Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Happy Hour #144: All I Want for Life Day
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
- 0:07Speaker 1: I never told you, protection I heard you, and welcome
- 0:19Speaker 1: to another edition of a Happy Hour. As always, if
- 0:23Speaker 1: you choose to drink or whatever you're choosing to do,
- 0:25Speaker 1: please do so responsibly.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Samantha, are you doing things responsibly?
- 0:30Speaker 3: I'm drinking coffee, so a peek behind the curtains. It's
- 0:34Speaker 3: not quite noon yet, so I can have coffee right now,
- 0:39Speaker 3: so responsibly, yes, because after about two cannot have the
- 0:43Speaker 3: coffee anymore. The caffeine's so yeah, I'm being responsible.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Yeah, well, now you've exposed me. I drinking rose. That
- 0:53Speaker 1: press is kind of a morning wine.
- 0:56Speaker 3: And also we have established that for the next four
- 0:59Speaker 3: years is port rules, so just be cautious but understand.
- 1:05Speaker 3: But we understand.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a good a couple of things. That
- 1:10Speaker 1: is a good segue into what I want to talk about,
- 1:12Speaker 1: but which is this is a happy hour, happy happy
- 1:16Speaker 1: I was determined to make.
- 1:17Speaker 2: It a happy hour. I love it.
- 1:19Speaker 1: But my mom, I've said before, she buys me for
- 1:22Speaker 1: like my birthday or any gift giving instance, wine from
- 1:28Speaker 1: uh North Georgia because there's wineries up there, so this
- 1:32Speaker 1: is one I have not tried. It's a rose when
- 1:35Speaker 1: she's constantly asking me like was it good?
- 1:39Speaker 2: Constantly? Is not?
- 1:41Speaker 1: She asked me frequently ish yes, like did you like it?
- 1:45Speaker 1: And I haven't tried it yet, so it's my first
- 1:46Speaker 1: time trying it and I do like it, so I
- 1:48Speaker 1: can report back to her good. But multitasking, Yeah, I've
- 1:54Speaker 1: been thinking about multitasking lately because.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Again somewhat related.
- 2:00Speaker 1: So the election, as you might imagine, kind of took
- 2:05Speaker 1: us out for and we were anticipating it.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Like we planned like all all.
- 2:12Speaker 1: That stuff that came out that week before our reaction episode.
- 2:15Speaker 1: We knew there was a chance we might be too
- 2:19Speaker 1: depressed to record, so we planned it.
- 2:23Speaker 2: But it means that.
- 2:27Speaker 1: And plus the holidays coming, like, it's just it's a lot,
- 2:31Speaker 1: and we don't while we were not going to turn
- 2:34Speaker 1: away from things we all need, the like happier things
- 2:39Speaker 1: or the breathers moments like that. And I know, for
- 2:44Speaker 1: me after I got too choked up to really talk
- 2:48Speaker 1: about what happened right after the election for me, but
- 2:52Speaker 1: I was so overstimulated that I couldn't multitask. Like I'm
- 2:56Speaker 1: pretty good at it, but I couldn't. I couldn't do it.
- 3:00Speaker 1: I was like, either you're focusing on this or this,
- 3:02Speaker 1: but you are not going to try to do both.
- 3:05Speaker 2: And so.
- 3:08Speaker 1: It's it's I've gotten a little bit better, but I
- 3:10Speaker 1: still am like watching.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Like meditation, like rain videos, which is great.
- 3:17Speaker 3: That's how I sleep.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Sounds Yeah, that's pretty much what I've been doing. I'm
- 3:23Speaker 1: giving myself a little space before I get back into
- 3:27Speaker 1: the news, like I'm still getting news, but.
- 3:31Speaker 2: Like I was previously.
- 3:32Speaker 1: But that being said, it can be difficult when you're
- 3:39Speaker 1: on a show like ours or you know, just existing
- 3:41Speaker 1: and care about people in general that could be impacted
- 3:44Speaker 1: by this election, to do things that are seem frivolous,
- 3:49Speaker 1: that seem fun. But I think it's really important. And
- 3:52Speaker 1: we've talked before about burnout and activism and how how
- 4:02Speaker 1: having that space is important to prevent that. That being said,
- 4:08Speaker 1: it's life day this weekend.
- 4:12Speaker 2: I'll find your joys.
- 4:13Speaker 1: You gotta find your joy somewhere. It is okay to
- 4:18Speaker 1: do it.
- 4:19Speaker 2: I know.
- 4:19Speaker 1: We talked I think last time Trump was elected. We
- 4:23Speaker 1: talked about how it can feel strange if you have
- 4:27Speaker 1: a month like something you did, like oh I came
- 4:30Speaker 1: out with a book, and it can feel strange promoting it,
- 4:34Speaker 1: but you did come out with a like it's a
- 4:36Speaker 1: it's a big deal, so it's it's it's okay. It
- 4:38Speaker 1: feels weird, it does, but yeah, it is Life Day.
- 4:42Speaker 1: I am struggling to deal with the fact that it's
- 4:46Speaker 1: Life Day because it doesn't feel we were talking about
- 4:50Speaker 1: this before. It doesn't feel like November, like made November
- 4:52Speaker 1: to me. Life Day is November seventeenth.
- 4:55Speaker 2: And if you've somehow missed Life Days.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Star Wars Holiday it's based on the nineteen seventy nine
- 5:07Speaker 1: Star Wars Holiday special. Uh, and it's the holiday special
- 5:13Speaker 1: is notorious because it is weird.
- 5:16Speaker 2: It's pretty bad. I love it.
- 5:22Speaker 1: It has gone mainstream now that Disney has bought Star Wars,
- 5:25Speaker 1: even though they have yet to actually like release the
- 5:29Speaker 1: whole thing. It's like you kind of have to nowhere
- 5:33Speaker 1: to go to get it, or.
- 5:36Speaker 2: Don't if you don't want to or don't or don't
- 5:38Speaker 2: don't scare No, that's fair. But now they made me
- 5:42Speaker 2: watch it, y'all, they maybe watch you didn't want you
- 5:44Speaker 2: didn't even get to the b R third part. I didn't.
- 5:47Speaker 2: That's the good part.
- 5:48Speaker 3: Well, And then I came back to them watching it
- 5:50Speaker 3: the third time in a row.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Anyway, keep going, well, you know, and I I didn't
- 5:56Speaker 1: watch it for a long time because you can't you
- 5:58Speaker 1: can find it. I'm making it so how more difficult
- 6:01Speaker 1: than it is. But there's there's no like legal way.
- 6:03Speaker 2: To get it.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Now.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I'm incriminating myself a tomorrow. It's on YouTube legally, I
- 6:08Speaker 1: would say. But I hadn't seen it until I think
- 6:14Speaker 1: I really during the pandemic.
- 6:17Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, let's do it.
- 6:22Speaker 1: And I'm so glad I did, and I'd like saved
- 6:24Speaker 1: the text message chain I had with a friend who
- 6:27Speaker 1: had seen it before and she was like, Oh, you gotta.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Tell me your thoughts.
- 6:30Speaker 1: I love this and I love that I saved it
- 6:32Speaker 1: because it was so I was like, you could never
- 6:35Speaker 1: have prepared me for this, never in a million years.
- 6:39Speaker 1: The first nine minutes, no English, no one says anything.
- 6:43Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it is. It is a sight of
- 6:48Speaker 3: behold spectacle.
- 7:01Speaker 1: So I did have another Star Wars episode I was
- 7:07Speaker 1: going to do for this, but it actually like got
- 7:10Speaker 1: really long, and it's I would say, more complaining, and
- 7:15Speaker 1: I don't even know how much people want to hear
- 7:17Speaker 1: me complain. So I was like, no, let me think
- 7:20Speaker 1: about this, because I really want to do something happier.
- 7:23Speaker 1: And I feel like one of the reasons I mean,
- 7:28Speaker 1: I started doing my tradition of Sunday Sunday Sunday with
- 7:30Speaker 1: the original trilogy is because and the reason when it
- 7:34Speaker 1: came out it was so popular, Like one of the
- 7:36Speaker 1: main reasons they always say is optimism.
- 7:38Speaker 2: It was optimism.
- 7:40Speaker 1: We are in our Revenge of the Fifth era, so
- 7:43Speaker 1: I'm trying to read the room and I do want
- 7:48Speaker 1: to come back and talk about this thing that is
- 7:51Speaker 1: like driving me bonkers right now where.
- 7:55Speaker 2: I feel like we were agreed the Empire and Sith were.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Bad and now people aren't, and I'm like, what are
- 8:03Speaker 1: we doing?
- 8:06Speaker 2: It has but yeah, that's that's.
- 8:10Speaker 1: I will save that episode for a later day, not
- 8:16Speaker 1: for today. Something else I wanted to talk about is
- 8:21Speaker 1: that I think it is important to have distractions or entertainment.
- 8:29Speaker 1: I know, like on the other show we do Savor,
- 8:33Speaker 1: which is by the way, political because food is political,
- 8:36Speaker 1: but it's it's like not overtly so usually some episodes,
- 8:41Speaker 1: but and it's clear where we stand, but it can
- 8:45Speaker 1: feel weird, like when I'm writing corn puns, which I
- 8:48Speaker 1: was doing last night, and by the way they rejected
- 8:51Speaker 1: my very well, I guess they should have.
- 8:54Speaker 4: Well.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Down to shuck is too to a risque anyway, it
- 9:01Speaker 1: can feel very like what am I doing?
- 9:07Speaker 2: But then people would write in and they.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Were like, I really need something like this right now,
- 9:11Speaker 1: or I really needed something like this right now. So
- 9:16Speaker 1: it is that balance of still fighting all of that stuff,
- 9:20Speaker 1: but also having that space for you know what. This
- 9:23Speaker 1: weekend is Life Day, and I'm going to put on
- 9:27Speaker 1: my Life Day robe. I got my Life Day globe,
- 9:32Speaker 1: I got my Chewbacca who is also got a globe.
- 9:37Speaker 1: All of these are amazing gifts friends have given me.
- 9:40Speaker 1: I'm going to make a dish from my Life Day
- 9:44Speaker 1: book exciting.
- 9:47Speaker 2: It is exciting.
- 9:48Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna make like there's a very like mushroom.
- 9:53Speaker 1: I think it's like a Shepherd's pier type thing. But
- 9:56Speaker 1: that's what I'm thinking I'm gonna make. H But then
- 10:01Speaker 1: I was thinking about I don't generally like to complain.
- 10:09Speaker 1: I don't generally sometimes like if I know we're in agreement,
- 10:14Speaker 1: I do, But generally I don't want to make If
- 10:19Speaker 1: somebody likes something, I guess I don't want to make
- 10:22Speaker 1: them feel bad. But the thing is, I've learned from
- 10:24Speaker 1: other friends that some people like to complain, so I
- 10:28Speaker 1: don't know that they're seeing it in the same way
- 10:30Speaker 1: that I'm seeing it, or like interpret interpreting it the
- 10:34Speaker 1: same way. Like I said, I do have kind of
- 10:37Speaker 1: a complaining Star Wars episode coming up. But when I
- 10:40Speaker 1: think about the Holiday special, it is really fun in
- 10:45Speaker 1: terms of it as a train wreck, and you can
- 10:48Speaker 1: complain about it, like if it's fun to watch it
- 10:51Speaker 1: with people and be like, what is this? What is
- 10:55Speaker 1: going on here? And I do want to say because
- 10:59Speaker 1: I think last life I talked about the documentary that
- 11:03Speaker 1: came out about how it got made, Like I think
- 11:06Speaker 1: you can work on something and do the best job,
- 11:11Speaker 1: and that doesn't mean, like I don't want to say
- 11:13Speaker 1: the people who are like working on sound or whatever.
- 11:18Speaker 1: It sounds to me like essentially, there was just a
- 11:20Speaker 1: lot of bad communication and misunderstanding what Star Wars was
- 11:24Speaker 1: and it was just kind of came together in this.
- 11:26Speaker 1: So I don't want to be like everyone did a
- 11:29Speaker 1: terrible job on it or anything like that, but it
- 11:32Speaker 1: is I mean, it's just especially to our modern eyes
- 11:35Speaker 1: because a lot of people will be like, well TV
- 11:37Speaker 1: was like that in seven years.
- 11:38Speaker 2: I'm like, really, but WHOA.
- 11:43Speaker 1: But to our modern eyes it feels very strange, is
- 11:48Speaker 1: one way to put it. And so that can be
- 11:52Speaker 1: fun to share that with someone if they enjoy it.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Like you said, plenty of people do not, and I
- 11:59Speaker 1: get that too, but I have I have friends who do,
- 12:03Speaker 1: and I have friends who are like, we don't have
- 12:07Speaker 1: to actually watch it, right, it'll beyond we don't have
- 12:09Speaker 1: to actually watch it, Like, yes.
- 12:10Speaker 2: That's fine. So I get it.
- 12:13Speaker 1: I do, but it's just like a nice especially because
- 12:18Speaker 1: after I was trying to do that other Happy Hour
- 12:22Speaker 1: on Halloween about how much I love Halloween that was
- 12:25Speaker 1: so so stressed about the election coming up that ID
- 12:30Speaker 1: ended up not really doing the stuff I normally do
- 12:33Speaker 1: on Halloween. But I did talk in that episode about
- 12:36Speaker 1: how I like Halloween because it doesn't have the steaks.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Life Day does not have the steaks. But I will say,
- 12:46Speaker 2: more people have gotten.
- 12:47Speaker 1: In on it, and I'm starting to be like, oh no, no, no.
- 12:51Speaker 2: We're not making Life Day. You were staying hold on.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Oh you kind of canna keep this?
- 12:58Speaker 2: I don't want to, but.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Well, and it's I feel bad because I've also talked
- 13:06Speaker 1: about how I get in my head sometimes about being
- 13:12Speaker 1: controlling about media that I like or don't like, and
- 13:18Speaker 1: sometimes that can lead to me shutting off about it completely.
- 13:21Speaker 1: And it is like my love language. I love sharing
- 13:25Speaker 1: things I love with people, and so then I feel
- 13:29Speaker 1: guilty when I'm like, actually, I really don't want to
- 13:31Speaker 1: watch that. And I don't think the equivalent is the same,
- 13:38Speaker 1: because sometimes it's like I can't enjoy Harry Potter anymore.
- 13:41Speaker 2: Like it's not like but it makes me feel a
- 13:44Speaker 2: little weird.
- 13:45Speaker 1: But there are people who love Star Wars, but I
- 13:50Speaker 1: feel hate the part of Star Wars.
- 13:52Speaker 2: I love. Star Wars is huge, So I.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Mean there's a lot of room for you to be
- 13:57Speaker 1: like I like this and not this, And so I
- 14:01Speaker 1: feel bad that I have kind of gate kept something
- 14:04Speaker 1: since I'm like, I don't want to listen to you
- 14:06Speaker 1: talk about how much you hate the thing that I
- 14:08Speaker 1: love at the Star Wars event.
- 14:11Speaker 2: That's fair. We can do it at a different time,
- 14:15Speaker 2: but not on life. Take come on on life, I'll
- 14:19Speaker 2: dare you. We can talk about how bad the holid.
- 14:22Speaker 5: Especialists on this day of life.
- 14:25Speaker 1: Never Yeah, but I do feel guilty about it, Like,
- 14:29Speaker 1: I don't know the the line between this is this
- 14:34Speaker 1: is something I want to do for myself. Are you
- 14:37Speaker 1: being selfish? Or are you no? This is actually just
- 14:41Speaker 1: something you need to do by yourself.
- 14:42Speaker 2: I don't know. I think about that a lot. But yeah,
- 14:48Speaker 2: I am boundaries. I hope so.
- 14:52Speaker 1: And I think it's good that I think it's good
- 14:54Speaker 1: that I question it because I also I don't want to.
- 14:59Speaker 2: I don't know. I just want want to keep it
- 15:01Speaker 2: in mind, like it's a healthy boundary. Is this Are
- 15:04Speaker 2: you being too much right now? I don't know. Let
- 15:06Speaker 2: me think about it.
- 15:07Speaker 5: But that's kind of everybody wants to celebrate life day,
- 15:13Speaker 5: but spifically, I mean to be fair. I just don't
- 15:21Speaker 5: realize his life day until you tell me.
- 15:24Speaker 6: Yeah, also very fair. I get a lot of messages
- 15:39Speaker 6: on life Day.
- 15:40Speaker 1: I love it, but that yeah, it's just because also,
- 15:45Speaker 1: you know, you share friend groups and they're like, is
- 15:47Speaker 1: Anny doing something for life Day?
- 15:51Speaker 2: Oh it's awkward to be like a special note talked
- 16:00Speaker 2: about it? Now me, it's fair.
- 16:03Speaker 3: The only reason I know about it is because of you.
- 16:06Speaker 3: And then I think, now, Holly, like, but you know
- 16:10Speaker 3: I knew you before Holly, so that would make more sense.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Yeah, but I did. I did.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't think I watched it until
- 16:17Speaker 1: the pandemic. And there have been really fun like how
- 16:20Speaker 1: did it get made? There are other podcasts on our
- 16:23Speaker 1: network stuff you should know. Did a how how did
- 16:26Speaker 1: this Happen?
- 16:27Speaker 2: Episode?
- 16:28Speaker 1: It's really good, like, well, the description is made, the
- 16:34Speaker 1: description of it was excellent, like it said something like
- 16:40Speaker 1: no one can ever explain what happened that night in
- 16:42Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine.
- 16:47Speaker 2: For voting. I love it, and I did.
- 16:51Speaker 1: I tried to research, like lightly research some stuff for
- 16:54Speaker 1: this about why do you what's the difference between a
- 16:58Speaker 1: train wreck someone enjoys and wreck someone doesn't, Because there's
- 17:01Speaker 1: also train wrecks I've watched. I'm like, I don't want
- 17:03Speaker 1: to do this, so I mean, obviously there's personal some
- 17:09Speaker 1: personal stuff there, but I think there might be like
- 17:11Speaker 1: a scientific or something some study that's been done about
- 17:16Speaker 1: why do we like watching bad stuff?
- 17:18Speaker 2: The Room is a prime example.
- 17:20Speaker 3: Yeah, did that gets so big that they had to
- 17:22Speaker 3: make an actual movie about the making of the Room.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Like, yeah, you know, there's like real world studies that
- 17:30Speaker 1: have definitely been done about like basically why are you're
- 17:32Speaker 1: looking at.
- 17:32Speaker 2: A car wreck? But but I think so.
- 17:34Speaker 1: I think there's probably similarities, but I was curious if
- 17:36Speaker 1: there was one specifically about why do we why are
- 17:41Speaker 1: we doing this? And I will say also, just to
- 17:44Speaker 1: finish up, I have been struggling like most of us,
- 17:51Speaker 1: I would say, but I have done. I have managed
- 17:55Speaker 1: to do some nerdy stuff. I just beat the Silent
- 17:59Speaker 1: Hill to remake us.
- 18:03Speaker 2: If you know, that is one of my favorite games.
- 18:07Speaker 1: If you know, you might also be like, that's probably
- 18:09Speaker 1: one of the worst games you'd be good be playing
- 18:11Speaker 1: right now. Fair, But I started it before the election,
- 18:17Speaker 1: and I gotta finish yep. And I've also been enjoying
- 18:23Speaker 1: what we do in the Shadows.
- 18:24Speaker 2: I've just been sending out of context quotes from it
- 18:28Speaker 2: to some of my friends. It's been very fun so
- 18:31Speaker 2: finding your finding the joy and distractions where you can.
- 18:37Speaker 2: Thank you so much to all of my friends, including you,
- 18:41Speaker 2: Smantha or checking in on me. And ok, you should
- 18:45Speaker 2: probably play Mario Party or something. I'm like, yeah, okay,
- 18:48Speaker 2: which I did is probably the sadest gay of Mario
- 18:50Speaker 2: Party that's ever been played.
- 18:51Speaker 3: But I play by yourself.
- 18:53Speaker 1: Yeah, But there is a single player mode in THEO.
- 18:58Speaker 3: I'm sure that there was a moment of confusion. I
- 19:03Speaker 3: needed something I did.
- 19:06Speaker 2: I mean, I'm trying.
- 19:09Speaker 3: We did threaten her and hanging out with people at
- 19:12Speaker 3: one point in time, and like you have to choose.
- 19:13Speaker 3: But then she was like, no, I'm physically sick.
- 19:15Speaker 2: ID was like, fine, I will. I've been pretty sick.
- 19:18Speaker 3: I think my ultimatum was you have to respond to
- 19:20Speaker 3: me though in texts.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:23Speaker 2: I felt bad. It wasn't anything purposeful. I was just like,
- 19:27Speaker 2: I'm sick.
- 19:29Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh, but I mean not to say too much.
- 19:35Speaker 3: There's protocols at hand.
- 19:37Speaker 2: I know not some of us. I suspected.
- 19:41Speaker 1: I suspected that, Yes, I am going to I'm going
- 19:46Speaker 1: to take this life day.
- 19:47Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm going to relax in my coffee robe
- 19:54Speaker 2: and wonder, wonder at this spectacle of nineteen seventy nine. Perfect. Yeah.
- 20:03Speaker 4: Well, listeners, uh, if you if you celebrate life day
- 20:12Speaker 4: or you know that, listeners who do, yeah, yeah, let
- 20:16Speaker 4: let me know if you have any traditions or recipes.
- 20:19Speaker 1: I would love love to know that. Just Star Wars
- 20:22Speaker 1: recipes in general are just anything you want to highlight
- 20:26Speaker 1: or shout out that you're doing or anything you found
- 20:28Speaker 1: comfort in. Yeah, let us know. Happy Life Day, which,
- 20:34Speaker 1: by the way, is very appropriate because life day is
- 20:38Speaker 1: about the struggle to free yourself from the empire.
- 20:42Speaker 2: So there you go. There you go, all right.
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