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Hope, Love, and Mental Health in the 2026 · Millennial Mental Health Channel

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Speaker 1: Oh liebn Venidos, Welcome back to MMHC. Eddie, what is
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Speaker 1: your New Year's Resolution? Welcome to MMHC, your go to
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Speaker 1: mental health podcast.
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Speaker 2: I'm Eddie Cooreo, a licensed professional counselor.
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Speaker 1: And I'm Justin Romano, a Board certified Child and Adolescent psychiatrist.
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Speaker 2: We created MMHC to give listeners evidence based information directly
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Speaker 2: from professionals who work in mental health.
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Speaker 1: We're not influencers, We're not trying to sell you anything.
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Speaker 1: We just want to bring love, empathy, and understanding of
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Speaker 1: mental health into this world.
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Speaker 2: And we really think that learning about mental health should
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Speaker 2: be fun, interesting, and most importantly honest.
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Speaker 1: So thanks for tuning in. This is a show by
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Speaker 1: two millennials, but it is intended to be for everyone.
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Speaker 1: We hope you enjoy the show. MMHC is a production
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Speaker 2: I HEARTMA. I was gonna say something super bad. Okay,
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Speaker 2: now let's see that I'm actually working on and I'm
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Speaker 2: happy to share with everyone. I'm bad at budgeting. Not
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Speaker 2: because I'm bad at keeping a budget, I just don't
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Speaker 2: do it. I pretty much just like but let me
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Speaker 2: voucher myself a little bit I've made a lot of
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Speaker 2: improvements in my spending habits since prior to Kevin and
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Speaker 2: I buy in our house. So before I was definitely
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Speaker 2: someone who would, like, you know, I'd have my credit card,
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Speaker 2: I'd make minimum payments whatever, carry a balance, great, not great.
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Speaker 2: Now I never carry a balance every month. Everything is
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Speaker 2: paid off. I feel good about that, right, Other than
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Speaker 2: student loans and our mortgage, that's it. Like there's no
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Speaker 2: other accumulated debt. But I don't like track. Oh I
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Speaker 2: started with this much money in my account, this is
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Speaker 2: where I ended up with pay all that stuff right,
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Speaker 2: And so I've been wanting to do a better job
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Speaker 2: with budgeting, but I just like it's very daunting to
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Speaker 2: think about tracking every single expanse. So what I've decided
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Speaker 2: is maybe a starter or a good way to start
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Speaker 2: with it is what if I just I on December thirty, first,
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Speaker 2: I cleared all my credit cards, like, I paid everything off.
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Speaker 2: I took the totals that I paid and I added
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Speaker 2: it up, and then I subtracted it from what was
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Speaker 2: in my bank account because it was going to take
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Speaker 2: a few days to post. And I started with that
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Speaker 2: number on a budget sheet. And now this budget sheet.
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Speaker 2: At the end of the month, I'm just going to
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Speaker 2: do what each credit card payment is, and then what
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Speaker 2: my pay is, and then any other like zell or
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Speaker 2: Venmo payments and stuff like that, and then I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: use that as my beginner budget tracking. So that's something
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Speaker 2: that I've already made the Google sheet for it. I'm
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Speaker 2: ready to go January is prepped for the end of
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Speaker 2: the month when I make these payments. So yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think if I were to say I have a New
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Speaker 2: Year's resolution, let's go with that one, because that is
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Speaker 2: something that I've wanted to work on. I gave myself
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Speaker 2: to the start of the new year to be like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we got to lock in and do this, and here
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Speaker 2: we are.
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Speaker 1: Cool. I like it. I feel like, man, that's something
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Speaker 1: I find so hard too that I I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I've ever actually really sat down and made a budget.
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Speaker 2: It's hard, yeah, and I feel like I've tried it,
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Speaker 2: Like I've definitely tried different variations of Well, what if
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Speaker 2: I just keep a Google sheet and every time I
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Speaker 2: spend money, I put it on there and then you
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Speaker 2: forget once or then yeah, and then it's like I'm
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Speaker 2: not gonna do it anymore. We're fine, So yeah, we'll
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Speaker 2: give it a shot. We'll see how it goes. I
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Speaker 2: don't want to try something too big that I get
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Speaker 2: overwhelmed and then I lose confidence in myself and I
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Speaker 2: just give up on it. So this is my step. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I like it. Yeah, do you said any for yourself?
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Speaker 2: What are you thinking? You know?
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Speaker 1: I kind of have two that I want to accomplish,
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Speaker 1: and I am not really going to keep track of
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Speaker 1: it hardcore, which goes against our recommendations for setting smart goals.
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Speaker 1: But I want to do more yoga this year.
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Speaker 2: Nice.
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Speaker 1: I've been doing it more lately and I just find
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Speaker 1: that my body loves it and like I crave it
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Speaker 1: and it feels so good. I'm a very inflexible person physically.
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Speaker 1: I like to say I'm pretty cognitively flexible, but I'm
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Speaker 1: just a very stiff I just am not very flexible
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Speaker 1: at all. So if it's something that I could work
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Speaker 1: on core strength, posture of flexibility, I want to do
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Speaker 1: more yoga. I wouldn't even mind being able to do
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Speaker 1: some more yoga in like a community, like finding a
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Speaker 1: yoga studio. But I'm honestly genuinely worried about my flatulence
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Speaker 1: and my heavy breathing, and I wish I was joking,
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Speaker 1: but I am not. I am worried that I'm going
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Speaker 1: to come into a yoga class and make an absolute
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Speaker 1: fool of myself because.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the instructors would appreciate that, just like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: trying something new. Did I ever tell you I took
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Speaker 2: a semester long yoga class in college?
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Speaker 1: Oh I don't think you did. Oh maybe during our
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Speaker 1: yoga episode nice dude.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, senior year, Yeah, maybe I did bring up that episode.
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Speaker 2: But but senior year, with a bunch of our friends,
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Speaker 2: I took the class. I fell asleep in pretty much
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Speaker 2: every class and was imbert yeah, and my friends used
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Speaker 2: to like give me ship. But I think the instructor
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Speaker 2: be like, no, no, it's fine, he's doing deep relaxation.
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Speaker 2: Let him be. Yeah, I remember her name, but she
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Speaker 2: was cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she lets you sleep in class?
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Speaker 2: Why not.
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Speaker 1: My other one is spending more time with like friends,
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Speaker 1: like my high school buddies, and I have been watching
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Speaker 1: movies together and like just calling on the phone and
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Speaker 1: like all saying one, two, three, go on the play button.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome.
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Speaker 1: We've only really watched Arnold Schwarzenegger movies so far. So
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Speaker 1: I think we're just going to continue with that. Fine,
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Speaker 1: But it's been so much fun, especially because we're all
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Speaker 1: in different places. It's been We've been terrible at keeping
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Speaker 1: up with each other over the past twenty years, right
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Speaker 1: since we got out of high school. It's not even
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Speaker 1: that long for us yet, but to just be able
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Speaker 1: to sit down, talk on the phone, watch a movie.
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Speaker 1: We just watched Conan the Barbarian, which was ridiculous, just
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Speaker 1: violence and nudity, just your classic macho man eighties movie,
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Speaker 1: and it was so much fun to make fun of.
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Speaker 2: You know, you say twenty years, I'm like, no, I
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Speaker 2: can't be that long. I've only been you know, we're
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Speaker 2: not that far apart in age. I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I've only been out of high school. And I just
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Speaker 2: realized this is coming up on fifteen years.
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Speaker 1: God damn, I know, right, Holy shit, I graduated oh nine,
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm like.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen market seventeen this year.
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Speaker 1: Crazy, dude. It is just crazy. So time flies when
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Speaker 1: you're having fun, Yes, and we have had a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun, and six years of the podcast has been
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Speaker 1: a ton of fun too, So we wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about New Year's resolutions today, and I think it's really
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Speaker 1: interesting that this is such a big tradition in the
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Speaker 1: United States that we a lot of us do this.
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Speaker 1: I was looking at some numbers, and you know, it's
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Speaker 1: like a little bit about half of Americans tend to
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Speaker 1: make New Year's resolutions. And I've noticed that it's almost
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Speaker 1: always like physical health stuff. It's look better, eat better,
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Speaker 1: work out, more of that kind of stuff. So we
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Speaker 1: wanted to do an episode on this so we can
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Speaker 1: help guide you through New Year's resolutions. Make sure it's
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Speaker 1: for the right reasons. If you're looking to live a
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Speaker 1: healthier lifestyle, maybe give some suggestions as to actually if
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Speaker 1: that happen. Make sure that your New Year's resolutions aren't
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Speaker 1: just to make other people happy. And you know, why
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Speaker 1: wait until the new year? You know, if you really
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Speaker 1: need to make a change in your life, like why
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Speaker 1: wait for a certain time of year. Why not do
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Speaker 1: it right when you need it. That's always been my
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Speaker 1: gripe with New Year's resolutions. It's like, if you got
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Speaker 1: a problem, fix it in the moment.
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Speaker 2: You know. The hard part, too, is that the wait
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Speaker 2: until the New year thing kind of plays into my
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Speaker 2: own procrastination. I was someone probably still am someone back
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Speaker 2: in like college, grad school. I would be the I'd
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Speaker 2: be on my phone scrolling bad habit right, and I
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Speaker 2: would say, Okay, it's eight o'clock right now, I've eaten dinner,
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Speaker 2: it's nighttime, whatever, I've done whatever. At eight thirty, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna work on my paper, or I'm gonna work on
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Speaker 2: my assignment whatever. I'd be scrolling, it'd hit eight thirty two,
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Speaker 2: and by fuck, I guess I'll wait till nine. And
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Speaker 2: then I'd go till nine and then I'd miss it again,
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Speaker 2: and I just keep procrastinating. And then that's the hard
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Speaker 2: part with New Year's resolutions. Like cool, January first, I
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Speaker 2: got this, January second, even I got this, and then
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Speaker 2: it's like January seventh, the night that we're recording this,
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Speaker 2: I was like, well, I haven't done it yet. I
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Speaker 2: guess we'll wait till next year. It plays into my
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Speaker 2: procrastination of waiting until the new year. You're correct, you
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Speaker 2: can start things whatever, but maybe we should more approach
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Speaker 2: the new yeark just time to reflect and maybe come
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Speaker 2: up with ideas or or slowly come up with plans
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Speaker 2: to make changes instead of deciding that I have to
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Speaker 2: make a change January first. That's a lot of pressure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a lot of pressure at the end
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Speaker 1: of the year, and it feels like it's got to
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Speaker 1: be big. Right, what's your resolution? Y, Someone's probably going
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Speaker 1: to ask you and you've got to have a good answer, right,
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Speaker 1: you can.
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Speaker 2: Always ask you. It's like get the start of this episode.
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Speaker 2: Fuck well. When it comes to making goals, if you
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Speaker 2: are a therapist, a therapist and training and psychologists, I'm
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Speaker 2: sure they talk about it in med school too, the
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Speaker 2: idea of setting goals. Usually you'll hear the acronym smart
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Speaker 2: smart goals right when you get into treatment planning. It's
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Speaker 2: always the smart goals. When you get even an education,
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Speaker 2: they're smart goals. I have to do my yearly like
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Speaker 2: observations and they talk about setting goals and they want
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Speaker 2: it set in smart format. So if you've heard the
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Speaker 2: term smart goals and you didn't know what they meant,
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Speaker 2: you are in luck, because we're going to tell you
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Speaker 2: right now. So the S is specific. They want it
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Speaker 2: to be a specific thing. What are we measuring, what
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Speaker 2: are we looking at? What is this specific goal? The
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Speaker 2: M for smart is measurable, How are we measuring this?
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Speaker 2: What units are we using? What are what are we doing?
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Speaker 2: In the sense achievable? I think achievable is very important
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Speaker 2: and something that I referenced already early and you've even
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Speaker 2: talked about it too. Of is this even doable? If
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Speaker 2: it's not achievable, what's the point, right, like, if it's
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Speaker 2: not even possible? I even make the goal our stands
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Speaker 2: for relevant it does this pertain to what we are
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Speaker 2: working on and what we're trying to tieve and then
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Speaker 2: t for time bound? What is the timeframe? Am I
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Speaker 2: doing this? Its? Actially? If you're doing treatment planning, are
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Speaker 2: we looking at this after six weeks? Are we looking
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Speaker 2: at this after four weeks? I'm sure when you're diagnosing
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Speaker 2: and treating and giving a trying a new medication, you
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Speaker 2: probably have a specific amount of time that you're gonna
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Speaker 2: look back on and we're gonna review this in this
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Speaker 2: amount of time. So when it comes to smart goals,
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Speaker 2: these are kind of the main points that people that
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Speaker 2: they've that we've come up with to help people come
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Speaker 2: up with things that are doable and not so daunting
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Speaker 2: and scary.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a good framework to use to make
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Speaker 1: sure that your goals are reasonable and achievable. Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: what are the most common New Year's resolutions for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six? According to Statista, the most common ones are
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Speaker 1: exercising more, save more money, eating healthier.
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Speaker 2: Spending more time with friends and family. It's like they
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Speaker 2: fucking talk to us because we've we've kind of hit
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Speaker 2: two of ourselves. To lose weight, probably hand in hand
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Speaker 2: with exercise more, improve work performance, do more, no work smarter,
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Speaker 2: not harder? Am I right? Just kidding? Nobody tell me?
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Speaker 2: Nobody tell hr do more for the environment. That's what
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Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that one. That's good. And reduce
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Speaker 2: stress at your job. Hell yeah, that would be nice.
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Speaker 2: You put something here on screen time? What are you thinking?
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Speaker 1: You know, I was surprised that reducing screen time wasn't
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Speaker 1: on the list.
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Speaker 2: Why would I want to do that?
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Speaker 1: Because it's it would help you probably do all of
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Speaker 1: those things that all those other achievements like exercising more,
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Speaker 1: saving more money, eating healthier, like less screen time just
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Speaker 1: tends to make you more active and life healthier.
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Speaker 2: You're right, you know that actually might be another one
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Speaker 2: for me that I've decided. I started the year strong
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Speaker 2: with trying to leave my phone in my office at
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Speaker 2: work and not getting in my pocket. The hard part is, though,
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Speaker 2: is that I sometimes I'm just I need messages to
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Speaker 2: come through chats or email or calendar reminders to keep
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Speaker 2: me on track with stuff. So what I've tried to
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Speaker 2: do again as I've gotten back to work this week
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Speaker 2: is just to leave my phone in my drawer so
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Speaker 2: it's not as easily accessible. So maybe that's another one
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Speaker 2: I'm working on. It's just trying to I am trying
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Speaker 2: to reduce the screen time. I'm just kidding when I
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Speaker 2: say why would I want to do that? I do
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Speaker 2: want to do that. My screen time was atrocious over
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Speaker 2: my winter break, so I would like to get back.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to get back to a much better level.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing? Like how much it can change quickly
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Speaker 1: if you get a change your routine.
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Speaker 2: It's embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to call you out a little bit. How
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Speaker 1: much did it go up?
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to say specific numbers, but it for
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Speaker 2: sure doubled at some point. Yeah. Yeah, I was home
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Speaker 2: for the holidays. We're hanging out at home a lot.
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Speaker 2: I was doing something. I'm not even going to try
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Speaker 2: to defend myself. It was just bad. I saw one
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Speaker 2: of the days I was like, what the fuck?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, damn gets out of hand. Some general stats for
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Speaker 1: y'all because we're southern now. According to a paper by
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State by Richard bats in twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: only nine percent of people who make resolution actually complete it.
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Speaker 1: A little less than half of Americans make a resolution.
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Speaker 1: I already spilled le beans on that one earlier. And
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Speaker 1: twenty three percent of people quit their resolution within the
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Speaker 1: first week.
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Speaker 2: If you said something that's like very difficult, you're trying
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Speaker 2: something new, I hell yeah, you're gonna quit in the
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Speaker 2: first week. If your goal is I'm going to track
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Speaker 2: everything that I eat every single day, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: work out two hours a day, and I'm going to
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Speaker 2: get nine hours asleep, that's just dead in the water.
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Speaker 2: There's no way.
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Speaker 1: It's too much.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's as hard is we want people
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Speaker 2: want to make changes, and we are such a now
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Speaker 2: now now society. I want the change now. I want
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Speaker 2: to be in a better spot right now, and we're
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Speaker 2: not looking at it as the longer term thing. I
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Speaker 2: think New Year's resolutions and the whole holiday of New
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Speaker 2: year's has been so commercialized that it's just turned into
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Speaker 2: this like quick almost like a get rich quick scheme. Right,
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Speaker 2: It's like this, you're gonna do this one thing, this
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Speaker 2: huge one thing right away, and then you're gonna get better,
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Speaker 2: like things are just gonna improve overnight. And it's just
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Speaker 2: that's just not the case for things that are sustainable,
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Speaker 2: you know, and doable. What if someone had a resolution
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Speaker 2: to improve their mental health, what do you think you
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Speaker 2: would suggest?
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Speaker 1: Also things that we think and are also evidence based
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Speaker 1: that could really help and try and evidence base because
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Speaker 1: that's all about baby. Try to do something scheduled that
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Speaker 1: is social. This used to be like church for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people to get you connected and have a
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Speaker 1: reason to go somewhere and connect with people, give you
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Speaker 1: a good community. But you know a lot of people
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Speaker 1: aren't super religious these days and church isn't a great option.
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Speaker 1: Although if it is your option, go for it too.
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Speaker 1: I think church could be a wonderful place to go
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Speaker 1: be with people who lift you up. But book clubs,
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Speaker 1: gaming clubs, biker gangs, community sports, and rec leagues. There's
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Speaker 1: lots of good options.
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Speaker 2: Have you heard about people talking about just like the
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Speaker 2: lack of third spaces Now, like people just don't have
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Speaker 2: third spaces anymore. And if you're not familiar, a third
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Speaker 2: space is exactly that, like a third space that someone
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Speaker 2: will spend their time in. For a lot of people,
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Speaker 2: home and work to spaces, third spaces for a lot
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Speaker 2: of people. Yeah, it used to be church, used to
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Speaker 2: be different community things. Because of COVID, probably there's been
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Speaker 2: a real decrease in the amount of people that have
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Speaker 2: third spaces. So it's definitely been something that's impacted other
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Speaker 2: people's ability to socialize and be around others and just
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Speaker 2: have that thing that I think made a lot of
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Speaker 2: people happier. It even makes me think about the book
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Speaker 2: that we've talked about, The Anxious Generation, how people are
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Speaker 2: just spending less time together. The author specifically talked about
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Speaker 2: kids having less time growing up outside horsing around with
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Speaker 2: their friends. But I think in general, people are just
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Speaker 2: spending less time around others out in the community. That's
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Speaker 2: had a big impact on people. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if an average teenager is spending eight hours
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Speaker 1: a day on their phone, that's not a lot of
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Speaker 1: time to actually spend time with other people your age,
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Speaker 1: face to face and in person.
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Speaker 2: Well, when you have eight hours at school. You're not
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Speaker 2: really spending time together, you're just in school and then
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Speaker 2: you're hopefully sleeping eight hours. So that's that's it. That's
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Speaker 2: your day.
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Speaker 1: There's not enough time in the day.
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Speaker 2: No. Yeah, some other things to do to help improve
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Speaker 2: your mental health get moving. This is something that we
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Speaker 2: know can help exercise on your own, exercising with others,
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Speaker 2: but definitely wanted to focus on some that you actually
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Speaker 2: like to do. If it's going to be if you
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Speaker 2: said the new year's resolution of I'm going to run
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Speaker 2: a marathon and you've never run or you haven't run
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Speaker 2: in years, that's not going to be fun. You're not
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Speaker 2: going to enjoy doing that. But if your new year's
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Speaker 2: resolution is I'm gonna maybe I already go to the gym,
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Speaker 2: but maybe I'm going to start to join the once
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Speaker 2: a week Zumba class that's going on, or maybe I'm
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Speaker 2: going to do the high intensity interval training class that's
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Speaker 2: on at six thirty. Maybe I'm going to try something
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Speaker 2: different because I think I'll like it. Movement can be
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Speaker 2: really hard though. Exercise can be really hard for people
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Speaker 2: to get back into. So if it's something that you
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Speaker 2: want to do, definitely wanting to make sure you do
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Speaker 2: something that you actually like to do. Even walking walking
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Speaker 2: is exercise, So even walking listening to an audiobook, listening
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Speaker 2: to a podcast, listening to us reading a book, watching
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Speaker 2: a show while you do cardios something like that. Starting
18:52
Speaker 2: something as simple as that can be great. And definitely, Yeah,
18:55
Speaker 2: the idea of exercising with others and not just doing
18:57
Speaker 2: it by yourself, it can be really helpful, ye.
19:00
Speaker 1: Because it's kind of two birds with one stone. You
19:01
Speaker 1: get a little community element and you get a little
19:03
Speaker 1: exercise and movement a lot of good benefits. If you
19:06
Speaker 1: can combine multiple things in one then they're extra good
19:10
Speaker 1: for you.
19:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, and real quick, while we're on the topic of exercise,
19:14
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people step into the gym
19:17
Speaker 2: for the first time January first, or January second, or
19:20
Speaker 2: for the first time in a long time, and they
19:21
Speaker 2: get really worried about what other people are thinking. Yeah,
19:25
Speaker 2: let me just tell you, I don't give a fuck
19:27
Speaker 2: what anyone else is doing in the gym. I'm too
19:30
Speaker 2: busy trying to get through the workout or get through
19:35
Speaker 2: the exercise or the lift. Typically Kevin and I work
19:38
Speaker 2: out together. Today was a day that We worked out
19:41
Speaker 2: separately because I had some other things to do before
19:43
Speaker 2: we recorded. And let me tell you, I didn't look
19:46
Speaker 2: at anybody. I made zero eye contact. The only person
19:49
Speaker 2: I talked to was asking if somebody was using a
19:51
Speaker 2: specific machine and they weren't. Other than that, I don't
19:54
Speaker 2: give a fuck. So just know most of the time
19:57
Speaker 2: people are not paying attention to you, and they know
19:59
Speaker 2: that this is time of yew where people go to
20:01
Speaker 2: the gym. You deserve to be there. You deserve to
20:04
Speaker 2: be a part of that community to use that space.
20:06
Speaker 2: You're paying for it, Go do it so hopefully that
20:09
Speaker 2: that could at least be a little helpful. You deserve
20:11
Speaker 2: to be there. Don't don't worry too much about the
20:12
Speaker 2: other people in the gym.
20:14
Speaker 1: Hey, I like it. I think that's a great message that, Yeah,
20:18
Speaker 1: gyms are a weird place because everyone's got their headphones on.
20:22
Speaker 1: There's not a ton of interaction. But I've noticed that
20:25
Speaker 1: when you actually do get the chance to talk to
20:27
Speaker 1: people in the gym, most of them are very supportive
20:30
Speaker 1: and they're very Yeah, they want to see you there.
20:32
Speaker 1: They want to make sure that you're doing okay and
20:35
Speaker 1: that you feel confident to be there. Even if it's
20:37
Speaker 1: not like been historically your thing.
20:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevy and I made friends with two guys a
20:43
Speaker 2: couple of years ago that are they were youth football
20:46
Speaker 2: coaches in the area. They'd coach cool songs, and now
20:49
Speaker 2: their sons are juniors in high school, so we've kind
20:53
Speaker 2: of watched them grow up, which is weird in its
20:55
Speaker 2: own sense. But they they're always super nice, always supportive,
20:59
Speaker 2: love to ask questions, we bullshit. I during football season,
21:02
Speaker 2: I ask about the boys season, just things like that.
21:05
Speaker 2: People are generally pretty nice in the gym. People are
21:07
Speaker 2: at different levels of fitness too, and learning new things
21:11
Speaker 2: all the time. So again, you deserve to be in there.
21:14
Speaker 2: You're not fucked this bullshit of like oh the New
21:17
Speaker 2: Year's resolution or shut the fuck up going there. Those
21:20
Speaker 2: people suck, don't worry about them. Go in there and
21:22
Speaker 2: enjoy your time. Try something new, try something you know
21:25
Speaker 2: how to do, whatever it is that gets you in there.
21:27
Speaker 2: You just be in there, especially if you haven't been
21:29
Speaker 2: there in a while. As a win already, so good
21:31
Speaker 2: for you.
21:32
Speaker 1: Cool. I love that mindset. Did you notice that your
21:35
Speaker 1: gym was more busy after New Year's Uh?
21:38
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't go on Monday, so that was
21:41
Speaker 2: the fifth Tuesday we were there. Yesterday it seemed okay.
21:45
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't like super super crazy. Kevy had
21:48
Speaker 2: mentioned that there seemed to be different people than we
21:50
Speaker 2: used to see we're used to seeing around that time,
21:52
Speaker 2: but today I kind of made note that it didn't
21:55
Speaker 2: seem super crowded or anything. And it is what it is.
21:59
Speaker 2: I mean, if it's a little busier, it's a little busier,
22:01
Speaker 2: it's okay.
22:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, as long as yeah sounds like it's not too
22:06
Speaker 1: busy by any means you're not waiting for anything out
22:09
Speaker 1: of the ordinary. Good and tip number three on if
22:15
Speaker 1: you want to better your mental health, try to do
22:17
Speaker 1: more things that help you relax. We live in a
22:21
Speaker 1: world that is just go, go, go, and we used
22:24
Speaker 1: to have a lot of downtime before smartphones and the
22:27
Speaker 1: internet and technology, where our nervous systems would actually calm down.
22:32
Speaker 1: But now it just seems like we are constantly doing something.
22:36
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of time for our nervous systems
22:38
Speaker 1: to calm down wind down. So doing something intentional can
22:42
Speaker 1: really be helpful. And in terms of evidence based stuff
22:46
Speaker 1: that we'd like to recommend, you know, meditation and yoga
22:49
Speaker 1: are really good ones, but reading is a really good one.
22:52
Speaker 1: There's lots of good things that you can use. I
22:54
Speaker 1: would just recommend maybe no TikTok.
22:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm a big read.
23:00
Speaker 2: Reading has been I'm not gonna say it's changed my life,
23:04
Speaker 2: but it's been a great hobby that I've picked up
23:07
Speaker 2: in the last So this is my there's gonna be
23:11
Speaker 2: the start of year four of having a kindle. I've
23:14
Speaker 2: read so many books. I've read seventy three books in
23:17
Speaker 2: three years. Isn't that crazy? I do seem like I'm
23:21
Speaker 2: a reader and I read the fuck out of books.
23:23
Speaker 2: Like maybe it has been great. It's been such a
23:26
Speaker 2: good like there's some like, I don't want to say weird,
23:30
Speaker 2: but there's just been the sense of like enjoyment that
23:33
Speaker 2: I get from reading that I haven't gotten in a while,
23:36
Speaker 2: and that's been super cool. My cousins have also started
23:40
Speaker 2: to read. My sister started to read. I know Kevy
23:43
Speaker 2: wants to read more. I don't want to put her
23:44
Speaker 2: too much on the spot, but because my cousins and
23:48
Speaker 2: my sister have started to read, we all read The Housemaid,
23:52
Speaker 2: My Freedom McFadden and the movie just came out and
23:55
Speaker 2: we went to go see it recently over the holiday break,
23:57
Speaker 2: so that was cool. So just like I don't know,
23:59
Speaker 2: read has been cool. It's been a good It's definitely
24:02
Speaker 2: made a comeback part of it. I think because of
24:05
Speaker 2: the TikTok. Just there's the section of TikTok called book Talk.
24:10
Speaker 2: A lot of people, yeah, you know read, and if
24:12
Speaker 2: you go to like Target or if you go to
24:14
Speaker 2: Barnes and Noble, they have specific sections that say like
24:18
Speaker 2: seen on book Talk, so like they're getting into it too.
24:22
Speaker 2: But man, reading has been such a good hobby that
24:26
Speaker 2: I've picked up. So I'm going to advocate for reading. Also,
24:30
Speaker 2: get your local library card. If you live in a
24:32
Speaker 2: community or near a library, get your library card because
24:34
Speaker 2: that helps to keep libraries funded. There's a I mean,
24:37
Speaker 2: I use the Libby app all the time to get
24:40
Speaker 2: e books. I haven't paid for a book in probably
24:43
Speaker 2: the three years, maybe about one here and there, but
24:46
Speaker 2: I really have not paid for any books. Haven't had
24:48
Speaker 2: to buy a book. You can get audiobooks, you can
24:50
Speaker 2: get ebooks, get the Libby app, support your local library.
24:53
Speaker 2: Read if you want to read electronically. Get a kindle,
24:56
Speaker 2: get a nook, get a Cobo if you want to
24:58
Speaker 2: do an e reader, or just get physical books at
25:00
Speaker 2: the library. But reading is good, And just like with exercise,
25:04
Speaker 2: do something. Read a book that you want to read.
25:06
Speaker 2: Don't feel like you have to read the classics. Don't
25:08
Speaker 2: feel like you have to read anything mind provoking. Read smut.
25:12
Speaker 2: If you want to read, read romance, read the cheesy thrillers, whatever,
25:18
Speaker 2: Just read if that's something you want to read. I
25:20
Speaker 2: really liked reading. It's been fun.
25:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
25:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:24
Speaker 1: I kind of fell into that trap of feeling like
25:26
Speaker 1: I had to read the classics. So I read a
25:28
Speaker 1: lot of Hemingway and did I really enjoy it that much?
25:32
Speaker 2: Like no book talk got me. A few years ago,
25:36
Speaker 2: I read an Ernest Hemingway book. What the hell is
25:40
Speaker 2: it called? I just looked it up the other day.
25:42
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, shit was boring. I'm sorry, no
25:47
Speaker 2: disrespect to mister Ernest, but that's okay. I did not
25:51
Speaker 2: like it.
25:52
Speaker 1: For whom the bell tolls, No, it was sun also rises.
25:58
Speaker 2: Let's move forward with the script. But I got you.
26:01
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look up right now.
26:02
Speaker 1: I want to jump ahead a little bit since fro
26:04
Speaker 1: on the topic of books, What was your book of
26:05
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five? What was your face? Oh?
26:08
Speaker 2: Fuck see, you're getting me hyped right now. Okay, let
26:10
Speaker 2: me I'm pulling up my good Reads anyway, so let me.
26:14
Speaker 2: Let's see. So last year I read twenty eight books,
26:16
Speaker 2: which was cool. I set a goal for twenty five.
26:19
Speaker 2: I had a really good summer. I read ten in
26:21
Speaker 2: the summer, had a lot of time. But if I
26:23
Speaker 2: were to look at this and give you a couple,
26:28
Speaker 2: there's this author s A. Crosby. He's been popping up
26:31
Speaker 2: on book talk a lot. He reads mystery thrillers like
26:34
Speaker 2: pretty like adult ones. I read two of his books
26:37
Speaker 2: last year, All the Sinners Bleed and King of Ashes.
26:40
Speaker 2: I think King of Ashes out of the two was
26:43
Speaker 2: top tier, really like nice. Holly Jackson is another author
26:47
Speaker 2: that I've read a good amount of. She writes more
26:49
Speaker 2: young adult, but her first adult mystery thriller book was
26:53
Speaker 2: called Not Quite Dead Yet very good book. Really enjoyed it. Man,
26:58
Speaker 2: I don't know if I could really pick one. I'm
27:00
Speaker 2: a big if you have a noticed thriller, mystery guy,
27:03
Speaker 2: those have been good. Yeah, let's let's go with those.
27:06
Speaker 2: I also, you know what, I'm reading a series right now.
27:08
Speaker 2: It's more of a young adult It's called Scythe I
27:11
Speaker 2: read two of the books. I'm trying to finish the
27:12
Speaker 2: third one now. But yeah, there was a lot of
27:15
Speaker 2: good stuff that was red all over. I mean I
27:17
Speaker 2: read The Anxious Generation last year too, right, so that's
27:19
Speaker 2: you know. I read Grit by doctor Duckworth. That's another
27:23
Speaker 2: kind of like psychology self improvement once. Yeah, try to
27:26
Speaker 2: read a little bit of everything. I've got a little
27:27
Speaker 2: more into science fiction. I read a Project Hill Mary.
27:30
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that one?
27:31
Speaker 1: My brother just read that.
27:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the movie's coming out this year. It's a
27:34
Speaker 2: good one. So yeah, I'm a little all over the place.
27:37
Speaker 2: I don't know if I didn't really answer you because
27:38
Speaker 2: I didn't give you one.
27:39
Speaker 1: But he gave me a lot.
27:41
Speaker 2: Those are the highlights out of the twenty eight Yeah cool.
27:45
Speaker 1: Yeah. To wrap up the scripted part of the episode,
27:49
Speaker 1: here take home points. You do not have to be
27:53
Speaker 1: anything more than what you are. You are perfect just
27:57
Speaker 1: the way you are. You are always enough. But a
28:01
Speaker 1: healthy mindset to have is a growth mindset. Always improve yourself,
28:06
Speaker 1: Always be better than you were the day before. I
28:10
Speaker 1: know it's kind of a weird, conflicting message, but that's
28:13
Speaker 1: an important one in mental health to say that you
28:15
Speaker 1: are enough, but there's always room for improvement too. So
28:19
Speaker 1: if you want to make a new Year's resolution and
28:21
Speaker 1: you want to stick to it, make it, make it important,
28:24
Speaker 1: Make it something that you truly want for yourself and
28:28
Speaker 1: to better your life and better yourself and be healthier.
28:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if it's important to you, you don't have
28:34
Speaker 2: to do it tomorrow. You don't have to be perfect tomorrow.
28:37
Speaker 2: Small steps I think is really important. Yes, I found
28:41
Speaker 2: the book that I read that was not. I didn't
28:43
Speaker 2: enjoy a movable feast.
28:46
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's an old one, right, the classic one.
28:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, shorter, a little less than two hundred pages. Man
28:55
Speaker 2: could not.
28:55
Speaker 1: Get to it.
28:56
Speaker 2: Was a struggle, dude. Respect the people to that like
29:01
Speaker 2: books like that, but man, that was not And maybe
29:04
Speaker 2: just my maybe my palette for books isn't very uh academic,
29:10
Speaker 2: And that's okay.
29:12
Speaker 1: It's kind of like wine, right, It's like what's the
29:14
Speaker 1: best wine? Whatever you like to drink, whatever you like,
29:17
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. People can be snooty about it, but.
29:20
Speaker 2: It does not matter exactly.
29:23
Speaker 1: So why do you think change is so hard.
29:26
Speaker 2: I think we set ourselves up for failure sometimes. I
29:29
Speaker 2: think we want to make I think we want to
29:31
Speaker 2: make every change tomorrow or we want to make every
29:33
Speaker 2: change this morning. Like, I think we set ourselves up
29:37
Speaker 2: for failure sometimes. And I think for me, I've struggled
29:40
Speaker 2: with that in the past. For sure. It's something I've
29:43
Speaker 2: had to work on trying to just like we got
29:45
Speaker 2: to do little by little if I can share a
29:48
Speaker 2: little more and be open with like my own one
29:51
Speaker 2: and prioritize my health. When we talked about remember the
29:55
Speaker 2: book the the t Shirts swim Club doctor Carbon when
29:58
Speaker 2: she came on for me, it was it was the
30:01
Speaker 2: little by little right when I finally read that book
30:03
Speaker 2: and was like, Okay, you know what I'm gonna I'm
30:05
Speaker 2: just gonna make my doctor's appointment. I'm gonna make sure attending,
30:08
Speaker 2: you know, things like that. And a year later, even
30:11
Speaker 2: when I was having a hard time getting a hold
30:13
Speaker 2: of my primary care physician, I said, you know what,
30:16
Speaker 2: I'm going to take this into my own hands. I'm
30:17
Speaker 2: going to find a different one that I think would
30:19
Speaker 2: work better. I did that when in the past I
30:22
Speaker 2: might have just let it kind of go and not
30:24
Speaker 2: set a yearly appointment. So I did that, had my
30:27
Speaker 2: odd doctor appointment. Recently, have kept up with other things
30:30
Speaker 2: like just stuff like that, little by little, And it
30:33
Speaker 2: started with just setting the first appointment, and it kind
30:36
Speaker 2: of put me into a point where, like the end
30:39
Speaker 2: of twenty four throughout twenty twenty five, I felt like
30:42
Speaker 2: in a much better spot because I took a small
30:44
Speaker 2: step and not needed to feel like I needed to
30:47
Speaker 2: reinvent the wheel or be perfect you know, the very
30:49
Speaker 2: next day.
30:51
Speaker 1: That makes sense even from like a neurologic standpoint, it
30:55
Speaker 1: is hard to make change. Your brain is programmed to
30:58
Speaker 1: solve problems the way that it's solved problems in the past.
31:02
Speaker 1: The less energy you have to use to solve new
31:06
Speaker 1: problems is like an evolutionary advantage, So your brain tends
31:10
Speaker 1: to just go back to the same old patterns that
31:12
Speaker 1: it knows already. Yeah, so it's hard to make new patterns.
31:17
Speaker 1: It's hard to make big changes. So yeah, that's one
31:19
Speaker 1: of the big reasons why it's got to be slow.
31:21
Speaker 1: It's got to be small changes, stuff that you feel
31:24
Speaker 1: like you can actually stick to, long term, attainable, attainable,
31:28
Speaker 1: and there you go.
31:30
Speaker 2: I like it. How you feel about twenty twenty six, You.
31:35
Speaker 1: Know, I'm optimistic. I'm hoping there's more opportunities to do
31:39
Speaker 1: more like video content and professional mental health videos. I
31:44
Speaker 1: think everything that we did with Sword was such an
31:46
Speaker 1: awesome experience. I'm hoping more of that happens. I hope
31:50
Speaker 1: the world does not go up in a ball of flames.
31:53
Speaker 2: You heye, same thing. I feel. I feel pretty good
31:57
Speaker 2: about it. I feel I think the old we get,
32:00
Speaker 2: the more maybe in control we feel about certain things
32:05
Speaker 2: that we have the potential to make our own changes
32:07
Speaker 2: and do all that. So I think that's what we'll be.
32:10
Speaker 2: Optimistic Raiders just fired Pete Carroll. I don't know how
32:15
Speaker 2: I feel about that, but you know what, we've got
32:17
Speaker 2: the number one pick. Give me for Nana Mendoza. I
32:20
Speaker 2: don't know, we'll see, but yeah, other than that, I
32:22
Speaker 2: feel pretty good. Yeah.
32:24
Speaker 1: I was surprised. I was surprised they didn't give him
32:27
Speaker 1: another year, but he is so very old, so maybe
32:29
Speaker 1: they just wanted some fresh blood in there.
32:31
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we'll see.
32:33
Speaker 1: Favorite moment of twenty twenty five.
32:37
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good ones, man. I mean, we
32:39
Speaker 2: were just in Portugal together, a couple months ago. That's
32:41
Speaker 2: pretty hard to beat. I don't know. It was a
32:43
Speaker 2: lot of travel, a lot of a lot of trips
32:46
Speaker 2: this year I took. This isn't a flex or anything.
32:48
Speaker 2: Just I had fourteen different travel plane trips between weddings.
32:54
Speaker 2: You know, Tim and Amy, Greg and Natalie Leda, Andy Maud,
32:59
Speaker 2: baby showers, Leslie Brandon. I'm going to miss some things
33:02
Speaker 2: here and there, but just get into Kevy's sister that
33:06
Speaker 2: he graduated from optometry school, my own cousins graduated from college,
33:11
Speaker 2: what ilse bachelor parties here and there. There was just
33:13
Speaker 2: a lot, a lot of time with friends and family.
33:16
Speaker 2: I got to go home a lot, which is great
33:18
Speaker 2: to California, my high school friends. We talked about it
33:21
Speaker 2: all year, how we just we'd gotten to see each
33:23
Speaker 2: other so much in twenty it was awesome. I'm probably
33:27
Speaker 2: missing some moments here and there. Getting to just do
33:29
Speaker 2: a lot of these trips with Kevy it was great too. Yeah,
33:31
Speaker 2: I joke about this all the time with her anytime
33:34
Speaker 2: we take a trip. A couple of years ago, I
33:36
Speaker 2: was like, oh, you know, we're kind of travelers, we
33:38
Speaker 2: like to go places whatever, and she kind of like
33:40
Speaker 2: blew it off a little bit and she might deny it,
33:42
Speaker 2: but she did. But then this year she kind of
33:45
Speaker 2: jokingly says it to me to ohow, we're out travelers, like, yeah,
33:47
Speaker 2: we're at the airport. I ship done this year. So yeah,
33:51
Speaker 2: I think it was It was just a cool year
33:53
Speaker 2: to continue to connect with family friends again. We got
33:56
Speaker 2: to go to Portragal together, we got to spend a
33:58
Speaker 2: whole week together. Like, there's a lot of good stuff.
34:01
Speaker 2: What about you for sure?
34:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, Portugal's definitely up there. I would say Christmas was
34:06
Speaker 1: a really cool one, just because my son's right at
34:08
Speaker 1: that age where he was just so into it and
34:12
Speaker 1: it was fun to see him experience that for the
34:14
Speaker 1: first time. And then also finding out that my wife
34:17
Speaker 1: was pregnant with our second child. We were super excited
34:20
Speaker 1: to find out about that because we've been trying for
34:22
Speaker 1: about like six months and it's always stressful when it's
34:25
Speaker 1: like like what's wrong, Like why isn't this happening, And
34:27
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it happens and it's just like,
34:28
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's finally here.
34:32
Speaker 2: What about music musical artists? I talked about books a
34:36
Speaker 2: little bit. What do you have for twenty twenty five.
34:38
Speaker 1: You know for music artists. I mentioned him on the
34:40
Speaker 1: show before, but the Burrows the one are the local
34:44
Speaker 1: bands here. I was in their tops point zero zero
34:49
Speaker 1: one percent of listeners on my Spotify, so like, I
34:54
Speaker 1: sent him a screenshot of that, and I was like, Hey,
34:57
Speaker 1: if anyone wants to come on the show and yeah
35:00
Speaker 1: and talk about mental health, and they said, yeah, you know,
35:03
Speaker 1: we'll ask around and see if anyone wants to do it.
35:05
Speaker 1: So you might hear someone from the Burrows come on
35:08
Speaker 1: in this next year. That's tight if we can. If
35:11
Speaker 1: we can get them on the show here. They're really
35:12
Speaker 1: busy though, because they're always performing in practice, but yeah,
35:15
Speaker 1: i'd say the Burrows. How about your musical artist A
35:17
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
35:18
Speaker 2: I'm looking at my Spotify wrapped man, I had a
35:22
Speaker 2: lot of good ones on there. Bad Bunny. It really
35:25
Speaker 2: stuck out to me. This year. I had a lot
35:27
Speaker 2: of bad Bunny. I'm a big Sabrina Carpenter fan, so
35:30
Speaker 2: listen to her a bunch. Mister j Beebes, he made
35:35
Speaker 2: a comeback for sure this year. So yeah, I don't
35:37
Speaker 2: know a lot of good music, A lot of a
35:38
Speaker 2: lot of artists my boy big X the Plug if
35:41
Speaker 2: you haven't heard him, I fucked with him a lot.
35:44
Speaker 2: He's cool. I don't know. I felt like a good
35:46
Speaker 2: good year for music. I'm trying. I'm trying my best,
35:49
Speaker 2: but it gets hard. I try not to just listen
35:51
Speaker 2: to the same things over and over again. I'm sure
35:53
Speaker 2: Heavy will say different with the stuff we listened to
35:55
Speaker 2: in the car, but I'm definitely trying to expand a
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Speaker 2: little bit. I don't know, I'm gonna sound like an
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Speaker 2: old head, but I feel like the older music was
36:05
Speaker 2: just so good, but trying to find some new things
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Speaker 2: that I like.
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Speaker 1: I like it all right. Last one, what is your
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Speaker 1: TV show or series of twenty twenty five?
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Speaker 2: The Pit was really good? Yeah, it was really really good.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys watched The Stranger Things
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Speaker 2: just ended? Yes, yeah, I mean it was a good ending.
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Speaker 2: I don't really know. I don't really know what else
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Speaker 2: we watched. Nothing. I'm gonna I'm definitely missing something. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: let's say those two. What about you agree?
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Speaker 1: On the Pit? That was probably my favorite drama. I
36:40
Speaker 1: can't remember if it was this year, but Shrinking that
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Speaker 1: second season was so good. It was so funny and yep,
36:47
Speaker 1: that was Apple TV. And I would say worst show
36:50
Speaker 1: or biggest disappointment was Last of Us season two. Really,
36:55
Speaker 1: that first season was so good. I thought it was
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Speaker 1: breaking bad level good, and then that second season had
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Speaker 1: none of the magic, just none of it. Really were
37:06
Speaker 1: they spoiler alert. They they killed the like the main character,
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Speaker 1: Petro Prescual, like one or two episodes in, and then
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Speaker 1: it was just not the same show after that, because
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Speaker 1: I think they were following the video game and that's
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Speaker 1: what happened in the game. But it was just a
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Speaker 1: huge mistake.
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Speaker 2: So then a lot of people knew that was coming.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, people had played the game knew it was coming,
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Speaker 1: But I didn't play the game, so I was like,
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Speaker 1: it was like, there's no way they're going to kill
37:37
Speaker 1: him off this early, Like he's gonna fuck weasel his
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Speaker 1: way out of this, and nope, he flat out that
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Speaker 1: already did.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's been good seeing you for the first time
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. Yeah, yeah, we hope you guys
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