Ep. 6- We are grateful for everything (but mostly for guacamole)

We are back! This week we are talking about all the everyday things we are grateful for. When the world seems too big and scary we like to take the time to remind ourselves of all the wonderful things that are right in front of us.

We also talk about our recent trip to Japan and discuss what the beginning of spring means to us. If you can't tell, we were really hungry while recording this episode so we spent most of the runtime talking about guacamole. 

Although after all, we are pretty grateful for guacamole.

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Transcript

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Hey man.

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Hey man. Welcome to Hey Man.

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The We Love You podcast.

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This is episode six. Today we talk about the things we're grateful for.

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The things that make our lives a little bit better, but we don't often take the time to acknowledge.

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We also talk about our recent trip to Japan. And we even talk a little bit about spring springing. Thank you for following and checking us out on Patreon. Uh, and for following us wherever you're getting this podcast right now. Also check out our book. We Love You. An optimistic guide to life on a rock floating through space.

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Anyway, enjoy the show.

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We love you. Hey man. Hey man. Five, four, three, two. Hello, hello. Welcome back to Heyman. A We Love You podcast brought to you by Mangoes. They're great. They the the there's stringy ones and there's chunky ones. I prefer the not stringy mangoes. Me too. But when a stringy mango is ripe, it's very fruitful.

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It can be it's it is fruitful, in fact. It's delightful. And I will also say, I don't mind the big hairy mango pit. It's not my favorite part of the biggest.

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That's what I was caught in high school.

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Look at the big hairy mango pit. That guy is crazy.

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Anyway, uh, we are back. We just got back a couple days ago from a trip to Japan. Japan.

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Where we were shredding the Japao, as they say in Japan.

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Uh, which is the like the really good snow on the Japanese ski mountains.

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Yeah, Thomas was ripping it into Japao.

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In the ski pants. We're already talking about farts.

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It really holds it in the ski pants, so it's like it comes out at the end of the day. The end of the day, yeah. You just take your pants off at the end of the day and it goes the whole room.

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The whole room turns green. No, no, no. We were shredding. Uh we were shredding some good snow in Japan. Met a bunch of cool people on this fun trip.

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On this fun trip hosted by Mountain Memories.

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You may have seen their reels online. Uh, these young guys got a little uh lodge up in Rusutsu, Japan, and it was really fun.

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Yeah, they take you on little private skiing tours and uh take you through the mountains, and it it was such a beautiful time. Thank you to Mountain Memories in Rusutsu.

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Yeah, it was a fun trip. Other creators were along for the ride too. It was very few Americans. There were a couple other Americans, but there were Brits and some British.

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Brits from uh there's people from the Netherlands. Yeah, there were people from all over the world.

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Our boy Felix from Germany. Flizzy! Flizzy goes by Flizzy, cool. Goes by Flizzy, he was awesome. The best guy. Uh once I accidentally opened his meaning of this accidentally opened his bedroom door, and he goes, Hey yo, what is the meaning of this? Who else? Uh Davy. Davy and Anya. If you know uh Caro Crafts on Instagram. She was there, she was there. She's been on other trips we've been on before, but this is our first time ever hanging out with with Anya, like actually meeting her and her wonderful boyfriend Davy. Davy. Our boy Davy, who's a film director, has some exciting stuff coming out soon. You might see.

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Made a lot of music videos with rappers such as ASAP Rocky.

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Yes, and uh Action Bronson. Action Bronson.

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Cool guy, great guy. Um, and then there were these two Brits. Uh they're from Manchester. Two Lives from Manchester. Jim and Finn. Jim and Finnegan. But Jim has an awesome account online called Jim's Table. So good.

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He makes beautiful dinners and lunches of all kinds.

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And he made two meals for us while we were there. And they were some of the best food I've had in my entire life.

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The most Manchester guy possible. It was they say brilliant so much. Brilliant, yeah. British people really are British. Scran, scra food, which means food, which is a strange little word they have up there. Uh but yeah, they didn't know anything about America. And since they're food guys, we were talking the whole time just about the difference between American and British cuisine. And just American and British culture. Yeah, and for some reason, like I could have talked to them for an infinite amount of time. Yeah. Because you can they were so excited about food, but then also just America versus British and Britain in general.

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We are passionate about food so much.

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Talking about sandwiches, which you guys know. You know we love sandwiches, but it was a really good time, met a lot of good friends, and uh got some time out in the snowy mountains, which is rare for us down here in California. It's not that rare. Well, it's it's rare for rare to see that much snow all around.

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That's true. The powder was like uh unlike anywhere I've ever been before. It was so dense and thick and deep. Deep and deep powder. We were able to glide on top of it so well, though. It was such a beautiful experience riding through the trees.

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And the trees there because of the mist that freezes on the tree branches.

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Yeah, they all turn white.

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They're bright white trees all frozen, like coated in ice. Yeah. Uh which is really amazing.

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It feels like Narnia a little bit.

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Also, because we were in Japan, right now, like our brains are really confused as to what time it is. Yeah. I I was like laying in bed from m 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. last night. Same here, just wide awake. Wide awake. And now until pretty recently, I was very tired because it was the middle of the night, Japan time. Yeah. We meant to do a little episode while we were in Japan.

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Yeah, we were gonna try out a bunch of snacks from 7-Eleven, but there wasn't any time to.

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Yeah, yeah. We wanted to do like uh get all the fun treats from 7-Eleven, like the little uh mochi and the egg sandwich. So just imagine that you we had that out and it was a lot of fun and you guys all enjoyed it, maybe.

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Yeah. To let us know if you like that kind of stuff. We'd love to do more of that.

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Yeah, if you want to do like we weird little special episodes now, food taste tests.

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Yeah, but it was so odd being in Japan this whole time because there was so much going on back in the United States.

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Yeah, I feel like around the world right now, because of this like possible war that's happening now, it's just very weird to be not just out of the states, but just hearing everyone else uh who's traveling being afraid to travel either through the United States or through certain areas of the world.

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We're worried about it worried about our safety, you know.

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Which is really, I mean really sad. Sad to see that that's the state of the the world we're in right now. But we're not gonna talk so much about current events right now, um, because that's not what you guys come here for.

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We try and sometimes skirt away from current events specifically because we're the hope guys and try and bring you an alternative to that. We're just trying to put out there the stuff that helps us get through these hard times.

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Talk about some things we're grateful for.

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Yeah, exactly. And one of the things I'm really grateful for right now is spring has sprung, my friend.

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Yes, it has. Uh it's a tough, it's a tough segue, but it is spring, uh, which is wonderful. And it was just sprung forward, our clocks just moved forward an hour. Yes, which really messed with my sleep. Really was confusing.

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I thought I got like 15 hours of sleep. Yes, you actually just got 14. I got 14 instead of 15, which is still insane.

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Yeah, I thought I slept for 12 hours and I'd only slept 11. This was after our giant trip and we had to slept for like 30 hours. Yeah, it's officially spring, and truly walking around outside right now in California, it's you can feel it. You can smell the air, there's blossoms, there's bees buzzing. You forget how wonderful it feels for there just to be spring in the air for the rest of the year. Yeah, because it's such a fleeting period of the year.

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It only really feels like spring for two or three weeks, you know. Every time it is spring, I I I always forget how like joyous it makes me feel.

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It's a strange reminder of all the wonderful things that you've forgotten. Like all of a sudden I'm like, oh, I want to go, I want to go run, I want to go hide in a forest, I want to go be out somewhere beautiful.

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For me, it feels like I wake up from a hibernation again, you know. Uh you see all the the flowers and and everything's lighted the way it should be, you know?

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Yeah, it's not the harsh, harsh overhead sun of summer, and it's not the dim light of winter.

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Everything's dewy still.

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Yeah.

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And there's little pops of color everywhere. Flowers, you know.

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It's so important. Like here in LA, there's for so much of the year, there's these like brown bushels that you see all year round, they're all dried up, they're everywhere. I think they're like Laurel sumac. And like, oh, those are interesting little bushels of dried clumped stuff. And same with the grasses being all brown and dried most of the year. Right. Then when it's spring, you're like, oh, this is what it's for. This is what all those things are from. Exactly. It's an amazing time of growth and blooming and everything's flourishing and all the birds are chirping, and it's the best time of year.

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So yeah, when's when spring happens, just take advantage of it a little bit. Every moment you can, just get outside and feel that spring has sprung.

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Yeah. And really try and soak in that little because it really is just a few weeks.

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Yeah, it really is. But that is kind of what makes it special. Right, of course. If it was flowers the whole year, it wouldn't be spring. It'd kind of be awesome still. It would be pretty awesome. I love the smell of flowers. I also get a lot of allergies during the spring. That's that's true. That's a negative of spring for me. But we've tried to make a video about that a few times. Yeah, a video about allergies, but there's nothing like redeeming about allergies, you know? Yeah, there's not really I'm genetically inferior.

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I have a genetic predisposition to an overreaction of my immune system to a certain allergy. Usually we have like some problem, and then our video turns to like, but that's okay because it's okay because you can stay inside.

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You know, like that's I want to I want to get out in spring.

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I want to it'd be like a claritin ad. It's like that's why it has to be clariton.

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It could be, it should be like an allergy medicine. You know, it would be an allergy medicine ad, you know.

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Which we're not gonna do. We're not gonna advertise for pharmaceuticals. Yeah. But it is, would you say like spring flowers are worth it? Like, are you still glad when they're out or are you like, oh no, they're back?

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Oh, of course. I I and and spring flowers aren't what do it to me, regardless. But uh when spring flowers are out, it's just magnificent.

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It's the most amazing thing.

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Walking on a hike and being surprised, it's like a little treasure hunt.

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It's an everyday miracle of going, why is the world so amazing all of a sudden? It happens like in a snap of fingers, all these flowers bloom.

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Flowers bloom, and some of them, you know, you you're you're on a hike, and then you see, oh, it's the week before they bloom, so they're all wrapped up still. Yeah. Or in the evenings they wrap up. And you know, this is gonna be beautiful in the morning, you know. Um it's such a beautiful time of year.

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What's your favorite spring memory? We were talking about what to talk about about spring, and Andy's like, do we talk about favorite spring memories? What does that mean? What does that even mean? I'm trying to think if I have any spring memories. I mean, last year definitely. Last year in spring, we went, um, I remember we went with our good friend Estefan to Malibu Creek.

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Oh, yeah, and the wildflowers were blooming like crazy.

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It was the most amazing bloom we've ever seen there. The river was rushing. Yeah, there was great swimming, and it was our first time we brought a Stefan there. And we took photos and we were off. We shot a little video. Shot a video. And it was just that was a really that was last spring. That's when I think of last spring. It's a great spring memory. That was a great I don't know if I have any spring memories. Spring memories.

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Because it's a broad time frame.

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Summer and winter, you have uh specifically season tide memories because you know, oh, that was a trip because I wasn't in school, or that was a holiday thing.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But that's kind of the interesting thing about spring is that it's just a normal time. It's like the normal.

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Talk about like spring during school. Did you have any specific memories? That's a good message. St. Paddy's Day. St. Paddy's Day? Easter brunch. Egg hunts. Egg hunts are great, but that's just Easter. Yeah, yeah. Easter and it's Christian.

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My birthday's in spring. That's true. For me, we've talked about this. Birthdays are kind of a melancholy time of year. It's a melancholic moment. No, it is for me as well. And it's partially because I'm getting older and it's that day you finally have to acknowledge, okay.

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But there's a lot of expectation involved with birth birthdays personally, and like, are you going to throw a party? Are you what what expectations for the party are there? Are my friends going to show up to the party? Which they will.

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And all these people who you kind of would like to be there, you're like, I could invite them, but oh, I don't want to, I don't want to risk them maybe saying no. Exactly. I don't want to risk them. And so I'll probably just go on a hike. Yeah. Which is what I always do. I go on a solo hike. Yeah. And then maybe a hike with friends in the afternoon. Yeah. Which I I love. It's a great tradition. I go on a long bike ride or a hike or something, and that's great. But it is that expectation, it's kind of this test of okay, am I in a good place in my life? Do I have enough friends to fill a dinner table?

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On my birthday, I always try and do a food challenge. Always or just once? Which once are you thinking of?

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Like last year you were like, I want to do a food challenge, but you didn't.

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Well, this year I really want to do a food challenge for my birthday, and someone has to figure that out. Okay, I'll I'll try and figure out a food challenge. Do you want to do like chip taste test? No, giant burger tower. Okay, yeah, that could be fun. Giant burger tower. But no, it's it's fitting that we're talking about birthdays with spring. And if I win, everybody has to give me a hug. No one wants to give me a hug.

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I have to win the honor of being hugged because usually they're so afraid of hugging me.

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They don't want to hug me.

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No, because spring is a time of rebirth. Yeah. And it's a I think it's a good time to talk about birthdays because it's it does feel like the time that the year should begin and that the year really begins.

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Right, we've talked about that before. The calendar should start in spring.

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Should totally start in spring. Yeah, I think it's interesting to talk about spring as a beginning and just beginnings in general. Because I think that's why spring feels so beautiful. Because summer's wonderful, but it's kind of you can feel like summer has this tired energy to me. Not that it's not exciting.

SPEAKER_05 13:07

I think that's that is a very specific thing you have uh like a connection with summer in that way.

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Yeah, for me, summer has always been like I'm usually my saddest time of year is summer.

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Yeah, mine is certainly winter, um, because you're holed up the whole time and it's raining and it's hard to go outside. But summer feels very freeing to me and and tiring in like perhaps a good way. I like being exhausted from the heat and being able to adventure wherever I think for me summer, it's not sad necessarily because of the weather.

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Right. But I think it's sad in some way because I think I know it's the time when I'm supposed to be excited to be outside and excited to be happy, but I've always liked it when it's a little bit cooler.

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I mean, I definitely have a melancholic spike in in summer too. But and and and it's like more anxiety and stress, and like I this probably happens once a season for everybody. But it's it's a restart of like, oh, there's nothing and I should be really happy right now. Yeah. I'm not, I should be changing my life in some way.

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And I think summer is it's like that you pass the halfway point of the year too. Whereas spring, it's like, oh, I'm still in the beginning of the this year, and like we talked about how important like that structure of the year is to like our our life views. Yeah. And spring is like, okay, not only is it till the beginning of the year, it's also a really good time now. There's flowers and everything, it's beautiful. Where summer to me it's wow, this it's now June, it's July, it's August. And that feels a little bit like the year is kind of getting to be behind you, and it's hotter, and you're supposed to be having fun.

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I think part of it is summer always feels shorter than you would imagine it to be. I mean, looking back as a kid, summer felt like ages. It was a whole like year in your brain. It was like you get it was the time. It was the time to do everything. And yeah, now it's like, oh, you have like two months and like you you're working the whole time because yeah.

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And I I put it this way, it's like summer is the weekend of the year, yeah. But spring is Friday. It's this feeling of potential and beginning of the good time, and this bloom of that good feeling. Anyway, we're glad it's spring. What's your birth flower? And what's your favorite flower? What's our favorite flower?

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Yeah. Uh my personal favorite flower, and you can't take this because it's no. My favorite flower is California flower. I said it's a few. No, no, I said I said it first. I said it first. I thought of it.

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I said it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I already said it. California poppy. California poppy.

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We both love the California poppy. It's this bright orange flower that blooms only in spring. Mainly only in California. Um, and it's beautiful. It's uh florets are like uh very soft to the touch and very delicate.

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And it's this perfect gold, orange, yeah, yellow yellow orange, so vibrant sticks out in any shot you take.

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And it fills the hills along the beach and along the highways. It has this perfect landing spot for a bee or or butterfly, so you always get a little shot of a bee coming in.

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And even when you're not taking a video of it, you can see watching a little yellow bumblebee flutter into a California poppy in the spring. I just know that like I'm like, oh, this is a classic moment. Yeah. I'm seeing like a clut like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. This is a classic thing. This is a classic thing. This is a classic thing that's going on.

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Holy shit.

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You guys see you guys see this? This is like one of the things like one of the main things that things do. Yeah.

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And it's so beautiful and it's so simple. And we obviously love yellow, like everything we do is is infused with yellow, and California poppies are the perfect embodiment of that. They're sunlight, they're they're beautiful. But I will say, so we can have more than one flower. I also love the lupine. The lupe, you know, that purple stacked one. It's like a tall little flower with purple coming out on all sides. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're beautiful. There's tons in Malibu Creek. Yes, that's true. Yeah. Uh these things are awesome. Also, California poppies do that too. Blam, there's a California poppy.

SPEAKER_05 16:51

Yeah, also uh orchids have a soft spot in my heart. And I I know off my top of my head, there's a bunch of fun facts that I know.

SPEAKER_03 16:58

You know a bunch of fun facts about orchids off the top of your head? Off the top of my head, yeah.

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Let's hear them. Um they are masters of disguise, orchids are. Many orchids mimic insects to lure pollinators, which I've seen that. As the bee orchid, uh, which tricks male be bees. Mm-hmm. Yeah, into thinking that they are bees.

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That the flower is a bee? Yeah. Why does the why does the bee but bees like flowers? Right, exactly. No, so I'm asking why would they need to do that? Gay bees. What else? You said you had a bunch of fun facts. I have a bunch. I have a bunch.

SPEAKER_05 17:32

What other bunch of fun facts do you have? Some varieties bloom and live entirely underground. Really? So you'll never get to see their beauty.

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What?

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Yeah. By the way, he's for the record, he's not looking at a dome. He's looking directly into my eyes this whole time.

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Did you know that the popular vanilla flavoring that's not actually vanilla? It's called vanilla flavoring, comes from an orchid. What kind of orchid? Vanilla palefolia. Pennifolia. What's your birth flower? It's the astard. You mean the aster? The astard. You're saying something else. No, it's it's the aster. It's this uh bright blue or purplish blue, and then it uh petals with this vibrant yellow middle. Say it again. It's the Astard.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

You're saying aster.

SPEAKER_05 18:21

No, it's it's a flower, which is a flower.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

How do you spell it?

SPEAKER_05 18:24

A-S-S-T-U-R-D.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. That is the right flower. That's great. My birthflower is a daisy because it's April.

SPEAKER_05 18:32

That is so you.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

Thank you for saying that. I also think it's me.

SPEAKER_05 18:36

But yeah, that was spring. That was a little section about spring. But next we're moving on to a little section that might be a recurring section from this point on.

SPEAKER_03 18:43

Yeah, we it's an idea for episodes we had where we're just gonna list some things we're grateful for. Um, some random things that are kind of awesome in our day-to-day lives and are just in general, and things we want to remind ourselves are actually very important to notice how how sweet they are, how good they are for us. Okay.

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Andy. Thomas. My first thing I'm grateful for is the eternity of the now. Oh wow. When you're sitting in this blooming spring full of flowers, mushrooms, and green grasses, I always feel this sense of joy, but also this sense of sorrow that spring only lasts so long. But the thing is, spring is happening now, and all you have to do is notice. Notice in this moment, because in this moment there's an eternity. And in this moment, you can feel spring in all of its goodness, and that's worth it.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

I love I mean hey, the eternity of now is maybe the most overlooked thing that people should be more grateful for. Yeah. The fact that within every instant there is an infinite moment of pure being. Which is true. Which is true. Yeah. Think about it. You can decide divide a second into milliseconds and infinity. Microseconds and zeptoseconds. And if you played it in slow motion enough, you could spend your entire life watching one instant of your life play out. Yeah. And just the way we experience time, we don't get to do that.

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But but you are doing it in the moment, and there's an infinite amount of moments in that moment.

SPEAKER_03 20:06

Yeah, and the thing is, even if you're not aware of being in the now, you are you are in the now. You're already here. Yeah. Yeah. And you can be thinking forward into the future and you can be reflecting on your past and be like, oh, I'm never f I never I'm never just in the now. I'm too worried about the future or whatever. But we c even that moment of you thinking about the future or thinking about the past doesn't prevent like those moments are happening now. Yeah. They are now. And we should try to focus on the now and be present for that. But it's kind of like allows you to get out of your head a little bit of going, there's no way you're gonna escape this, even if you think you're bad at being in the now, you're already here.

SPEAKER_05 20:39

It's just about being present when you're sitting in a field on on a hike and just going, It's nice to be here. I wish I could be here all the time, you know? But you are here now.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

I think that's what the thing we often say to each other when one of us goes, Oh, I wish I could always be here. I wish this moment would last a long time. We kinda always we always go, Hey, we're here now. Yeah. Which is which is enough. Yeah. I'm gonna go with my number one. The bath. Nice. I love a bath. The bath. Let's take a moment all to just picture being in a bath.

SPEAKER_05 21:08

Not not not us.

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Oh no, oh no, no, don't look, don't look, don't look, don't look the bath.

SPEAKER_05 21:14

The bath. Warm water. A big bowl next to it, so you can just did you do this? Do what? Mommy could uh pour the cup of water over your head.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

You know what I actually used? What? Uh this is at my grandmother's house. Uh there was a uh the a claw foot bath, and then there was a cut milk jug that was cut out, the top was cut out, and you'd scoop water and pour it over your head. And sometimes mom would help, um, because I was a little boy. Oh. And it was a very wonderful time. It's obviously it's not a it's not an everyday thing. I I don't personally don't have I don't have a bath. We don't have baths in our apartments down here. And obviously it's it's resource intensive, it takes a lot more water than a shower for the most part.

SPEAKER_05 21:57

That's actually an arguable uh depends on how long of a shower.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

You're taking. Some people take longer showers to try to get one iota of the relaxation that a bath can provide. Sure. Don't discount showers. I'm a big I love showers. A cold shower, a warm shower. I'm they're my favorite part of the day. That's weird.

SPEAKER_04 22:17

Um they're the best part of my life.

SPEAKER_05 22:20

If I'm getting sprayed by a hose in my five minutes of joy, and then everything's downhill after.

SPEAKER_03 22:25

I do love I love the shower. It is a moment of relaxation. But a bath is even more relaxing because sometimes I'll have a like I'll feel like I've been having a really stressful day or even a stressful week, and I'll feel really tense, and I I just know like and there's a tension that is reflected in my emotional, you know, my emotions too. Like I'm and in your body. And in my body. And then I'll but then I'll get into the bath and all of a sudden, oh, I had no problems today. It was actually a totally fine day. D balls floating in the water.

SPEAKER_05 22:54

Well, look at that.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

Look at that. Floats.

SPEAKER_03 22:57

No, it's just like the second your toe touches a the warm bath, all of a sudden all those problems are checked at the door. And then you pee. No, no. No, you don't. No, no, you don't pee in the bathroom.

SPEAKER_05 23:08

Sorry, I've I'm mixed that up sometimes. What do you mean you mix that up sometimes? Sometimes you think you're in the shower. When you're in a bath? And then yeah, you just I don't even pee in the shower. We've talked about that. We don't have to keep this part. Most people pee in the shower. I think we need to keep this in, because I don't. And I think people most people shouldn't. I think people can pee in the shower.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

But then it's a pee room. There's no relaxation with the room.

SPEAKER_05 23:33

You can pee in any hole in the pea room. The toilets' the pee room. Any hole.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

What about the sick? The outlets too. Don't pee in the outlets. No, trust me. It's like better than a toilet. We all go to the same tube. I've never felt better. It woke me up. It was amazing.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

It was amazing. But yeah, I think we carry a lot of stress around in our body. Yeah. Uh, and that can be reflected in our actual moods and how we think our days are going and how our weeks are going. Right. But when you just take a moment to set aside, even though if you're busy, even if you're stressed and think you have don't have time to actually relax, take a moment, pour a nice bath, maybe a bubble bath. Obviously, the warm water is nice and it lets your body relax. But it's just taking the time and space to go, this is relaxation, this is unwinding. Let me take a moment to care for me.

SPEAKER_05 24:24

Yeah, do you have a kind of bath that you like specifically? Like uh I you know an oatmeal bath, maybe a salt bath? Bath bomb.

SPEAKER_03 24:31

For me, it's just warm, like a really hot bath. Because you get in, it's kind of it's too hot, but then you slowly ease into it.

SPEAKER_05 24:36

Yeah. Do you ever get let down by a bath though? Oh. Thinking it's it's it's gonna be like life-changing, and then you get in and you're all gross to begin with, and you go, Oh, this water smells like poop. Not poop. No, it just smells like gross body. Yeah. And then you feel like you have to shower after you take a bath.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

I will often rinse off after I take a bath. Yeah, you you've got to. For me, a bath isn't necessarily for cleaning, it's for it's for the relaxation time. Yeah. Onsen. Onsen. On sen.

SPEAKER_05 25:05

We went to a bunch of on sens in Japan.

SPEAKER_03 25:06

Yeah, which are ja Japanese like steam rooms and saunas and hot tubs and cold tubs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:12

Uh and you have to get naked with the boys.

SPEAKER_03 25:15

Yeah, and everyone was there, and it was it was very, it was fun. It was intimate. It was it was very intimate, but also just very um relaxing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:22

And the views. There there was a beautiful view over this lake uh called Lake Toya, which has a giant mountain in the middle. Yeah. Um, and there was this on Sen in these three baths that you could sit in while looking at the beautiful view.

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Yeah, and it really felt like the start screen of life. Like you just you spawned in, you're naked, you're in warm water, and you're looking at a beautiful naked with a bunch of other naked characters. Yeah, many of them not speaking any English. Yeah. Um, it was yeah, very fun. And that that the reason that's so relaxing is because you're in a warm water. It's like a bath. It's like a bath.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

But the bath, I think, to me, represents also just the broader category of luxuries we have in our everyday life that we take so for granted. Like, think about how nice a bed is.

SPEAKER_05 26:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

In all the world, it's like the most comfortable place in the world. It's yeah. We've designed these things to be the most comfortable thing for human bodies. Right. And every day each each one of us gets to a chair. Yeah. A chair. That's chairs have been built by every culture because it's just a really nice way for the human body to kind of like, huh.

SPEAKER_05 26:26

It seems silly to think that, you know, chairs have been built by every culture, but of course we need chairs. Yeah. You know?

SPEAKER_03 26:31

Get a little bit closer to the ground, but not on the ground. All everything. Running water, which is also a bath. Heating. Heating. Air conditioning. The fact that you're able to listen to a podcast right now. Yeah. All these random luxuries that would be truly only reserved for the kings, the kings and queens of previous generations. We all get to enjoy it day to day. Yeah. Yeah, certainly at some cost, but it is like this beautiful comfort that we all have that I think we all take for granted.

SPEAKER_05 26:56

Yeah, and I think it's important, like you were you were mentioning relaxing, and it's so hard to find one time to relax in our busy lives that we live all the time. Like, when are you the most relaxed? Is a good question that we always talk about. And I don't know when I am relaxed. Yeah. Like I I I tend to like to be uh busy and live my days out with with many things to do, or else the voices come back.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

You're very let's go, let's do it. Yeah. Like you're go, go, go.

SPEAKER_05 27:25

Yeah, but I also can relax pretty well.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

Um you were snorkeling yesterday.

SPEAKER_05 27:29

Snorkeling yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

But that's a relaxing fun activity. Yeah. And I think that is when I'm most relaxed. Like when I'm on a bike ride or something, I'm just like having fun. Like it's just a nice Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 27:39

But when are you like actually like classically relaxing? Like you're sitting, like the the classic relaxing I'm thinking of is sitting by a pool with a Mai Thai. Yeah. Which we don't drink really, but you know, sitting by the pool with a little dr a fruity drink with a an umbrella in it. Yeah. And and just sitting to just be, maybe reading the book. I very rarely do that.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

Maybe it's just the stage of our lives we're in. Like I remember doing that as a kid. Yes when I'd be on a trip with my family.

SPEAKER_05 28:08

It's and we'd be at the pool. But right now in the stage of our lives, it's always go, go, go, go, go. There's always something to do. Uh you have to schedule to make time with your friends, which don't doesn't even feel relaxing any longer.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

It's more of just a check in to make sure you still have friends.

SPEAKER_05 28:21

Exactly. Which this all sounds sad, but it's it's it's it's not sad.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

They're fulfilling fun lives. Yeah. But it's that space of going, oh, I don't have to do anything right now. My time is completely this. I'm doing my this is my own life. Yeah. My own moment.

SPEAKER_05 28:36

And these work in in this in this system and this working uh environment, it's it's hard to find any time to relax, but it's so important.

SPEAKER_03 28:45

I think it's because of the way time is treated under like the industrial system we live in.

SPEAKER_05 28:51

Yes, exactly. And I think in part of it is like we're not relaxing anymore because our form of relaxation is mind-numbing by scrolling on our phones or watching videos or being entertained in some way, which is not the same thing as relaxation slash boredom. Yeah. You know?

SPEAKER_03 29:07

True rela relaxation is a little bit empty. It's a little bit not necessarily boring, but kind of boring.

SPEAKER_05 29:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Yeah. And when you have the infinite stream of information and entertainment on your phone, you're never your brain never reaches that level where you're just like, oh, I'm just here. I'm just here. I'm just here, and I'm maybe I'm by a pool or maybe I'm sitting in my yard or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_05 29:28

Yeah. And you know, I I I reached that time, like we were saying earlier, going on a hike and then just sitting for a while. Yeah. And looking at a beautiful space or just relaxing and closing my eyes a little bit and you know, meditating to some respect. Yeah. But just being in a place.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Yeah, that setting aside real time to go, I'm not doing anything, I'm not producing anything, I'm not making this productive in any way. I'm not thinking about how this will make me more productive later. Right. I'm just there's no expectation.

SPEAKER_05 29:57

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to touch on that specifically, like we use meditation in this culture as the tool. As a tool to make you more productive in the future. Yeah. Which that's not what it's about.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

I have no that's the thing, is like I have no doubt that having a peace of mind that comes from real meditation would make you a more like lively, productive individual. Right. But it's the if you're chasing specifically trying to make money and and conquer the world by meditating, that's not meditation. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Um it's maybe a kind of something you could call meditation.

SPEAKER_05 30:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

But it's not the meditation that I think would bring actual inner peace. Maybe not. I don't know. I don't know. I haven't. I'm not the master of meditation. Right, right. So that's why you need to take the bath.

SPEAKER_05 30:42

You need to take a bath every once in a while. And I love an oatmeal bath because I get eczema every once in a while, but we didn't need to talk about that.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

Yes. But it's good you did, because there may be people out there who have eczema.

SPEAKER_05 30:51

Hey, if you have eczema, try out an oatmeal bath.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

Yeah. And if you don't have oatmeal, and if you don't have eczema, try some oatmeal. Tell me.

SPEAKER_05 31:02

Actually, if you have if you don't have eczema, you could do both. You could do both. You could just make a big hot bath. Hot bath. Pour a bunch of oatmeal in it. Bring a spoon. Bring in a spoon. A big ladle, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 31:13

Ooh, ladling oatmeal into your mouth.

SPEAKER_05 31:15

Put a couple blueberries in it. A little maple syrup. Maybe cinnamon. Maybe cinnamon.

SPEAKER_04 31:20

Oh no, it's cooking meat. Oh no. Oh no, I'm becoming part of the oatmeal. Oh, is that a witch? Is that a giant? A giant.

unknown 31:27

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 31:28

Oh no, I'm being a ladle.

SPEAKER_05 31:30

Okay, what's your next thing you're grateful for, Andy? My next thing I'm grateful for is guacamole. Preach. There's nothing better than some smashed avocado with a little bit of onion, lime, and seasoning of your choice. But in my personal opinion, you have to have it simple and let that avocado shine. In terms of dips and sauces, I think that this is the top-tier sauce or dip. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

Would you agree? I'm gonna be honest. No. I would agree. Oh yes. A good guacamole has all the tang I'm looking for from a good salsa, uh-huh. But all the refreshing and sustenance that I'm looking for from vegetables. See, it has sustenance. That's the importance of guacamole.

SPEAKER_05 32:10

You can be satiated by this green goo. Give me some of that green goo. I love it. Hummus is is almost there. Hummus is close. Yeah, hummus is close. Hummus makes me gassy. I'll say it. I'll say it too. Hummus makes me gassy. Going to a fancy restaurant where they make it in front of you. Holy cow, that is what I want. Who came up with that idea?

SPEAKER_03 32:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:29

Were they like poisoning guac before this so they have to make it in front of you?

SPEAKER_03 32:33

They're like, just so you know, we're actually making it. We're actually making this. I guess it's maybe they thought it might have come out of like a plastic tub. And we're actually gonna make it.

SPEAKER_05 32:39

We're actually gonna make it. But if it feels like you're a king. Like oh. Like the guak in front of me.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

Watch me butcher this goose. Yes. That's the feeling it has. It does. Yeah, like um Henry VIII.

SPEAKER_05 32:53

But I love watching guac being made in front of me. It's great. Um, wow, everyone can enjoy this. It's fun for all ages. Just a corn chip and some luscious green goo. Vegan, vegetarian, ovalacto, you name it. Guac is in. It is. Yeah. It's this pure joy, like a lot of foods, it's this perfect thing. Yes, guacamole and avocados. Avocados. Wow. Fun fact about avocados. That's actually not true. The sloth thing.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

I like how you just read my mind. I know. Yeah. I actually looked into it too. It's not completely true. It's not completely true. The titabit we're talking about was that uh the only animal that previously would have eaten avocados was the giant ground sloth that was native to North and South America.

SPEAKER_05 33:36

And it did this whole, like it it basically genetically modified it to be what it is today. This giant like fruity uh mass with this huge seed. Huge meat and then seed.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

And then the idea was that the only reason avocados are still around is that humans, early humans, took a liking to them and farmed them. And that's why even after the giant groundsloth died, there were still avocados around because we were liking them. But that's not true, apparently.

SPEAKER_05 34:00

Yeah, I don't know why though.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Maybe it is, maybe it is. We'll just put that out into your world, guys. What's your favorite kind of guacamole? Do you have a guacamole you're like that was the best guacamole you've ever had? It's the guacamole that you make for yourself.

SPEAKER_05 34:13

Wow. It's the inner guacamole. There is some. Guacamole inside of you. You craft and mush those avocados. Think about it. You're mushing these avocados. You make sure to leave some trunks for the chunk boys because we love a good chunk in our guacamole. It's gotta have a chunk. And you mix in the spices, you put in a little bit of work, you put a little bit of energy.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

And this is happening inside of us.

SPEAKER_05 34:38

No, it's more like a metaphor. Oh, it's a metaphor, yeah. It's a metaphor, yeah. Continue. Um and it's a thing that you share with your friends. You give a little piece of it to your friends and your family, and you can't eat it for yourself, but it's a dip. Dips are for sharing. Dips are for sharing. And you should share a little bit of your inner guac. Yeah. Inner guag sounds gross. Uh my favorite thing we all do is guacamole parties, where we all get together and make our own guacamole and determine the winner guac.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

Andy and I came up. We came up with the guacamole party maybe three years ago at this point. Yeah. And for a long time, whenever someone said, like, time to brainstorm or time, like whenever we were thinking about anything, the first thing we would always say was guacamole party. Because it's so good. Imagine this.

SPEAKER_05 35:30

You and all your friends gather around. Each bringing your own guacamole. You've crafted it at your own place, and uh you each have your own recipe and little secret ingredients. Yeah. And maybe the host has crushed up goldfish.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

Maybe the host has is yours just crushed up goldfish? Yeah. That would be good. No, it wouldn't. No, it wasn't gonna be too cheesy. But and maybe the host has some beans for a protein or or something. Sure. Uh but that the whole meal is people are trying different guacamoles, eating beans, and listening to Post Malone.

SPEAKER_05 36:05

God, it goes so well together. Everything just works so well together.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

Whenever I'm listening to Post Malone, I can't. I wish I had some guacry. Friends and some guacra. You know, all those times I'm constantly listening to Post Malone.

SPEAKER_05 36:15

Yeah, yeah. The thing is, when you have a guacamole party, when when you're tasting these things in a row and you have like very distinct flavors and stuff, the the flavor that is like most distinct and powerful, that tends to win. Yeah. Which is very frustrating in a guacamole party.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

Yeah, because sometimes the the one-off chip, the one the guacamole that's best on one single chip, yeah, isn't actually the best guacamole, it's maybe the most exciting. Yes. Whereas the best guacamole can sustain you over a night of dipping. You're eating that. You're eating that, you're eating that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

We could do a whole podcast on this specific.

SPEAKER_03 36:51

Um Okay, my next thing, circles. Circles. I love 'em. Yeah. Think about it. They're everywhere. It's kind of broad, I know, but think about how important circles are in our lives. Wheels, bubbles, bowls, oranges. The circle of life. The circle of life, particle accelerators, manhole covers, our eyeballs, merry-go-rounds. Yeah. The whole universe.

SPEAKER_04 37:15

Apples.

SPEAKER_03 37:16

Yeah, black holes. Oranges. Um, the top of a cup, top of a jar. Top of bowl. Top of bowl. Beanbag.

SPEAKER_04 37:25

Beanbag is a circle. Lamp. Juggling ball.

SPEAKER_05 37:28

Eyeball. You said that. O is the letter O.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

The letter O is a circle. But so many things are circles. And it makes sense geometrically, like ph with physics-wise, uh, because it's just you know, at one point and then like a line of equidistant points around it, right? And it's so useful. The wheel has allowed us to access the entire world. Yeah. Gears have allowed us to power the world. Turbines, grapes. Have allowed us to power the world.

SPEAKER_02 37:56

Grapes have allowed us to harness the elements.

SPEAKER_03 37:59

Even when we're picturing a single point, which isn't true, like a single point in space is a picture as a circle, like as a little dot. Sure, yeah. And I think our brains kind of work in circles, and maybe it's because our eyeballs, our literal pupils, the way we see into the world is through this circular space.

SPEAKER_05 38:15

Yeah. And it feels like a circle is like the most perfect. Like it's it's it's so well crafted, it's no sharp edges, it's soft.

SPEAKER_03 38:24

It rolls, it moves, but it's stable.

SPEAKER_05 38:26

You could go inside.

SPEAKER_03 38:27

Yeah. When we're in our in the womb, like it's a circular space room, a spherical space. Welcoming the whole planet, literally the planet we're on, is a circle. It's a it's slightly slightly egg-shaped, but it's basically a circle. It's basically a sphere. The gratitude I'm talking about with circles, I think, is the noticing gratitude. Uh-huh. Just that feeling of like looking at your world with a little lens to look through it. Like something you can do in your day-to-day life is just notice the circles.

SPEAKER_05 38:53

Right. Notice it, but and and it's not just like the visual circles you see, you notice the cycles of everything as well. It's a representation. A circle.

SPEAKER_03 39:01

Yeah, you wake up and you're awake, and then you go through your day and you become tired and you go to sleep and you wake up. It's a circle of your day. It's a circle of your year. Yeah. Uh it's the circle of life. It's spring. Exactly. And yeah, if maybe that could be fun to just like count how many circles you see in a day. Yeah. And it'll just keep you a little bit tapped in.

SPEAKER_05 39:19

Next up. Next up, Andy. I didn't write much for this one, but picnics. Wow. Getting a bunch of food together with your friends and tossing around crispy. Uh yeah, maybe guacamole. And eating a nice Sammy with your friends, some fresh fruit and veg. Just being able to spend time with your friends with nothing to do and nothing to get out of it specifically, you know, and and there's nowhere you have to be.

SPEAKER_03 39:39

Yeah, truly, picnic should be the main activity humans do.

SPEAKER_05 39:43

Yeah. It's it's the center of our experience. It's so natural to be with a bunch of people outside, sitting around a meal.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

Maybe under a tree or by a river or on top of a hill. Playing being boozled. Yeah. Yeah. Playing bananograms. Yeah. Like the primordial humans, they were eating picnics all day. They were picnicing all day. All day. All day. They'd go and get some food and then they'd picnic. What's your favorite picnic food?

SPEAKER_05 40:05

Fresh sliced watermelon. And when you bring the whole watermelon there, slice it up there. You have a machete, slice it up there.

SPEAKER_03 40:12

But don't tell anyone you have the machete before you cut it. Pop it up.

SPEAKER_05 40:15

Whoa, what are you doing with that? Don't worry.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

Whoa.

SPEAKER_05 40:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:21

I will say, I like a finger sandwich. Why are you putting your finger in that sandwich? No, sandwich with the crust cut off. Maybe some cream cheese. Yeah. Or some cream cheese, some cucumbers, maybe some turkeys. Some cream cheese.

SPEAKER_05 40:36

This guy loves cream cheese.

SPEAKER_02 40:38

I do love cream cheese.

SPEAKER_05 40:39

Yeah. But there's something great to like you and your friends don't have anywhere to be, and you could just spend that night or that that afternoon just being with each other and and just hanging out.

SPEAKER_03 40:51

Literally sitting crisscross applesauce on the ground, eating snacks, hanging out, playing games, talking with your friends. Seeing how many push-ups you can do. You know? Who can still do a cartwheel? Yeah. Yeah. I can. You can. I I can kind of. Yeah. It's not very graceful. No, it's a you can cartwheel though. Thanks, man.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:07

Next up for me, uh, it's funny we were just talking about this. Gravity. Oh, whoa. We gotta be more grateful for gravity.

SPEAKER_05 41:14

Yeah. Otherwise, we'd just be like blobs.

SPEAKER_03 41:16

We'd just be amorphous blobs, if anything at all.

SPEAKER_05 41:19

Which, you know, uh to the amorphous blobs out there, that's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. You do you.

SPEAKER_04 41:24

You do you. Amoebas, that's chill.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

That's chill. We love you. We love you. But it's really weird. It is very strange. Matter and mass attracts attracts one, it attract each other. Like mass attracts mass. We're pulled downward by a giant ball of rock. And that's what we call down. But down doesn't even exist.

SPEAKER_05 41:44

Down doesn't exist, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:45

We're just clinging to a ball in space. Exactly. And of course you're we know that, but really think about it. Right, right. Like really, right now, if you're driving, think about it. If you're sitting down, think about it, if you're not gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_05 41:56

The only reason you're driving right now at all is because of gravity. If there was no gravity right now, you wouldn't be anywhere. There wouldn't be there would be no place with this thing grounding you downward onto Earth. And again, our bone structure would be entirely different. We might not we wouldn't even have bones without gravity.

SPEAKER_03 42:12

Well, that's the thing, is like gravity is the exact right strength. If gravity were a little too strong. A little too strong, the the Big Bang would never the universe never would have expanded and it would all just be a hot mass at the center of everything forever.

SPEAKER_05 42:26

And so That's what they called me in high school.

SPEAKER_03 42:30

Yo! That's the hot mass at the center of everything forever. Because what all gravity is really is the bending of space. Right. You're going down towards Earth because in space rules, that's staying still. Because of the way space works, down is straight, is is still because it's bent downward. Yes. Uh, and space curves. That just makes me start thinking about space in general and how weird it is.

SPEAKER_05 42:58

Space gets pretty out there.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

Not just space like the stars, like literally 3D space. Three-dimensional space, yeah. Occasionally I'll be like on a bike ride and I'll just be thinking about m how moving works. Like what is moving? That's weird. It is it is very strange. Going from one place to another. And I guess in a gratitude lens, thinking about all this, it's just thinking about oh, it's kind of cool that all of this is anything at all.

SPEAKER_05 43:20

It's cool to be here.

SPEAKER_03 43:22

And it's cool that we live in a place where gravity and the space works just right, that we can have guacamole and picnics and and uh throw that frisbee round. Throw that frisbee around a little bit. And we get to exist in this little cozy corner in the center of everything.

SPEAKER_05 43:35

My next thing I'm grateful for is tooth gems. We all know that everyone is talking about tooth gems, and specifically me with one. I don't know if I will or will not get one, but I know if I did, it would be super rad. Wow. Yeah. Tooth gems for teeth. I'm not a dentist. Uh I don't know what it does to your teeth in the long run, but I'm not recommending it or anything, but uh they they are cool. Yes. Um, but honestly, you guys gotta stop floating the comments with Andy, you look so handsome with. With uh with a tooth gem and OMG. Uh if Andy had a tooth gem, he would look just like gold medal winning American figure skater Alyssa Leo because she has a tooth gem. And especially who we if Andy had a tooth gem, I don't know what I'd do. Probably ask him on a nice dinner date and look into his pearly whites and stare right into that tooth gem of his.

SPEAKER_03 44:16

I l I think tooth gems are cool. I do worry about the long-term implications for that tooth.

SPEAKER_05 44:22

Yeah, what what does it do to the tooth? That's what I'm wondering.

SPEAKER_03 44:24

Does Alyssa Leo have a tooth gem? I think it's the piercing.

SPEAKER_05 44:28

It's a piercing. Yeah. It's a piercing. But it kind of says it looks like a tool. It looks like a tooth gem. Yeah, it's cool.

SPEAKER_03 44:32

She's very cool. She's cool.

SPEAKER_05 44:33

So good at figure skate. Have her on the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 44:35

Hey, Alyssa Leo, if you're listening. Come on a pod. We've never had. Give yourself a tooth gem. Yeah, do it. Okay, next up for me, monkey videos.

SPEAKER_05 44:44

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 44:45

Yeah. I'm grateful for monkey videos.

SPEAKER_05 44:47

Me too. Monk uh orangutan driving go-kart around. Or no, uh golf carts.

SPEAKER_03 44:52

Golf cart. So funny. So funny. Orangutan playing with banana. Funny. Funny. Orangutan, sad. So sad.

SPEAKER_00 45:00

So sad.

SPEAKER_04 45:00

So sad. Orangutan fall out of tree. Oh. He okay though.

SPEAKER_03 45:06

I just think I love how much everyone loves monkey videos. Yeah. Orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, monkeys in general. Because it represents us on this primordial level. It's we identify with them in this way that we of course we identify with all animals because we are animals, but monkeys and chimps and apes remind us how obviously we are animals. Yeah. These guys are shaped exactly like us, basically. Except for all that fur and the weird faces and all the all the stuff that's not. They remind us, like, oh yeah, we came from this earth. These are kind of our friends. These are our cousins. Right. And when they are sad, we can look at them and go, yes, I've experienced loneliness and sadness in the same way. And when they're having a fun time and goofing off, you're like, monkey fun! Monkey fun, I'm monkey. And also we scratch our buttons, smell our fingers, and fall out of trees. We do do that. Um but yeah, it's uh it's a beautiful, it's a beautiful thing seeing a funny monkey video. Uh, what's up next for you?

SPEAKER_05 46:03

Um, I have a couple last ones, super quick ones. Yeah, hit it. Uh I'm really grateful for whippy cushions. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Fun for the whole family. Fun for the whole family. Farting is funny. Farting is funny. Farting is funny. Uh, how about those cans of beans when you open them a little rubber snake jumps out at you? Yeah! What was that? You're grateful for that? I'm grateful for that. Shocking gag pen?

unknown 46:28

Oh!

SPEAKER_05 46:30

Keep going. A ring that when you wear it, uh you say, hey, check this out. My and then the ring squirts out a little bit of ink into your eyes.

SPEAKER_02 46:37

It's kind of mean.

SPEAKER_05 46:39

So you're grateful for pranks? Bug in your eyes. Bug in your eyes. That's when you just freeze a bug and put it in your eyes cup. Fake dog poop. Fake dog poop?

SPEAKER_02 46:48

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 46:48

That one's not good.

SPEAKER_02 46:49

No.

SPEAKER_05 46:50

I don't know. All in all, I'm just trying to figure out how I can prank Thomas for April Fool's Day. It's coming up and leave a comment in with your favorite uh prank. That's that's like uh heart healthy and and and not too invasive or intrusive.

SPEAKER_03 47:04

I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_05 47:05

Um, but it will occur. Okay. And we will post it on our Patreon.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

Okay, last but not least for me, I'm grateful for other people. Okay. I'm grateful for people in general. I think that it's easy to go when you're going through life to tune people out or to be annoyed by people in the day-to-day. And I think there's so much that we rely on other people for and that we can be grateful for other people in our lives. Our whole lives is shaped by other people, and that can be maybe feel claustrophobic or like the world is out of your control. But something that we we will occasionally talk about is we'll like look out your bedroom window and see power lines or my and see power lines and go, people are making power lines. I don't know how to make power lines.

SPEAKER_05 47:43

Right, right. Like that's a really crazy thing. The world is functioning in so many ways we cannot understand.

SPEAKER_03 47:48

And that when it works well, it exists in a way that could only be done by all of us working together. Right. Uh, and of course the world isn't perfect. But there's so much good stuff that we just don't pay attention to that's given to us by other people. And yes, th those other people are doing it maybe for a paycheck or maybe for a million reasons. But it's they're not being done.

SPEAKER_05 48:07

You know, at at at a core level, our plumbing, our water, our electricity, our uh garbage trucks, you know, all these things are super important. Public transit to a functioning society and funded by government.

SPEAKER_03 48:20

Yeah, funded by us. Yeah, the people by us. It's just really cool that we're all here doing something together. We should all be a little more aware of how present and how helpful other people are in your day-to-day life. Because if you think about existence in general and just like how we are here in this universe that maybe couldn't be here or wouldn't be here, and how it doesn't really make much sense, it could be kind of a cold and scary experience, but it's not because we're all here together.

SPEAKER_05 48:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:45

Yeah. So that's our stuff we're grateful for, right?

SPEAKER_05 48:47

Yeah. A little shorter one for you today. Yeah. Um but we hope you like it.

SPEAKER_03 48:51

Okay. And your mindfulness mission for this week is to be a little bit more grateful for everything. Notice the things you're you're grateful for, and uh and if you want, you can write it down, you can make a note of it. But yeah, just pay attention whenever something good happens or even something normal happens.

SPEAKER_05 49:06

Write a list of the top five things you're grateful for this week, and then act upon that gratefulness and say thank you to the people who make this society function so smoothly and bring us a little closer to each other every day. Thank a bird, thank a bus driver, thank a tree, thank your mom, thank everybody, and thank you. Thank you. Anyway, we love you.

SPEAKER_04 49:31

Bye-bye.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Hey man, hey man, where are you?