73: [Bit of Fun] Our Best App Recommendations To Fill Your Cup & Improve Your Life

Today, Jared is joining me (Morgan) while Bailey is out on podcast maternity leave and we’re sharing our favorite apps with you! We’d love to hear what apps you find fill your cups and improve your lives, too, and if you’ll be downloading fb any of these!

Flo Cycle & Period Tracker
Waking Up Free 1 Month Trial
BODi (Workouts & Nutrition) Use code MORGANW2BODI for 15% off
Coinbase
Timehop - Memories Then & Now
Libby, the library app
Twitch TV
QLess
Perplexity AI

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the Fill Your Cups podcast. We're your host Morgan. Okay? Yeah. Okay. 1, 2, 3. Welcome to the welcome to the Fill Your Cuffs podcast. We, your host Morgan and Jared, not Bailey. So today I have on my bestie friend and husband Jared and we, he's joining me while Bailey's still out on podcast maternity leave. If you have listened to last few episodes, you know that I've kind of been doing some solo episodes, bringing on some. Bonus co-hosts, I guess. And so today, Jared's on the podcast for the very first time. Woo hoo. What up? What up? So probably the lowest voice we've had on the podcast as of date. So we are going to be talking a bit about, we are due for a bit of fun episode. And honestly, Bailey's usually the one that comes up with these. She's. Maybe more fun than me, I don't know. But we have had this on this idea, on our list for a while of doing, talking about apps that we love and that we recommend and just kind of fill our cups in our everyday lives. So we will talk about that. But before we get into that, we, what is filling in your cup, Jared? Uh, today we got a dirty soda. What would you call this guy? Yeah, I think, I mean. On the internet, it said it was like the classic dirty soda. The classic, so we got the classic. Yeah. So it's coke, zero cream of coconut, heavy whipping cream and lime. So I think it's pretty good. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I think it's good. And it leads us well into our shout out. Yep. So this, this dirty soda is inspired by Benjamin Bruce and his child Xander. Shout out to both of them. Oh yeah. We got to meet. One of our best friends for a long time and Shaylin, I guess we have to say we can't, we can't leave the mom out. Yeah, I think they're all listeners. Well, Xander definitely is, but. We got to visit them. We've had so many people in our lives have babies recently, and we brought them some food and they made us these yummy dirty sodas, which we had never had. But the hype has been. We've been curious about them 'cause there's been a lot of hype around them. So Ben made us this dirty sodas. So shout out to Ben. And then bonus shout out to Shaylyn and Xander. So moving on to the episode. I usually share about how we came across this idea. So actually a long time ago, we had people submit ideas or sometimes. On our Instagram or something, people will just send us a DM or or shoot us a text whenever they have ideas about the podcast. So super open to ideas if you guys have something that you are interested in us talking about. But it was my friend Hailey Kirkham. You know her? I know Hailey for sure, for sure. Yeah. So she had. Suggested a few different ideas, and we've done one or two of them before, but this one was just kind of apps that help you in your everyday life. Apps that we would recommend, specifically phone apps is what we're talking about. Well, what I'm talking about, I haven't really looked at your apps, but maybe they're all phone apps. Okay. But I mean, most, most apps have like a website too, I guess, these days. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. So we're gonna talk a bit about that and I thought it would be fun to bring Jared on because I, our apps probably look very different on our phones. Hey, we'll find out. Yeah. Yeah. So we just kind of listed our top fi, or we came in with like our top. Five apps that we would recommend. And when I, I don't know how you came up with yours, but when I came up with mine, I was really thinking of the apps that I feel like boost my life, you know, like fill my cups and help to improve my life. So that was how I came up with the ones that I brought up. Or I really just was going off of what I feel like I used the most, but Nice. Yeah. Well, I mean similar vibes going off vibes. That you use and that are good to use every day. I mean, maybe more practical, some of mine, but Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So that is how we came up with it, and I think it'll be fun to see our different perspectives. And then I do always like to talk about why this is important, because why would you keep listening if it's not important? Yes. This is a bit of fun episode, so it's a little bit more fun. But I do think that our relationships with our phones are. That's just, I mean, it is a relationship that we have every day. We're filming this on a Sunday and I just got my like weekly report thing that you get on your screen time. And I spend, usually, my average is somewhere around four hours, so four hours on my phone. There are ways that you can use it for good and ways that you can use it for bad. So we're talking about apps that are good to use, that we. Enjoy. And hopefully if you use them too, they improve your lives. But we would definitely be interested to hear what apps you use. So let's get right into it. So you'll, you'll, I don't think that you use this one, but the first one on my list list that came to mind and Bailey and I actually talked about this in our, when we talked about cycles on our. On the podcast at a pre, in a previous episode, but Flow. Do you know what that app is? Oh, I know what that app is. I have that app for sure. Oh, okay. No, I don't have that app. I know what app it is, but it's, yeah, it's for women in their cycles. Yeah, let's let, tell me more about it. Yeah, so the reason I really like Flow, which it does depend if you have premium or not, and I ha I was paying like the $5 a month for a while for premium and then stopped it. And I, you definitely don't have as many features without premium, but it, at its core, it's a cycle tracking app. And the reason I think it is so insightful for women is not just to, you know, if you're. Trying to be careful about like your fertility or something like that, or trying to get pregnant or trying not to get pregnant. Obviously you can use it to track where you are in your cycle and either increase or avoid activities that might lead to pregnancy. But the other reasons that I really like it is that it will say, like, it'll say, it'll give you little things about what you could expect today, so it'll say at this stage in your cycle, you might be feeling this way, or you might be fatigued, or you might be having more headaches, or you might. Be sleeping not as well or your body like based on women's cycles. Sometimes at certain points of the month, our body temps are even higher than other points of the month, so it might be harder to sleep if you, you know, even though a week before your body temp might be one or two degrees higher than usual, and so. Your, the temperature that you sleep at night with might need to adjust as well. So I really like it for that reason. I think more than just, I, I mean at its ba at its core, it's cycle tracking, which I think is. Helpful for any woman, but, and man, actually, they do have a partner function, so you can share it with your partner so that your partner can also see where you're at in your cycle. Wow, what? What am I doing out? Yeah. I've never, I've never done that, but, but yeah, I just think it's really insightful and really helpful for me and definitely is something that I. Enjoy looking at and getting, I don't know, getting just data or information from, I try not to look at it earlier in the day because I don't wanna look at it. And it's like, you might be moody today. And then it's like the whole, what's that called? Pre uh, self-fulfilling prophecy. Mm-hmm. You know, like, oh, I might be moody today. And then now I'm moody because it told me so anyway, so that would be my first app. What is your first app? Yeah, well. Just before I talk about my app, that's cool. I feel like health apps, all that type of stuff is pretty, I don't know on the rise, but I feel like it makes sense, like to track, I don't know, more small bits of information about your body and your health. To get like a more complete picture. Yeah, so I think that stuff's definitely pretty cool. Do you have, do you have any health apps? I mean, I've been using the health stuff on the iOS I've told you about like for my sleep and Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It does. Like some of the sound alerts that we laugh at, like when we're at loud events and things. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I feel like, I mean, just tracking more things, small information about your body or just maybe even things that are abnormal, like the. I know the health app will tell you like, oh, your vitals were different last night, which it's like, maybe you're sick or something, so, mm-hmm. I feel like as that stuff gets smarter, it's definitely just good information. Yeah. Sometimes it's annoying probably to put it all in. Maybe flows pretty automatic for you based off like the dates or something? Yeah. The stuff that you put in is optional, but when you start your period, that's when you say like, this is when I started my period. And then it faces the days of, of your cycle off that. So it is pretty automatic. There are optional things you can put in, like you can track when you've had sex, you can track. When you're feeling a certain way or you know, there's a lot of optional tracking that you can do. But for the most part, if you just put in like the first day of your period, it's gonna tell you your cycle days and where you're at. Yeah. I feel like a lot of that stuff will be great just to give us a more complete like holistic health benefit. Mm-hmm. So that's cool. Yeah. For me, my first app I put is called the Waking Up App. Uh, it's basically a meditation app. A big part of the reason why I like this app in particular is. The person who does it, Sam Harris, I've just followed for a long time, like as a podcaster person, so he's kind of the person who got me into meditating, but it's pretty cool. It's got some tutorials if you're new to it, and then it's just like a basic, you know. You can do a normal meditation, daily meditation and like adjust the time. And then there's a lot of cool like practices and like little kinda like podcast information type things where they do like little 10 minute or 20 minute talks from like experts of the field of meditation and mindfulness. So it's a pretty cool app. I feel like meditation is a pretty important thing to just like kind of center myself mentally. So. I dunno. I feel like it's more of a habit, like you said, like the app itself is less the thing, more like the habit it enforces, but mm-hmm. It's pretty cool. I know you've tried it a couple times. What do you think on, just like you've, you know, you've experienced a couple meditations on there, or just as a new person to the app, maybe you have some thoughts. Yeah, I like it. I actually mentioned it on last week's episode, talking about disappointment and giving yourself grace and how. Kind of having a practice of meditation might help you calm your thoughts or, or even just realize that they're just thoughts, you know? Um, so I did mention it on last week's episode. I have been enjoying it, getting into the habit of using it. I think that it's not the most natural thing for us, even though it at, its, it really is a natural practice, but. I don't know. I think we're just so overstimulated that it can be kind of hard, but I definitely notice whenever I, 'cause I'm doing the tutorial thing that you said, they have like a 30 day intro and so I've been doing that and I definitely notice the difference between like an eight minute meditation, like a 12 minute one. I'm just so, I don't know. Finicky maybe. Yeah. Meditation's definitely it's a practice and it's more about like. Teaching your brain how to not be so scattered. I feel like as a, is my perspective, one part of it. Yeah. But yeah, I think meditation's really important. If there's other meditation apps that people like, that's cool too. But yeah, the Waking Up app, if you're interested in trying out, I think there's like, maybe you can do like. Share a thing, so if anybody reaches out or, I don't know if you could put it in the notes, maybe we can share like a trial link or something, but Oh yeah, that'd be good. I did share it in the notes last week too, but I don't think I shared the, I don't know if you can do the free, like I, you shared a three free three month membership or something. I think it's just a referral link, so Oh, great. We could look into it. So we can that, yeah. We can share that in the show notes for sure. I like how his, his voice is so calm, his voice is so relaxing. Yeah, A good voice for it, for sure. Yeah. There's all kinds of different people that do other meditations too, if you don't like Sam Harris himself. But yeah, a lot of the like intro courses are him and a lot of the daily stuff, so yeah. I'm sure it comes with practice, like maybe he practiced that kind of voice or something, but it seems like his voice just lends itself to this type of. There you go. I don't know what a plug activity. Go hear it for yourself. Yeah, I just think it's very calming and relaxing. But yeah, I, I like that one. So another one kind of still going on the health thing. 'cause the flow is like women's health and then the meditation is like mental health. I love the app body, which I've. Mentioned before that I used to be like a beach body or body coach. It's body now, but the reason I really like it is because it's pretty cheap. It's only like $120 for the year, so $10 a month and it is, it houses so many programs, so workout programs with the also tons of recipes and uh, like nutrition programs that you can follow. And I feel like. It's just so easy that when I wake up in the morning I just open it and because there are programs, you know, Morgan and I just did an episode on staying active and I meant I talked about it a little bit, but really the benefit of having all the programs has there is that you can just start a program and instead of like. Getting on YouTube and searching for something free and do, and spending 20 minutes trying to find the thing that you want and work the thing that you want and whatever on body you can just like choose a program and then each day it's just. It's easy for you. It's, I guess, like you said earlier, maybe automated is the, yeah. You just pick a routine and it's, you don't have to set it up yourself, you just watch it in sequence. Yeah. So I've been doing that for five years, like since we were in a Yeah. You've been doing it a long time. Yeah, so I still really like it. And the thing I like is that it has every type of workout. So you can do like dance workouts, you can do lifting, you can do cardio, you can do. Biking you or like cycling, Pilates, yoga. There's just so many different ones. There actually are meditations in that one too that I've done before. But I do think I kind of like waking up better than that one, so, so yeah, so I, I use that every day and would recommend it for sure. And I don't know, I think there are other fitness apps, but ultimately just finding one that works well for you, I think is key. Yeah. Body. Mm-hmm. Nice. That's a good choice. Yeah. Um, for me, my next app is a little bit different than the health trend, I guess so far. So the app I picked for this one is Coinbase. So I don't know, you guys are maybe are a different audience of people, but I'm sure most everyone's heard of Bitcoin and mm-hmm. Cryptocurrency. But the thing that's cool, or at least notable to me about Coinbase is it's a really nice app just from like an app perspective. You pretty much just log in, make an account, and then if you wanna buy and trade crypto, it's super easy and you just, you know, literally type in a couple things and buy stuff. That can be like maybe a negative for some people, but mostly for me, I just use it as like my way to buy crypto as like an investment. So you feel like it's pretty accessible for someone who like doesn't really get cryptocurrency? I mean, you really don't need to understand cryptocurrency. You could think about it like just like buying anything else. Like you can literally just link your account and then buy Bitcoin and then it tells you how much your Bitcoin is in your wallet. So it's like it doesn't have to get much more technical than just like putting some money in and having Bitcoin on your Coinbase account. If you wanted to do more than that, you could definitely do way more than that in the crypto world, like if you're interested, but. I pretty much just treat Coinbase as like a investment app for crypto. Like I put some money in each month for each paycheck. I buy a little bit of Bitcoin, and that's pretty much all I do. So like for me, obviously Bitcoin's a lot higher now than when I started buying it, so it's been a good investment. But the thing that I'm saying is cool about Coinbase is it's just like a really nice user-friendly app. It explains a lot of the things, like if you have questions, there's like little guides and videos you can watch, so, oh, just like, if you're interested, I try to get people, if you wanted, just to buy a tiny bit at a time. Even as just like a, not even like a super big investment of your money. Just like as being exposed to it. I feel like it's pretty interesting, but obviously there's a lot of stuff you could talk about with crypto, so mostly I just think. If you're interested and you wanted to just like invest a little bit into cryptocurrency, I would recommend, recommend Coinbase for that use case. You can buy like all kinds of different cryptocurrencies, like all the ridiculous ones, like Dogecoin and all that stuff mm-hmm. That Elon Musk talks about, but. I don't really use it that way. I just kinda use it as like a simple, put a little bit of money into Bitcoin type app, so. Hmm. Do you, you, do you do a, like you put a little bit in each paycheck or? Pretty much. I pretty much do maybe like once a month, maybe not every paycheck, but I know we share accounts, so I could answered that myself. But I don't pay enough attention, I don't think, but. For someone listening, because like for me, I've told you this before and I know you kind of roll your eyes at me, but I'm like, cryptocurrency is like fake. It's out in the world, it's fake, you know? It doesn't actually exist. So I don't think about, whenever I think about how much money we have, I never think about, I never factor in like what we have in Coinbase or anything like that. But for someone listening, give me like the two minute L or two. 32nd elevator pitch of why you should invest in crypto. Uh, I think crypto is just a cool technology that makes it so, from like a software perspective, it's really easy to prove and share money and prove how you shared it. So that's where it's like, yeah, the price has gone up a lot and it might seem kind of crazy 'cause it's a really weird space. Like there's a lot of. Publicity that's negative about it, but obviously Bitcoin itself, like it's never gone down. And you can, like, even in a negative way, people can use Bitcoin to like do negative things, right? Like that's like, oh, hackers use Bitcoin. Mm-hmm. But that's honestly just proof of Bitcoin working. Mm-hmm. Like it's the same as cash, right? Like if I give you a hundred dollars, it's a hundred dollars. Yeah. Like nobody. Really is gonna be mad that I gave them a hundred dollars. 'cause they know cash works in all cases. Mm-hmm. That's what Bitcoin is. Even though it might feel like it's internet money, it's actually more like, it's more provable and traceable even than cash in some ways. Mm-hmm. So the tech of Y is a whole other discussion that's pretty interesting to me, but. I would just say like, yeah, Bitcoin is money. It's cash. Mm-hmm. So will you ever sell it, you think? Uh, probably not from my perspective. It's just like if you had gold or like a gold bar or something, like it's just like putting money away and putting it in savings or investment of just like a store of value. Maybe if like I needed an emergency and I had no other option, I might take the Bitcoin out obviously, like that's what money or gold or something is for, but. Think about like Ron Swanson. It's literally just the gold in my backyard. Like I don't want, the government can't take my gold from the backyard. It's, I mean, it's different 'cause Coinbase is like, they could take my Coinbase account. So like that's where you get into, you could buy Bitcoin and put it into your own wallet. So like that's where you get Oh yeah. More in the like tech perspective of like, it's not really. The same as just like using an app like Coinbase. Mm-hmm. But that's what's cool about Coinbase is you don't need to know that you can just put a little bit of money in Bitcoin and then if you really get paranoid, like if I was super paranoid, you can buy a hardware wallet is what they call it. Mm. And then nobody else but me can use that wallet. And then even I could take all my money that's in crypto off Coinbase, that's in Bitcoin and put it in my Bitcoin wallet that I manage. Okay. So like you have that option at any time with crypto. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. The short answer is Bitcoin is literally just money. It's the same as like a hundred dollars bill. So the other part that's better than a hundred dollars bill is the price of Bitcoin has gone up a bunch. So if you had one Bitcoin when it was a dollar, that's obviously worth a lot more dollars now. So it's, it's a deflationary currency they say. So that's where it's like cash becomes less valuable over time, but Bitcoin doesn't. So, yeah, I, I remember, I feel like you've compared it to investing in like stocks or whatever, like the normal investing, except it's just the payoff is so much greater. It has been so far. I mean, no one's gonna say that's forever, but for me, I feel like it's just, and investment, like I invest in stocks. Mm-hmm. We have retirement accounts. Right? Yeah. So interesting. Well, moving on to my next app. I have shared about this on the podcast too, but Timehop, you know, I love this app. I think I have, it's like thousands of days. Streaks. Let me see. 'cause when you open it each day it, I actually haven't opened it yet today, so I'm getting it done. But at the end, it tells you how many streaks you have and it takes me a long time because it's got like. Five years ago, six years ago, whatever. I've been using it for a long time. I don't get the streaks. You're streaking with yourself. How many times you've checked it? How many days you've checked? I've checked it. Eight year club. Wow. 2,926 days in a row. I've checked it. Club. You're bringing streaking all over, dude. I, yeah, I'm streaking all over. I love it though because it'll bring up things that I, you know, I share a lot on my stories and whatnot, you know that. And so it brings up Facebook and Instagram. And like two years ago, for instance, I just opened it and it was a video from my story on Facebook that was a two ingredient bagel. And it'll remind me things like that, like, oh yeah, those are really good. And it'll remind me, oh, maybe I should make that recipe again. Or I mean, just the cute ones are like when it'll have like 11 years ago and it's me and you and we look like little tiny babies or something like that. But the practical reason that I use it, so for instance. Two years ago, it had the story about the better for You bagels, but it pulls up your photos too. And I'll use this as a way to filter out the junk in my photos. So every single day that I do this, if I, if there's a photo on there that I see, I still have that I don't need. This one's cute. I'll keep it. It's me and Julia. But if there was a photo on here, let's say like I took a picture of our license plate or something like that, or I took, I screenshot a recipe and I'm like, okay, I don't need that recipe anymore. Then I'll go back, I'll go into my photo album and I'll go back two years or whatever, and it's just like a daily decluttering for me of my phone. Like for instance, I, I saved this. Menu from someone's story, I don't need that. So I will go back to that date and then delete whatever those are. So I like it mostly for that because the amount of screenshots and things like that that I do, I feel like can clutter up my photo album a lot and just make it so that. My phone is storing a bunch of stuff that I don't need, you know? But, um, six years ago, that's a cute picture. That was at our apartment. I feel you. It's like an extended brain, but then you also clean it up sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's just holistic. It's, it's declutter, but it's also cute. I feel like it serves the purpose of filling my cups and being like, oh, these are so cute. You know, but then, or reminding me of things from the past. But then it also improves my life by forcing me to kind of declutter. So I guess for the last eight years now. But yeah, time hop, that's a pretty quick, easy one. I highly recommend time hop. Gotta use social media more to make that one worth it for me. I don't think I'll use time hop that much. Yeah, that's actually probably true. It's, it probably wouldn't. I mean, you said it's got your photos, it would only pull from your photos, but you don't take that many photos. I got Snapchat this Do Snapchat. Yeah, you can connect it to Snapchat. All right. All right. We'll think about it. Yeah. Uh, I think on my third one, I didn't really pick a specific app, but I just picked the category of like personal finance apps. Mm-hmm. I think it's really good to just be tracking your finances a little bit more than just, I don't know. At least for us, there's multiple accounts between two people. Mm-hmm. There's also like, you know, some recurring subscriptions and bills that like you kind of don't think about as much, even if you get charged once a month for it. You kind of don't really always think about all of them at once. So some of 'em will let you view all your subscriptions, et cetera. Mm-hmm. Um, I just think it's cool to. Like, kind of like we were saying, make your life a little bit more smooth and automated where there's not like that they're not perfect, but it's much better to know like, oh, we spent most of our money on the mortgage or food. Mm-hmm. Or whatever. So I think just tracking it is really good. I feel like it's easy to spend money that you don't track with credit cards especially. Yeah. And online things, easy to pay online so. Just checking each month what we spend our money on. I feel like we could obviously be better at the way we spend our money, but just knowing how you spend your money is a definitely a, a better than not knowing. So yeah, I feel like the ones I can think of, there's rocket money, there's like copilot, I think. Monarchs one. Okay. So there's a bunch. Yeah. You've been working on one, which is kind of fun. Yeah. And more coming soon. Yeah. Yeah. I do think that it is helpful whenever you can look at kind of like the categories of what you're spending and if you're spending more than last month and that sort of thing. And I think that you're better at doing that than I am, but it's. When you said like know, just knowing what you're spending it on, I feel like that's the case with anything that you wanna improve. First you have to know where your baseline is, like where, what is happening currently. So I like that one. That's a good example. And yeah, I guess you didn't have any specific ones, but. We, uh, we mainly use like the banking app and then the one that you're kind of working on. But my next one is Libby. I think that everybody should use this. I told her it's mom this all the time, that she should get a library card and use the library because we already pay for the library. But also Libby is great for audiobooks and eBooks. I use it. I use it mainly for audiobooks when I'm in the car, but because my eBooks seem to download to my books app on the iPhone thing, but I, but you can do eBooks on, on Libby as well. And I know that there are a bunch of girls in our book club that use Libby and it connects to their Kindle, so I highly recommend it. I feel like just in general, any usage of the. Library is, you still have to check it out though, right? Yeah. So there's still like one digital copy. Yeah, but that's hold sometimes. Sometimes there are holds and stuff, but. For the most part? Well, not for the most part, but for a lot of them you can just go in and you can either check something out or you can put it on hold and then it'll remind you whenever it's available. But I just think that not enough people use it. And I was talking to an older guy, a blood drive, and he Oh really? Okay. He's in his sixties, babe. Maybe how how'd he look? Maybe even older. He looked great. He was one of our volunteers. All right, so he volunteers. He weren't out flirt with this guy too. Oh my gosh. Well, he volunteers for community blood center and he's one of our drivers, so he drives long distances all day to taking blood from. A blood drive back to our facility to be tested and all that. And so he was telling me about this audio book. 'cause we were out in Maryville, which is like two hours away. And he went out there to pick up blood and he was telling me about the audio book that he was, it was some kind of mystery audio book or whatever. And he was like, oh yeah, I, once I discovered Libby, it was great. And he's, you know, like I said, he's much, much older. So I think that it's. I think anybody could use it. And I always love a free resource. Yeah. We just went through all those books at, uh, my old childhood home, my dad's house. There's so many books that we bought mm-hmm. That we probably could have just rented them. Never gonna read again. Yeah. We'll say there's some books like, yeah, you buy a book, maybe you really want, but for the most part, the other thing though, with the library, you gotta be careful of. You gotta bring it back. I've been having that problem. Yeah. With physical books, but it is cool. Libby. Yeah. The thing about Libby though is as soon as it's due, they turn it in themselves. Oh, you can't have a late fee. Mm-hmm. Well, that's okay, I guess. But yeah, so that is my fourth one. Okay. My fourth one. We're taking it a little bit different here. Uh, I use this app probably. Maybe not the most, but a lot of the time of what you said, the screen time is probably on this app. Really, maybe not a lot of it compared to like, I use the web browser and stuff, but the one I put is Twitch tv. So probably some people that have people in their life who game a lot or like video games will know what Twitch is. But it's essentially the website where you watch other people play video games that are streaming. Although nowadays, like there's a lot of streams for like. Political debates and like, oh, some people watch, uh, they call it IRL streams in real life where people just stream them going throughout their day and doing things in person. Um, there's like a big, uh, I don't know, like, I can't think of the name, but there's a bunch of more popular streamers now that do just like ridiculous stunts and like celebrity appearances and like. This guy just broke the record, having LeBron James shave his head. It was like the subscriber thing. So yeah, it's just video games pretty much for me. I watch people play video games, but it's super entertaining, I think. I don't know why. I feel like it's just like a, a different form of entertainment than like a TV show. 'cause it's live, I guess Uhhuh, I don't know if you've ever watched a Twitch streamer, but don't you think, don't think have, would you wa I feel like maybe it'd make more sense, like. You could watch like a person you like who maybe like a podcaster would do like a Twitch stream of their live podcast or something like, it doesn't have to be video games. It's really just like streaming yourself online at this point. But hey, let us know if you want a Fill your cups Twitch. There you go. You could do a fill your cubs twitch stream with like a live q and a. Oh, okay. Because then people literally like your subscribers or whatever on this, you just link the Twitch stream. That's more what it's meant for is like the live, you know, you stream yourself, talk to your chat. Okay. Like, like we say in the songs and like a lot of the popular people say like, what do you say in chat? What do you think chat? Like some of that might be chat GBT, but some of that I think is Twitch culture. Okay. Online streamer culture. So it's definitely an entertainment platform, but it's almost. More, I guess authentic. 'cause it's a real time, it's like community building kind of. But yeah, like Ben watches a political streamer. Shout out to Ben, we said, right. Okay. He watches some political streamers who their, their stream is mostly, they'll pull up clips and like, you know, share the clip that's on their screen. Okay. Watch the clip and then react to it. And like their audience will be commenting in the Twitch chat and they'll be like, well, what about this? And they'll be like, oh, well that, and then like a lot of the clips you see. You've probably seen some of the clips with Hassan and his dog. You know what I'm talking about? Mm-hmm. Uh, there's this big con, not like you took my dog thing. No. Okay. There's this big controversy with a streamer with him on stream using like a collar to discipline his dog. Oh, okay. Well, you don't have to talk about the scenario, but it's just saying like a lot of clips are just people. Talking about they saw this clip on this guy's stream. Okay. They're talking to their audience. But anyway. Twitch. Huh? Fun. Yeah, it sounds like, I mean, it's pure entertainment it sounds like For sure. But for, it's just internet culture stuff. Brain rot stuff, kinda, yeah. Yeah. There are like probably more educational streams too. Uh, like I think coding streams have become more popular. Oh, okay. Interesting. I wonder if any of our listeners are Twitch, are avid Twitch users, but curious. There you go. Yeah, see if, if anyone will reach out and say, Twitch is dope. Jared's, right? Yeah. Comment that here. But yeah. Well, my last one is more practical. It's the app Q, less so the letter Q, and then LESS and I download this maybe once. Every other year or more if I'm unlucky, because it is the app that you can use to get in line at A DMV Oh without actually going physically. So you can favorite like Blue Springs license office is always at the top of mine and I know this 'cause I used it recently, but when you need, when you have to do something with your tags, your license plates or your driver's license or something like that at the DMV, obviously we all hate waiting in line and we hate. The DMV just has a bad rap, you know? But actually the Blue Springs one is pretty nice. I don't know if you've ever been, but they're, I had to go at some point and I had to wait a little bit in line, but it, it was pretty smooth. Okay. Well, I feel like the people are just nicer than the, what is that, like the trope of DMV people? They aren't actually the stereotype, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Whereas, sorry if you. A DMV person in independence, but, and it, growing up, going in, going to independence, it was the worst. 'cause I felt like those people were so mean, but, and you would wait in line for like an hour and they'd be like, this isn't the right thing, aren't they the slots in Zootopia? Yeah. I was just talking to your sister Chloe. Love about that. Isn't that funny? Uh, I don't think I've ever seen Zootopia, but yeah, they're, they're not the sloths. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So yeah, so I really like the Blue Springs license office, but if I'm going to the DMV, obviously I wanna wait. As little as possible. And so, and you're already doing something that's kind of annoying, probably gonna take cost, money, whatever. So I would say definitely get that app. 'cause I'm, I've never, I've never seen a DMV that's not on it. Like I've gone to the Sugar Creek Independence and Blue Springs one, and then I think when we were in Columbia even I went, I used it for that one. But yeah, it, and it'll tell you how many people are in law and how long your weight is and if you connect your phone number to it. Then it will text you when you're closer to the front of a line or whatever, so you can just go up. So that one I highly recommend. Nobody wants to wait at the DMV. Nobody wants to wait in general, even if they're nice. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Cool. Well my last one I thought about putting chat GPT. 'cause I think that one's pretty popular. A lot of people like that one, but. To be a little more specific, I picked perplexity. I've never heard of this. Cool. Perplexity is pretty similar. It's kinda like Chad, GBT, where you type in and it like types back to you things, but it's specifically focused on search. So like, oh, it's a lot more focused on, Hey, I really wanted to find this funny clip on YouTube. I don't really remember exactly. It kind of, I remember this so you can talk to it. Oh, interesting. So it's really good. Then you can also just do like Chad, GBT does this now where you can say like, search the internet and gimme this. But perplexity is just like super focused on search with the AI stuff of these days. So I feel like it's pretty fun if it's like you want to compare it to like a better Google search. You could try it out. Um, I think even Google search now has like the little chat at the top. Yeah. Like ai, AI response. So AI overview. It's always wrong though. Not always. A lot of the time it's wrong. You gotta be careful with the hallucinating. But perplexity has been pretty nice in those situations for me, where I really am looking for a specific random thing on the internet that I can't. Describe that. Well, but I can kind of describe it with words. Yeah, that actually sounds really helpful for a recall. 'cause we see so much stuff on our phone being like, oh, what was this thing I'm, I'd be really curious how Yeah. Effective it is at finding what you're looking here. Let's just try it. I'm, I'll search Fill your Cubs podcast number, plexity. We'll see what it says. But could you say, I don't know, could you say like something or look for something more, more specific? Help me find an episode of the Fill Your Cups podcast. What of the Fill Your Cups podcast, where they talk about activity, I guess. Activity. Okay. We'll just see what it says. So it's just searching, it's looking through. The Fill Your Cubs podcast, where they talk specific specifically about activity is one in which Morgan provides advice on staying active while Bailey is out on maternity leave. Wow. So that's what I'm saying. It's pretty cool. It's that good at searching. So it probably just searched for your podcast and then kind of filtered down based on what we asked it to do, but that's pretty cool. So, so interesting. There you go. And then it has a link to Spotify. Yeah, you could click on that link. You could. It's got episode details. Morgan and Bailey offer relatable personal stories and actionable advice for listeners open Spotify, so let's try it. Interesting. Yeah, it's got Apple and Spotify. Let's see. Oh, cool. Did it pull it up? Let's see if it works. Wow. Look at that dude. Jared's holding the phone up to the screen. If you're watching on YouTube. YouTube, for some reason it is in a D. Different language right here, but that seems like some weird bug of opening the links. That's hilarious. Yeah, perplexity interesting. I'll have to download it and see if I like it. I do have chat GPT as well. Yeah, I use that a lot. Yeah, we've actually used it to help us write like outlines for episodes before and whatnot too. Or help us if we're brainstorming to use it for that. So it is helpful if you are, I could be Chad, GPT right now. Nobody would know. Oh my gosh, that's so creepy. Yeah, but no, it couldn't mimic your voice that well, who knows? I don't know. Yeah. But I do, I do. I do see the use in that. I think think that would be super useful. So, well, I do feel like our list of apps were really different and I, there's some common stuff, like we both have some like life ency things like help tracky, like Yeah. Make our day to day a little bit more efficient. Mm-hmm. But yeah, most of mine were like finance, so yeah. I feel like you're a little bit more Well, I like the, I mean, you show me the time hop that you have, so Yeah, I guess I get secondhand time hop. That's true. I do share a lot of the times whenever it's like six years ago and it's something cute, but yeah. Well, I think I like all of your app suggestions. Maybe I'll check out Perplex perplexity. I am curious for those of you that are listening, if you have any of these apps, if you like these apps or if you're like. What? I can't believe they didn't talk about this app. It's the best app, whatever. I'd be curious, but I do think that in general, these apps are just kinda like filler cups in our everyday lives. Make us in. They either improve our lives or make it more fun, you know? So I appreciate you coming on and doing the episode with me. Yeah. Thanks for letting me be a guest. Yeah. If you guys want more of Jared, let us know too. Try not to overflow with comments too quick. It's a small team, but I'll try to meet the demand. Okay. Yeah. Well, we hope that you like this episode. If you do, please leave us a rating, review and share with someone who could benefit from it. Cheers. Thanks guys. Thank you. Yeah, I love you.