Latest / The Oreaganic Podcast / 45: A 24-Question Q&A - Get to Know Me Better

Transcript

45: A 24-Question Q&A - Get to Know Me Better · The Oreaganic Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello my friends and welcome back to the organic podcast.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host Reagan and today's episode is gonna be a little bit different.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: I thought it'd be really fun to do a get to know me Q ⁇ A.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually my birth week as I record this, and my birthday is the day after I'm launching this podcast episode, so I want to do something a little fun and I think it'd be really nice to just show a different side of me, answer some random ass questions I found on Google about like how to get to know someone better as if you're dating them, but I'm just gonna answer them as me.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: So without further ado, let's get into it.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the organic podcast.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Reagan, mechanical engineer, lifelong athlete, and recovered overachiever, here to empower you to pursue your highest potential and live freely as your happiest, most organic self.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Every week we'll dive into topics ranging from personal growth, mindset hacks, psychology, and a blend of science and spirituality to give you all the tools you need to stop living on autopilot and start creating a life of freedom, meaning, and fulfillment as your most organic self.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you're ready to become the best person of yourself, then like five and growth.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, you guys, I'm actually really excited to answer these questions.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I haven't done like anything like personal here.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Not not for the intention of like, I don't know, sharing advice or wisdom in a long time.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: I did one Q ⁇ A or like random get to know me better on my YouTube like a freaking decade ago, it feels like.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: And now it just feels fitting for me to bring this to the podcast.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm giggling a little bit because I literally just looked up like questions to ask to get to know someone better.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I just picked out like 24 random ones.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we are gonna start with number one, and let me preface too, I'm gonna try to do this semi-rapid fire.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll see how it goes.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, this isn't like a freaking five-hour episode.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, question number one: what's your favorite way to spend a day off?
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: There's not really anything that comes to mind in particular, like wow, I wanna go to the beach.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: I really enjoy spending my time kind of just however I want to, in the flow of how I'm feeling that day, as most of us do.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: What I do really enjoy is spending time outside.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: I love a good nice, like semi-early morning with like a nice home cooked breakfast, freaking avocado toast with some eggs and cheese.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mmm, I love a good slow morning, I love a good like four-mile walk in nature anywhere, and I would love a good workout.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, those are those are some nice ways to spend a day off, just like playing some sports, honestly, just having the freedom to like wake up whenever and just do whatever I want with the day.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, my favorite way to spend my day off is just whatever makes me feel the most free and like alive, like the best way to spend my time.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really have anything that comes to mind besides that.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: So, moving forward, number two, what kind of music are you into?
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: I laugh at this because I swear to god, you guys, I know a lot of different kinds of music.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, my mom is so proud of the fact that I know so many different songs from listening to so many different kinds of radio from so many different genres from so many different eras.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: When I was growing up, like I am not someone who's like, Oh, I don't know that song.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I've never heard that to most things.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I I feel like I have a good grasp, especially on like 70s, 80s music, and a lot like my my palette of music is very spread out.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I know a lot of songs, but I laugh because if I'm being so deadass with you, I said that really weird, deadass, dead ass with you.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: I listen to mostly country music, and like Morgan Wallen, Hardy.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's about it.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: I've gotten into Ella Langley lately.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I just she has such a good voice.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: I just I love listening to people who are truly, genuinely talented.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like Hardy, I love his music because he is such a talented songwriter.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: He has written so many bangers, bro.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Absolute freaking bangers, or just like classic pop country music that like you wouldn't even know were written by him because they're obviously sang by other people, but he is behind so much like quality music, not just the pop hits, but also his own songs, like the lyrics in them are just like, oh my god, they're so good.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like some of his favorite songs, my favorite songs by him are like Screen.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: I love the song Um Everybody Does by him as well.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I just I love his deeper songs, I don't know.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: And country music just has the vibe to it that's more like you know, things that I appreciate more than a lot of general like pop culture, very like I don't know.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: I just I don't really like pop music, I don't really like rap music.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like, there's just I don't know.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: Country's my vibe, I like it, I know that I like it, it's kind of old reliable, so that's all I really listen to.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I just really don't have the wherewithal to like make a whole new playlist that has different music, but I also really love folk music, like a good jig, a good old freaking jig.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you have ever watched the movie Tangled, and you know when they're all dancing, when she's like you know, near the castle and her hair just got braided and she's doing the little dance around in the square with the townspeople and whatever, like that kind of music, absolute freaking bop, bro.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's a bop.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: That is an absolute bop.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe it's because I played saxophone, like I've played in bands before where I have played more like classical, like symphonic win non salmo music, which honestly don't even freaking hate it.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because until you've played in a band and you have not found your like you, if you have never found yourself playing in a band where you guys are blessed with like a band banger, you can't even speak, and you can call me a band kid all you want.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I can just gonna say you have no idea what you're missing out on.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Number three, what was the best vacation you ever took and why?
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say before I answer this question that my parents growing up, like my dad heard from a lot of different people from a lot of different jobs that he did, like completely unrelated, lots of different people, especially people semi-older in age.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: The only consistent advice he ever heard was travel while you're young, travel while you're young, travel while you're young, like non-stop.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: And he like has drilled this into my head and the head of the heads of like my siblings as well, because we actually did do exactly that.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we traveled as a family quite frequently when we were younger, even trips that weren't necessarily like ones that we would expect to be able to take, but like we made it work.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we my parents, I give major credit to them because we're not people who come from like you know, billions and billions of dollars, like we're by no means someone who's like super wealthy at all.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we are very blessed still, and my parents have worked extremely hard for that, but nonetheless, we have gotten to go to Hawaii as a family before, and that trip, specifically going to Hawaii and seeing like Maui and the big island.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I literally wrote my college essay about sounds so cheesy or privilege, I don't really care.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: I wrote my college essay about a time on the big island when we were driving back from wherever we were that day, it was nighttime, we were right between like the two major peaks on the island, like the two major mountains.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say Monakia Monoloa, I'm pretty sure.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: And this sky in Hawaii, as you might expect, there's very little light pollution because believe it or not, not sure if you guys know this, but you're in the middle of the fucking ocean.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: So there's not really cities around you to, you know, cause all the light pollution, make it so you can't see any of the stars.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm someone who absolutely loves space, astronomy, and astrophysics, anything in the realm of like universal exploration, astronomy, etc.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I love that shit.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: I used to watch how the universe works all the time when I was a kid.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I was just I was fascinated by it.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it partially motivated why I decided to study mechanical engineering because I was like, maybe I'll do aerospace engineering along the vein of you know space exploration, that kind of thing.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: And on this trip on the big island, we were driving back, like I said, no light pollution here, and we decided to get out just to look at the stars.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: I shit you not, like I had never seen more stars in the sky in my entire life, and it just made me think to myself, like, how how like what what was life like back when like ancient Greece or like just ancient cultures in general, like the history of humanity, like how was it to be able to just look up at the night sky with no light pollution from like way more places on earth than you ever possibly could right now, and just see that many stars?
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I just I just can't imagine that I just can't imagine seeing so many stars being the norm.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: And obviously, Hawaii, I'm sure, still has you know better view of the sky than you know normal countryside.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: Nonetheless, though, I was just so awestruck by seeing like such an incredible view of just like the universe around us and the stars and the Milky Way.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, have you ever seen a star like right above the horizon?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: I certainly haven't, probably because I live in like a very populated part of the country, but nonetheless, like oh my god, the beauty of Hawaii is just something that is so sacred that I have so much respect and appreciation for, and I'm very blessed and grateful to have been able to see it.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: And like that, that memory of that night, literally just seeing the night sky like that.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I that that left a mark on my soul, which I know sounds dramatic because it's like, okay, it's just stars, but I don't know.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: To me, it was just something bigger.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, anytime I look at the night sky, I know most of the constellations kind of like a map in my head, like it's not is not something that is unusual for me to be keenly aware of, like the sky, but nonetheless, it's just something that I I look at the sky, I look at the stars, I look at the planets, and I'm like, isn't that crazy that like we're literally like the they're real, like those are real, like all the stars that we see out in the night sky, like those are actual stars similar to our sun that most likely have planets around them, like real planets, like we are just looking at those stars.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I understand this might sound very straightforward, but like it I get into like it's not even trippy to me, but it's just it's just crazy to think about.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, these are real places that we are just looking at in space right now.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like the only thing separating us is like physical distance.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: This is not just like some speck in the sky, like that's literally a star.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: Makes me existential, but Hawaii that trip was definitely just like one of the best vacations that we ever took, and I just I absolutely loved it.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's just the nature, the experience, the sky, like just it was so nice.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: Number four, where's the next place on your travel bucket list and why?
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: I would say probably Glacier National Park.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: Glacier or Olympic National Park.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to hit the national parks, all the ones in the US at least, except fuck the ones in BFE, Alaska, because those like why why did we make a national park so inaccessible?
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I understand the point of national parks is not all for just access, but when I think of wanting to check off every national park on the list of U.S.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: national parks, and I see gates of the Arctic in literal bum fuck nowhere, as one would expect, considering it's the gates to the Arctic.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's just like, how am I ever gonna get there?
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: But side tangent over, I would really, really, really love to see Glacier National Park and or Banff.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like the oh my god, the Pacific Northwest and the US is just so gorgeous.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Any national park out west is just absolutely beautiful, and I'm really, really, really looking forward to when I will hopefully be able to hit them because that'll be gorgeous.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: But not inside the US, I'd really love to go to Iceland, maybe Greece, Italy.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, some some classes, but moving forward.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Number five, what are your hobbies and how did you get into them?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I feel like I don't really have hobbies, like I do, but I don't.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: I play in adult leagues for soccer, like I've always kept up with soccer even since graduating.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: I really enjoy puzzles, like I really love them.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: I like to journal, I like to read, I like to, I don't know, cook good meals for myself and pet my cat.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't really feel like I have a particular hobby that I'm like, oh, I go to pottery class every like Tuesday night, or I I don't know, crochet.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't really have an activity like that.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna go with soccer.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: Soccer, I got into it by starting it at the ripe old age of five.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Everything else has kind of just been an accumulation of like moving forwards in adulthood and figuring out what I enjoy.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Number six, what was your favorite age growing up for?
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: Four, easiest a easiest answer, easiest question.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Every single year before I turned four, so I'm told.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: I do remember this somewhat.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: I said that my favorite number was my age, and I turned four, and I said four is my favorite number.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Four is also the number that has always been associated with purple.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I feel like at amusement parks, with blocks, with anything, I always saw four and purple together all the time, and purple was also my favorite color.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I turned four, four is my favorite number.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: I just love the energy of four, and then I turned five, and my favorite number was still four, and has remained four for my entire life, and that will never change.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: So, favorite age growing up, I can't not say number four.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: Number seven, what was the last thing you read?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: I am currently reading Crescent City 3, uh, House of Flame and Shadow.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you have not read Sarah J.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: Mass, like all of her books, you are missing out on genuinely the best like fantasy plot that you could ever read, in my opinion.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, truly.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of people might write off Sarah J.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Mass books as like, oh it's smut.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: I sweetheart, if you think this is smut, that like there's probably 0.01% of these books are smut compared to like how much the action is like the the fantasy part of it, it's insane.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: Throw in a glass, especially, was like, oh my god.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: The way the these books, just thinking about them, can just give me chills or make me cry.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh my god, Sarah J.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Mass is so good.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: But currently reading Crescent City, it's really good.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm almost at the end.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: I have a problem with reading ahead in books, truth be told, fucking sue me.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I fear I do already know what happens.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: I already know what happens for the most part.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: Nonetheless, absolutely incredible books, and I could not recommend Sarah J.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Mass more.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, literally could not recommend her enough.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: Number eight, would you say you're more of an introvert or an extrovert?
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go with extrovert.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: When I'm around people, I'm not one to be like, super shy, like not want to talk.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: I talk to other people very easily, and I've always been like that.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Even like high school, college, I've always been friends with just like kind of whoever.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I never really had a super set group of like, oh, these are my people, and like these aren't.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I would talk to band kids, kids who did sports, kids who were nerds.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I I have always just talked to anyone and everyone.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: I was not always like that.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: I used to be very introverted as a kid, but growing up, going through high school, I don't know, something just shifted in me, became more of an extrovert, and that has maintained to this day.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Although I do 100% go into periods of like hermit crab mode where I am an introvert and I have no interest in putting out excess energy into anyone or anything outside of me for a brief period of time, but that's kind of it's not all the time.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: I definitely say extrovert more than introvert.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Number nine, what was the last TV show that you binge watched?
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really binge watch TV shows, but I will give a shout out to the show The 100 on Netflix.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's still on Netflix, I hope it is, but that show I have re-watched I think seven times.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, by far, I would always say that that is my favorite show that I've ever watched.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how much I really binge watched it.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: I know I I was seriously committed to this show and its characters, and I'm just like obsessed with it.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: It just has everything that I love in a show.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, again, I'm I'm a dystopian girly, I fear.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I grew up being a dystopian girly, and the show just like checks all the boxes of just like I don't know, I don't know.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: I just love it.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: I love the 100.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Number 10.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Are you into podcasts or do you only listen to music?
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: I listen to both.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoy Sam Daly's podcast, makeshift happened, makes happened, makeshift happen.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoy Becca Nichols' podcast, um, There She Glows.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: I like Monica Yates.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't listened to her nearly as much as I used to, but Monica is one of the first people to really get me into like a space of awareness around a lot of personal development, like mindset, kind of understanding your brain when I was starting out, kind of getting into this level of understanding and awareness of the control you have over your life and mindset, and especially things about like masculine, feminine dynamics, things that I I saw and heard her talking about at first, and I was like, She's a dumb fucking bitch, and I hate her.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then I actually listened to more of her podcast, and I was like, oh shit, she has a fucking point.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I can't even dispute the shit that she's saying.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: Not for everything, of course, but for the main gist of her message, and I was like, Well, shit.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: So her podcast is um feminine as fuck.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's her show.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I also, depending on the episode, I also like higher up wellness podcasts, um, and then other miscellaneous kind of stuff, all in that same vein.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: I love, oh my god, I love Camp Counselor's podcast.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: I I'll get to that later, but I love Camp Counselor's podcast, they are so fucking funny.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Zachariah and Jonathan, you fucking slay.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: I love them.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I love them so much.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: But music, I like I I teeter between podcasts and music.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: It depends on the vibe.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: I've also been listening to audiobooks lately of my Crescent City 3, so like TBD, but shout out to Spotify, because I am a Spotify girly all the freaking way, and the answer to this question is I listen to both podcast and music.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Number 11.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have a favorite holiday?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Why or why not?
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Juneteenth.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's my birthday.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really have a favorite holiday.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone wants to say Christmas.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like Christmas stands out as the most notable holiday in terms of celebration and family and everything.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Which I, you know, I'd probably I'd probably say Christmas.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: It definitely does not feel the same as it used to growing up as one would expect.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it's also just the s like Christmas is kind of like the last precipice of like the good part of winter.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then I feel like we get into January and February.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: February is the longest, shortest month of the year.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like oh my, I can't, I can't.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: February, if you live somewhere that has four seasons and you live in winter, like it's like it just drags on forever.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's fucking freezing.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: And there's no holiday to look forward to, and it's just March is taking forever to get there, and I just I can't.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: So long, long-winded answer to that question.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'd probably say my favorite holiday is Christmas because it's just too good with the vibes, like just the family and the love and the connection, and obviously, you know, celebrating the life of Jesus Christ, even though I don't believe he was actually born on Christmas.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's more historically accurate that he was born in the summer, but to celebrate his birthday on that day, you know, like all cheers to you know celebrating his life.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Moving forwards, number 12.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like this is a cheat code, but I'm gonna say a chicken wrap, and my boyfriend would be proud of me for saying that.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like a chicken wrap with some rice and maybe some zucchini, some cheese, a little bit of ranch in it, like a home-cooked tortilla wrap.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: That is not a bad meal for the rest of my life.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: Particularly if I could edit the ingredients in said wrap, but I feel like that's the most effective answer, so I'm gonna go with that.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: Number 13.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Do you like going to the movies or prefer watching at home?
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: I fucking hate the movies.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be so for real, I don't like going to the movies at all.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like by far, prefer watching at home because I I don't even really like getting super immersed into movies in general.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: And since I have been of the age and ability to walk, my mom has called me Miss Motion because I just don't Sit still.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Even now I know it's it's like like it's the same case now.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like I don't really like posting up anywhere for too long and just like sinking my uh my attention into a movie too much because I just I don't like feeling so immersed and I'm very sensitive.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: So if I sit and I watch like a movie that even has some like tension or it's a thriller or like anything in that realm, it affects my energy for like the rest of the day.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like it at least hours after.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's like I have an aftershock where I can't just like unplug from that and be like, oh that was nice, okay, what are we doing next?
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like it just it's like this underlying like subliminal absorption of like the energies in the movie that just like really sinks into my subconscious, and I just like it's I have a hard time shaking it, and that's just amplified in a movie theater setting, and I just like oh I don't I don't like it.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: I like being able to move, I like being able to get up, I like being able to pause.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: So 100% I would watch a movie at home over the movies every single day.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, number 14.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Do you prefer cats or dogs?
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: Cats like by a literal landslide the size of a tsunami.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like cats 100%.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: Dogs love them, they're great.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't dislike dogs, I love playing with them, I love their joy, I can feed off their energy.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'll give a I will pet any dog.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: I will give a dog any love any day.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: But when it comes to owning a pet and being like a parent to a pet or having a pet be a part of your family, I will choose a cat every single day for the rest of my existence, like beyond my human life.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like I will I will choose a cat forever.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like they are just such superior animals, they're like independent, but they're not, and they love you, and you take care of them and you feed them and nourish them, but they're just like pre-coded with the ability to know where to use the bathroom, and they're cuddly, but you have to like kind of earn their cuddles, they don't just give it to anyone.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I know not all dogs do that, but like they're just I I grew up with cats, I love them so much.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: I love them so much.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I will oh, I just freaking love cats.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: So 100% cats.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: Ew! Why did I put this one?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, number 15.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: How old were you when you had your first celeb crush?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: And who was it?
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: This actually isn't that ew.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: As I mentioned before, I was a bit of a dystopian girly, so I did in fact read the Hunger Games.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: And if you know where this is going, depending on what team you were a part of, you might know what I'm about to say.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say, I distinctly have the memory of watching Catching Fire in the movie theaters with my mom.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: Ironic, because I just said I hate movie theaters, but I was watching the release of Catching Fire in the movies with my mom, and I distinctly remember hearing PETA's voice for the first time when he comes onto screen and being like, ah! Like, oh my god, PETA! Like, I PETA, the answer is PETA from The Hunger Games, my first ever celeb crush.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: I had an iPod touch back in the day, blue, in case you were wondering.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I literally, I think I literally made like PETA from the Hunger Games like my lock screen at one point.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I wasn't super obsessed, like I wasn't like weirdly crazily obsessed, but he was definitely my first celeb crush.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, shout out.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: I forget what his name is.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: Josh something.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna look it up.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: Josh Hutcherson.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's correct.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out, shout out King.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, my boyfriend, don't listen to this.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: Moving on.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Number 16.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: What's one thing that can instantly make your day better?
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: Probably seeing my boyfriend and or Marcus the Worm memes, and or a very, very, very specific niche meme of a raccoon where it says, not feeling fly like a G6.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: This meme, this raccoon meme has pulled me out of depths of despair, so far beyond what I thought was even possible for me to be able to come back to any kind of state of equilibrium in such a short period of time, than just seeing a singular meme of a fucking like a raccoon meme that literally just says not feeling fly like a G6.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's pulled me out of hell, honestly.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: So that that can instantaneously make my day better.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Number 17.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have any pet peeves?
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: I I cannot stand, oh I cannot fucking stand when people have no spatial awareness.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you do not have spatial awareness, particularly in social settings in public, you are respectfully my public enemy number one.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm trying to get past you and you see me, and you do not like, and you are standing in the most obvious in-the-way spot, and you have plenty of room to move, and you just don't move, public enemy number one.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Pet peeve indeed.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: I it's just like I just I really just don't like a complete lack of awareness of like how you're impacting other people in public and like normal, common manners.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: This applies on the road too, like driving.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: I oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like if people are just clueless, brainless, if you're trying to like crawl, like someone's walking on the sidewalk.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: Let me paint a picture for you.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you have a group of like six walking on a sidewalk in like New York City, taking up the entire sidewalk or on a boardwalk, or wherever you are, a whole entire group, amusement park just taking up the entire space to walk forwards.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: And everyone, some people are trying to squeeze past them, some people are trying to go find a passing lane to get around this monstrosity of a group that is completely blocking all traffic with no care in the world for any kind of awareness about that.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: You are my enemy.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Not actually, but like seriously, you need just fucking move, please.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: No spatial awareness, walking extremely slow, those two things combined could drive me literally up a wall the size of Mount Everest.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: Number 18.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: What is your favorite meal?
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: Breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: I say breakfast.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: Breakfast by far.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: Breakfast brings me the most joy.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: A good like at home or going out.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: I make really good breakfast for myself here when I'm home.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: I love a good going out to breakfast or brunch, like a good chocolate chip pancake.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Or like some really nice, like full, well-rounded breakfast meal at a diner.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: Just brings me such an immaculate amount of joy that I just can't even describe it.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: I love a good dinner too.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: Lunch is kind of like a medium-ish on my list here because like excuse me.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of just like alright.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't even necessarily always have like a full, complete, beefy lunch.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's usually something a little smaller.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: So if I had to rank them in order, I'd say probably breakfast, dinner, and then lunch.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: But breakfast is by far my favorite meal of the day.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: Number 19.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: What song always gets you on the dance floor?
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: There are a handful of songs that can do this, but they all have the common theme of a song that requires you to participate in like some kind of like group dance.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm thinking like Cupid Shuffle, Cha Cha Slide, like anything that has like a line dancing song to it that I actually know.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like any song like that will get me moving and grooving, but I could probably hit a jig to just about anything, I'm not gonna lie.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I don't know.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: I I really do enjoy dancing.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yukon has Husky Thon, where every hour on the hour, at this 18-hour dance marathon, there would be what we call the morale dance, and there'd be a whole morale team, these people who learn this whole dance routine.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's like 10 minutes long, and they do it to all these different little snippets of songs.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: They learn this whole routine, and on the day of Husky-Thon, like every hour on the hour they do this routine, and everyone watches the morale team to like learn what the dance is, and then everyone kind of gets it down by the end of the day.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, it's just so much fun, bro.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's so much fun.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: I I love coordinated like dancing.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, I just really enjoy it.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think I'd really like line dancing, but yeah, the day of Husky-Thawn, oh my god, it's just so much fun.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love any dance that like is a coordinated sort of like thing.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, maybe I sound corny or cheesy, but I just really enjoy it.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: And let me say, Yukon Husky-Thawn Morale team.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all missed out on including me on that team because if you accepted my application to be on morale, I am telling you, like, you would have had no one to go more feral with energy that day than me.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you missed out.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I have to say.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: Five more questions, my friends.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: Number 20.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: What activity instantly calms you?
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: 100% taking a walk outside without my phone, or just being outside in general and just looking around, listening to the birds, breathing in the fresh air, sitting next to a tree.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, Mother Nature, Mother Earth, just anything that involves me being outside with no external stimulation or any kind of electronics or phone instantly will calm me down.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: Similar to journaling, too.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like if you haven't journaled before, I recommend you try it because I don't journal super often, but when I do, it's almost like always just you start journaling, and then it's like I don't even have to think about what I'm writing.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: My subconscious kind of just purges out what I need to get out on paper, and that usually calms me down like a decent bit.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, always makes you feel better.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: Number 21, what's your favorite season and why?
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: 100% spring, like not even close, 100% spring.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: Life is coming back to everything, the smell in the air just brings me so much joy.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: The sun is actually starting to be out for a lot longer, the birds are coming back, the trees are starting to bud again.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, life just feels so good, and it's also the proper start to the year for me.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, sorry, but January being in the absolute dead of winter does not feel like a proper fresh start to like oh new year.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I I don't know.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: It matches the cyclical nature of Earth for me to like more easily connect with the true, proper, like fresh start to the year happening the same time that spring does.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I just love the new energy.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: Spring has also been a time where like I played lacrosse in high school, like I really, really loved lacrosse.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: It was like a new thing that I tried, so like always good memories from just the smell of the air in spring.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I just love it, I just love it.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: Best time of the year for school, because like you're almost getting out, everyone's been together the whole year.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's just oh, I love spring.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: I love spring so so so so so much.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I also love fall.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'd say if I had to rank the seasons in order, it would probably be spring, fall, summer, winter.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: No offense to winter, but I just I just can't do with the dead of night and the absolute like petrifying cold.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I just can't do it.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Number 21.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: Nope, number 22.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: What causes are you passionate about?
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: There are a lot a lot, not as much so causes in that way, like I wouldn't call it a cause.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'd say it's more of like a very intrinsic part of me that feels very motivated by the idea of personal freedom and freedom for like everyone, like everyone, every group, every person, every single human being on this planet to feel like they are free and living like completely free as themselves and able to do what they want to do and are not being controlled by like a greater system or a greater, I don't know, some other form of like power control over them that actually forces them to like sacrifice themselves or their power to that thing.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I am so heavily motivated by the concept of like actually allowing people to find their maximum amount of personal freedom in a way that best serves them and actually helps make the world a better place, not in a self-serving way, because like it's just so it's so intrinsic to me.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it gets me so fired up to think about the systems that keep us from being free and keep us in this like these constant loops of like distraction or sacrificing our power to something or just like not living up to our potential or being distract like I just whoo being emotionally reactive, like eating food that's not good for us.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: I just I hate I hate the systems that exploit that in us and exploit that kind of addiction and distraction and benefit from it, and like freedom from those kinds of things is something that I feel very passionate about in like a very loving way to help people feel like they're living like actually the happiest version of life that is available to them and help making the world a better place in doing so.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I could go on a tangent about that, but that's the whole fucking reason I have this podcast.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, another cause I'm passionate about, similar kind of vein in terms of personal freedom, but a little different.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: I really, really want to help, like, I appreciate supporting postgrads through just understanding that like when you come out of college or even high school, if you don't go to college, like that transition period when you're going into adulthood is one of the hardest in your entire life, and I feel like no one is ever talking about it enough as we should.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't feel that way, at least when I got out of college, and I was like, How the fuck are you all just acting like this is normal?
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: And to be able to like be a voice online to share that experience and to validate people's experience with that is something that I really highly value and cherish.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: So that's another reason I started this whole podcast, and here we are today.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: So, most passionate about freedom and postgrad support.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: Number 23.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever had a side hustle or considered having one?
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: I have not had a side hustle, and I've considered the idea of like, it's not even as much a consideration, but I really do feel like the brand, the podcast, like whatever comes to fruition as part of this whole mission of mine, for lack of a better word, I do feel like that's something that's going to turn into an opportunity for me to actually be able to really help people in a more like structured kind of way that yes may turn into what is quote unquote seen as a side hustle, but I see it as more of like an expansion of the impact and reach that I desire to have for my community and to expand my community for the sake of like connecting with other people and helping obviously make the world a better place.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I can see that coming to fruition in the future.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_00: Don't really know exactly what that looks like, but I really do feel like I have some ideas.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_00: So uh stay posted on that.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: And last but not least, question number 24.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: What advice would you give to your younger self?
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: Younger self, listen to me real quick here.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: I know what you're thinking.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: I know that you are way more stressed out right now than you need to be.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm just gonna tell you, you need to freaking take a fucking deep breath.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: Understand that 99% of the shit that you're stressed out about is not actually that big of a deal.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: And right now, I'm gonna need you to lock in on understanding like your subconscious programming and your nervous system and how those two things influence your entire life.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: And beyond that, with like the the stress and the adrenaline and the rushing, like, stop giving so much of your energy to this sense of urgency.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, nothing is really that urgent, nothing needs your attention right away, like that.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to constantly be sacrificing so much of your time and energy to making sure that everything gets done and that everyone else is taken care of and everything's handled, and you're being like the mom to everyone or the leader, you don't need to be doing that.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: You simply do not.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_00: And the sooner that you learn to like protect yourself in that way and to actually be intentional with how you spend your energy and what you give your focus to, your life is going to get better by like a thousand times.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: So just keep going.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm proud of you.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: You're slaying.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's probably exactly what I'd say.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: So if that helped you, which I hope it did, let me know.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: But this has been 24 questions to get to know me better.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: A little QA.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys have enjoyed getting to know me a little bit better and just hearing some insights on things that I usually wouldn't share on the podcast or wouldn't really put in as much of a structured episode, but this is really fun.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: So when you hear this, it will be the last day until my birthday.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: So, hee hee.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: Happy early birthday to me for a fun episode here.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: And with that said, I hope you all are doing well.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: Go be your most organic selves, and I will see you in the next one.