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EP8 - Life Hacks - Making life a little easier · Oh And One More Thing

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Some old friends facing our fears, laughing through the
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chaos and drinking some beers. So here's to the laughs, the
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crumbs and the cheers. All the awkward moments.
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And we're still here. Because in the end, we're just
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doing our thing. It's our crazy life. 01 more.
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Thing. One more thing.
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Welcome to Oh and one more thing, a podcast where 2 long
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time friends try to figure out what the heck is going on with
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this crazy thing called middle age.
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It's a mix of stories of how we navigate our lives and maybe
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some questionable advice. Some days we're wise, other days
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we're just trying to remember where the heck we left our
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phone. So join us as we laugh, groan,
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and maybe even learn a little something about surviving in the
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second-half of life. Oh, and one more thing.
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Hi, I'm Brian. Welcome to Owen.
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One more thing. Hey, I'm Rob.
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What's up guys? We are so excited to have you
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here today. Thanks for tuning in.
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Now, if you're like us, you might have found that middle age
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has a way of. Sneaking up on you?
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Oh yeah. Yep, suddenly things aren't as
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easy as they used to be, right? Oh.
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Absolutely. Did you know that old age makes
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great makes us great multitaskers?
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Does it? Yeah, I can.
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Sneeze and pee at the same time. I know it's the pits.
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It's the pits. You wake up 1 morning and your
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body's making noises that you didn't even know were possible
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and your energy is well, let's just say it's not what it used
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to be. And let's not even talk about
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trying to juggle everything. You've got to do it on your
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plate for the day. Work, family, staying fit.
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What's that? Wait, what?
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What? And then still trying to find
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time to get it to enjoy life. Yeah, it's like you're in this
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weird limbo, like, between feeling like you've got your
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life together but also feeling like you, you're getting hit
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with 1000 little things at once. But hey, that's kind of why
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we're here, right? Right.
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Got a whole bunch of life hacks for you.
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Oh, good. Yeah.
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Stuff that'll help you streamline your day, boost your
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energy, maybe make you feel a little smarter and honestly,
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just make life a little less, well, overwhelming.
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Oh my. Gosh, did you hear that?
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I love that song. But Right.
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Right. So whether you're looking for
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ways to be more proactive so you can squeeze in that work out of
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the gym, not me, or just try to be a little smarter, today's
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episode is all about those practical tips that can really
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make a difference. Yeah.
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Goal for you is to get you on me, get you into the gym or, or
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walking or. Yes, let's make that a goal.
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Or next time we're recording, we're going to after we're done,
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we're going to play some VR boxing.
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No, we should do the next one while we're walking.
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We should. Oh, I'm sorry I brought that up.
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Yeah, sorry. All right, so let's be real.
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It's not just about surviving middle age.
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It's about thriving in your middle age.
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Right, Right. Right.
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So we got plenty of tricks up our sleeves to help you feel a
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little smarter, more focused, and dare I say it, a little more
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youthful. And I will laugh at Brian.
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I mean, hey, we'll, we'll throw in a few laughs because why not?
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Why not? So grab a coffee or whatever
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your go to drink is and let's get into it.
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Time to make life a whole lot easier and a little more fun.
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Ready to life hack my friend? Let's hack away.
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All right #1 when you go park your car, take a photo of where
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you park at the mall, in a parking ramp, or on the street.
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That way, when you're ready to leave from whatever event you're
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at, you can easily find quickly and easily find your car.
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This might make you look like a here with your friends or date
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or whoever it is, and can also make you feel safe, you know,
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from wandering around aimlessly. Do you do that?
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You know, I wander around aimlessly.
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I. I, I haven't gotten quite to
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that point. I mean, unless we're sometimes
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you go to like if you go to like a sporting event or a concert
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and some place you haven't been before, then yes, then I can get
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a little confused where we're at.
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But a lot of places we go to, especially around here, I've
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been to multiple. So I have a general idea kind of
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where we're at. Yeah, we're.
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Parking, I always do that when we're in a parking ramp.
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We take a picture of the level we're on, right?
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And I never actually have to use it, right, Which thankfully my
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memory is still there. But always do it.
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Always take a picture or jot on a note.
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Yeah. Because especially going to the
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airport, you come back, you know, I don't know that I'm
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going to remember where my car is always due.
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Yeah, which is great, right? But there's that time you're
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like, oh, Frick, is it on orange level or is it green level or is
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it purple? I don't know where it is.
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Yeah, see. And most of the phones not you
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can track where you park like put a little, put a pin there,
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but it doesn't put the level so. Like so you'll show me how to
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put a pin where I park because. That sounds like an iPhone thing
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that. Sounds like I'm not surviving
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technology, right. Have you ever been to the
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doctor's office and they say, hey, what are all the
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medications you're taking? And you sit there and look at
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them like a fool because you're like, yeah, I take medications,
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but I don't remember what they are.
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Or you forget half of them and yeah, yeah, been there.
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So, well, Life act #2 take a photo of the list of medications
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or vitamins that you're taking on a regular basis.
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So when it comes comes in handy if you have to go to the
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emergency room or if you go to the doctor's office, and
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especially if you're there with your parents and they need to
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know what your your parents are taking.
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You've got a photo or a list on your phone and you can easily
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say what they are. Yeah, I see.
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I think that's a great idea for Speaking of our parents is our
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parents are all starting to get to that age where there's more
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doctors visits in their lives. It's just natural progression of
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life. And sometimes if you go with
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them, the doctors will kind of maybe look towards you and ask
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what's going on, what are they taking?
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And you're like. And you have to remember all
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this stuff. Yeah.
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So I keep a list in my notes on my phone of all the the meds and
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vitamins I take because they want to know every single time I
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go to the doctor. Right.
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You know, are you still taking this?
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And how many milligrams you're taking?
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Well, really, I don't know. I don't know.
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So I pull up my phone. Here's my whole list.
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Don't. Potentially get them and say
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isn't that your job? They want to confirm that their
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notes are still correct, so and I do it for my mom's medications
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too. Do you I do in your phone?
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Do you have the ice thing in your phone?
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Ice. You have no idea what I'm.
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Talking Noah. First of all, look at me do do I
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know what half the things come out of your mouth are?
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True, that's true. You're in case of emergency
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contacts. So when you're when you're yes,
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when you're out doing your exercise for the first time in
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how many years and you suddenly keel over and lay on the side of
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the road with your phone in your hand because you're listening to
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our podcast, somebody can grab your phone and look for your ice
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contact. Way to tie that back to the
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podcast. I really like that.
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That was great. OK, then what do they do?
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They hold the phone towards my face, open my eyes up to get the
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phone to open. Like, like in like in every high
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school you've ever seen, right? Exactly but.
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But no, seriously, do you have an ICE contact in your phone?
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No, I don't either. Oh, OK.
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Well, at least you don't because like, now I can.
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We can do it together. Right.
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But that's probably not a bad idea.
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But then again, like to your point, like what?
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My, my, my phone does have a face unlock to you, But but what
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if you don't have that set up? Somebody can't get into your
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phone like it, What's the point? Right, right.
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Like how does it work? Then and you and it doesn't
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recognize your face if your eyes are closed, right?
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Or so it used to be your fingerprint.
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Yeah. And now, well, iPhones now are
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different. Yeah, yeah.
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I don't know. Yeah, my, my guess we're.
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Able to figure. That out myself fingerprint on
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the screen so somebody could take my you know dead thumb and
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put it on there but. Well, can't be too dead 'cause
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it does. It does measure the heat level
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of your body. My my recently dead home so we
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have been laid in the ditch. As long, yeah.
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As long as rigor mortis hasn't said it exactly Exactly alright.
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All right #3 so greedy. Get rid of your Turkey necking
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photos. What I know, right Photographers
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recommend that you stick your neck out and tuck your chin down
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so. That doesn't.
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Work well, OK, I so I have a Side Story.
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Let me get let me get through this list here.
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But I do have a Side Story that does work and I do have visual
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proof. So here's what the Google
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Machine says during the photo shoot.
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You want to elongate your neck, so push your chin slightly
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forward and down. OK, I'm doing it.
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OK, you're doing it and you look like a tool and.
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Just because I look like the tool, does that mean I am a
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tool? So asshole, put your chin, put
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your chin forward and down, and as as you're lifting your chin
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up you can make your neck look and appear shorter and create a
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double chin. That doesn't make sense.
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Create a double chin as lifting your chin up can.
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Reduces the reduces. I think you should say that over
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because I don't think our listeners got that I should.
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Read all the words. OK so during the photo shoot you
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should elongate your neck, push your chin slightly forward and
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down as lifting your chin up can make the neck appear shorter and
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create a double chin. See it?
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Create a double chin. That does not make sense.
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You don't want to create the double chin.
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I think Google is wrong. OK, I'm with it.
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You know, I did cure it this copy, so maybe I typed it.
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That's OK. #2 Tilt your head. Tilt your head slightly to one
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side, which can help elongate the neck and create a more
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flighting angle. Have a story on that too?
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Good. Posture.
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Stand tall. That's not me.
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I know I Crouch all the time, stand tall and maintain good
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posture to naturally elongate the neck and improve overall
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appearance and turn your body. If possible, turn your body
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slightly to the side, which can help create a more flattering
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angle and reduce the appearance of a double chin.
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OK. I have a few stories on this.
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OK, good. So my wife had to get work
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pictures done at a meeting. She was out a couple of months
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ago and then a professional photographer.
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And she goes in there and the guy says, OK, So what I want you
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to do is I'm kind of stand up and then stick your gut out as
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far as you can and then put your shoulders back as far as you can
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and then lean your head forward. So it's like the most awkwardest
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looking thing. She's awkward, right?
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She's like, you got to be kidding me, right?
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So she does what he says, take the photos and photos come back.
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She sends me a copy. She's in Dallas.
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I'm here in Minneapolis. She has my picture.
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I'm like honey, that is like the best work picture.
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It's beautiful. It's a beautiful photo.
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And you've seen it, right? I've seen it, yeah.
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Yeah, it's like, amazing. And it's, I mean, she's
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beautiful anyway, but it's like, Oh my God, like that's a work
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photo. What the hell happened?
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If we get permission from her, we'll put it on the on Facebook,
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but if it doesn't show up, it'll.
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Show up, don't blame us. But no, I mean, it's
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unbelievable. So I mean, yes, she felt and
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looked awkward as heck, but the way he took the picture from the
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middle of your chest up, it looks phenomenal.
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It looked really good. It looks really good.
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You mean I, I read these that those let lists, I'm like, what?
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Yeah. How do you do that?
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Yeah, yeah. So yeah.
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So no, I've never done it. I've never done it either, but
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he talked her through it and it looked.
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Great, I just look like a schmuck in pictures.
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So, and the tilt your head thing.
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So I've been accused of this my entire life.
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Any time a camera comes out, I instantly go like the whole, the
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whole Peanuts character. They tilt their heads back and
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forth. Yeah, that's me.
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It's like you're going to do a selfie or something, like you
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tilt your head. Right.
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It's I see a camera, my head just tilt.
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It's I I don't know why. Well, my wife is is always
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telling me to tilt into when you do a Group A shot of us
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together. So typically I I try to do the
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whole stand up straight in my head up a little bit and she
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also tilt into her so that we our heads get closer together.
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Oh, gotcha. Gotcha.
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So you're doing the the meeting at a point head?
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Yeah, yeah. Gotcha.
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And it looks nice and, and I don't have anything against it,
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right? It's just not my first thought
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to tilt it. Yeah, I would agree.
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I would agree. So hack #4 use a hanging shoe
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rack to store cleaning supplies inside of the pantry or closet
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so it eliminates having to crawl under the sink to find the ones
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you use most frequently. So I like that idea.
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Can you do it with Tupperware? Interesting.
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I would think so. So not a hack I've used.
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Okay, so all of our clauses have these shoe racks.
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Yes, they do in our house, but they're all full of shoes,
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right? Because, you know, all the shoes
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live with women and they have a lot of shoes and like, my shoes
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are in the garage. But I would think that would be
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kind of a good idea. Yeah, yeah, I see that.
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Yeah, I see that. We in our in our kitchen, we had
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the Tupperware kerfuffle for years where, you know, the lids
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are a match and things get thrown in there.
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People get tired of them. We bought these at Home Depot
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and they were really not expensive at all.
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Just pull out drawers. You basically go into your
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shelf. Oh yeah, I want those.
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Oh, they're awesome. And then they also had a little
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thing like a little metal rack that holds the lid.
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Like you put the dividers in them.
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OK, all your lids are on the left side.
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They're all standing up and then on the right side is everything
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stacked. So we did a little bit like
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that. We kind of cleaned out the old
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Tupperware pieces and all the non matching pieces and we
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bought all the glass with the snap lid tops.
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And now I just snap on a lid on every single container and we
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stack them in like size so all the lid is with the container
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and it's already stacked nice neatly.
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But the biggest problem is I have to get down to the floor to
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get them. And if you get the pull out.
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Drawers. Then I maybe could just a.
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Lot easier. Slightly bend down.
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OK, so when we're done here, I'll go upstairs.
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I'll show you that. That's awesome.
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OK. Yeah, we like those.
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Pull out drawers. Pull.
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Out drawers, pull out drawers #5 can't hear the alarm clock?
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Well, it's because you're old and your hearing sucks.
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But set your alarm on your smartphone and put it in an
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empty glass near your bed, because I will amplify the
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sound. OK, so I've heard this hack
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before, but not for an alarm to wake up.
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OK, But it's like if you are at the beach or you're at, you
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know, like the cabin or you're on the boat or something like
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that to put it in a cup to play your music and it makes it like
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a a little pseudo speaker. Oh, sure, I can see that.
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I can see that, yeah. I've done that before at home if
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we didn't have a speaker near us or anything like that, but I've
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never done it for the alarm. Yeah, I don't.
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I personally don't have much of an alarm problem.
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Well, a couple things. I think we discussed this in an
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earlier episode. I'm a little bit of a light
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sleeper. I have I sleep with white noise
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now. Yeah, I don't know how you can
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sleep with white noise I. Used to be the same way.
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I'm telling you, I just once you get used to it, it's like you
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can't sleep without it, see. The ringing in my ears is
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already my white noise. I.
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Understand that, but if you can maybe get a different noise
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that's not ringing, maybe more of a dull draw like a ball the
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high. Pitch rigging was that.
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Oh, that yoga. But yeah but the alarm has never
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been an issue for me. But I also wear my watch to
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sleep. You do.
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I do because it, well, it tracks my sleep, which I'm like that
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kind of. Stuff.
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Oh yeah 'cause the rim browsing cause aura ring.
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The aura ring, right? Yeah, but so my alarm on my
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phone goes off, my watch will also vibrate.
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So I back up and then after like 30 seconds both my phone and my
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watch start making noises. So the vibration, the vibration
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of my watch doesn't wake me up. If it thinks you're dead, thinks
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I'm dead. Then I hear my phone is also
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making noise and my watch is making noise, so that's coming
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from all angles so. And so you sleep to the point
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where that's make that has to wake you up.
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No, honestly, nine times out of 10 I'm awake 5 minutes before my
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alarm because my internal. Right, that's what I was going
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to say. Is just is just wacky.
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That's what I was going to say because at our age, we're so
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used to getting up and I get up at 6:15 every day.
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That's so late. I thought that was early 5.
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2525. Well, you have to drive.
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I have to drive. I walk.
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So I get up at 6:15 and every single day, I don't know why I
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even set the alarm. 6:10 Yeah. Never fails, never fails.
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And the worst part is even on the weekends.
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Even on the weekends. Horrible.
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We're going to sleep in tomorrow.
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We're up till midnight. We're going to sleep in and.
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Sleeping in is 630, maybe 6:45. Yeah, yeah, it's.
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But no, not after that. So yeah, I don't know.
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And I I'm also, like you said, a light sleeper.
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So my alarm clock is set to be on the quietest setting, OK.
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And it starts to play a little, little music, and I hear the
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very first note. I get up, I turn it off right,
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and I sit up. Yeah.
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I've never used the snooze. Never.
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I just don't understand the point of the snooze.
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Oh. Don't even get me started on the
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snooze. Oh my gosh.
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Do you do you use? I do not.
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The person I share a bed with does use the snooze.
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Oh, Rob's wife. Yes, which is which is fine.
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I mean, she she only snoozes once when she gets up.
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It's fine. But but the people who yeah, who
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are constant snoozers, I don't know how you do it.
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Just just get out of. Just get up, get up, or set your
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alarm for later. Yes, just yes.
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'Cause that, that, that waking up period, that you're just so
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groggy. Yeah, it's like, I don't know
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how you can. That's not Restful.
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Yeah, no. You know, I don't know what
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that's doing for you. Yeah.
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As we're as we're recording this, we have sports are on in
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the background. Yeah, hockey's playing right now
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and I, and I catch myself looking at it and I, I watching
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you look at it too. I just look at the score but but
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the wild during the playoffs, though, the Wolves just beat the
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Lakers last night in the I know too.
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I. Keep looking over at the TV but.
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All these games are on and our time they're on 8/30, 9:00
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start. So it means they're not over
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till 11/11/30 midnight and I have to up at 5:30.
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So I usually can stay up through half time or for the first or
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second period. Then I go upstairs, wash my
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teeth, get into bed and I'll I'll turn on in the bedroom and
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start watching there. And I usually just eventually
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fall asleep because I can't stay up that late.
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But even last night the wolves were on.
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The game was over at at the third end of the third quarter.
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I fell asleep. It was probably 1120 and I
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couldn't keep my eyes open, turn the teeth off, I go to sleep.
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So I got what, six hours of sleep?
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Yeah, still up at 525 before my. OK, way to bring the back.
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I'm glad you brought that back to waking up.
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Yeah, I know it doesn't. It doesn't matter.
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Doesn't matter. Over the weekend, neighbors came
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over, we had a campfire and got to bed at midnight.
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Freaking next day, Sunday morning, 6:00.
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I'm awake Now, granted I was a walking zombie the whole day and
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I was super tired and I took a three hour nap, but yeah, still
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can't break that habit of sleeping.
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In but but in retrospect too. Like I don't think I missed my
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20s where I would sleep for 12 hours.
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I don't. I didn't do it then either.
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I did a little bit. No, I didn't do it then.
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I did I. Don't know what it is, maybe my
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parents instilled in me the need to get up and work.
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OK, we're back with hack #6. When a friend wants to borrow a
19:30
tool, a book or something like that, snap a photo of them
19:35
holding it so in the future you remember who has it.
19:39
Awkward. I know, right?
19:40
Sounds like it's a good idea, but I mean, I can see it being
19:43
used from blackmail. Oh, totally.
19:45
But you could use you could do the same thing in like a digital
19:48
notebook and and keep it on your phone just so you have a memory
19:51
of of where it went. That I get that the photo's a
19:54
little. Sketchy.
19:56
I know it would be weird, right? While you hold that, let me take
19:59
a picture, because I don't trust that you're going to give that
20:03
back to me. Because you know why?
20:04
Yeah. You're untrusted.
20:06
You're sketchy, so that's. What I was going to say, but I
20:08
didn't want to say it out loud. No, I've never done that.
20:12
I've never done that either. And there's, there's lots of
20:15
take photos in this list. I, I mean, I'd like to see your,
20:17
your, your, your photo album in your phone.
20:19
Do you want to see that? OK, I don't know.
20:22
This is my photo album. OK, so I am the guy who does not
20:25
keep photos on their phone. Oh, OK.
20:27
So my wife and my daughters have thousands, thousands of phone of
20:31
photos on the phone. And and you back up to the
20:33
cloud. I back up to the cloud and then
20:35
take them off my phone. So I have on any given day about
20:39
80 to 90 photos. That's it.
20:41
OK. And so I get rid of everything.
20:43
It goes up to Google and if I know if I oh, I want that photo,
20:47
remember, whatever that whatever that was, I will go up to
20:50
Google, get it, download it, and there it is.
20:53
But lately as I'm on my nose is on the phone and I'm on Facebook
20:58
all the time and all these little funny sayings that pop
21:03
up. Well, I take little screen grabs
21:05
of them and that's what my photos are littered with these
21:09
little funny things. Because if you're reading one
21:11
and you're like, it starts out to kind of calm and funny, but
21:13
it makes me laugh at the end, like unexpected laugh.
21:16
I totally got to copy that. And someday it's they're going
21:20
to show up in this podcast because that's some like I got
21:24
to talk about that in the future, right?
21:26
But I'm waiting for a nice archive.
21:27
Of them, I like that. So our photos, all the photos we
21:31
take, they go into our, we can back them up and archive and
21:35
everything, but we all have a couple of photos displays
21:38
through our, through our house, the Google Home displays that
21:40
are around and actually even on our TV's because we have the
21:42
Google TV's. Yeah, so they come up on your
21:44
TV. 'S almost come up on our TV's
21:46
and our displays. So that's kind of it's all tied
21:49
to my account to my phone. So I have to kind of be a little
21:53
more. I don't have to, but I choose to
21:54
be a little more diligent about what's in our photo albums and I
21:58
will get rid of a lot of duplicates and all kind of file
22:01
things or just, you know, just delete or whatever.
22:02
Just kind of keep it a little bit under control.
22:04
Everything the same thing. Everything automatically backs
22:06
up. Yeah.
22:07
So I, I don't worry about the storage part about it on my
22:09
phone, but but it time stamps it for you.
22:12
So like I go back to the archives by dates and I can do
22:14
it. Yeah, exactly.
22:15
And, and it's cool as I can search by face, you know, I can
22:17
search by my whatever topic or place you're at and it's really
22:22
easy to pull that stuff up at least.
22:24
Yeah, that makes it very user friendly.
22:26
And so like, I just pulled up my photos right now.
22:28
I just hit my microphone with my phone.
22:31
I just pull up my photos. And the type of things around
22:33
here, like are memories that I want to keep fresh.
22:37
Yeah. So it's like my daughter's
22:38
wedding, my dog Gus, who is no longer with us.
22:43
So then there's just some pictures of times I was in
22:47
different states or countries. You know, there's a picture of
22:49
the Pope who just passed away because we saw him, didn't shake
22:53
his hand, but we got to see him. So yeah, there's just some fun
22:57
things like that. But then like I told you, all of
23:00
these little funny sayings, they're all over my, all over.
23:05
I've been taking a lot of pictures.
23:06
Did you see this one? I did see that one.
23:09
He's showing a picture of me right now in in cartoon style.
23:12
So it's. That's my latest fad is to take
23:15
a picture and and run it through AI and make a cartoon out of
23:17
this. It's it's very cute.
23:19
I like it. That's very good.
23:20
I have a lot of pictures right now of our house.
23:22
Oh yeah, cuz there is a remodel going.
23:25
There's a remodel going on which is nearly complete and surely in
23:28
a few short weeks we'll have a lovely conversation with our
23:31
contractor, Jeff. He'll be our very first podcast
23:33
guest, super excited about. It I am looking forward to that
23:36
and. Very forward to it So Jeff will
23:38
Jeff will take some insight on the insurance and outs of
23:41
contracting and home remodeling so all right next tip mark the
23:45
side of your water bottle by hours so that you can keep track
23:48
of what you've had to drink throughout the day that's a good
23:51
idea A couple of reasons you. Do this, it promotes.
23:52
Accountability helps you track your progress and helps you stay
23:55
on track with your hydration goals, if you have any, which
23:57
you should, helps you build a routine and it kind of also
24:03
tracks your progress, which is motivating and satisfying and
24:06
encourages mindful hydration, OK.
24:08
Good idea. Do you do that?
24:09
I don't do it. You don't do that because I, you
24:11
see here I'm holding up my Stanley.
24:13
I also have. A I'm not going to mark up my.
24:16
Stanley, I'm not as well, but. I do try.
24:19
To at least drink one or two of them a day.
24:21
Agree, and that's really all I drink.
24:23
Now is water I rarely drink. It depends.
24:26
Usually it's always water. Yeah.
24:28
But occasionally, you know, it's like, really a sweet care
24:30
craving, you know, and I'm sitting there in front of my
24:32
computer and I'm like, I'll have a soda, OK, but just for the
24:36
sugar. That's it.
24:37
Yeah. I.
24:39
Have really limited myself to just like a soda like sorry
24:42
sorry fountain soda. Oh, you like a fountain?
24:45
Soda so really like we if you. Go look at our fridge right now
24:48
there I think it's maybe 3 like bottles of pop that's it.
24:52
Everything else is water or. Not water.
24:56
Oh the the the not water canisters.
24:59
Not water canisters. No, I pretty.
25:01
Much only drink Sprite yeah no, we they just.
25:03
Just fought and popped that that.
25:04
That's my point. And you like Colas?
25:07
I like. Yes, I like, well, yeah, I I
25:09
like like 0 sugar, 0 sugar. Pepsi is 0 sugar Coke.
25:14
My favorite is the the Coke machine.
25:16
OK with all the little flavorly things.
25:18
OK getting the 0 sugar lemonade with the with the strawberry
25:22
flavour stuff. Oh, the syrup.
25:25
Syrup. Thank you.
25:25
So Strawberry. Lemonade is your mind going?
25:28
See. I'm already drooling thinking
25:29
about it, so yes, no, I don't drink any of that.
25:32
Anymore I used to, but I just don't like cola.
25:35
It's just don't like the flavour, none of it.
25:37
I can see that and so I just because because I drink Sprite
25:40
with my alcohol and so then I just drink Sprite alone.
25:44
There you go. Makes sense.
25:45
I like Sprite #8 Use your thumb to tell if the steak is cooked
25:53
to the right temperature. Have.
25:55
You ever done that? I.
25:56
Know so here's what you do and and I do this so this is really
26:00
it's really cool. So you bring your index finger
26:03
and your thumb do it with me together and then you touch the
26:07
fleshy part of your of right below your thumb.
26:10
OK, that with your just your first finger and your thumb is
26:16
rare. OK, That do you feel that the
26:19
how easy it is to push that that's rare.
26:21
When you push the steak on the grill, that's rare.
26:23
Rare. OK, when you touch your middle
26:26
finger to your thumb, that's medium.
26:29
Do you got to touch them? Yeah, touch them.
26:32
Then. Then that's medium.
26:33
So you have. To make the OK symbol, yeah.
26:35
And then touch under your thumb, under your thumb on your.
26:37
Palm and the the pressure you feel on your hand, that's what
26:41
the feel you should feel on your steak to get the different
26:44
temperatures. And if you touch your pinky
26:46
finger to your thumb, that's well done.
26:49
Interesting. I did not know that and I I
26:52
learned that. From a chef OK and and that's
26:55
how I I test my meat on the grill and when I I pressure test
27:01
and I push on the meat and I can tell by how flexible it is what
27:07
level of done this it is. OK, so 2 questions.
27:09
OK, do you not burn your finger all the time?
27:12
Now I'm using. The tongs because I figured out
27:16
by doing it enough that the pressure on the tongs, I can
27:19
tell OK, is the pressure on OK? Because otherwise, yeah, I'd
27:24
burn my finger. And then because that's my
27:25
second question. Is I'm not.
27:27
I'm eating your meat that you've touched.
27:28
Well, no, Don't you have? OK, stop touching my meat.
27:33
OK. Don't you have cooking gloves?
27:38
Yes. Yeah, I wear the cooking gloves
27:40
and then you can touch for a short time.
27:42
You can touch it. OK.
27:43
Third side question. OK, I like these.
27:46
Why wouldn't you just use a meat?
27:47
Thermometer. Yes, you could.
27:50
You can I do all of the above. OK, Typically it's in the house
27:55
and I want to run in the house and get it OK.
27:58
So sure, laziness. So answer why I don't have?
28:01
Another thermometer outside by my grill.
28:03
Yeah, a great idea, but I don't have it.
28:06
Gotcha. Gotcha.
28:07
OK, but and I came across as hack.
28:09
I'm like, hey, I do that all the time so I had to.
28:12
It makes sense. It's a quick and easy way to do.
28:13
It without tell our broader. Audience that that that hack
28:16
actually works yeah I like it I like it I'm.
28:19
With it. So have you at running back and
28:20
forth to get your thermometer in the house?
28:22
Have you ever slipped on the rug when you're running through the
28:25
house to grab your thermometer? Oh yeah.
28:27
Yeah, yeah. So a good hack for.
28:29
That is to use a double sided tape. 2 sided tape on the rugs,
28:31
keep them in place. Oh, that's a good idea.
28:34
Yeah, we. We also do something else.
28:37
In fact, we just bought a rug and bought you can buy the
28:40
little like waffle. Yeah, it's a.
28:44
Kind of rubbery stuff, rubbery stuff that that works.
28:46
Just as well too. But if you have a hard hardwood
28:49
floor, you definitely need to put something underneath the
28:50
tape or the waffle stuff. Yeah.
28:53
So my my. Wife bought a a new rug for the
28:54
bathroom and it's a it's wool and it's really high quality.
28:59
It's nice rug, but before we had the pad under it, you'd walk in
29:03
and it you almost flipped, it would slide across the whole
29:07
bathroom if you caught it the wrong way, so it wasn't like a
29:10
bathroom. Bathroom rug.
29:12
No, not made directly for the bathroom.
29:13
It's a it's a a just a nice quality rug and we bought it in
29:18
the size to fit the bathroom. OK.
29:20
So then she bought a. Padded gripper pad.
29:26
It works great, doesn't move at all except for, you know, how
29:28
you walk on something and it just overtime slightly keeps
29:31
adjusting, adjusting and adjusting.
29:33
So pretty soon it'll be like an inch off the pad and then thing
29:36
and I gotta fit that stupid thing out there.
29:40
Yeah. Or, you know, my wife makes
29:44
sourdough bread, right? That's the the big hobby right
29:46
now. And it's amazing.
29:48
It's delicious, I love it. But if you, when you're
29:51
sprinkling flour, you get a little bit on the floor and you
29:53
don't know it, right? Oh my gosh, I've almost bid it
29:56
numerous times where you slide across the floor on one foot
30:00
right come running in to. Grab your meat thermometer and
30:02
right yeah, I'm. Running in to grab the meat
30:05
thermometer. No, I'm not.
30:07
I'm. Running to get a slice of.
30:08
Bread. Exactly.
30:11
So do your feet make your. Shoes a little bit stinky?
30:13
No, I might. I smell like.
30:14
Flowers. You do smell like flowers.
30:16
Bad flowers, but life pack #10 try sticking dry tea bags in
30:22
your shoes overnight to reduce the smell.
30:24
What? How does that work?
30:25
OK, so I. Have not done this yet, but what
30:28
they say is the tea bags can absorb odors from shoes by
30:32
absorbing the moisture and fighting the bacteria, leaving
30:35
behind a pleasant earthy scent. So the granola hippy people.
30:39
Would love this. I like.
30:41
Granola. I'm kind of hippie.
30:44
So you simply just place the unused, unused TV inside your
30:48
shoes overnight and the moisture is sucked up into them.
30:52
Apparently reduces the odor. Now, I haven't tried it yet,
30:55
right? But I think that sounds really
30:57
good. Yes, on paper it sounds.
30:59
Great. OK, so.
31:01
I will try it, OK, and then I'll report back.
31:04
I want to report back, but no, I, I really want to give it a
31:06
shot. You know what else?
31:08
Helps eliminate sticky feet in your shoes.
31:11
What wear? Socks.
31:12
I do no. I know you do, but.
31:14
That's going back to pet peeves a little bit.
31:18
The trend now, and I'm saying my trend by what I watch on TV and
31:21
clearly it's the shows I'm choosing to watch.
31:23
Why do all the guys wear like like leather loafers and no
31:26
socks? Well, they do have the A.
31:28
No show socks. I understand well.
31:30
Not always, no, If you don't. Like them if you're watching
31:33
certain shows and sometimes I take the.
31:34
Shoes off and there's no no show socks.
31:36
Yeah. Definitely wear socks, that's
31:38
just gross to me. So is it?
31:40
Weird. OK, so I grew up, my dad always
31:44
wore cowboy boots. Always.
31:47
He always wore dark socks under him.
31:48
OK. And his feet would stink.
31:50
I mean, it was fill up the kitchen.
31:53
It would be so bad, right? So then as an adult and I always
31:58
wore white socks and when I would wear dark socks my feet
32:02
would stink and I'm like OK, is there a correlation to dark
32:07
socks and stinky feet I wonder so I don't.
32:10
Know. If that's true or not, it's just
32:13
been my experience. Somebody should research.
32:16
That and let us know I I'm kind. Of digging research.
32:19
Yeah, I'm curious. But I'll forget when I got here
32:23
today. That's why I'm asking.
32:24
Somebody should research it and e-mail us at 011 more
32:26
thinkpod@gmail.com and let us know because I am very curious.
32:30
OK, so you. Know when you're in the shower
32:32
and there's that sliver of bar soap left that you can't wash
32:37
your feet with, where you're supposed to wash your feet in
32:40
the shower. But what do you do with that
32:42
sliver of soap? You just throw it away, wash it
32:45
on the drain? Here's a hack.
32:48
You take that sliver of soap and you press it against the Nubar
32:53
soap and it basically it glues itself together and then you
32:57
never have to throw it away because you use it up.
32:59
Makes sense? I do this all the time you do.
33:02
So I squeeze and it works great with Irish Spring.
33:05
FYI, doesn't work with a Dove soap.
33:09
The too much lotion end up. So yeah, that makes sense.
33:11
That makes. Sense.
33:12
But yeah, you squeeze it together.
33:13
And then by the time you get in the shower the next day,
33:16
assuming you do shower every day, sure, it's stuck together.
33:19
Makes sense. See I.
33:20
Use liquid soap. Let me rephrase that.
33:23
I'm at a point in my life where the hair on the top of my head
33:27
doesn't really exist so much anymore.
33:29
So I've now progressed on. I've progressed on to the three
33:33
in one shampoo, conditioner and body wash.
33:37
There's not much hair up there to wash.
33:39
Don't worry about it anymore, you just spend it on your beard.
33:41
Pretty much. And the hair on your back.
33:44
And the hair. But.
33:47
But yes, oh goodness, no. So.
33:51
Yeah, I do that all the time. OK, makes sense.
33:53
But then. I do have.
33:55
As you've maybe seen, beautiful hair it is It is a gorgeous.
34:01
Gray mane of hair. Yes, I would agree.
34:05
All right, last one ready. Yes, in a.
34:09
Rental car or. In your own car, look for the
34:12
little icon for the gas pump. Yes.
34:15
Yes, so the direction the. Gas handles pointing is the side
34:17
of where to put your gas in, which is on some cars and others
34:21
have a little triangle which is pointing in the direction where
34:23
you should put your gas in. You knew that, right?
34:26
OK, so. All growing up, my teen years in
34:30
my 20s, probably even in my 30s and 40s, I didn't know that.
34:35
It's pretty much pretty recent that I learned that, hey,
34:40
there's an arrow. Yeah.
34:42
That points to where my gas can is.
34:45
Or cap gas tank, tank, door filler up a door, filler up a
34:48
door. And also when the handle of the
34:52
gas pump is out, it's pointing that direction.
34:55
I'm like, that is good information, genius, right?
35:00
They probably. Told us when I was. 16 But then
35:02
what the hell was I paying attention to?
35:03
Or, you know, it's probably. In the one thing that nobody
35:06
ever looks at when they're going to get a vehicle, the manual,
35:10
Why would you? Look at the manual.
35:11
Unless something went wrong, why isn't that light on?
35:14
Let's look at the manual. What?
35:16
What is that thick book in the? Glove box, I don't know.
35:19
It's always been there, Yeah. I have one from.
35:22
A previous podcast though. What is it?
35:24
Passwords. What about passwords?
35:27
Well, did you listen to previous?
35:28
Podcast. But I I will tell you again,
35:29
'cause it's such a genius hack. Wait, I was there.
35:33
When we recorded it. I do remember you talking.
35:36
About passwords, so in case you didn't listen to it.
35:38
Well, a go back and listen to it, but B really quickly what it
35:41
is, is I have the same base password for everything.
35:45
Oh, that's right, now. Let me think, just the other day
35:48
you said to me, oh, I gotta get into this, what is my password?
35:52
And I said I did. Isn't it the same?
35:55
Password you always have, you just change the number and you
35:58
said yes, but I don't know what number I'm on because.
36:03
I what where am I trying? I trying to get something
36:06
insurance Oh my. Yeah, the Bank of.
36:07
Insurance 'cause they changed their flipping password like
36:10
every 60 days or 30 days. What the heck it is?
36:12
And that's safety. I get safety my butt.
36:16
You can't keep up because why do I need to change your password
36:18
all the time if Anyway tangent moving on OK.
36:24
So I think that's it for now. OK, unless I do have one more,
36:29
it's not really a life hack. It's more of a public service
36:32
announcement. I'm in.
36:34
So when I was reading through the bunch of life hacks and came
36:37
across this, I'm like hell. Everybody needs to know what
36:41
kind of whiskey to drink and when to drink it, of course.
36:44
Right, so I thought I. Could take some time.
36:47
We will talk about whiskey and bourbon.
36:49
I like it. So if you're just trying to, you
36:52
know, get a buzz on, get wasted, you know, with shots, go on a
36:57
Bender, whatever it might be, hey, whiskey's great.
37:01
Just take it and shoot it, drink it.
37:03
I like whiskey with a mixed drinks, but if you're like me
37:06
and you want to really savor the flavor, I go to bourbon.
37:11
OK, why? Well.
37:13
Bourbon to me is a little sweeter, and it's because it's
37:18
made with the amount of corn mash in there when it's when
37:21
it's distilled. OK.
37:23
And see, that's regulated by bourbon, the powers that be.
37:28
Powers that be. Yeah, where whiskey doesn't
37:30
follow the same regulations. And so a lot of the flavor then
37:34
after the the distilling process comes from the barrel and the
37:39
color comes from the barrel. And the barrel has to be charred
37:41
oak barrels, brand new charred oak barrels.
37:45
And that's under regulation as well.
37:47
And so if you like the sweeter bourbons like I do, then I look
37:51
for bourbons that are finished in barrels that held Sherry or
37:55
port or some kind of a wine, and then that influences the flavor
37:59
of the bourbon and it makes it a little fruitier.
38:01
OK, what? So between the whiskey and the
38:04
bourbon though, they're the same family, correct?
38:08
Yes. The all bourbons are whiskey,
38:10
but not all whiskeys are bourbons.
38:13
That's what it is. Because there's a lot of rules.
38:15
That the bourbon make manufacturers have to follow and
38:18
they're not the same in the whiskey world.
38:20
And it used to be that bourbons were always made in Kentucky in
38:24
a specific county, I think it was Bourbon County.
38:27
But that's been loosened and they can be made anywhere in the
38:31
United States because you can't have a a bourbon from Scotland
38:36
because why? That's Scotch whiskey.
38:40
OK, OK. If you do like that.
38:42
And you like your bourbons or your drinks a little bit more
38:45
spicy, then go for the rye, the rye whiskeys or the rye
38:48
bourbons. If you like Scotch, which I also
38:51
like Scotch, but you got to be careful in Scotch because
38:54
there's, there's different flavor profiles.
38:56
You got the lowlands of Scotland, you got the Highlands
38:59
of Scotland. And so if you are drinking a, a
39:02
whiskey from the the lowlands, it's going to be definitely more
39:07
smoky flavored, more spicy flavors because they use the
39:10
peat Moss and in the Highlands, they don't have that there.
39:13
And so they're those Scotch just tastes a lot more like bourbons.
39:17
And that's what I like. I like them to be in the sweeter
39:20
side for sipping. I like that.
39:22
Yeah, I I do notice. That usually when we get
39:23
together, you do these, you have something in bourbon, the
39:26
bourbon. Family in rocks glass.
39:28
Yeah, yeah, I like that. OK, that's all I really.
39:30
Have I'll stop now, but there is one more thing.
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Focus on the small wins. Oh, the small.
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See you next. Time bye.
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Hey, did you? Ever return that book out on
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you? What book?