Fighting Boredom, Trash, and The Joy of Chores!

Episode 7 of “Little Adventures, Big Life” On this episode we celebrate 8 years in Roanoke, Virginia. Also because our own Jay is now 8 years old. We explore how adventure has changed for children and what does it mean to be "bored?" We discusses the challenges of finding adventure in a world where it doesn’t just happen, and how building adventure can be rewarding. On this episode we also highlight the importance of taking care of nature and the frustration of liter. We are in search of how to get people to stop littering! Lastly we give a shout-out to a company for their positive work with nature.  

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Until next time, go have a Little Adventure, in your Big Life!

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:11

Little adventures. Big life. I'm thinking with the animals around this house, that me calling you my princess is quite like Disney accurate.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

I think it's just old.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

Old? If you look at the deer, the raccoons, the squirrels, the chipmunks, the ducks, the chickens, dogs, cats, and birds. If I sent you into the front yard with you singing, no! Yeah, like l, and we'd have ourselves a Disney movie right there.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Dad, I will never sing in public.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

I'm just saying, me calling you princess is quite accurate lately.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Um, and just a reminder the only animals that we actually own in our house are the dogs, cats, and chickens.

SPEAKER_02 1:06

Yeah, everybody else has adopted us. Okay, I mean, mom loves animals. I definitely more than anybody I've ever known, and it's it's beautiful. Hi. Don't get me wrong. But uh, you know, we have quite the collection of adopted visitors, yes. You know, between the the deer get getting closer and closer. I mean, they're every day, every morning we're seeing them. It's it's pretty incredible.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Yeah, because they live in our neighborhood.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

Yeah, they live right behind the house. Alright, so, anyways, Disney Princess, you want to get this thing started?

SPEAKER_01 1:42

As long as you don't call me Disney Princess.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Okay, welcome to Little Adventures.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Fake life.

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My name's Chris, and with me as always is my ride or die.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Eevee. It is a new intro for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Yeah, it is a little new intro for you. I think it's fun to have you, you know, us here, right?

unknown 1:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

Um, good grief. June flew by.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Yeah, June went yeet out the.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

I can't get over how fast it went by. I don't know about you, adventurers, if it felt like that for you, but for us, I feel like we just got out of school.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

And I'm already getting emails about the next school year.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah, and I'm already seeing things about back to school. I don't want to know back to school. I want two more months.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Uh yeah. I see, I remember summer when it was three months, but it's three months. Yes. I don't remember going back to school until after Labor Day in September, but now we start school in like mid-August. Yes. I start school at the beginning of August.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Yeah, because you're a teacher. You have to suffer more and don't get paid enough.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

Yeah, well that yes and yes. But anyways, um it was uh definitely an interesting month, wouldn't you say?

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Yeah. It had it had a great start.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

It had this, it had that, it had everything in between.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

Well, I mean, your brother turned eight.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Holy cow.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

I s half my brain still thinks he's seven. Uh Jay, I still think you're seven.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Well, I mean, it's it's such a marker because for us, it's how long we've been in Roanoke. Is you know, your brother's age. So, I mean, other than the fact that he spent his first seven weeks of life in Houston, after that, we were gone and we've been here.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

So we've been here for eight years now.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Jay's our little clock.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

Jay is our little Roanoke clock, if you would. And uh, so we had um, you know, gosh, we could probably do an entire Little Adventures Big Life episode on birthday parties.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

I think we did.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Did we? Yeah, we might have.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

No, I've got short-term memory trouble. So kind of.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Yeah, like Dory.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Yeah. Um, more ways than you realize. But uh I think we did a pretty good birthday party. We went to the Roanoke Starcade.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

I had one game that I was on there for like five times. I love it. I loved it. Can I tell?

SPEAKER_02 4:04

You can.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Yeah. So it's like one of those, you know those screens that are like a bowl so it looks like you're actually there. Like in the like in what are they called? Um, space Torium, I think.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

I can't I can't forget the name.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Space Torium.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

I forget the name. What's it called?

SPEAKER_02 4:20

I'm just gonna no, I'm not even gonna tell you that's gonna be the name we use from now on.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Oh, please tell me the name.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

No, Space Torium it is.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

I'm sorry. Anyway, so had that like that that screen. It was a Star Wars theme, and and you would ride on like these different spaceships, and I defeated the Death Star twice. It is God!

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Yeah, I think it was uh a lot of fun doing the it was like a it was like a trip down memory lane for me because this this the Starcade was full of classic video games.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

There was like so many Pac-Man, so many Mario games.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

There were so many versions of Pac-Man and Mario, and I think that it was just a lot of fun playing the different games and remembering the different games, and and then of course watching all of you guys play the different games.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

I really only played the Star Wars today.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Well, okay. But it it definitely was fun to celebrate your brother turning eight and having a cake. The cake definitely never hurt.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

So, um Can I describe the cake?

SPEAKER_02 5:21

If you want to describe the cake, go for it.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Yes. So our mother made a cake. That was a chocolate cake.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Well, if you're gonna describe it, you better be able to describe it. I otherwise you're saying, listeners, there was a cake and they're like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Okay, shoot. Um, it was a chocolate cake and it had a cookie dough filling. Imagine that. Cookie dough filling.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Cookie dough!

SPEAKER_02 5:48

Edible cookie dough. That's what's so great about it, because it's safe.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

All cookie dough is edible.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

But okay. It is a safe, edible cookie dough because there's nothing raw to it.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Yeah, we always eat a little bit of the cookie dough before you put it in the oven.

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Yes.

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Always do.

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Yeah.

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Always will.

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Safe? No. Do it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Yeah, no one cares.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

No one cares. Alright, so um we all do it. You know, uh, with this whole podcast, we're always talking about the little adventures in big life. Uh, we talk about uh, you know, where you saw uh flowers, where I saw weeds, and how we've talked about perspectives and things. And um I I wanted to dive in really quick to uh the first sort of segment I had with you today is um fighting boredom. You know, um because is it really boredom or you know, is it lack of options?

SPEAKER_01 6:44

And so I think it's like when you something that you usually do is not available to you. Like I wanted to do a day where I didn't do use as much technology as I usually use because I'm I'm I'm in the iPad kid age, okay? Right, so I've admitted it. You can record that. I've admitted it.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Okay, so would you say you are you actually bored or you're not sure what to do?

SPEAKER_01 7:11

I think it's the second option because like I'm used to just like grab a screen, sit on my bed couch, wherever, and just chill for like three hours. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

So uh is mom and dad being mean by by limiting your time on that?

SPEAKER_01 7:24

No, I think it's good for me.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Okay, okay. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

So I so I kind of just search for things to do and then I'll like find things that I in my and then I'll go to my room because like I know I will op close the drawer, open it three years later, and find stuff that I thought was lost to time. Okay. And that's always a fun adventure for me. Like I'll open a drawer of you know those birthday kits that you never use.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

I have like five of those, and I open one of them, and like you'll just do them and you'll have fun doing them, and then you'll close that drawer, open it another three years later.

SPEAKER_02 7:57

Right. I I wrote down a question because I was wondering, um, do you think it's harder first for you because your friends, your your age group friends don't live close by anymore?

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Um I'm kind of fine with it. I'm chill. Besides, my taxi driver exists.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Oh, yeah, cute. Um, well, so what I'm noting is is you know, if we if I was having this conversation with your brother, your brother still has the street running group of craziness that goes with the.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

Crazy boys.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Yeah, but it it is the dynamic of our street has changed, right? I mean, the oldest girl of the group, she now is in high school and is always busy, and now you're the oldest.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

That still plays.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

That still plays, but you don't play as often. So I had wondered if that had an impact on your quote-unquote feeling bored, because as long as your brother sees those friends, he's gone, he's outside, he's playing, and so it's it's a little different for you.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

I think it's because I've found more things to do in my free time. Like I'm drawing 90% of my time, I'm just going doodle-doodle-doodle. Okay. And I'm also like writing sometimes, listening to music, audiobooks, just doing maybe listen watching my tablet. Just a lot of it has to do with technology, but most of it is useful because for drawing I use my light box, either a smooth surface or for layering the drawing and getting it more 3D.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

You know, I was trying to do a like a comparison, like they're thinking about me as a child, but growing up both more mostly more as thinking about when I was growing up in Houston as opposed to California, Houston was so flat. Bike riding was was so included in everything we did because it wasn't very exhausting unless it was summertime and too hot.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

Yeah, because Houston is the pancake in the oven.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

It it's very flat and and so hot. Well, okay, but I want to get past the hot. I'm talking about the fact that we would get on our bikes and just ride everywhere.

unknown 9:59

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

And um while I see you and your friends, you know, sometimes ride the bikes, it is nowhere near the volume that we did growing up.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Also, because like I just ride on the top of the hill and that's like this short space.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Well, yeah, that's so that's what I was kind of wondering. Do you feel like the geography limits you going out for long rides, or is it a parent thing?

SPEAKER_01 10:28

Um, I think it's like a little bit of parent, but mostly geography because like I like to ride on like a flat surface so I can do it longer and have more fun than just being exhausted after five minutes straight, going to up and down hills like a mad.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

And I don't think I'd be doing a service as a parent, just sending you off. We have the greenway, but it does take a few minutes to get to it if you're if you're not in a car.

unknown 10:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

And also because like I don't want to go somewhere that I have no clue where I am without you being there, because like like I don't know what I'm doing. I've literally only gone like to a friend's house and back every single time I ride my bike. Like I've done like the real route like two times.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

It it makes me wonder how I felt so comfortable as a kid riding and getting lost.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

I mean I got because it was the 80s. Okay? That's the one sentence answer. Okay. It was the 80s, that's all you need to know.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Yeah, we were extremely different. I do not ever remember my parents concerned with what we did during the summer. I don't ever remember checking in.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

I don't ever This is why the 2000s is a lot safer.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Is it safe? I mean, you you say it's safer, but I I think that it's just a different, it it is a truly different world. Um, but uh, so so it is definitely a a question about how do we solve boredom. And you know, part of it was for us, you're right, there was less technology, and we were just expected to stay outside.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Yeah, and you did.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

We did. We drank out of water hoses. There were no water bottles, nobody nobody carried around a water bottle.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

Because everyone was kind of a that was the 80s, that's all.

SPEAKER_02 12:17

You drank out of houses, and we would, in fact, the crazy group that I hung out with, we used to scrap money together and then try to buy you know uh like a Greek big group meal. We'd usually we'd eat pizza a lot.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Because you're children, okay?

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Yeah. Um it was definitely yeah, different time.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

So that's all you need to know.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

But I think for from the adventure perspective, you know, some people might say summertime, oh, you know, there's nothing to do, that's the weeds, but the flower might be if you just you just need to get creative.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Summer is freedom from school.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Well, it's freedom, but it's freedom to allow you to explore things and and get to know.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Yeah, like those first days of summer, you're like, oh right, no school. And you're kind of celebrating, but also kind of accepting that school has ended. Right. And you're also kind of dreading thinking about, well, I'm gonna hate well, I'm gonna be so sad when this ends, but I'm kind of missing school a little bit, but also glad SOLs and all that junk are over, and you're kind of just in this state of accepting and denying a lot of stuff, and then like the middle of summer is when you have the most fun, when you're going crazy in the pools or in tubs.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

So maybe for maybe to to sum up this this first segment, don't don't look at it as boredom, but look at it as an opportunity to to try new things.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Yes. Or look at it as an opportunity to go through your room and find stuff that you've lost three years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

That's alright. So I I wanted to move over to um another topic and uh our we farm here at the house.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

Uh yes, of course.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

Um, double e.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

Always spelled with a double e. Yeah, that's how it's not really spelled we.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

Oh, really? How do you spell the word two?

SPEAKER_01 14:04

T W O, because that's the English for you. English. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 14:07

So what are the other versions of it?

SPEAKER_01 14:09

T-O-O and T-O.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

Right, so there are several words that sound the same but are spelled differently.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Yeah, because it's the English language.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Yeah. Anyways, my god, child. So uh this is definitely the opposite of boredom because I I really would as talking about our wee farm, it my thinking here was discussing chores. Because with all the things that we have going on here at the house now, I didn't have chores like you do.

SPEAKER_01 14:38

Yeah, because you left the easy life when you were a kid. You lived the easy life.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

Yeah, okay. Easy life. Anyways, um, no, between the garden and the chickens and the house animals, there sure is a lot of work to do.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Right?

SPEAKER_01 14:56

And uh it's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Is it?

SPEAKER_01 14:59

It's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Well, I mean, there's lots of other chores though that you you could be doing that you haven't even started yet, like mowing the yard.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

That's for when I'm 16.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

16. Oh, really? I mean, you could mow the front yard now. It's flat. Yeah, I think we could work that in. No, please, please, please Or we could talk about the chickens that you were going to take care of.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Okay, I'm not the only one.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Okay, there was mother and mother takes care of the chickens.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

Brother!

SPEAKER_02 15:31

Brother does not.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Brother also needs chores, but I have chores already. Yeah. I've been doing them for a while.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

And I already work with poop. Jake and now.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

That's what makes you so good at it because Oh, he needs to work with poop.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Okay. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Yeah. Well, we're working on that. But right now, you being our resident poop expert because of your time with the horses, you also take care of the cat litter boxes. Yeah, because I know that's not your favorite.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

It's the suffering I endure. I have to suffer for you.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

You suffer. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Because it's poop, okay? No one likes poop.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

I think what you're discovering in the lesson that maybe mom and dad are trying to show you is that, you know, even when you're tired, there are responsibilities that have to be done.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

Except when you come home from fireworks on July 3rd.

SPEAKER_02 16:23

Yeah, that will, you know. There are exceptions, but still animals have to be taken care of. And, you know, what you didn't realize is we still had to go out and make sure all the birds were up and and all the things that go along with it.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Oh yeah, I'm a child, so I have benefits.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

My my hardest part as a parent who uh I heard this comedian who talked about this, and he his name's Will Farrell. He's a very funny man, and he was talking about he has trouble yelling at his children to doing chores when he thinks back that he didn't even do them and do them right. And that I felt that same sort of guilt/slash conversation with myself that I can't really get on you for not doing them right when knowing I didn't do them at all myself. But I'm hoping to teach you some sort of you know responsibility.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

I'm gonna keep that in mind.

SPEAKER_02 17:20

I keep that in mind. I keep it as a subtle reminder that you know it's part of helping you be a more responsible person.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Responsibility.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

I think chores are good for you.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

Part of maturity and that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

Right, but I think that the more you contribute, the more you hopefully appreciate everything. You know, because things don't just magically appear.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Sadly. Well, I mean, hey, you live in the real world.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Sadly.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

And and you know, talking about living in the real world.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

I want to live in the world of rainbows.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Uh, well, so so do I. And I think that's a fantastic segment to um this third bit I wanted to talk about today. Uh you know, we love to go to new parks.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 18:12

We have been to almost every single park in Roanoke County.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

Nearly every single one. Some of them are kind of disappointing, some of them are downright amazing.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

And uh we went to a brand new one this month that um, yeah, I think we were a bit disappointed.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

I I was not even disappointed. I was below disappointment. I was furious about that.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

I was steeping. Here's the part where I'm both sad and proud at the same time. So, what made us sad?

SPEAKER_01 18:43

Um, there was litter. Any anywhere you look on that ground, there was litter.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Yeah, there was I mean, it was like someone had treated this park like uh a trash can.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Yeah. It's called people who never grew up, of parents or adults cleaning up for them, and then they just yeet stuff out the car window and act like someone's gonna pick it up. Someone's not gonna pick it up for you. They're trash cans, they exist, people.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

Yeah. Do you hear that? So we went to a park and and immediately we noticed it had some history to it, but our eyes were fixed on the sheer amount of trash that was on the ground.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

Especially these little plastic petals. You know those little fake flowers that you buy at like Walmart?

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

Those little petals I've seen before. They were at the barn, but there were like five of them. Yeah. From like one of those flowers, but they were like all over all pastel colors. It was like some Easter birthday party happened, and someone decided it would be a good idea to spread petals everywhere, but not real petals because people are lazy these days. I mean, not see the Amazon drones. There are people they decided to grab fake flowers that are cheaper from Walmart and throw those around. And it might have been fun at the party, but it's not fun for everyone else.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Let me as an adult ask you as a kid, why do people litter?

SPEAKER_01 19:59

Okay. So I have an explanation to why I think people litter. Okay, it's because when you're a kid, your uh parents, your parental guardians, the people who put you in this world, do a lot of stuff for you, like your laundry, cleaning your room, etc. etc. Like when you're like two or three. But most parents help you slowly grow out of that and do your stuff on your own. But some parents don't do that. I'm not saying the parenting is bad. I don't I'm not, I'm a child, I don't know one thing about parenting. I'm just saying that they don't grow out of it as well, I think. I don't know. And they um they still kind of have that little feeling that someone's gonna pick it up for them, so it doesn't matter where they put their trash, it's gonna be picked up eventually, and they just that's why they litter, because they just have that mindset.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

So by me giving you chores, I am helping prevent you from littering. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

That is it! That is it.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

I love that.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

So but not chicken boots.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

Okay, but my next question then is is it have you ever wanted to say something?

SPEAKER_01 21:05

About what?

SPEAKER_02 21:06

The litter.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Do you know how many times I've wanted to scream into oblivion saying, This is why we need a better planet, y'all? We don't have a planet B and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

So many times when an adult sees trash on the ground, do you think that they feel that that gives them permission to just add one more piece of trash?

SPEAKER_01 21:31

No, if they do, I want to slap them in the face and snock some stents into them.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Literally.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

I I think it I think my my my conflict, my internal conflict, is humans are definitely in awe of beautiful places. We we we magnate to them. Uh there's uh social media platforms like Instagram where people take photographs of places and everyone else wants to go and see these places.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

And then it's like um expectation versus reality.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Well, I mean that's yeah, there's there's a whole nother conversation with expectation versus. Reality, but you know, we are we are definitely fascinated by the beauty of nature. But I mean it's very easy to see when someone takes an incredible photograph of a place, everyone's like, ooh, ah, and yet I I struggle to understand why we can understand and appreciate nature so beautifully and then be so comfortable with throwing trash out.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

I think um there's like a fine there's like a line of people, a lot of people who like nature and a lot of people who are just kind of meh about it, and I think the people who are more mad about it tend to be more likely to litter.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

I don't know. I I'm guessing here. I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Well, I so so how do we how do we make people care?

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Um I have two opinions. One, knock sense into them, and or B with like your hands. Or B, um I don't know how to do that.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

I don't I honestly Oh I have a plan A.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Knock sense into them with the.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Twitter, I I I don't have an answer either.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

I don't know how we get people to care and appreciate for maybe we give them like a gajillion paper saying, There is no plan B, there is no planet B. Y'all, don't litter, or we will come for you. We will hunt you down.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Okay, so we've got your Hunger Games theory going on.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Yes, we're gonna make the Hunger Games.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

You know, I I you know I wish I knew.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

The litter.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

I wish I knew, you know, you don't want to still instill cameras everywhere, then no one feels like they're uh alone. Um you can't you can't use a violent state. Um I I don't know. I I I I wish we had an answer to to that. And here at Little Adventures Big Life, as much as we love going into the outdoors, and you know, we have this is gonna kind of segue into the last segment today, but we have our own adventure bags, and in our bags we have trash bags because we feel a duty to pick up.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

May I tell a story about such a duty?

SPEAKER_02 24:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

So one time we were at like the Oak River Playground, like elementary school, and I go to the play we go to the playground and I look to like my my right, and it's like this little tree area with grass, and I see like all around the trash can this wet glassistic McDonald's trash because there's like McDonald's right down the park. Right, and there's like trash all around that little grassy area. Most of it's not even in the playground itself, but in that grassy area. And I start fuming like a cartoon character. Like, oh my god. So I rally the kids who are the kids who are willing to help that are playing at the park, and we all kind of have jobs, like ha I split them into two groups. One two kids two kids go and pick up the trash, and other kids take sticks and shove it into the trash can so we can fit it all in there.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

Yeah, I it as trust me, as a as an outdoor dad, I was a very proud, very proud moment to watch you do that. And it was also a sad moment knowing that you had to do that to play. So it it it's a lot. And again, I hope we can come up with some answer.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

But like I said, this was kind of a fun little uh segue to the last segment of today's show. Um, we had this idea, and we talked about it last episode about building.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

It's a show, because like the show, um, like you see it, but like a listen, you hear it. So I don't know what we do for that. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 25:35

The last episode we talked about building an adventure bag and what you would put in your adventure bag and things like this. And it seems like the funny how you think about something in the universe manifests it and puts it into your life some way. Now we each now have our own adventure bag that we take with us, but it I promise you, before we talked about it, I never seen this website, and then after we talked about it, as we were going into the month of June, I found a website called keepnaturewild.com. And uh what I like is on their tagline for their purchases, is your purchase directly supports cleanup efforts and creates real impact in the parks, trails, and outdoor spaces. I'm like, yeah, right. But they sell, it's more of a fanny pack kind of bag, but it's their own version of for children, their adventure bag. And so not so much ours like we were carrying our our sunscreens, our water bottles, our food, our trash bags, and all this. This was more of the the bag they're selling is more about what you find on your on your little adventure.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Oh, like little things like in nature, like a little shell or an ad.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Exactly, a way of collecting memories from your little adventures, which either way, I still think what a cool thing to show, what a great thing to have. And it's like I say, it's so funny how we can't we thought we'd come up with our own like original idea.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

And yeah, so either way, I'm excited about it. I'm excited to learn that there's a company out there that is trying to uh Yeah, shout out to the company, yeah. So, uh, so adventurers, if you get a chance, check out keepnaturewild.com. I think they've got something really awesome there.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Support them so we can clean the planet and defend against these awful litterers.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Yeah. So what we're gonna do right now is we're going to pause, stomp for the little boy, because he is begging to bring back the question of the day from Jay. So give us one moment and we will be right back. And here he comes. It is the boy. He has re-entered the room.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

He has come.

SPEAKER_02 27:48

Um, so Jay, by your request, we have brought back the question of the day with Jay.

unknown 27:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

And Evie and I are sitting here and we are excited to hear what is your question.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Who would win? A great white shark or a tiger shark?

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Ooh, okay. Well, do we have any oceanographers out there that can help us answer the question? Jay has pictured a battle in his head. Great white shark versus a tiger shark. Well, we're gonna do our best to get that question answered for you, Jay.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

It's just that they are very maxed-out predators in the oceans.

SPEAKER_02 28:29

Okay, okay. Well, I I I like that you you have that. Okay. Alright. Well, that'll do it for our episode today. I think that uh June was definitely a very interesting month.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Bye!

SPEAKER_02 28:44

Okay. Uh June was definitely an interesting month for us. And um July, we're already gonna have a lot to talk about. We've already had the 250th anniversary of this country, but we'll get more into all that when we do a July. But uh we hope that you can get out there and have an adventure, right? Maybe your own adventure bags now.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Yeah, you can either buy them or try our idea. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

I mean, yeah, exactly. You can make your own. Uh also, um, man, if you got an idea on how to get this trash problem, we'd love to hear it. I know there are some great companies out there that are trying to do stuff, but shout out to those guys. Shout out to anybody that's trying to make it better. So the parks.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

You are human, but a good one.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

And uh, you know, go out there and and have a great adventure. And so we're gonna keep doing that because we've got to enjoy every moment of summer that we can.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Yeah, because school is already becoming to haunt us.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

Yeah, but hey, you have any questions, you know, comments, likes, shares, follows, do it all for us. Let us know if there's if you have a question, you've got an answer for Jay.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

Uh, please tell us. In my opinion, I think the great white shark would win. Okay, okay. That's my little personal. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Just let you know I think the great white would win.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

Okay, so we've definitely already got two votes for the great white shark.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

Because it's the king!

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Alright, well, until then, until we get to our July summation, do us a favor, get out there and enjoy a little adventure in your big life.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Happy noon Happy New Happy Fourth of July.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

Bye, everybody.