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5 Ways To Save 20+ Hours Per Week · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadagal Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Jicks, I'm out and this is two broad Chicks,
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  Speaker 2: the show that shares life lessons and tips to help
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  Speaker 2: make you rich in life.
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  Speaker 3: And today we're in for a very time savvy episode.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be chatting the five ways to save
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  Speaker 2: twenty plus hours per week.
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  Speaker 4: Time is money people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a creator online who had a post
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  Speaker 2: that was like, similar to this, we'll link it in
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  Speaker 2: the show notes, and it was kind of all like
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  Speaker 2: the little habits or things that essentially you just do
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  Speaker 2: and it just saves you so much time later on,
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  Speaker 2: kind of like future you favors.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know which.
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  Speaker 3: I love a future favor absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's the thing that I need to
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  Speaker 2: motivate me to do them, and like I need to
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  Speaker 2: know what the benefit of this is in the long run.
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  Speaker 2: In the long run, yeah, because I'm like, that's what
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  Speaker 2: I'll focus on being like, Okay, what if I do
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  Speaker 2: it now, I don't have to do it then. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I do always keep in mind it's like even
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  Speaker 2: if I don't want to do it now, future me
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  Speaker 2: also isn't going to want to do it, So one
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  Speaker 2: of us has to buy the bullet and.
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  Speaker 1: At least future me will benefit from what I've done. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: my obsession of the way. So.
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  Speaker 2: A recent study out of the University of Sydney published
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  Speaker 2: in the Lancet Public Health found that walking seven thousand
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  Speaker 2: steps a day offers similar health benefits to walking ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand across most key outcomes. Love that so compared to
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  Speaker 2: two thousand steps a day. They tested this by increasing
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  Speaker 2: by one thousand step increments, and they found that seven
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  Speaker 2: thousand steps is actually like where you hit most of
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  Speaker 2: the benefits that you would in walking a day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like the benefits cap at seven thousand.
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  Speaker 1: You'd get the same benefits from walking seven thousand as
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  Speaker 1: you will ten ten thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, walking seven thousand steps a day reduce the risk
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  Speaker 2: of death by forty seven percent, which is almost identical
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  Speaker 2: to the benefit seen at walking ten thousand steps a day.
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  Speaker 2: Dementia risk dropped by thirty eight percent, which when you
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  Speaker 2: walk ten thousand steps a day was only seven percent extra.
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  Speaker 3: And then the risk of.
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  Speaker 2: Type two diabetes fell by twenty two percent from walking
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand steps, but reduced by twenty seven percent at
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  Speaker 2: twelve thousand steps, and the researchers in this also made
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  Speaker 2: the point of saying that perfection isn't the goal and
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  Speaker 2: it's more about progress, because even a bump from two
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  Speaker 2: thousand to four thousand steps a day.
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  Speaker 3: Saw really significant health gains.
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  Speaker 2: So I do. I feel like we hear this ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand step word count a lot, and I personally.
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  Speaker 3: Am always like, oh, I never hit that, I'm a failure.
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  Speaker 1: It's really hard, especially if you work in another job
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  Speaker 1: or anything requires you to sit at a desk or
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  Speaker 1: if you're a teacher and like, yeah, you're standing for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the day, but you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of just walking around to class, Like it's not achievable
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  Speaker 1: for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like if you hit ten thousand steps a day,
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  Speaker 2: starting amazing, brave if you hit more than that ten
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  Speaker 2: out of ten. But it's nice that kind of that
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  Speaker 2: goalpost rather than increasing which I just think we see
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  Speaker 2: so often it's like, no, you need to exercise.
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  Speaker 3: More and you need to drink more water and blah
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah. It's actually like, let's bring that down
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  Speaker 3: a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when I saw that, I immediately changed my baseline on
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  Speaker 1: my or ring from ten thousand step goals to seven thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like fuck this, love that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well should we get into the episode. Let's
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  Speaker 4: do it?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So our first habit to save twenty plus hours
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  Speaker 2: per week is use the fourth song rule. This can
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  Speaker 2: save you up to two point five hours per week.
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  Speaker 3: I like this.
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  Speaker 2: So the idea of this rule is to use music
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  Speaker 2: as a time management tool.
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  Speaker 3: Ten out of ten you're already obsessed.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, it's using music as a tool for your
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  Speaker 2: tasks instead of a clock or a timer. And this
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  Speaker 2: is a great way to save time in the morning
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  Speaker 2: because a US study took a look at how the
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  Speaker 2: average person spends their day around the world and Australians
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  Speaker 2: spent about zero point nine hours in a day grooming
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  Speaker 2: themselves or getting ready for the day, which is a
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  Speaker 2: fair chunk of time. Yeah, it's basically an hour. Go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and round up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I think there was another study in a recent
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  Speaker 2: episode we did, and it was about how much time
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  Speaker 2: women especially spend on getting ready and grooming.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I can also just have the ability to fuck
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  Speaker 2: around and find out totally, like I wake up and
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  Speaker 2: I am a wait two hours before I need to
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  Speaker 2: be leaving for work, and I get to it and
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  Speaker 2: I still somehow I'm like, wait, how.
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  Speaker 3: Am I late?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What have I been doing the whole time?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And sometimes it will take me like thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: to get ready. And then sometimes I'm like, how has
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  Speaker 1: it been like an hour and a half?
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  Speaker 4: What is going on?
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  Speaker 5: Agreed?
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  Speaker 2: So, since the average length of a song is around
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  Speaker 2: like four ish some five minutes, you can play four
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  Speaker 2: songs and get your shit done in twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Love that, So song one.
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  Speaker 2: You can also break it down by what you do
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  Speaker 2: per song if you want to get really granular with it,
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  Speaker 2: so song one you could brush your teeth and floss.
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  Speaker 2: Song two have your shower bonus points if you sing
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  Speaker 2: along of course, Song three get dressed, accessories, all that,
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  Speaker 2: and song four, grab your bag, grab something to eat,
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  Speaker 2: and you're good to go. I think you could also
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  Speaker 2: do this with you know how, we talk a lot
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  Speaker 2: about like the closing shift at night and getting into bed,
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  Speaker 2: or like doing a quick little clean.
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  Speaker 3: Like That's how I would really use this as well.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes have like I've got four songs to do a
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  Speaker 2: quick little clean of the apartment, or like get whatever
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  Speaker 2: I want to get done done, and then once the
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  Speaker 2: four songs are over, I can stop.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That's also a motivation for me at the gym.
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  Speaker 1: Like if I'm like I'm gonna stay here for another
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, I'm like, that's six songs, and then I
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  Speaker 1: queue up like six really good songs and I'm like, okay, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Good to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It just makes it like, yes, it's a good time management,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also so good for motivation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I would do and I miss the
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  Speaker 2: bus school and I'd be like, now I've got to walk,
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  Speaker 2: and I go, It's okay, it's only like five songs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I just feel like, Okay, that song's done, I've
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  Speaker 2: only got four songs to go exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the ultimate motivator. And bonus ONONTS if you're
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  Speaker 1: doing this with some really upbeat music to start your day,
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  Speaker 1: because music is a natural mood booster, which makes you
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  Speaker 1: more likely to do things faster and just get more
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment out of each step as well. And a fun twist,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the morning, is to start with calmer, more
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  Speaker 1: soothing songs and then like build up.
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  Speaker 4: Into faster songs.
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  Speaker 1: As well, because yeah, you don't want to like get
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  Speaker 1: up out of bed and then be.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, no, can't have that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you include in your four song rule
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  Speaker 1: for your morning?
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  Speaker 2: Ooh?
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  Speaker 3: What songs would I put in there in the morning?
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  Speaker 3: Linger would be in.
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  Speaker 2: There, anything by fleetwood Mark, those kind of vibes. I
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  Speaker 2: do also have a playlist that's like rainy Day nineties
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  Speaker 2: and Ooze to stare out the window and those that
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of like my morning playlist.
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  Speaker 3: Very just like the vibe is.
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  Speaker 2: Nineties mum cleaning their house on a Saturday morning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's like my morning making for kids. Yes, like when
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  Speaker 2: you wake up and on a Saturday morning you hear
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  Speaker 2: your mum had already started cleaning, like damn it, because
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  Speaker 2: then I'm like, then the churs begin.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I always used to just like pretend to sleep
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 2: Still I had to do them, I know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And then if I want to get something done, I
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  Speaker 2: play like musical theater songs are like Disney songs because
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  Speaker 2: I'm a loser and who.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't love a good show tune?
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  Speaker 2: Dude, The Burlesque soundtrack has cleaned my apartment more times
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  Speaker 2: than I can count. Yeah, that shit gets me through
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  Speaker 2: the Burlesque soundtrack, the Hair Spray soundtrack, Clean Apartment.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly link and it's clean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ten out of ten. What about you?
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: We actually a few years ago we made an entire
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  Speaker 1: playlist that was a linked in the show notes. But
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  Speaker 1: the title is you're the main character, and this is
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  Speaker 1: your the intro to your movie, the intro song to
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  Speaker 1: your movie. And so there are so many songs on
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  Speaker 1: that playlist that I feel like are perfect for this.
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  Speaker 1: Like suddenly I see, oh yeah, devil vibes, there she goes.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I know, man, I feel like a woman.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go girls, quite literally literally that's when you're picking
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  Speaker 1: up the handbag.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, let's fucking go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, this kiss that's a good one for in the
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  Speaker 4: shower sing along vibe, I think.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll definitely link that playlist because it is
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  Speaker 1: all scared if I do say so myself.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. Do you know what I was thinking about the
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  Speaker 2: other day is that Taste by Sabreena Carpenter came on.
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  Speaker 3: And just what a fucking hit that.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I.
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  Speaker 2: Wonder what the songs are going to be that, you
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  Speaker 2: know how like we listen to old songs and like
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  Speaker 2: our parents be like, especially when I was growing up
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  Speaker 2: in a teenager and my parents would.
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  Speaker 3: Be like, why are you listening to this song?
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  Speaker 2: Like it was like a song that they would listen
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  Speaker 2: to and they with teenagers or whatever, and they'd be
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  Speaker 2: like what, Yeah, it would be so weird that I
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  Speaker 2: wonder what the songs are gonna be that like three
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  Speaker 2: Generations from Now was our generation songs, but have come
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  Speaker 2: back for like three Generations from Now And I reckon
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  Speaker 2: Taste by Sabena.
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  Speaker 3: Carpuntil it'll be one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I can see that.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some Chapel row Yeah, du A lipa, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Harry Styles, I reckon, but yeah, I reckon those will
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  Speaker 2: we'll stand the test of time.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on avoid context switching. This will save you four
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  Speaker 1: hours per week. Yeah, do you know what context switching is?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think from the name, I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: it's giving me a bit spoiler, but maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it'll be bleasantly.
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  Speaker 4: Give a little TLD.
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  Speaker 1: I do think it is kind of a bit self
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  Speaker 1: expay's on the tin.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So context switching is the mental process of diverting your
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  Speaker 1: attention from one task to another before you finish the
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  Speaker 1: first task.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I can control this one.
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  Speaker 4: I know which I do want to flag.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely as someone with you know, a focus street, totally, totally.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: But but I think let's get into it because maybe
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  Speaker 2: we can find some ways that if you do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have ATHD or anything like that, maybe we can we
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  Speaker 2: can lock in together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But what's interesting is that this is different from multitasking.
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  Speaker 4: See, that's just what I thought this was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So multitasking is when you're trying to do multiple
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  Speaker 1: things at the same time. So in context switching, you're
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  Speaker 1: rapidly moving your attention from one thing to another, so
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  Speaker 1: there's repeated pausing, re orienting, and adjusting real So.
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  Speaker 2: Multitasking is intentional, whereas context switching is not intentional.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Whereas multitasking would be if you're driving and then
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  Speaker 1: you're calling somebody at the same time, you're kind of
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  Speaker 1: like ticking two things off at once, whereas context switching
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  Speaker 1: is like you're quickly moving in between tasks and not
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  Speaker 1: working on them at the same time, but your mind
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like zig zagging in between, which is
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  Speaker 1: interesting because I think I always thought they were kind
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  Speaker 1: of the same thing as well. Right, So context switching
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  Speaker 1: can lead to something called attention residue.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I was like, ill.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like that.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, but residue as the same vibe as that
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  Speaker 2: moist one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt that word.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So attention residue is when a part of your
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  Speaker 1: brain power is stuck processing a previous task even after
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  Speaker 1: you've shifted your attention to a new one. And attention
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  Speaker 1: residue takes up forty percent of your total productivity time
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  Speaker 1: each day because of the mental re orientation it takes
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  Speaker 1: to shift focus in minutes. That switching can take up
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  Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty five minutes per interruption just to regain
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  Speaker 1: your original focus. How often in your day do you
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  Speaker 1: reckon your context switching all day?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know if I even can
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  Speaker 4: answer that question.
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  Speaker 2: But even just like to go back to before, like
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  Speaker 2: even just like cleaning the apartment on the weekend, for example,
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  Speaker 2: Like my partner and I were cleaning the apartment, and
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  Speaker 2: so my job was bathroom because we take turns into
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  Speaker 2: the bathroom.
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  Speaker 3: Because we both though could hate it.
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  Speaker 2: Bathrooms the worst bathroom is the worst room to clean
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  Speaker 2: the house, especially when you have a bathtub dusty motherfucker.
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  Speaker 3: It is the worst. And like the fake tam build up.
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  Speaker 2: Don't even get me started the amount of times I've
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  Speaker 2: given myself chemical burns.
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  Speaker 3: Like that was my job.
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  Speaker 2: But then somehow, after twenty minutes, the bathroom wasn't done.
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  Speaker 2: But I was ripping everything out of the linen cupboard
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  Speaker 2: and reorganizing it, and I finished that, and then I
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  Speaker 2: was also then putting my clothes away. That we finished
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  Speaker 2: cleaning the entire apartment, and the bathroom was never finished.
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  Speaker 2: And I walked back in and I went off for
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  Speaker 2: got to clean the bathroom.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you're like.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the one, that was the one that
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  Speaker 2: was my one job, But I found about six others
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  Speaker 2: that I didn't need to do. Yeah, And I kept
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  Speaker 2: and I think I started one, went to another.
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  Speaker 3: I went back to that one, and I was like, whoa,
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  Speaker 3: what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Happened?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So some tips to try and avoid context switching
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  Speaker 2: is a brown noise hack. So you know that weird
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  Speaker 2: like calm feeling you have with brown noise. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 2: those like are the deep kind of like crackly sounds
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  Speaker 2: and it's basically kind of creating stillness within your brain
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  Speaker 2: and helps you kind of lock in and focus a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more, because when your focus is broken, it
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  Speaker 2: can take twenty minutes plus to refocus, which is why audiobooks,
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  Speaker 2: podcasts and brown noise or orchestral music is really good
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  Speaker 2: to help you lock into tasks that you're focusing on,
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  Speaker 2: because it means that your brain is kind of like
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  Speaker 2: the music or the podcast has been like look over here,
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  Speaker 2: focus here.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, there's nothing else, there's nothing else to
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  Speaker 3: look at.
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  Speaker 2: And then your body's like, cool, I can just do this,
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  Speaker 2: or I can finish my assignment, or I can clean
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  Speaker 2: whatever I need to clean, or whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: you're wanting to get done, whether it's even a walk,
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  Speaker 2: that your body can keep doing it, and then the
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  Speaker 2: part of your brain where your attention sits can focus
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  Speaker 2: on listening to something.
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  Speaker 3: I saw TikTok and it was like when the audio.
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  Speaker 2: Book slaps, you won't hear it, but they'll be signs.
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  Speaker 2: And the photos in the TikTok was just a really
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  Speaker 2: clean house. Yeah, And I was like, yeah, it's so true.
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  Speaker 2: There's also a method that's the Jillio method. Gylio to
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  Speaker 2: combat the impacts of context switching, and it stands for
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  Speaker 2: get your Life in Order method. So essentially the method
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  Speaker 2: involves bundling tasks into a single morning or day a
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  Speaker 2: week in order.
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  Speaker 3: To clear your mind.
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  Speaker 2: So kind of like breaking up your to do list
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  Speaker 2: all the things you want to do and slotting them in.
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  Speaker 2: So identify and brainstorm your admin chores, list.
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  Speaker 3: Out all of your lingering.
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  Speaker 2: Non urgent tasks you've been putting on, and then establish
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  Speaker 2: a dedicated time slot.
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  Speaker 3: So dedicate a specific window on your schedule.
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  Speaker 2: It could be a weekend morning or a weekly power hour.
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  Speaker 2: And then create a focused bundle, which is like three
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  Speaker 2: to five small manageable tasks on a list, So like,
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  Speaker 2: don't think you're gonna get your whole life in order.
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  Speaker 3: In like one session, basically, yeah, and then execute one
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  Speaker 3: task at a time.
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  Speaker 2: And I really find it helpful having these Visually, there
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  Speaker 2: are these little like task magnets, so you can put
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  Speaker 2: on your fridge and you basically have it's got like
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  Speaker 2: a little slider thing and you can slide whether it's
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: done or not. And I think when you identify all
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the things that you need to do each week, and
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you can kind of break it up over the week
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: so that way you don't get to the weekend and
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: you've got this pile of list of things you need
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: to do, or even work wise, like identify what are
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: the repeated tasks you do every week and divvy them up,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: because if you get a whole list of twenty things
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: and you go on a Monday and you go, hear
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: my twenty things to do, You're not gonna get any
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: of them done?
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you can also like align them to different
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: days of the week that makes sense, yeah, And it
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: just makes it feel more achievable and gives you some
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: motivation to do them, because otherwise, if you see a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: list of twenty chores that you have to do around
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the house, yeah, you're like where do where do I begin?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Also, just be kind to yourself, like as someone who
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: finds like focusing on things very difficult, and I do
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: end up doing this a lot, like it is I
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: think out of all of the things on this probably
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the most like common and relatable, especially to those who
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: are neurodivergent. So like, don't like beat yourself up for
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you know, if you haven't gotten to something or you
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: do struggle to lock in and focus on tasks. Like
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: it's especially just with like where attention spans are going universally,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: it's harder than ever.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So like putting systems in place to.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Support you is always going to be helpful in the
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: long run.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: All of like those tips are about making you feel
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: better about yourself than not things to try and fix
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: you or change who you are. It's more to support
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you and make things easier in the long run.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Also, communicating to people I think is helpful that if
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: you struggle with context switching and maybe you know when
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: you're at home and your partner is like you're trying
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: to do something and your partner is also coming in
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: and talking to you, or if you're at work and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: you're trying to get a task done and someone goes, oh,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: can I just ask.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: You a question of can you help me with this?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Or or they slack you like turning your notifications off
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: or actually saying to people, do you mind just giving
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: me like I've just got to finish this, and if
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: you talk to me, I'm not gonna get a sidetrack.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get sidetracked. And then on that side quest,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I'll find another side question. Yeah, and then I'll come
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: back to the day and I won't finish the thing,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the one thing that I actually wanted to do today.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So even like communicating that to people, I do think
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: is really helpful as well.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, number three ingredy and prepping.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: So this can save you up to six hours per week.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: So we all know what meal prepping, but we can
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: actually take things a step further and do ingredient prepping.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I like this.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I like this too.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: So this is perfect for girls who want a little
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: bit of variety in their meals, which that is me
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: guilty because like we might not keep to eating the
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: same batch made meals for a week because I like it.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I like to mix it up. Yeah, I like to
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: throw it around a little bit.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I can't.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I can't eat the same lunch.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: For like a whole week because I get bored. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: want like a little bit of sparkle in a piece variety.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: No tin, no show to anyone who can. I love
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: that for you.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: In fact, yeah, I that I liked the meal prep
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: yeah at the beginning, but I think that's the thing.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: It doesn't work for everyone.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, And that's the thing, And that's fine,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: And so if you still want to find some shortcuts
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to mixing up your meals but not having to start
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: from scratch every single meal you make, you can prep ingredients,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: so things like chopping fruits and vegetables, batch making sauces,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: and cooking grains for meal bases can all help. When
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: it hits to like dinner time, you get home from
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: work and you're like, oh.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I can't be bothered to cook dinner.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the meal prep is like the prep is half,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it's the whole part.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It's the whole part, and you just like realize how
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: much time you say, by just being able to pull
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: everything together in one go, chuck it in the pan,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: bing bong.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Done. Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Well, ingredient prepping can save you two to four hours
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: per week because you're batch prepping the common things that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you would eat over the course of a week. So
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you make a small time investment here to reduce your
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: time and efforts in the kitchen later on throughout the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: week where you don't have to decide on what to use,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: do you even have the ingredients ready to go, how
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to prepare it? And if you're angry after work too,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that's when you end up being like fuck it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna order something.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Can even be.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Things like washing your fruits or chopping up a carrot
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: so that when you want to have some.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Dip it's to go.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because also it saves on clean up time, which
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is the fucking worst at the end. You can also
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: use some of these hucks in the kitchen to save
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you time, like using multipurpose ingredients, so simple grains or
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: proteins and things that you can use across multiple different recipes.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: If like you were saying, you don't want to eat
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the exact same thing, but like chopping up your onions
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: or like cooking a big thing of rice and like
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: doing maybe you know, different sauces or whatever you want to.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Do throughout the week.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Also prepping and freezing aromatic spices. Yes I do this, yeah,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: So stuff like chili and garlic and ginger that can
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: be prepped in bulk and thrown into the freezer that
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: can be brought out to add into your dishes.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: So also putting your spices in the freezer, Like I
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: put chicken stock, like the cubes and all of that
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: in the freezer.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Like do you like you cook them down?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: And then no, no, just the powder.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, how come, don't I.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Why someone just told me to do that? Like maybe it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Keeps it more fresh for a long time, just started
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: putting in the freezer and it's just always lived there.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Interesting.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know if there's any method to that madness,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: but let's just.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Tell us a chef in the comments. But surely it's
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to keep them fresh.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I also just think like I've locked in a little
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: bit more to just buying like frozen veggies and things
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: like that, and like popping if we make bolonnaise sauce,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: making more like rather than buying five hundred grams.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Of mince and making the sauce for one.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Night, getting a really big getting more of a serving,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: making all of that, because I'm already making it and
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: then saving the other half for then next week. That's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the thing is you don't have to eat it straight
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I don't have to eat it straight away, but it's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: ready to go exactly, So I will eat spaghetti bolonnais
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: at some point in time in the future, so the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: sauce is just already done then.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: And also it tastes better.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the flavors get to marine know each other
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in the pot.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they get to flirt exactly.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm getting hungry now.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Sorry, yeah me too, Okay.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Our fourth tip the four the four D filter. This
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: saves you up to ten hours a week. This is
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: also called the Eisenhower.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Matrix I know, science science.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So it involves categorizing your to do list into four
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: quadrants based on their urgency and importance. The four categories
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: are do, delay, delegate, and delete I know. So do
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: is for important tasks with urgent deadlines your first priority
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: stuff you need to get this shit done. Then delay
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: important but not urgent. They can be shifted or scheduled
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: for later. Delegate not as important but urgent, and these
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: can be delegated to somebody else who isn't you. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: delete not as important and not as urgent.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: These are usually.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Distractions and unnecessary tasks like do I really need to
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: do this? So this enables you to make quick decisions
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: about what to act on now, either by doing it
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: yourself or delegating it to somebody else, what to act
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: on in the future, or what to drop from your
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to do list completely. So this reduces your time in
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: decision making as well, like when we were talking about
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: those big to do lists too, Like I know, for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: me personally, like a lot of things, like everything seems urgent.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: It's like have to do everything, and it's like, no,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: you don't. It's fine.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Things can be shifted, things can be moved, things can
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: be deleted. And because that's the thing as well, like
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: sometimes you like I just want somebody else to make
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the decision for me.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: So you can use.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: This matrix, yeah, to make the decision.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: To make that decision, because sixty percent of Usustralians suffer
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: from analysis paralysis, and that's when you have more choice,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it's way harder to decide.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think this also helps build that skill because
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: being able to prioritize and understand what is urgent and
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: what needs to get done on your to do list
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: versus what's not a priority is a really big skill
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: and one that people need to have, like not only
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: in their career but just in life to be able
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to be like this is a priority, this actually maybe
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: not so much. So I think this is a great
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: tool to hone that skill to you be able to
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: in work go to your manager and being like, cool,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: these are the priorities for today.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: These are what I'm doing. Do you have any counters
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: to that?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Or is there any priorities that I've missed and also
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: would help manage burnout a lot.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And also then if something comes on your play you
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: can be like, well, if this is a priority now,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: that means that I have to either delegate this to
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: somebody else or shift here and gives you a little
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: bit more clarity over the things that really need to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: be done.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I think that's like a great method to just structure
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: your day, all right. And finally, the one touch rule.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: This saves at least one hour a week, and it's
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: essentially the concept of only touching an item once. Basically
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the idea is don't put it down, put it away. Yeah,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: and especially within that is having spots for things, so creating.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: If something doesn't have a spot, that's why it ends
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: up on.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: The chair, ends up on the chair.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: We all have the chair or the draw or the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: table or whatever it is. And you look at it
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: and you know, I hate you, and it's a black
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: hole and I don't know what's in there.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: That's scary.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I don't want to go in there.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I like this.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Have you heard of this before?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And again it's kind of like the proof is
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: in the pudding of the name is in the blah blah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: You're not going to get something wrong. It's on the tin,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: whatever the saying is. So it's very very easy to
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: just fall into the traff of being like i'll put
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: this way later, I'll just put it here and blah
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah, and then before you know it,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: everything's everywhere and you've got a big mess to cleaner. Yeah,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: So having like a one touch rule have been like
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I've picked it up.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: There's some sort of like child game that's like that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: It's like, once you pick it up, you can't put
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: it back down unless you're putting it away.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like make it a competition.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, and like obviously no one's gonna come in and
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: arrest you if you don't do this, but it's more
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: just like it it's a helpful mentality to get yourself
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: into the.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Habit of doing. Yeah, like all of the things that
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: we do.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, there's no rule, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: it's the feeling of after it that it's like cool,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: if you do put that away now, you don't have
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: to do it in the future.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: And it's nice to all.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: So for me, it's nice to know if I want something,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I know where that thing is, and that's the motivation
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently the average person spends almost five thousand hours
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: in their lives looking for lost items in their home.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: How fucked is that?
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Oh my god?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah that Yeah, I don't like that. I know, I reckon.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I've probably hit that quote about now, like where is
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the where's that thing?
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: That is crazy, like when you put it into that perspective,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing, Like these things seem annoying at
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, when you take your jacket off,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you just want to fling it on the chair. But
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it takes just as much time to fling it on
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the chair as it does to hang it up and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: put it in your water. But it's a mental thing.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: But the thing is as well.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Like if it takes sixty seconds to put it away,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: imagine all that that time that adds up of like
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: not putting things away again, this is this is a
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: pep talk for.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Myself, rousing on anyone, no but myself.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, As we very often say, a lot of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: these tips we've included because we feel like we can
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: relate to.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Them and we think them.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: So we're definitely not on any sort of high horse here.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: No, But what do you think is your hack that
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: you're going to embrace the most out of the five
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: that we've discussed today.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, I reckon ingredient prepping because Chris and I do
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of meal prepping. But sometimes I do think
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that I do that and then maybe something will come up,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: like a dinner or a work event or whatever, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: then I don't use the meal that I've prepped, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: then I feel like that goes to waste, whereas maybe
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: just doing the ingredients you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Can have a little bit more flexibility.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's so many ingredients that you can mix
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a match to things as well.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Well, basically every meal I ate is a combination of onion, chili, garlic,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and tomato.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: So just like dose and I'm ready to go.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I saw a meon the other day and it was
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: like like just gurlypops hanging out and drinking together, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the text was this and a no protein meal. Never
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: heard anything more correct in my life, Absolutely never heard
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: anything drinks the girls and a no protein meal.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Holy Trinity.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, that is my religion. Chef's fucking kiss, like get
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: me there, down me up?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about you?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I do like the song one yeah song and nomics.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: It's fun.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like being like cool because there's so many
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: times and I'm like, oh, can't be bothered, I can't
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: be asked. And then I'm like, oh, you know what,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: three songs, three songs can get it done and that Yeah,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And I swear half the time you'll probably keep going
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: yeah because it gives you that motivation. Yeah.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I also love those memes and people like just gonna
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: put up some music on while I'm cleaning the house
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and then it's them with like a zarla some music
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: video on their TV and.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: They're just standing there with their vacuum watching.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: It's like I've seen it off campus where they're like
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: start masturbating together and you're like, get that too.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: And on that note, that's wrap, chicks, Thanks for having
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: us in your ear holes. We love to be here, babe.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Bye now Baye bye