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Broke Chicks Guide To Going Analogue In 2026 · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 2: Or you'll see it on socials. So today we are
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  Speaker 2: talking about the rise of going analog. Yeah, why is
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  Speaker 2: everyone going analogue? Why does it feel so good? But
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  Speaker 2: also are there any downsides to it? Yeah? Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into it, though, of course, we have to discuss
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  Speaker 2: our obsession of the week. Tell me sale Tale.
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  Speaker 3: My obsession of the week is that Harry Styles is
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  Speaker 3: back to Save twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: I already knew this was going to be your obsession.
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  Speaker 2: I saw it this morning and I came into the
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  Speaker 2: office and I didn't even bring it up, Yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: I knew we were going to be discussing it on
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  Speaker 2: the podcast, and I was like, save with the pod. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So this morning we woke up to the very exciting
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  Speaker 3: news that Harry Styles is dropping his fourth album, his
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  Speaker 3: first album in almost four years.
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  Speaker 4: That's wild, yeah, because it feels.
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  Speaker 2: Like, honestly, maybe a year ago that he was doing
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  Speaker 2: that crazy long tour, but.
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  Speaker 3: The love On tour, Yeah, yeah, that was almost three
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  Speaker 3: years ago.
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  Speaker 4: That's why that he was here, which is just insane.
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  Speaker 3: I have felt his absence every single day since then,
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  Speaker 3: and this news could not come sooner.
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  Speaker 4: The new album is called Kiss All.
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  Speaker 3: The Time Disco Occasionally, which incredible album title, a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a departure from what he's done in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any predictions for Harry styles new album.
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  Speaker 3: Well, based on the album title and also the album art,
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  Speaker 3: I do think that we're going to be getting a
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  Speaker 3: disco pot and I do hope that that's what we're
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  Speaker 3: getting too. He's been spending a lot of time in
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  Speaker 3: Europe and I feel like he's been living his best
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  Speaker 3: life and he's had a couple of new romances and flings.
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  Speaker 3: Hasn't he been with his most recent girlfriend for quite
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  Speaker 3: a long time, Zoe Krabatt? Yeah yeah, I think they've
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  Speaker 3: been together for maybe almost a year or something now,
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  Speaker 3: six months to a year, Okay, So what other predictions
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  Speaker 3: were at the end of last year? I think it
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  Speaker 3: was on the twenty seventh of December he released an
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  Speaker 3: eight minute long video on YouTube that was him playing
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  Speaker 3: piano on the last night of the Love On tour,
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  Speaker 3: and then at the very end of the video, over
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  Speaker 3: footage of the crowd, the text popped up, we Belong Together.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I do think that.
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  Speaker 3: That is going to be a hint at potentially the
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  Speaker 3: debut single that will get from the album I have.
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  Speaker 3: So you think the debut single is going to be
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  Speaker 3: called we Belong Together?
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: We also saw posters pop up in cities around the world,
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  Speaker 3: including in Sydney, with that same visual, and I think
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  Speaker 3: he'd also sent out like voice notes to select fans,
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  Speaker 3: like in his fan club.
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  Speaker 4: That also hint that that could be the first single.
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  Speaker 2: So what did the voice notes say?
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  Speaker 3: It was him like, I think singing a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: singing those lyrics, but it's all quite cryptic.
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  Speaker 2: My predictions as someone who is not as a hardcore
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  Speaker 2: direction but still big fun. Yeah, I reckon we'll get
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  Speaker 2: one piano man's style song the influence of I think
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  Speaker 2: Lenny Kravitz will feature on a song. I'm having fun
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  Speaker 2: with my predictions. No, I love that either Lenny Kravitz,
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  Speaker 2: Elton Johel or Sabrina Carpenter will feature on the album
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  Speaker 2: I Love This. Something will have pink. There'll be something
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  Speaker 2: pink to do with the album, okay, and there will
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  Speaker 2: be a music video that is set in a bar
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  Speaker 2: or a beach. Oh, I like that as of mine.
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  Speaker 3: Interested to see if he does do any collapse because
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  Speaker 3: he never really has before, like obviously ever since Darryl
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  Speaker 3: Breakwait at the Sydney shows.
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  Speaker 2: Sally come on it absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, he's never done sort of any features or
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  Speaker 3: collabse on any of his albums. So and that's obviously
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  Speaker 3: a really popular strategy for a lot of other artists.
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  Speaker 3: So I would be interested to see if that is
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  Speaker 3: something that he does something that I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Bring the Father and Lauren come on.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like all its so like private about his
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  Speaker 3: love life and he very rarely does things that are
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  Speaker 3: super on the nose.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know if he would do that, but
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  Speaker 4: I would love.
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  Speaker 3: It if he did, because I fucking love Lenny Kravitz
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  Speaker 3: and that would be like the sexiest combo ever.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe Zoe could be in the music.
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  Speaker 2: Video Love Lenny Kravitz in Games with the gold eyeliner.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, come on, Yeah, let's bring that back.
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  Speaker 3: Another prediction or perhaps manifestation, is I would love to
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  Speaker 3: see role Model or Joe aka Joe Keary open for
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  Speaker 3: Harry Styles when he inevitably goes on tour for this
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  Speaker 3: album again. Potentially that's just me being horny and wanting
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  Speaker 3: to see a little like Harry and role Model Sandwich,
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  Speaker 3: Harry and jo Keery sandwich Little challenges moment.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be between those loaves.
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  Speaker 4: Pull me in.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be your baloney. My final prediction is just popped
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  Speaker 2: into my head. There'll be some sort of acknowledgment of
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  Speaker 2: his time in one direct and potentially Liam Pain Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: in the lyrics.
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  Speaker 3: I was wondering if there would potentially be a dedication
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  Speaker 3: to Lamb.
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  Speaker 2: Those are my predictions, all right. My obsession of the week, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's go, okay, My obsession of the week is a
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  Speaker 2: little hack to save money on your drinks or dining
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  Speaker 2: out in twenty twenty six. The prefaces for saying it
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  Speaker 2: does involve Uber eats, and I apologize. However, this is
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  Speaker 2: a good hack if you want to save money. So
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  Speaker 2: at the start of this year, I deleted my Uber
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  Speaker 2: eats app and I like literally deleted the whole account.
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  Speaker 2: I was like babe bait. But on my boyfriend's phone,
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  Speaker 2: we use the feature that's called dine Out and you
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  Speaker 2: can click the little location button and it shows you
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  Speaker 2: all the restaurants that you can go and like, eat
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  Speaker 2: in the restaurant, have a little dinner date night, go
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  Speaker 2: out with your friends, and you can get discounts on
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  Speaker 2: eating in the restaurant. So we went out to dinner
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  Speaker 2: last night. We got forty percent off our meal.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: When you redeem the coupon, you have about seven days
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  Speaker 2: to use it, so you literally just redeem it, go
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  Speaker 2: to the restaurant, show them, and they take the money
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  Speaker 2: off your meal or your drinks or whatever. And so
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  Speaker 2: it's a good way to save money if you want
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  Speaker 2: to go out a little bit more. In twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm trying to get out of the house. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: trying to get out of the house with my analog life,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get.
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  Speaker 4: Out in the real world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's a good little hack. You can also
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  Speaker 2: use eat Club, which is another app that does the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. I have eat Club, and my boyfriend had
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  Speaker 2: the Uber Eats dine out feature, so we just compared
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  Speaker 2: and I saw what one had a better deal, and
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  Speaker 2: we just use that. So I would definitely check both
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  Speaker 2: because eat club had some that were better than Uber
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  Speaker 2: Eats dine Out and Uber Eats done out. I had
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  Speaker 2: some that were better than an eat club. All right,
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  Speaker 2: shall we get into the episode close to it? So
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  Speaker 2: you've probably seen everyone talking about going analogue. I keep
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  Speaker 2: thinking and a log in my brain something and a lug.
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  Speaker 4: But what is it?
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  Speaker 2: So it's basically intentionally switching off from your device and
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  Speaker 2: in game in the physical world around you, which sounds
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  Speaker 2: simple but a lot harder than it is evidently, So
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  Speaker 2: the rise of nostalgia and hot girl hobbies has a
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  Speaker 2: big role to play in this, but also hyper connectivity
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  Speaker 2: and the want to reduce screen time. I also think
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  Speaker 2: new cycle burnout has a lot to do with this. Also,
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  Speaker 2: the rise of AI content and videos. AI slop literally,
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  Speaker 2: I think as well, we're seeing algorithms push a lot
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  Speaker 2: more of like non following accounts. I recently noticed, especially
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  Speaker 2: on my Instagram, every second post is an account that's
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  Speaker 2: like a suggested account that it's trying to become like
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  Speaker 2: a for you page. Yeah, and I'm like, what's the
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  Speaker 2: point of following people? Then? Yeah, like, what's the point
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  Speaker 2: of curating my following list to be the things that
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  Speaker 2: I want to see? When this ai slop or shit
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  Speaker 2: that I I don't care about or don't align with,
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  Speaker 2: it's continuously finding my feed. So that's why I really
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  Speaker 2: like this. It's a really intentional way to distance yourself
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  Speaker 2: from you know, the Internet, your phone, your devices. And
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  Speaker 2: it's been covered by Forbes, Cosmopolitan and an abundance of
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  Speaker 2: substacks and TikTok videos and all of that stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get into why it's a vibe but
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  Speaker 2: also potentially some downsides to it and how to kind
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  Speaker 2: of make going analog work for you.
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  Speaker 3: Another example of I guess a really viral moment around
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  Speaker 3: going analog and why twenty twenty six is the year
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  Speaker 3: to go analog is a piece of content or a
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  Speaker 3: concept called the analog bag.
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen this?
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  Speaker 2: I saw an article from Cosmo on it, and like
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  Speaker 2: just the post on Instagram had like thousands of likes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so a lot of people are like leaning into it,
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  Speaker 2: especially towards like in winter last year and towards the
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  Speaker 2: end of last year, there was so much content about hobbies. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I do think it's this like natural projection and
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  Speaker 2: trajectory of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. People are realizing that they are addicted to
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  Speaker 3: their phone. Yeah, you know, we're getting reminders of our
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  Speaker 3: screen time. And when somebody asks you, like, oh, what
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  Speaker 3: do you do in your spare time?
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  Speaker 4: What are your hobbies?
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  Speaker 3: A lot of us don't really know what to say
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of our spare time is filled with
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  Speaker 3: scrolling on our phone.
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  Speaker 4: Or watching things on our screens.
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  Speaker 3: So the concept of the analog bag was coined by
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  Speaker 3: a TikTok creator content creator, and her name is Cus Campbell,
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  Speaker 3: and she says that it's her invention to combat doom scrolling.
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  Speaker 3: So an analog bag is a bag or a basket
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  Speaker 3: that you fill with things to do instead of grabbing
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  Speaker 3: your phone watching a screen. She did like a haul
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  Speaker 3: of her January analog bag. She had a subscription to
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  Speaker 3: The New Yorker, a journal where she draws and paints
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  Speaker 3: every single day, and knitting project, a Polaroid camera, basically
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  Speaker 3: anything she can use to replace doom scrolling, which is
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  Speaker 3: really cool. And we've seen lots of people share their
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  Speaker 3: own examples and iterations of what's in their analog bag
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  Speaker 3: or basket because obviously you can customize it to whatever
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  Speaker 3: your cozy hobbies or analog hobbies are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can customize it to whatever your interests are. Basically, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And she was inspired to create her analog bag obviously,
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  Speaker 3: as we said, as a way to combat her addiction
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  Speaker 3: to her phone and her screens, but specifically after reading
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  Speaker 3: the book The.
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  Speaker 4: Power of Habit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So in the book, the author outlines three components of
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  Speaker 3: a habit, Q, routine and reward.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, this is also an atomic habits.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so a concept that probably a lot of
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  Speaker 3: us are familiar with. But rather than eliminating a bad habit,
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  Speaker 3: we need to replace it. So that's essentially what she's
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  Speaker 3: doing with her analog bag. She's identified, I don't love
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  Speaker 3: my habit with my phone. So instead of just going
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  Speaker 3: cold turkey and saying I'm not gonna use my phone anymore.
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  Speaker 3: She's created this analog bag that she can use to
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  Speaker 3: replace that habit. When she needs that hit of dopamine
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  Speaker 3: that she usually would get from opening Instagram or TikTok,
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  Speaker 3: she grabs her journal and she draws something, or she
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  Speaker 3: grabs her notebook and she checks her to do list,
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  Speaker 3: or she works on her knitting project, or she has
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  Speaker 3: her Polaroid camera so that she can still capture moments
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  Speaker 3: without having to.
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  Speaker 4: Take her phone everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 3: So she invented this analog bag to reduce her screen time,
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  Speaker 3: and she said that she actually did reduce it from
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  Speaker 3: seven hours to three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that's more than half. Yeah, what's your screen time?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I think mine is like twelve hours
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  Speaker 3: or something. What No, my daily average is five hours
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  Speaker 3: and twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: My daily average is five hours and thirty six minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And that's twenty seven percent down from last week. And
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  Speaker 2: I've recently started a new habit this week, which I
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  Speaker 2: think I can absolutely accredit to the fact that I'm
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  Speaker 2: over a quarter down on my screen time.
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  Speaker 3: Mine is thirty eight percent down from last week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, mine is ridiculously high.
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  Speaker 3: So it's definitely been a goal of mine.
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  Speaker 2: To Yeah, my average habits last week was seven hours
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  Speaker 2: and thirty two minutes. I love data. It's good to
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  Speaker 2: shave fun. Yeah, but I'm like, a life shouldn't be data.
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  Speaker 2: But I love seeing shit like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's just cool knowing that it works.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so many of us, it's just our muscle memory
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  Speaker 3: to pick up our phone and look at it. And
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  Speaker 3: you don't really know how much time you do spend
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  Speaker 3: on your phone because it's such like a knee jerk habit.
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  Speaker 2: An easy way to stop going on your phone because
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  Speaker 2: it is so mindless, like you pick it up and
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  Speaker 2: go bookbok bookook is to tie a hair tie around it.
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  Speaker 2: So if you put a hair tye around your phone
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  Speaker 2: when you go to go, if you.
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  Speaker 4: Can't, not for you physically can't SWI.
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  Speaker 2: And the other one that I know people do a
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  Speaker 2: lot is to turn their phone screen to negative or
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  Speaker 2: to black and white gray scale. Yeah, and they go
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  Speaker 2: to put it and they go, oh wait, no, not
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  Speaker 2: for me. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And even if you're like fuck it and you go
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram or TikTok, it.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't hit the same because you don't get the colors.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get the bean.
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  Speaker 3: Look, you don't get that same dopen rye or you
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  Speaker 3: could do the brick get bricked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like lock your phone, but I like the hairtye one. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So why has the analog trend taken off? We've kind
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  Speaker 2: of discussed how, you know, hobbies and the rise of
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  Speaker 2: those have definitely contributed, but I definitely think one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest reasons is digital burnout. And according to Forbes,
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  Speaker 2: the individuals are pushing back against the impending dominance of
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  Speaker 2: AI technology, purposely addicting social media algorithms and efficiency as
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  Speaker 2: a replacement for craft with analog movement. And it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: to note that going on your phone and doom scrolling
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  Speaker 2: is actually a stress response. So the twenty twenty to
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two National Study of Mental Health and well Being,
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  Speaker 2: conducted during the COVID nineteen pandemic also found around seventeen
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  Speaker 2: percent of people age sixteen to eighty five years experienced
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  Speaker 2: high or very high levels of psychological stress. But what's
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  Speaker 2: even more interesting is that social media use actually peaked
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, and it's been declining in majority
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  Speaker 2: of locations ever since. I love that I like job
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  Speaker 2: is literally social media. We're like, get off, get out.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god. Yeah, Like I can.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely like I do love social media. I love the Internet.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much fun and creativity and information you can
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  Speaker 2: get from social media and from the Internet. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I hate how I'm sitting here and I am literally like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: is this real or is this AI?
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  Speaker 4: One thousand percent?
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  Speaker 2: It's exhausting and annoying. And I fell for the Bunny video.
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  Speaker 2: I know that hurt my feeling. The amount of times
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  Speaker 2: I'm the dumbass in this relationship, the amount of times
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  Speaker 2: I come to you me like, look at this video
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  Speaker 2: and then you're like I think it's AI, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: like not and you're like yeah, And then I go
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  Speaker 2: to the comments every fucking time. It's so heartbreaking, it's
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  Speaker 2: so annoying.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think, like all good things in life,
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  Speaker 3: it's best to be enjoyed in moderation, and that's absolutely
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  Speaker 3: what we're not doing. And I think that's what this
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  Speaker 3: analog trend is trying to combat. It's not saying throw
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  Speaker 3: your phone into the ocean, but let's introduce some more balance.
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  Speaker 3: Another thing that I do think is impacting people's want
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  Speaker 3: to move away from phones and digital me and embrace
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  Speaker 3: analog media again. Is distrust to streaming services and big
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  Speaker 3: companies as well. I saw a really interesting article that
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  Speaker 3: was published in Rolling Stone and the headline was physical
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  Speaker 3: media is cool Again. Streaming services have themselves to blame
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  Speaker 3: as well as the nostalgia element. The article looked at
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  Speaker 3: people who collect DVDs and vhs and there were a
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  Speaker 3: number of things like, obviously, these people like this is
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  Speaker 3: what I used to consume when I was a little kid,
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  Speaker 3: so it harkens back to a simpler.
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  Speaker 4: Time and I love that.
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  Speaker 3: But there was also the point of cost, like people
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  Speaker 3: are sick of paying for multiple streaming services to access.
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  Speaker 4: All of their media.
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  Speaker 2: And also how often a lot of shows like move Around,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be like your favorite comfort show, like it'd be
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  Speaker 2: a gossip Girl and it'll be like leaving some you
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: got to go to a different streaming platform to get it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: So some of the people in this article was saying
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: that they have a desire to actually own their media
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: because exactly that, like you have your comfort show and
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: you sit down to put it on, and great, the
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Office is now no longer on Netflix or whatever the
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: case may be, and the rise.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Of subscriptions has definitely contributed to the fact that you
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: don't own anything anymore, yeap, Like when you leave your subscription,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: you don't have those audiobooks or you don't have those movies.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: There was also an argument brought up that streamers can
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: edit and alter content as they wish as well. So
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: some people also like that they own a movie and
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: it looks the same as it did when they first
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: watched it. And I do think that, you know, there
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: is sometimes so positive for editing content, because some things
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that were made, you know, thirty years ago aren't as
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: sensitive or politically correct as they would be if they
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: were made now. So I don't really see anything wrong
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: with that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: But there's even.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: The example, for I remember when The Simpsons moved to
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Disney Plus, and because it was moved to a different
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: streaming service and therefore was catered to a different screen size,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: some of the scenes were cut and so you lost
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: parts of the visual jokes.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yeah, I didn't know.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: That, Whereas when I would watch it the DVD's and
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I had the DVD box sets like that, yeah, you'd
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: be able to see those jokes.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Are like little things like that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: So there are people who are collectors and fans and
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: they're like, no, I want to own the original medium,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: which I do also think is another thing that's impacting this.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: But also obviously there.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Are so many different pieces of content have been digitized.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: You can find almost every single TV show and movie
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: on a streaming service somewhere, but not everything like why
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: here we go?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Can I guess? Can I guess? Can we say the
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: movie at the same time? Yeah?
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, ready three two one movie?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I still own my childhood videos like VCRs.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Don't ever let them go.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I'm never getting rid of them. Yeah, ever, like when
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I have kids. If I have kids, I will be
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: getting like a VCR player. I should just get one. Now,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: we should have a movie night.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: You sure?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Do you know what will fucking slap so hard coming
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to a movie cinema? You blah blah blah blah. Oh,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I've got the Little Mermaid, got the Lion King, I've
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: got Lady in the Tramp, I've got one hundred one downations.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what more do we need?
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I was reading a book and I can't, for the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: life of me remember what it was I'm pretty sure
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: it was Florence Givens Women Living Deliciously ninety two potential,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: and it was discussing how attention is the new luxury
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and your attention is monetized, and how your attention is
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: no longer a byproduct of living but an asset, and
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: how entire industries exist just to capture your attention and
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: retain it and monetize it. And if you think about it,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: look at how apps like social media exist and they
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: don't let you leave. So if you open a link
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: on an Instagram story, it opens within the app, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you shop within the app, and then when you're done
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: you exit, You're still in Instagram. You never leave it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: To actually exit, you have to click like open in
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Safari or whatever the browser is. And it's really interesting.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: It's like algorithms are trained to keep you scrolling, Notifications
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: are designed to feel urgent, and content is optimized for
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: reaction and not reflection. When you think about it, like
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: when you think of how you interact and engage online,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: like do you really think? No? And I get it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I open it to just be like, yeah, but
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: that's a stress response. Yeah I'm not actually destressing myself
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and social media has been proven to increase stress and
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: anxiety because it puts you in a low dopamine loop. Yeah,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: and so the more distracted you are, the more profitable
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you've become.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Shit.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: And another sobering realization I just had as you were
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: talking was when I think back to, say, last night,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: when I was scrolling on TikTok, I couldn't tell you
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: a single fucking video I watched. Oh.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're consuming.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: And it's having an impact on yeah, like our anxiety
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: and our mental health. But it's not always necessarily having
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: an impact in a way that you're even going to
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: take it into.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Your day to day life.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: We don't even remember half the shit that we watched,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: whereas say, if I read a chapter of a book
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: last night, I'd be able to tell you what happened.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Fuck. But like being able to opt out
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: even temporarily now requires strong boundaries, intentional systems like blocking apps,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and often financial and social privilege.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I saw an article in Vogue Business and
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: the headline was how unplugging became Luxury's most valuable currency.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: And according to the article, sixty seven percent of Americans
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: long for the pre plugged eerror of our past, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: seventy nine percent of us gen z's actively aspire to
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: interact more in the physical world. And yeah, they pose
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: this idea that it's fashionable to say that you don't
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: have social media and it's a status symbol to flex
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: that you have a low screen time, or that you've
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: deleted a social media account, or even that you don't
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: have a huge following.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I think in general, we're seeing a status shift from
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: busy to unavailable.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Previously, to be busy, to have the hustle, to have
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: three jobs, to be running a business was like this
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: elevated social status, and we're now seeing this shift to
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: being unavailable as an elevated esque vibe.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, and that to be chronically online is to
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: be of a lower status.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird, isn't it. Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel like talking like about
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: it like that. And in those terms, I'm not saying
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: that I support or I don't subscribe.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: To any of those notions at all.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Because another thing that I did see in that same
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Vogue Business article was a brand strategious consultant said that
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: dressing in a way that reflects online micro trends is
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: increasingly viewed as a low status trait.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: And then in that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Article they also quoted from The New Yorker and an
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: author said, it's cool to have no followers.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: There's a certain status that comes from ignoring the usual
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: signs of success online and an envy inspired by those
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: who can grow a career without the pressure of performing
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: on social media.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: People would like make means about like hinge or dating
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: or stuff, and it would be like, oh, like when
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: he's got less than one hundred followers, Like that's a
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: green flag.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure we've made that joke. All, Like, I've
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: definitely made that joke before. Yeah, Like are they hot
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: or do they just have no social media?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm like guilty as charged.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Luck yep, right, made of Pepper's way.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm like I get it. But also I'm
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: kind of like, fuck, like, can we also not pit
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: people against each other and put them in these boxes?
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I guess that's.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Where the trend is going, which is definitely interesting. Obviously,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: going analog unplugging digital detox is a huge trend, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: it got me thinking, is going analogue the new pilates
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: princess or clean girl aesthetic or old money. It's positioning
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: going analog as a more authentic way to live your
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: life and potentially, you know, anti capitalist and getting more
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: in touch with nature and physical media and stuff like that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: But a lot of the content that I see around
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: how to go analog in twenty twenty six revolves around
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: buying stuff. Yeah, so whether that is replacing your streaming
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: services with DVDs and vhs or buying a stereo and
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: getting CDs or a record player.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: And investing in vinyl.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: And there's nothing wrong with that, I don't think, but
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: it's a slippery slope, especially when.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Hobbies are habits that it's whether you're going to stick
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: to it. And it's definitely an easy thing to get.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: It's the same as being like I'm going to run
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: a marathon, right and telling people I'm going to run
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: a marathon. You get the joke on me. He'll be like,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do this, and the gratification, gold star
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: sticky you get from that. So even from buying knitting
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: equipment or a sewing machine or a record player and
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: heaps of records, like you don't know whether or not
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: you're actually going to stick to that exactly, and I
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: do think potentially in six months time we could see
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of these items in decluttering halls and kind
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: of like as we said last week, everything you declutter
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and all your bimbags and all your things you donate
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: is money that you've spent. So I really like the
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: going analogue idea, and I do think there is ways
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: to do it without the need to purchase eye. I
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: also do think you can simply go one by one,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: like absolutely, I don't want anyone to be turned off
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: by if they've wanted to learn how to knit, not
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: doing that, like, go do that, absolutely, yeah, But you
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: don't need to purchase like six different hobbies in one
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: go and be like this is real, this is me, Yeah,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: this is who I am now. You know, maybe start
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: with buying one book or you know, going and came
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: out getting two needles and one thread and just starting there.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so that you actually like it, Yeah, you're
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: going to do it. And because a lot of these
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: hobbies luckily you can thrift or buy second hand, which
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: of course.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Is amazing and a great alternative.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: But buying things secondhand doesn't automatically mean that it's not
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: over consumption or out of your budget again, like maybe,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: if you're thinking, oh, maybe I will replace my streaming
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: service with a VHS, maybe go and buy like a couple,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: not by a whole fucking stack.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: And then be like, Ah, what am I going to
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: do with this?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still watching Netflix seriously. I saw a Reddit
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: post that I thought was interesting, and it was said,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: analog skills are going to become luxury markers in the
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: next twenty years. I'm starting to think that in about
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: two decades, analog skills will be the new status symbols,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: things like having legible handwriting, reading physical books, doing math
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: without a calculator, or navigating without GPS. We're already seeing
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the early science vinyl records making a comeback, mechanical watches
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: treated as heirloom Pie says, film photography becoming a niche
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: but expensive hobby. As tech gets more automated and more
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: integrated into everyday life, the ability to function without it
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: is going to feel rare, and rarity always turns into status.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Total tech dependents will make tech independence feel like craftsmanship,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: like a flex If everything becomes digital by default, that
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: analog literate might end up becoming the new elite class,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: and I feel like that kind of ties into what
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: you were saying before.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's about being mindful when you bring in new
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: habits and hobbies and ensuring that you don't get swept
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: up in the dopamine hit of being like I'm going
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: to be this brand new person because fuck me, chicks.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: If that's not me, I don't know what is. Totally.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: It's like we have always made the joke that like
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: every year I have a new athetic, like like I
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: love a new year, new me and co Yes, So
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: everyone posting the twenty sixteen photos, we looked at them
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the other day and I was like, who's.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Course is that?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Like I was like, go, so you wore skinny jeans
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and was straight. So with all of that in mind,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: we want to get into our easy tips to go
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: analog in twenty twenty six without going extreme. Yeah okay,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: so my number one is to create one phone free ritual.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Choose one daily moment that's like intentionally offline, and try
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: to make it a consistent one. So whether that's your
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: morning coffee, you have that without your phone, whether it's
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: a walk with no headphones, or reading before bed instead
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: of scrolling and consistency matters more than duration, right, And
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: so I kind of said before, I've reduced my screen
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: time this week by twenty five percent, and there is
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: one thing that I've done. It's so fucking boring. I
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: think everyone's heard this tip from everyone at least seventeen
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: times in their life. But my partner and I stick
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: our phones in a drawer in the living room at
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: nine pm and they stay there. And I kid you not,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: who knows if it's a placebo, but I fuck with
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: a placeibo. I've always said that, you know what I've
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: always said, I've always said that, I swear to God's out,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: my sleep has been so much better. Yeah, my like
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: rem cycle. I've been having some crazy dreams like yeah,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I told you about yeah not safe for the bar.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I know. I was literally about to like hook up
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: with my girl Crash of the Century in one of
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: my dreams. It was really cool, and then my fucking
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: boyfriend came into the dream and cock boxed me, which
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Like, God, that's not a reason to put down your phone.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I don't I know. Rob was like, yeah, I inceptioned
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: you and I came into your dream. I was like no, no,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: literally I've had this habit like on and off over
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the last couple of years. I think a couple of
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: years ago I spoke about like having a lock box
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: with my phone and stuff like that, but that didn't
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: work because I would need to charge it, so that
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: fell off, and I think as well, it was like
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I bought something to make me do a habit when
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: really I just needed to do the habit. Yeah, and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I've been so productive, Like at nine pm, I put
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: all my clothes away, I did my washing, and I
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: put my clothes out for the next day, skincare, put
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: my visiline in, and it makes me get out of
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: bed in the morning baby steps right. At least I'm
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: like not sitting there scrolling on my phone for like
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: seven million years in bed and I don't pick up
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: my phone immediately when I wake up, but I have
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: gotten out of bed to be like baby needs a phone, yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Like but I get out of bit. Yeah, And it's
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: like a reward, so I like literally get up, look
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: at my phone, have a chiky scroll, and then make
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: a coffee. Yeah. And that's fine. Like I'm like, at
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: least that habit's building. I'm not biting off more than
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I can chew, So I'm like, this is my thirty
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: day goal. Then in next month it'll be like, Okay,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: don't pick it up for fifteen minutes, and then after
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: that maybe it'll be half an hour, and then after
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: that maybe it'll be an hour.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: That it's like building upon that habit. But I've it's
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: been one week, but I've loved it still.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: The fact that you've felt that impact, yeah, such a
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: short time is incredible, and I can only imagine how
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: that would feel after a month or six months or
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: a year.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And that a lifetime rob was like, what's the time,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: and I was like fuck yeah. I was like here
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: goo hinted it over like a naughty school child.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: And then you're not sitting there being like where you
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: get to go on your phone and I sit here.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: That's kind of similar or related to the first tip
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I was thinking, which was, dare to be bored because
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: we are constantly stimulated, Like if we want to, we
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: can have some form of stimulation or entertainment at all times.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: And I am definitely guilty of that, Like I do
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: not want a millisecond alone with my own thoughts, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: that's very bad and I actually saw an article as
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: well that neuroscientists say that it is critical for your
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: brain to be bored because in those moments when your
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: brain is bored, it's actually resting, and during those times,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: that's when it can replenish itself, and that fosters opportunities.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: For creative ideas and innovation.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Like, if you're constantly just consuming and your brain is
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: constantly being distracted and entertained, how are you supposed to
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: have space to create and come up with a single
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: fucking original thought.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's about finding times that's easy to be bored.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: So like when you're driving to work, don't listen to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: anything exactly, when you're in the shower.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Or you're on your commute, don't don't have phones on
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: and just look around or do you reckon?
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: You can rule dog a shower.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I have been Oh no, the day is here, the
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: day is finally here. I don't think I've ever ever
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: heard you go into the shower and not listen to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: a podcast, listen to music, or watch RuPaul's drag race.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and I'm proud of.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: You, baby Steps. That's incredible.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, especially if it's in everything shower?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: But yeah.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Another thing that I've been doing with my partner is
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: not watching tea while we eat dinner.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: We call it let's just chat.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: And we do it in the car as well, like
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  Speaker 3: we won't have a podcast or music on and we'll
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: be like I'll go to put on a playlist or something,
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  Speaker 3: then he goes, let's just chat. So even like introducing
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: those routines is another example of even just sitting there
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  Speaker 3: with somebody and having a conversation is probably better.
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  Speaker 4: For you than just staring at a screen.
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  Speaker 2: And then my final way to go more analog in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six is to replace one app on my
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  Speaker 2: phone with paper. So like I love a productivity app,
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  Speaker 2: I love a tracker, I love a calendar, I love
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: a journal, but all of these are so digitalized that
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: I feel like the hit ain't hitting anymore. So it's like,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: change your notes app to a notebook. And they also
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: have had this habit of being like, no, but my
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: notebook has to be this perfect, the curated thing of thoughts. No, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can just be drunk, just put it in there.
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  Speaker 2: And then a two do app just have a daily
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  Speaker 2: list on paper. Once it's done, throw it out, you down,
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  Speaker 2: you did the job to a mood tracker. Put that
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: in like your journal. There's so many that you can
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: get that you know, have little all of the above
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: on that, like a notepad, a mood tracker, a journal,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want. It doesn't even have to be super
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  Speaker 2: fancy or expensive. I love it because paper doesn't buzz
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  Speaker 2: for your attention. Ooh, I like that.
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  Speaker 3: That's a really good way to put it. I would agree,
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  Speaker 3: because my final thought is use what you already have,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: or like diy where you can, because like we said,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: a lot of these trends and hobbies do revolve around
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: buying something new. And for example, amongst the journaling girlies,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: there is a trending journal and it's the Louise Carmen journals.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen They're like the leather bound journal and
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  Speaker 3: then it has an elastic wrap around it and you
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  Speaker 3: can customize.
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  Speaker 2: It well charms for Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you open it up and you can
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: sub in and out different journeys. So it's a cool
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: way to reuse them and they're really really beautiful. But
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: these trending ones can cost between two hundred and thirty
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: and three hundred and sixty Australian dollars.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but there are so many tutorials on tet iron.
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  Speaker 2: As well, like the leather journals as well. It's like
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: you keep that forever, of course, but there are.
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  Speaker 3: So many tutorials online that will teach you how to
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  Speaker 3: make your own. Yeah, because my sister also gave me
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: one for Christmas, and she made one and between buying
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: you know, like the leather and the grummet supplies, the
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: elastics and the charms, and then also the journals inside,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: it cost her under one hundred and twenty dollars to
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: put all of that together, and a lot of those
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: things she'll be able to reuse.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: But yeah, you can.
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  Speaker 3: Don't feel pressure for your hobbies, your cozy hobbies or
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: the ways that you're going analog to be aesthetic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I do think it's interesting and the irony isn't
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: lost on me that the going analog is an online trend. Yeah, fully,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: but I was thinking that seslove, you know, like, I
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: don't think it's productive to critique something that has good intention. Yeah,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: you know, so I really like it. I think it's
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: such a good reminder to detach and own your attention
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: again because at the end of the day, like what
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: you were saying. It's like, what's the point of being
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: so mindless and on your phone? Like I can't think
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: of anything worse than getting to you know, year, end
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: of days and being like what did I do? What
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: did I do? Love to know how you chicks are
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: going to go more analog in twenty twenty six, so
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: feel free to comment below telling us what you th
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: thank and our dms are always open. Well that's a
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: rat for today's episode of Two Broke Cheeks. Thanks so
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: much for joining us, cheekies, and we'd love to be
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: here in your ear holes, in your analog ear holes.
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  Speaker 3: Bye bye,