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Episode 1 - Reintending New Year's
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Ross and Gregg discuss 2023's new year's resolutions and discuss new one's for 2024, to include doing more podcasting.
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Introduction of 'Unmotivated and Unprepared'
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You're listening to Unmotivated and Unprepared, a podcast where we take a break from the everyday hustle and bustle to muse about life, liberty, and the pursuit of randomness. Now here's Greg and Ross.
Return and Evolution of Podcast Format
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Greetings, humans. This is Ross. And this is Greg.
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And welcome back to another episode, which seems like forever of unmotivated and unprepared. And now Greg, it's been, it's been a year, I think. It's been a year. It's been a year. In many senses, literally, figuratively, it's been a year. And so I'm going to apologize in advance to our listenership that we haven't dropped a new episode, but when you drop banger after banger, after banger,
00:01:04
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You've gotta take a mental break and I feel like...
00:01:09
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I feel like we earned that one in 2023. So, you know, I mean, after the triple Palooza and everything else, like, I feel like we, we really made some strides, but anyways, we're back. I'm not even going to say what episode it is anymore because we've evolved. We've evolved as an act at this point. So we're just going to roll with it. We're going to call this season three and we'll figure it out from there. So, so what, what do you want to talk about today, Greg?
Mindfulness and New Year's Resolutions
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Well, in the spirit of a new year, and being the last episode that we did was about New Year's resolutions, we should probably revisit whether or not how well we did in the New Year's resolutions that we talked about. And one of the things we talked about, what you talked about, was about being mindful and being purposeful and trying to separate work and life. And how do you think you did in 23?
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Well, so from a mindfulness perspective, I am happy to say that I have formed a habit. I do now meditate every single day consistently, at least 10 to 15 minutes every single day. So I'm happy to say that I have formed that habit and I'm good to go. And I think it has helped. Has it helped with me disconnecting from work?
00:02:35
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Find going on vacation still the best way to disconnect from work so not really but That said I have a new mantra this year to go along with my mindfulness because I realize like work is part of what we do You know part of everything we do got I told my wife this this morning. I came up with this last night It's not that insightful, but it's Be present
00:02:59
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Be thankful or grateful and then be resilient. And I did it that way because I was like, one, life is short. We should always be present in what we do. That's kind of what the mindfulness taught me, right? We need to be mindful. We need to be present in what we do because we're oftentimes thinking about the past, the future, and we forget about the moment we're in. But if for some reason you can't be present at the moment, at least be grateful.
00:03:23
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Because if you're grateful then you can always come back and recognize what you have and if for some reason because we're humans You just can't be grateful because it's a tough situation you're in at least be resilient because if you're resilient then at the end of the day it'll come back to being present again, so That's my that's my mantra for this year to try to disconnect from things that stress me out
Accountability and Resolutions
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For a minute there, I thought you would become a motivational speaker and come up with your acronym that you're going to use. It's like mindfulness, resilience, grateful. No, no, I think what was my turn into like rap or something? Yeah, rap. I would be terrible at acronyms.
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I'd be up giving a speech on stage and then I'd say like, and that's an acronym. People be like, I think he just cursed at me in three languages. But it is true, man. I mean, I think, I think it's hard. It's easy when you don't want anything. We don't care and you don't want anything and you, and you, you're just going through life. It's easier. And we wish we all could do that a little more about things and get a little bit less, but also.
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knowing me, right, knowing me, emotional, passionate individual, and an overthinker at that, there's really no way to, it's, you can do the calmness, you can try to whatever, but losing that sense of control, or losing that ability, which is what overthinking actually is, let's be honest, it's a matter of you trying to control an outcome you can't control. Sure, absolutely. Yeah.
00:04:56
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It's something that I think is great. I think it's an important important thing to focus on because I you know, I find myself there a lot like I'm just Like now my friends send me text messages like set one today. Just calm down That's not literally what they said. There was definitely a bad word in there, but it was calm down Sure, sure. Yeah. Yeah, and it wasn't an acronym. Yeah, exactly
00:05:21
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But sometimes you need reminders, right? Like you also need friends to give you those reminders. True friends are willing to drop the truth on you and you're not upset when they say that. And you're like, you know what? You're right. But I think the other thing is interesting about resolution. I did a little, I know.
00:05:38
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It's supposed to be unprepared. I did a little research and you're going to be like, oh wow, Ross, you did research. Trust me. It's not a lot. All I did was Google the definition from Webster's of resolution. That's it. That's all I did. So we're not, we're not, but it's a firm decision to do or not do something.
00:05:56
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Right. You switched that around. That's essentially what Yoda said. Um, when, when you said do or do not. So, but when you think about that, it's a decision to do or not do something. Right. So when you think about resolutions, when you think about resolutions, you're resolving to do something. And if you don't do it in theory, that's a resolution as well. You just have to reflect on why you didn't do it.
Greg's Language Learning Journey
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Yeah, and I think that's yeah, that's that's a fair point. I think also we talked about it in the last a whole year ago, about how oftentimes what people choose to focus on are not things that are actually that inspired to do like the people who go to the gym.
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like the people who just do the gym from January to February and then stop the gym completely. They don't do the it's much better. I think the resolution of having an accountability buddy is a much better resolution. Yes to if you're going to do something, do that first find accountability buddy who's going to keep you accountable to doing whatever it is rather than make some arbitrary thing that you have not done well ever before. Yeah, so yeah, mine. Oh, go ahead.
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Well, I was going to say, well, what, what, what did you, did you have anything like, you know, pulling back the curtains a little bit here? I don't listen, re listened to our podcast because well, that's just who I am. Um, I have no clue what you resolved to do at all. Greg, you could have said like skydiving and nailed it. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Also, I don't know if you can say nailed it with skydiving. That seems to have a different connotation. Yeah.
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How do you do, oh man, like stuck the landing. No, so mine was to learn Portuguese. And I remember telling you that, hey, I wanted to learn Indonesian, was what I wanted to do. That's what originally I wanted to do, was learn Indonesian. Because I listened to a lot of this Indonesian pop music, and I wanted to know what they were saying. So I really wanted to learn Indonesian.
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And I want to go to Indonesia to go to a show to see some of these artists perform. That's my hope this year. But I didn't do Indonesian. Instead, I learned Portuguese.
00:08:15
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And I spent eight months learning Portuguese embarrassingly. Um, I learned this, like, okay. I was okay at Portuguese. I learned, I learned quite a bit of it. I'm pretty good at it. Uh, but the purpose behind it, I think was, it was a pseudo romantic endeavor rather than what Greg really wanted to do for Greg.
00:08:39
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What Greg's not telling anybody was, that's a cover. He was really, he wanted to take me to have a party carnival. And because he's like, look, he's like, look, I talked to your wife. She's like, look, he's never really gone to like parties and stuff. Carnival's the place for it.
00:09:01
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But I was nervous because that's how I am, traveling to a country, didn't know the language. But yes, I get it. I get it. I appreciate. I appreciate it. We'll leave it at that, Ross. We'll leave it at that was the intention behind why I learned Portuguese. We're still going to go to Carnival one day. But yeah, no, I mean, I did it. I, you know, I did.
00:09:26
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Try to learn the language pretty well I bought books and I actually watched movies with with subtitles to try to learn it and I got okay I got okay. I have some question for you about so your Your resolution. This is just a learning a language Seems a whole lot more like Boss than meditating 10 to 15
Sustainable Habits vs. Overwhelming Resolutions
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minutes a day like how how
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I think a lot of people quit because either it seems too daunting, right? When you resolve a firm decision to do something and then they realize doing that is like climbing this massive mountain versus just forming a habit. Cause like, I feel like my resolution was forming a habit or at least one of them was versus like completely learning something. How do you approach that when it's something like that's, you know, it's going to take you a very long time, like to chip away at it?
00:10:25
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Well, I think just like people with a gym, if you look at the way that I was doing it in the first three months of the year, I was practicing for an hour, two hours a day. Now, now I practice and I've stopped learning Portuguese now I'm learning Indonesian like I wanted to in the first place. And now but I spend about 1520 minutes a day doing it. And it's easier to keep, keep up with it.
00:10:49
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I think intensity burns people out pretty quickly. And so yeah, go too intense in something and people do that all the time. They get really intense about it and they burn out diet. So that way, they get super fatty about a diet fatty f a d d y not f a t t y. They are super fatty about a diet. And they're like all into it and they're all about it and they're straight up like go and then six weeks in they're bored of whatever it is they're eating and then they go back to doing the same bad behaviors they were doing before because it's just easier. And I think
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You have to have external motivators, you have to have accountability buddies, and you have to have a kind of a network that's gonna keep you honest.
Managing Anxiety with Techniques
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I would like to be less anxious in the new year, but I also know part of that anxiety comes from just situational. And it comes from not being able and recognizing I can't control everything and saying, okay, I'll let things just happen.
00:11:48
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I think 2024, like 23 was some new experience. I think 24 is gonna be a lot of new experiences. And I'm gonna have to be okay with, cuz there might be a new job in the future potentially, there might be a potential partner in the future. All those things that I'm opening myself up to the idea of doing, that I'd kind of been very closed and boundary centric about for the last, well, really the last several years.
00:12:16
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Um, those are going to come with them a whole set of new experiences that are going to cause all that anxiety. So reminding myself to try to stay and, and, and so I like learn the tapping thing. Have you done that? The tapping where you do the, no, no, there's a whole, there's a whole thing. So like, I've got a bunch of nervous ticks that, no, no, no, no. It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing. It's like, if you have any anxiety, the way you do is you do 10 taps underneath your R I.
00:12:44
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And then you do 10 taps underneath your arms like a monkey. My pits are sweaty. That's a nervous podcasting. And then you do 10 taps on your collarbone. And then you have to do the eye exercises. Nobody can see us doing this. This is great. But you can close your eyes. Then you open your eyes. Then without moving your head, you look down one angle. So look down one angle.
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and then put your eyes back normal, then put your eyes back another angle. And while you're doing this, tap in between your pinky and your index finger. So right here. Oh man, this is, this is, so like, is there like, is this a TikTok dance? Greg, I don't do TikTok. No, no, it's not a TikTok dance. I'm like, this seems like- No, there's a whole sheet, a whole bunch of conferences for this. And then you do the whole thing where like while you're tapping in between your index finger and your pinky, you do the whole,
00:13:43
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We roll your eyes and a big guy. And then you go back to tapping one last time, the 10 underneath your eye, the 10 underneath your arms. It's like this is like this method. Yes. Yeah, you do this, you do this. And apparently it's supposed to like remove anxiety, even have it for jet lag now.
00:14:01
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Oh, really? Oh, interesting. So is this like, uh, cause I've heard the, like the whole 10 things you can, or like five things you can see, four things you can hear, three things you can touch. Like, like when you're having like a panic attack, but that's more extreme, right? This is, this is more like just centering. Okay. Yeah. It's just like, yeah. Okay. Hey, I'm all about centering, centering yourself, centering stuff around that stuff. Yeah.
00:14:28
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Okay. All right. Well, that's interesting. You mentioned that you're like, oh, there's a whole so first off, you started doing that. And I'm like, Oh, Greg's going to start a new podcast where he's just like, all right, now tap between. No, no, no, no, you got well, you got that better. You got that better podcast voice than me. No, you got that podcast voice. I have the I have the if I just late at night, I can do the deep voice and just
00:14:51
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Oh, yeah, you've got the head now number five. I got that number five on the top 12 countdown. Yeah, I know. I know what 12 exactly. I have the top five countdown has 12, 12 songs, 12 songs. Yeah, it's it's a new it's it's it's a new math thing. It's all.
00:15:12
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Yeah no i'm i've got the npr but chain smoked for about fifteen years voice which yes okay so. Okay so you've got your so you're resolving this year to really just.
00:15:27
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be open to new experiences, but also recognize that those you can't control those experiences. So you kind of just have to, you have to go with the flow on that, which is very, which is very interesting because I think when we've talked and when we talked a few years ago about our introverted and extroverted experiences,
00:15:49
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You're more of a go-with-the-flow person in many situations from a social perspective and how you get energy and everything, but it's interesting to hear that despite that, if you're placed in a situation where it's like there is some control or there's an outcome that you want,
00:16:10
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and you don't have control over it, it's still extroverted or not. We are human beings at what control? So that is not- We do. That doesn't judge anything, yeah. At some level, and it's the simplest stuff. It's the simplest stuff that you want control over, but it's, yeah, for sure. I think if you want something to happen,
00:16:30
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And you put desire into it. And again, everybody says the same thing. You can't control the outcome, just enjoy the ride. You can't control the outcome, just enjoy the ride. And I think, unfortunately, there's very little in your life that's like that. Like for instance, all right, let's just go with this for a second. If you just go along for the ride, you're not gonna end up on vacation.
00:16:49
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That's true. That's true. It's just not going to happen. Can you, do you, should you just enjoy your vacation when you're there? Yes. But everybody says this, whether it's a relationship, whether it's a job, whether it's whatever, dude, just like, dude, just do your best and enjoy it. Like, don't, don't think too much about the future. Don't control the outcome. If you did that, you'd never get promoted. Yeah. Like you'd never, you'd never, you'd never do anything. You can't just go to imagine, cause you manage employees. I manage employees cause you're managing your employees. Don't worry about the outcome.
00:17:19
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Don't worry about your outcome, just do your job and the right outcome will show up. Yeah, I'll try that, I'm gonna do my performance evaluations. No one's gonna buy that, right? They're gonna be like, dude, did I get a five on my performance review? Dude, don't worry so much about your outcome. Just go with the flow. No.
Overthinking and Social Dynamics
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Let's just sit here and enjoy it. Now, granted, I recognize, I just talked about mindfulness and the importance of when you're in the moment doing that, but I think you have to also recognize the purpose of why you're doing that.
00:17:49
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the whole point of that. Because I think the other thing is when I struggle with this, to use your vacation point, the point that you just made, I have flying anxiety when it comes to turbulence. If I'm focused too much on that, I'm never thinking about the enjoyment that I'm going to have from a vacation standpoint. And then if I'm too focused on that in the future,
00:18:16
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So there's a good balance between knowing what your outcome is and I think over focusing on the outcome. You need to know where you're headed. Don't hyper focus on it. But you do need to know where you're headed because then you know whether or not you're going in the right direction. And I think what happens with anxious brains, and I think it doesn't matter extrovert, introvert,
00:18:40
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Most things I don't care that much about, so I just go. I just go to it. It's like, what's the worst that's going to happen, right? Like improv class. I mean, I was a little nervous because it's like going up in front of people, but at the same time, it's like, what's the worst that can happen, right? I paid for this, so it's not like anything bad's going to happen. Do you want to do an entire episode where I tell you all the bad things that can happen in an improv class? No, no, no, no, no. Oh, okay. Because that's my specialty.
00:19:05
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I know. But there are a lot of there are things that like, especially when you haven't experienced them before. And they're new, you're trying to figure it out where you stand on things and trying to figure out how things operate. And like new jobs are like that. The first three months on a job, I don't care who you are. There's a lot of anxiety about, am I doing this right? What's my boss think? What's this? And then finally, it's like, it's you're not anxious anymore.
00:19:35
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Yeah, yeah, and I think I'm always I'm always amazed at and low key jealous at folks who can come in and just
00:19:46
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And I'm sure there's an underlying level, the same thing coming to a job and this, they're just immediately like they, I feels like they're in their stride from day one. They're just, they just seem to be the person they are. They never like, they're just that person. I'm like, don't you, aren't you a little nervous about like trying to impress people? And I know people are deep down inside, right? But I'm just so impressed at people who can exude that, that level of confidence.
00:20:11
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And I mean, maybe people would say, I can do that as well. But like, I'm just really impressed that people who can go in there and just day one, like just get their stride and just roll with it. And it seems like they just have it. Yeah, I mean, I am jealous of the same thing. I'm just the same thing people can do it. But I'm not sure I really don't know if there really are people maybe there are maybe there really are people who don't overthink. I don't hang out with them. So I don't know. I don't I don't I don't think I know a non overthinker.
00:20:41
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Yeah. Please, if you're a non-overthinker, well, I don't want to say please write us if you're an underthinker. One, don't know where to write us.
00:20:53
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You know, but maybe I'll start tomorrow's first day back at work for me in the new year. I'm just going to start asking people, hey, do you consider yourself an under thinker? And I'll see what I'll see what I'll see what kind of results I get. I'll see. The just right thinkers, the just right thinkers. That's right. Yeah. You're not an overthinker. You're just a thinker. Right. Yeah. Just just right. Just right. But all in all, I think it's look, it's part of the joy.
00:21:23
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Part of the joy of overthinking in some cases is that you do have a pretty good experiences. You make sure that things are good. They usually are really fun because you overthink them. It's about whether or not you ruin it when you're in the moment. And that's when don't overthink it in the moment, just do what you feel, man. And I think that's part of it too. I'm getting much more comfortable saying what I'm gonna say.
00:21:52
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Right. And I realize sometimes it comes out and sounds incredibly awkward, but that's okay because that's me. And if someone's going to hang out with me or be around me or want to spend time with me or like, you know, like work, if I'm going to be in a meeting and I'm going to say stuff that usually is, you know, it's me. God, I wish I had my that's so Greg like sound clip. Right. That's the most great thing. All I have is bare fat, I think. Yeah.
00:22:21
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I think that's all I have. And nobody references the bear fat one. Nobody knows it. No one's going to reference that at all. Like, why? Well, you said fatty diets earlier. I did. I did. Have you heard of that new bear fat diet? You just wash yourself and soap made out of bear fat. Bear fat.
00:22:51
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Anyways, we've gone off the rails. Okay, so not to treat this like a meeting, but we have to nail this down.
Health Goals for 2024
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you're going to be open your resolution, be open to new experiences that you might not necessarily be able to control. Okay. That's, I like that. I like that. That's good. Give you some like a room. I think for myself among the bajillion things that will probably change. I need to, I've resolved to focus on some health things that have been nagging me this year or the past. Well, let's see. Um,
00:23:30
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Yeah, two decades that I just like need to go see a doctor about allergy stuff, for example, things I'm like, you know what, I need to get this done. I need to check that out. And I don't know why I just avoid it because I'm just like,
00:23:45
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Eh, it'll be fine. I'll just deal with it. I get a sinus infection every now and then, whatever. So I have resolved to upgrade myself a little bit by going in and addressing some health stuff that I need to. And I know that seems really weird to just say, that's your resolution.
00:24:04
Speaker
I don't know what it is. I consider myself a fairly healthy person, but I still don't like going into the doctor. It's just like, I mean, I work out like every day and it's boring, but I have a habit of doing it because I know it's good for me. But then going into the doctor to get like an allergy test to see what I might need allergy shots for. I'm like, no, death. And people are like, you realize like you work out like
00:24:31
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billions of lives. But you don't want to go see a doctor for like 30 minutes to where they poke you in the back and test you for some allergies. But that's, I'm going to do that. I am going to make a firm decision to do that something this year. To go to the doctor. Yeah, it like specific like specialist to like, look at stuff because I go to the doctor, like, they're like, Oh, yeah, you're everything's good. Any problems? I'm like, No, which is kind of a lie. So
00:25:01
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I get allergy shots. Do you? They're fun. Is it is it fun? Wait, whoa, fun. I mean, like, like, do you do you register it yourself? Like, not yet. I have to go there. I have to go there every Wednesday and Friday. And they poke and you wait for like, one, it's a 10 minute drive over there. It's a 10 minute drive back. And it's 10 minutes in the office waiting for them to walk like for two seconds to just jab you in the arm. And then you leave like it's a whole it's a whole episode.
00:25:28
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So this is the whole point of our podcast, which is funny. This is what a culmination to. We're getting to allergy shots at me asking you how many of the people in that office do you know their first names? I know James, the front desk guy.
00:25:44
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You know, James, the front desk guy has a number, have you had conversations beyond high and goodbye with any of those people, or is it truly so quick of a business transaction that you don't even have time to like have a conversation with them?
00:26:00
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So initially, so the allergist for sure, I don't have any conversations because it's just, it really is just a, and it's a different person all the time. Like some different person, they just hand you the vials and go, is that you? You go, yeah, they just stick you in the arm. But James, the front desk guy, I've talked to him a whole bunch of times, had full on conversations with him. Yeah. So James, uh, James, a good dude.
00:26:21
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James is a nice guy. You should ask James. He sees me on Fridays in my Hawaiian shirt. You're very approachable for those of you who don't know when Greg wears a Hawaiian shirt not only is he he's like ultra approachable like coolest dude you'd ever see walking down the hall.
00:26:44
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Like it would make, it would even make a front desk guy at an allergist be like, Hey, what's up? You know, let's, let's have a conversation. You should ask, you should ask James. Um, if he has any, uh, new year's resolutions this year, uh, see what he says. I should ask him, I should ask him on Wednesday. I'll ask James if he's got any new year's resolutions.
00:27:05
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That's what I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna ask a couple people because it's very polarizing thing people you're like, oh, yeah, I've got these things I want to do whatever it's like, I don't believe in those. They're just made to be broken. Yeah, I think I think it's always something. I mean, it's just a random another day. Right? That happens. There's something to happen. So so I know this going in.
Manifesting Positivity for 2024
00:27:26
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And my friend told me this, she said, she said, I think 2024 is gonna be a great year for you.
00:27:32
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And I said, I don't understand why you have all this confidence that 2024 is gonna be a great year for me. And she said that it was probably gonna be a great year because you've done a lot of homework, you've done a lot of work on yourself, you spent a lot of time figuring stuff out, your job has changed and you've got less stress in that space. You're really honestly starting to decide that you want to live in Charlotte, you put roots down those kind of things. And she said,
00:27:59
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that you're now kind of open for the next chapter, the next chapter that you're gonna go on.
00:28:05
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And I didn't really buy it at first, but then I began thinking about it. And it's one of those things where you manifest, you know, you're like manifesting a thought process. Yeah, make it happen, like manifested to happen. Yeah. And as we close out 23, things have been looking pretty good for me, man. They're looking really good coming to 24. And so I think this New Year's was quite different than other New Year's in the sense that, and I've had some interesting New Year's, man. I have had some interesting New Year's that we do not need to discuss on the podcast.
00:28:34
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But I was just making a note for a future episode. But this new year's was interesting. It was almost as if, you know, Hey, it's the new year. It's going to be a special one. So that's good. Well, that's good. Well, I, uh,
00:28:51
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I like your, I like your thing. You said, would you say like different chapters, things that, you know, this is going to be a good one. We need to do like combined with my whole upgrade. We need to do an upgrade episode where we talk about like events that have happened in our lives that we felt like that was a big upgrade. Like I felt like that was huge. That was a, yeah, I've had a lot of downgrades too.
00:29:11
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Yeah, well, we don't need to do the downgrade. We don't need to do the rollback. It's like, oh, that was two steps back. No, no, no, that wasn't good. That wasn't good. All right. Well, I think the only other thing, and I want to call this out because I think we failed to mention this in all of our podcast episodes. Maybe I should, but I don't think I'm going to. Maybe I should resolve to actually do some editing for our episodes, but I just want to call out that
Authentic Podcasting and Future Topics
00:29:41
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I think we one take these things 98% of the time. I don't think other than maybe an occasional cat meow that I've had to like silence out. These are one takes folks. Like this is like we hit the record button, which is
00:29:59
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And here's the thing. It's, I would like to say like, that's some like, oh yeah, that's like, that's, they're so, so good. Like just one take, don't worry about it wrong. No, it's really cause I'm lazy and I don't know how to edit very well, right? Like you're the, you're the pro tools guy. I just like slapped some stuff into audacity and like, be like, Oh, slide some things around, try to do a fade in and a fade out of the intro and outro. But
00:30:25
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I just like to say that I think another successful one take that I don't need to edit. Greg, thank you for not dropping any super bad F-bombs that we have to put an explicit tag on.
00:30:39
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You know, I appreciate you letting me ramble enough. So, so yeah. So thank you for that. But, um, what, what, uh, any other thoughts on what we should talk about this year? And should we do this more often than, uh, next year in 2025 having an episode? We have to at least nail ourselves down to one release a month, at least one release a month. We had gotten the point of in 2022, we had gotten to doing it biweekly.
00:31:09
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Part of that was because we'd go an hour and a half and we'd have to cut them into three episodes. Yeah, it was brilliant. It was brilliant. Greg sits here and is like, just put them all out there. And I'm like, no, you got to slow roll it, dude. The people want to hear. I'm like, I know your parents do, but so do mine.
00:31:33
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Just let it slow out there. Well, we're gonna do, we gotta talk Eurovision.
00:31:40
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We will. That is your favorite thing. Yeah, that's your favorite thing. Well, maybe we do a prep session of we listen to a couple of songs. We do some evaluation of it. We talk. You can answer some of my questions about it because I still don't know a whole lot, but we could do some Eurovision. We still need a fashion episode. We do just just in general and probably a movie one because I've been on a movie kick. I've been watching like best.
00:32:07
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best pictures, you know, going through like, I basically pay for every streaming service known to man. Thanks streaming. You know, so much for saving money. And I've been on a kick watching all these like Academy Award, you know, winning movies from the past. And there's some that I asked you about, you're like, Oh, oh, no, no, no, don't
00:32:27
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you'll fall into a coma, a deep, deep coma if you watch that. So we need to talk, we need to talk movies and just your perspective of, you know, are critics really right? Are audiences really right? Or what's, what's my barometer? Cause I get confused when I look at ratings of stuff. So we'll have to talk about that as well. So, but I think we're as usual over what we set ourselves to be a time limit. But Greg, as always, I love this conversation. I appreciate it. I'll talk to you soon, man.
00:32:57
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talk to you soon thanks for listening to unmotivated and unprepared join us again next time as we continue to meander through random topics at a pace defined by our mood the weather and what happened five minutes earlier