S-7 E-18 Finale - Adulting Decrypted Quiz

In the season 7 finale of 'Adulting Decrypted', we embarked on a journey of games, discussions, and introspection on adulting. With a special guest. From revisiting past episodes through a quiz, this episode was a blend of entertainment and profound insights on growth and learning as we navigate the complexities of adulthood. Personal stories shared, leaving us with valuable lessons on resilience and personal development.

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0:00

Welcome to Adulting Decrypted. We are your hosts. I'm Gene, and I'm starting my first year of college. I'm Ashton. I'm a music performer, composer, and educator. I'm Gene, a high school senior. I'm Roscoe, the dad. Those are my three sons, and this is Adulting Decrypted, where we discuss ways to become adults and the things we need to know to be successful in life.

Ashton 0:25

I would like to formally welcome everyone to the season finale of season 7 of Adulting Decrypted! Let's

Gideon 0:32

go!

Ashton 0:33

Yay!

Gideon 0:35

Oh my gosh, was that a girl?

Ashton 0:39

No Just kidding. We have won a battle that we've been fighting for a long time. So we're excited to have it happen We'd like to introduce mom to the podcast Nice. Well, we have mom here today because we wanted to play a game and it was more fun with you Two teams of two and it could keep me out and it allowed me to prepare. Said game. So here's what we're gonna play. I don't know what it's called, but we're, we're gonna call it the adulting decrypted quiz. Whoa. Fancy. I know a good name. What we're gonna do is there's five questions that take us through the years of adulting decrypted, and everyone's gonna get a chance to answer and we'll, we'll kind of hash out some topics that we've talked about. Teams, here's your rules.

Dad 1:19

well first off who are the teams?

Ashton 1:21

Oh, yeah, that's fair. Let's see. We have team one team two team one introduce yourselves and tell us your team name team two. That'll give you a second.

Gideon 1:28

Hey, I'm Gideon this is my teammate

Gene 1:30

Jean and We

Gideon 1:33

are the chicken bakes

Ashton 1:35

That's a great name. And, dear I mean, Chicken Bakes, what would you say your team philosophy is? Like, if someone was like, who is the Chicken Bakes? What would you say you are? Dude,

Gideon 1:46

we're no chickens. We bake it.

Ashton 1:49

I love that. We're tan,

Gene 1:51

and we are just absolute units.

Ashton 1:54

We're no chickens. We're baked tan units. Got it sir. I've got that saved. All right team two. Let's hear it. What's your team name? And well first off we have to tell you who we are

Dad 2:05

I'm the dad and I'm the mom and we're team parents and

Ashton 2:10

I'm gonna call it team apparent cuz that's funny. All right, wait, you didn't ask us our philosophy. Oh, yeah What's your philosophy team apparent?

Dad 2:17

Michelle you get to you get to tell the first part of it

Mom 2:20

Our philosophy is

Dad 2:22

Mom believes in being kind and I believe in kicking your track.

Ashton 2:25

Yo, let's go! It's a well balanced

Gene 2:30

team. First they're sweet, then they're sour.

Ashton 2:32

Oh, Team Apparent is sour patchin it. so, here's what's gonna happen. I've got five questions. If you give me a perfect answer, you get Three points. If you give me a close ish answer, I get to use my discretion to give you one or two points. And you'll know that I had you pull up Type Racer because I thought it'd be entertaining to have you guys race each other. And each round we'll play one round of Type Racer for an extra bonus point. Okay? so to start it off and to see who starts in the lead, we're gonna play one game of Type Racer. So team chicken bake

Gideon 3:09

team

Ashton 3:10

apparent pick your fighter who is going to participate in the first race

Mom 3:15

The dad

Ashton 3:16

the dad's in the first race.

Gene 3:18

You know what I'll go on this race Okay, because both of us know that we're not gonna beat dad But I'm sure Gideon can beat mom

Gideon 3:26

Okay, okay. Okay. He

Ashton 3:27

didn't he didn't say we had a rotate did everyone click into the race? It still says I'm the only one in here. There it is, I got someone else. Who's the orange car? That's me. Alright, and Dad's the yellow

Gideon 3:37

car? Actually, Gene, you are the green car. I

Dad 3:41

see an orange and a red. Oh. And a green.

Ashton 3:45

Okay, so all the colors should differ, that's okay. Just remember your word per minute. You'll have you under it. I am in there too. Oh, then I'm orange. If you beat me, I'll give you two points instead of one. Ready for this? Alright. It's gonna count down. Ten,

Gideon 3:58

nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, You can build a prison of stone and steel, but you merely present the prisoner with a challenge. Any truly determined man will find a way out. I figured I could just share a little bit of what we're typing. That is what we're typing. So mom, what's your favorite color? Blue.

Mom 4:20

How about

Gideon 4:21

you? You know, I didn't think this through. Blue's a cool color. Why do you like blue, mom?

Mom 4:27

It reminds me of the ocean.

Gideon 4:28

Oh, that's cute.

Ashton 4:29

Well, it looks like our first race is coming close to a conclusion.

Gideon 4:33

It's close.

Dad 4:34

I should probably clean my screen. I saw a couple periods in there that weren't existent.

Ashton 4:39

Alright, well, so that is one the appearance, and one gets a double

Gene 4:46

All right. So I'm going to say is I didn't get my high score in words per minute of 32. So that's awesome. You got,

Ashton 4:54

you got 32. Dad got 55 50 and I got an okay score. It was 77. Okay. So here's the first question. I've done better. I've done better. Okay. In our episode, keeping it clean. How long after completing a project did Gideon say he left his room dirty? This is a quote directly from the episode.

Gideon 5:19

Can you repeat the question? Yes.

Ashton 5:21

So, in this episode, we were talking about the importance of keeping clean and keeping our spaces nice so we could be creative and productive.

Dad 5:30

I remember he always smells this towel before he uses it. Is that worth the bonus point?

Ashton 5:34

Did I say that? No, we're gonna keep that one out, yeah. But that's, that's a valuable, important thing to remember, okay? So We were talking about, you know, habits and how sometimes when we do stuff, we might not clean up after ourselves. Gideon said, yeah, for example, I might work on a Lego project and I'll leave my room dirty for blank. What was the period of time that Gideon said he would leave his room dirty?

Gideon 6:01

Is it closest without going over?

Ashton 6:03

Yes.

Gene 6:05

Gideon, I like how you're the one most concerned about this. If you

Ashton 6:07

both go over, I'll give the point to whoever's closest. I'm gonna give you a countdown timer. Dude, do you know? Ten. Nine. This was your quote! Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Let's reveal your answers, and I think, on three. One, two, three, flip! Three days. Across the board. Three days

Gideon 6:29

each. Dad did say forever though.

Ashton 6:32

He did put forever first. Oh, we're in a tie. Okay. I'll tell you this. You're both wrong. You're both not open. So I'll let you go one more time. Okay. And if we, hopefully we can get different answers this time. This time you only have five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one time. All right. Three, two, one flip. Five days a week.

Gideon 6:56

Well, wait. Dad said forever plus five days. That is way over.

Ashton 7:01

He's just calling you out for never cleaning your room, boss. That's infinity plus five. He's

Mom 7:05

just doing artwork.

Ashton 7:06

Well, Gene wins with a week. Quoted exactly from the episode. You ready for this? This is gonna be fun. Yeah, and I think it's really important to remember cause I know I definitely do that in my own. In my own room at least. I'll spend a day doing something, some sort of project, and then the trash and leftover is left out until a month later when I'm, Oh, this, this has been annoying. So the correct answer is a month. Oh my goodness.

Gene 7:32

So do we get two points or only one? I'll give, I'll give you two because you guys

Ashton 7:37

tied the first time.

Gideon 7:39

Hold the phones,

Ashton 7:40

Gideon said he leaves trash in his room for at least a month. So, let's Where'd

Gideon 7:44

you get your first answer from? What do you mean? When you said a week.

Ashton 7:49

He was closest. That was my answer.

Gideon 7:51

Well, yeah, but didn't you say that was moving on, I guess? I was the most

Ashton 7:56

correct out of the two of us. So, so the episode was all talking about keeping it clean, and since the four of us have kind of weighed in, Mom What would you say, why is it important to keep a clean space, a clean home?

Mom 8:08

Well, I find that when it's clean, you just feel better about yourself and you can actually find things and don't get frustrated when things are dirty.

Ashton 10:13

I agree. I definitely have gotten that frustration of like, oh my gosh, I can't find something. Or like if you're tense and then a piece of trash falls over, you just want to hit something. I don't know Trying to connect I'm not used to you being here. I don't know how to deal with it.

Mom 10:30

Am I making you nervous a little bit? Yeah,

Ashton 10:32

all right. Everyone feel like we've properly covered that. I don't know adulting host Do you guys want to talk about keeping it clean at all?

Mom 10:38

So Gideon, is it still a month

Gideon 10:41

mom? Actually, you complimented me today earlier. Oh, your room is so clean.

Mom 10:46

You did just barely clean it But when did you clean it before?

Gideon 10:50

I don't want to talk about it. I don't know. As clean as like as deep as I had just cleaned it. Definitely more than a month. Nice.

Ashton 11:02

Now it's time for the bonus point round. If you raced last time, you don't get to race this time. So join on in that race.

Mom 11:10

I hope you have something else to talk about while I'm typing. It's

Ashton 11:14

a, it's a long marathon. Okay. It's a long one. Who hasn't joined? Gideon, have you not joined? We joined first. I'm on this. Okay. Oh, there it is. Okay. Here we go. And we are

Gideon 11:24

starting the race. Where's the prompt? I don't have a prompt. Did you click join race? I didn't join. Well. We often believe the more

Gene 11:31

we practice a skill or technique over and over again, many times, the better we'll get. But this is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique,

Ashton 11:46

I figured out how to join.

Gene 11:48

Incorrectly, you're increasing your chance of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistake. Practice doesn't make perfect.

Gideon 12:01

Only perfect practice makes perfect. I haven't finished

Gene 12:06

yet, I'm sorry. So dad, how do you feel about that statement of only

Gideon 12:11

perfect practice makes perfect?

Dad 12:15

I think very few things in life are truly perfect, but I think the better we put forth the effort during a practice, we will get better results in said game or situation. And that's why it's very critical that As you're planning a game or you're striving to perform or do something that you actually take it serious and that you try and perform at your highest level, because then when game time comes, you'll do the best that you're capable of doing. You know, the, the interesting word there was perfect to me, Jane, because I don't believe there's any such thing as true perfect practice, but I believe there's good and consistent practice.

Gene 12:50

Yeah. That phrase kind of reminds me of how you were teaching me about golf swings and how when I'm doing the motion, even when I'm doing my warmup or practice swing, I have to do it how I want to actually do it. When I hit the ball, I can't just start from the middle and then go to the follow through. You got to do everything how you want it.

Ashton 13:10

And you know, something that goes along with that too, that I quote was preached to about when I was in college was excellent. Not perfection There's a difference between the two you can be have an excellent Performance in whatever you're doing, but it doesn't have doesn't mean it was perfect. It just means it was top tier

Dad 13:28

You know and gene it's quite interesting I like the golf analogy because we were just doing that the other night when I realized it that you were doing just kind of a Back half swing and trying to follow through because you're looking at one part of your technique You And it was linking the whole thing. So that's a great observation for trying to link a whole processor project together.

Gideon 13:47

Let me just say that I was using Gene's computer and the backspace is in a different spot that I'm used to. So I kept trying to spam backspace and it just spammed different letters. I just wanted to say that for my awful performance. Moving on.

Ashton 14:01

Okay, very well. So. The point goes to Gideon and his awful performance.

Gideon 14:06

It's true.

Ashton 14:07

Okay. We're going to switch up the game for the next one. I have a new plan, but that was fun. Now everyone's got to turn. Not fun. I had fun with it. I'm a nerd. I could play that game for fun on my own. All right. I didn't mean to pick on Gideon twice, but that's just kind of how it happened. In the episode, the languages of love, we all took a love language test. The question is, what was Gideon's top love language? If you get it right, you get three points. And for every following love language in order, I'll give you another point.

Gene 14:36

If

Ashton 14:37

you guys want to know all of the love languages, I'll list them off for you real quick. Yes, please. In no particular order. You have Words of affirmation, physical touch, acts of service, quality time, and gifts. Those are the love languages that we took our test on. Give us percentages of how much of those we had. Do

Dad 14:57

I, do I get a bonus if we get both Gene and Gideon's?

Ashton 15:01

Sure.

Gideon 15:02

No. I'm the host here. Can we get bonus points if we guess both Gene and Gideon? You heard Gene and Gideon. No, you heard Gideon. What if I guess yours and Dad's?

Ashton 15:10

I don't know what mine was and I don't know what Dad's was. I do. No, you don't.

Gideon 15:13

Yes, I do. No, you don't. I know Dad's too. No, you don't.

Dad 15:19

Okay, no bonus points will be given. Just let us know when you're ready for us to reveal our answers. Alright, here

Ashton 15:24

we go. The reveal. In. Well, actually, we should, we should do these in order. Okay, so on the count of three, Mom and Gideon, I want you to say what the top one was. Here we go. Three, two, one. Quality time.

Gideon 15:39

Yeah, quality time.

Ashton 15:41

That's correct! Yay! You both get three points.

Mom 15:45

I said it first, so I should get four.

Ashton 15:47

Well, we were just doing it at the same time. It's okay. Alright, so, now here comes the next fun part. Mom, in order, oh, did you guys not do the rest of them? You could get bonus points if you guys said all of Gideon's in order.

Gideon 16:00

Yep, he did say that.

Ashton 16:01

This was mentioned. I'll list them off again, you can try. Okay. Haha. You have to get, actually I'm changing the rule though, you have to get them all in order.

Mom 16:09

Three?

Ashton 16:10

So here's, here's all the love languages that we did.

Mom 16:12

Are they all the love languages in order? Or just the top three? All

Ashton 16:15

of the love languages in Gideon's order. Of like, that they were love languages to him.

Dad 16:21

She's asking, did it go to all seven different love languages? Yeah. Or does it only go out to three?

Ashton 16:26

There's five love languages. It was all five. And they all added up to 100 percent of his love language. Yeah, but quality

Dad 16:32

times

Ashton 16:32

two words.

Dad 16:33

So

Ashton 16:33

give me

Dad 16:33

that.

Ashton 16:34

Okay. Okay, quality time. Here's all of them in no particular order. Quality time, acts of service, gifts, physical touch, words of affirmation. I'll read them one more time. Quality time, physical touch, acts of service, gifts,

Gideon 16:52

Words of affirmation. You have to get them all in order to get the bonus point. Quality time. Words of

Ashton 16:59

affirmation. Gifts. Physical touch. Acts of service. Those are all five of them. Seven if you make quality time and actually there's so many more words than seven.

Gene 17:10

Quality time you can make into two. Acts of service is now three. Alright,

Ashton 17:14

let's hear Gideon's list first. No, you don't get any more time. You're done. Gideon, this is yours. You should already know this by heart. You were surprised

Mom 17:21

I didn't already have it.

Ashton 17:22

If you one second me one more time, you don't get a chance towards these points.

Gideon 17:26

Tell me them in order. So, the order that I have Quality time is first. Words of affirmation second. Acts of service third. Touch fourth. Gifts is fifth.

Ashton 17:38

Interesting. Alright. Mom, dad, let's hear what you got.

Mom 17:41

Quality time. Okay. Words of affirmation. Alright. Physical touch. Alright.

Dad 17:47

acts of service. The gifts.

Ashton 17:49

Nice. Well, I hate to tell you guys this, but no one gets the bonus point. Fun fact, Gideon's five love languages, in order of importance to him, according to the quiz, was quality time, Physical touch, words of affirmation, acts of service, then gifts.

Gideon 18:06

I was so wrong. I was so

Dad 18:08

close. I forgot that he was dating a girl at the time, so I messed up the physical touch part. It was supposed to be higher.

Ashton 18:15

So Anyone want to speak on the importance of, of knowing your love language? We kind of, we talked about it in the episode. I mean, mom, we can pick on you because you weren't there for it, but anyone can jump in if they want to.

Gene 18:26

I know I'll jump in because I hosted that episode, so it is nearer and dearer into my heart than other ones just because it was one that I hosted. One reason why I think it's important even now is not only knowing your own, but also being able to figure out others. Because if you know how you show love and you're able to figure out how They feel that love You can be able to match those up So that they're feeling the love that you're trying to express if quality time is the highest like it was for I think all of us at the time

Ashton 18:58

Do you remember that? Yeah,

Gideon 18:59

it was all of us

Gene 19:00

And say it was on the bottom of someone else's and they were more into gifts Than us hanging around with them all the time, they'd be like, yeah Yeah, sure, they, they like me, but they, they don't, I don't really feel that love.

Gideon 19:10

Hm.

Gene 19:11

Even though to us, it's like, oh yeah, I'm spending all the time with them, like, I love them. that's why I think it's

Gideon 19:15

important.

Ashton 19:16

I like that. Thanks. Anything anyone wants to add to that?

Gideon 19:19

Yeah,

Dad 19:19

I think I was surprised on Gene's at that time. His high up there, probably number two, was GIFs, and, and I know that after we learned that, It was very helpful for mom and I when Gene was on his mission that we knew to send him some more gifts than we Probably would have otherwise and actually mom still did it She just sent him a gift a couple weeks ago when he was down at college

Mom 19:40

I did I wanted to make sure that I included something for st. Patrick's Day or Easter just a little it doesn't even have to be much but just something to show that you're thinking

Ashton 19:49

Nice I like that. It might have helped too when he was on his mission. He was still in the country So you didn't have to work through a third party. That was very helpful For those who don't know I was in Australia and mom was really good at finding the Neighbors and friends in there to send me stuff.

Mom 20:02

My perfect angels.

Ashton 20:04

Yep All right. We're switching up the game I have sent a new email link and this time we're playing a game that most will be familiar with called Wyrtle And it's whichever team. Have you played today's word all already? Yes, I have. All right. You are, have to abstain and you cannot help

Gideon 20:19

Dang yet. I love it. Mom. Dad,

Ashton 20:21

you haven't played today's word all yet, have you? I don't even know what it's, have not. Whichever team can guess. The word in the least amount of guesses wins. So here's how it works. I'll just read those out as everyone's reading them. So how to play. You guess it in six tries. Each guess must be a valid five letter word. The color of the tiles will change to show you how close your guess was to the word. And that's it. If none of us get the word in the tries whoever gets the most correct letters will win. Correct spots will be worth two points.

Gideon 20:48

What is the game? I don't, I

Dad 20:50

mean, looking at this, I don't even know where you start.

Ashton 20:52

So just type in on your keyboard, the letters for the word and then press enter when you want to submit a guess. You're not allowed to play, or you'll be disqualified. He spelled

Gideon 21:01

opera wrong. I was helping him out.

Ashton 21:04

He knew what I was trying to spell. So then

Dad 21:05

what do you do? You hit enter and see if it's right?

Ashton 21:07

Yeah, and it should highlight the tiles.

Dad 21:10

Okay, so if we got the first four letters right, should they all be orange?

Ashton 21:14

The more you talk about this, the more hints you give Gene, so just be careful.

Mom 21:18

The gray ones are letters that are not included, and this is in the word, but it's not in that part.

Ashton 21:24

And then the green ones, which you've got a ton of, I'm sure mean they're in the right spot and the right letter.

Gene 21:30

Gideon is cringing so hard at my

Gideon 21:31

I'm not cringing, I'm just not looking.

Ashton 21:35

So that you don't give any away. How is

Gene 21:36

there a word with no

Ashton 21:37

vowels in it?

Gideon 21:39

It's based on the other vowels.

Ashton 21:41

Oh

Mom 21:41

my gosh.

Ashton 21:42

Wait, Gene, plug your ears real quick.

Mom 21:43

We could still use the E.

Ashton 21:45

Alright, what do you guys have right now on your second word? What word are you on?

Gideon 21:49

All right, what word did you just put in?

Ashton 21:51

All right, guess we're not doing fine. It's fine. All right, never mind Gene, just keep playing the game. I was trying to do like a mid game interview, but they're focused That's why I had him plugging his ears, it's okay just keep playing the game Gideon, let's talk for a second

Gideon 22:05

Yeah, I want to talk about the word

Ashton 22:07

No, no, no, let's talk. Let's talk about did you get the word? Almost One letter off. Oh, he's one letter away.

Gideon 22:15

We're in guess three

Ashton 22:16

Oh, oh, here's hoping you can figure out what those three letters are, or one letter is. Alright Gideon. So, This wordle actually is going to work out pretty well, because the next question is going to fall right into it. So you and I are going to play a minigame.

Gideon 22:31

Yeah.

Ashton 22:32

Can you guess what our next. Question's gonna be about

Gideon 22:36

Yes I can. I'm not gonna say it though.

Ashton 22:39

What's your guess? It doesn't matter. It doesn't mean what? The question, it's not gonna tell you what the question is. We're done. Boom. Got it. Okay. We got it. Third try. Third. What? The free, what your

Gideon 22:48

spread. Lemme see. Turn that computer around.

Dad 22:52

It has already locked this out.

Gideon 22:54

You can just click the X.

Ashton 22:56

All right. So let's hear the past, how you got there, gene.

Gene 22:58

So I started with opera and so it said E and a was correct. And so I was like, crazy second guess. You know what teams teams, cause that how it's both of them. And I said, Oh yeah, S is part of it. And so I was like, Hmm, let's go. S H a M E shame. Well, it was a shame. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then that didn't work and I was like, well, okay. What other word do I know and it's like Shade and you said like oh, yeah, it's part of the next episode like oh, it's gonna be about haircare or something like that So I'm like, it's shave. All right

Ashton 23:33

Unfortunately, the word a world answer has nothing to do with our episode But the fact that it is wordle is part of anyway what were you guys's guesses? How'd you get there?

Mom 23:42

We started with audio nice class about

Ashton 23:45

my favorite starting point from you. Yep

Mom 23:48

And then the dad put in saver. Oh,

Dad 23:52

because it had both the other two stupid vowels.

Ashton 23:56

I've never

Mom 23:57

heard of

Ashton 23:57

quality of vowels, but that's fair.

Mom 24:00

And so we knew that I had to start with an S. And so I, with the A V E, I figured it had to be at the other end.

Dad 24:08

But she kept putting an X in there and it was pissing me off cause I didn't see an X.

Mom 24:12

I was using that as a play saver.

Ashton 24:15

You learned, we, we've played this a lot. Yeah. Yeah.

Gideon 24:18

We play it during sacrament meetings. On occasion. Nice.

Ashton 24:22

I've given the point to Team Apparent. Here's the question. In season one, episode five, we did a word debate. The final words we debated were should versus need. When prompted for the first sentence that came to mind, in reference to the word, The word should, what was Gene's answer? What sentence did he give when prompted to give

Gideon 24:46

a sentence that included the word should? Ready, set, go. I like Gene's guess better than my own. We're going with Gene's. I don't even know if this is correct. I remember it's something that. Yeah, no, me neither. But that was four years ago. Alright, do we all have our guesses?

Ashton 25:05

Alright who would like to reveal first? I can. Alright,

Gene 25:09

Gingo. I don't know if it's correct, but I know it was something that we said a lot. It was, don't shud all over yourself.

Ashton 25:14

Ooh, that's a good answer. Alright. It's up there,

Gideon 25:18

Steve. It's up there. Team

Ashton 25:20

apparent? Good answer, good answer, good answer.

Dad 25:22

I should turn off my phone.

Ashton 25:24

Ooh, that's a good answer too.

Gideon 25:27

It's not up there, Steve.

Mom 25:29

Yes, it is.

Ashton 25:30

We're going to give Team apparent the point. I swear if mine was right for being close because you guys Started with the right two words

Mom 25:42

I should

Ashton 25:43

shave All right quickfire whoever gets it first gets another point I should shower no I should do my homework. Oh there it is Gene said he should do his homework. Okay, so we talked about should versus need You Do you remember why we talked about it? Anyone want to weigh in on the difference between should and need real quick?

Gideon 26:01

Like if you should do something versus if you need to do something.

Ashton 26:05

And why was it, it was really important to me at the time, I guess I can talk about it, but I'm kind of curious what we remember, it was a while ago.

Dad 26:12

It was about how to get motivated and not, not shame yourself for actions you're not doing. And so the whole concept is that instead of should, oh, I should do this and I should do that. And then to Gene's point, I shouldn't should all over myself. So instead it was time to stop and say, I need to do this and I want to do this and I get to do this.

Ashton 26:35

Yeah, that's exactly what it was. That was really important to me. Because that was a big, a learning point for me. That's why we talked about it. Anyone else want to weigh in that before we move on?

Gideon 26:46

No, I like that. Okay.

Ashton 26:49

Well, our next game, Something I'm trying to figure out. If I can make it work.

Gideon 26:55

Please don't make it another New York times game.

Ashton 26:58

Have you played all of them? Here's what we'll do. Ready? Mom and Jean, you

Gideon 27:04

need to play rock, paper, scissors, winner gets a point. Whoa. Best of one.

Ashton 27:11

Best of one.

Gideon 27:12

Okay. I'm going to call jeans and dad. You're going to call mom. As in, like, when they throw it, you have to say what they say, because The person listening cannot see. The only person?

Dad 27:24

Ouch. The listener? Okay, yes.

Gideon 27:27

ready. I'm ready. Okay. Is it one, two, three, go? Or is it what? Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Scissors. Dang it.

Dad 27:39

You gotta go again.

Gideon 27:41

Are your hands cold?

Dad 27:43

Jeans all warmed up. Are you ready, honey? Okay.

Gideon 27:46

Rock, paper, scissors, shoot. Paper.

Ashton 27:48

Rock. Take that. Let's go.

Gideon 27:51

So

Ashton 27:53

the chicken bakes get another point. I forgot that was our name. That's kind of funny. All right. In season six, episode three, dad says he doesn't believe that people are truly

Gideon 28:07

lazy. What does he say? He actually believes, bro. I can't read that. You just type it in the top. That's what popped in my purse. So go with that.

Ashton 28:16

Still waiting for Team Chicken Bakes to finish their answer. Oh, we're

Gene 28:20

ready. Oh, we're trying to figure out a good way to combine our two ideas. Alright. Into the same idea. Who

Ashton 28:26

would like to go first, Team Apparent or Team Chicken Bakes?

Gideon 28:28

Apparent.

Ashton 28:29

Alright, Team Apparent. Let's hear it. What's your answer?

Mom 28:31

Scared to fail. Oooo.

Ashton 28:35

That's a good answer.

Gene 28:36

The answers that me and Gideon came up with was They are unmotivated because they don't know their why. Oooo.

Ashton 28:44

I Have to give it to team chicken bakes. Yes,

Gideon 28:50

sir. Let's go. No, that's not

Ashton 28:52

exactly we had it That's not exactly what was said, but it was very close This is exactly what was said.

Gideon 28:59

Let me make sure I've got it pulled up

Ashton 29:02

Okay, this is what dad says see I used to think people were lazy a lot of times I'd be like, oh that person's lazy then as I really think about it. Most people could be lazy. Let's be honest You There's probably a small percentage of people that are truly lazy, but I think most people just can't get clear on what they want.

Gideon 29:21

That is like word for word our answer. Pretty much.

Mom 29:27

If you read between the lines. Exactly.

Dad 29:29

No, I think they had it pretty close. You know, though, another great thing about lazy is that we have a new blog post out about overcoming laziness. So check that out if you're still struggling with that. There's some. Gideon, take it away.

Gideon 29:43

Tips and tricks. Actually, when you say new, brand new, posted like an hour ago. So, make sure to go and check that out. We always love you guys looking at our blog posts, cause I put a lot of work into them, and I'd love for you to see them. Nice. Woo woo. Anyone have anything else they want to weigh in? Do you think people are truly lazy, mom?

Mom 30:04

I think some people are. Yes. And then other people just, just don't know how to handle their time. Get overwhelmed with the day to day stuff. So they end up doing nothing. Instead of breaking the cycle.

Gideon 30:20

No.

Ashton 30:22

That episode was titled how to get what you want. And so like, that's why we were talking about it. How do you, how do you get to where you want? So if that's something you're looking into right now. That's what we're Season six episode three. All right. Here's the next game. It's been sent to your email.

Gideon 30:36

What you do is you play a maze wow First one to finish. Oh, well actually the quickest time

Ashton 30:43

for the first maze wins

Gideon 30:45

You have an ad going on your computer Do you want it or do you want me to Use your arrow keys. You got it.

Ashton 30:54

I'll run it and just tell me the time it took for you to solve your first maze

Gideon 31:00

Eight seconds eight seconds

Gene 31:02

It like starts going but it doesn't go all the way eight seconds it like

Ashton 31:05

goes into like a random You gotta play the second one, too. It'll stop at every

Gideon 31:09

decision point. No, you're right. This is hard

Ashton 31:13

Where's your score mom 12 seconds, let's see what they get He's stressing 11. Oh, I think we got to do one more as a tiebreaker on your mark It's a

Gideon 31:24

Ah! Oh man. Very nice. Very nice. 8 seconds.

Ashton 31:29

Ah, alright. Has to go to the chicken bakes. Has to go to the chicken bakes.

Gideon 31:34

Chicken and bacon.

Ashton 31:35

But you know what's really good? Is after this question it can be tied. Mom and dad nail the answer to this question and you guys don't. Okay.

Gideon 31:42

Sounds

Ashton 31:43

good. Sounds good. This is actually the last question too. So and this one doesn't need to be a verbatim answer Are you

Dad 31:50

saying that we could tie then we should probably make this one worth double? Okay, you don't want to tie there has to be a very clear winner and a loser.

Ashton 31:57

That's fair All right. This one's worth double points in season 5 episode 6 Titled is it normal to be afraid or anxious? We come to the conclusion that, yes, it is. And I tell a story about being afraid of something, but not letting that stop me from doing a task. What was I afraid of, and what was the task that I needed to do? I'll give you a hint, it was a chore.

Gideon 32:23

I promise I love you, bro. Just putting that out there.

Ashton 32:28

It was in season 5, episode 6. I wasn't

Gene 32:32

there. Tough.

Gideon 32:35

Sounds like somebody should've listened. I listened to some of them, but I was on a mission. Can you repeat the question?

Ashton 32:42

In Season 5, Episode 6, titled, Is it normal to be afraid slash anxious? We come to the conclusion that, yes, it is normal to be afraid and anxious. I tell a story about being afraid of something, but not letting that something stop me from doing a task. What was I afraid of, and what was

Gideon 33:01

the task that needed to get done? There's two answers there. That's where your

Ashton 33:05

double points come from. Three points for one, three points for the other. I might be willing to give points to the most creative, cause y'all both look lost.

Gideon 33:16

I will add that it was a very

Ashton 33:17

specific memory of mine growing up that I was telling the story of.

Gene 33:24

I was just looking through Buzzsprout.

Ashton 33:26

You can't look! That's cheating!

Gene 33:28

It didn't give me any hints. I looked through it and was like, I still don't know.

Ashton 33:33

I wasn't going to answer. Oh. Cheating. Alright. Okay, wait. Time's up in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and Alright, we'll have Gideon go first. What was I scared of? What was the task I needed to do? You can just

Gideon 33:58

Okay, so, what you were afraid of was first?

Ashton 34:02

It doesn't matter. Just tell me both. Okay,

Gideon 34:04

so, I think that this childhood memory that you're going back to Yep. You were afraid of a ski hill. And, therefore, your motivation to get down was the fear of a pull up your bottom. And that's how you overcame. That is a

Ashton 34:22

story, I believe, that has been told on the podcast. And there is some creativity there, so I'm going to need to sit on that for a second. However, that is not what I'm looking for. Damn it. Team Apparent, what you got?

Mom 34:35

Well, we think. What you're really afraid of is the dark.

Ashton 34:39

Oh, okay.

Mom 34:41

And your task was to take the dog for a walk.

Ashton 34:45

Ooh. Not

Gideon 34:47

that creative. Definitely not. But it's

Gene 34:50

true.

Ashton 34:52

You guys get three points. You don't get all double. Because it's a two part question. And you got half of it correct.

Dad 35:00

It was the dark. It was the mountains by yourself? Yes.

Mom 35:07

Because of cows, right? Listen, jerk. The shade. No,

Ashton 35:13

it was

Dad 35:14

snakes. I thought it was dark and taking the dog for a walk. I thought it was dark and taking the dog for a walk. It could have been dogs and,

Ashton 35:24

or cows and taking the dog for a walk. It's not, it's, it's a valid fear and anyone who doesn't think so can just go stuff themselves in a blender. Wow. Yikes. Allow me. Yeah, so I I remember telling the story that like I needed to take the dog for a walk in the mountains, but I was scared of snakes, and dad was telling me how we're allowed to be afraid of things, but we can't let that stop us from doing what we, what we need to slash want to do. And that was the whole point of that episode. So does anyone have anything they want to add? I will say best addition to this conversation gets the tie breaking point winning.

Gideon 36:04

Ashton? What's up? I will restate. I love you bro.

Ashton 36:08

Thanks, man That's a good that's a I love that addition to this conversation appreciate

Gene 36:16

All right One thing I think it is important to re emphasize is that it's not and it is okay to be afraid Because if we're not afraid we're gonna get ourselves hurt more with than one. I remember that When I went repelling with the youth group that was here One thing that he mentioned was if you're not afraid of what could happen then you're going to get yourself hurt You got to be able to respect what you're doing and respect that you can There are mistakes in repelling. I mean There's fatal mistakes But in every single decision that we make I mean if you're not afraid of maybe hitting another car while you're driving You're not going to drive as safe But if you're more aware of it and you've been like, oh, I know i'm afraid of this So these are the things I can do to avoid it You And then that's all I can do and

Gideon 37:06

then you go with that. I feel like that makes it more able to overcome that fear.

Ashton 37:13

That's a really good answer. But it wasn't flattery, so what do you guys got? We had flattery and a good comment, so We had

Gideon 37:21

both, we had both answers that you gonna

Ashton 37:25

lie, I thought of that joke like two seconds into you were talking and as you kept going I was like, I don't know if I could make it because this is a really good answer But I had to because it was kind of funny

Mom 37:34

That was a very good answer Are

Ashton 37:35

you gonna make mom cry with how serious that was? No,

Mom 37:39

not, not yet But no, it's very important to not let fear overcome you And have you stopped doing those things that will help you grow? I, I know there's plenty of times where we've all been afraid to do things, but what an amazing accomplishment when you can sit back and go, Hey, you know what? I was afraid to do that, but I did it. And now look where I'm at now. It's so important. I just this week, Jean was filling out job applications and needing to talk to people and. He did not want to go to the employment center. He, and there could, maybe there's a little bit of fear. Maybe it's just the unknown. I think a lot of times that stops us is the unknown of what's behind door number two. When we're comfortable with door number one. But when he got there, he realized that it wasn't as painful as he was anticipating it to be. And he was able to walk away. And yet, he. He was still able to fill out he filled out an application and got a job. So that was pretty neat This week in it. It wasn't Wasn't as scary as I think he was thinking it was going to be

Gideon 38:51

right It's

Ashton 38:53

really good And with that we're still tied because you both gave very good answers. So I have a question Do we want to end it on a tie or we can play the newlywed game for two seconds? You guys want to do

Gideon 39:05

what's the newlywed game,

Ashton 39:07

right Does that

Mom 39:08

work with Jean and Gideon

Ashton 39:09

They're newlyweds now. Okay, we're open-minded here. That good? So you hold up your left hand for the person on your left. You hold up your right hand for the person on your right or yourself, like if, so you both are sitting in groups, right? So for this group, if you hold up your right hand, you're voting for Gideon. If you hold up your left hand, you're voting for Jean. Same story. Okay? They're voting for us first team to agree off rip. wins.

Gideon 39:35

Ready? So close your eyes. Ready? Who out of the two of you in your group has the worst

Ashton 39:42

handwriting? All right. We both agreed. We got to do it again. Who cried during the proposal? Jean and Gideon were the first to agree on that one. They win! Yeah! Let's go home! Interestingly enough, you and dad both voted for yourselves. I couldn't remember, Cam. I got confused. I did that earlier too. Really? I really thought mom would have been the first. It may, it may be a little rigged, but the chicken bakes won in the end. It is rigged. tagline

Gideon 40:12

again?

Ashton 40:13

I erased it. I think it was tan, but tender or something. Anyway, so this is the season finale of of adulting decrypted for season seven You guys want to give the people any parting thoughts other than gideon's usual message.

Gideon 40:29

I think mom should share gideon's useful message If she's been this Wow the mouth is a gape

Ashton 40:40

We want her to want to participate. I

Gideon 40:45

want her to participate again. And if you want her to participate again, let us know. We'd love to hear all of your insights and your adulting stories in our different social media platforms. You can find us on adulting decrypted in Instagram, Facebook. We have a subreddit too. You can find all of those either through our website, adulting decrypted. com or just look them up on the different social media platforms and We'll maybe even share your stories on the podcast if you want us to, we'd love to.