We're Breaking Up With Our Phones - #007

This week, we're catching up with some aggressively average life updates. Plus, we have an honest convo about our relationship with social media.

If you've been feeling a little too attached to your phone lately like us, this one's for you!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Hey guys, we're back again with another sewed Happy Friday.

SPEAKER_02 0:23

I'm Amber.

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And I'm Alyssa.

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And this is in Good Fake Podcast. Yes. I need we need those horns. Every time we get in front of these microphones, Alyssa goes, What did you just say? That I it's my personality. Oh yeah, that. No.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

It's like severance.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

I walk into this studio and become a different person. Become another person.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

That's a movie reference.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

You know, you know. And you probably don't.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

People don't know. If you have ever watched The Master of Disguise, can you just please send us a message? Drop a like. Drop a like. Drop a hello. I've watched this movie. That movie is so dumb, but it shaped me as a it shaped our entire family. Literally.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

We know every word. If that gives you any insight on how messed up we are.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

Yeah. So I was just talking to Lissa also. Whenever I come in here and I like try to like pull up my notes really quick, it's always like a five-minute thing and Ben has to edit it out. Sorry, Ben. But I because I start talking, and I don't know if this happens to anybody else, but whenever I talk and I'm trying to like multitask and do something at the same time, it just doesn't work.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Like I usually start having an out-of-body experience. Yes. That's exactly what watching myself try to talk from the outside. Yes. And I lose what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

Yes. And then you just look a little dumb. Like I was just looking, like obviously, I'm talking right now, and I'm not even saying anything of substance, but it's like, no matter if there are words coming out of my mouth, if I'm like on my phone, like trying to do something and it has to do with like words, I'm just looking at words and I'm like, look, I'm going like this. Just scrolling up and down. I have no idea what I'm looking for. I was looking for my notes for this podcast. Also in my tours, it happens sometimes at work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

It's like whenever you're like kind of nervous and trying to do something quickly.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Yeah. It's like whenever I'm in front of people, and I'm not in front of anybody, but it's still feel like these microphones, like you guys are the microphones. Yeah. Also, I feel in my head, we have about 7 million downloads right now. Like we're talking to the masses. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Well, we're gonna start getting stopped on the street, is what is what we're thinking.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

No, but in my tours, I it happens all the time and it's so embarrassing. Like I get in my head, because I have like the same thing. Like, I don't like to use the word spiel because that sounds like I'm not like you know, putting effort in. But yeah, it is like I say my my lines, and then like I in my head, I'm like thinking about something totally different because like my lines are my lines, you know, and then I start getting all jumbled in my head. I'm like, like I don't know what's going on. And then I do have that out-of-body experience. Like I've had to apologize a few times.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

Yeah, it happens, man. So, what's been up? Do you have any life updates? Oh, give me five minutes. Let me get my notes pulled up. I'll tell you mine. Okay, yeah. The other day I went to Duncan for a coffee. I don't usually go to Duncan, don't really like it, but it's got all we have. Anyways, I went and I went to pay, and the guy was like, the the person in front of you paid for you. I say, huh? Why they did that? I don't know if I can pay it for it right now. No, but he said, and they gave you a message. They said, Nan, Nana paid for you. What? I don't have a nana.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Someone's Nana was trying to pay for something.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

It was really nice and it made my day, but I don't know who it was. So if anybody knows, shout out to Nana would be.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

For some reason, I understood that as like, see, my brain just concocts junk. I was like, oh, Nana, whoever this Nana is, she was trying to pay for like her granddaughter or grandson or something. She's trying to pay for somebody, and then like she left him a message like, hey, Nana paid for you. And like you took what they were supposed to pay. But that none of that makes any kind of sense. Do you even understand what I'm trying to say?

SPEAKER_01 5:01

Like she thought it was somebody else.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Like, yeah, she was like trying to pay for someone specific. And she's like, hey, Nana paid for you. Like, give them that message. Yeah, maybe. No. And that guy just like messed up. No, I think my that doesn't make any sense. That wouldn't work.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

But yeah, thank you, Nana. If I heard even heard it correctly, it could be Hannah or Savannah. Savannah or Anna. Anna. Yeah, maybe Anna. Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

But thank you for the coffee. That's cute. That I don't really know if that's ever happened to me.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

I feel like it's happened at Starbucks.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

And then I just leave.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

But this wasn't a pay it forward type of thing. It was somebody like that wanted to pay for me. They didn't want to like pass it along. Anyways, I was in a rush. So I didn't pay it forward. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

I feel bad. You've repented. It's fine. Said it out loud. Do you remember that one time? I won't name any names, but where we were in a drive-through. And the person cut us off. And then the person we were with was just road rage in it up. Blah blah blah. Why in the world? Whatever, blah, blah, blah. What's wrong with you? And then they couldn't hear him, so or them.

unknown 6:23

Excuse me.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

But like we got up to the window and the McDonald's person was like, or whatever, the drive-thru person was like, they paid for you.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Like immediate regret.

unknown 6:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

But they honestly they did it out of spite. Like, let's be real. They knew well, maybe they were just trying to think messed up and was trying to apologize. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

Anyways, needless to say, just be nice to people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

Pay it forward when you can.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

If you can, that's okay too. If you can't, just have good vibes sending their way. Just blow them a kiss.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

I don't think we talked about our pottery class. We did talk about it. Or I think. When we came here Saturday. Was it after my bad day? Deberied to the body. We had come after a bad day. Yeah, I had a bad day, guys. I had a bad week.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

I had an amazing pottery week. I love it. Alyssa was there last week.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

Buzzing. She was buzzing in that class. No, I I had a really bad day.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Well, we uh this week we were what do you call that? Scraping the stuff? Yes. Trimming. Trimming. We were scraping the stuff. I was scraping my clay.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

Mr. Are we gonna scrape the clay today?

SPEAKER_01 7:47

Anyways. And I enjoyed that. It was satisfying. I feel like we did talk about this. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

I just okay. I just am like a broken record. I tell anyone who will listen everything then. So whoever I told this, probably my coworkers. Sorry, you're listening to it again. Oh no, I think I was telling the pottery guy. No, I feel like I have literally anyone who listens.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

Yeah, this phone. Like, what do you mean? I got an after class.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Chuck, do you have a minute?

unknown 8:18

I need to talk.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

I hated scraping. No, I really actually liked scraping or trimming. I feel like I had a lot more control over trimming, whereas on that wheel, I was over the place. But with trimming, like it was very, very satisfying. But I literally I told Demi I called her afterwards because I was just, I couldn't call you because I knew we had to talk about it on the podcast, and I was upset. I mean, I knew it would make mediocre content. But I called her, I was talking to mom about it. I had like this my prized possession, like Alyssa mentioned. It was like my lemon squeezer thing. And I ripped a hole in it, and then I had to try to fix it with his help. And it was just Do you think it's gonna work still? I don't know. It probably blew into a million pieces in the kiln. Yeah, our pieces got fired. Fired to biscuit. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Lobster. Um yeah, that sounds good. I'm so hungry. Anyways, I've never even had that. I had it once. It was like a microwave dish.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

That sounds horrible. Lobster bisque from the microwave. What is it like Panera bread?

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Somebody and they had it in their thing. So I made some lost lobster bisque. It wasn't that good. Anyway, we made some cute pieces this time. Well, okay. Rewind a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 9:47

I can't even.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

My fingernails, they're not like super long by any means, but like I have nails. My nails are decently long. And so doing the pottery last time was really hard.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

You just have scrape marks everywhere. Yeah, I kept gouging on clay.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

So I was like, I need like a prosthetic thumb.

SPEAKER_02 10:12

She actually sent me pictures of prosthetic thumbs, like rubber thumbs.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

No, she we used to have that magic kit and it had a fake thumb. I'm like, I need to find that magic kit. No, yeah. It's like, mom, have you seen that magic kit from when I was a kid? This is in our old house that we've moved out of. And I'm like, I need something like that. They have those for pottery people with long fingernails. And so I got those and it just made everything better. And our instructor got a kick out of those. He did. I got embarrassed.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

He was really, really smitten with those.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Would you look at that? That is neat.

SPEAKER_02 10:50

Yeah. Yeah. Well, my my lemon squeezer, whatever, ripped the hole. And then I also had a like two cups that I made. And I was really proud of these cups. And like they're pretty decent, but they are like on the smaller side. My intention was to have like an iced coffee cup. And I said, hey, sir, how big do you think these will be after firing? Because he did mention that they reduce in size whatever percentage. He's like, maybe a little bit bigger than a shot glass. I'm like, perfect. That's exactly what I wanted. I came in here to make shot glasses. Like, what am I gonna do with those? You could do wellness shots. That's true. Like, it was just really frustrating because like you go in trying to make an iced coffee cup and it's gonna be like a little bit bigger than a shot glass. I said a shop glass, huh? So yeah, there was that.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

And then lastly, we made you guys probably have seen them. The like cute iced coffee mugs that they're to go and they have like the little lid halfway over it. We made those, and mine, God's willing, turned out really cute. But Amber's I had a fail there.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

Well, because remember how Alyssa was saying, like, oh, he paid so much attention to you in the first class. Well, he did not pay any attention to me in the second class. I was fighting for my life over there on the wheel.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Well, once I had my fingertips on, I was going.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Well, I had the fingertips on, but like I couldn't feel the clay. And so, anyways, I just like was on the wheel and I kept messing up, and we only had like 30 minutes in the class. I'm like, bro, he's not gonna let me do this. You started it too late. Because I was trying to scrape all my other stuff and fix my lemon squeezer. I was just behind schedule. We only have three hours in the class. But I like could not get my piece right, and then like, long story short, he comes over there, rips it off. It ain't working. And he was like, Let me just you go write your names in the in the clay over there. I'll finish it for you. Yeah, basically, move. Let me finish this. So he like throws this like big, huge, it's probably gonna end up being the size, the proper size. Is this Stanley thing? It's like 24 or 32 ounces. I swear it was like it was no listen, no. Yes, it was. Look at where my finger is. Yeah, I saw it. It's not that big. You're not that guy, pal. You're not that guy. Yeah, correct me. No, but it was legitimately this big. I'm not lying to you.

SPEAKER_01 13:39

For audio listeners only, that is about four and a half inches wide.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Audio listeners only. We have no video. None whatsoever. We don't know how to do it. Um, yeah, it was long story short again, it was just a big cup and it was not gonna fit in my cup holder. And then I he's such a nice guy, but he tried like this technique on the bottom that he was telling us about earlier in the class, and I was like, Yeah, sure, what the heck? I'd love to see how that looks.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

I'm pretty chill, yeah. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

Yeah, I'm a chill girl. I don't like thing what speak, Amber. I was trying to be funny and like I can't even get my words out. Anyways, I was trying to be chill. I let him do it, and I'm not a chill person, and it just like was not my style. And again, it added more bulk to the bottom, and I don't think it's gonna be a little bit more. I'm trimming that entire part off if possible, but I think it is maybe fired.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

No, we didn't trim those pieces yet.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Well, all that to say, I'm not happy with what I'm coming out with, and then also it was so big and heavy and wet, and you're supposed to wait till clay is leather hard to like add like a handle or like whatever. And so whenever we're adding the lid, it like sunk. So I'm gonna come back. Mine was looking pretty fire though. It was so she sent me a picture. Hold on, what did the screen? I I did not take a screenshot, but what did the message say? I said, You were like, Hold on, let me just find it. Yeah, she sent me a picture of her perfect little iced coffee cup. She's like, I know that yours didn't turn out, but I'm so excited for mine.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

I was like, I can't talk about this right now. You can't when you know that they're not a true friend when they can't celebrate your wins. I'm sorry. I it was like really My win is not your loss. Oh but in this case, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 15:50

Wait, I literally just heard something on the way here. Oh, I was listening to Nick and Ashley. Uh they said something like that. In sync. Yeah. Your win is not my loss. However, your loss. My loss is the$200 I paid for the class, and I have nothing to show for it. That's my loss.

SPEAKER_01 16:09

So Well, I'm sure if it looked that bad, he would have corrected it. He probably fixed it for you.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

I don't know. It was like 15 minutes that the class was ending. We were we were hustling and bustling. Anyways, let's move past pottery. Yeah, sorry, that's a 15 minutes on pottery. I opened my sewing machine. Finally, I have been in my Martha Stewart week. I almost said era, but it might not even last that long. I've been sewing like a little machine. Sewing machine. No pun intended. No pun intended. I'm loving it. I brought this to show you in person because I know that you were just dying to see it. You already sent me a picture of it. I know, but I I brought it to show you in person. I made like a little pouch.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

For the audio listeners, this is a gorgeous little quilted pouch for your AirPods. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 17:06

How did you do this button? Did you have a grommet? Do you have a grommet thing? I do have a grommet thing, but that's not a grommet. It was just like a snap fastener or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

Using buzzwords there.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

I know. It's cool. No, I was hammering last night. I'm like, my downstairs neighbor's gonna say something, probably. But yeah, I have like little fasteners on it and everything. It's so darling. It is a little crappy, I won't lie. But you know what? It was made with love. And although my sheen was being a stinker, like if you look inside of this thing, that's pretty good though.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Like, I would think that you bought that from from Cezanne? No, from maybe a little like local market. No farmers market.

SPEAKER_02 18:02

No, I uh there is like a Sazan little pouch like this. I sent you the picture, yeah. And that's like the little tutorial video that I it goes in though. I know.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Can you make it more stable? No, that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Yeah, okay, yeah. It's okay, it's cute. I'll drop a photo in the in the dump that you guys want to know.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

So bad. I know. Every week you guys, when are you guys dropping that dump? Oh my gosh. Dropping that dump. Like what does it mean?

SPEAKER_02 18:34

I don't I feel like that's really in winter.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 18:37

No, I didn't, it just I didn't even think of that at first, but it does sound really weird saying dropping a dump.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

But sorry guys. Never mind.

SPEAKER_04 18:46

I okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

You do you have anything?

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Um I have an unfortunate one.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Unfortunate for who? Is it gonna make me mad or sad?

SPEAKER_01 18:56

We are one sandhill baby down. No, Alyssa. Thank you guys for your prayers, but Ohys. Nature took one of them. The other morning I saw both of them before I left for work, and then that evening I came home and like, where's the other one? Where is it's probably around that corner, but then they were like walking far away and there's only one.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

Bro, it's probably that dumb hawk. That like seriously, like I'm gonna be driving home thinking about that. That kind of news, it genuinely hurts me. I don't know if you got did we tell them Yeah, you told 'em.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

I saw a hawk snatch one up a couple years ago. Yeah. Before my very eyes. I was about 10 feet away. Horrifying. I'm just like think like I can't even But no. I'm gonna be honest, those sandhill cranes, especially out where we live, they're not good parents. No, they think that the kids are old enough and they walk away from them.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

They're irresponsible parents.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

And they're they're worried about eating.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

They're so self-specific.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

And they just whatever.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

I was doing research, believe it or not, last night on sandhill cranes. Because I sent you that bag. Okay. See, that's that's where my ADHD mind goes. I sent you that bag because I was sewing. I was like, ooh, let me look up bags for inspo. I saw one with a sandhill crane on it. And then I was doing research on sandhill cranes. They're not okay. So we have like our native sandhill cranes here in Florida. But most of like, don't quote me on any of this. Most of like the sandhill crane population is like from like Canada and like up north. I could see that. Like and they fly south. Yeah, and then they fly down. But we do have our native ones that do stay year-round here. But the other ones are called like greater sandhills, and then whatever. I don't know what ours are. Not that much greater. I think ours are just like little, like little boys. Wait, they're bigger? I think so, yeah. Heavens to Betsy. Yeah. And maybe there's some like intermixed, intermingled. I don't know what sandhill cranes I see. I'm assuming the native ones, but also it's cold everywhere else. So, like, which ones are we seeing? Also, do the babies fly back?

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Oh what are they big? Greater sandhill cranes are significantly larger with longer legs, blah blah blah. 4.5 to 5 feet.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

You know, it would be scary. 10 to 14 pounds. That's sick em is like imagine like seeing like, you know, big bird from Sesame Street. Like imagine seeing like a bird like that. Like, what if that was what they looked like? How scary would that be? That's insane.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Um, it's 50% larger than the sand hill cranes. 50% are I think ours are called lesser sandhill cranes. That's really rude.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

That made sense. Lesser and greater.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

They're not lesser in my eyes. I love them all the same.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

They're beautiful, they're just kind of not good parents. They're just little and dumb. That ruined my night. Thanks for sharing.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

I wish she wouldn't have said that to me. Well, I just wanted to keep everything authentic. I don't want to pretend that there's still two babies and I asked for prayers and everything about him. Yeah. I just thought I'd update you guys on the circle of life.

SPEAKER_02 22:19

So I feel like I'm gonna get into my hobbies a little bit in this episode. By the way, we're talking about like just bone addiction, social media, and what to do about it. Couldn't tell ya. But I feel like I'm gonna get into my hobbies. However, I think my next one might be baking. Would you like to join? Honey. Oh, wait. I'm talking to the. I don't think that they're lame. I ate every single one of your stuff. I do that doesn't mean it's lame. It means I hate it. It's great for you.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

You're probably gonna start baking bread soon, yeah?

SPEAKER_02 23:01

I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think I want to.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

You'll tune in in a couple months. She's gonna start baking bread. Yeah. That's good though. Baking is very therapeutic to me. If I'm having like a rough time, I'll bake.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

I think the problem is it makes my kitchen dirty. And then I just I don't really want to deal with all of that after I bake. But I did bake brownies, and I am convinced I made the best brownies. I'm actually going home and I'm making them tonight for work.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

Are you going to Yes, I switched the chocolate. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Making them for work, like to bring to your friendship and loving purposes. I meant for like lunch.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

No.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Four squares.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Oh. I did have a little boo-boo last night or the other night because I made the mistake of leaving brownies on my counter. I can't do that with speaking of addiction, brownies.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

Chocolate. Let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

It's real. No, but brownies and chocolate chip cookies, but like they have to be homemade. It has to be like a specific, it has to have like a specific taste with semi-sweet chocolate. I won't get into the whole thing. I sound like Jeremiah.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Who? Oh. The bean is cacao is the bean belly.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

70% cacao. No, but I did wake up saying that yesterday because I'm like, okay, I have to go to Publix and I don't want to get the 70% cacao. I have to get like the 50%.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Is it cacao or cocoa? The one that you're gonna have.

unknown 24:32

Cacao.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

The one that you're getting. Yes. I don't know. It's baker's chocolate. I don't know. That might not be cacao. I'm pretty sure it said that, but who knows? But, anyways, I start rambling and then I get so off topic. It's already been like 30 minutes. We're not even on the topic yet.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

I'm on my third live out.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Also, do you guys like the longer episodes or should we keep it short? Let us know. I don't want to bore you guys.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

Yeah, seriously, because like this is just like chatting. But I like to listen to podcasts that just chat. You don't have to get something from every podcast, you know. I just like hearing what they have to say.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

We were on the podium last week.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

Yeah. We were on the podium.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

So this week we're on the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

On our crabs. Yeah. I'm on my grind. I am on my grind. I've been to the gym one time this week so far. What's today?

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Well, it's Monday. So that's what I'm saying. No, it's not Friday. Oops. No, we're not recording this on a Monday. We recorded day of and released it that morning.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

No, but I have been on my gym grind. It's been nice because I've been trying to like track when the days are like the best times to go during the day. I've been going on the weekends, which I'm not gonna disclose the times because I don't want to see their gatekeeping those. But it's been nice. Like there's been nobody in there, and I like yesterday I did the I don't even know what's called. The fly thing?

SPEAKER_01 26:06

This thing?

SPEAKER_02 26:07

No. But I have that written down though for an episode coming up. Well, coming up. I don't even know when it's coming up. But things that are scary for no reason.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Working out in front of the mirror whenever there's boys in the boys.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

No, when there's anybody, I'm scared of the old ladies, too. The high school boys, I those are my biggest fear. That is the one of my biggest fears.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

The gym at 5 p.m. is a nightmare.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Oh no. Couldn't see me, couldn't see me there. Ever. You couldn't and you won't. Couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't. Anyways. You sh't. You shan't see me there. I'm so scared of like them just like I don't even know. Like coming and like correcting me and like making fun of me and my pee-wee squats, like with my five-pound dumbbell. But no, I used the squat rack and I did squats the other day. Like with the barbell.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 27:11

Not the Smith machine. No, no, no, no, honey.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

I was back there in the back with the free weights, baby. I did that before, and like there were some men back there, so I felt pretty powerful.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

And like I'm standing on business back there. I'm standing on business. My exact 10 pounds on each side.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Yes. Except mine was the bar. I did my RDLs with the I did my warm-up with the bar, and then I added two point lines.

unknown 27:42

Good night.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

Five pounds. I think maybe I was 50 pounds. Oh no, no, no. Yeah, my RD. Because it hurted, or it hurted. Is that a word?

unknown 27:51

No.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

For a five-year-old.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

Yeah. Sorry, my vocabulary is a little. It hurt my hands.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

You need to get those weightlifting gloves with my hands. Oh my gosh. Imagine. Imagine a fucking chip. And one of those like belts that like help your back.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

It's like, baby girl, what are you doing? You're lifting seven pounds. Me doing hand cleans.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Imagine. I've never watched Spongebob, but I know that he was like lifting something super light.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

I don't know what it was.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

I don't know. Never mind. I feel like his legs would are are my legs. But I did add five pounds to my two point five. No, I added five pounds to my back squats. So yeah. My hammies are dying. I was telling Katie today, they hurt really weird. I wonder if he did them right. I think I did. Oh, that you probably did it right for the first time.

unknown 28:54

Ever.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

No, but it hurts so bad that like whenever I bend down, it makes me want to throw up. What does that mean? Good or bad?

SPEAKER_01 29:03

We will never know in the comments.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Let me know if I need to go to the doctor.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Anyways. Let's get into phone addiction.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Speaking of, I have some notes.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

Oh, wait. Listen, before I'll make this quick. Substack. I downloaded it. Okay. Yes. Wannabe. Yo, that's crazy. She just called me a wannabe. I left my notes in the car.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Perfection. Cool. You remember whenever I told you guys that I'm very forgetful? I'll forget major things. Anyways.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Like one time, whenever we were going to Rhode Island and you forgot your ID at my house, that like that. I remembered before we got too far.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

We still had to turn around. Scariest moment of my life.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

Um, excuse me, miss. Um, do you like turning the coral?

SPEAKER_01 30:03

You guys were trying to be nice, but I know.

SPEAKER_02 30:05

I had to hold in the space. I know. I know.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

I said, uh huh, yep. For sure we can turn around. And then I truly didn't know if it was even at your house. Didn't know if it had it at all. He said, you guys can just go without me. Uh I left my ID one time at a super lube for a couple months. It wasn't even for my oil change.

SPEAKER_04 30:37

A couple months is so crazy. What?

SPEAKER_01 30:40

They messaged me on Facebook. I'm like, who is this creep? Trying to hit on me. And then I finally opened it and read it. I was like, oh, snap. They sent me a picture of my IT.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

It's like you're so crazy.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

Okay, this is like well, super leaf. He did it from his personal. Yeah, oh snap.

SPEAKER_04 31:08

Ew, why is this guy messaging me? It's like he's literally just trying to help you out. Because you're an idiot. Okay, I'll be there to pick it up shortly.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

It's like you humble and hops in the car and heads to Jiffy Lube. Months. And I don't know how to going without my ID for me.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Yeah. Thank goodness you didn't get pulled over. Yeah. I that and the only thing that's really happened to me, I'm sure I've had other things in the past, but I forgot, but was most recently at Fresh Kitchen. Whenever we were in Tampa that day, we stopped there afterwards and I like changed my purse that day. And it was like a purse that like, I don't know, I guess I just wasn't used to it. And I I'm still getting a feel for it.

SPEAKER_04 31:56

I was still trying to feel it out, you know. You know how it is when new purses.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

But I was ordering my film and I just like dropped it on the floor, apparently, like nowhere even near the opening in my purse. And literal hours later, I'm laying, or no, I forgot. Like, I needed my ID to like buy something, probably. I'm like, where's my wallet? It's not my purse. Fresh kitchen tape. And so it was like five minutes to a close. And I called. They're like my last resort because I was like, no, I'm not that dumb. Like, why would I leave it on the counter? Like, I'm not that forgetful. I said, hey, like, this is a long shot, but do you guys have my ID? Like, I left my wallet. Like, yeah, we have it here. Someone picked it up off the ground and gave it to us. I'm like, okay, I'll be there tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Sorry every time you guys open. That reminded me whenever I left my credit card at Mr. and Mrs. Krabs in St.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

Pete. Your stories are so weird. Like the weirdest places. Mr. and Mrs. Krabs.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

Wow. Yeah, I was me and Shelby were there after the beach, and she was just going to be able to do that. I was in a trance. And I forgot it. And then I was like, where the heck is my credit card? And I called them and they had it. So I had to go back over there. But it's fine. You need to like compile a list of well, you lost your ring. This episode is changed. It's about things that we lost and found miraculously. Oh, Don Jose.

SPEAKER_04 33:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 33:41

Shut up. Always eaten.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

She was getting into that burrito.

SPEAKER_02 33:45

Seriously. I actually found it in my burrito. No, I had this like new ring that I got from Greece. And it wasn't like a cheap ring. Like I spent money on it. And it was special. And then I wore it. I ate at Don Jose. And then I got home and I lost it. And same thing there.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

And it was like a special ring that we did you already say that?

SPEAKER_02 34:08

Yeah, I did. She's on her phone, guys. She's distracted. That's what the episode.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Perfect transition.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

No, but it was like a tiny, tiny, tiny little ring, like so thin. And by the grace of God, someone spotted it in the bathroom.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

That's crazy. We'll have to show a picture of how small.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Like literal, it was so small.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

I don't know where mine is right now. We gotta get off this subject. Let's get into phone addiction. And how can we break this addiction?

SPEAKER_02 34:38

How can we break this?

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Because it is an addiction.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

It literally is. I feel like a lot of people though, like don't treat it as the serious addiction that it is. I was listening to another podcast that was talking about it, and it was saying, like, okay, you see like how people are addicted to like drugs, alcohol, whatever. And it's like phone addiction, I feel like in social media isn't treated the same way because it doesn't have like those physical, like negative impacts, like drugs, alcohol, whatever do. And like, but it does have negative impacts, has a lot of them, actually.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

We just haven't seen, or we're like starting to see them finally.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

Yeah, but I mean like it it just is not held up to the same First of all, you get tech neck.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Have you ever seen that? Girl, I got it every day, mama.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

That's one physical thing. But we're always looking down at our phones and your neck gets all weird.

SPEAKER_02 35:52

So, you know, if you don't want a weird neck, stop looking at your phone so dang much.

SPEAKER_01 35:56

And I say that. I probably have tech neck.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

I haven't seen my profile though, so no, but I I forget like what I said before, but like I feel like we use our phones for everything. I think I did say that like 10 times. We had to cut some out, guys, because we kept laughing. But I feel like we use our phones for everything, so it's a struggle. Like as soon as I get on my phone, like I'll get on my phone to do like whatever. It'll be something productive too. Like, oh, I need to like check this email and check whatever. Get on, thumb immediately scrolls to Instagram. I just look for the little pink square automatically, and I'm on Instagram scrolling through reels in stories. I'm like, how did wait, what was I even on my phone for? How did I end up here? It's the reels that get you. It's the reels.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Like, social media isn't necessarily like a toxic place for me. I'm not really comparing myself. I don't really care. But it's for me, it happens at night. I because I use my phone as a TV remote, because you know, sometimes I can't find mine. And then I just get on somehow what is it called? Instagram reels, and I'll just keep going, keep going, keep going. And you know, yeah, and I'm like, this is sick, yes, and I can't stop. Yes, or it's like at a certain point, I just like accept the disgust and I just dwell.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

And then I start crying after because I'm so upset with myself. What is wrong with you? Like, clearly, like you want, like my mind wants to get off, but you and it's like I can I can see the addiction, like it's manifested in front of me. It's happening, I'm doing it, and I like can't get off. I'm like, okay, you have one more and just get off. Yeah, and it's so tough, but I it I don't it's also like it craps up your attention span. And like I feel like it's a weird cycle because it's like, okay, yes, like social media, you're like, you're getting those immediate dopamine hits, all that, whatever. And then like that even affects like when I go back to get on my phone, like I'm immediately like distracted. Like that noise just scared me, but I'm immediately distracted, and I feel like it all stems from like getting like these quick little dopamine hits. Like, even watching a movie is hard. Yeah, do you get distracted whenever you watch a movie?

SPEAKER_01 38:46

I rarely watch movies, so I don't know. But I feel if I watch a show or something, I was watching a show the other night, and actually, I was pretty into that one.

SPEAKER_02 39:01

Actually, that was pretty dang good. You should watch it. No, I feel I find myself starting a movie, and I'll be like so excited to start it. I'm like, okay, I I I really want to watch this movie, and then I'll be like, hmm, I wonder what her name is in real life. And then I'll get on my phone, get on IMBD, and then like start looking up all these people, what other places they've played in, and then I'm on Instagram, and then I'm on Pinterest finding a recipe to make for dinner, and then like I'm just like listening to the movie, and then I have the nerve to say, like, I'm bored. I'm this is that was such a boring movie, but it's like you you didn't even pay attention because you were literally so distracted. Yeah, it's like because of Instagram reels, I feel like those are so quick coming at you, and you're always expecting like another dopamine hit and like something coming next. That with a movie, it's like too long, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

And they do obviously they do that on purpose, like the short reels and like you don't know what's coming next. So you're always thinking the next best thing, next best thing, and it keeps going and going. And so you're in a feudal position. In my research, it's not even groundbreaking, but like why do why do they why does big phone want us to be addicted? Money. Yeah, yeah, money it's all marketing. The longer they have our attention, the more they're able to collect data about us, send us whatever ads and junk. And then the more money we spend. And that is true.

SPEAKER_02 40:40

Yeah. I feel like I saw that. Remember that one Netflix documentary? I forgot what it was called. It was like being like it was about this subject and like being addicted to your phone. And like that's the whole thing behind it is it's a money-making thing. Yeah, we gotta stop big phone. Yeah, big phone needs to be stopped. Stop him, please. Somebody get that phone.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

I okay, so practical ways to break this addiction. Yeah? Yeah. Habit stacking.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

What is habit stacking? So this was on my notes that I forgot, but it's like, well, first of all, replacing one habit with a better habit. Okay, yeah, I have that written down too. Habit stacking is like, okay, whenever I wake up, I'm gonna drink a glass of water. And after I drink a glass of water, I'm gonna go stand outside. Oh, yes. After this, I'm gonna do this.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

And like you just pair them together. So it's like your brain, like just like my finger on my phone, I'm habit stacking Instagram. Like, I need to have it stack, like, hey, whenever I make my coffee, I'm also going to, I don't know, read a verse in the Bible. Or you know what I mean, instead of like getting on my phone first.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

And like you'll probably still check your messages and whatnot, but the longer that you delay it, the easier it is to eventually break the habit.

SPEAKER_02 42:21

Also, okay, yeah, I said fill the void with a better behavior, which goes with that. So it's like I wrote down because where for me, you said that you're you kind of have like that issue at night after you get on your phone for your remote. Yeah. Mine is after work. I immediately, which I've been better about this the last couple weeks because I haven't had Instagram on my phone, but I immediately would come home from work, sit on my couch, and I have it stacked my couch with some brownies.

SPEAKER_01 43:00

After I sit on my couch, I'll get a brownie. After I eat a brownie, I will scroll.

SPEAKER_02 43:05

Yeah. So I uh no, I would come home and I would associate like sitting with my couch with sitting with your couch. I don't know what I said. Sitting on my couch, and I would sorry. I have a problem with correcting people like that. It's okay. But I would just like sit and scroll and scroll and scroll, and then like I look down, it's been an hour and a half. I'm like, I set out to do all of these productive things today, and I haven't done any of it. Literally.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Yeah, and then I'm like, there goes my Sunday reset. Didn't do anything.

SPEAKER_02 43:38

I had no time today. Gosh. Well, you did, but you were commenting on your friend's reel. I've actually never commented on a reel, except for that one, but the one from the half marathon. I'm like actually triggered by the word half marathon because we said it so many times. I don't care. I'm proud of it. I am too. But so okay. Instead of coming home and being on my phone immediately, come home and watch TV. I need to come home and like immediately cook dinner. Or come home if I want to sit on my couch still for a few minutes of like rest. Why don't you like read a chapter in a book? When's the last time? Like I can see my like I don't like saying ADHD because like there are like diagnosed. Yes. Like I don't say that to be like funny. Like I really do. Like it's I struggle with like what I but it's something. Yeah. Something's not. But like I can't like focus. And I see it a lot when I am reading a book and I try to read a book. I can only read like two pages, maybe. And then like I think I can't understand any of it. Like I can't, my comprehension skills are trash. And then I'm just like thinking of like all the other things like that I could be doing in my head or like just like random things, like something in the book will remind me of something. I'm like, why can't your brain focus? And I'm convinced it's from the way we've been on our phones, for sure. Like this is how we were raised. I mean, like well, we obviously had a decent childhood phone-free, or at least maybe not fully phone free, but we had flip phones, you can't do anything on that, yeah. But like it's become so normal because everything is done on there, and it's just like a part of our day-to-day life, and you just don't you don't think you're addicted, but you are, and it's like a weird thing to say like I have a phone addiction, like okay, baby. Baby, yeah. What do you mean, baby? Yeah, exactly. I can pay you in blocks.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

I yeah, I think mostly it's just like replacing this bad habit with good habits and becoming addicted to those. I took a note out of your book. What do you call that? Is that the right saying? And I took up hand embroidery. Absolutely addicted. Dare I say, I was fiending for it yesterday, but I couldn't. Yeah. Because I broke my little needle threader. Mm-hmm. And me and mom went to Michael's and I was gonna get one. Michael's was closed. So hopefully I can start up my habit again. But it has really gotten me off my phone. Yeah. Because I'll just sit outside focused on that chain stitch, lay in the sun, and just hand stitch. And it is electric.

SPEAKER_02 46:41

That's so stupid. I I was laughing because I've been, as you guys know, on my sewing grind. And I was FaceTiming my mom the other day as I was sewing, and like I wish we had or video, but like I was just like going to town, like bouncing with my little sewing machine. And then I was thinking, I'm like, my future husband's out there somewhere. I feel so bad. He's like looking for me, and you're hunched over. I'm hunched over a sewing machine. Like the Grinch sewing his sewing. Exactly. Like going to town. I was like, he'll never find me. But you know what? I'm okay with that right now because I just made a sick little pouch. Oh, you mean like because you don't go out? Yeah. I'm sewing at home and embroidering and hand stitching and doing all these things. My next hobby will be like, Yeah. What's that when boys and girls play?

SPEAKER_01 47:31

What? Inner rugby? Inner. Oh, interalmural. Intermural. Co-ed. Co-ed, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 47:42

We'll use that one. I don't know what intramural means. I don't either. I don't think it's a word, but like co-ed like pickleball or something like that. I need to like do that. Yeah, we should start playing pickleball, like with a league. But anyways, I yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:58

Well, I was looking at my list, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 48:01

I just like want to replace all of my negative habits with good habits, but it's really hard for me to stick to a habit because it comes back to that distraction thing. I can't do it.

SPEAKER_01 48:14

We don't okay. I think definitely like work on replacing certain habits with better habits, but also we don't have to fill every space with something.

SPEAKER_02 48:23

I know. That's another thing. And then you start feeling guilty whenever you're like, okay, well, why can't I just sit and be still? Because also I feel like social media and like I guess habits too, just anything, specifically like my phone is such a distraction. I feel like I need to relearn how to just like sit and be still and like actually listen to what God is like. Like God can be trying to tell you something and you're on Instagram scrolling, which he can speak to you through Instagram and he has before. So stop scrolling. Yeah, those videos gimme. But like God is like that still small voice, like he's in the quiet moments, and it's like if you're not allowing yourself to have those just still quiet moments, like number one, you're never gonna feel rested. I feel like that's essential for rest. And we've talked about this in a previous episode, but like I come home and I sit on my couch and I scroll, and I think that's like rest, and it's not, it's like it actually drains me. I feel like crap when I get up.

SPEAKER_01 49:30

Yeah. And go ahead. We often get like me honestly, like speaking for myself, I can be like, why don't I hear God speaking to me? It's like, well, girl, do you even listen? Yeah, you're not even listening. Yeah, you're not even getting in your word like you should. You give him like five minutes a day, how is he gonna speak to you? Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 49:58

He ain't got time. Like if I called you and it was just like a five-minute phone call, like, and I have like a really, really good, juicy, like important story to tell you that's gonna take a little bit and like take you listening. Like, how how am I gonna be able to tell you that in a five-minute phone call? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:17

And like he can.

SPEAKER_02 50:19

Yeah. That's not to say that, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:21

He can make you listen.

SPEAKER_02 50:22

He can do anything he wants. But it's just like by all means. He wants you to just like sit and listen sometimes. And I feel like I need to get back to that. Yeah. Because I like make America bored again.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

Seriously. I'm gonna be bored tonight. I'm gonna break my phone and I'm gonna sit in my room and just stare into the abyss.

SPEAKER_02 50:47

That sounds like a good time. No, nobody call me. I'm offended by that because I I Because you're the only one that called me? Yeah. Can I call you though? I can still call you. Sure. After nine. After nine, after she's done staring. And this isn't to like, hey, you need to do this. This is just like us, I don't know. We're just like addicted to our phones.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

We're not trying to like teach you guys stuff.

SPEAKER_02 51:15

Girls, I'm on Pinterest every second I can get because I don't have Instagram.

SPEAKER_01 51:20

Yeah, this is more so for like accountability. If you see me on my phone in public, slap it out of my hand.

SPEAKER_02 51:27

Yeah, throw it. I do want to start like setting boundaries similar to your bricking device. Well, you need to just get one. You know what though? I do have boundaries in place and I bypass those. You ran out of time on Instagram. I'm like, don't care. Put my code in. Bye bye. Yeah, ignore indefinitely. Bye. Having fun on Instagram right now.

SPEAKER_01 51:51

That's why you need a brick. You cannot get in. I just don't know. Even if you try to go on the browser. I had a rough time once.

SPEAKER_02 52:02

You cannot get on. Yeah, the browser's where it gets me. But it's hard because like I do use Instagram for like, oh, I want to look that person up. Or oh you don't know. I need to like it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 52:17

It's not anything for huh? Write it on a note. That's so dumb.

SPEAKER_02 52:25

Like, I need to know now.

SPEAKER_01 52:29

I another thing for me is whenever I'm about to go to sleep, I'll have a kind of like an intrusive thought almost. It's like, you have to look up how whatever. To build this house by brick. Yeah, I looked up something crazy the other night that was just like eating away at me. I couldn't go to sleep. And then I just get into stuff. And then I get back on Instagram. Instagram.

SPEAKER_02 52:58

Little nightcap. Exactly. It's like also like a weird like mind thing where it's like, okay, well, I just looked all that up. So let me just make sure I check Instagram one last time.

SPEAKER_01 53:10

Just make sure no one messaged me. No one ever messaged me on Instagram, especially now that you're not on there. I get no messages. Yeah. If you guys want to send me a message. I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_02 53:23

Someone say hi. I'm trying to see because I feel like I like had one of those thoughts. Okay. This wasn't last night, but this was a Google search.

SPEAKER_01 53:35

Stuart Little's car.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

Yeah. Stor Stuart Little's car. Because I did, I thought I saw it drive. Or not me like.

SPEAKER_01 53:41

I thought I saw Mr. Little himself.

SPEAKER_02 53:45

I swore. Oh my gosh, I swore. It's all Stuart on 17.

SPEAKER_03 53:51

I passed him.

SPEAKER_01 53:53

He's the size of a shoebox. Stu. Stu, man. I love your work in that one movie. I love the second film. That's not funny. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 54:06

I'm just kidding, that is funny times. Hilarious. I saw a car that looked just like Stor Little's car today. So I did look that up. But I totally get you on like the car or the cars. Big car guy. Big car guy. No, I totally get you on like the things that just keep you up at night. Last night, this says, this is what I looked like. I can't talk. This is what I mean whenever I'm looking at my phone and I'm trying to say This is what I look like.

SPEAKER_03 54:43

Like, what am I saying?

SPEAKER_02 54:45

How do I have a podcast? I can't talk, right? Because I've been putting magn, or I almost said I've been putting magnesium on my feet. Putting magnolias in my hair.

SPEAKER_01 54:57

It's beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 54:59

I've been putting magnesium on my feet, but I have not. I looked into that, but I've been tanking magnesium. And so last night before. Sorry? You can do like topical. And what I think it might be on your feet that you put it. Yeah. But I looked up last night. If I don't dream, is there something wrong with me? Because I've been sleeping so hard where I'm not dreaming. And I usually dream like every night. This was how to make a quilt tutorial. Last night I did I look this up in bed. So, anyways, I'm not gonna dive into my Google search, but it is crazy just like how connected I am to my phone. Like it's like my child, actually.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

Yeah, I'm so gross. It makes me it gives me the ache for myself that I'll have my phone in my hand, like walking to the kitchen. Like you disgusting. Yes, leave it in your room, girl. Why do you need this? No one literally I talk to two people. Me and mama. Or you, mom, and Shelby. Oh those are the only three people I call.

SPEAKER_02 56:00

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 56:00

My call list, my call log is No, I'll go through.

SPEAKER_02 56:06

No, mine's even more sad than yours because I outgoing call to Liz. Oh, missed FaceTime from Liz. Outgoing FaceTime to mom. Outgoing call to Liz. Outgoing call to Zay. Outgoing call to dad. Outgoing call to mom to lissa to lys to list. Like nobody calls me. I call everybody. I won't even get into that how y'all don't call me. Whatever. Whatever. Actually, getting into that a little bit, I FaceTimed the whole family last night and nobody answered. I answered you. You remember that? And then you said that you had to go. Yeah because you're walking into Starbucks. Okay. So I texted you. That's why I texted you that last night. I said, Are you still at Starbucks?

SPEAKER_01 56:42

At midnight? No. I went shopping after. I'm not gonna call you in the store. Found upon to FaceTime in public. Anyways, guys. And she's not even joking about that. Like that's actual beef. And she gets mad at me for not calling. Like I do call you. We spend every day together.

SPEAKER_02 57:07

No, we don't. But I don't really have I do have a lot of notes, but I just feel like I just keep getting off topic.

SPEAKER_01 57:16

So we're just gonna tie a little ribbon on top of it.

SPEAKER_02 57:19

Or whatever that does. This was probably well, you know what? Maybe it was a little bit helpful. I'm not gonna discredit us, you know. But I encourage you, like, pick up some hobbies. I'm a serial hobbyist right now. I'm blowing through them. It's really fun. You look like you were gonna say something. That's why I paused.

SPEAKER_01 57:41

I was, but I kind of forgot. Oh, okay. What I was gonna say Chat GPT had this like seven-day challenge written out to stay off your phone and like wean yourself off. And it's like, I'll have to maybe post it or something, but it's like day one, you don't make any changes, but you take note of when you're you see yourself like doing the most damage. And then during those times the next day, like maybe put things into place that can replace that and then just kind of delay it. I forget how it goes, but each day it progresses more, and you can even like delete certain apps that you spend too much time on and whatnot. But that can be an idea, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:31

That's a really good idea. I might have him make me up one too. Is your chat GPT a boy or a girl?

SPEAKER_01 58:38

I feel like it's a girl.

SPEAKER_02 58:39

Mine's a boy, for sure, for me. But it's like I just want to make my life like brighter, I guess. And actually, this was another low point I went through one week. I had to turn my phone on black and white mode because it's like the colors, like I was just like, I feel like I'm addicted to the colors too. It's like a baby. Like blue light. Like, like it wasn't as appetizing whenever I had my phone in black and white. Like, I feel like whenever I get on my phone, I just like look for the pink square and it's Instagram, and like it was helpful, but I I couldn't take pictures and stuff. I couldn't see what I was doing. It was all literally black and white. Yeah, it's not very but I just want to make my life around me like brighter and like better and be more immersed in like life. I feel like it goes by so fast.

SPEAKER_01 59:36

I you guys can probably relate, but if you like think back on your childhood, it seems more bright and colorful. And the colors have faded like in this day and age into everything. Like muted. And it's probably because we're just not paying attention.

SPEAKER_02 59:58

Yeah. That's literally what it is. Like I'm trying to think of like that. I'm trying to like make an a comparison. Oh, my stomach's growling. But like your favorite movie when you were little, mine, I loved Cinderella 2 Dreams Come True. That movie was just like so bright and colorful. And like the Lizzie McGuire movie, it was just like so bright and colorful and like just nice. And I remember everything about it. And like the movies these days, like I don't know. Like, I just feel like it's because I'm half watching it, like I'm not even paying attention to it. Like, I'm on my phone. The movies, oh, this person did say this in a podcast. She was like, the movies in the movie theater, like, don't you remember them better? Like, don't you like go home thinking about them? And like you just like are so immersed in that movie because it's like an hour and a half without your phone. Like you you're not like distracted with your phone on, like during this movie, or with anything. Like you are just like locked in this movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:05

And I just want to pay attention to life that way because I do I go through like these spirals where I'm like, oh, nothing is changing. Like, I'm so trapped, everything is so dull, boring. But it's like nothing changes if nothing changes. I literally have that like saved somewhere on my Pinterest. But like I'm the only one who can like make the changes in my life to make my life more, you know, fun and bright. And like I have the capability of doing that. I have two legs and a car. Like, I can drive to wherever if I want to and go sit at the beach without my phone for a day. And well, that wouldn't be very safe, but I would take my phone with me. Leave it in. Don't be on it. But like I can go join a pickleball league and like go meet people there. I can go do all these things and like I just get so sucked into like getting like this high from my phone and like doing things like through the screen.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:02

Yeah, it's like we mistake social media for actual an actual social life. Yeah. Many of us don't have an actual social life anymore. It's all like oh, this is my friend on Instagram. It's like you haven't even met her, don't even know her. Which honestly, in that person's defense, I have made a few friends, but it shouldn't be your main source of like social interaction. 100%. Yeah, living actual life.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:32

Like I've followed certain people like on Instagram and like we followed each other and just like you know, messaged back and forth. And like I have like met those people in real life, and like now we do have friendships. Um, and I can name like four people that that's happened with, which is really cool. Like, there are some pluses to social media, but I just feel like for me personally, like there's so the cons outweigh the pros. Yeah, and kind of like you were saying earlier, it's not necessarily like I'm comparing myself, like I wish I was her, I wish I was that. Like, okay, yeah, of course I do wish I was in Europe eating gelato, but like it that that doesn't affect me. Like, it's more so like the productivity of it all, like the time suck, the like how it affects my like productivity like in my everyday life. I don't know. I don't know how to put that into better words, but yeah, I don't I was gonna touch on something else, but I kind of forgot what I was gonna say because I went off on a tangent, but I liked your idea for the seven-day challenge.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:40

Yeah, I'll put I'll like make a little post about it. And whoever wants to do it with us, you can do it. Might as well. Can't hurt. Yeah, I can only help you. Uh, so yeah, I don't really have anything else to add at the moment.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:55

Cool. Well, that's all we have for you. We love you. Thank you for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:06

Also, we put up like links to write in like stories and stuff, and we want to do an embarrassing or funny stories episode. Just like funny things that have happened to you. So you guys should write in. We want to have a few, but we wanna have like more.

unknown 1:04:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:27

So we can have an episode of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:29

Yeah, and you can also, I think like on like Apple, it says join the conversation. Yes. You can write in there.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:37

It should be like in our description, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:39

Mm-hmm. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:40

Yeah, you could do that or Instagram, whatever you find first.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:45

Yeah, it is completely anonymous on Instagram, so like we don't see who did it, what it was. Like, I mean, we obviously would see what it was, but we don't know who you are. Yes, thank you, Lissa. Uh, I feel like I get so ahead of my words, and I just like and then like you're so calm, and you just like break us. Just tie it up with the bum. Yeah, tie it up with the bone of it. Anyways, well, we love you. Leave us a review. We will talk to you next Friday. Bye. Bye.