Latest / Two Broke Chicks / $0 Secrets To Reverse Brain Rot

Transcript

$0 Secrets To Reverse Brain Rot · Two Broke Chicks

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadigal Land. Always was, Always
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Hey Jiex, I'm sou and I'm Out And this is
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: two broad checks that shares life lessons and tips to
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: help make you rich in life. And today we're sharing
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: an anti brain rot checklist with tips to help you
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: digital detox and get out of your daily doom. Scroll
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: this Yeah, because if you feel like you communicate exclusively
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: via TikTok sounds, if you get separation anxiety from your phone,
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: if your best friend is like someone you've never met
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: on Instagram, you know, maybe it's time to have a
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: little bit of a.
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: Digital detops digital detox. There's never a bad time for
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: a digital detox. And I don't think there's a single
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: person in the world except for someone who doesn't have
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: a phone or they're still rocking the nockiaut, that wouldn't
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: need a digital detox. I was thinking on the way here,
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: I was like, maybe I'll get an old phone.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Great, that's actually I want to ask you more about that,
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: so we don't get too much before I'll write or
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: write a rap, but before we get into it. In
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: our Tuesday episodes, we start off with a little segment,
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: and usually it's like our product wreck of the week,
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: or you know, something that's trending, but it's it's getting
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: a glow up and it's now called what I'm obsessed with.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: So that can include like a product wreck, maybe a
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: viral obsession. Yeah, it literally could be anything.
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: That was a remix because it's my obsessions. But it's now,
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: these are my obsessions.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be like a sweeper, Yeah.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: Trying to do a really good one. Ready, come in
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: three two? These are my obsessions.
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: There we go. I love that.
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well to kick us off, what's your obsession this week?
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: Okay, my obsession this week is that four is a
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: year of fucking girlypop.
• 2:02
  Speaker 4: Let's go chicks y.
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: I feel like two years ago it was all Maddie
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: Healy and Harry Styles runt and now it's wrong. Now
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: it's like Sabrina Carpenter, Charlie x X Chapel, Roan, Taylor Swift,
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: She's she's kind of an ongoing one, but we'll chuck.
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: Her in there.
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: But yeah, she's the prime minister pop.
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah that Like, I am just loving it.
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: I am eating it up. I'm gobbling it up. I
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: want it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I want all
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: of it. I love seeing them basically on every form
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: of media, on every talk show, on every TikTok. I
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: know Spotify is getting slammed for like putting Sabrina Carpenter
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: like every playlist.
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: But I'm like, give it to me. I'm eating it.
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm eating Yeah.
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: I want it.
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: Bring me the girlipop every fucking day and don't ever
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: think about stopping it.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm just really glad that like Charlie XCX especially
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: is finally getting her I was gonna say, come up,
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: and but that's like.
• 3:09
  Speaker 4: Bill reigning Supreme Queen. She's vice president or.
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: President or primary stuff.
• 3:17
  Speaker 4: You can do your own rankings.
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: My obsession of the week was actually on a similar
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: vein shows Away in Sync Again, and it's Charlie XCX's
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: new album Brat. I'm like so into it, like I
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: said at the beginning of the year or the end
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: of last year, like clean Girl Vibe is out, Rat
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: Girl is in, and I feel like that is the
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: album for the rat girlies and I'm so excited. So
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: let's get into the episode, shall we.
• 3:43
  Speaker 4: Let's do it?
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, So today's episode is all about the anti brain
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: rot checklist. But before we get into the checklist and
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: things to do, I want to to play a little game,
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: do you? So the game is do you have brain rot?
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: And I just want to say I picked all of
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: these and already knew all the answers, so that means
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: that I do have brain rot. And I'm not judging anyone.
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: If you know all the answers to this, it's a
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: judge free zone.
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm ready. Okay.
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: Question number one, who worked it out on the remix? Oh?
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know this last week? To oh Lord and
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: Charlie XX.
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there we go.
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give you half a point. Okay, this is
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: a two parter. Who said, oh honey, I am so
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: nut threatened to and can you finish the quote?
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: I have a chat.
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, wouldn't touch you with a ten foot poll.
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: You're just jealous and I have a chat. It's my
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: favorite part was at the end when she said, so
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: it looks like you're the one that's Pinini pressed. Okay,
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: you get two points for that.
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: Question number three, what hotel did the fully conscious baby
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: want to go to?
• 5:10
  Speaker 3: Who wants to go the four seasons on Orlando.
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: Me. Okay, another point, So you're up to three and
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: a half points. Question number four, Okay, who is your
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: favorite artist's favorite artist?
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: My name is chapel Ron, and I'm your favorite artist.
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: Favorite artist, my favorite.
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: Thing I get a bonus point for this is she
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: was on Jimmy Fallon and he fucking freaked out because
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: she started like talking about drag queens and he had
• 5:39
  Speaker 3: no idea what she was talking to. And then she
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: was like, it's actually a reference to Sasha Colby, who
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: says I'm your favorite.
• 5:45
  Speaker 4: Drag queen's favorite drag queen.
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: And when she said Sasa Colby, there were people in
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: the audience at tuned, and.
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: She was like, there's gay people here.
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 5:51
  Speaker 4: I was like, hah, yes, there's gay people here.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't go. It's like when he did that interview
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: with ru Paul and he's like, blah, drag queen, drag queen,
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: I am the Queen of drag and he was solely
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: of his body.
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, So the bonus point was who was the inspo
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: for that quote? Okay, so we've got one final question.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: Who is looking fire Pooky?
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: You have brain ride?
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Pooky is looking absolute fire.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: That's amazing. So you got six and a half points
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: out of seven. Wait, but I did want to start
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: off with that quiz because obviously we're well equipped to
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: talk about but also because I wanted to start it
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: off that this is like a judgment free zone. Oh
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: you know, when I was doing research for the episode,
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: I did feel a lot of judgment from some of
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: the articles. There was one article I think it was
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: by the New York Times and it was like, if
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: you know what brain rot is, you probably have it.
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: And I was like, it is like, it is like
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: a hot word.
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: It is a buzzword.
• 7:19
  Speaker 4: Of buzzword, that's the word.
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you are unfamiliar with it just came
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: into my head because well that hot word buzzword and
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: the membrane went. So we've had brain rots since. Good
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: to know. But if you're unfamiliar with the term brain rot, Essentially,
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: it refers to like being chronically online and refers to
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: low value Internet content and the effects caused by spending
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: too much time consuming it. And according to Fast Company,
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: dumb phone brands like light Phone reported an increase in
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: demand of the opposite of smartphone aah. So while I
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: think a lot of us probably have experienced this thing
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: called brain rot a lot of us are also looking
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: for ways to maybe avoid it.
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: Like distance ourselves yeah, or accessibility, yeah, reduce our dependence
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: on smartphones, which I think is so interesting because we
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: use our smartphones for everything.
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: It's such a crutch.
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: Even like myself, I find myself using it as a crush.
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: And like I was saying before, I've actually been thinking
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: about getting an analogue brick phone just to detach from it,
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: just to use a phone as it is. I think
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: there is so much amazing access to knowledge and learning
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: and expansion of what we have within our own circle
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: that that is amazing, and that is such a privilege,
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: Like we if you have a smartphone and you have
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: connection to internet and that accessibility to learning and speaking
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: and entertainment like that is such a privilege. But I
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: think what's happening is you know when not using it
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: for that, I'm not using it for that, and when
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: I can tell when I'm using my phone for healthy
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: self development, yeah, and when I'm brain rotting, and that
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: healthy self development does include mindless scrolling, yeah, because it's
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: a it's a reprieve It's like it's good to watch
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: funny videos.
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: If there's a YouTuber that you.
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: Absolutely love and they make you laugh so much, there
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: is nothing wrong with that. It's the I've got nothing
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: else to do, so I'll sit here and I'll scroll,
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: or I've got something to do, but I'm sitting there
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: and I'm scrolling.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: Well, it's so interesting when you brought up like you know,
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: like the Nokia old school phone or they call them
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: feature phones like Nokia does, and apparently they've seen the
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: sales for those types of phones double in the US
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. So like
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: you're not alone because I've like thought that too, or
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: you know, often I'm like, can I just like go
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: somewhere without my phone? But there is like a sense
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: of security of being Definitely something goes wrong definitely, So yeah,
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: I'm like, maybe that would be like a good option. Well,
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like in a digital detos and what I've
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: started putting into practice and I definitely want to develop
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: more is when that content that doesn't really align with
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: my values, or content that doesn't really pull a positive
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: experience for me or from me, like it pulls negativity,
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: It builds negativity in me because I'm either being like, yeah,
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: I don't like that, or I'm being like, oh.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Like the world like this, Yeah, like it's overwhelming. I
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: like start utilizing the.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: Not interested button.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: I not interested button is free to use, and it
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: builds like you can build your own algorithm that yes,
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: some of these things that go viral are just gonna
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: go viral, but they're not all bad like the Four
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: Seasons baby.
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like that's just like a bit of tongue in cheek.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, the not interested button is your best
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: friend in building content and building a feed that does
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: align with your values, that does show you things you
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: want to see. If you see something that makes you
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: maybe feel bad or insecure, it's not anything against maybe
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: that creator or that person in that video, but if
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: something doesn't fuel your happiness and the dopamine and serotonin
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: that you are getting from using social media, you need
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: to tell your apps what.
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: You want from them exactly.
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: Otherwise that's when I find the rot rotting. Yeah, and
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: I've started doing that, or just like blocking for the
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: sake of this.
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: Content doesn't serve me.
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: So that's what I've been doing a little bit lately
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: to try and kind of like bring back a little
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: bit more positivity because as.
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: Well, Hope Core. Have you seen Hope Pore?
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: It's like little montages.
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: Of just really beautiful moments in human experiences of like
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: you know, dogs finding their families after being lost, or
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: people being reunited with you know, people in their family
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: or friends or whatever it is. There was one about
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: like a grandpa and a cafe getting a piece of
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: cake and everyone saying to him he started crying, and
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: it just reminds you of the good and the simplicity
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: that humans can be. And that's what I like. That's
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: when I don't feel like shit for being on my phone,
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, that makes me happy.
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: And whenever I watch.
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: Videos like that, I'm like, okay, I'm done now and
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: I can get off my phone. And I always make
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: sure that I like it and I watch the whole
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: thing and I save it in favorite.
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: So I'm like, this is what I want.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Give me that, yeah, exactly, that one.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: Right there, Because I think a lot of the time
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: people are like, well, I'm so dependent on my smartphone.
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: I need it to like, you know, use maps, I
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: need it to message people. I need it for work,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: and so people like, well, you know, I can't really
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: curb this addiction because I need it, And they think
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: that it's like you have to go cold turkey and
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: like throw your phone away, And I think it's not
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: a matter of that. You don't have to, like, you know,
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: go completely off the grid and go live in a
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: forest somewhere. It's more so about finding healthier boundaries for
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: you and also like utilizing the tools and apps and
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: things on our phones and on you know, the social
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: media apps that we use in a way that serves
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: us just to make it healthier. So we're going to
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: run through some of those. I think a big one,
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: like a big goal for a lot of people in
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four is to reduce your screen time. Like anecdotally,
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: I found, at least with you know, conversations with our friends,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: mine's like twelve hours.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: Whoa, yeah, how do I check it?
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Mine's ten hours and fifty seven minutes.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Far out to mine's nine hours and thirty seven minutes.
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: Holy shit, My total screen time last week was thirty
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: two hours and thirty four minutes. I'm getting I'm getting
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: a Nokia, I'm getting a brick phone.
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: It's time.
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: Oh that my god, no, wonder when my anxiety is bad.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: Well, it's like if you think about like how many
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: days we would spend on our phones in a lifetime
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: just on social media, Like going on social media is
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: like also a big part of our job. So there's
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: also that likes.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: There's there's that's too much. Okay, So I don't like
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: that number, and I would like to work on that
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: number and better that number in a way that is lesser,
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: because spending a whole day on social media is not
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: good for my brain, and it's not good for anyone's brain.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Your weekly total of time on your phone.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Is fifty four hours. But you know why this is happening.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: I listen to audiobooks when I sleep.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that counts.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: It is because it's pulling in information and reading.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: That's wild.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm like that may sense because I feel
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: everyone should go do that. Yeah, exactly. And because there
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: was like a twenty twenty four study from Statista, and
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: they were saying that on average in the world, people
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: spend one hundred and forty three minutes on social media
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: per day on average. This is apparently down from one
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty one minutes last year, but that's still
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: almost three hours on social media apps per day on average.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I would say that the average young person that would
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: be a lot higher.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Time seven three times seven is twenty one.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we aligned with that. Yeah, but like I'm
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: sure that there would be people that would be spending
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: more oh yeah as well. So yeah, like we were saying,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: just go to see how much time you're spending on
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: the apps, Like for your iPhone, go to your setting
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: screen time and then see all app and website activity,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: because then from there you can see your usage. You
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: can set limits on your most used apps. So if
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: you can see that you're spending like a lot of
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: time on Instagram, then you can set limits on how
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: you can access those apps. And you can see how
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: many times, like you picked up your phone when you've
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: got a notification and things like that. So it's like, okay,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: is that like the trigger that's getting me to pick
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: up my phone? Like should I set up you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: the automatic do not disturb focus time, sleep time? Yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I think it's just become so ingrained in our everyday
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: back subconscious habit. Yeah, well, it's just the muscle memory
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: of picking up full of phone.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: But I feel like as well, it's like my brain
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: goes on like changes tangents a lot, and that I'll
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: be going to go post on two broake Chicks and
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I open it, I see a real that reel makes
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: me think of something else.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: I start scrolling.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I go on this page and I'm like, what was
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I doing again? Yeah, And it's just like a little
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: bit of a rabbit hole, and I think, what is
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: helpful that even in that same section.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: And we'll talk a little bit more about it later.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: But you can have usage.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: It's on your apps, like there used to be apps
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: that you would download for it, but in your settings
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: you can say, Okay, I don't want to use TikTok
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: for more than this time. I don't want to use
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Instagram for more than this time. And it's really really
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: good because I don't think we have the tools to
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: say no.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: I don't no.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I actually think that maybe we should do it, yeah,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I for like eight hours a day or something so
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that it's like, yes, it's just our work.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Because I want to get to phones one that like,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I can do that. But it's the same thing that
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I think as well, it's maybe learning a little bit
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: more about what we can do on our phone. I
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: don't think we understand all the tools that we have
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: available that are healthy tools. I think identifying things that
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: are good behaviors and like moderate behaviors and then bad
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: behaviors and kind of putting those into different spectrums. So
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: like good behaviors on your phone would be calling people
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: you love, listening to podcasts, listening to audio books, or
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: reading a book.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: If you can read a physical book.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: That is always positive, and learning to like learning, like
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I started listening to a philosopher that I really love.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I did have a couple of podcasts to expand your knowledge. First,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: one Stuff you should Know, Oh Love. So this podcast
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: is so cool because it covers everything from like they
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: had a recent episode on whistling but to like scientific theory.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So it's like from you know, the frivolous to like
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: things that you're like how that happened? Like just everything
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: and this podcast breaks down, you know, the facts from
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the everyday to the extraordinary, which I think is really cool.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I really love that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Another podcast a Daily oz So that's like a fifteen
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: minute roughly you know, daily news breakdown, which I think
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: is really good. You know if you're not picking up
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: your local newspaper. We've mentioned on the show before, but
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: of course Big Small Talk, which is a mix of
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: pop culture, politics, and you know, news headlines hosted by
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: our good friends Hannah Ferguson and Sarah Adams. Absolutely love it,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: especially if you want that light and shade mix. And
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: then also Hack, which is a weekly Triple J podcast
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and in a similar way, they cover you know, the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: latest news, politics and headlines. And I think it's just
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: like a really cool way to hear other perspectives on
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the headline.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: It's fun to learn to learn, it's fun.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I love feeling smarter.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I love consuming a piece of content or reading something
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: or listening to something and feeling smarter. Like we don't
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: have to feel guilty about using our phone if we're
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: using our phone in the right way. And I saw
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: this tweet it went viral a few years ago, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: it was about putting your phone into folders that are affirmations.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: So you know how you can pull in apps and
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: you put them in a folder, and most of the
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: time it'll be like money social videos, like if that's
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: your Netflix apps, for example, or and then like your
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: health apps potentially but what it changed to was, rather
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: than being money, it would be I am rich, rather
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: than being socials, it would be I am learning. Rather
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: than being health, it would be I am healthy. And
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: it's putting the affirmations to the apps.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: That for what you want them to achieve.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: And I just thought that was the best way to
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: structure it. Like, for example, if you are like doing
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: with work and you work and create a space, and
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: if you've got apps on your phone like Google Docs,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: sheets all that stuff, even though that's quite boring of
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: an app, you'd have it like I am productive or
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I am creative. And having your apps reflect what you
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: want them to do is the same as like setting
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: your bank account as your savings goal. Right, So it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: like tell your phone what you want it to do
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: and let your phone tell you.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: And I just love that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I can't remember who said that, though I didn't come
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: up with that, it was definitely someone else.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: But we will put a credit in the show notes.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll find the link, yeah to the twet.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: It went viral, but I thought it was so helpful.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: It's just about setting intension. Yeah, it's the same with
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: your savings or with your apps or whatever. It is
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: just being a little bit more mindful about the things
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: that you're using in you know, everyday settings.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: So another tip to avoid your dependence on your phone
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and mindless scrolling is microdosing raw dogging life.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I have seen this going viral of like men raw
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: dogging flights. Yeah, and can I just say I could
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: simply never No, but it's on a.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Flight that's probably not where.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I haven't seen the trend like heaps. I've
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: seen like a couple and it's basically they like just
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: raw dog to twenty hour flight, no entertainment, no headphones,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: no anything. I'm like, oh my god, that that's a
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: step too far to me. But you've got some other
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: ways that we could raw dog life.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so here are a few examples of where you can,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you know, either leave your phone at home or maybe
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: put it in another room. It doesn't have to be
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: your little Peter Pan shadow coming along with you the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: toilet or the shower. Blasphem me, am I wrong though.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: No, you're not, You're actually very right, but that, yeah,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: that's true.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, shower, I will raw dog where I have music
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: all the time or a show or YouTube all the time. Yeah,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I always have something the populat that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I like the shower.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I like the shower thoughts. I like the process of
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: shower thoughts. It is like a form of meditation because
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: we don't just sit with our thoughts enough.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Number two, going to the shops, Oh, take your wallet.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: You don't need to use applebet Like if you're just
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: going down the road, yeah, you know, and then you
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you can like walk down the street and maybe like
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: look up and look around, smile at somebody who's walking toward.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Feel the rain on your skin.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Listen to the tunes they're always blasting in the supermarkets.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: They are always playing do you know what? Actually at
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the supermarket that is where you truly get the Friday
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: forgotten bang it. It's the morning shift podcasts. And at
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the fucking supermarkets. The amount of times that I've actually
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: like taken my headphones out and being like no, I
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: prefer what they're playing, like this is an absolute hit
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: that I haven't heard in about eighteen years.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: See. The thing is, though, and I think a lot
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: of people would also relate to this is the sensory
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: overload of shopping, which is why like you would take
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: your phone and you'd put headphones on right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but a lot of shops are building out these
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: quiet hours.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think Cole's has it, and I'm not
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: too sure, but you could probably just look it up.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: But they have quiet hours where you basically go and
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: it's meant to be a little bit less overwhelming.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Yah, because I never.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: And it's very much an inclusivity movement, which I think
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: is absolutely amazing and I would love to see it
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: rolled out into multiple stores. But even if a store
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: doesn't have that, maybe identifying a time when it is
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: going to be a little bit quieter so it isn't
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: as overwhelming, because I definitely feel that whenever it's like
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: a bit of a sensory overload and I feel a
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: bit I get a bit of a Sunday afternoon absolutely.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Or don't new Yeah, yeah, okay, next one, watching a
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: movie at home, put your phone in another room. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: feel like the amount of movies that I've barely even
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: consumed because I'm half scrolling on my phone at the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: same time and.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Watching it, and then you're like, what happened?
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But even if you need to start small by
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: doing it when you're watching the office, like put your
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: phone in another room, then you can extend that to
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: a longer TV show than a movie, But I think
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it just needs to be not on your person, yeah,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: otherwise you will reach for it. And then also catching
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: up with a friend as well, Like if you're going
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: to meet somebody for coffee and you're not going too
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: far and you do feel comfortable and safe enough to
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: go without your phone, be like, hey, I'm going to
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: meet you there at ten o'clock and then go meet
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: them there because I'm like, that's what our parents did.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I feel like it would be good to end this
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: episode as well with some productive swaps.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Yes, so because I think we all know.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: As well that it's not good, like not good to
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: be you know, doom scrolling. Yeah, and it is good
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: to have a detox. But as well, I think it's
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: good to utilize the accessibility that we have with them
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: because it is really cool. Like the technology is really
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: cool and it's not all bad. So what are some
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: productive swaps to replace your doom scrolling?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Clean out your notes app?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I love doing this, and you know what, sometimes I
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: think some new ones do you know what?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Cleaning out your notes app gives the same energy as
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: hell me when you're cleaning your room and then you
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: end up with like random cowboy hat on a metal
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that you want at the year six running Carnival.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Let's open up and find the weirdest thing in there, because.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Some of the memories that you find like, not only
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: is it productive and you know, kind of clears the
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: cobwebs out of your notes at but we go.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: For a scroll I have I have so this is
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: my cat. I've got brevecto three months pop and tel
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: three months two and a half kilograms. That's probably the
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: medication that my cat needs.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I have one that is beans betroot non slip Matt.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: That sounds like it's something that Dwight Shret would write.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got one that just says is that meg
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Max sitting there and I.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Must have seen. Yeah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, delete old message chains that you don't need anymore,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: especially if they're with like an ex or an old friend.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Like al said, organize your apps in folders, go through
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: your bookmarks and save posts on social media and clear
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: those out, and our favorite decluding your camera roll screenshots.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you haven't heard us talk about it before,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the swipe wipe app is like the best if you
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: need to clean out your camera roll and like Spring, Refresh, Detox,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: declutter your camera roll. It's basically an app that pulls
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: in your photo albums and your camera roll, and then
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: you treat it like it looks like a Tinder, so
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: you swipe left to delete and swipe right to keep,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: and then at the end of the month, it pulls
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: it all in and it will be like delete one
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: hundred and twenty four photos and I went through thousands
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: in like a couple of minutes.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: It's also the best to do on a plane.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: And then the one I would love to add to
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: that as well is to culor your subscriptions. So go
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: into your subscriptions folder and see what you're.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Still paying for.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Also, whenever you have a subscription, just unsubscribe from all
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: of it because you still get it for however long
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: it is, and then that way you're not going to
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: get charged for another twelve month thing. Don't wait till
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: the twelve months. Just unsubscribe because you still get what
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you paid for and then it just won't automatically renew.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And then if you do realize that you need it,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: you just sign up for it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you just signed up again.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: You're like, oh, oh, oh, oh ma'am, what are you
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: doing with my staff?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: See you got brain rot? WHOA? On that note, should
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: we move your advice with the chicks.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Best stories for pleasure clitoral energ spot stimulation. I have
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: yet to find a product that does something otherworldly. All
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: suggestions greatly accepted for investigation.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I feel very qualified to answer this.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Okay one.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: It really depends what you like, I think very much.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: So like there are things that work for some people
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: that do not work for others, like I leover they're
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: like Womanizer or Satisfy a pro or the bush or
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the normal like clitoral stimulators, I feel like rare, Like
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I like all of them all good. They've all got
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: pros and cons to them. Some are stronger, some are
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit more like feathery, some are more intense
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: that it really really is down to kind of your
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: body because some people are a little bit more sensitive.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Like I recommended a womanizer to someone and they were
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: like what the fuck? They were like that was a lot,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, there could be a lot.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: It really does depend on yourself and your body. So
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: I think those brands are definitely ones that I would
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: look at and read the reviews, but basically, I know
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: it's not super helpful, being like it depends, but it
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: really does. So some brands that are really good to
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: look at love Honey Bush, Normal and it was another
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: one sexy Land. And you can get toys that are
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: both a G spot stimulator and a clitoral stimulator. So
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: the clitoral stimul is the one that has a little sucky,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: sucky thing on the outside.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: It's like a pulsating air.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's great and I love them, and that's
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: what I would recommend.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: I'm definitely more of an It depends as well. If
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: you're an.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: External internal person, Like, if you prefer internal stimulation, you're
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: gonna like a G spot one more. If you're an
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: external you're gonna like a clitter or stimulator more. Yeah,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: have a play, have a play, have some fan this
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: beeaed is sick. I want to take a ride on
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: the disco stick.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: And we do have a code for Normal, so you
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: can use Broke Chicks fifteen for fifteen percent off. So
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: we put a link in all the deats in the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: show notes.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: What's sexier than a promo code? Tell me that that's
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: what gets me off. Yeah, that's your kink, that's my kink,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: saving money LAM. Anyway, thank you jeks having us in
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: your ear holes.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: We l l love to be here. And thanks for
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: using your phones in a healthy.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: A healthy and productive word exactly.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Sorry, it's shamefrey zone, honey.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Shamefrey's zone.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: And thank you to MK made for making this episode
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: of two Brick, two Brick Chicks.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Two Brick Chicks, two breaks upen.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Thanks thanks for making this episode of two Bricks happen.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: We'll see you on Thursday.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Bye chick, bye m hmm