Speaker 1: So you have to just launch yourself. You just have
Speaker 1: to physically launch yourself out of the bed.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it was, and I literally think of that.
Speaker 2: I did it this morning.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like fighting, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm so tired, I don't feel like getting up, and
Speaker 1: I was like, launch, bitch, launch launch.
Speaker 2: And I just launched myself out of the bed.
Speaker 1: That is so funny.
Speaker 2: We're doing it now, but it works more and.
Speaker 3: More and more better, better, a little bit more better more.
Speaker 2: Welcome to More Beta, a podcast where we stop pretending
Speaker 2: to have it all together and embrace the journey of
Speaker 2: becoming a little more.
Speaker 1: Better every day, or at least trying. So that's Melissa
Speaker 1: for Marrow, and that's Stevanie Beatrice. We're doing our best Marissa,
Speaker 1: Tomay and my cousin Vinny right now, how do you
Speaker 1: guys like, we're not going to do the whole podcast
Speaker 1: like that, and we just we're not going to.
Speaker 2: Do that to you. Yeah, we're just just how are you.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm okay. How are you doing? Yeah? I mean same.
Speaker 2: I sprayed a bunch of hairspray in my hair this
Speaker 2: morning thinking it was dry shampoo.
Speaker 1: That's that's a fun moment.
Speaker 2: That was a that was a fun time, and it
Speaker 2: really I think I'm had.
Speaker 1: You know, do you ever have like like foggy days
Speaker 1: where you just feel like kind of slow. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's sleep or I got to I don't know, girl,
Speaker 1: You're just like I feel like I'm like fucking an airhead.
Speaker 1: Like I sprayed that hairspray on and I was like,
Speaker 1: why the fuck is it so wet?
Speaker 2: Like it took me so long to realize. And then
Speaker 2: I sprayed more and I was like, why.
Speaker 1: Is it wet?
Speaker 2: Wait? Why is my wet? And I was like brushing
Speaker 2: it and I was like, why is it sticky?
Speaker 1: And then when I saw that three years of my
Speaker 1: life probably four, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then when I saw the bottle, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, you fucking idiot, Like why didn't you
Speaker 2: realize right away that it was Because you didn't it's fine.
Speaker 1: I thought there was.
Speaker 2: Something wrong with the dry shampoo. There was something wrong
Speaker 2: with me. Dry shampoo is not very good for your hair,
Speaker 2: you know that, right? Why tell me more?
Speaker 1: Because it can clog the pores in your I mean
Speaker 1: it's fine for like once in a while, but like
Speaker 1: it can clog the pores on your scalp and kind
Speaker 1: of like over time they can create like an unhealthy
Speaker 1: scalp that's like not breathing properly, and it can make
Speaker 1: you like not have as much hair growth and just
Speaker 1: not as healthy of a head of hair. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Use it that much. I just was lazy about washing
Speaker 2: my hair this week.
Speaker 1: And so I sometimes it's it is a necessary evil. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's okay. I use it when it's necessary. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be using it, like I didn't wash
Speaker 1: my hair, yeah, no, do every other Yeah no. But
Speaker 1: I feel like when dry shampoo first made the scene,
Speaker 1: people were like, oh, I use it every day, like
Speaker 1: I don't really need to shampoo my hair anymore. And
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, I don't.
Speaker 2: Think that's what I don't Oh no, no, I don't
Speaker 2: think so I have noticed.
Speaker 1: I don't love Yeah, like I can't do dry shampoo
Speaker 1: two days in a row because actually, now that I
Speaker 1: think of it, what you were just saying, I don't
Speaker 1: like it does make your scalp feel a little nasty,
Speaker 1: doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just do it like to
Speaker 1: extend one extra day or something and then like like
Speaker 1: I'm going to wash my hair tonight because it's gross
Speaker 1: because now it's got all this here spray in it. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously it's rumtinen to. Now I do it sometimes a
Speaker 1: piltts like they've got like the nice ones. So I'll
Speaker 1: do it like a little bit because I'm allowetty, what
Speaker 1: have you been doing? It's more better. I'll go first first,
Speaker 1: I'll go first.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you go, you go, you go.
Speaker 1: I'm cleaning my office. I'm like rearranging my office or
Speaker 1: not rearranging, but like you know, it's just like organ
Speaker 1: piles up, piles up, piles up, you know. Yep, there
Speaker 1: were so many. There was like a stack I'm not
Speaker 1: even kidding of journals like this big, and like I
Speaker 1: don't really journal, so what ends like journaling? We know,
Speaker 1: jo I love a little notebook. I drop pictures, I
Speaker 1: write myself little notes, and they fill up, like they'll
Speaker 1: fill up. So I had a huge stack of little
Speaker 1: journals that were just like filled with crap like notes
Speaker 1: I'd taken on calls or meetings or like drawings that
Speaker 1: I've done of like our kitchen like renovation from three
Speaker 1: years ago or whatever. So I threw those out. I
Speaker 1: went through a bunch of paper stuff. I like gathered
Speaker 1: a bunch of Roses drawings to put in her box.
Speaker 1: Like now I'm just like now it's just the detritus
Speaker 1: of the the end of it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But like I'm doing. I moved my printer over because
Speaker 1: it was on my desk and I hated how it looked,
Speaker 1: and I moved it and doing it nice. I reorganized
Speaker 1: my shelves, my like cabinets, and I got a corkboard. Finally,
Speaker 1: I really am doing it, yes, And I didn't put
Speaker 1: pressure on myself to get it all done in one
Speaker 1: day because I saw a Tikie talkie where she was like,
Speaker 1: you say the Thinkyki said that your perfectionism is part
Speaker 1: of the reason that you're paralyzed, and like your desire
Speaker 1: that's rue, your desire to have it be like well,
Speaker 1: like if I do this and I need like bins,
Speaker 1: and like what kind of bins do I need? And
Speaker 1: then like I can't I'm gonna and then you can't
Speaker 1: start right, So like in this in this tiky talkie,
Speaker 1: she was like, just start. It doesn't have to be perfect.
Speaker 1: You just just start, and you might not get it
Speaker 1: all done and that's okay, just like just start. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I could just start. I could
Speaker 1: just start doing stuff. And so I'm I'm doing it
Speaker 1: and it's going really great. Yay. I've been doing a
Speaker 1: bunch of little organizing too, like little by little, like
Speaker 1: just yeah, just start, that's good stuff in the house
Speaker 1: and just h no, I like stuff, but yeah I
Speaker 1: don't like trash.
Speaker 2: Well just yeah, yeah, But like you said, things pile up.
Speaker 1: Like I have these two folders in the kitchen that
Speaker 1: I use for during the school year to just throw
Speaker 1: stuff of the boys that I might want to keep
Speaker 1: or save at the end of the year, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like yeah, an extra special little cute
Speaker 1: drawing or like end so this really cute like all
Speaker 1: about me. And I was like, oh, I kind of
Speaker 1: want to He does them every year, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I kind of want.
Speaker 2: To save these.
Speaker 1: It might be fun, like to read it as high
Speaker 1: school graduation or something that's And so I just keep
Speaker 1: these folders where I can just throw shit there like
Speaker 1: really fast, and then at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: I like go through it and organize it, which I
Speaker 1: never did.
Speaker 2: At the end of last school year. So there was
Speaker 2: the two folders then also just like a bunch of
Speaker 2: other fucking papers, and I finally went through it today
Speaker 2: or yesterday, and literally everything else was garbage. It was
Speaker 2: just garbage.
Speaker 1: It was just sapors and bullshit that we didn't need
Speaker 1: anymore that you could see. Oh, I was saving this
Speaker 1: for this number that I wrote down here, But then
Speaker 1: I took care of that and I forgotten, like whatever
Speaker 1: got this paper was here. I forgot this was even here. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, literally threw everything away and then took out the
Speaker 2: stuff from the folders of last year, which didn't have
Speaker 2: that much, which I was also kind of proud of
Speaker 2: myself that I didn't oversave things that I was like selective.
Speaker 2: And so now it's just just the two folders there
Speaker 2: by themselves, and it looks so nice. It looks so
Speaker 2: much cleaner, and.
Speaker 1: All your problems are solved once you finish those two
Speaker 1: whole house was clean. That is how it feels. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's like it does feel like.
Speaker 2: You attack one little corner and you're like, I did it.
Speaker 2: I am a becking superhero. Had everyone noticed this corner?
Speaker 1: I hope everybody notices next time they come in my
Speaker 1: office that the printer is over on the other corn
Speaker 1: because my desk feels ten times bigger. I also found oh,
Speaker 1: look at that sweet picture of being Joe.
Speaker 2: It's like a pencil or charcoal draw.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Someone on I think on Twitter or something was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I drew your dog and I was like, that's incredible,
Speaker 1: and then they sent it to me like I can't remember, like,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Steve Buchmi is sister or someone. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: take a picture of this and put it on the
Speaker 1: Instagram so you guys can see my dog. He really
Speaker 1: looks just like you. I met Steve Buchemi because he
Speaker 1: and I worked on the same movie together, and he
Speaker 1: came up and was like, Hi, we didn't have any
Speaker 1: scenes together, but I just wanted to introduce myself and
Speaker 1: it's so nice to meet you. And I was like,
Speaker 1: it was on the tip of my dog.
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't. I was about to say,
Speaker 2: I can't tell someone that they look like your dog.
Speaker 2: You can't do that.
Speaker 1: So I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: But I know it's not an insult. It is an
Speaker 2: It's part.
Speaker 1: Of why I wanted to get the dog. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: more better. So today we're talking about mornings. I think
Speaker 1: I said this one because I've been having trouble with this.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm really good at this. Sometimes I'm really good
Speaker 1: at having mornings like get me off to a great start,
Speaker 1: and other times I'm horrific at it. So what's your like,
Speaker 1: do you think you're a morning person or no?
Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I have become a more of a morning person by force,
Speaker 1: by sheer life. Yeah, I'm grateful to Brooklyn nine nine
Speaker 1: and having those six thirty am call.
Speaker 2: Times and those weren't even that early. Those weren't even
Speaker 2: that early.
Speaker 1: No. I on the on Gross Point Garden Society, the
Speaker 1: show I just did on Mondays, I had a.
Speaker 2: Like five thirty am call time. I had to wake
Speaker 2: up at.
Speaker 1: Like four in the morning, yes to four four thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning to get there on time. And that
Speaker 1: was just like wake up, have some coffee, and like
Speaker 1: get in the car, like not even a thing like
Speaker 1: a hang morning, like I because it was so far
Speaker 1: from where you were living. Because they were like it
Speaker 1: was like a twenty minute drive. No, it was just
Speaker 1: like a twenty minute drive. But yeah, that's still it
Speaker 1: wasn't close. But Brooklyn prepared me for motherhood because my
Speaker 1: oldest and so my first, the ultimate early morning, the
Speaker 1: ultimate early ultimate. He his little baby ass woke up
Speaker 1: at five am, so he was like four, like he now,
Speaker 1: thank god he's nine now nine and a half. I
Speaker 1: think today it's the weekend. Everybody woke up around seven ish,
Speaker 1: which is very new in our house and feels like
Speaker 1: sleeping in locking crazy. That's crazy to me.
Speaker 2: I know, you have a child that sleeps.
Speaker 1: She did sleep. So I woke up this morning at
Speaker 1: six seven thirty and it was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: We were like, what is happening because she's well rested
Speaker 1: now yesterday, Well she's well rested because we put her
Speaker 1: on a schedule. It's a whole thing. It's a sidebar,
Speaker 1: but like she's on a more of a schedule now.
Speaker 1: And she woke up with seven thirty and she was
Speaker 1: like singing in a room.
Speaker 3: Eh.
Speaker 2: Honestly, seven thirty is so luxurious.
Speaker 1: I know, for an offer for f a Bratto, it's
Speaker 1: not Brad, Brad, it's not are you yes, one hundred percent?
Speaker 1: I would prefer That's what's so hard for me when
Speaker 1: I do a theater job, because I love doing theater
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. But by the time you wind
Speaker 1: yourself down at the end of the night, you're just
Speaker 1: like goog gog gogiga until two am, and then your
Speaker 1: morning is shot, and then the rest of the day
Speaker 1: is just like you're just gearing up to do the
Speaker 1: show that's seven pm at night, you know. So like
Speaker 1: I just it's a weird.
Speaker 2: I love working at night so much.
Speaker 1: I would rather have two days in my day. I
Speaker 1: want to have two days in my day. I want
Speaker 1: to have my morning time and that's my day, and
Speaker 1: then I want to have the the other day, which
Speaker 1: is like the rest of the working time. So like
Speaker 1: I would get up and this is not a brag,
Speaker 1: this is just because it's for my mental health.
Speaker 2: I would get up it works for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, during not during Brooklyn as much, but like during
Speaker 1: Twisted Metal, I would get up at like four because
Speaker 1: I wanted to get in a workout and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the only way I'm going to get to work out,
Speaker 1: it's the only way I'm going to have coffee by myself.
Speaker 1: So the only way I'm going to have time to
Speaker 1: look at my lines. That's that's the time, Like that
Speaker 1: is the time. That's the only time.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's a little It's also like I go to bed
Speaker 1: at nine thirty, you know what I mean. Like still,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't watch TV now, right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. That's why I don't watch TV. I
Speaker 1: love TV so much. But yeah, it's like I with
Speaker 1: the kids early morning schedule. I'm so tired, I'm falling asleep.
Speaker 2: You know. I try to watch a show and I
Speaker 2: freaking fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's pretend for a second we don't have kids.
Speaker 1: What would be like your perfect morning, Like what would
Speaker 1: be the perfect Just pretend you're like in an alternate
Speaker 1: universe where like Melissa doesn't show a kid and there's
Speaker 1: maybe no David. You're just like whatever, Well, it's hard.
Speaker 2: I don't know how it.
Speaker 1: Feels because I'm like a little bit older. I do
Speaker 1: like working out in the morning, but I can't work
Speaker 1: out it four in the morning, Like I can't wake
Speaker 1: up and like work out right away. I work out
Speaker 1: right after I drop off the kids at school, which
Speaker 1: is like seven forty five, So I work out around
Speaker 1: like eight fifteen, eight thirty. Pretend you don't have kids.
Speaker 1: Pretend you don't have kids, pretend you to have kids.
Speaker 1: But if I don't have kids, well, so I before
Speaker 1: I had kids, I was a workout at night person. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was a workout either in the late afternoon or
Speaker 1: even like I remember when I lived in New York
Speaker 1: going to like six pm big room yoga classes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I did that, eating dinner and like you know,
Speaker 1: watching a show and going to bed. God, that was
Speaker 1: the fucking best, Like I was. That's like the mornings
Speaker 1: were just kind of like waking up like whatever, having coffee,
Speaker 1: having breakfast, going to work, and then after work working
Speaker 1: out and then having dinner and like watching TV until
Speaker 1: it was time to go to bed like that.
Speaker 3: Oh. I know.
Speaker 1: Especially I think if you have like a job, like
Speaker 1: your New York job was very like you're here from
Speaker 1: this time to this time kind of right, well it
Speaker 1: was at that point I'm thinking like soap opera years,
Speaker 1: which I wasn't always there late, I feel like it
Speaker 1: was like go in for Yeah, it was like almost
Speaker 1: kind of close to like a regular job.
Speaker 2: I also didn't work every day.
Speaker 1: Right, They've got some storylines and stuff, because they've got
Speaker 1: so many storylines. But I just remember, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like that show shot super late. I feel like they rapped.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes they did, but I.
Speaker 2: Feel like they always wrapped around like seven six or
Speaker 2: seven pm. It was like just like a twelve hour
Speaker 2: day or ten hour day.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I just I remember like going
Speaker 1: to shoot and then like going home, going to the gym,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I could just do that workout at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, and then I felt like it
Speaker 1: would help me like relax too into like nighttime.
Speaker 2: Now, Oh my god, it's.
Speaker 1: Like whatever I have like a weird day where like
Speaker 1: I don't get a workout in early, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could do it at like two o'clock.
Speaker 2: I have to have like the strongest espresso and like
Speaker 2: psych myself up.
Speaker 1: It's very I'm very lucky. It's like, oh, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: very very lucky if I have Well, I found out
Speaker 1: that I was really really like my iron was really low,
Speaker 1: like super low, which is why I've been so tired
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years. I just didn't think
Speaker 1: about it, and I hadn't had my blood tested. So
Speaker 1: if you're super tired and you feel like you're just
Speaker 1: I think I was beating myself up too, because I
Speaker 1: was like, God, I was wrong with you, Like you're
Speaker 1: so lazy, Like you're like, get it together, get it together.
Speaker 1: You have to have a nap every day, like when
Speaker 1: you're not you know, like what are you doing?
Speaker 2: And I know smolar one too, but for me it
Speaker 2: was vitamin.
Speaker 1: D uh huh. Sometimes you just don't know, so like
Speaker 1: if you can get your stuff if tested like, but anyway,
Speaker 1: I think the mornings are my favorite time of day
Speaker 1: because I feel like nobody this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: weird thing. But like, no nobody wants anything from me yet.
Speaker 1: You know, my responsibilities begin later. My responsibilities begin, yeah
Speaker 1: when And if I didn't have a kid, that would
Speaker 1: be true too. My responsibilities would be later. It would
Speaker 1: be when I'm supposed to be at work, you know.
Speaker 1: And so the morning time for me is my own
Speaker 1: time that I get to set myself up for like
Speaker 1: whatever I want that day, you know, which is when
Speaker 1: I really screw myself up. Is that that Jerry Seinfeld joke.
Speaker 1: That's like nighttime me doesn't care about morning time me.
Speaker 1: Nighttime Me is like let's watch another show, let's do
Speaker 1: another let's have a let's have ann you know, like
Speaker 1: nighttime me is like whoa, that's warning guys problem, you know,
Speaker 1: And like that is when I get into trouble because
Speaker 1: like morning guy has to deal with nighttime guys stuff choice,
Speaker 1: nighttime guy doesn't have to deal with it. Right, nighttime
Speaker 1: guys like, OK, let's stay up and watch British bakeup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like yeahing me cannot should have a second glass
Speaker 1: of wine? Why not be fine? My most I would say,
Speaker 1: like my perfect morning would be I get up before
Speaker 1: the sun rises. I have an iced delicious coffee already
Speaker 1: made for me in my fridge. I go on my
Speaker 1: back patio. The neighbors chickens are not awake. They are
Speaker 1: awake every day. The chickens and roosters are awake every day.
Speaker 1: So this morning they're not awake, and they're quiet, and
Speaker 1: it's just like the sound of the birds, a little
Speaker 1: bit of the birds in the trees. It's cool. I
Speaker 1: read one of my library books and maybe, like I
Speaker 1: then I have maybe a second cup of coffee or
Speaker 1: like a shot of espresso, go downstairs and do my workout,
Speaker 1: or like walk to a pilates class, do my workout,
Speaker 1: get it done, come back shower. Everyone's still sleep and
Speaker 1: then wow, you know, eat breakfast that's already made for me,
Speaker 1: and it's just magically appears. I don't like to cook, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it just magically appears. It's like, you know, two
Speaker 1: delicious eggs and like waffles and jam, and I can
Speaker 1: make a little sandwich with my waffles. And that's my
Speaker 1: favorite breakfast is two waffles, like gluten free waffles with
Speaker 1: blueberries in them, butter, two eggs and a chicken sausage
Speaker 1: in the middle, and I eat it like a sandwich.
Speaker 1: It's so delicious. That sounds yammy delicious girl. And that
Speaker 1: would be my perfect morning. Like at home, that would
Speaker 1: be my perfect morning. And if I was away, it
Speaker 1: would be like the same thing, except no book. And
Speaker 1: it would be a hike, Like I would start the
Speaker 1: hike before the sun rose, and I would be like
Speaker 1: at like midway point up the hike when the sun
Speaker 1: was rising with my ice coffee.
Speaker 2: Wow, it was so different, everybody.
Speaker 1: I felt some judgment. I felt a little judgment in that.
Speaker 2: Wow. Oh no, it wasn't. It wasn't judgment. No, it
Speaker 2: was envy. It was envy. It wasn't judgment. It was like,
Speaker 2: I this all sounds lovely.
Speaker 1: You too can have that morning, girl, You too can
Speaker 1: have that morning. You just have to. I tried to
Speaker 1: have that morning.
Speaker 2: I would be reading the book, going.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm fucking reading, and then I
Speaker 1: would be on the hike and I'd be like, why
Speaker 1: am I doing this?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I do want to hike right now?
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was saying that that was me,
Speaker 1: like a little bit of me when I was in
Speaker 1: the iron deficiency, as like deep into the iron deficiency.
Speaker 1: I was like, what's wrong with me? Like why can't
Speaker 1: I get my shit together? I like warnings, like what's
Speaker 1: wrong with me?
Speaker 2: I have never liked mornings.
Speaker 3: More better.
Speaker 1: Moret I was gonna say, are you into the like
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just sort of talking about it a
Speaker 1: little bit, but are you into like wellness hacking your day?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're not, like not in this
Speaker 1: part of it. I think you guys are into wellness
Speaker 1: hacking like you and David are very into like health
Speaker 1: and fitness. Yes a David, especially how nutrition lends itself
Speaker 1: to that. Yeah. Yes, And I take more supplements now
Speaker 1: than I ever have in my entire life. And David
Speaker 1: is so happy because We've been together for like twenty years,
Speaker 1: and literally for the first fifteen of our relationship, he'd
Speaker 1: be like, you should take supplements, like at least take
Speaker 1: a multi vitamin, and I was like now, or I'd
Speaker 1: buy them and then never take them, like never met them.
Speaker 1: That's me.
Speaker 2: But then at a certain point.
Speaker 1: Like you just start it's like after thirty five, like
Speaker 1: you just start feeling things and you're like, like that
Speaker 1: like iron deficiency. For me, it was by I was like,
Speaker 1: why am I so tired every day at three pm?
Speaker 1: And it was like your vitamin D is non existent?
Speaker 1: And you start taking supplements and you start feeling better,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh shit, I should have been
Speaker 1: doing this the whole time. This is real.
Speaker 2: So I this is real.
Speaker 1: It actually works.
Speaker 2: This is real.
Speaker 1: So I do take a lot of supplements now, and
Speaker 1: there's some that I take we're in the morning.
Speaker 2: But one thing that.
Speaker 1: We started doing recently that is a little bit of
Speaker 1: like I don't know if it's wellness hacking, but starting
Speaker 1: the day with.
Speaker 2: An electrolyte like water.
Speaker 1: Oh so yeah, it is for me, who I am
Speaker 1: not a morning person. And there is like our more
Speaker 1: you know, I've got two elementary school kids now, Like
Speaker 1: I have to make lunch in the morning and gonna
Speaker 1: you know David does, like because David is more of
Speaker 1: a morning person, so he usually wakes up earlier and
Speaker 1: does coffee and like the kid's breakfast, which is like
Speaker 1: very simple. And then when I wake up, I'll sometimes
Speaker 1: make a little something extra like sausage or bacon or
Speaker 1: you know, and see if they want it, because I
Speaker 1: always try to load them up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Uh So, but I have to do things.
Speaker 1: Which is really hard when you're not a morning person,
Speaker 1: because I would ideally I should be waking up earlier
Speaker 1: and like having more time with my coffee to wake up.
Speaker 1: But what I like about this electrolyte drink is it
Speaker 1: that shit wakes me up like immediately.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, why in it?
Speaker 1: Like I'm just doing like like I'm just doing element
Speaker 1: I can't do that stuff. It's so saltyvile ass up.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't have to.
Speaker 2: I love salt. It's so good. I love it. But
Speaker 2: it could be like a liquid iv or like it
Speaker 2: could be whatever, Like there was another well I know
Speaker 2: it's girl, it's like.
Speaker 1: A thousand milligrams of salt or something crazy like you're
Speaker 1: not supposed to have them salt you are, though I
Speaker 1: can't drink those. I like my ankles. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be that I was I start when I
Speaker 1: when we first started doing this, I think we were
Speaker 1: doing it with like liquid IV's or or David had
Speaker 1: some other electrolyte powder that he found, you know, he
Speaker 1: like researches all this. He's like, this one's really good.
Speaker 1: It's third party toaster.
Speaker 2: Or you know whatever.
Speaker 1: He's really nerdy about all that kind of nutritional stuff.
Speaker 1: But first thing in the morning, I drink it, and
Speaker 1: I just I feel awake, I feel I don't know,
Speaker 1: like a little sharper, Like it just helps, and then
Speaker 1: I like quietly do the lunch.
Speaker 2: I've trained my family not to ask me questions in
Speaker 2: the morning because they will get snapped out.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Unless you are asking a question like that's helpful to me.
Speaker 2: Like if David's like, what else are you thinking of
Speaker 2: putting in this box? Can I chop something for you?
Speaker 2: Those are helpful questions that are welcomed in the morning. Okay,
Speaker 2: don't even ask me like how I'm doing in the morning.
Speaker 2: I don't want to answer any questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, So to me, I go and have my coffee
Speaker 1: fascinated by this electrolyte thing because I fucking hate the
Speaker 1: like that's sorry to this man, sorry to this brand,
Speaker 1: but that brand, specifically that brand. When I was pregnant,
Speaker 1: I drank once and my legs swelled up like crazy,
Speaker 1: and I was like, nah, I'm never doing this again.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a little different, but it's scared
Speaker 1: the crap at me, so like, oh, what I really like?
Speaker 1: And this is like a little bit of the on
Speaker 1: the electrolyte train. I guess, but this is I guess
Speaker 1: health hacking or you know whatever is it called wellness hacking.
Speaker 1: I take these things called magic mind.
Speaker 3: Oka.
Speaker 1: They're like these little shots and they're a magic blend.
Speaker 1: This is not an ad. I just google this. A
Speaker 1: magic blend of twelve super ingredients.
Speaker 2: Is it like functional mushrooms?
Speaker 1: It's so what's in it is? It's vitamin C, vitamin
Speaker 1: D three, vitamin B two, vitamin B three, vitamin B twelve,
Speaker 1: sodium forty milligrams only, and potassium one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: three milligrams, And like, I'll take those before I do
Speaker 1: a bike ride. And I swear to god, the bike
Speaker 1: ride is like I got this, like as opposed to
Speaker 1: just a coffee where I'm just like, oh god, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'll send as shit. But like I hate it,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Because someone someone smart in my life told me once
Speaker 2: that like it wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 1: You wake up dehydrated. Yeah, you've just spent seven or
Speaker 1: eight hours not drinking water. So like you do wake
Speaker 1: up dehydrated. So even if it's not electro like drink
Speaker 1: or lemon water or whatever. Or yeah, at the very
Speaker 1: least you should you should drink at least eight ounces
Speaker 1: of water as soon as you wake up, just like
Speaker 1: have a water bottle fill it up before what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I do. I keep a water bottle yeah,
Speaker 2: by my bed, and then when I wake up, the
Speaker 2: walk from the bed to the kitchen, I'm just sipping
Speaker 2: on my water bottle or guzzling it. Yeah. Really, So
Speaker 2: I have to, like the boys have to be at
Speaker 2: school earlier this year, so I have to get up earlier,
Speaker 2: Like I should be getting up at like six David
Speaker 2: gets up at six.
Speaker 1: I get up at six thirty.
Speaker 2: I'm getting it done. But I, uh, it's so hard
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: To wake up in the morning, like I wake up
Speaker 1: and axles a little bit like me, like he wakes
Speaker 1: up and stays in bed for a few minutes. And
Speaker 1: Enzo wakes up like David, like his eyes open and
Speaker 1: he immediately gets out of the bed. My god, on
Speaker 1: this ship room, I would hate it. I would hate it.
Speaker 1: I'd be so mad. I will say like, if you
Speaker 1: wake me up in the morning, like I need to
Speaker 1: do this on my own. If you're the that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you ready for the morning, I'm like, get the fuck
Speaker 1: out of my face. I I can't.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah that, I.
Speaker 1: Will say, I'll murder. Yeah. So it's really hard for
Speaker 1: me to get up. And then I read this thing
Speaker 1: once where it was I think it was about how
Speaker 1: to do like better mornings or something, and the person
Speaker 1: was like, so you have to just launch yourself. You
Speaker 1: just have to physically launch yourself out of the bed.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes it was, and I literally think of that.
Speaker 2: I did it this morning. I was like it was
Speaker 2: like fighting.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm so tired, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: getting up, and I was like launch, bitch, launch launch.
Speaker 2: And I just launched myself out of the bed.
Speaker 1: That is so funny.
Speaker 2: We're doing it now.
Speaker 1: I've never heard it called that. I've been doing that
Speaker 1: for a couple of years because I heard something similar
Speaker 1: that was like, talk yourself into it, just give yourself
Speaker 1: a little countdown. So a lot of times I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to myself. I'm like, all right, bitch, like
Speaker 1: three two one, you're up. Let's do it like I
Speaker 1: do the same thing, and it works. It does work.
Speaker 1: Like yourself a little bit count because the yep, the snooze,
Speaker 1: to the news, to the snows, you're not really getting
Speaker 1: anything out of it. Like it's like, no, there have
Speaker 1: been studies done and stuff like about this, or you
Speaker 1: don't get any actual real sleep. Speaking of studies, should
Speaker 1: we go into some of this nerd time stuff because
Speaker 1: it's really interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nerd time, nerd time, nerd time, nerd time.
Speaker 2: Nerd time.
Speaker 1: I'm offended at this. The more Neanderthal ancestry you have,
Speaker 1: the more better you are at mornings. Excuse him, wah
Speaker 1: rude a study by John Akhar.
Speaker 2: I mean, based off this conversation, you have more Neanderthal
Speaker 2: apparently than I do.
Speaker 1: Wait, Neanderthal ding dongs, isn't it? No? Neanderthal is just
Speaker 1: like the first humans, the ding dongs chromagnum is like
Speaker 1: closer to what we are now. So don't try to
Speaker 1: make me feel good about this. A study by a
Speaker 1: geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, published in
Speaker 1: the Journal of Genome Biology and Evolution ancestream might make
Speaker 1: you a morning person. And here's the thing is, like,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of like morality around, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm a better person because I wake up in the
Speaker 1: mornings or whatever. But some people are just not that.
Speaker 1: It's just what it is. It's like sometimes it's just
Speaker 1: not for you, right, Yeah, I feel like there's this
Speaker 1: whole narrative that like really successful people get up early
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, you're if you're a morning person, you're smarter.
Speaker 1: And it's like, bitch, stop, Like I know so many
Speaker 1: smart people that are an artists, that are crazy night
Speaker 1: owls like and that are some of the smartest people
Speaker 1: I've ever met. Yeah, I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any correlation between the two. And everyone could get
Speaker 1: off their fucking high horse. Okay, some of us are
Speaker 1: good at mornings and some of them, some of us
Speaker 1: are not associated with the shortened period of the circadian clock. Capra,
Speaker 1: the guy that led the study and colleagues assert that
Speaker 1: the genes for increased mourningness were advantageous to modern migrants
Speaker 1: in their new domain, improving their ability to match their
Speaker 1: circadian rhythms to the dramatic seasonal shifts in daylight and temperature. Quote.
Speaker 1: This change is consistent with the effects of living at
Speaker 1: higher latitudes on the circadian clocks of animals and likely
Speaker 1: enables more rapid alignment of the circadian clock with changing
Speaker 1: seasonal light patterns. Okay, so that's interesting because like it's
Speaker 1: if you needed to use let's say the daylight in
Speaker 1: different regions of the world to help you hunt or
Speaker 1: farm right to keep your family alive, then then it
Speaker 1: is very significant that you are a mourning person, Like
Speaker 1: your family's probably going to survive longer and better or whatever.
Speaker 1: And you get out there at ten when my family
Speaker 1: has already killed all of the rabbits and squirrels. Okay,
Speaker 1: see you later. Okay, this one's really fun. The morning
Speaker 1: routine of Brian Johnson, an American entrepreneur venture capitalist who
Speaker 1: is obsessed with a bio optimization.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this isn't this what Para Sultan's trying to
Speaker 2: do too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But this is like the ideas like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you correctly do everything that you're supposed to, like,
Speaker 1: eat the right things, do the right schedule, take the
Speaker 1: right supplements, booby gepapita, boom boo, you're never gonna die.
Speaker 1: You're gonna live forever, babe. That's not a real thing.
Speaker 1: No one's going to do that. Okay, Okay, I just
Speaker 1: want to read this to you, hi friend. Every morning,
Speaker 1: for the past two and a half years, I've followed
Speaker 1: a routine that's been measured, sorry, refined, and optimized down
Speaker 1: to the smallest detail. I don't want to optimize my life.
Speaker 1: I want to live it. Okay, that's just me being shady, boots.
Speaker 1: Here's what that looks like.
Speaker 2: So hard already okay.
Speaker 1: Number one, not for this, rich dude. Five am. I
Speaker 1: wake up naturally, No jarring alarms, as abrupt wake ups
Speaker 1: can have negative effects on the body. Get fucked already,
Speaker 1: all right. Number two? Ready, tracking my core temperature first,
Speaker 1: I check my inner ear temperature. Most people sit around
Speaker 1: ninety eight point seven degrees. I run significantly cooler around
Speaker 1: ninety four degrees due to my health protocols. My metabolism
Speaker 1: has become more efficient. To put this into context, to
Speaker 1: achieve a similar body temperature, you'd need to swim andize
Speaker 1: for a mile. Brag checking my morning body temperature. I'll
Speaker 1: let this guy's brought you. Guys, if you're not looking
Speaker 1: at Wilissa's face right now, it's she's making a lot
Speaker 1: of weird disgusted, I would say faces. Number three, I
Speaker 1: take a quick body measurement check using a witting scale
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars to one hundred ninety nine dollars to track.
Speaker 1: All right, this is where we're already. This is a
Speaker 1: no tracks is weight, fat, muscle, hydration, and arterial stiffness
Speaker 1: whatever that is, I don't know. Number four breathing and
Speaker 1: light exposure. To get my mind and body ready for
Speaker 1: the day, I do a five minute breathing exercise or meditation.
Speaker 1: I love. This is the first thing I've liked since
Speaker 1: I wake up before suns good suggestion. Yeah, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: since I wake up before sunrise, I use a ten
Speaker 1: thousand lux light machine for four to three to four
Speaker 1: minutes to simulate natural morning light. So he simulates natural
Speaker 1: morning light instead of just like going.
Speaker 2: Outside instead of just like waiting for the natural light.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, he's he's worried about losing his hair. I
Speaker 1: think number five hair and scalp routine. I apply a
Speaker 1: prescription hair serum and massage my scalp with a silicone
Speaker 1: scrubber for one to two minutes to improve blood flow.
Speaker 1: Then I wear a bread light therapy cap for six
Speaker 1: minutes to support hair growth. No comment. Number six Hydration
Speaker 1: and supplementation. Uh, look at that. Oh he drinks an
Speaker 1: eight ounce mix with some proteins, some creatine, some other stuff,
Speaker 1: some inelin. He gets nutrition and supplements. Then at five
Speaker 1: thirty am, he trains for sixty to ninety minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm into it. I like that part breakfast and supplement routine.
Speaker 1: Then there's like an extensive list of supplements, many of
Speaker 1: which his own company sells.
Speaker 2: Surprise, surprise, surpresse shot.
Speaker 1: Then he has a skin and hygiene routine, and then
Speaker 1: he has a ten minute walk and work focus. Then
Speaker 1: he has his mid morning fuel, which is lentils, broccoli, caulflower, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, lime, cumin, apple,
Speaker 1: sided vinegar, hemp seeds, fermented foods, and one tablespoon of
Speaker 1: olive oil.
Speaker 2: Every day. I would get sick of that so fast,
Speaker 2: I would get stick of it.
Speaker 1: So I get sick of.
Speaker 2: Sound so heavy. I get sick a smoothie so fast too. Also,
Speaker 2: what time is it that he's having that mid morning snack?
Speaker 2: This feels like I'm already mid morning.
Speaker 1: Snacks happens at nine am.
Speaker 2: Jesus.
Speaker 1: He does say at the very end of this, if
Speaker 1: you're struggling, start small. I love that advice. I think
Speaker 1: that is sad is s mark. That is good advice
Speaker 1: if you are struggling with your morning, like start small,
Speaker 1: like start by, like get your coffee done in the
Speaker 1: morning in the fridge. Like that is something that I
Speaker 1: always like, like I'm or like have those magic minds,
Speaker 1: Like I don't even have to do anything. I just
Speaker 1: like open the magic mind and yeah, like open it, yes,
Speaker 1: because otherwise and like like we were both saying, like
Speaker 1: fill up your water bottle the night before, have it
Speaker 1: close to your bed so that like when you get
Speaker 1: up you can just start drinking it. Because sometimes I'm
Speaker 1: like I can't go get a glass of water right now,
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen. Okay, Wait, I want to
Speaker 1: read some more of these. Do you have any that
Speaker 1: you noticed in here that you thought were crazy?
Speaker 2: Of the historic ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Isis gave us morning routines of historic figures,
Speaker 1: and she gave us a bunch. The one that I
Speaker 1: love is Mozart, who spent an hour getting dressed every morning.
Speaker 1: That's my best friend, my best demos art. I'm the same.
Speaker 1: I'm like trying on four outfits before I decide on something.
Speaker 2: I liked. Oh, enlightened Enlightenment era philosopher Emmanuel Kent woke
Speaker 2: up at five am, drank a cup or two of
Speaker 2: weak tea okay, follow up questions, we obviously can't. Then
Speaker 2: smoked a pipe of tobacco while all while I'm using
Speaker 2: that quiet time to meditate.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I thought you're gonna be like, drank a
Speaker 1: little thing of whiskey.
Speaker 2: I know that's where I thought it was going. And
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, tobacco, okay, quick whiskey, A
Speaker 2: quick whiskey.
Speaker 1: I like this. I like Moby Dick. Author Herman Melville
Speaker 1: bought one hundred and sixty acre farm and farmhouse in
Speaker 1: western Massachusetts and personally tended to the farm and enjoyed
Speaker 1: rising at eight am. To feed his horses and cow.
Speaker 1: I think that's really sweet or something like that does
Speaker 1: sound idyllic, like I die, Yeah, yeah that does. There's
Speaker 1: like there's like part of me that like wishes I
Speaker 1: could be that person. But I feel like even if
Speaker 1: I lived on it, it's okay. I would just be
Speaker 1: like shut up to all. It's fine, and it's fine
Speaker 1: because this is what we're learning. You're not a monster.
Speaker 1: You're not a monster just because you need a little
Speaker 1: bit of extra time to be your best if you
Speaker 1: could have it right, like I'm just my best after
Speaker 1: like ten am. Yeah, that's fine, that's fine. I remember
Speaker 1: sometimes on Brooklyn where we would have like an early
Speaker 1: morning and somebody would get us all coffee and we'd
Speaker 1: be so excited about it, like a special coffee from
Speaker 1: like Alfred or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember how totally okay.
Speaker 1: I would be in like late night shoots while everyone,
Speaker 1: yeah you were tired, I was melting. Terry was like
Speaker 1: falling asleep. Everyone's going to sleep, and I'm like taking
Speaker 1: pictures of everyone sleep. Speaking of morning routines, that that too. Actually,
Speaker 1: it was one of the people that inspired me to
Speaker 1: get up early before work and start with he would
Speaker 1: work out like that. Yeah, Terry would do that every
Speaker 1: every every day, he would work out.
Speaker 3: More.
Speaker 1: Why do you think everyone is still so obsessed with
Speaker 1: like routine videos? Like do you see on the get
Speaker 1: Ready with Ready morning?
Speaker 2: Here's my morning routine And it's like a woman like
Speaker 2: peeling off eight layers of ship's sad.
Speaker 1: Though that doesn't make me sad.
Speaker 2: That does make me a little sad too.
Speaker 1: So much brain in there and you're using it to
Speaker 1: just try to be pretty, like, please use it for
Speaker 1: other stuff too. Who knows, maybe maybe she is maybe
Speaker 1: kind of them, Like I like, I do you adendum?
Speaker 1: I like watching when it's like get ready with me
Speaker 1: or like here's my morning, or like there's this one
Speaker 1: woman that does cooking videos for her family and she
Speaker 1: does them like on the weekend. I wish I remember
Speaker 1: her name, but she does big batch cooking things like
Speaker 1: this is our routine for the week, so that we
Speaker 1: have like that we're ready to go for the week,
Speaker 1: and like and she shows like all the stuff that
Speaker 1: she doesn't like to cook.
Speaker 2: I guess that's not a morning thing. But it's like
Speaker 2: a routine. Will you send that to me when you
Speaker 2: find it?
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool, it's good. I'm just very more of that,
Speaker 1: I think because mornings are hard for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: It is like the way you said that Terry inspired
Speaker 1: you to start doing like early morning workouts before work,
Speaker 1: Like I think, yeah, right, It's like maybe people are
Speaker 1: seeking motivation, seeking inspiration, like seeing how someone there was
Speaker 1: this like I think she was like a nurse practitioner
Speaker 1: or something that she had a lot of good like
Speaker 1: is my morning routine? And there was something that I mean,
Speaker 1: she did a little bit of the well, you know,
Speaker 1: vibration play like wellness whatever thingy once when she woke up.
Speaker 2: But then she would get dressed and like make a
Speaker 2: little protein shake and then go work out and then
Speaker 2: come back and like do this and like shower and
Speaker 2: like she really and she would put the times.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'd be watching the times being like that gim
Speaker 1: must be really close to her house and like right,
Speaker 1: but she like that just happened fifteen minutes ago. But
Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense. And you know, I'm like
Speaker 1: feeling math times in my head. I sometimes I feel
Speaker 1: like when I'm watching this, I'm like this seems like
Speaker 1: so much work to like go like make sure you
Speaker 1: like clocked what time it was and then put it
Speaker 1: in there. I don't. I'm like, who's ed these videos?
Speaker 2: What was going on these videos? And like are they
Speaker 2: just yeah?
Speaker 1: Are they like quickly like snapping the time? But they
Speaker 1: like do all this shit in like two hours before
Speaker 1: they have to leave for work. And I can see,
Speaker 1: I mean I watch it just like wow, good for them.
Speaker 2: I could never but I could see how someone else
Speaker 2: who is.
Speaker 1: Maybe wanting to get more better at their mornings could
Speaker 1: watch those and be like, fuck, yeah, I could do
Speaker 1: half of this and it would still be better than
Speaker 1: what I'm doing now, and it would maybe take me
Speaker 1: just as long or a little bit less than two
Speaker 1: hours whatever, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I think that's the obsession.
Speaker 1: Alternatively, I do think like a little of it is
Speaker 1: like oh fuck this person, Like it's like watching somebody
Speaker 1: do something and go like, oh, you're just like bragging
Speaker 1: about how good you are at mornings, like and sometimes
Speaker 1: people are like sometimes people are, which is like dumb
Speaker 1: because it's our It's not a moral thing as we're
Speaker 1: talking about to It's not a competition, no morality, petition.
Speaker 1: Nobody wins anything for being.
Speaker 2: Really good at mornings. Okay, Like Sephanie is obviously much
Speaker 2: more better at mornings than I am, as we have
Speaker 2: learned through this conversation, but.
Speaker 1: I enjoy it.
Speaker 2: It doesn't affect our friendship.
Speaker 1: It doesn't. And if I felt the same as you, uh,
Speaker 1: like I didn't like them, you know. I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: say this. I have worked on jobs where we are
Speaker 1: in a significant amount of night shoots, and then I
Speaker 1: get really turned around because I don't have the time
Speaker 1: to myself in the morning. I don't have like that
Speaker 1: quiet time before the world is kind of like bubbling
Speaker 1: and awake and I'm not myself and I don't feel
Speaker 1: right and like there's nothing I can do because I'm
Speaker 1: working right and it's like that's the thing of the job,
Speaker 1: and it messes me up. And so like.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite schedule.
Speaker 1: It's has nothing to do with how good I am
Speaker 1: or not right. Like it just I can't I can
Speaker 1: do it. I just don't like it.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I want to read this thing from the Okay, this
Speaker 1: this is like from this article about waking up early
Speaker 1: in the morning, the history of waking up humans. I
Speaker 1: thought this one was really taking the knocker uppers from
Speaker 1: the seventeen sixties to the nineteen twenties in England and Ireland,
Speaker 1: at a time where alarm clocks and telephones were still uncommon.
Speaker 1: The knocker uppers hilarious were in charge of getting people pregnant. No,
Speaker 1: they were in charge of waking people up. Equipped with
Speaker 1: either a long bamboo stick or a short baton, they
Speaker 1: would walk up to your house and knock on your
Speaker 1: bedroom window until you shield the fuck up. In exchange,
Speaker 1: they were paid a few pence a week. Mary Smith
Speaker 1: was one of them, and she roused people from sleep
Speaker 1: by shooting dried peas at their bedroom windows using a
Speaker 1: rubber two. That is so funny, like that you'd pay
Speaker 1: somebody a little something to make sure you got got
Speaker 1: up on time. Then like that's your job, and then
Speaker 1: like how are you waking up at the right time
Speaker 1: to go? That's now that's stressful, right, that is very
Speaker 1: campy late?
Speaker 2: So what how do you wake up? This is?
Speaker 1: This is okay, So I'm gonna say this. The thing
Speaker 1: that I wish I could get more better at was
Speaker 1: not having I wish I could get more better at
Speaker 1: releasing anxiety. When I have an early call time about
Speaker 1: a job that I'm nervous about because what happens to
Speaker 1: me then is that I cannot sleep. I can't sleep.
Speaker 1: I'm up at four am by the time I'm actually
Speaker 1: on set acting. I'm nervous, wreck I'm stressed, and I'm
Speaker 1: not always doing my best work. I'm really really trying to,
Speaker 1: like I just petted my own like breastbone. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to be like kind to myself and
Speaker 1: just be like, Okay, you have some anxiety, like get
Speaker 1: to bed earlier, it's gonna be okay. If you don't
Speaker 1: sleep that much, you know it's you're gonna You're still
Speaker 1: just like plan ahead and memorize your lines or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I wish I could let go of the anxiety
Speaker 1: that I have about some stressful jobs and having to
Speaker 1: be there really early because I don't Yeah that I
Speaker 1: would like to get more better at but I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a tough one that happens to me too.
Speaker 1: But I also am so I don't know if this
Speaker 1: will work for you. Like I'm a like a functioning insomniac,
Speaker 1: Like I can weirdly function on very little sleep. I can,
Speaker 1: So that's the thing I'll kind of tell myself to
Speaker 1: calm myself down like a little bit, try to get
Speaker 1: a little placebo effect of just like, Okay, you might
Speaker 1: not sleep, but and you're gonna be tired tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: we also know that we can like drink a lot
Speaker 1: of water and drink coffee and we're going to stay.
Speaker 2: We can do foods and we're going to and we're
Speaker 2: going to be fine. We're going to get through it.
Speaker 2: Adrenaline is going to come, like first standers, Adrenaline is
Speaker 2: going to come, and that's going to help us. And
Speaker 2: so then it's going to be fine. And sometimes that
Speaker 2: little chat will help me sleep more, yeah, or even
Speaker 2: if it doesn't, it just helps me feel less anxious
Speaker 2: going to the thing. Because of that, I know I
Speaker 2: can do.
Speaker 1: I've done lots of jobs on no sleep or I've
Speaker 1: worked till you know, three in the morning and did it,
Speaker 1: so I know I can do it. And just like
Speaker 1: you know, and just and then and also just like
Speaker 1: you know, like stay away from certain foods that are
Speaker 1: gonna make you tired or sleepy. Yeah, you like fruit,
Speaker 1: do a lot of like you know, protein and fruits
Speaker 1: and nothing like super heavy and crappy, nothing heavy because
Speaker 1: it's gonna make your day horrible and drink a lot
Speaker 1: of water and drink.
Speaker 2: Ale and yeah, and then I'm just like, listen, if
Speaker 2: it's coffee cup after coffee cup today, like it.
Speaker 1: Is what it is, Like we'll have a better one tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you know. Like I just kind of that little chat
Speaker 1: with myself is kind of what helps sometimes. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's really good advice. I'm going to use that because
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had anybody say that aloud.
Speaker 1: I think I like the last time that it happened,
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, just get up and work out. Then,
Speaker 1: like you're sitting here in bed like having anxiety about this,
Speaker 1: like just get up and do a workout, and I didn't,
Speaker 1: but I didn't.
Speaker 2: Work out will also help you too.
Speaker 1: But I also didn't have the talk with myself of
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be fine, it's gonna be okay no
Speaker 1: matter what, Like you've done this, you've done this before,
Speaker 1: You've done this on a job from first falling asleep,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, like it's not gonna happen today. And
Speaker 1: I get so much adrenaline on like early days of
Speaker 1: a thing. Yeah, you know, like and then that is
Speaker 1: you know it's like fake energy, but it's still energy.
Speaker 1: It's still energy. No, it's real, it's real. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, more better. I feel like that.
Speaker 1: I mean my takeaway here today, Yeah, what's your takeaway
Speaker 1: that you're really good at mornings? You're Yeah, I'm the best.
Speaker 2: I really you're the best. You win it morning.
Speaker 1: My takeaway is if we ever do another shoot job
Speaker 1: together or I'm I'm not calling you in like I'm
Speaker 1: going to make sure the life you're not you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, I'm like, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a good idea. You're not going to get her best
Speaker 1: work if she's here at five thirty am. My other
Speaker 1: takeaway is if we ever go on vacation together, to
Speaker 1: not plan anything early in the morning, and also make
Speaker 1: sure I'm like in a different part of the hotel
Speaker 1: than you are, or like you can't you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like we can't share room. It's not we're
Speaker 1: not doing that. No, no you can.
Speaker 2: You know if it's just you and me, like no kids, no, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it'll be it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I do like that's weird too. I if I'm on
Speaker 1: a if I'm on a vacation like I do. I
Speaker 1: don't like to like sleep in or wake up too
Speaker 1: late on a vacation because I.
Speaker 2: Do want to like seize the day. Sure, But.
Speaker 1: At the same time, every Mother's Day, the one number
Speaker 1: one thing I ask for is to let me see
Speaker 1: me alone, don't sleep, don't leave me alone until time
Speaker 1: I am. Yeah. Hot tip everyone, if you're looking for
Speaker 1: something to get your the mom's in your life for
Speaker 1: Mother's Day, it's leave them alone.
Speaker 2: Leave them alone. I feel like my other takeaway is that.
Speaker 1: What I'm doing is working for me pretty much other than, like,
Speaker 1: like I said, the anxiety on days that I work,
Speaker 1: but like I like mornings, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: That's okay. It's fine that it's hard for me to wait.
Speaker 1: Sometimes friends are like, oh my god, but it's like eleven,
Speaker 1: it's not even that late, and I'm like, guys, know,
Speaker 1: I'm so tired. I have to like go to bed.
Speaker 1: I have to go to bed. Or like Rad's watching
Speaker 1: The Sopranos lately and I'm like, he's like, do you
Speaker 1: want to watch with me? I'm like, it's nine five.
Speaker 2: I have to get you to sleep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think My takeaway is I feel like I,
Speaker 2: uh should try a little harder to make my mornings
Speaker 2: more better because I think I am a grumpy grump
Speaker 2: in the mornings and not everyone deserves that. And but
Speaker 2: also like it's it's it's also okay. I feel like
Speaker 2: I've also gotten to a place in my life where
Speaker 2: it's just like I don't need to be like amazing
Speaker 2: at mornings.
Speaker 1: No, it sounds like you've really figured it out, dude.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I've figured out like what works for me
Speaker 1: how to get through them. And I just, you know,
Speaker 1: will never be a morning person. I know, as soon
Speaker 1: as my kids are grown up and like out of
Speaker 1: the house or maybe high school or something like, my
Speaker 1: life is probably going to go right back to like
Speaker 1: staying up until midnight and sleeping until like eight or something,
Speaker 1: as it should.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, and that's okay, It's okay. We all
Speaker 2: just like function differently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you feel a little more better about mornings
Speaker 1: in general?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: Isn't it interesting too?
Speaker 1: I find like, sorry, last thing, I do find it
Speaker 1: because you said that about Brad and I'm Brad. In
Speaker 1: my relationship, I feel like most married couples I know
Speaker 1: one person is a morning person and the other person
Speaker 1: is not. Yeah, it works really well when it's like that,
Speaker 1: I think, although I think it does. I mean I
Speaker 1: I think there's like.
Speaker 2: A I think David like kind of likes his little
Speaker 2: alone like alone time in the.
Speaker 1: Morning with his coffee.
Speaker 2: I like my kind of alone time at night sometimes
Speaker 2: when he's snoring.
Speaker 1: The best part of being in a couple is your
Speaker 1: alone time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a hundred percent. That's from That's the married people.
Speaker 1: To you guys out there, they're like, no, what a no,
Speaker 1: you don't you just want to be like you will
Speaker 1: It'll be fine, But I enjoy it.
Speaker 2: It will be fine because I enjoy time. It's so precious, beast,
Speaker 2: it's so great. All right, okay, mornings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are pretty good.
Speaker 2: We did it. We're doing great doing We're doing great.
Speaker 1: We're doing more better.
Speaker 2: Okay, bye, oh by.
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