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Just Don't It!
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Today we talk about better ways to care for yourself.. I think. We did a few episodes in a row and then I got sick. I think that's this one. What, you think I listen to my own podcast? Well, yeah I do. But AFTER I post it. The editing process is pretty barebones... Anyway, say hi on our website or our youtube channel!
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Introduction: 'That's Our QRT' and Host Banter
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Yeah, i want to do the intro haven't done in a while. So good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies gentlemen. I'm Binary, folks. ever no no This is That's Our QRT, a Q for Sure, where we take your Qs and we plant them in a grave.
00:00:12
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Oh. And it sucks nutrients from the corpse within said grave. And then it becomes a beautiful A filled with the spiritual energy of somebody who was...
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long forgotten and left behind but now gets to bloom anew for everyone to witness and if you don't know what that means it just means that we take questions from the internet we answer them as if anybody gives a damn and sometimes we get actual questions from our fans who give a damn so having said that my name is adam and as always with my with my with my is me best friend danny guarantee hi me danny guarantee uh i actually i want to change your little q and a thing if you don't mind
Q&A Twist: Reanimating Questions
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Okay. I'm sorry to do this to you, but I came up with a good one.
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Okay, go ahead. We're going to take your cue. Today, we're going to take that cue. We're going to bury it in a grave, like like my friend Adam said. We're going to let it really suck up those nutrients, but then it's going to give it back to the corpse and reanimate it as that corpse breaks up through the ground and is searching for only one thing.
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Sex. Brains. Brains. Brains. Brains
Left-Right Confusion and Techniques
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Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good idea. We should get it. We should make a podcast. You obviously don't get there. You'd be laughing. I'm laughing. Can you not hear me No.
00:01:40
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Yeah, going hear me this whole time. i hear you. I just don't hear you laughing. Laugh for me. i don't I don't know how to laugh, laugh man. That's hard. Laugh. I'm writing down plants that reanimates dead people.
00:01:56
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Uh, you're going to keep that for monster of the week. Maybe. I think that's a cool idea. I'm still working on my creature books. I like that idea. Uh, Grease. Okay. That's just a fun idea.
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I want royalties of one compliment. Every time it's used. I'll give you actual money, Danny, if everything I want to happen happens. Um, so that's the best compliment you can give me. I know. Uh, okay. So guys, gang, listen, folks today,
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Danny and i had a couple of different questions that we want to do, and I just said, you know what? Let's just fucking fire them off. We're just going to answer several questions like we used to, but not hopefully not in a long-form format of answering three questions.
00:02:34
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we're just going to try to bang them all out. Boom, boom, boom. One after the other. but got three. um Danny, I think we should start with yours because I think it's a very important question. Yeah, that's fine. ah Mine's also seemingly the simplest, I think.
00:02:48
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or But it it does speak to me a little bit because under pressure, this is one of the things I have the hardest time with, surprisingly. Okay. ah But who said who's asked the question?
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I. Sorry, I'm trying to read it. Ideating taking. No, ideating over thinker. Oh, okay. Idea ting over thinker.
00:03:13
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Okay. What is that? The random question subreddit wants to know. How do you know where your left and right is? So, random question, but I always wondered, how does everyone know which side is right and which side is left?
00:03:27
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Do you have a trick, a special feeling, a something, or do you just know? And the reason I wanted to ask this is because when I'm under pressure, like if I'm driving and somebody says, go right, I instinctively start going left.
00:03:45
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And... It's always bothered me, you know, I'm, what am I, 36 now? and And I'm still like having trouble with my left and right sometimes.
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And I read in an article that left-handed people tend to have this problem where when under pressure without that extra second to kind of let their brain process, they tend to mix up their left and right.
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And I have a theory that it's we're trained to think of our right as the dominant side because most people are righties. So as a lefty, I always have to kind of mirror everything.
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And when I'm under pressure, I don't have time to do that. So when somebody is like, you know, turn right, turn right, my brain instinctively goes turn dominant.
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So I turn to the left. Okay. So like, like can i ask a clarifying question on that? Yes. Is it only when you're driving? Are there other situations in which you can think that pretty much any situation where I need to do it quickly, where I'm being told left or right?
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Like if I'm playing a video game and somebody says, oh, there's a guy to your left, I'll turn the camera to the right. see. To look at him. was going to say, like, if it was a driving, you just say, take a me or take a you. Yeah, no, no, no.
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And it only happens if I'm under pressure. You know, if... if somebody's like, oh yeah, in you know ah in a mile, you're going to make your next left. Well, by the time we get there, I'm fine. right um Or if I'm playing a video game and the person's like, oh yeah, it's the next door on your left. Okay, here you go.
00:05:27
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um But yeah, if I'm under pressure and I don't have time to like give it that extra thought, for whatever reason, I i think I just associate right with dominance.
00:05:40
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Okay. So is it, is it just left and right? Or are there other correlations left and right? Because there are people who can't make, or who who have this issue with a lot of different kinds of choices because the pressure is there. So it's not necessarily that you don't know your left from your right. It's that your brain's like, I need, i need to know. No, so I'm actually really good under pressure.
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It's really just my left and my right. And I noticed it immediately too. Like, I will just immediately I'll start drifting to the left and then be like, wait, no. And then, you know, you know, the L trick, right?
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I do know the L trick, but I'm talking, you know, not enough time to do that. Well, the trick is the L trick. Like if you need a left, you make that symbol.
00:06:28
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Right. And then you push it the opposite direction to make it a right angle if you need to go right. OK.
00:06:35
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So the trick is you hold up your your two hands. no and No, no, no. Just hold up your left hand. Just your left. Well, this is to find out your left. Right. but But if you already if you already know what your left is.
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You know what your left hand is because you write with it. Yeah, I do. Yes. Exactly. So I'm telling, I'm talking to you first. You were the one that explained further your experience.
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So for you, the hand that you write with is the one that you'll make the L with. And then if you need to make a quick turn where I'm talking, like if you're in a steering wheel, like in the drive, in the driver's seat, if you turn the wheel while having the L up with your left hand, the L now points.
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It is now 90 degrees a different way. And it points to the right where you need to go.
00:07:27
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Right. But if I'm under pressure and time sensitive, I don't have time to sit there going L turn. How many seconds for the same reason that I bitch about people who don't use their turn signals? Like how much how much energy and how much time does it take for you to make an L with your hand?
00:07:43
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Right. It would take even more than it takes for me to give that split second extra thought for my brain to go. I'm lefty, right is the other side. okay because Okay, well then it sounds to me like whomever is telling you, communicating to you these challenges or these directions needs to be better about giving you more time to process them.
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it's not It's not a particular person or anything. It's just something I've noticed when I don't have time to think on my, like if I don't have time to to give it a split second extra thought.
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If I'm being told to turn to the right or left right now, then you need I usually end up turning the wrong way. So and it's usually when they say turn right.
00:08:27
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You need to do something called you need to develop an atomic habit. So essentially what that means is you take a couple of minutes a day and you just do rapid fire work on the thing that you want to do. It's like a little baby version of building habits. Like, oh, if you do this thing every day, 30 days, build a habit.
00:08:47
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Well, do the ones that you can do really quickly. So just like have your wife. left hand, right hand, right hand, left hand, left, left, left, right. You know, do whatever you need. know, just go driving, like drive a video game or a driving video game or something that requires you to do left and right. So only I'm sure there's games out there that do it right.
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Just do atomic habit building to get yourself used to like being
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under pressure and making those decisions. Cause you just, it sounds to me like you just need to level it up a little bit and then you'll be fine because you know what it is.
00:09:17
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Now the answer to the person who, who asked the question might be a little bit different, but for you, actually, you know what? I take it back for them to atomic habit building. That's what you need to do. Okay. Find ways to, on a micro level, a small level with like less, I shouldn't say less intensity, less commitment, but the same level of intensity to just, you know, one or two minutes, maybe longer if you're hitting a stride,
00:09:44
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Just kind of do it a little bit. There's tons of video games. You know, we could just say, catch the ball with your right hand and your wife throws you a ball. Catch the ball to your left hand. Catch ball with your right hand. Left, right. You know, just like, just simple shit like that to just kind of get you used to, you know, another good one?
00:09:59
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VR. If you can get yourself nice VR headset. Oh, buddy. Oh, man. What a great way to practice. There's a game called Beat Saber that'll blow your fucking mind, man. dude I've played...
00:10:12
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some vr games i tried two games skyrim and beat saber these have rules skyrim i was able to play no problem beat saber got me so motion sick how you actually have to walk around in skyrim you stand in no place how how I'm the total opposite. If you have to move, because what they do is you don't walk in real life. Most of the time you move the world to you. And that is so disorienting.
00:10:44
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The beat saber, you're in one place and you get cool, sick ass jams and you just slice and blocks in half. Ah, it's so fun. um But anyway, I will say that is something I just think is very important. I think micro habits, atomic habits, you know, if it's something you're not good at and you're like, ah, every time I get this thing, i'm like, oh, I wish I weren't so, you know on the struggle bus with this thing.
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Then like do it when you're not in an actual pressure situation, you know? Here. um Also, we only have a few more so minutes. We can fill in this question. We have two more. Okay, real quick. Just.
00:11:21
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This is the AI overview, but since we have to move quick, this is all I'm giving. Left-handed individuals... AI overview what? Left handed individuals often experience left right confusion due to navigating a world designed for the 90 percent right and a majority, forcing them to constantly adapt, use their non dominant and or mentally reverse spatial instructions. Just like I thought. Boom. All right. Next question. Let's go. All you read the A.I. summary, which is like such a gen alpha thing to do. What do you do I know. Well, like I said, we were running out of time. We need to move on. So I don't have time to click through all these links about baseball.
00:11:55
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Apparently, if you type in the search bar, why do lefties have problems with left and right? It's all about being a left handed batter against a right handed pitcher.
00:12:07
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Right. Which is why you can't trust the AI, because it's not it's just it's it's gathering as many things as it can to tell you like a commonality, which. Yeah, I know. But it told me what I wanted to hear this time. So it's fine.
00:12:18
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Right. I'm not saying there isn't that issue, but it doesn't help people know. Okay. Real quick. Just a few out. Yeah. but Use the L thing, right? If that's yes's the thing, learn that. Give it a different name. If it's with driving and you're still getting used to it, it's a you.
00:12:31
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Whoever's driving, it's a you, right? It's you. It's me, right? That's how you let that person know. Yeah. Another good way to tell your left and your right is, again, just like, you know, practice it.
00:12:43
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Just ask ask somebody to quiz you like, oh, which way is left? Turn this way. Which way is left? Like, just hear it. You know, visual cues. when you're When you have your GPS and you're driving or if you're just going for a walk and you have your GPS up, it'll say in so-and-so miles, so-and-so feet, take a left. look at what those little curve things mean look at road signs and see what those mean when you when it says right lane must turn right and you see that lane that only curves one way what direction is that always going right just visual cues with micro adjustments in atomic habit creation is the key to success here folks that's it moving the fuck on let's i just learned something new about myself but okay we'll go you just learn uh so i was still looking it up but
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One of the people said they have this problem a lot when they have to give directions. And I just realized I do that, too. So if if you have to turn left and I'm giving you the directions, I'll be like, yeah, at the end of the road, you're going to make a right. oh Sorry, a left.
00:13:41
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I do that a lot. You need to just finish the thought before you finish the before you start speaking it. Yeah, I've had that problem. Yeah, because I have an issue. two That's what ADHD is that has done for me.
00:13:54
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All right. Next question. Ready? Here we go. Ready? This one is from the Ask Reddit. This is from Intelligent Rain 22. They say, what's a trend or fad from your childhood that you wish would come back?
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. From our childhood. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Yeah. wish would come back.
00:14:18
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Yeah. Metal lawn darts. I wish we Oh, my God. You know what? No, that would solve the overpopulation issue. Call the week.
00:14:29
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Metal lawn darts for life. um Planking. You know, when everybody would just plank on stuff like this, they would find creative places. and I miss the age of.
00:14:45
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I'm going to call it the Tamagotchi age, but yeah, the one I'm specifically thinking of was not Tamagotchi. But, it you know, I was born of that. Was it like little battle guys? I can't remember their names. So the one I had was Digimon.
00:14:59
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Oh, right. Yeah. I'm probably going to, like, unlock a post-traumatic stress memory for my mom here. But ah it was like this little digivice thing that you would hold.
00:15:11
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And every time you shook it, your character would take a step. And it had a little clicker in it. So when you shook it, it went... yeah And every click was a step that your character would take, and you'd find the Digimon and you'd have to fight it in like this little, you know, 16 by 16 pixel box. um And it it was, I miss like that whole fad of having little hangable partner devices, you know? um Yeah, yeah. The Sega Dreamcast had a memory card that had a screen on it.
00:15:44
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And in Sonic Adventure, you could get the Chao, like your little companion dudes, onto the memory card and then play mini games on the memory card. It was so cool.
00:15:56
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Yeah. there Yeah. that Like that is. that i have a similar answer, but not in similar vein, but not, I don't know, related.
00:16:06
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But like, I do miss that tactile thing. Like, I think just having. I don't know, something that's away from your phone, but still feels like something that you're connected to that's important. I mean, I know it's just a little game or like a little companion thing, but there having things separated is kind of nice. Like, I think having everything all in one place expresses a level of importance to something it doesn't need to be.
00:16:29
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I wish I could just leave my fucking phone at home. Yeah, but I get lost way too easy now and I need it for navigation or i have to when I sign into work, I have to use the single sign on whatever bullshit or the authentication thing. And like everything always requires me to go back to my phone. And it is so liberating.
00:16:47
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I did this thing called the polar plunge over this weekend. And was so liberating to just put my phone in my backpack and throw it somewhere. work Cause I about to jump in freezing water and I didn't have it on me. i didn't look at it. It was just nice to be present. I mean, i try to be present anyway, but like i would love just having things separated like that is so cool.
00:17:04
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I miss shit like that. And I think like the one that I would want to bring back, I have two answers, but one of them is just like physical media because like we don't really own shit anymore. So like,
00:17:16
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I want to go to back to those DVD stores and like buy cheap ass DVDs and collect them. Come on. Yeah. I want, I wish places like blockbuster would come back. I wish yeah like now is the time that we need them the most because nobody owns anything anymore.
00:17:29
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We have dozens of, not just dozens, hundreds of games on um steam. And you know, if you buy movies digitally on some ah streaming service, you never own them. Once those servers shut down, you don't have them anymore. And if I were to rip those off of the,
00:17:45
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because they're downloaded on my on my. um PC, but if I were to burn that onto a disc and find a way to play it without your your services, um somehow that would be illegal, which is crazy to me.
00:17:56
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um You know, so I just met like having like a coworker of mine just brought us some cassette tapes because the the new place we moved into has a little tape deck that was just kind of screwed into the lower part of a cabinet and it still works.
00:18:09
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And there was a little Latin tape in there. I don't remember the artist, but it's really fun little mix. And so my friend found some old cassette tapes in her, you know, when she was cleaning out her garage and was like, Hey, I found these. And I know you you guys have a cassette player. Do you want them?
00:18:23
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And so we got ah spice world up in there or spice girls. We've got, Elvis Costello the and and one other one that I can't remember right now.
00:18:34
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um But it's just so cool to have that. So I just miss having or a CD Walkman big and bulky. I miss buttons. ah Dude, I miss keys and buttons but so much. I hate touchscreens. I hate them. Touchscreens became big just as I learned how to text without looking at the keyboard. Dude, right? On my phone.
00:18:54
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On my old Razer, I had one hand. I didn't have to, like, look. I knew exactly which letters were on which buttons, and I could just do it no fucking problem. Oh, i hate hate typing on a touchscreen.
00:19:06
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I hate it so much. I hate that you can't take your phone back off your phone anymore to take the battery out or change it or whatever. They don't want you be able to do that. They change cars that way. So you can't fix your cars as well anymore.
00:19:18
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Like I miss just the the trend of just being able to fix your own shit and have your own shit and have physical versions of that shit. you know
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00:19:26
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Dude, when i when I moved into where me and I'm below the live now, this house was built in the fifties and not upgraded too much from there. And the guy that owned it before us was kind of handy.
00:19:41
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Believe me when I tell you that the older generations are not kidding when they say they do not make them like they used to. Everything here is 50 plus years old and working fine. What technology today do you, can you think of that would work 50 years from now?
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Right. often And it's meant, it's not meant to. It's meant to break. it's It's built to break. Yeah, that's literally it. like Well, they they call it the inshittification. Yeah, I don't know what it's called, but the whole system is refoculated. Yeah, I will throw one other one out there. I miss Pogs. I think Pogs were really cool. Oh, okay. and I was a crazy bones kid. I would love it if they came back. some Yeah, just some simple shit like that, where it's just like, you know, you...
00:20:29
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Like I, at the time i was only collecting them. I didn't really play pogs that much, ah but I loved collecting like slammers. Like there are so cool that tactile thing. I mean, and you could get different artists to do so many cool different things. I remember having at one point this guy,
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ah Ghostbusters like Slimer. um I don't know if it was a slammer or it was a regular pocket. Can't remember, but it was like a holographic and shit. was one of my favorite ones that I ever had. it was so cool.
00:20:57
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I just love shit like that. I also miss ah being ah doing like card collecting like Pokemon cards, but it was feasible to get all of them or at least most of them. And it wouldn't cost you thousands upon thousands of dollars. Right. It was literally, ah you know, maybe once ah a week or so, you'd stop by the game shop and buy pack for a dollar.
00:21:21
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And you might have that super rare Charizard. And there were only, you know, when I got into Pokemon cards, was when it first came out. So there were only like a couple hundred at most different cards. Now there's probably thousands upon thousands of different cards. And it's like, I miss when I could just be like,
00:21:42
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Here's my binder of like 100 cards, and this is most of what's out. And I could set up multiple decks and play with my friends and stuff. Yeah. Nowadays, forget it.
00:21:54
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You know, I got to I got to confess, I've never played Pokemon. I've only ever collected them. I don't I still don't know how the game works. A friend of mine and i actually remade a whole new version of the card game where it's a single player like solitaire kind of game.
00:22:12
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ah But you it basically emulates the video games of trying to catch Pokemon and having a team on you and encountering wild Pokemon and finding items on the ground, all using Pokemon cards.
00:22:26
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That's cool. it was It was baller. It was so cool for like a couple of preteens to come up with. It was cool. the Yeah, I like that a lot. um But also play the Game Boy Color game, Pokemon Trading Card Game game.
00:22:42
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Amazing game. Great music teaches you how to play the card game. And it's just as hell. That sounds awesome. all right. What's our last question? We should talk more about that.
00:22:55
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Okay. That sounds cool. ah Last question. This one is just one I just think, you know, because we're trying not to be a piece of shit this year. um Right. Like everyone else should be, too. Everyone else should be, too. But this one is not not so much being a piece of shit, but making sure your body doesn't become a piece a piece of shit or your brain doesn't become a piece of shit. Okay.
00:23:14
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So the question is also on Ask Reddit from Benji325. And they ask, what is the most overlooked daily habit that can change your life? Hmm.
00:23:26
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Yeah, and because there's a lot of things you can do. um And I picked this ah because just like I said, i think there's a lot of ways for people to improve. And I think we're trying to be better people. We're trying to be less shitty.
00:23:41
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And I think one good way to be less shitty is to be in just a better place, whether it's mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physically. And these little things might be like a daily habit that you can just start working on tomorrow.
00:23:53
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There's, you know, maybe just some like little things, little life hacks. I don't want to call them hacks. They're just good habits. hu Yeah. Do you have any of the thing off the head that you started to do recently or that you want to do or that you have found that has helped in the past?
00:24:08
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I do. I have one that I've been doing for years now, and that is just a mini session of daily meditation. Ten minutes. That's all you really need. Just sit down somewhere quiet and just like close your eyes and just kind of ah be in the moment. You know, don't let your mind wander. It takes discipline.
00:24:28
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You have to stop yourself from letting your mind wander to random things because the whole point is to not think. You want to just feel, you know, you want to feel your breathing. You want to hear everything going around you and just really just be in that moment. And I guarantee you when you come out of it,
00:24:47
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you're going to feel like a lot lighter, a lot clearer in your head. Cause sometimes, you know, like with a computer, you need to just give it a minute to reboot. You need to just let your brain stop for a second and rest.
00:25:02
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So yeah, 10 minutes a day, just, it can even be right before bed. That's when I do it. I lay down at night and I just, for 10 minutes, I just kind of let myself be.
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00:25:16
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I feel the sheets. I hear whatever sounds are coming from the house. You know, I feel myself breathing. i really focus on that stuff. I force any external thoughts out of my mind and I just let it be for 10 minutes.
00:25:31
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And then I honestly usually just fall asleep during that because it's so relaxing. But yeah, that's my big one. Practice, it will not come easy the first couple times.
00:25:43
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It's really hard to knock out those thoughts at first. But just keep trying, just keep pushing out any thought, force yourself to stop thinking. Yeah. something that you'll get a habit Something that helps me with that because I do that not daily, but there's times where I just know I need to just do like a a soft reset.
00:26:01
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Um, when you just, you know, you're, you can feel your heart racing all day. You're stressed out or whatever. There's times where I just have to go and especially if it's nice outside, it's really, I prefer to do it outside, uh, where you just go sit and you just try to find a place that you can get a little bit of sun on your face.
00:26:15
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And like, You, but or even if you're in your office chair, whatever it is you're doing, you know, just if you need to do this meditative thing, especially if you have rage raging ADHD, or if just focus is hard for you, if you start to count how many seconds you're breathing, that helps, you know, like there's what's called block breathing where you breathe in for four seconds, you hold it for five for four seconds, you blow it out for four seconds. And, uh, what it was, it's breathe it in four seconds, hold it.
00:26:42
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blow it out for four seconds and breathe it in again. It kind of creates a box. I can't remember all four, but it's something like that. It's in, hold out, hold. Right. Oh, that's right. Once you breathe it out, you hold for four seconds and then you breathe back in.
00:26:54
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So yeah, that's it. Yeah. So you breathe in for four, you hold it for four, you blow it out for four seconds. And then before you start breathing again, you count to four again and then you breathe in for four.
00:27:05
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And it gives you something to do while still being present in your breathing, which is the thing that helps you focus. So it feels novel, but in a way that's like not stressful and in a way that helps you just kind of not be letting your mind wander. Right. So it does. And it does help because I've had days where my God, my fucking brain is just.
00:27:26
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I don't do it daily, though. I probably should. But it's a good reason when I'm just like, I'm just I'm stressed. if If I'm having a particularly rough time during a day, I will do it, you know, right after or whatever. Or if I'm like upset about something, I'll do it.
00:27:42
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And that usually takes the edge off. But um even on a normal day, I'll do it when I'm going to bed. Just it helps me sleep, man. There are times where I just, you know, your brain is racing. You can't sleep.
00:27:53
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I'll do that for 10 minutes. And once you kind of force your brain to stop thinking for a little bit, it kind of gets the message. um Actually, real quick, another thing I heard, a little life hack for everyone.
00:28:09
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And this this works really well for me. If you have a song stuck in your head, close your eyes and imagine that you're in a room and it's playing from a CD player or cassette player, whatever.
00:28:24
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It's playing from next to you. In your mind, leave that room and close the door and hear it in your mind getting softer and softer as you walk away, close the door and walk away from the door.
00:28:36
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It won't make it stop, but it'll push it to the back of your mind and you won't focus on it so much. Or you just put a better song in its place, baby. That's what you do. Um, just give in Yeah. We just, you the, the hack i I learned for that was to finish it.
00:28:56
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Like you get stuck in a loop because your brain wants to finish it, but you can't finish it. So you just keep getting the same parts. You're repeating the same part of the song. You have to finish it. You finish a song and it's over and then you can start a new song.
00:29:07
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Um, I'm going to throw one out here that I think I've mentioned on the show before that I think is just really important that has worked wonders for me. And that is just walking more.
00:29:18
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And I'm not saying you have to go and like go out and do a walk, although it's really great for you if you had the space, the neighborhood or the weather to do it. But. You know, parking a little farther away from the store, ah you know, making sure you maybe put your cart back.
00:29:34
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to the next corral, uh, you know, maybe walk the, la maybe walk a lap around your store. This is just like, if you're going somewhere, but like, or if you're just, you know, a lot of people have kids and they're young and I know it's depending on where you live. I've definitely seen situations was like, Oh, Hey, so-and-so kid while you're in there, go grab me this or Hey wife or husband while you're out there, grab me this, find the reason they get up and go do it yourself. Um, you know,
00:29:58
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if you can walk somewhere, try it. Or if you can, ah you know, if you're putting off doing that chore because you don't feel like it, just get up and walk over there anyway. Even if you don't want to do the chore, find things just to do that get you moving more than you probably should. That's another one of those micro habits, those little atomic habits I was saying earlier is just, you know,
00:30:21
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Take a little, take a few extra steps in your otherwise would, right? Take again, you hear it on health shows, but it's true. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Now, if you're going up 80 flights, sure. Totally get it.
00:30:32
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you're just going up a couple and you're not carrying a ton of shit, just take the fucking stairs, man. Like, just do it. I promise you it'll feel good. You'll feel better when you're done. You'll realize just how out of shape you are and be like, wow, like maybe, maybe this is good for me. Like, I feel good now that I've done this for myself.
00:30:46
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It kind of reminds you, your body goes, hey, you should do this more. So it does really work wonders. And on top of that one, I will say, because I just spent a day with my brother who I don't see all that often, who does the exact opposite as me, and you would never be able to tell that we are close, almost the same age, is drink fucking water, dude. I was going to say that. I was going to say drink water too. Not juice, not it's like a bunch of sugary shit.
00:31:13
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I mean, you can have that too. Don't get me wrong, but fucking you have to drink H2O. And before you go ahead and tell me it has no flavor, there are thousands of products out there that you can flavor your water with. I don't want to hear it.
00:31:25
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And don't pound don't pound fucking liquid IV because that's just not good for you in high quantities. That's meant to be used for when you're working out. That's meant to be used for when you're in the sun. That's meant to be used to help keep you from losing as much.
00:31:37
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But water, if you have to flavor it, flavor it. But fucking there's no reason that you can't drink water. If your biggest problem with drinking water is that it has no flavor, air has no flavor and you still breathe. So what now? That's true. Yeah. I mean, I mean, but I'm telling you I get and this is like, you know, I'm just going to sound like i'm i'm flexing a bit, but all the time I get shock when I tell people that I am in my late 30s all the time.
00:32:05
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And the only thing I can take from that is it's definitely not good genes for fuck's sake. It is not good genes. My family does not have them. Um, except for my hair, my hair is good genes, but, um, but my brother does not have that.
00:32:18
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Um, but, uh, if you're a diabetic, doubly so I've seen such a huge change in my blood sugar when I drink a lot of water versus when I get too much into the, uh, diet sodas or, you know, the zero calorie diet,
00:32:36
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whatevers There is a no substitute. I'm sorry. i wish there was two, but there isn't. And trust me, you are not drinking enough water. And if you have to, there's other options like there are those, you know, those vitamin waters you can buy.
00:32:51
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They're not bad for you, but zero sugar ones are practically just really good flavored water. If you have to get a product that makes you feel more incentivized to drink, if you don't want to get your own little Mio packs or something to flavor your water, you can buy those.
00:33:05
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I have a Costco membership. I get this shit called ah Vita Rain Zero. It's got like dragon fruit and some other ones. I don't really go for the, oh, vitamin enhanced. I don't like really buy into it all that much, but they are the they're just it's just really good flavored water. There's no sugar in it.
00:33:21
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And that's really nice and delightful and very good. And also great for your guests when they come over, if you to happen You know, how many times you go over to somebody's house or someone comes over to your house and you go, you know, I really have is water.
00:33:31
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You know, you know, it sounds like a terrible thing to say, but it's a great thing to offer. But you probably don't have like a cold or you're not prepared because you're probably not drinking it much yourself and you're chowing down on all your other shit.
00:33:42
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So these things are also nice, but flavor packets, flavor bottles, whatever it is that you got to do. Those fancy water bottles that can put like those infusers that you can put pieces of fruit in there to give yourself. Whatever the fuck it is you need to do.
00:33:54
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But trust me when I tell you, you will look younger. You will feel better. And if you're trying to lose weight or stay in shape, water expands your stomach, thus makes you less hungry. So you will not want to eat as much.
00:34:05
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um I'm just telling you, i get compliments all the time that like there's no way you're in your 30s. There's no way you're 37. You're almost 40. What the fuck? I get that all the time. And I'm sure part of it is because I'm active. But I think a lot of it is just because I drink a lot of fucking water.
00:34:20
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The only downside is you're going pee more. But that's how you know you're doing it. That's how you know you're winning because you're peeing more. That's how you know. And your pee won't be a dark yellow and orange. It'll be a beautiful, clear stream.
00:34:32
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And that's how you know you're doing it. That's how you know, guys. That's how you can track your progress. um and i And I'll end with this. If you want to track your progress or like do a micro enhancement every day, yeah I'm not saying you got to start drinking eight glasses a day. Okay.
00:34:48
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Just at the top of your day, if you have to just get it out of the way, fill up a cup and just pound it. Right. Just drink it to say I did it and I got out of the way. Just start with something simple.
00:34:59
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Right. That's it. Because you're not getting too much water from your soda pops, from your juices. Those things usually dehydrate you or give you too much sugar anyway, which leads to weight gain. So like,
00:35:10
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Those little things, plus cutting out more sugars and salts from your soups and your drinks anyway. Huge difference. And also, i will add a little extra plug for cutting out the sugars and salts. Not all sugars and salts, but like, you know, from your daily drinks.
00:35:25
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Look at the fucking the labels on your cans and lids, y'all. I'm telling you, or your cans and your bottles. Look at that shit. See how much is in there. make a decision, find something similar, but something that has less.
00:35:37
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I just got a health report back recently that my heart health has improved, that my um I was borderline hypertensive a few years ago and I'm not anymore. My blood pressure is stabilized.
00:35:47
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um I'm not at risk for diabetes anymore. ah like These are just because I just started cutting out like high sugar drinks, high salt soups, you know, just things that have these things in it.
00:35:59
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Huge world of difference. And this is, this is from my own anecdotal personal experience. Results may vary because everybody has different bodies and struggles and diseases and whatever it else she has got going on. But I will go work all the way back to water. There's every human on earth needs it. And I don't want to hear that drinking water will make your, your issue worse. Unless your issue is you're already drinking plenty of water.
00:36:21
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Now I am not nearly as far along the healthcare, uh craze as adam is not a health craze just micro adjustments i've made over the past three years shut up my turn yeah i'm just saying for small adjustments i have made this is this is for the people that are like oh my god that sounds like such a huge change i get that really isn't shut up it's not i get that i'm here to help you make small changes that you then use to lead into the bigger changes that Adam is suggesting. Those are not big changes. Shut up. so yeah you're butking
00:36:57
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You're misinterpreting what I was saying. i no know I'm not. i okay get what you're saying, but as somebody who is. me at least clarify before you say your answer. And I'm sorry. and I wasn't saying do all of that at once. I'm just saying these are things you can do.
00:37:12
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That's it. So anyway, if you're like me and you have a, say a soda obsession, but you know, not good for you. You need to get more water. Uh, one of the things I started doing was putting a lot of ice in my soda.
00:37:27
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Uh, it's less soda in the cup. It also means that you're getting some of that water, you know, drink or eat the ice as you, as you drink it. Uh, another thing my friend does, unfortunately it didn't work super well for me, but worked great for him.
00:37:42
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he would drink a, as big a cup of water as he could right before a meal yes in order to help fill his stomach and he'd eat less. And he actually lost a surprising amount of weight from that.
00:37:55
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Um, so that's something else you can do. And these are just little changes, you know, start with a little ice and then add more ice. And then eventually you'll be like, Hey, you know what? Actually, there are times where I've watered down my soda because I'm so used to the ice now that without it, it tastes too strong.
00:38:12
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Mm hmm. You know, i mean that only you you start kicking one habit and replacing it with something better. Mm hmm. When you go to like the soda machines at the restaurants, a lot of times like out because they don't have a ton of sugar free options that I want. It's not that I don't drink sugar, but like a lot of them just have the the sugar versions. And so I'll get like a powerade at the soda machine, but I will only fill the cup up maybe like a little over a quarter of a way. And then and the rest of it is just water.
00:38:38
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And then I drink that and it's still good. Cause just like, all right, cause there's still going to be a bunch of sugar in there, but I don't have to fill the whole cup up with sugar water, you know? um But yeah, but those things are all true. But I will say, don't chew on ice too much. Cause it's bad for your teeth. I broke a tooth doing that. It's really bad. It weakens your enamel. Don't chew on ice. Oh shit. I did not know that.
00:38:57
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I don't do that often, but okay. Yeah. And cold water specifically, while not super harmful for you, isn't as beneficial as lukewarm water. Cause most people cannot drink ice cold water for very long. Unless you sit. That's also fair.
00:39:09
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room temperature water is better but if you if you drink your water cold if you like your water cold do it certainly no harm there but try not to chew the ice that is scientifically proven and again anecdotal data broken tooth doing it do not chew ice okay don't den this my dentist was very mad at me um don't do that don't chew on the ice all right.
00:39:30
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I think that covers our questions. I think that covers our questions. I do have one more closing thing before we leave. It's very important. The people need to know. I agree. And we're all, we're and all roads lead back to this.
00:39:42
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That's right. This is an update on ah my shoveling adventures in the snow. I believe I had said before that the people across the street, I wanted to help them shovel, but they were always done before i got there.
00:39:58
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hmm. Okay, I got to help them this last time, so I felt very good about that. Yeah. Nice. And the reason I got to help them, and the reason that they're always done earlier that I saw for the first time, we have a vigilante snow plower here.
00:40:15
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Just a dude in a pickup truck with a plow on the front who drove around, and if he saw somebody whose house was cave you know whose' whose driveway was caved in,
00:40:26
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and they weren't out shoveling, he would reverse and then kind of push a bunch of it off to the side and then continue down the road. Just a vigilante snowplow guy. Unfortunately, when he did that, he piled a bunch of it behind one of their cars.
00:40:43
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So while I was shoveling, it was like up to my waist. And I was like, yeah, let me get this with the snowplower. Wow. So I finally got to help them and I got to figure out how they finished so quickly.
00:40:57
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Yeah. And I hope that made you feel good to do that. It did. It felt very good. And do you know why, Danny? It's because you're trying not to be a piece of shit this year.
00:41:08
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I'm trying very hard not to be a piece of shit this year, just like you should. Not you, Adam. You, the listener. Well, you, Adam, too. Everyone. you All of you.
00:41:19
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Maybe. Just maybe. Just maybe. Just maybe. If you think about it. If you think real hard about it, just maybe. If you just write it in your journal, just maybe.
00:41:32
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just Don't just be a piece shit this year. Don't do that. Just don't. Just doesn't just don't. Hey, listen, if you're thinking about just doing, ignore Nike.
00:41:43
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Just don't it, okay? Just don't it. Just don't it.
00:41:49
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There's their new shirt. Just don't it. we gotta ah What the fuck does that even look like? I love just don't it. That's awesome. um Just a shit emoji that says under it, don't just don't it.
00:42:03
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Just don't it. Just don't it. Just do not it is how that. Next time you're thinking about being a piece of shit, here's what you do. First, first step, don't.
00:42:15
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Second step, go get a glass of water. Go get a glass of water. You're drinking enough water. Doesn't have to be a big glass. Drink your little glass out of your fancy little mug. Drink some water and don't you don't be a piece of shit. See, it went full circle.
00:42:31
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Dislike my shit.
00:42:35
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I don't know. No, I don't want to end the episode on that. Say something else. ah Maybe don't be a piece of shit this year. I love you. Goodbye. it'd be I love you. Yeah, what he said. I love you. Yeah, I love your shit. I mean, just don't it.