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Affordable Rules For Making Life More Fun · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadigal Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land. Hey chicks, I'm sal and I'm
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  Speaker 1: and this is Two Broke Chicks to show that shares
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  Speaker 1: life lessons and tips to help make you rich in
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  Speaker 1: life and welcome back to a fun little episode of
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  Speaker 1: Two Broke Chicks. Heavy on the fun. Heavy on the
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  Speaker 1: fun because in today's episode, we are chatting affordable rules
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  Speaker 1: to make life more fun.
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  Speaker 2: Funders, baby fucking love this shit.
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  Speaker 3: We love fun, can you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: But before we get into it, let's start with our
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  Speaker 1: obsessions of the week.
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  Speaker 3: So what's yours.
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  Speaker 2: My obsession of the week is Brittany Broski launching her
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  Speaker 2: music career.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was going to bring this up
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  Speaker 1: as well. Amazing, I am obsessed.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's just start with the fact that she looks
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  Speaker 2: so fucking beautiful in amazing dress with the long hair,
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  Speaker 2: like she looks like a fairy princess.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the red hair really works on her.
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  Speaker 2: She looks like a fairy princess. Obsessed, And I think
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  Speaker 2: it was like kind of known that like Brittany could
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  Speaker 2: hold a tune. I had no idea, No, it was
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  Speaker 2: like I will watch like a bit of her content
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  Speaker 2: here and there, and sometimes like she'll like sing song
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  Speaker 2: certain words and stuff like that. That it was like
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  Speaker 2: pretty known that Brittany could hold a tune. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just like so excited.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, I.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine a modern day version of like Daisy Jones.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it felt like.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, if you haven't seen it, Brittany Broski who
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  Speaker 2: went viral and basically jumped on the map, the social
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  Speaker 2: media map, was because she was the kombucher girl, yes,
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  Speaker 2: who made that viral meme and then from there has
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  Speaker 2: literally built such an incredible platform. And she's so fucking funny.
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  Speaker 3: She's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: She's so funny. I love her show. That's like the
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  Speaker 2: Medieval cor Show. It's so funny, the one with Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Johnson. I'm like that was at the screen basically
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  Speaker 2: the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, and.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, now she's kind of she's always been very tee
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  Speaker 2: funny comedy queen. Right and anyway, now she has launched
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  Speaker 2: like a music career and she released a song covering
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  Speaker 2: Adore You by Harry Styles and it is just phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: That's really beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really excited to see what she does next,
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  Speaker 2: but that is going to be getting multiple plays on
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  Speaker 2: repeats in the Hourigan Minx Household.
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  Speaker 3: What can't she do?
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  Speaker 2: Truly, I think we'll definitely see her in some acting
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  Speaker 2: roles soon. Speaking of did you see Emma Chamberlain has
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  Speaker 2: just been cast in a movie No Lily Ryan Hart
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  Speaker 2: Lola Tongue from the Summer I Turned pretty Lily Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Hart from Riverdale. I can't remember what the just his
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  Speaker 2: name is but Love from You? Oh yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 2: about a group of women who create a witch's cult.
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  Speaker 3: Sign me the fuck U.
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  Speaker 2: And Emma Chamberlain has been cast in it.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, I'll be so interested. Sounds very unfair, Ali, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: what are you obsessed with?
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  Speaker 1: Sour Mine is a quick one and it is the
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  Speaker 1: gel moisturizer from BioMA. So.
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  Speaker 3: BioMA is a.
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  Speaker 1: UK brand and they recently launched into Australia in Sephora,
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  Speaker 1: but they've been going viral overseas for a while now,
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  Speaker 1: so it was very exciting that they've launched into Australia
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  Speaker 1: and we got to meet the founders of the brand
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  Speaker 1: and have a little chat with them and got to
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  Speaker 1: check out some of the new launchers at the House
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  Speaker 1: of Sephora event that we went to, And yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: been trying out a couple of their products for the
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  Speaker 1: last three weeks or so, so still relatively new, but
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  Speaker 1: I've been really loving the gel moisturizer in the range
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  Speaker 1: because the entire brand is all about like protecting your
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  Speaker 1: skin barrier, which is very important. And all of the
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  Speaker 1: products are also priced under thirty dollars.
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  Speaker 3: So good, which especially in Sephora.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, what, Yeah, Like that's good anywhere, but especially
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  Speaker 1: for Sephora, I would say, And yeah, I've been loving
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  Speaker 1: the moisturizer so far. It's really gentle, which has been
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  Speaker 1: really nice because I've been having some skin concerns.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's lovely, gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get into the episode. Okay, let's get
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  Speaker 2: into our affordable rules that make life more fun. And
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  Speaker 2: these are designed to make every week, every day more
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  Speaker 2: fun because I think especially with you know, the like
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  Speaker 2: there's news cycle burnout, you know, drinking your fucking full
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  Speaker 2: liters of water, going for your ten case steps, calling
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  Speaker 2: your mum, doing your work, getting promotions, sending an email
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  Speaker 2: to marketing, like it's very very easy to fall out
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  Speaker 2: of having fun. And Sal and I when Sal and
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  Speaker 2: I went to Disneyland a few years ago, they before
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  Speaker 2: they start the Fireworks show, they have this quote, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing, but it says, when you're a little kid,
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  Speaker 2: you like believe in fun, and as we get older,
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  Speaker 2: we stop believing in it. So we invite you to
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  Speaker 2: have some fun.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, ah, it's like, why are you.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, they know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: They know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, cool, I'm already crying. The show hasn't
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  Speaker 2: even started.
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  Speaker 4: Very good.
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  Speaker 3: I turned to Soul and she's just a puddle exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, turn out of ten. So whilst
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  Speaker 2: it seems so small and frivolous to be like, have
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  Speaker 2: more fun, here are the rules to have more fun,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot bigger than that. It is an intentional decision.
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  Speaker 2: I think like to have more fun because whilst routine
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  Speaker 2: is amazing for creating structure and also healthy and positive habits,
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  Speaker 2: there is definitely this this pool of routine or rut.
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  Speaker 2: I think and understanding that your routine, if there's no
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  Speaker 2: excitement and there's no fun, that's not necessarily routine.
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  Speaker 4: That's rut.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes always living by a routine, and I
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  Speaker 2: love a routine. Like whenever I'm not doing certain things
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  Speaker 2: in the week, I can feel it. Right. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that's not good, but I'm just saying, when you
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  Speaker 2: don't mix shit up, where's the fun? Where's the play? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Build fun into the routine, exact space for fun.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we're going to chat through in this
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  Speaker 2: episode of our five rules to make every single week fun.
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  Speaker 2: The first rule to have more fun is to create
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  Speaker 2: an excitement list. So this was a recent viral TikTok
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  Speaker 2: which you may have seen and I'll link the creator below,
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  Speaker 2: And basically, at the start of every week, you create
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  Speaker 2: an excitement list, so you think about the week ahead
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, what am I excited for? And you
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  Speaker 2: have to pull in I would say, like at least
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  Speaker 2: five and have something that you're looking forward to and
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  Speaker 2: being so mindful about it, because when you're like going
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  Speaker 2: into it and you're like, oh, like what do we
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  Speaker 2: think about them? On Sundays, it's like, oh, what do
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  Speaker 2: I have on for work? And the life admin that
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  Speaker 2: you have to do, Yeah, I be like, oh gosh,
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  Speaker 2: my clothes going to do that, but eh, And in
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  Speaker 2: this video she was saying, just how like you're missing
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  Speaker 2: out on the most like positive but also simplest form
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  Speaker 2: of journaling because I get it, like journaling is a
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  Speaker 2: time investment. It's hard to stick to and you might
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily have like thirty minutes a day, and you
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  Speaker 2: might also feel like you've been like dear dairy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So like, I think lists are a really great way
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  Speaker 2: to get started in journaling and kind of build on
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  Speaker 2: from there. But yeah, just made me think of, like,
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  Speaker 2: what's on my excitement list for next week? So what's
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  Speaker 2: on yours.
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a birthday lunch on the weekend with some
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  Speaker 1: of my old friends, which.
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  Speaker 3: Will be lovely.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also excited to get back into going to the
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  Speaker 1: gym because I've been sick the last week and haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to do that. But I think I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to mix it up and try out some new workouts
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  Speaker 1: from the kickapp that I haven't done, which I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to do because that always just makes it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more of a fresh challenge. And then I think
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, I'm going to have a sleep in, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually really excited for as well.
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  Speaker 2: I love that one, yeah, because I love like that's
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  Speaker 2: like the smallest thing. But you're excited, I know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I just know I'm going to feel so good.
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  Speaker 3: What's yours?
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  Speaker 2: My excitement lists for the next week? Every morning?
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  Speaker 3: Coffee very good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to a musical with my mum.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be great.
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  Speaker 2: I'm picking up a new foster kitten. That's probably the
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  Speaker 2: one that can add that to mine too.
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  Speaker 3: Yea, his name is Beanbag bean for sure.
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  Speaker 4: By the time this episode.
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  Speaker 2: Comes out, I think you're already be home. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to say that. I've also been told I'm
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to rename him.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm, but it's already happened.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, bean Bags growing on me being bags kute because
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  Speaker 1: I do like bean for sure, bean and banks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's cute, Beanie.
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  Speaker 1: The thing I love about the excitement list is that
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  Speaker 1: if you sit down and you're kind of drawing a
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  Speaker 1: blank and you're like, oh, I don't really have anything
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  Speaker 1: that I'm excited about for the next week, that's your
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to add something into the week that excites you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's okay, Well, I'm going to cook my favorite
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  Speaker 1: meal on Monday, or I'm going to take myself to
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  Speaker 1: the movies on Thursday, and make that conscious effort to
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  Speaker 1: schedule those things in if they're not already lined up
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  Speaker 1: for you, because otherwise, I think then you don't realize.
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  Speaker 3: You look back on the week and you're like, where
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  Speaker 3: did that week go? What did I do?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can be a little bit more intentional about
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  Speaker 1: scheduling those fun times in as well as acknowledging the
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  Speaker 1: fun things that are already going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I love that if someone's like, how is you week,
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, yeah, it was all right. You need
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  Speaker 2: to do an excitement list.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Rule number two, number two the two hour catch up
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  Speaker 1: hit me okay in January. Earlier this year, there was
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  Speaker 1: an article published by the Atlantic, which is a US
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  Speaker 1: based publication, and the headline that stirred some conversation was
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  Speaker 1: Americans need to party more, which I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: brat summer Yes, continued on where like hungover and be like.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, they were like not Youtubo though YouTube
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  Speaker 1: are fine, I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I don't actually know if we do.
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  Speaker 1: Because we have such a big friendship group that it
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  Speaker 1: feels like every two weeks at somebody's birthday and there's
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  Speaker 1: a reason to celebrate, which is really nice.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm taking this as a sign to be Alexa
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  Speaker 2: play get this party started by ping.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: But in the article, they explained that loneliness has become.
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  Speaker 3: An urgent public issue in the US.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon you could say that worldwide, right, I.
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  Speaker 3: Was thinking the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: But in this particular article, they cited a study that
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  Speaker 1: found that Americans reported having an average of about four
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  Speaker 1: or five friends, which is pretty normal, but forty percent
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  Speaker 1: felt they were not as emotionally close to their friends
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  Speaker 1: as they would like to be, and a similar number
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  Speaker 1: wish they had more time to spend with their friends. So,
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  Speaker 1: like we said, this is obviously a US study, but
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  Speaker 1: I think anecdotally we can say that we feel this ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and we've heard other people say similar things in our
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  Speaker 1: friendship groups, especially as you are getting into your later
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  Speaker 1: twenties and early thirties, because people get busier and it's
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  Speaker 1: harder to make time for your friends and to socialize
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  Speaker 1: and to partey if you will. And according to the article,
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  Speaker 1: they think it's because America is in a party deficit.
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  Speaker 3: So in this article.
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  Speaker 1: They found that only four point one percent of Americans
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  Speaker 1: attended or hosted a social event on an average weekend
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  Speaker 1: or holiday in twenty twenty three, which is a thirty
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  Speaker 1: five percent decrease since.
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  Speaker 3: Two thousand and four.
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  Speaker 1: WHOA, Yeah, so in the early two thousands we were
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  Speaker 1: absolutely living it up. But I do see the correlation
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  Speaker 1: here between loneliness and the need for more parties, because,
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  Speaker 1: of course, socializing at a party or at a big
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  Speaker 1: gathering like that is the easiest way to connect with
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  Speaker 1: multiple people over a smaller amount of time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, which I totally get.
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  Speaker 1: However, for the purpose of today's episode, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: weekly habits and weekly ways to have more fun. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that every single person in their late
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  Speaker 1: twenties and thirties has the time and the social battery
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  Speaker 1: and the budget to go to a party every.
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  Speaker 2: Way I was going to say, is I think the
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  Speaker 2: lack of like in that stat you read that was
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  Speaker 2: like four point five percent of people or something like that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hosted parties. I'm like, it's expensive. It is expensive to
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  Speaker 2: host a partiy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the cost of living and the lack
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  Speaker 2: of social events absolutely has a direct coalition definitely, But.
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  Speaker 1: In my current rental where they're so strict and I
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  Speaker 1: want to get my bond backed, there's no way I'm
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  Speaker 1: hosting a party. I think if I owned my own
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  Speaker 1: place and I didn't have carpeted floors, I would be
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  Speaker 1: so up for hosting a party.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so tell me about the two hour catch up.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So after reading this article, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is great, but like I was saying, not everybody
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  Speaker 1: has the time, budget, bandwidth to go to a party
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  Speaker 1: every single weekend. But my solution is the two hour
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  Speaker 1: catch up, and that is making two hours of time
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  Speaker 1: every week to catch up with at least one person.
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  Speaker 1: Because for me, in the last few years, I found
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  Speaker 1: it really difficult to fit in time to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with friends because I look at it as a whole
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  Speaker 1: day activity and we've got to go to breakfast, and
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  Speaker 1: then we've got to go to leave markets, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're getting lunch, and then maybe we go to a
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  Speaker 1: bar after and it's a whole day thing where you
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  Speaker 1: spend lots of money and lots of time, and if
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  Speaker 1: you also have life admin or you're just tired, it
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  Speaker 1: is almost impossible to fit that in However, it does
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  Speaker 1: not have to be a whole day affair to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with someone. For example, one of my best friends,
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  Speaker 1: Nick and I have a designated Sunday every month where
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  Speaker 1: we catch up for ninety minutes to two hours and
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  Speaker 1: have breakfast. And it's a non negotiable that we do
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  Speaker 1: every single month. And when we have these catch ups,
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  Speaker 1: we're not just reminiscing on old times from high school.
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  Speaker 1: We're not just asking, you know, sort of like basic
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  Speaker 1: questions like, oh, how's work. We're having real conversations where
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  Speaker 1: we're catching up on each other's lives, but also asking
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  Speaker 1: each other advice or talking about things that are happening
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  Speaker 1: in the world and being like, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: about this, and like getting into debates and conversations about it.
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  Speaker 1: And every single time I leave one of those catch
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  Speaker 1: ups with him, I feel like I've laughed or I've
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  Speaker 1: learned something, or I feel lighter about some sort of
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  Speaker 1: situation that I have going on in my life.
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  Speaker 3: And it's two hours.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so that was something that I was doing
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  Speaker 1: monthly with him, and I was like, I need to
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  Speaker 1: introduce this more with other people in my life, and
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  Speaker 1: so I did it last week with my friend Lucy.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, let's catch up and I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's go grab a drink after work on a Wednesday night. Again,
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  Speaker 1: two hours, two cocktails consumed during a happy hour home.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And I had three different social engagements in the one week.
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  Speaker 3: But because I.
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  Speaker 1: Gave myself that kind of time limit, I guess of
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  Speaker 1: just two hours, I didn't feel burnt out by the end.
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  Speaker 1: And I also felt like I'd had really good, genuine
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  Speaker 1: catchups with these people.
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  Speaker 3: Because I was looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that giving yourself that two hours to
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  Speaker 1: connect with people is the easiest way to inject fun
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  Speaker 1: into your week, because you need social interaction and connection
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  Speaker 1: to have fun. And Alan and I were talking about
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  Speaker 1: this earlier this week, but there also has been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of conversation recently about the catch up trap. And
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  Speaker 1: I guess those friendships that you do catch up with
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  Speaker 1: every six months and it's sort of our housework, how's
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  Speaker 1: your partner, and then it's very surface level and then
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  Speaker 1: you kind of go off. And I do think there's
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  Speaker 1: some merit in that critique, and we could get into
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  Speaker 1: that into a whole different episode, So maybe we will,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll put the links in the description to the
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  Speaker 1: articles that we've referenced, but I want this to be
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  Speaker 1: everybody's homework to book in one two hour catch up
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  Speaker 1: with somebody in your life in the next week, because
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you'll feel so much lighter and happier once
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  Speaker 1: you do that.
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  Speaker 2: Ueber three, to have more fun is to move your body.
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  Speaker 2: So in a recent Vice study, it found that gen
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  Speaker 2: Z ranked emotional wellbeing or feeling good internally as their
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  Speaker 2: highest priority gold star. So focusing on habits that support
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  Speaker 2: mental health, like getting an adequate amount of sleep every
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  Speaker 2: night and focusing on having a good work life balance
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  Speaker 2: are highly valued by gen Z, which makes sense given
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  Speaker 2: that new research found that gen Z move their bodies
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: more than any other generation.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah So.
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  Speaker 2: The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently released its latest Time
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  Speaker 2: You survey, sharing insights into how Australians use their free time,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: contracted and personal time throughout the average day, and Genzed
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  Speaker 2: were found to be the most physically active of the bunch,
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  Speaker 2: spending a daily average of one point seven hours moving
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  Speaker 2: their body. Good job, gen Z, I know, and gen
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Z's apparent focus on health comes as no surprise, with
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: the group recently making ways with the criticism of like
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the traditional nine to five hustle culture.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Quiet quitting yeah, work life balance Yeah, like the rise
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: and grind.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Not much. Ye hate house of culture. That makes me
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: not a bomb. So I think we can use this
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  Speaker 2: as an opportunity to discover more ways that we can
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  Speaker 2: have more fun in moving our body and focusing on
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: moving your body as fun rather than fundamental.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, let's fun and fundamental bouch, you know what I'm saying.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I say match, let's get fun.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And we recently spoke about this on the podcast that
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: neither of us are necessarily sporty spices, and we have
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: had a bit of an ebb and flow when it
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: comes to our relationship with moving our body and with
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: going to the gym, especially because there have been some
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: instances in the past where we haven't typically enjoyed the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: classes that we've been doing or the vibe of the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: gym that we were going to.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: The price of the gym that we've been going to.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, so we didn't go, We weren't inspired to go
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to the gym, and then as a result of that,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: felt so guilty of the money that we were wasting
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: because we weren't utilizing it, which is why Revo Fitness
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: is such a cool and affordable option because they have
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: memberships that start at nine dollars and sixty nine cents
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  Speaker 1: per week.
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  Speaker 3: That is so good.
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  Speaker 1: Plus for three dollars extra, you can get unlimited access
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  Speaker 1: to reformer pilates at Revo Fitness.
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  Speaker 2: That's basically unheard of.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's twelve dollars and sixty nine cents per week.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: It's like a coffee and a sweet treat.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Which I'm going to be buying anyway, exactly after pillarates.
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  Speaker 4: I love how that's like.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: The gen Z like measure of finances, being like, where
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: does it sit in the coffee and the sweet treat matrix?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Fully.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: And another thing that I love about Revo Fitness and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the Reformer polarates especially is that they're actually built into
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the pilates machines, so it's pilates classes on demand and
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: there's over three hundred classes that you can choose from, which.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Is so good. And the pilates machines have these little
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: like TVs on them, so you're not looking around being
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: like what the fuck am I doing?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And also Revo Fitness has twenty four to seven access,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: which I personally love because you know that I'm a
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: bit of a night ol at the gym and I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: love to go and do a pilates and like, right,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: she's very But that was also one of the things
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: that stopped me at some of the other places we
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: were going in the past is it was so hard
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: to get into a pilates class, whereas with Revo Fitness,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you can go and do a class on demand whenever
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you want.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: My personal favorite thing is that there's no lock in
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: contracts because so often gyms will give you a more
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: affordable price point when you sign up for twelve months
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: or twenty four months or even sometimes thirty six months.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: No locking contract, no bs fees.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And it's also an open plan gym as well, so
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you can mix up your workout and do other things
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: As the Reformer Pilates Chef's.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Kiss Vibes, we can put a little link in a
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: bye if you want to check it out. Definitely Rule
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: number four for having more fun every week, every day
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: of your live. Don't be a hater, just be a fangirl. Yes,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: So Sam and I were talking about this the other
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: day and it's just so boring and tiring being a hater.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily think that anyone listening to this,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: My hope not is in the comments of people's posts.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Being a fucking hater is like questioning what we're interacting with.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Does it bring fun and enjoyment? Like do the people
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: you follow on social media? Do they bring you joy
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and sparkles and whimsy and like like funny in your life?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Or are you watching it being like fuck, that's annoying.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Oh I hate that. Like, I find it so much
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: more fun to really fangirl and really love something and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: be watching people that I'm like obsessed with, watching.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Tricksy and Katia.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: There are these two drag queens that they have this
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: YouTube show with Netflix where they like basically goggle box
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: and watch Netflix shows, And I am laughing the whole
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: time with them, yeah, not at them. And I just
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: find it's so much more fun being a fangirl and
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: like being obsessed with people and being like, oh my god,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: that's so cool. I'm so happy for them.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Like, if you get the urge on social media to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: comment something potentially negative on somebody's post, I want you
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to remember that and think, is there somewhere else that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I could comment something positive instead. Yeah, So instead of commenting, oh,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I actually think that you looked better with this, Heck,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: why don't you click off that, make an effort to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: go find something you do like and instead spread something
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: joyful and positive that elicits.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: A happy feeling inside of you.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And we're not saying that you shouldn't be critiquing things
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and calling things out when.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: It makes sense to.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: But I don't think that commenting on somebody's body or
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: somebody's looks falls into that category.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I think my main point from this as well is
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that it will make you so much happier when you
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: want interact with things that aren't rage bait, because it's
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a total thing. If you don't know what rage bait is,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: it's when people purposely post things to make you angry,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: to make you hate what they're posting, because it brings
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: trolls and comments and personally not something I could ever
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: want do or to interact with. Yeah, and it's like
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: an immediate block because I'm like, don't show off on
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: my feet anymore. I'm like, I don't want to fucking
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: see it. Yeah, but it will bring you so much
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: more joy and lightness and fulfillment to one interact and
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: view and be a fangirl and have more fun within
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: your phone and social media. But two, you will feel
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: so much nicer and so much more fun when you
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: comment things that you're like, I love this, Yeah, well
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: this is so cool. Like we're not saying don't comment
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: love comments. Yeah, but bear a fangirl.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Don't be a hater. And there are so many times.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: That we'll catch ourselves like saying, like, you know, something
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: is a bit off, or we've found it annoying or whatever.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: We're like, oh, and I'm like, I don't no be hater.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of this book that I've been recently reading,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and it's called Bright Shining How Grace Changes Everything by
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Julia Bear, and it's about how grace is a rare
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: currency in today's society and how we've lost our ability
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to cut each other some slack and allow each other
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: to stumble or have different opinions or not necessarily like
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: what everybody's doing, Like it's okay, it's okay if you
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: don't like their dress, you don't have to wear it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: No one, It's so cool.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I think that, Yeah, maybe we just
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: all need to have a little bit more grace and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a lot more fun.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's also not necessarily like women's fault either, like
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: women historically have been pitted against one another, put in
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: competition with one another, like look at the whole Angelina
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: versus Jennifer Aniston. There is still a fucking narrative being
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: like team and or team Jennifer.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Like Haley and Selena. Yes, right, that it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Encourages you to literally.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Form a side or a hate or what. And that's
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: what we're saying in this segment, Like I don't want
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: anyone to feel like we're sitting up on a fucking
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: pedestal being like, don't be a fucking hater. Absolutely not.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: We're saying that, like these things are put in front
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: of us because it lifts an emotion, and emotions cause reactions, right, Yeah,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: that there are so many tricks that are happening in society,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: whether it's on your TVs, in the media, on social
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: media that trick you into being negative and feeling negative
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: and having certain emotions that really don't fill your cup.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't think it's our fault, but it
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: is our responsibility to pull ourselves out of it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's all be fan girls.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Rule is find your happiness ven diagram.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Give me this.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: This is like sciencey, isn't it?
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, fucking sorry science.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I saw this in a TED talk that was hosted
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: by science journalist Catherine Price, and she created a science
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: backed ven diagram.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: For what she describes as true fun okay, which I love.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Pen and paper.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're getting the Butcher's paper out, chicks.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I love Butcher's paper.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: So imagine there are three circles overlapping in one circle.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: There is playfulness. This literally refers to lighthearted, good time, fun, silly,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: goofy girl. Yes. Yeah, And a huge component of that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: is not taking life and yourself so seriously, which I
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: think we all could benefit from. And she suggests that
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: one way to have more pure playfulness and joy is
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: to find opportunities to rebel. Oh, but specifically to rebel
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: against the rules of responsible adulthood, which I personally think
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that Alex and I do all the time.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Do you want to know how I've been rebelling against
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the rules of adulthood.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for the last week.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: For dinner, I've had a veggiemite sandwich.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I have an addiction, a crippling addiction.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: When it comes to dinner time. All I feel like
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: is fresh bread and a veggiemite sandwich. Who says, I
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: kind of it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I know, I'm supposed to eat veggies and fucking fruit
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: and like a meat and whatever, but I feel like
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a veggiemite sandwich. And for the last week, that is
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: what I have eaten for dinner. And I'm telling you
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I've had the best time.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: That's childhood joy.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: And then I followed it up with a golden gay time.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Yum.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, second circle.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Second circle. Okay, so first circle with playfulness.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Second circle in the second circle is connection.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So this refers to having a special shared experience in
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: these moments of playfulness.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: So, of course you can do these things on your own,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: which is also important, which is important, but Price says
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that connection and sharing these experiences is another core factor absolutely,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: which again we definitely do.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: If you think.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: About all the times that you've had the most fun
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: in your life, I would say nine times out of ten,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: there's someone standing there with you or multiple people.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Definitely, And I also think that in these moments of playfulness.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: When we are rebelling against these adult responsibilities.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: And rules, it's because you can truly be yourself.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I think rebelling against the adulthood rules is the key
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to having fun in your twenties and beyond, definitely.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: And then in the third circle circle hit me is
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: flow ooh. This refers to.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Being so engaged and immersed in the fun and playfulness
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that you completely lose sight of any other distractions.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: And that's why they say time flies when you're having fun.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Oh true.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I would say that's probably the hardest circle.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I agree.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Sometimes when I'm like sitting there and I'm having fun,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: and i go, wait, I'm supposed to be stressed about something, right,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: And then I remember and I'm like.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, fuck, yeah, But why do we do that?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And a key way to do this is to remove
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: distractions that will pull you out of that playfulness. Put
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: your phone in the toilet, exactly, put your phone in
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the toilet. Make sure that you're wearing something that is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: comfortable and that you feel free in. And then it
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: can also refer to the people that you're surrounding yourself with.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: So if you do have a friendship with somebody and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you feel like you can't truly be yourself, or when
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you do that silly voice or you make that stupid joke,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: they don't laugh along with you, or they're like grow up,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: or really watching the Little Mermaid again, it's the third
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: time this week?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: You need help?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Like that is that's a form of distraction that is
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: taking you out of it. Okay, we've got the three circles,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: we've got playfulness, we've got connection, and we've got flow,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and they all overlap and then in the middle is
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: true fun. So another little homework exercise for you, chick ears,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is to grab a piece of paper and draw the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: three circles. And you can have either space inside and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: write in what these different things mean to you, or
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you can have little branches shooting out off them. But
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: be intentional about what these things are, and look at
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: your day to day life and what you have coming
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: up in the week, and how can you incorporate true fun.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: You know what's really nice is that, like if I
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: was to do that in the like middle circle that
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: was true fun, I could very easily put you.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Don't make it later sounds just sobbing.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I think, like that's the thing is maybe it's about
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: finding the people that you could put in that middle
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: circle that is the overlap, and I think I could
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: very easily. No brain, I'll put you in there.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: M Oh, that's so sweet you'd be in mine to you.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Thank you, but that is a rap.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you for having us in your ear holes.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: We hope it was really fun.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I hate us, and thank you Damka made for making
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: this episode of two bread Chicks happen.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Love you chicks, I love you, Fae