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Speaker 2: What's Up Everybody? In Happy twenty twenty six? Mike, do
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 1: New Year?
Speaker 2: It feels crazy because we are currently recording this in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Five feels like the old year.
Speaker 2: It is the old year for us, but in this
Speaker 2: moment you're hearing this, it is a happy twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: What did you do for New Year's What were your
Speaker 2: plans that you would plan to do?
Speaker 3: At least?
Speaker 1: I love New Year's Day. Like New Year's Eve is
Speaker 1: kind of like I don't really do anything. I don't drink,
Speaker 1: so it's not really a holiday to me anymore. Used
Speaker 1: to be, I used to party all that was like
Speaker 1: my favorite day of the year. Really yeah, But now
Speaker 1: New Year's Day is my favorite because you can do
Speaker 1: nothing and there's no expectations. I think it's the best holiday.
Speaker 2: It really is that in between right after Christmas and
Speaker 2: those five days until New Year's in New Year's Day,
Speaker 2: there is nothing happening. Yeah, Like there's not a single
Speaker 2: brain cell that's a movie in my head.
Speaker 3: During those five days.
Speaker 1: It's that time where you forget what day of the week.
Speaker 1: It is, you're like, what am I eating? Who cares?
Speaker 1: And you're kind of like in that that blindness.
Speaker 3: Yep, I love in my sweat uniform.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see me the same outfit probably about three
Speaker 2: or four times during that whole thing. Yep, I totally
Speaker 2: get that. But I feel like New Year's is an
Speaker 2: overrated holiday.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's fun depending on what you do. Like,
Speaker 1: if you love to party, it's a great holiday.
Speaker 3: It's true. But like I used to love to party,
Speaker 3: and I still do.
Speaker 2: Like I love gatherings now versus the party per se.
Speaker 2: But I don't know something about the hype around New
Speaker 2: Year's where you have to get all dressed up, it's
Speaker 2: freezing cold outside, you pay an exorbitant amount of money
Speaker 2: to go somewhere, and uber's cost a crap ton of money,
Speaker 2: so if you are drinking, you better be prepared for that.
Speaker 2: It's like the only way that New Year's is good
Speaker 2: to me is if you're going to a house party.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, when I say party, I mean only house party.
Speaker 1: I didn't really do going out partying. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: house party, Okay. I have the best memories. Is like
Speaker 1: getting and drinking a lot in the cold, like something
Speaker 1: about like having a cold drink in your hand and
Speaker 1: it also being cold out. Oh you like it, so
Speaker 1: you're committed to it. That's fun to me.
Speaker 2: Okay, But maybe it's because you don't have to wear
Speaker 2: like a tiny sparkling dress and fuels.
Speaker 3: That's the difference. But that's fair.
Speaker 2: I will say we're doing a house where we did
Speaker 2: a house party this year with a bunch of my
Speaker 2: friends from back home, and I was really excited looking for,
Speaker 2: like coming to that day versus normally when New Year's
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I don't want to do anything. Like
Speaker 2: last year I was at my parents' house, I did nothing.
Speaker 2: I ate grapes under the table. Is that last year
Speaker 2: of the year before it all blours together now?
Speaker 3: But I don't.
Speaker 2: I've stopped doing stuff because it was so overrated for me.
Speaker 1: I'm also a sucker for live events, so I love
Speaker 1: watching the New Year's Eve like countdown.
Speaker 3: Oh, you watched the ball drop?
Speaker 1: I watched like all three hours leading up to that.
Speaker 1: Like for Thanksgiving, we watched the entire Thanksgiving baraid. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's something about those two holidays that just
Speaker 1: tell me, like I need to watch the live TV
Speaker 1: version of this, So you like.
Speaker 2: The live celebration, Yeah, will you watch the one from Nashville.
Speaker 1: I'll go back and forth because they'll go to commercial
Speaker 1: at like different times, so I'll go back and forth
Speaker 1: between the main one in the Nashville one.
Speaker 2: Well, and isn't there for New Year's? Isn't there four
Speaker 2: or five different ones?
Speaker 1: I know there's the two main that I flip back
Speaker 1: and forth, and I don't know if they're doing that
Speaker 1: third one still. I remember like Miley Cyrus and Pete
Speaker 1: Davidson hosted it one year and it went very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it was all the major I
Speaker 2: guess networks trying to compete with each other.
Speaker 3: Everybody kind of had their own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know if they're all still doing it,
Speaker 2: but yeah, Nashville's now want into the mix.
Speaker 3: They've been doing that one for quite a while though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like the performances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that they record like months ahead. That's the thing
Speaker 1: I always like pick out. I'm like, here's the live ones.
Speaker 1: Here's one where it's clearly July.
Speaker 2: I know, and I get it because people have plans
Speaker 2: on New Year's. It's not how you get the big names.
Speaker 2: But it's funny to me because like the people that go,
Speaker 2: I feel like they get jipped a little bit because
Speaker 2: you think everybody's going to be there, they're not.
Speaker 3: You get like three or four of them. Maybe.
Speaker 2: Okay, so New Year's parties, but this year you were
Speaker 2: low key.
Speaker 3: Low key watching the ball drop.
Speaker 1: That's what I like to do.
Speaker 3: Do you drink on New Year's Now?
Speaker 1: No, I am questioning whether or not I'm going to
Speaker 1: drink on this break, okay, because I probably have had
Speaker 1: a drink since like the first vacation this summer.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so significant break and usually I like plan
Speaker 2: it out like I this year, I did retire the
Speaker 2: day where I would eat everything my purge day.
Speaker 1: For the last two years, I haven't done it, one
Speaker 1: because I don't feel like I need it anymore, and
Speaker 1: two because now that I'm married and we go back
Speaker 1: and forth between families, it's hard to plan a day
Speaker 1: for it. It was kind of more of a single
Speaker 1: thing where I was like, I know I'm going to
Speaker 1: be with my family on this day. I can go
Speaker 1: buy all the food and have it for that one day.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, we don't always know where we're
Speaker 1: going to go and where we're going to be, and
Speaker 1: I have to be like in the right state of
Speaker 1: mind and have everything perfect in order to make that
Speaker 1: day work. So it's harder to do now in this
Speaker 1: phase of life. And also I just feel like I'm
Speaker 1: kind of past it. It was kind of a thing
Speaker 1: I put on myself early on, but I don't think
Speaker 1: I need it anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, and I feel like couraged me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: But now if you wanted to have something, you just
Speaker 2: may have it, yeah, versus it was like you were
Speaker 2: really strict on yourself up until that moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my wife is been able to convince me that
Speaker 1: I'm not going to revert back just because I have
Speaker 1: a couple of things here and there. But the thing
Speaker 1: I would kind of like place an assign to that
Speaker 1: was like, that's also going to be the day where
Speaker 1: I drink a lot. And now I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: really factor that in anymore. I'm like, if I want to,
Speaker 1: I will, but it's usually only on vacation or Christmas,
Speaker 1: and I'm debating on whether or not I even want you.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, then here's this question.
Speaker 2: When you have those things, when you've had the food
Speaker 2: and you've had alcohol. Are you like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: give me more anymore immediately, or are you okay?
Speaker 3: That tasted good and I'm good going back.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not worth it anymore where I
Speaker 1: have it, and I'm like, this isn't as fun as
Speaker 1: I remember. Yeah, even the last time, Like my whole
Speaker 1: favorite thing is to go to baseball games and have
Speaker 1: beers at a baseball game just because that's like that's
Speaker 1: comfort to me. Even the last time I did that,
Speaker 1: I was like, this isn't as fun as I remember
Speaker 1: to be, Like I can still have the same enjoyment
Speaker 1: enjoyment from this not drinking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I feel that same way too, Like the
Speaker 2: hangovers just aren't worth it to me anymore.
Speaker 1: I think it's just more the idea of drinking that
Speaker 1: I enjoy. Yeah, social accents, Yeah, even just having something
Speaker 1: in your hands sometimes, like the bottle in your hand,
Speaker 1: Like I like that feeling and like sipping on something.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I necessarily need it to be alcohol,
Speaker 1: Like I could just have a topo Cheico and have
Speaker 1: the same effect I've learned.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, there's so many cool drinks now
Speaker 2: that are non alcoholic. I feel like you can find
Speaker 2: something to sip on, to hold it in your hand
Speaker 2: and have that same feeling without the repercussions of drinking.
Speaker 1: That's also why I think more sports like venues need
Speaker 1: to have coffee. Yeah, like I would just drink a
Speaker 1: bunch of coffee.
Speaker 3: Okay, Mike, let me tell you what happened.
Speaker 2: So I went to a Papa bar with my boyfriend
Speaker 2: and he was He got an espresso martini.
Speaker 3: He loves those.
Speaker 1: That's the very people love him. I've never had one.
Speaker 3: I feel like you need to try on since you
Speaker 3: love coffee.
Speaker 1: Is there is there darien or is it just expresso
Speaker 1: in alcohol?
Speaker 3: It depends where you go.
Speaker 1: Some it's just act. They look kind of sweet.
Speaker 3: Well, so they have foam, but that's from shaking the espresso.
Speaker 1: Ah, I got it. So it real.
Speaker 2: Some of them could have dairy and like a creamer
Speaker 2: in them potentially, but I've known plenty that don't and
Speaker 2: they don't have a significant foam on them. So they're
Speaker 2: all different and you can make them at home and
Speaker 2: it be the same thing.
Speaker 3: You just have to shake it.
Speaker 2: I've learned as kind of the key ingredient to make
Speaker 2: it look like an espresso martini.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he got that and I got a.
Speaker 2: Hot apple cider because I wanted to participate, but I
Speaker 2: wasn't really wanting to drink.
Speaker 3: I still haven't been.
Speaker 2: And I got a message and was like, you're having
Speaker 2: coffee at a bar, grow up? And I was like,
Speaker 2: excuse me, First of all, this apple cider. I can
Speaker 2: have that at a bar, And sid of.
Speaker 3: All, who cares? Like, what are we really shaming drinks?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a grow up type of thing.
Speaker 1: I think that's just your preference. Yeah, I know more
Speaker 1: places should serve coffee for or even just have more
Speaker 1: options that don't feel like you're just ordering like a
Speaker 1: virgin drink, like non alcoholic options. There's a way to go,
Speaker 1: and why not branch out half coffee?
Speaker 3: I see, I don't see a problem with it. I
Speaker 3: was so like offended by that. I was like, grow up,
Speaker 3: where am I supposed to grow up to?
Speaker 1: Not like you're having like an apple juice or like
Speaker 1: like a kool Aid pack.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you the appleside vinegar or not
Speaker 2: vinegar applesider, just appleside hot apple size.
Speaker 1: Vinegar that'd be an hardcore drink. That'd be horrible. I can't.
Speaker 2: I can really take a sip of apple sider vinegar
Speaker 2: and I want to vomit.
Speaker 1: You should, just, inspite of that person, have a Caprisa
Speaker 1: now next time they.
Speaker 3: Do make alcoholic precise.
Speaker 1: It sounds delicious. The only thing I've had like that
Speaker 1: that I worried about my health was vodka Red Bulls
Speaker 1: the first time I went to Vegas. That was like
Speaker 1: the end of the night thing. But it tasted amazing,
Speaker 1: but I was not able to fall asleep that night.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, those are those I when I used to
Speaker 2: drink a lot in college. When I wanted to stay
Speaker 2: awake through the night, I was drinking a Red Bull
Speaker 2: vodka about midnight.
Speaker 1: I think, out of every flavor in the world, the
Speaker 1: flavor of Red Bull is my favorite flavor.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's something about all the chemicals or whatever it is
Speaker 1: they get to make a taste like that that is amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, and they have a new one. It's an apple
Speaker 2: apple vinegar type thing. Apple and huh cider. I can't
Speaker 2: remember ginger ginger.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a drink.
Speaker 2: It was apple and ginger and it was amazing. It
Speaker 2: tastes a very fall cold weather type. So if you
Speaker 2: like the taste, I don't know if you'd like the
Speaker 2: taste of a flavored one, but it was bomb.
Speaker 1: I think out of everything now, I've just convinced myself
Speaker 1: to go get a red Bull. You can leave here,
Speaker 1: no beer, nolco. I just want a red Bull.
Speaker 2: So no drinking this holiday. Just some a pack of
Speaker 2: Red Bull. You can be wired on everything for every night.
Speaker 2: And your wife is like, what is happening?
Speaker 3: Which does your wife drink a lot? How is that
Speaker 3: like situation for you too?
Speaker 1: She likes wine? Okay, so she'll she's like, I wish
Speaker 1: you drink wine so I could enjoy this with somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she loves wine. And then if we go out,
Speaker 1: she'll she likes a spicy margarita.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny about that is I have realized
Speaker 2: my boyfriend doesn't like to drink alone and I don't
Speaker 2: like to eat sweets alone. So like, yeah, I could
Speaker 2: see that there's a social aspect of both of those things.
Speaker 2: So your wife's saying that complete makes so much sense
Speaker 2: in my head because like if I go, say we
Speaker 2: go get a sweet treets, especially right now, if I
Speaker 2: find a vegan, gluten free sweet treet, I'm all about
Speaker 2: it because I want to try it and I want
Speaker 2: to curb my sweet tooth. And we'll walk into those
Speaker 2: places and he'll look at me and say, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm not feeling it, and he gets like a death
Speaker 2: stare for me. I'm like, you're really not gonna We
Speaker 2: went all this way and you're not gonna get one.
Speaker 2: And he's like, I just want a few bites of
Speaker 2: yours and I was like, no, I don't share, but
Speaker 2: I want you to participate. And we laugh about it
Speaker 2: because he does the same thing with drinking, like sometimes
Speaker 2: he won't drink because I'm not, and I'm like.
Speaker 3: You're fine, please have as much as you want.
Speaker 2: I'll drive. That's the best part of this. And he's like,
Speaker 2: but it's not as fun.
Speaker 3: To drink by myself. So we've realized our comparisons are that.
Speaker 1: I think she has drone to like it, because, like
Speaker 1: you said, I always just drive so she can have
Speaker 1: a drink, and I'm the one who's always going to
Speaker 1: be sobering. I can drive exactly.
Speaker 2: But I do see the aspect where we're like, I
Speaker 2: really wish I could cheer someone or like, you know,
Speaker 2: we're in it together.
Speaker 3: We have the little buzz.
Speaker 2: It's a partnership thing because I'm the same thing with sweets.
Speaker 2: I want to be like, okay, well how was it?
Speaker 2: And more than anything, I really just want to try
Speaker 2: two different things. But I only have to buy one thing.
Speaker 1: That's really what I'm working the system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you get something different, we get to share.
Speaker 3: I digress. That's that's hard to bay. That's been happening lately.
Speaker 2: New Year's resolutions is what we're gonna get into next.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a quick break and we're gonna see
Speaker 2: how last years went. Ones that we have coming up,
Speaker 2: all the good stuff. All right, So first of all,
Speaker 2: how did your New year resolution for twenty twenty five go?
Speaker 1: It went okay. But I think that's the thing leading
Speaker 1: me to my new resolution because last year was for
Speaker 1: me to invest more in myself. Yeah, which I thought
Speaker 1: I did an okay job at but I don't think
Speaker 1: I put enough time into it.
Speaker 3: Okay, and invest more into yourself, meaning.
Speaker 1: Meaning doing things that I normally wouldn't do because I
Speaker 1: think I don't have time to do them. Whether it's
Speaker 1: like okay, here's an opportunity where I can maybe host something,
Speaker 1: but I have to like take time out of doing
Speaker 1: something else and just find time for it, because that's
Speaker 1: really hard for me to do. Like even planning a
Speaker 1: month ahead, I'm like, what is we're going to look
Speaker 1: like in that timeframe? Can I commit to this? So
Speaker 1: it's doing things like that of like, okay, I want
Speaker 1: to invest in myself and knowing that that could lead
Speaker 1: me to something else I want to do in my future.
Speaker 1: I got to make time for that and invest in myself.
Speaker 1: It was also this past year with my teeth getting
Speaker 1: those fixed and going through that entire process figuring out
Speaker 1: what road I wanted to go down, how painful or
Speaker 1: not painful I wanted it to be. That was all
Speaker 1: investing in myself to just feel more confident. I think
Speaker 1: that was probably the biggest thing that paid off last
Speaker 1: year of I just felt better overall, and that allowed
Speaker 1: me to just feel like, Okay, like I can do
Speaker 1: these other things and invest in myself because now I
Speaker 1: kind of in a weird way, felt worthy of things now,
Speaker 1: just because that's a big part of I think even
Speaker 1: the way I carry myself now is like having no
Speaker 1: braces anymore.
Speaker 3: It was a confidence factor for sure.
Speaker 1: And I didn't realize it, like I thought the entire
Speaker 1: time I had them, that I got used to them,
Speaker 1: that I liked them, But it was so weird. Like
Speaker 1: a month or maybe two more after going back and
Speaker 1: seeing pictures of me, and I'm like, oh wow, I
Speaker 1: looked a lot, damn it. And I just feel so
Speaker 1: much better and more free. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and I'm sure being an adult and doing that
Speaker 2: as an adult also comes with its own challenges. So
Speaker 2: you weren't just like yourself trying to work through your
Speaker 2: confidence of what was happening. But also you're doing something
Speaker 2: later on in life, and that always comes with its
Speaker 2: own judgment and things, even though there shouldn't be. Somebody's
Speaker 2: just trying to do something cool for themselves, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's hard to invest in yourself because
Speaker 1: you feel selfish. M hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like if you get braces as a kid, it's
Speaker 2: almost like your parents are making you. Yeah, but as
Speaker 2: an adult, you're like, oh, I'm doing this for me.
Speaker 2: Nobody else is making me. I don't have to. I'm
Speaker 2: spending money on myself.
Speaker 3: But like that's where it matters.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's where the confidence comes from, is
Speaker 2: when you start to really invest in yourself.
Speaker 1: And I feel like there's this weird line that I
Speaker 1: walk of, like wanting to invest in myself but also
Speaker 1: not feeling like I don't like your kind of like
Speaker 1: a little bit like conceited or something, or just like
Speaker 1: I care about myself a little bit too much.
Speaker 2: Okay, everybody feels this way about like think Okay, here's
Speaker 2: another reference on social media. Okay, I have posted like
Speaker 2: a carousel and it was like my boyfriend takes pictures
Speaker 2: of me, and somebody wrote.
Speaker 3: Isn't that conceited to have pictures of you?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm sorry, Since when is like wanting
Speaker 2: memories of myself locked into a photo a bad thing?
Speaker 2: We look back on him, You're eighty years old, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna look back on photos and me actually be in
Speaker 2: the photos. Yeah, you know, I don't want to be
Speaker 2: the one taking all of the photos. It's cool to
Speaker 2: do that, but it's also cool to be a participant
Speaker 2: in that. Like we love to self assign this association
Speaker 2: of somebody being selfish by doing anything that's for themselves,
Speaker 2: and that's just not the case, like somebody being selfish
Speaker 2: is like, oh, I purposely shut the door on your
Speaker 2: face because I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Hold it open for you. That's selfish.
Speaker 2: Or I'm selfishly gonna take every last I don't know
Speaker 2: freaking Christmas tree that exists so nobody else can have them.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Those things are selfish.
Speaker 1: Now that you point out other examples, I can see why,
Speaker 1: Like what I'm doing doesn't feel as selfish.
Speaker 2: No, and it's not you taking care of yourself, And
Speaker 2: anybody wanting to do something that makes them happy isn't selfish.
Speaker 2: And I do not know where this whole trend came of,
Speaker 2: like making fun of people to be selfish for doing
Speaker 2: things that make them happy.
Speaker 1: The picture thing is interesting because I feel like as
Speaker 1: a society, we start saying we've been saying for a
Speaker 1: while now, like don't have your phone out, you're just
Speaker 1: live in the moment. And I feel like I started
Speaker 1: to do that for a little bit, like Okay, I
Speaker 1: just need to experience this. I need to enjoy that
Speaker 1: and have my mind record it. Something that changed my
Speaker 1: mind was the New Bad Bundy album that came out
Speaker 1: earlier this year, and that translated The title of it
Speaker 1: is I should like I should have taken more photos
Speaker 1: where it's somebody looking back in like their eighties or
Speaker 1: nineties and realizing they didn't have photos of people that
Speaker 1: they love throughout their life. And I think we're seeing
Speaker 1: that now, like, oh, you need to live in the moment.
Speaker 1: You need to not have your phone up at a
Speaker 1: concert or take pictures, like you're saying, these person calling
Speaker 1: you out for, you know, capturing these memories. We're not
Speaker 1: thinking about us when we're eighty or ninety years old
Speaker 1: thinking back, like what did I do when I was thirty?
Speaker 1: I only went to a car. I don't have any
Speaker 1: videos of it. You're gonna look back, man, I should
Speaker 1: have taken more pictures.
Speaker 2: Well, And I think there's a sweet balance there, right, like, yes,
Speaker 2: live in the moment, enjoy yourself, don't be you know,
Speaker 2: when you're out of dinner with friends, don't be on
Speaker 2: your phone, or when you're spending time with family. Try
Speaker 2: to make sure you're present and not you know, doom
Speaker 2: strolling or whatever. But to capture memories and be the
Speaker 2: one who's like, no, we need a photo of everything
Speaker 2: is actually a really good quality trick because.
Speaker 3: I promise you.
Speaker 2: You know how many times when we've been at the
Speaker 2: senior living community, I've watched them scrapbooking their photos from
Speaker 2: the past, and they get so excited to see these photos,
Speaker 2: whether it's of themselves or their family or these memories
Speaker 2: that they have. And it really gave me that perspective
Speaker 2: of I'm going to take a picture of whatever I
Speaker 2: want to take a picture of and because I want.
Speaker 3: To remember it always.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm going to have my memory
Speaker 2: in fifty years, so I hope that I can look
Speaker 2: at pictures and say, oh, that's a cool time, you know,
Speaker 2: even if just for a moment. And I think there
Speaker 2: is a good balance there that can exist. But I
Speaker 2: just in general, I just think it's so wrong that
Speaker 2: people seem to think that anything along the lines of
Speaker 2: making you happy, that you think is going to serve
Speaker 2: you at some point in your life.
Speaker 3: It's selfish. It's insane to me.
Speaker 2: It is crazy, right, Like, especially giving up the examples
Speaker 2: of like, yeah, these people are selfish, it's a selfish
Speaker 2: thing to do versus that reality, like we've really twisted
Speaker 2: the definition of that.
Speaker 3: So do the braces.
Speaker 2: Speaking of braces, and you were like talking about your
Speaker 2: like new vibe, new look, we got an update?
Speaker 1: Is that coming into this, I've hit a roadblock.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's not the new Year's resolution for twenty twos.
Speaker 1: I My new year's resolution is just like double down
Speaker 1: on that. Okay. I feel like I didn't do as
Speaker 1: good of a job with some of the things, like
Speaker 1: some of the projects I wanted to do where I
Speaker 1: just never made time for it, And I feel like
Speaker 1: that's investing in myself of just getting these things out
Speaker 1: that I've been wanting to do for a while. So
Speaker 1: I feel like that was the hardest part for me
Speaker 1: to find time to invest in because when I start
Speaker 1: looking at like all these hours I have in a week,
Speaker 1: it is so hard for me to assign like this
Speaker 1: is a time where I'm going to focus on this
Speaker 1: that's not necessarily a task I need to complete. There's
Speaker 1: no timeline on it, which I think is probably the
Speaker 1: most difficult thing for me. If I have something that
Speaker 1: has no deadline, no real structure to it, it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to make it a priority. Where this is
Speaker 1: just kind of a concept. There's nobody checking on this,
Speaker 1: it's all just me, So it's hard for me to
Speaker 1: think like, ah, that's something I can I can just
Speaker 1: do that next year. I can do that later, And
Speaker 1: it's something I've just never done yet because I just
Speaker 1: haven't invested the time to actually do it.
Speaker 2: You have to reframe the way that your brain sees
Speaker 2: that activity as something you need to do for you,
Speaker 2: not a need because it has a timeline, not a
Speaker 2: need because you have like this goal to hit at
Speaker 2: this point. It needs to be a need for yourself,
Speaker 2: Like you have to teach your brain like, no, this
Speaker 2: is necessary for my mental health, for my joy, for
Speaker 2: my sanity, you know, to keep you myself happy.
Speaker 3: It's in need, you know.
Speaker 2: I think it's easy to categorize those things as once,
Speaker 2: especially when you do have like you and I have
Speaker 2: only so many hours in a day to get so
Speaker 2: many things done, and we pushed away the other things.
Speaker 2: But those other things are the only things that are
Speaker 2: going to keep that to do list actually moving and
Speaker 2: you happy, you know what I mean, Like you deserve
Speaker 2: to be happy in the midst of all.
Speaker 3: Of that chaos.
Speaker 2: And so you almost have to like teach your brain
Speaker 2: to they know that's that's a on the to do
Speaker 2: list because it's necessary and not treat it as like, oh,
Speaker 2: I want to do that, and maybe when I have
Speaker 2: some time I will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's easy. I think it's just like for me,
Speaker 1: I need like a checklist, so I need to at
Speaker 1: least give myself checkpoints throughout the year. Okay, but I'm
Speaker 1: like looking at that's what I'm gonna try to do, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: by this time, I need to be doing this, and
Speaker 1: if I'm not, then I can reevaluate. I love that
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it's as daunting because I've learned
Speaker 1: without having anything, I just don't do it. So give
Speaker 1: me something that makes you feel a little less daunting
Speaker 1: that I can just take it on.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's going to help you and it'll
Speaker 2: allow you to prioritize it hopefully with those checkpoints, because
Speaker 2: you seem to operate well, which is.
Speaker 1: Check That's what I do every day. I have like
Speaker 1: a little run down, like a little small to do
Speaker 1: list I make every single day and mark things off,
Speaker 1: and then I have like a thing below it that's
Speaker 1: like at least in this week, and then the things
Speaker 1: I really want to do I just don't put there
Speaker 1: because I'm like I'll find time for that and you don't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't.
Speaker 2: So you've got to add it to the checklist I have. Typically,
Speaker 2: I have a like a list for like, like you said,
Speaker 2: kind of like the week, and then I have like
Speaker 2: a win like it's like house projects whenever we have time,
Speaker 2: like this is what we have to start working on.
Speaker 2: And then I have a year list where it's like
Speaker 2: this is we're hopefully getting done in the week, hopefully
Speaker 2: within the month, and.
Speaker 3: Hopefully within the year. That's kind of my and then
Speaker 3: I putting them on the list.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't know if you're like me, but if
Speaker 2: I see something all list it's not crossed off, it
Speaker 2: really bothers you. Yeah, So if you can do that too,
Speaker 2: that would help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I see something and I'm like, how do
Speaker 1: I get that off immediately?
Speaker 2: Yeah. At least it like kind of forces you to
Speaker 2: be like, this is an activity I need to do,
Speaker 2: and then it reframes your brain.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I like that it's rolling in from this year though,
Speaker 2: because philium makes it more attainable because you're just working
Speaker 2: off of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Because in the past, I've always tried to like
Speaker 1: set a resolution that I'm completely changing. Here's a whole
Speaker 1: brand new thing. I've never carried one over and thought,
Speaker 1: how can I improve this resolution that I've already started
Speaker 1: and made it better? So I was like, why not
Speaker 1: just double down and what I did before and just
Speaker 1: make that better instead of trying to think, like I
Speaker 1: need to do some new resolution this year again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2: And I'm also the same because twenty twenty five, I
Speaker 2: think it might have been twenty Heck, I don't even
Speaker 2: know if I made one this past year, but the
Speaker 2: last one I remember it is me walking my dog
Speaker 2: every day was my goal and that crashed out about
Speaker 2: I don't know three weeks in. I did not accomplish,
Speaker 2: and I want to That's still a goal that I have,
Speaker 2: but mine's actually like yours. Where I started it in
Speaker 2: July of this year was all of my health stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping to continue that, like really honing in on
Speaker 2: how my body's being stress, how I'm working my body
Speaker 2: in different ways, and how I can optimize myself and
Speaker 2: my health a lot better. And so I'm like feeding
Speaker 2: off of what I've already been doing to like really
Speaker 2: continue to buckle down into the new year, and it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel as daunting because I've already started it.
Speaker 3: It's not like I January first.
Speaker 1: Yeah I have to that's a great thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say even if you don't have one by the
Speaker 1: start of the year, at any point, just start because
Speaker 1: I remember a big thing for me when I first
Speaker 1: lost weight. I was gonna wait until the New year,
Speaker 1: but I remember it like, I can't wait because then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm either not going to commit to it
Speaker 1: or it's going to feel like a fad. So I
Speaker 1: remember starting in October and I was like, if I
Speaker 1: could get over the holidays sticking to this diet, it'll
Speaker 1: be so much easier. Whenever January first comes around that
Speaker 1: I'm already going to feel like I have a head
Speaker 1: start and have already kind of proven myself a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I remember that being a pretty big deal, in
Speaker 1: like that being successful, because before I tried it, it
Speaker 1: was always like a New Year's resolution. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna start in October.
Speaker 2: Well, it's true because in New Year's resolutions are notorious
Speaker 2: for a lot of health goals. Right because you're starting fresh,
Speaker 2: it's a new year.
Speaker 3: New year, it's kind of you already did all the
Speaker 3: treats the alcohol you're.
Speaker 1: Ready to do. That's why.
Speaker 2: Also, what is it sober January or dry January is
Speaker 2: so popular, And I'm just like, I'm just going to
Speaker 2: continue what I've been doing and focus on that trajectory
Speaker 2: instead of like stop start stop start, because I don't
Speaker 2: do well at those if I just stay what I've
Speaker 2: been doing at work. So I'm hoping I continue, Like
Speaker 2: maybe this time next year, I'm hoping that I've really
Speaker 2: narrowed down and figured out my diet and hopefully don't
Speaker 2: feel like the need to even eat a lot of
Speaker 2: the holiday foods. It would be my ideal goal in
Speaker 2: that world, because right now I still have a lot
Speaker 2: of the cravings and I want to try things, and
Speaker 2: I still want to have it. I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: missing out if I don't, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: But while still doing my routine and my normal diet
Speaker 2: in my everyday life. But then I see a holiday
Speaker 2: treat or a hot chocolate and I get really excited.
Speaker 1: That's crazy to me that I don't have cravings anymore.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this because we've been doing like
Speaker 1: a gift basket snack basket for our delivery drivers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we have like a just big thing of candy
Speaker 1: in the house. And I thought me ten fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: that couldn't have existed in the house like I would
Speaker 1: have seen it, and I would have just annihilated that thing,
Speaker 1: like I couldn't have candy and not finish at all.
Speaker 1: And now I saw it, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: realized that I don't even think about that, Like I
Speaker 1: don't even I see that as something that I don't
Speaker 1: even want to partake in. And I just don't have
Speaker 1: cravings anymore. I'm so jealous. It's weird. And that's what
Speaker 1: took me to realize that that, dang, I don't even
Speaker 1: like create, Like I can't even go to the store
Speaker 1: and think like I want to throw something in or
Speaker 1: I'm driving home like man's stuff by Taco Bell that
Speaker 1: there used.
Speaker 2: To be though, I mean, it shows how far you've come, right,
Speaker 2: like mine's mostly there, Like I shockingly, I haven't had
Speaker 2: Taco Bell in three months?
Speaker 3: Who am I talking about? Like that was my go
Speaker 3: to And now.
Speaker 2: Even with the sweet treats I'll try, I won't over
Speaker 2: indulge in them. Now now it's like I just want,
Speaker 2: you know, I want a little bit or like Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: I had. I think I ate three meals total over
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving stuff, Like normally I would eat it every single
Speaker 2: day until like the food's gone, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And I still am I'm bad about that. I don't
Speaker 2: like wasting food. I'm not a like I'll try and
Speaker 2: eat everything before it goes bad, because I just don't
Speaker 2: like wasting stuff. And my boyfriends had to be like Morgan,
Speaker 2: that's been in there for like a week, I think
Speaker 2: we need to throw that away and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, no it so you're like trying to eat it all.
Speaker 2: And so that was kind of how I feel about
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving left ards. So I'm also trying to rewrite that
Speaker 2: where I'm like, it's okay, you can get rid of it.
Speaker 2: But I've gotten a lot better where now I just
Speaker 2: taste things and I try them instead of having fifteen
Speaker 2: sugar cookies that I didn't need.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping to be where you are next year
Speaker 3: because that would be cool. That's probably a cool place
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: Where you just like you have complete control over what
Speaker 2: you want to have, and when you do want something,
Speaker 2: you'll have it.
Speaker 3: But it's not a craving. It's like a Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm good. I want to have that.
Speaker 1: I feel like those dogs whenever you put like a
Speaker 1: treat in front of them and they're like so well
Speaker 1: trained they don't even look at it. That's that's me.
Speaker 3: That's impressive because we all know the dogs on that.
Speaker 1: Tree and if you say a treat and they eat it,
Speaker 1: that's that's me.
Speaker 3: And I'm the dog becau sees the trees like that
Speaker 3: and goes crazy. It's like, give me more. That's my dog.
Speaker 3: So that tracks.
Speaker 2: Okay, take one more quick break, and we're gonna come
Speaker 2: back and talk about our our personal wraps for the years.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna talk about some top foods. Okay, how
Speaker 2: many minutes you maybe watch TV? Which we're not going
Speaker 2: to have exact numbers, saying this is kind of a guess,
Speaker 2: so we'll be right back. There's companies all over the
Speaker 2: place that are talking about they're like, you know, find
Speaker 2: out how they're twenty twenty five looked. So I want
Speaker 2: to talk about our twenty twenty five years. What did
Speaker 2: your twenty twenty five look in the aspect of top foods?
Speaker 2: Give me your top three foods that you think you
Speaker 2: consume this year.
Speaker 1: Should I go three two one or start at one,
Speaker 1: whichever you want. I know my number one food that
Speaker 1: I eat way too much that other people probably don't
Speaker 1: eat as much as I do. As dates. I think
Speaker 1: that's my number one snack I love. I buy a
Speaker 1: big thing dates every single week, and you just eat them,
Speaker 1: plain plain on the weekend. Sometimes I'll put a little
Speaker 1: peanut butter or I think my wife has some oat butter.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, some kind of nut butter, and it tastes delicious.
Speaker 1: It tastes like to me, it tastes like a doughnut.
Speaker 3: Okay, those are good.
Speaker 2: Have you added flaky sy salt to the almond butter
Speaker 2: or whatever butter you're adding.
Speaker 1: No, I don't really like salt.
Speaker 3: Gosh, you're so good at this sweet.
Speaker 1: And SALTYA has never been even when I yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't understand the appeal of that.
Speaker 3: You hurt my heart. Okay, that a good one. Dates
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 1: Number two is probably some kind of fig bar is
Speaker 1: what I eat a lot of when I just need
Speaker 1: something quick.
Speaker 3: Those are your breakfasts typically, Okay.
Speaker 1: I ate that literally before coming in here.
Speaker 2: You're really going to figure out everybody's breakfasts because they're
Speaker 2: all pretty normal, like we do in some.
Speaker 1: Kind of protein bar or some kind of fig bar.
Speaker 1: But I enjoy the fig bar better.
Speaker 3: Isn't like Nature's Bakery or something that one.
Speaker 1: And then I just tried a new one. I don't
Speaker 1: even know the name of it, but they're they're really
Speaker 1: good too, and they're like a little bit more bite size.
Speaker 2: I'm very observate. I see a lot of things. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, fig And then.
Speaker 1: Number three three overall is just caffeine coffee?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, could you always bring in your like water
Speaker 2: bottle full of coffee? Right?
Speaker 1: Well, that is water? Okay, if I drink that much coffee,
Speaker 1: that'd be crazy. I drink my coffee before I even
Speaker 1: walk in the studio, but I'll have my sixteen ounce
Speaker 1: before the show, and then I have my afternoon coffee
Speaker 1: later in the day.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that might as well be a water bottle.
Speaker 1: Mic we might as well. But the other one is
Speaker 1: like twenty four ounces. But I mean, I tell you,
Speaker 1: do you drink about close to twenty four ounces?
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you said sixteen is the first one,
Speaker 2: and then you said another wondering how much is the
Speaker 2: one in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: Like a mug.
Speaker 1: No, it's like a ten ounce cans twenty four mic
Speaker 1: unless I go to Starbucks and then I get the
Speaker 1: thirty ounce.
Speaker 2: Then even more than that, you've made water bottle seem
Speaker 2: like it was crazy. But that's how much you're consuming today,
Speaker 2: all right, those are good ones.
Speaker 3: I think mine. Number one has been chickpeas.
Speaker 2: I have been devouring chickpeace in brownies, in soups, and
Speaker 2: just full blown dishes.
Speaker 3: I found every way to change a chickpea.
Speaker 1: I like a crunchy chickpee.
Speaker 3: Oh see, those are good.
Speaker 2: A crunchy chicken and a salad that's bomb. Chick beas
Speaker 2: have been my guy this year. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: but I've been. I found him in every recipe. And
Speaker 2: number two, let's see, I feel like a big one
Speaker 2: for this lately, has been soup. I've really, even even
Speaker 2: in summer, I was eating soup.
Speaker 1: I don't ask me why you around food.
Speaker 3: I just don't a winter girly, you know, I'm just
Speaker 3: really not a summer girly. I like the winter.
Speaker 2: I like being cozy and comfort, and soup is comfort
Speaker 2: to me. And I've found so many soup dishes that
Speaker 2: I really like, especially in the last several months, so soup.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can eat soup anymore. It just
Speaker 1: takes me back to when all we could afford was soup.
Speaker 1: So to me, soup feels like like loneliness and like sorrow. Okay,
Speaker 1: but man, I really want bird King right now? Movie
Speaker 1: got soup?
Speaker 3: So is it like sad soup?
Speaker 1: Is soup?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Sad soup? These are like suits that you make and
Speaker 3: you add a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: Of things in maybe alphabet suit. I guess I just
Speaker 1: don't have a real relationship with soup that's like good soup.
Speaker 1: That's why I was like people order soup at restaurants, like,
Speaker 1: why would you get depressing soup? I didn't realize it's
Speaker 1: something that could be good.
Speaker 2: It is, Okay, I need to send you my vegan
Speaker 2: potato soup and you would love it.
Speaker 1: Maybe like my mom would make an elevated version of
Speaker 1: soup with like actual meat and other things in it.
Speaker 1: But I didn't really see that as soup. I think
Speaker 1: some people would. But just like straight up soup, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is sad to me.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess because you're having sad soup.
Speaker 1: So I get it.
Speaker 2: We need to do some good, hearty soups, and I
Speaker 2: need you to make the vegan potato soup because I
Speaker 2: think you would really like it.
Speaker 3: And I would be honored if that changed your It's
Speaker 3: not my restaurant.
Speaker 2: I just found it, but I'd be honored if that
Speaker 2: helped change your narrative on soup. E we won and
Speaker 2: then gosh my number three hmmm, well, I mean it's
Speaker 2: probably a drink for me too. In the last six months,
Speaker 2: I've consumed this more than anything else, really, because I've
Speaker 2: really tried to hold back on drinking alcohol.
Speaker 1: As ollipops, ah, I couldn't really get into.
Speaker 2: Those, so I can't get into most of them, but
Speaker 2: that great flavor.
Speaker 3: Has me in choke hold.
Speaker 1: Maybe I just had a bad flavor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there is some bad ones, because I've
Speaker 3: had other ones.
Speaker 2: When the grape was ran out and I got really sad,
Speaker 2: I was like, this tastes like crap, but the lollipop
Speaker 2: grape flavor, granted, I love great flavored things. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's a weird thing. Do you like greape
Speaker 2: flavored stuff?
Speaker 1: Again? Kind of reminds me of being broke.
Speaker 3: So what you're telling me, is my diet about of
Speaker 3: a child. I'm saying this right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, ollipop grape is the top tier flavor in
Speaker 2: my opinion, and I haven't draining it a lot of it.
Speaker 1: As far as flavors from my childhood, I think I
Speaker 1: associate great with being Oh yeah, it was grape.
Speaker 3: Left, like for like a grape popstick.
Speaker 1: Like I think of like when I'd go to party,
Speaker 1: like kid parties when I was a kid, and they
Speaker 1: had all just like the random generic flavored soda. Oh
Speaker 1: and all like the colas are gone, the sprites were gone.
Speaker 1: It was always like grape soda that was left because
Speaker 1: nobody was too excited. I'd be drinking like a welches
Speaker 1: and like it's left.
Speaker 3: That's funny. Okay, I'm sorry, my two shirt stuff for you.
Speaker 3: How many minutes.
Speaker 2: Do you think you watch TV or movies? And we're
Speaker 2: going generic, We don't really have a good number.
Speaker 1: I know about how many movies I watched this year, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think it was about one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 3: Holy crap.
Speaker 1: Because I keep a long running list of everything that
Speaker 1: I watch and review, and that's just new movies. I
Speaker 1: don't really well, I think the one to fifteen is
Speaker 1: maybe total, because sometimes I don't factor in the reviews
Speaker 1: of like things I rewatch or maybe something old that
Speaker 1: I watch for the first time. Okay, but I think
Speaker 1: I've seen one hundred and fifteen new movies.
Speaker 2: This year, Okay, and I'm gonna times that by two
Speaker 2: because that's relatively each one is nearly two hours. We're
Speaker 2: just gonna yeah, i'meralize it's about two hundred and thirty.
Speaker 2: That doesn't seem right. That doesn't seem right. Wait minutes, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that doesn't feel like enough. First, because each one is
Speaker 2: sixty minutes. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: I don't like math.
Speaker 2: You guys are seeing in real time. B was the
Speaker 2: only I only got a B in math. I'm the
Speaker 2: only subject because I sucked at it.
Speaker 1: These thirteen minutes, thank you. It's a lot of minutes,
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: And that's just in movies.
Speaker 1: Just in movies. Yeah, TV shows. I don't even know
Speaker 1: how many shows I've watched this year, right, probably a
Speaker 1: series or two a month.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm the same way. I don't think
Speaker 2: I've watched as many movies as you because you'll sometimes
Speaker 2: like triple them up on a Saturday I would say
Speaker 2: I'm probably somewhere about like seventy movies.
Speaker 1: It's a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I watch a lot of TV.
Speaker 2: And it's also like it's including all the things in
Speaker 2: background that i'm watching too, right like because when I'm
Speaker 2: at homeworking, everything's on the TV, so I also including
Speaker 2: the ones that I specifically make sure to watch.
Speaker 3: So I would say I'm about like three fourths of yours.
Speaker 1: That's still a lot.
Speaker 3: It's still a lot, but yours is a lot. Although
Speaker 3: that's crazy.
Speaker 1: At minimum three new movies a week, that's just minimum.
Speaker 1: That's a normal week.
Speaker 2: Also fair though, because you do have a movie podcast,
Speaker 2: so I can't give you a two heart of a
Speaker 2: time about that, but that's wild. It's a lot of minutes.
Speaker 2: Do you like see that number? You're like, I could
Speaker 2: have done a lot with those of a lot. How
Speaker 2: many scams did you fall for in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 1: I think this year I am scam free.
Speaker 3: Not a single one.
Speaker 1: I don't think, not a single one.
Speaker 2: I think I almost fell for two, Mike, I didn't,
Speaker 2: but they almost had me on two. One was like
Speaker 2: the hacker on PayPal, and I feel like, oh.
Speaker 1: I remember that you saw it?
Speaker 2: In real time, right, yeah, and I stopped him. It
Speaker 2: was like a whole dramatic scene. I was so proud
Speaker 2: of myself, but I think they're way. It happened because
Speaker 2: I was playing a game on my phone called travel
Speaker 2: Town that I really like to play, and there's a
Speaker 2: Facebook page where you can go and you can get
Speaker 2: more energy, and it's a legit Facebook pa it's.
Speaker 3: The company that has this game.
Speaker 2: Well, people can post on that page, and I think
Speaker 2: somebody realized that if you like to get their extra energy,
Speaker 2: you click their link, which is that company's link. I
Speaker 2: was always very good about that, but they started getting
Speaker 2: like floated into my feed and it was a scammer,
Speaker 2: I think. And it was a scam.
Speaker 3: Link because I was trying to get more.
Speaker 2: Energy energy so bad, and I was like, there's no
Speaker 2: because it was right around that PayPal hack, so I'm
Speaker 2: like it had to have been that link. What was
Speaker 2: crazy though, is I was like as soon as I
Speaker 2: clicked into I was like, no, no, no, I don't know
Speaker 2: what that is. And I like tried to go backward,
Speaker 2: but I think I was too late just even clicking it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how long, So I think at least one and then
Speaker 2: There was another one where I got a text message
Speaker 2: and I panicked. It was just recently actually, and it
Speaker 2: was like, you have one hundred and eighty eight dollars
Speaker 2: left on a bill, a medical bill outstanding, and like
Speaker 2: we don't want to send it to collections or whatever.
Speaker 2: And I panicked, thankfully though, and it panicked to them.
Speaker 2: I called the medical office, where I was like, oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: you don't have a bill.
Speaker 3: And I was like cool.
Speaker 1: The one that almost gets me no matter how often
Speaker 1: I see it is there's a Facebook one whenever they're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I can't believe they died, and they're like,
Speaker 1: wait who died? And you want to click the link
Speaker 1: like it's a news story. That one always gets me,
Speaker 1: Like I don't click it, but for a second, I'm
Speaker 1: like should I click it? Oh it's a scam?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is so funny you say that. My mom
Speaker 3: felt for that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it'll get you, Like even if you're like
Speaker 1: vigilant about that, there's something about that curiosity because the
Speaker 1: post is so unassuming yep, and it just kind of
Speaker 1: teases you with that clickbait like oh yeah, so sad
Speaker 1: and who died?
Speaker 2: This is how it happened for my mom was like
Speaker 2: somebody she's known for decades posted it, so their account
Speaker 2: got hacked and post it was like you'll never get
Speaker 2: who died or whatever. And I see my mom calming
Speaker 2: on it and was like, well, who is it?
Speaker 3: And I like talked to her the next day She's like, yeah, cleared.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, you didn't, and she got hacked
Speaker 2: on her razor bade change.
Speaker 1: So that did remind me that my TikTok did get
Speaker 1: hacked this year.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah, but you got it back.
Speaker 1: I got it back, but I don't know what. I
Speaker 1: don't know how it happened. Like I know, ended up
Speaker 1: figuring out what country it was from and what they
Speaker 1: wanted to do, which they got in changed, my username changed,
Speaker 1: my profile changed, like the email just completely took it
Speaker 1: over so much so they would not even have any
Speaker 1: remnants of like me ever owning that account because they
Speaker 1: what they do is they do that so they can
Speaker 1: turn around and turn it into a TikTok shop yep.
Speaker 1: And they were applying for it, trying to get it
Speaker 1: approved and luckily it never got approved and I was
Speaker 1: able to get it back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was and that was happening in the early
Speaker 2: morning hours too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we were messaging.
Speaker 2: About I was like, okay, I got it. I will
Speaker 2: wake up a little bit so we can see if
Speaker 2: we can help Mike. But I'm glad you ended up
Speaker 2: getting it back. That was crazy. Lunchbox never got his
Speaker 2: Twitter account back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was gone.
Speaker 3: We tried.
Speaker 2: But also Twitter's dumpster fire, so I didn't anticipate getting
Speaker 2: it back. There's not like a support to reach out to.
Speaker 2: I don't really have anybody there. I'm just like sorry,
Speaker 2: it literally is this a crazy social media platform right now?
Speaker 3: Your top online purchases.
Speaker 1: I don't really buy a whole lot of stuff online.
Speaker 2: What no, do you guys having stores? Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: we'll do just top purchases.
Speaker 1: Okay, cause I'm not really Here's the thing, I don't
Speaker 1: really spend money. Well that's a good quality that I
Speaker 1: don't really find enjoyment out of buying things.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I think about whenever I moved to Nashville and got
Speaker 1: rid of all my things coming here. That was kind
Speaker 1: of a me having a I don't really need possessions
Speaker 1: type thing. Like there was something sobering about filling up
Speaker 1: my car with everything that I own and thinking like
Speaker 1: this really doesn't add up too much, and like I
Speaker 1: could just it was so easy for me to dump
Speaker 1: whatever little things I had into a dumpster because I
Speaker 1: was like this, this is worthless to me. That I
Speaker 1: kind of not a hoarder. Yeah, that I kind of
Speaker 1: had like this minimalist approach to life after that of
Speaker 1: like I don't really need things. I like that though.
Speaker 2: I think that's a really cool thing, especially in a
Speaker 2: consumer based economy right now, So I think that's something
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: It also just takes a lot for me to pull
Speaker 1: the trigger on a purchase where I'm like do I
Speaker 1: really need this? How am I going to see this
Speaker 1: in a month? Am I still going to want it?
Speaker 1: But I would say my number one thing that I
Speaker 1: do spend money on is probably comic books. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this this year, I found a lot of joy
Speaker 1: in going like every week to New Comic Book Day
Speaker 1: and getting comics. And I'd probably spend maybe on a
Speaker 1: good week if a lot of good stuff came out,
Speaker 1: it could be like thirty bucks a week.
Speaker 2: I thought you're about to say, like three hundred, No,
Speaker 2: thirty thirty is nothing, MiG, I mean that's a good
Speaker 2: number for even the thing that you find the most.
Speaker 1: Joy and like on a light week when maybe only
Speaker 1: a couple comics come out like ten bucks a week.
Speaker 1: And I've kind of slowed down even on that just
Speaker 1: because I got to a point where it fe like
Speaker 1: I was having to keep up with it, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'll take a little bit of break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, comic books is a good one, and it's
Speaker 2: also turned into something you use too as your background
Speaker 2: with your podcast, so it technically might be a business expense.
Speaker 1: But I read them and then put them up.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: Okay. Two others I.
Speaker 1: Guess clothes, but I've seen that more as an investment,
Speaker 1: like we were talking about earlier.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: But again with that, I have to like overthink every purchase,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, am I like this? I My wife
Speaker 1: hates going to shop with me because I'll go with
Speaker 1: the intent of getting something and not I'm like, if
Speaker 1: I don't fully love it, I'm not going to buy it,
Speaker 1: because then I know that I'm not gonna wear it.
Speaker 3: Okay, but that's a great mentality to have.
Speaker 2: My boyfriend's kind of been revamping his style and stuff too,
Speaker 2: And I always I'm like, if you do not love it,
Speaker 2: do not buy this. I don't care if I love it,
Speaker 2: you are the one that's going to choose it and
Speaker 2: get it out of the closet and wear it.
Speaker 3: So do you love it? Great?
Speaker 1: Get it? Because for a while I was taking her
Speaker 1: suggestions on like what she thought I would look good in,
Speaker 1: and I was open to that. I tried that, but
Speaker 1: then I realized, if I don't feel comfortable in it,
Speaker 1: like I'm just not gonna wear it. Yep. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just not. I know instantly when I put something on,
Speaker 1: like if it feels like, oh, this is a perfect fit,
Speaker 1: I can't convince myself otherwise if I don't get that feeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think guys naturally have a little bit
Speaker 2: easier with their clothes.
Speaker 3: Don't change quite as much in style wise.
Speaker 1: I've learned, Oh, I though you meant fitting wise. Oh
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing I've had to learn.
Speaker 2: Not too But also, just like our style, women's style
Speaker 2: seems to change every three months, right, there's something new,
Speaker 2: there's a new trend where guys, I feel like it's
Speaker 2: maybe once a year, maybe maybe every other year. So
Speaker 2: at least you know the things that you like. You
Speaker 2: don't constantly have things being added in to be like
Speaker 2: do I like this?
Speaker 1: Do I like that?
Speaker 2: And your guys's trends aren't dramatic shifts like we went
Speaker 2: from skinny jeans to wide leg jeans to barrel jeans
Speaker 2: and span about three years.
Speaker 3: But guys, they're still over there with like a little
Speaker 3: bit bigger than skinny.
Speaker 1: Jeans, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it might make that process a little bit easier.
Speaker 2: I would think I could be wrong, though, I don't know,
Speaker 2: But at least it's like something that you guys can
Speaker 2: can do together and you know for sure, like yes
Speaker 2: this or no not that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's a good quality to have. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: people I go in there a lot. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't know. My mom had to teach me that. She's like,
Speaker 3: do you love it? You don't love it? You're not
Speaker 3: gonna pick it out of the closet and wear it.
Speaker 1: And she was right right, Who was that mando?
Speaker 3: I was getting there?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I think that's it. I think we're
Speaker 2: wrapping for today. Oh okay, well not something funny? What
Speaker 2: is the thing that you are not looking forward to
Speaker 2: about the holidays, because we talked about all exciting things
Speaker 2: like and.
Speaker 3: We will have already experienced this at this point.
Speaker 2: But mine, and I'll give you minds, is that I'm
Speaker 2: dreading the eleven hour road trip to Kansas and back
Speaker 2: from Kansas. I love being there, it's great, but that
Speaker 2: twenty two hour drive in the midst of everything is brutal.
Speaker 1: That is a that's a road trip, Like that is
Speaker 1: I think anything over six hours I consider a road trip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is like a hole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because right at the six hour point, you're like, dang,
Speaker 2: we still got fire.
Speaker 1: If it ever gets to a point where it's like
Speaker 1: this has been a while and you're only halfway through,
Speaker 1: that is a road trip.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm exactly.
Speaker 2: So what is your thing that you're not looking forward
Speaker 2: to about the holidays that are currently happening.
Speaker 1: Luckily, my trip is pretty easy. It's like a two
Speaker 1: hour flying so I don't have to worry a whole
Speaker 1: lot about that. My thing is I wake up so
Speaker 1: early naturally. I hate that period of time when I'm
Speaker 1: the only one awake because I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I'm at somebody else's house, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: feel fully comfortable here, Like do I get out of bed?
Speaker 1: My staying but I go turn on the TV? Do
Speaker 1: I go make a cup of coffee? Do I get
Speaker 1: out of the house? Like what do I do? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you getting to a point now that where you're
Speaker 2: a little bit more comfortable or still?
Speaker 1: No? No, I don't think.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: How long have you and your wife been together?
Speaker 1: Now? Since twenty eighteen? So seven years going on? Right?
Speaker 2: Because I'm assuming at your house? Do you feel more
Speaker 2: comfortable when you were like staying with your parents?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I've ever been like sometimes it feels I'm
Speaker 1: still not like.
Speaker 3: You went in your parents' house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we're this year, we're going to my sister's house, okay,
Speaker 1: and I still feel like, do I turn on the TV?
Speaker 1: Like what what can I do here? Because it's different
Speaker 1: like at my parents because like I live there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't live at my sister's house, so it still
Speaker 1: feels like I'm at her house and it's still we're
Speaker 1: like getting up and making noise when everybody else is
Speaker 1: still asleep. I just find like that time, like do
Speaker 1: I I end up just laying in bed and watching
Speaker 1: TikTok for a while until everybody else wakes up.
Speaker 2: It doesn't wait for everybody. How many hours does it
Speaker 2: take to at least another person to wake up?
Speaker 1: I mean, luckily my mom wakes up. Semi earl is too,
Speaker 1: so maybe it's like another hour until she wakes up.
Speaker 1: So then I just have somebody to like to talk
Speaker 1: to or like game plan with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't turn off that internal body clock. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's just gonna be what it is.
Speaker 1: But at my wife's like, it could be three to
Speaker 1: four hours before anybody else wakes up.
Speaker 3: Oh that's brutal. You watch a lot of TikTok, you
Speaker 3: know a lot about what's happening in the world.
Speaker 1: By the time everybody wakes up, I turn into an
Speaker 1: iPad kid and just watch stuff on my iPad.
Speaker 2: You gotta get yourself like a game that you can
Speaker 2: start playing in bed, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I'll take my switch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you start doing, so that at least
Speaker 2: you have two different technology items to go back and
Speaker 2: forth between. Well, Mike, thanks for being on. Tell the
Speaker 2: people where they can hear you and find you.
Speaker 1: You can listen to my podcast movie Mike's Movie Podcast
Speaker 1: new episodes every single Monday, and I'm at Mike Distro
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Speaker 2: be some holiday content up here and there, so check
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Speaker 3: And we're getting out of here for part one. We
Speaker 3: gotta go to part three. All right, bye, everybody.
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