the bit and nothing else, and you know, see when 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:20.120 it comes of it. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.400 Were you affected by the foe TikTok ban at all? 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:28.000 Oh that was a hard twenty five minutes. Yeah, I 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.880 mean that was a ride. I was like, Okay, I'm 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.280 just gonna keep on keeping on on other plates, like 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.520 you know, Instagram, which is probably you know, really like 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.360 focus on YouTube and things like that. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.839 But I was sad because I feel like you just 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.479 find so many gems on there. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.160 Even like I was chatting with my girlfriend and we 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.880 were like, wait, that's literally how we find places to travel, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.200 That's how we like know where to eat the cop 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.760 like just the search of it all. I was just 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.760 bummed with that. And then of course just like finding 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.560 funny funny people. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.839 The discoverability. I agree with you. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.600 It's also sort of this like un nderground feminist network 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:02.200 I've found. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:03.440 Do you find that at all? 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:04.000 Continue? 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.160 I'm nodding heavily, yes. Continue. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:11.040 Yeah, Like it's really talk about girls supporting girls and 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.279 women supporting women like TikTok is that, And it's sort 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.360 of like this web of information. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.400 I want to get on that side of the algorithm 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.960 because I feel like I just I get sent like 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:27.480 weird like satire and like cooking videos and I don't know, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:28.839 like just weird stuff. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.520 Okay, can I be salty for a second? Yep? Yeah? 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.679 Are we allowed now to laugh? 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.440 At the videos of people crying over the TikTok ban 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:38.760 or is it too soon? 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:40.240 Oh? 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.960 I think you absolutely should okay, okay, and hopefully those people. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:44.560 Are self aware about it. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.600 My friend Becca was literally doing a live singing amazing 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.920 Grace when TikTok shut down, Like she was so emotional 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.479 over going away, but like she's owning how cringe that was. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:55.520 Yeah. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.200 What I thought was really funny was all of the 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:03.160 people spilling their secret right before TikTok left, and then 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.920 TikTok stayed and we knew all their secrets. Like some 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.360 people were talking about the peptides or the semi glue 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.479 tides they were on. Some people were talking about not 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.960 being in a real relationship, or like fitness influencers saying 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.880 I don't actually work out, and then all of a 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.559 sudden it all went away. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:21.240 Yeah. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.279 I feel like we need a documentary on that, Like 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.320 we need like a Netflix documentary on that. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:26.279 Yeah. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.600 I can't believe some people just like showed their cards, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.160 like fitness influencers being like I never even like worked 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.719 out day in my life, things like that. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.600 I did hear that. That's wild? 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.760 All right, you guys. I think it's time to officially 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.479 pop off Cool. First up on the docket today, Benny 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.560 Blanco and Selena Gomez are gracing the cover of Interview 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:45.599 Magazine's March issue. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:45.840 Right. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:47.599 I don't know if you guys have seen the picks, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.640 but there are some snaps of the engaged couple that 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.279 have really taken over our feeds this week, and they're 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.920 in these matching oversized suits. They actually look really cute, 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.160 Like I want to borrow that look. I'm always here 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.599 for a mendsor look. In addition to this photo shoot, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.040 they also answered some questions for Interview Magazines TikTok, and 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.880 Benny got open about his shower habits. So he revealed 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:13.240 that he doesn't shower every day, which I personally don't 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.520 find that controversial, Like I don't shower every day, but 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.600 he says that when he does, he sits there for 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.560 a long time and he just like uses the time 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.320 to like contemplate life, and that sometimes that leads to 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.200 crying in the shower. Is this concept foreign to you, 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.920 guys or is this something that like you do in 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:31.520 the shower too? 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:32.880 Do you guys cry in the shower? 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:33.160 Oh? 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.520 I love a shower crying. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.840 Yeah, Okay, tell me take me into. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.880 That the tear does just wipe away with the with 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.800 the shower head, the faucet, the water. Yeah, I just 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.200 feel like it's like really cathartic to cry in the 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.080 shower sometimes. And also if you, like, if you have 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.240 kids or somebody else in your apartment and you don't 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.520 want them to hear you crying, it's a great place 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:55.600 to hide and cry. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.320 That's true. That's true. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.480 I haven't done a I don't think I've done a 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.880 cry and a shower, But I love an emotional stare, 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.480 Like I just you know, you just find that spot 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.960 and you're just gonna zone out and just let that 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.960 water run. You don't know, time, space doesn't matter, but 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.360 just that locked in like the contemplating thing. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:16.920 I totally understand. Yeah. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.239 I don't think we talk about the power of showering enough, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:26.200 like showers are truly transformative. We actually talked about this 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.320 on the show recently, Danielle. It was it was a 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.520 suggestion from an expert. When you're looking for a sensory change, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.280 like when you need to switch out of like a 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.439 negative mindset into a better mindset. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.320 Take a shower. Yeah. I really feel like the shower 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.400 is the cure for everything. It absolutely is. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.760 I had a boyfriend cheat on me one time and 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.400 I called my dad crying and he was like, Danielle, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:48.120 go for. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.880 A run or hop in the shower. That was his 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:51.680 advice to me. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.560 And I was so mad at the time, and in 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.320 hindsight I get what he was saying. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.040 It was like, switch up your energy. A shower can 0:08:59.120 --> 0:08:59.880 cure so much. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.240 Yeah, which one did you end up doing? Do you remember? 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:02.920 Neither? 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.160 I hung up being so mad, and I think I like, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.800 drove home and ate a hamburger or something nice? 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:08.440 Nice? Nice? 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:09.800 Which one would you choose? 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:10.800 Oh? 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.040 I feel like And that's in that context, I probably 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.480 have too much roth hot top that I would need 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.560 to go on a run like DMX. Like Rachel, I 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.480 know you're a big fan of the dolphin shower too. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:22.880 Love a dolphin shower? 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.560 Yes, once again, explain to our listenership what a dolphin 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:27.000 shower is. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.920 So a dolphin shower for those who shave, is just 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:35.600 like like I'm going in and I'm coming out different, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.240 Like I'm the better two point zero version of myself. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.360 Doesn't matter how much time it takes. But this is 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.440 like I've been building for weeks I'm like ready to 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.719 lock in and start a new a phoenix rising from 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.080 the ashes if you will. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:48.760 Yes. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.560 You know what's interesting too in the Benny Blanco thread 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.160 is I feel like I keep seeing news of Benny 0:09:55.200 --> 0:10:00.200 Blanco in like in the bathroom because for Valentine's Day 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.760 he filled the tub. Did you guys see this with 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:03.840 nacho cheese? 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.520 No? I missed this one. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.400 Oh this was like literally like he put chips. This 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.840 was on Instagram. He put chips leading like cookie crumb 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.560 trail to the bathtub that he filled with cheese. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.440 Because that's such a rich person. It is, because like, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.800 who's going to clean up the cheese? That's all I 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:20.800 can think about. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.800 Right, I mean from start to finish. You think of 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.200 the assistant that had to go do that, go run 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.800 and get that, do the supplies. It was probably a 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.480 rogue idea, I mean the execution, start to finish. But 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.440 I'm like, wow, they keep coming up in the news 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.440 a lot. We're bathtub and now we're shower focused. They 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.200 must have like multiple bathroom sweets that they're just hanging in. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.480 I'm lactose and tolerant, so I have hives just thinking 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.440 about a bathtub filled with nacho cheese. It's not for me, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.120 But are you guys criers in general? Like Rachel, I 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.280 know we're all huge Wicked fans here. Did you sob 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.880 during the movie? And is that something that you do 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.560 on the regular when a movie like gets in your feels? 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.040 I actually had like a body chills, and just because 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.680 like we're girls here, like truly pouring and sweat with 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.760 the finale. I don't know what it was, like a 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.080 different moisture release, but I was like, oh my, I 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.880 got like physically worked up, Like wow, I was very sweaty. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.640 So not normally a crier. It's like, not. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.000 Normally a crier. I'm really excited for the two other 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.080 listeners who got sweaty during Wicked and didn't cry. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.480 Just trying to create a safe space. Danielle, how about you, Simon? 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:27.320 What do you think? 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:28.480 Sorry? 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:29.960 I don't know why I asked that. I know this 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.000 answer by now, daniel is a big cry I love that. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.880 But I didn't cry during Wicked. Surprisingly, wow. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.440 And you know what's funny, I'm not normally a crier, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:44.079 but I sobbed like five year old temper tantrum sobbed 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:45.080 during Wicked. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.560 It was like heaving. Was it all? 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:48.439 Did it hid in you? 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:48.920 Yeah? 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.000 Or where when was it? 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.880 It? Was it that crescendo at the end, Yes, the crescendo, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.880 but uh, that. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.720 Moment whoa, yes exactly. For me, it was like the 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.839 instant that I saw munchkin Land, like the very first scene. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.920 After the races. Yeah, off to the races. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.120 I'm going to try my best to explain this, but 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.440 I was crying because of the excellence, the excellent, like 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.760 the artistic excellence, and I think for me as a 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.439 theater kid, like growing up singing these songs, rehearsing these songs, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.560 I just felt so tapped into our community and like 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.280 all of the collective dreams and hopes that are attached 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.200 to this one property, and to see it brought to 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.800 life in such a magnificent way, I was just like, 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.199 Oh my gosh, that's so beautiful. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.160 Yeah, that's so simon of you. I love that. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:44.040 I love that. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.920 I want to do the I want to hold your 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.160 finger like the Oreana. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.040 I want to hold space. I want to yea. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.400 Listeners, listeners, the fingers are up and I'm trying to 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.080 hold both space for this. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:58.880 We've got to take a quick break. But we'll be 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:12.040 right back. We're back to popping off with Rachel Samples. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.720 Okay, I came across this Time magazine article that caught 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.079 my attention. It's called why Voice notes Are a Small 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.240 act of Love. First of all, I do think they're 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.520 a small act of love. But the writer talks about 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.240 how voice notes helped her feel way more connected than 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:27.720 texting during the pandemic. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:29.400 And she's not alone. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.839 According to a twenty twenty three you Gov poll, thirty 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.800 percent of Americans are using voice messages weekly, daily, or even. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:37.760 Multiple times a day. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.920 That is a lot of people ditching texts for a 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.640 little more voice to voice action. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:44.359 Are you a voicener? 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.280 I really am, and I think it started. It started 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.600 from a place of really trying to be better about 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.240 not texting and driving, and I was like, you know what, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.040 let me just throw let's do the adult walkie talkie 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.480 and do the voice note and like. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:02.880 Gap that way. But it was real talky. It truly is. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:04.960 You know, I'm in for an adult wat. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.240 Adult walky talkie. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.920 I tried to get Simone to get her husband alwaukie 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.600 talkie for Valentine's Day and she laughed in my face. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.400 Well, because it was so incredibly romantic. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.640 I mean, can you imagine, Yeah, but you could just 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.600 voice note him it's the same thing, I guess. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.640 Yeah, it's a little more like Gear Roger. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.880 Uh yeah, men love Gear. Yeah. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.960 I think he may I don't know your husband, but 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.120 may or may not have taken advantage of that, like 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.000 just too much, too much with the Yeah, that's the prob. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.160 Totally love a voice note. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:43.120 I also think it makes stories exponentially funnier. Tea feels 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.520 heightened like drama, everything, and there's always just a through 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.200 line where it doesn't even matter. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.160 What the voice note is. I think it in. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.280 Our brains makes us react as if it's like a 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.760 very flirty thing, even if it's not. You know what 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.520 I mean, Like you took a level of coolness to 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.360 give me a voice note. I think it like, well, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.840 scientists will study it. But the voice note, I think, 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.480 just feels inherently flirty. I don't know why. 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.200 Is it thoughtfulness or sleuthiness? 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.880 Because sometimes I think a voice note is because you 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.320 don't want to put something in writing, which I understand. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:22.000 Oh true, I've seen the Blake Lively justin Baldoni one 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:23.880 hundred and forty one page lawsuit. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.400 I understand why you'd want a voice note. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.080 Oh my god, I think you're onto something, Rachel. I 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.920 think there's something whether it's flirty or romantic or just 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.720 more human about voice notes. I crave hearing other people's 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.320 voices in the digital age, Like I miss the days 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.200 when you would just yap on the phone with your 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.280 friends for like three hours, like when we were growing up, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.320 you know, like that was so fun. And I feel 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.840 like we never nobody ever talks on the phone anymore, 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.680 nobody ever picks up the phone. So I'll take a 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.760 voice note. I will say, though I have I have limits. 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.560 I have boundaries, Like I have this one friend who 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.720 sends me God bless, She's gonna know exactly she is 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.200 when as I'm talking about this, she sends me these 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.080 stream of consciousness voice notes that are like, you know, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.760 like three minutes long, and like she's trying to tell 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.720 me a story. But there's like new characters are coming in. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.000 They're making entrances and exits. It's happening in real time 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.440 at her son's soccer game, and I'm like, WHOA, I can't. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:20.120 Follow all of this. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.840 I love like I love a brief you know powerful 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.680 concise voice note. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.760 You know, yes, what's your time limit? 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.440 I'll give you. I think forty seconds. I think forty 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:31.280 seconds is perfect. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.600 That's not enough. That's not enough. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.360 It's not enough. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.200 Forty seconds is nothing. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.920 But sometimes it's fun when it rolls into the next one. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.440 So you've got like a forty, a fifteen, and an eight, 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.080 and like, you know, the eight it's just gonna be 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.080 like a silly send off, and you're like, yeah, I 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:45.560 can't wait to. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.400 Get to the eight. That's me. That's me. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.000 Well, do you guys ever leave voicemails anymore? Because part 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.360 of me feels like this voice note generation is novel 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.040 for gen Z they just don't know what voice messages were. 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.760 Very rarely for a voicemail. And then I feel like 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.480 most of the time I'm not even listening to it. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:06.960 I'm reading a transcript of it to just scroll through 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.359 and be like, oh worth listening to Maybe I'll. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:09.960 Follow up whatever. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:15.080 Yeah, But I do feel sometimes with those long, long 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.399 voice notes with a narrative arc and multiple characters, it 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.000 feels like it's almost like a little bit more on 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.520 the assignment side, and there's like multiple questions asked within 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.359 it that you're like, I think I covered up in 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.760 my response on like two out of nine, Like, yes, yeah, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.119 it can be stressful, but I feel like it's playful 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:31.760 for the most part. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.600 My toxic trait has always been voicemails. It's something that 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.639 I've always struggled with, and I get so many aggressive 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:42.280 messages from people being like, hey left you a voicemail 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.080 trying to get in touch with you, and I'm like, listen, 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.879 we've I just feel like, as a society, we've. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.880 Evolved past the voicemail. Can we just can we put 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:52.359