WEBVTT - Why Commuting to Work is Killing You #020 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.759 Welcome to How the Money. I'm Joel and I'm Matt, 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:25.960 and today we're talking about why your commute is killing you. Yeah, 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:27.520 I'm at Today on the show, we're gonna talk about 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.280 the problem with commuting, why it's so bad, and then 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.879 we're gonna provide some answers for how people can get 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.360 some relief and hopefully figure out ways to commute less, 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.800 and then how to take action so that they aren't 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.000 in their cars as much. I thought you love commuting them, man, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.320 Oh it's my favorite. Well, now that I'm commuting by 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.720 bike mostly, had another great ride today to and from work. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.360 It was lovely. I feel like you guys are about 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.960 ready to switch it to uh one car. You know, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.360 I haven't given it some more thought, and I think 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.400 we're getting closer for sure. Although a bunch of episodes 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.680 ago we talked about this app called Rapidfi right wrapping 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.320 your car and you thought it was ridiculous. Yeah, that 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.320 was like episode two or three or something like that. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.240 And so they started a new campaign in our area. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.680 And I'm getting my leaf wrapped on Thursday, dog, are 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.440 you really? Yeah? I'm gonna make myself like fifty bucks 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.080 a week. That's two hundred bucks a month. Yeah, that's 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.000 two h bucks. But what is it? I mean, what's 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.120 gonna be on your car? I think your Salesforce. I 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.160 don't really know what they do, and I don't really care. Wait, 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.520 that's who are that's who park it works for? Way 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:34.160 to Go, Parker. You just got on my vehicle. Oh 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.640 my gosh. Okay, I will say that's much better than 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.880 a lifetime daytime TV show or uh. I kind of 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.360 want something less business e and more goofy. I was 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.160 kind of hoping the Honey Booboo thing would work out, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.440 but because because the Salesforce is gonna seem a little 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.279 too like legit, like you actually work for Salesforce and yeah, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.080 people are gonna be like, oh, well, how's how's it 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.000 working for Salesforce? I'm like, I don't, I don't know. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.560 This is just that's the wrong guy exactly, sending for 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.400 the buck. The Honey Boo Boo thing though, and if 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.120 you didn't hear that episode, the potential campaign that I 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.120 was gonna participate in and get my car wrapped four 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.880 was a new Honey Boo Boo Show or Honey Boo 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.120 Boo's Mom's Show or something like that, and I just, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:10.760 I mean, I thought that was gonna be hilarious and 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.280 my neighbors would probably Letty Bobo's mom's sister once in 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.839 on the action, right, Yeah, she wants her on show 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.200 now too, And I just thought that would be really funny. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.040 But sadly it didn't work out, did not quite in time. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.200 But this one is working out. Legit on Thursday, can 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.200 wrapped on Thursday. She don't care. She don't care, all right, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.080 Kate would care. Well, you guys have one car and 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.200 she drives that, and so this is the car that 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.880 you know, I might drive it just a little bit, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.280 even just up and down the street because you have 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.120 to wrap up like ten miles a day in order 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.880 to get the requirement, the full bounty or whatever. Do 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.880 you drink anything this past week? I uh totally broke 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.800 something out of the seller, which I don't do all 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.359 that often. And I've got this, like I call it 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.840 a seller. I got like twelve beers in my pantry 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:54.000 that so. But I do like to I think, like 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.079 we talked about recently, I like to age some beers 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.960 over time. And I've pulled out one of my loa 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.600 Gunitas high West Ifides oh whoa high West ifies those 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.679 like those way back. Yeah, it's so good. It's like 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.600 coffee stout aged in whiskey barrels, rye whiskey barrels, and 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.240 it it was delicious, aging perfectly so nice. Yeah. So 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.760 if anybody out there, I think we've mentioned this before, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:17.480 if you have some sour beers or better aged or 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.880 if you have you know, bourbon barrel aged stouts reporters 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.720 or something like that, those beers are often great to 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.640 hang onto for a couple of years, and the flavor 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.799 changes over time, so it's always fun to go back 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.840 to something like that. Do not age an I p 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.400 a or a palele, No drink those fresh. Those dastes 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.120 terrible with a few months on them. So yeah, I 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.880 asked what you had, man, because I just had my 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:41.120 first Athena. Yeah, that's such a good beer. After having 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.520 that French Imperial Berlin of Vice, I was like, you 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.360 know what it's it's officially Berlin of Vice season man. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.720 And so yeah, having that Athena, it's such a good 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.640 summer summer light drinking beer, not like lighting body, but 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.480 it's got that acidity, has got that sour, that tartness, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.400 that wheat finish and it's it's one of those perfect 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.200 beach beers too, So we're gonna have to bring some 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.400 of that to the beach. Is anything. It's like under 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.760 five percent and light and refreshing and tart like that. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.800 I mean, I just love that. It's the It's the 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.800 perfect thing to drink. Feet in the sand, you know, waves, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.040 waves crashing up on the shore and everything after up, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.840 I cried, Yeah, let's move on to the beer were 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.560 drinking today. And we went from an awesome major brewery 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:24.000 last week, ale Gash Too, a brewery that I guarantee 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.279 you probably nobody listening to this podcast has ever heard of, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.280 because we're ultra hip guys. We're drinking something from. It's 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.159 like listening to bands that you've never heard of yet, 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.560 you know, like, yeah, yeah, I totally heard of them. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.040 I just made that name up. We're drinking something from. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.159 My friend John is a home brewer, and there are 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.880 a lot of good homebrewers out there, but there's also 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.560 a lot of bad home brewers out there, right, And 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.440 so if I say homebrewer, you might be like, oh, 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.720 it's probably gonna taste like crap, But no, no, no, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.279 John's legit, man, he might be one of the best 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.800 brewers in the state. Yeah, he just doesn't produce it 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.000 for public consumption, that's right. So he bottles a few 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.640 things and I was fortunate to get one of these, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.760 and so Matt and I are drinking tonight. It's so 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.480 good John's beer. And his brewery is called Little Cottage 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.479 Brewery and the beer is called a splinter in the mind. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.800 And I'm really excited about this, Matt, because literally, if 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.479 you asked me what my favorite style of beer was, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.640 it would be a Flanders Landers Red. Man, this is 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.880 the best. I'm with you, man, this has got it 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.720 all like Flanders Red. It's got like the sour sort 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.240 of heart aspect of it, right, yep, you like that. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:27.880 You like that side of it. I love that side 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.040 of it. But then I love the vinegary side. It's 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.080 got this distinct vinegary kind of taste. And so I'm 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.680 really excited to get his take on it and see 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.160 what this tastes like. It's almost like a shrub. I 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.440 don't know if any of you guys out there have 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.200 had like like that cocktail, Like, have you ever ever 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.560 had shrubs? I don't need shrubs, man, It's weird. It's like, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.200 I mean, it's a very it's a high, highly acidic 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.279 sort of cocktail that you kind of age and you 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.560 muddle and you know, you adge into it, making me 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:58.479 think about Monty Python. Say, is that what we're talking about? Similar? Yeah, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.720 it was like that, all right, but uh but yeah, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.800 it's similar as a cdity level, which is, yeah, something 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.520 I'm drawn to. But then on top of that, the 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.680 other aspect of it, man, is then they take them 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.120 and they age them either onwood or in barrels, and 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.920 then that just gives it another round of amazing flavor. Yeah. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.160 And so this one in particular is aged fifteen months 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.000 in a rye whiskey barrel and then another two months 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:25.080 on tart cherries. Gosh, so it just sounds perfect. So 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.080 juiced to have this thing. Man, it's gonna be so good. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.600 So I'm pretty pumped. Let's uh, let's pop it now. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.440 So the pop sound was a little weak on this 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.640 because John did a wax wax the top of the bottle, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.760 which is kind of a cool look but also sometimes 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.120 makes it a pain in the ask to get to 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.920 the beer. Yeah, we each got one of these cute 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.480 little bottles. Man, They kind of look like mini bombers, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.120 you know, they're like the they look like the big ones, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.080 but they're kind of like your own personal pan pizza. Yeah, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.280 I think Lander's red style, right, Yeah, these are I 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.960 think the three seventy five million liter bottles, which are 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.320 really cool looking. When I stop my nose in that glass, 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.080 oh my gosh, that smells so good. The size of 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.080 your cheeks just start watering because it's got that My 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.200 mouth knows what's up. It's like we're about the party 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.760 taste buds getting excited. So Flanders right, known for the 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.600 color too. Yeah, it's got a brownish red color to 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.000 that classic Flanders red red lick to it, and it's perfect. Dude, 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.480 How does he do it? So he's known for making 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.360 he makes amazing stouts, and has he ever made one 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.040 of these before as far as you know, as far 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.400 as I know, he hasn't. He's made some good sours, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.280 But like, crap, this is such a particularise style and 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.200 really difficult to make. I assume it's difficult. You just 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:34.800 don't see you don't see a lot of people doing it, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.280 so you you've got to assume that it's somewhat difficult. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.679 And and and he like seriously nailed this. Oh my gosh, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.240 that's like a Barry Bonds home run or Tiger Woods 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.680 sunk putt or something like that. Like that's what this 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.000 tastes like, a little lebron in a glass right here, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.320 exactly exactly. It's unparalleled. Sorry, if you don't know sports, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.720 those are sports references. I'm not so good at the sports. 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.360 It starts off with that classic Flanders red aggressiveness, but 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.000 then immediately you can it switches to the cherries. You 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.560 taste that fruit. You totally get the cherries, which is 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.200 so nice, like the sweetness from the cherries and the 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.840 the whiskey barrel. I think kind of keeps it all 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.400 in check that it's not too sweet or too vinegary 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.640 or too tart. And it's like this mellows it all 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.880 out there, and perfectly balanced representation helps it to finish 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.800 a little dryer, like kind of having that wood there. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.040 I think, like I said, this is my favorite style, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.440 and I've had some really good representations of it, and 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.880 I've had some really bad ones, and this is like 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.679 up there top two, so good. This might be the 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.040 best beer I've had all year, Like seriously, right now, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.360 best beer. You want to go ahead and say it, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.760 because this is freaking amazing, I'll say it. We had 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.560 some great beers on the podcast, some great beers. We 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.160 have a ton of great beers. Yeah. Pretty much every 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.480 week we have a great beer. Yeah exactly, and that 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.559 doesn't fail. And this is probably the best one so far. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.680 So John, you're the master. Thank you, John. This is fantastic. Man. Cheers. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.240 All right, man, let's talk about commuting. Why it's killing you. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.480 Let's do it. Commuting is essentially the opposite of this 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.800 beer that we're drinking. Yeah, white knuckled hell, this is 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.960 like this brings life, that brings you. So let's cover 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.439 the problem first. Yeah. Yeah. So ultimately, one of the 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.920 major problems is that we sit too much in our culture, 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.360 and traditional commuting in your car is by yourself sitting right, 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.280 Yeah exactly. We touched on this recently too in a 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.319 in an episode. I forget which one, but we're talking 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.920 about how you most folks literally you sit in your car, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.840 you drive to work, you sit all day, you sit 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.079 in a cubicle, and then you just repeat the whole 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.959 thing over again. Can you come home? And then you 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.400 are a lot of times sitting there watching TV or 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.040 you know, eating dinner, sitting on our butts. It's like 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.880 the it's not good for you, and we need to 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.880 get off our butts more in the winter. Man, Like 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.640 when I'm sitting in my home office they're working, I 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.040 can literally feel my body just like slow down and 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.160 rotting away, like it's not able to keep warm. Like 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:55.800 my body is not able to do the thing that 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:00.199 it needs to do, which is maintain it's temperature. You 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.160 have to get this huge down jacket because you just 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.960 stop moving and the blood starts slowing down, and it's 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.360 just bad. Yeah, I hate it. One scientist a few 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.200 years back said sitting is the new smoking, and so 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.120 he had done some research on what sitting does to 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.199 your body. And in our culture, with how sedentary we've become, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.839 like we said, you know, with commuting, sitting at work, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.840 sitting at home, all the time, we're we're sitting, sitting, sitting, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.199 and and essentially it's so bad for us. It's the 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.520 one researcher says that it's like smoking, that it's that 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.800 bad for you, and so it's something that we should 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.440 be concerned about. Estimates say that we sit for half 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.000 of our waking hours. And dude, I would even say 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.520 more than that. I mean, literally, if you think about 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.199 the amount of time that people work and the amount 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.120 of time they spend in their car right there, I 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.280 feel like that's over half. And it's not like they 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.320 spend the rest of the day standing up. And we're 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.800 not talking about everyone here, but yeah, maybe you know, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.280 most people that do sit down when they work, maybe 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:52.840 they get up to go to the bathroom or to 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.400 grab something off the printer, but probably eighty two percent 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.959 of their you know, in a stat I just made up, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.560 probably that probably that much of the time is spent 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:08.240 sitting in front of their computer. Rule exactly. It's well documented. Yeah. Man, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.440 that's a huge problem. And another thing too is that, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.000 I mean it's costing us money. So it's it's literally 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.320 taking our health and now it's also taking our money. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.880 You take into account what your hourly wages, but then 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.959 you actually if you take into account the amount of 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.959 time you spend in the car getting there, I mean, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.240 you divide that out and you're actually earning, you know, 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.199 a good bit less than you actually think you're making. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.120 So if you're making but you're commuting forty five minutes, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.400 each way and sitting in traffic and car costs and 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.640 fuel and all these other things added in. You should 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.439 actually do the math and see what you're real hourly wages. 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.160 It turns out that you're probably making substantially blessed than 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.400 you thought you were with all of the costs that 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:51.320 are associated with going to work and commuting in a 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.120 big steel box. And so it's really important to factor 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.240 the costs of your commute and car ownership and how 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.120 much time you're wasting into that hourly wage to d 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.920 to get a realistic picture of what you're actually earning 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.120 from your job. Yeah, we recently talked about the legit 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.400 way to own a car. So on top of all this, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.320 like Joel said, if you are financing, say a brand 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.959 new car, not only is this killing you, but it's 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.400 actually costing you way more money than you even realize. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.199 I think, on top of the fact that we're sitting 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.560 too much and that's killing us, and that we're actually 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.440 not making as much money as we think because we're 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.880 spending a lot of time in the car as opposed 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.440 to time in the office actually making the money. Right, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.880 We're spending money on fuel costs and on the actual 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.200 car that gets us there, and the time it takes 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:36.960 to get to work that we're not actually getting paid. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:38.960 So those are a lot of costic have to be 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.240 factored in. But on top of that, I mean, how 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.600 awful is traffic? Right? Yeah? Man? I mean like the stress, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.040 the stress of sitting in traffic, like what it does 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.760 to you psychologically, doesn't get the endorphins flowing for you, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.920 and you feel all you feel all jazz once you 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.480 get home and you get all loose and you're like, 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.320 it's just like nothing, just like a night out with 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.120 my lady in traffic, you know, can't be a I 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.240 have home in Atlanta. Traffic Certainly where you live, maybe 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.120 it's not quite as bad as as we have it here, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.720 but still I guarantee nobody really enjoys driving to and 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.640 from work. Is it time to talk about the solutions? Then? Yeah, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.240 there are a lot of solutions that are out there 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.360 for people who are, uh, who are taking their car 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.280 to work. And so I think too, you probably know 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.480 some of these basic things, right you. You know that 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.120 you know we're gonna say bike to work, and you 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:24.920 might say, well that doesn't work for me, but we're 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.760 going to offer a bunch of different solutions, and hopefully 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.080 there's something that you can implement in some way, form 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.240 or fashion to commute less frequently, or to commute in 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.400 a different way, or to change the schedule that you 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.120 have at work. We're gonna come up with a lot 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.520 of options here for you to consider so that you're 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:45.280 commuting is less bad and hopefully costing you less money. Yeah, man, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.839 Like you said, these aren't things that are revolutionary, right, 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.720 Like the actual things that we're going to suggest, So 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.320 what we're talking about are the alternatives the traditional commuting, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:57.200 so either car pooling, public transit, biking, even walking, uh 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.520 and but even working from home as well. Like, these 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.640 aren't things things that, say, you've never heard of, But 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.600 what we're gonna do is specifically to talk about why 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.880 that they're good not only for you obviously, but as 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.120 well for like your employer and even your city and 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.720 the environment as well. Yeah, and and also how you 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.080 can actually implement some of these things in your life. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.880 And we're not gonna be able to speak to every circumstance, right, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.600 If you are calling on accounts across town, chances are that, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.720 I mean, that's not even a commute, that's just what 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.640 you do right, and so that's really hard to cut 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.000 down on your a ups driver and yeah, that's your life. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.560 The truck's gotta get gotta get around town to drop 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.720 off the packages. There's not much you can change. You 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.720 can listen to this podcast on repeat and that's going 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.320 to help at least, But they're they're only there's only uh, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.120 certain professions that can actually be helped by this. But 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.240 I think there's a lot of people and there's a 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:58.120 lot of practical takeaways for almost everybody in this. Yeah. Also, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.360 first let's talk about the benefit to employees. So you 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.280 as workers, I mean it should be obvious. Thing goes 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.440 without saying that employees want to have options, to be 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.320 able to either work from home or at least hopefully 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:11.920 to have some sort of incentive, like you know, it's 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.840 like some sort of carrot dangled in front of them 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.920 to sort of challenge them to think, oh man, what 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.240 are some other ways that I could get to work, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.040 you know, while maybe saving money, while enjoying myself more 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.800 and not being nearly as stressed out as I normally am. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.800 So if you are able to work from home, you 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.520 should take advantage of that and consider asking if you 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.000 can work from home more than you're currently allowed to do. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.320 It's less stress in your life if you don't have 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.880 to fight traffic, it's less cost less war and terror 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.320 on your car. And the other cool thing is that 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.680 sometimes you're more productive when you're working from home, right, Yeah, 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.480 mean there's just so much time that you can essentially 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.040 reclaim and kind of put towards productivity. It gives you 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.600 a little more time to be flexible, maybe stay during 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.880 the day, but basically, yeah, it allows you just to 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.160 get more stuff done, uh, in a shorter amount of time. Yeah. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.320 And like Matt, for you, when you were able to 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.280 start working from home, you know, you're makeup time got 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.120 cut in half, Like you you didn't have to look 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.240 beautiful for all the people at the office like you stop. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.160 You know, you started wearing T shirts as opposed to 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.840 these like three piece suits and stuff like that, right yeah, 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.200 and that you had like the pocket watch and ye 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.240 yeah yeah, the monitors take a long time to put on. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.520 That's what I'm saying. So that's another great benefit of 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.400 working from home as you can just keep your pjs on, right, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.920 make a quick breakfast and sit down and get to work. Um, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.560 there's fewer meetings that you have to tend, fewer interruptions. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.040 And granted, I'll tell you I enjoy working in office. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.560 I enjoy working with people, but it's really nice to 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.600 work from home. Sometimes I do feel more productive when 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.040 I am at home, working alone and don't have the 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.280 constant interruption of working in a workplace where surrounded by 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.720 other people. Yeah, and surrounded by just like those constant 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.560 meetings that you kind of get scheduled for. We're just like, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.200 I don't need to be in this meeting, but I'm 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.280 on the list and I was sent to invite, and 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.000 I'm supposed to be here, I think, but I just 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.040 don't need to be here. I just remember those from 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.760 ten years ago, back when I used to work in 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.960 an agency, and I hated those. Dude, like I've been there, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.360 done that. Oh my gosh, probably yesterday. That's just the 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.560 kind of thing that just drives me crazy, is you know, 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.520 like when you're just staring inefficiency in the face and 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.399 you're just like, I just want to shoot myself right now. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.040 Like yeah, and not the worst, not all meetings are bad, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.880 but you know, and sometimes it's just an impromptu visit 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.840 from a coworker, and those are fun. But there are 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.480 days where it's nice to feel like you're uper productive. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.800 And I know the days that I feel like that 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.560 are usually either on Fridays when everyone else is working 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.160 from home and I'm in the office, or when I'm 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.960 working from home, I feel like that. So I enjoy 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.440 having the interactional with my coworkers. But those days are 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.240 really nice to have. And in another point, another benefit 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.399 to alternatives to traditional com meeting. I mean we already 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.240 touched on this, but you just save a lot of money. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:40.879 You just take a new account how much money you 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.919 put towards gas, towards your car upkeep. You know, if 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.840 you're driving in solo and that's just a lot of 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.719 your monthly budget that you're not gonna have to put 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.359 towards transportation. And not only that, you're gonna see your 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.000 vehicle just last you longer. The value is gonna kind 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.200 of maintain and you're not going to see it depreciate 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.880 nearly as much as if you're driving it every day 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.640 forty five minutes to from work. Yeah. Completely, If you're 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.440 able to take a few thousand miles off your car 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.080 every year, you know, that might be one fewer oil change, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.520 and it's so easily, especially city driving. To man, that's 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.399 like the worst versus just like hopping on the interstate, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.159 you know, and that's less gas, so you've got to 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.720 use and that less breaks, less everything, maybe cheaper insurance 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.960 that you can get. If you can get under a 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.440 certain mile cap from your insure, you might be able 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.280 to save you know, a hundred dollars or a hundred 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.280 and fifty dollars every year by driving less. Yes, So 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.840 they're all all these costs that you're not factoring in 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.200 that go into your commute into work every day. So 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.600