1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: Welcome to stuff I never told your production by her radio. 3 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 3: And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. We're doing 4 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 3: an AM addition, so just a peek behind the curtain. 5 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 3: But if you are not doing the AM edition of 6 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 3: this and you're enjoying the actual Happy Hour and all 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 3: of its intentions, do so responsibly. We are not currently 8 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 3: sponsored by any of the products that we talk about. 9 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 3: If we do talk about products or companies or of 10 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 3: the such, just fi that can quickly change some of 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 3: those companies that. 12 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: We would love to work with. 13 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 3: Anyway, Annie, are you slipping on something on this AM 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 3: recording times? 15 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 2: No, I just coffee. 16 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: Just you know what that is? Sound something that's just delightful? 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 2: Is it takes me forever to drink coffee? 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's kind of become a thing where I'm like, 19 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,119 Speaker 4: I don't drink it as often as I used to anymore, 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 4: because like I've have been drinking this for two hours. 21 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 2: But you know, I drink mine. 22 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: Very fast, is the problem. 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 3: But I only can do one cup apparently because I 24 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: do it very strong and then add things to with it. 25 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 3: I'm like, anyway, I am drinking all some bubbly water, 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 3: because again, we're trying to get through the day. 27 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 1: Am I right? Am I right? 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 3: And yeah, And I thought for this happy hour because 29 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 3: we have hit June officially, that means we are halfway 30 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 3: through the year of twenty twenty five. 31 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: Celebrate those small victories. We made it halfway through one year. 32 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 3: Anyway, So I thought we do a quick review and 33 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 3: do a check in, check in with y'all, check in 34 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 3: with everybody all around us. 35 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: But Annie, how has this year been going? 36 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 3: Tell me some of the good things and some of 37 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 3: the struggles. 38 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well, obviously there's been a lot of. 39 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: Difficulties. 40 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 4: We're just getting through the day is the thing that 41 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 4: you have to focus on because of our politics in 42 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 4: the world we live in. So that hasn't been great. 43 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 4: I did love the Last of Us Season two came out. 44 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 4: That was really fun and we got to hang. 45 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: Out and do that. 46 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 4: And I feel like I've seen a lot of my 47 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 4: friends this year, which is it's a wonderful thing. But 48 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 4: it's also like I'm still building up that social battery 49 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 4: that got killed during the pandemic. So I'm really tired. 50 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 4: But it's a great it's a wonderful thing. I need 51 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 4: to build it back up. But it also is impacting 52 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 4: my fan fiction, which is so good because now I'm 53 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 4: way behind. I haven't published anything since March. 54 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 2: March. Oh no, this is terrible. I used to publish 55 00:02:59,240 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 2: once a week. 56 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: I know, I remember you were very bound to it too. 57 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm also going to find a doctor. 58 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 4: I'm going to the doctor, okay, because I had a 59 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 4: panic attack and it was really bad, so I'm okay. 60 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a progress that you're actually admitting that you 61 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 3: need a doctor, which you're usually like very dismissed above, like, eh, 62 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 3: maybe I do, but. 63 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: But now you've got some determination. 64 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: I usually just go to urgent care. But yeah, I 65 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 2: need a doctor. 66 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. 67 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 3: Unfortunately, our insurance system is not great, and I feel 68 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 3: like change you can't really have a primary care physician 69 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: because they leave or they're no longer in your network. 70 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 3: But that's okay, that's another different conversation. Yeah, I will 71 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: also find a doctor because I have hit all the 72 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 3: aches and pains. I don't know if like technically this 73 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 3: would be midlife crisis a year. I think for me, 74 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 3: this is about that time. Not because I'm saying I 75 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 3: have one. I'm just saying that because in general timeframes, 76 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 3: my birthdays coming up and it's hit the like five 77 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 3: mid forties, y'all, and everything hurts. I think I'm complained 78 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 3: about this repeatedly, but like the aching has been new again. 79 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 3: Some of these things I'm wondering because I've seen a 80 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 3: lot of videos telling me it could be perimenopause, and I'm. 81 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: Like, is it. 82 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 3: Someone just needs to tell me. Miked of Coologist was like, eh, maybe, 83 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 3: or it just might be life, and I was like, well, 84 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 3: just so fair enough, fair enough. But yeah, this year 85 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 3: has been a lot of things happening. I feel like 86 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 3: watching when I'm watching other friends going through things and 87 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 3: or going through good things like getting to celebrate with 88 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 3: everybody is an amazing time finding like the small moments. 89 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: I really built a great community in my like Zoomba Cruise, 90 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 3: Slash Workout Cruise, and I've made amazing, amazing people and 91 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: I just keep being thankful for that. Like I'm not 92 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 3: a social butterfly. We know this, but I also have 93 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 3: a very strong core of friends that I might not 94 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 3: see every day, as in fact, it might be months 95 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 3: before I see you, but the way we connect that 96 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 3: every time I see them, it feels so good and 97 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 3: it feels like home, Like I just really feel like 98 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 3: it's one of those things that keep me going. And like, yeah, 99 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 3: I don't have as many friends as I did in college. 100 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 3: I don't have as many friends as I did in 101 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 3: high school. But that's okay because the friends that I've got, 102 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 3: we've gone through so much together that when we do 103 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 3: see each other is a celebration. And again, it feels 104 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 3: like coming home. It's nice. I've had to do a 105 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 3: lot of adult things recently, and I figured out I 106 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 3: really need to figure out how to mow my lawn. Anie, 107 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 3: this is a failing that I have. My partner had 108 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 3: to be gone for a little while and my yard 109 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 3: looked real rough, and I have never in my forty 110 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 3: five years have I ever mowed the lawn for use 111 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 3: the law and nowhere any of the such. So I'm 112 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 3: a little wary of that because you know, there are 113 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 3: too many horror movies where you lose limbs. 114 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: With those things. 115 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 3: And I am super kletzy, like standing up is a 116 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 3: challenge half the time for me. So I'm like, oh, 117 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 3: but I know I need to try. I want to 118 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 3: be self sufficient, but I'm not very self sufficient. But 119 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 3: I have money to give to other people to come 120 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 3: to it for me. But that feels like a chore 121 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 3: because I'm like, I also don't want to be taken 122 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 3: advantage of. I also don't want to take advantage of others. 123 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: Are they actually going to do this or are they not? 124 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 3: I don't want to pay a monthly fee of two 125 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars. 126 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. 127 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 3: And there's not that many teenagers around this area, which 128 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 3: is unfortunate for me that I could pay fifty dollars 129 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 3: like mow a small, small loan lawn. Yeah, you know, 130 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 3: I see all these really cute, go like feel good 131 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 3: stories of the kids trying to do that, and there's 132 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: not any around here. 133 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: We're an older crew of people or a childless crew 134 00:06:59,080 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: of people. 135 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: Hmmm, oh well, so that's how it is. 136 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: That's how it goes. 137 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 3: So maybe that's I guess that's part of the regret 138 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 3: of not having children to make them do chores. 139 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no, it's not okay, but yeah. 140 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 3: So it's been an interesting year and reflecting like aging. 141 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 3: I think we've talked about that a lot, just like 142 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 3: aging in general, and watching other people age and how 143 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 3: we deal with this being still childless and watching our 144 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 3: environment change but not change. I've had this conversation a 145 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 3: lot with myself and TikTok because these videos come up 146 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 3: for me, like there are conversations between people who chose 147 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: to be childless, people who cannot have children, and those 148 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 3: who did choose having children, and the honest conversation has 149 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: been really refreshing. There's also been a woman recently that 150 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 3: I saw her talking about some of the regrets, and 151 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 3: she's my age, and she's like, some of them, here's 152 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 3: some of my truths, and some of them being the 153 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: same things that I'm like, No, I'm very happy being childless, 154 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: but there's still a small part of me that's like, 155 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 3: am I going. 156 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: To regret this later? 157 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: Like there's still parts of that in my mind that 158 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 3: I've talked about many times. There's still parts of me 159 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 3: talking about like, but I still don't feel like I'm 160 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 3: in my age. 161 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: Because I don't have these things. 162 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 3: There are things that I'm like, I feel like I've 163 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 3: missed these marks and so am I truly an adult? 164 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 3: But at the same time, I feel like I've adulted 165 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 3: way more in the past two years, three years than 166 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 3: I have in the past twenty, which is when I 167 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,679 Speaker 3: was supposed to be an adult, right, It is quite. 168 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: An interesting conversation. 169 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 3: And then also like reflecting back when I see like 170 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 3: twenty year olds now and I love you twenty year olds, 171 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 3: y'all are amazing, but like really understanding, Oh yeah, you 172 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 3: really don't know. 173 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: I did not know. 174 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 3: I really thought I was so wise and make these 175 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 3: decisions and I was so adult. And then coming into 176 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 3: like being forty five still not feeling adults such a 177 00:08:58,240 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 3: weird place. 178 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 2: It is. 179 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 4: It is I still feel like I'm a I wouldn't 180 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 4: say child, but I don't know. 181 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 2: I don't have that. 182 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 4: When someone is like, oh, you're an adult, I'm like, yeah, 183 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 4: I guess, I guess. 184 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 3: So I feel like when I'm hanging out with twenty 185 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 3: year olds, my nieces, my like the friends that I 186 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 3: make in Zoomba, they're all younger, like early thirties, late twenties, 187 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 3: mid thirties. Like they to me, I'm like, oh, I 188 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 3: was like babysitting you essentially, or I was in college 189 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 3: when you were born, or all of these thought processes. 190 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 3: And in my mind, though we have similar personalities, we 191 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 3: have similar schedules. So therefore, what has changed outside of 192 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,839 Speaker 3: the eggs and pains and the saggy. 193 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: Face like. 194 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,239 Speaker 3: And all of those very physical but like emotionally mentally, 195 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 3: all of this, like, it doesn't feel like outside of 196 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 3: what I've seen and what I've learned, like the life 197 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 3: lessons that I've learned, is that I'm like, Oh, they 198 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 3: come up on you so gradually that you don't realize 199 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 3: has happened. 200 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, it's one of those things that you 201 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 4: kind of you know it's going to happen one day, 202 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 4: but then you keep telling yourself, no, not, I'm too 203 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 4: young for that, and then you look at your face 204 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 4: in the morning You're like, oh, no, it's happening. 205 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: I do that often that I just sit there. I 206 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: was like, oh, no, does that me. 207 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 3: I'm glad to know that people my age or people 208 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 3: close to my age also feel this. It's like it's 209 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 3: still twenty like early two thousands, twenty tens. Maybe when 210 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 3: I hear twenty twenty five, it feels foreign. That seems 211 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 3: more unfamiliar than anything else, I guess, because you know, 212 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 3: it's less likely we've not been in this time frame 213 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 3: as much as we've had in the past timeframes. 214 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: No, it's getting too deep now. 215 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 3: But recognizing all of that and seeing all of this 216 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 3: has been new adventure, Like twenty twenty five, coming back 217 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 3: from the lessons that we were learned from twenty sixteen, 218 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 3: not realizing that we haven't learned them. 219 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: Like it's it's. 220 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 3: Both alarming but kind of reassuring in that is like 221 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 3: we survived it. 222 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 223 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 3: Now, of course we're still in battle mode. In so 224 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 3: many ways, I have become more resistant, you know, in 225 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 3: so many ways. I have also become a lot more 226 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 3: cynical and less trusting. 227 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: I missed the days where I trusted people. 228 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 3: But also realizing AI is full on and some of 229 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 3: the things that I have to sit there and question 230 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 3: is this real? 231 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: Is this not real? 232 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:53,839 Speaker 2: Yeah? 233 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 3: Our generation is weird because we definitely came upon not 234 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: having internet, not having mobile devices like cell phones and such, 235 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 3: and then coming into learning all of that and then 236 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 3: now growing with it in such a way, but remembering 237 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 3: the days before. 238 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was a huge spike in technology, and 239 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 4: we also got the nineties was when we got cable news. 240 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 2: So before that I was too young to really appreciate it. 241 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 4: But you didn't have that, like, oh god, I know 242 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 4: what is happening everywhere all. 243 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 2: The time, and now it's like everywhere. 244 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 4: But it is interesting having remember a time when there 245 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 4: was no internet and if you had it, when you 246 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 4: did get it, it was so slow and if somebody 247 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 4: answered the phone, too bad. Yep, that's it too now 248 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 4: having Yeah, is this ai? 249 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 2: I'm not sure? 250 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, like having so many things in trying to track 251 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 3: so I don't feel like I'm being fooled and I'm 252 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 3: just spreading misinformation because I also don't want to be 253 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 3: a part of that. Yeah, twenty twenty five is weird. 254 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 4: It's also annoying because twenty twenty five is so weird 255 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 4: that a lot of times I'm like, that couldn't be true. 256 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 2: That sounds wild, right, but it could be. I don't know, 257 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:26,719 Speaker 2: it could be a thing. 258 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 1: Who knows. 259 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 3: I mean, twenty twenty five is the year that a 260 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 3: woman uses racial slurs as a child and gets half 261 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 3: a million dollars and people are outright supporting her with 262 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 3: no qualms, saying that yeah, white people woo like this. 263 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 3: Twenty two like proudly I missed the days. I guess, 264 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 3: like it's both the things that I'm glad to see. 265 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 3: Who is whom, But I feel like I also miss 266 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 3: the days. I'm like, you should also be ashamed, right, 267 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 3: you should also ashamed. 268 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 1: But at the same time. 269 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 3: Again I have seen them any of like amazing individuals. 270 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 3: Again I talk about the younger generations who are doing 271 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 3: some amazing things, the younger generations who also are bringing 272 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 3: back the trends of old, the gen X, early millennials, 273 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 3: late millennials, whatever. Who we are where they think we're 274 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 3: the quote where it is cringe, but they're already out 275 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 3: of style. 276 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: According to so many of the neo generations. It's a weird. 277 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 3: It's a weird place to be where I feel that 278 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 3: old when I'm like you kids, right, just. 279 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: You wait, just you wait. 280 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: But you know, honestly, I still wouldn't want to be 281 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: that age. I love y'all. 282 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 4: Well, I feel like I don't know we meant to do. 283 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 4: We're working on an episode on regret, Like when I 284 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 4: look back the things I regret, like that felt like 285 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 4: such an unstable time for me, and this doesn't feel 286 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 4: like all that stable. But if that, like looking back 287 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 4: fills and I didn't have all of the right social 288 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 4: media and technology and all of that stuff. 289 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, and also. 290 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 4: The world was on fire then, but it's like real 291 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 4: in your face about it now. Yeah, So yeah, I 292 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 4: don't wish I was that age right now either. 293 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 3: There's so many things and yeah, we are talking to 294 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 3: doing the episode on regret and gender and honestly generations, 295 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of conversations in different generations. And 296 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 3: I guess, like, if I try to think about my thirties, 297 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 3: I loved my thirties, I will say that. And I 298 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 3: don't know if that's just the time where you feel 299 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 3: the most like growing into yourself and you realize how 300 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 3: silly and you start shedding the baggage a little bit. 301 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,359 Speaker 3: And what I mean by baggage is bad friendships. 302 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, that really. 303 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 3: Really like are some of the things that I'm like, Yeah, 304 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 3: I really wish I could go back and had more confidence. 305 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 3: I don't change because it did help me make U 306 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 3: become a lot more confident in like my personality and 307 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 3: my growth. But in looking back and understanding you. 308 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: Don't have to like everyone. 309 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 3: Everyone doesn't have to like you, and not everybody meshes 310 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 3: and that's okay. 311 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: And there are people who you should not be around 312 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: and they are not good for you. 313 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 2: Yes, And just like the. 314 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 4: Kind of internalized whatever misogyny, you grow up and you 315 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 4: kind of confront that. 316 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: But I will say, you know, like. 317 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 4: At least when it comes to LGBTQ stuff, there has 318 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:47,479 Speaker 4: been a lot of progress. That's so there's ups and downs. 319 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, and twenty twenty five has been. 320 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: A long process. 321 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 3: I feel like we've been in twenty twenty five for 322 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 3: about twenty years now because so constantly back and forth, 323 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 3: so many, so many battles, so many losses, so many wins. 324 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 3: There's a lot happening. But we're halfway through this year. Congratulations, 325 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 3: and we are still here. 326 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 327 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: Proud of you, Proud of us. 328 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 4: Yes, proud of all of you listeners, proud of us. 329 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 4: Thank you for listening and being part of our community 330 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 4: because I'm sure as you know, even as a listener, 331 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 4: sometimes it can get difficult with the topics we cover. 332 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 4: But we're still going to cover them, of course, but 333 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 4: that is sometimes like very exhausting. Yes, but we've gotten 334 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 4: through this half. We'll get to the next half. 335 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 2: Listeners. If you have any. 336 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 4: Victories our thoughts about your twenty twenty five so far, 337 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 4: please let us know. You can email us at Hello 338 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 4: at stuff whenever told you Dot com. You can find 339 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 4: us on Blue Sky. I'm also a podcast or on 340 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 4: Instagram and TikTok at stuff I Never Told You. We're 341 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 4: also on YouTube. We have a tea public store. We 342 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 4: have a book you can get wherever you get your books. 343 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 4: Thanks as always start a super producer, Christina I exay 344 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 4: to producing my and their contributor Joey, thank you and 345 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 4: thanks to you for listening. 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