Open Mic: Utilize your Time

 It has to start somewhere. It has to start some time. What better place than here? What better time than now?
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 Here's your host, Ryan Alford.
 Hey guys, welcome to the Radcast. This is our open mic episode and it's also just Josh and I today.
 It is us and we are just hanging out and enjoying our fourth open mic.
 It's kind of been crazy doing this in between holidays. I mean, you know, had this idea and then we started doing it.
 And then it was holidays and you know, all the other things that happened with holidays. But here we are and here's open mic.
 Just you and I, but I'm excited because I feel like we have a lot of cool things to talk about today.
 Even though again, for the most part, it's just pretty unscripted. I think we were like talking a good bit pre-show about just like different things.
 And so I think we'll have a good time in this episode today. But yeah, how are you?
 I'm good. I'm good. I'm, you know, hanging out, recovering from the holidays and traveling and stuff.
 Yeah, because you went to Vegas, right? Yeah, for a night and then went to LA. How was that?
 It was good. I mean, it's kind of like hunkered down at my friend's house because I mean, it's really bad out there in LA with COVID.
 Oh, yeah, the thing that's still happening and so going out of the world, like at the pandemic.
 Yeah, but hunkered down, masked up, stayed away from people and it was fun.
 Yeah, they were recording with the band is good stuff. How did that go?
 It was great. Got three songs started. Yeah, what kind of music do you produce, Josh?
 We do, we do like make kind of old country style stuff now. That is so cool.
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 That's really funny because when Ryan and I recorded an episode last week when we were talking about it.
 I, and at that point, we already had our New Year's plans like, you know, and you obviously had your new plans like everyone pretty much had their plans like said and stone.
 But by the time the episode actually released, it was that would have already passed.
 Oh, yeah.
 So we were talking and like hypothetical, we were like, I'm supposed to be doing this.
 So I guess we'll see if that happened later.
 And to be honest, I was pretty spot on with what I, what we ended up doing.
 Um, we had, you know, a couple of my friends came down from West Virginia that I went to school with at WVU, and
 We just had like New Year's and like my apartment. It was kind of chill. I decorated my apartment. It was all cute
 You know, you made it, you know, all super New Year's and festive or whatever and then
 We honestly, I didn't even turn
 I don't even think we turned the TV on. I just think we were waiting for the 12 o'clock time change because like I don't need
 I don't remember like anything really big happening about it because I we were just like all okay, so we played
 Knowing we played cards. Yeah, I played much card games and you know, obviously I did not win
 You know, um actually this is a good story. So the first time I even taught you run me. Yeah, you kicked my ass
 I did my best. Kind of made me upset
 I was like, oh, he was just game. I love to play and you know then I just like hustle to you
 I'm actually like a three-time like state
 Yeah, you probably lied. You're probably like actually I played run me all the time. I actually know this game very well
 You know every single day. Yeah, actually. Yeah pretty much, but um, but no it was a good good New Year's and
 But yeah, apart from that we heard some interesting news
 To kind of start off, I guess our conversational parts of today, but
 Have you heard that the time like time is actually like
 Getting faster in the sense of like there's debate about changing the time link of a minute
 Yes, have you heard about this just very vaguely before but like kind of crazy
 Yeah, I'm glad we're talking about this first before we run out of time. No
 Exactly exactly no no pun intended. We have to talk about everything in this podcast exactly one second faster than we usually would no
 Right because that's kind of the debate. It's like
 Apparently like 2020 had the shortest
 Year, so like you know, there's like the shortest year every year or whatever
 Apparently like 2020 had the shortest day like 28 times over compared to 20 2005
 Whoa, which is really kind of weird to think about and also last year was like
 0.5 milliseconds shorter than
 Like the last 60 years or something random like that
 But I just think that's so interesting because now the conversation is do you change time?
 Do you change like the length of time which like some people were saying this wasn't this isn't gonna be decided until like
 20 23 when you know all the members that decide time or whatever get together
 And basically go okay, you know, we're I guess we're gonna change time
 But or change the scope of a minute because that's what this essentially is like getting affected
 I guess it's just I'm imagining like a big time convention like do you go to time con last year?
 But like why is your opinion like what is your thought on that like what like I don't know it could be cool
 I mean, it's like it is fun to think about like think about it in terms of like
 Feels very like David Lynch of like oh, we just decide it's shorter and then everything like goes a little bit faster or something
 It's like oh, we can just decide if everyone just decides that it's like
 like
 Oh, seven right it'll just go back in time. That's how time travel works by the way
 Is that how time travel works? I honestly had no idea. That's how I have you ever time travel?
 Just a couple times right right right can we edit this out because I don't want any like
 API agents like I can't the door again again. Yeah, I had my time travel machine otherwise have you had an experience like this before?
 Maybe I don't remember your time travel it out of you does not compute right right right no
 That was interesting because it kind of begs the question of like because you know how I mean, I mean, you know
 You get out of work and it's like five, you know five thirty or whatever the sun's gone
 Yeah, it's like you wake up the sun's out out
 You you leave the office and the sun you know the sun's already down
 And do you feel like I mean, I feel like this debate's been around for a while and obviously like we're on the younger
 scope of the work life, you know kind of deal but like
 The work week like do you feel like it's like, you know, I feel like there's a lot of debate about this right now even because of COVID like
 What what's the time that's too much working like yeah, you know, I think it's like a good
 Both like the changing the minute and like also the new like work set up. Mm-hmm. It's kind of like important to think about of like
 like time is
 Our concept of time is made up right like only a
 Fun like side mission you can go on is like looking into how different cultures like visualized time
 Because like Western culture usually doesn't like a linear method
 But like that's not the only way to like visualize time, which is very fun. All right elaborate elaborate
 Yeah, there's some like a lot of Asian like especially specifically I think like Japanese culture will think of it in like cyclical
 like visuals where it's like
 It's like oh like well next time I can do it whereas like Western you're kind of like oh, well, I'll never get that chance again
 Or like oh this happened or like this will never happen again, right or it kind of feels like you're running out of time
 Right right when you visualize the different ways kind of there's like a there's like a very specific like
 Country like it's like Madagascar or something somewhere. I don't know where to I forgot where it is
 Yeah, they visualize time as like something is flowing into
 The back of your head and like forward and so you're like I
 Guess for us we would visualize that as like we're moving down the timeline, but we're looking backwards
 Interesting, but like for them. It's like flowing forward
 But you can only see it as it's going for it's just like it's hard to wrap your head around yeah
 It I'm trying to I'm trying to think yeah, I'm trying to think about this
 This is kind of I feel like this is one of those like you really have to concentrate and kind of like meditate on
 You know what I mean just be like like where do I see myself in time?
 Where do I see myself in the scope of time and you know like thinking about it in that approach
 But it is interesting just to think about in general just how work and just the time we spend in work like effects
 Just I mean really everything else. I mean like essentially I wish there was like you know seven more hours in the day
 It's where I could do more work, you know what I mean, but I feel like there needs to be
 That balance, but you know, where do you feel like I mean?
 Yes, it kind of even goes and just like agency life in general, but like wait like what is that what is that line for you look like
 You know as far as like work life kind of stuff. Yeah, I always try to make sure I'm leaving space for other things other than work
 It's part of the fun of
 Man, I like this episode because we're kind of like tying in timed everything. Yeah, I know it, but it's a good it's a good point
 Time is kind of like a decided thing we like humans made it up. It's relative to some things. Yeah, I mean obviously like
 At the end of the day, we could just decide it's a different time and like it's not like we it's not like someone discovered a clock
 Right, right, right, but
 like
 We have different just like cultural norms of like eight hour work week
 Yeah, kind of a little industrial revolution product there
 And then I am team abolish
 They like savings. Oh go on this. I can tell you want to go off go off. Yeah, it's fine people can just you can just wake up
 You can just wake up at a different time if you need the the sunlight, you know, yeah
 I don't know. I don't I feel like it's not that useful the other countries didn't jump on. Why are we doing it?
 Well, I mean, I feel like some people saw use of it like, you know forever ago, but I mean, I think to your point like is that is that
 Needed now like it was needed for a time. Yeah a time. It was needed for a time
 But now we don't have time for it, but now we don't we need that time for other things like I feel like I feel like society in life
 Has progressed in a different way that that time could probably be used
 Somewhere else, right, but you know, where do you put it? Yeah, where would you put it? Where would you put that extra time?
 I don't know probably more probably more creative things like what?
 Probably more music things or stuff at home more like
 Thinking and honestly more rest. I think a lot of people
 It's part of like the a work week and like kind of post work
 Kind of how I divide up my time is like I've recently been focusing I've relaxed like last couple years of like
 Setting up time to rest because otherwise, it's like you just kind of go go go and then I'm finding that it's like I'm more productive
 Giving myself more time to rest and less time to work because it's like
 You'll burn you kind of burn yourself out. It's I mean, it's like you want to think of like
 If you get on social media, especially like LinkedIn you you can get sucked into this like productivity culture and stuff and like that
 It's all well and good and stuff right. I know how to work hard, but it's like right, but they're dangerous to it
 But also work smart not hard like right you can you can work 40 hours a week and give me like 20 hours worth of work or you can like
 If you just like spend more time planning like resting you come in with a fresh mind
 Like you can come in and they're like oh, like I can handle this really fast now and like you kind of work better
 You feel better. You feel more energized while you're working. I think it's the important thing to like
 Really try and stay it's like creating time for you to be
 Resting not thinking about work and then also creating time to be like creating stuff like making stuff for yourself
 And I think it makes you like a more well-rounded person and kind of helps improve like every aspect of
 What happens? I totally agree with you. I even think you know
 Not to I to kind of piggyback off what you're seeing
 To piggyback off of you know circling back
 Per my last name and I'm just kidding
 No, but I feel like to that point as much as society
 I feel like you see on Instagram, you know
 Do this for yourself, you know create an Instagram feed that's for for who you are your own aesthetic
 Like there's all these things. I feel like really try to push people to really
 be you and in it's your decision and blah blah blah
 I think that's all fine and good
 But like is there actually that
 actionable push of
 Make the time for yourself like it's not about just like these decisions are mine and like, you know
 I'm deciding to say this now and I'm gonna post this because this is what I want to post and I'm gonna share this because
 This goes with you know my narrative and you know whatever. Okay. That's awesome
 It's absolutely awesome
 But then at the end of the day like how much time are you actually giving to yourself?
 To be a better person and I'm talking to myself
 I mean like I'm like I do I need to give myself more time
 I genuinely wish I had and I talk about seven hours of the day
 I wish I had more time because I genuinely wish I had more time to do yoga
 I wish I had more time to read a book. I wish I had more time to do music and or listen to music and you know
 Do other things to be outside like I love outside and it's like I hardly I feel like I don't have any time to be
 You know, I mean it's like that and it's like it's you know
 Oh, you actually probably have time to do it and it's like yeah, I probably do yeah
 But like you know, you slow down from other things. You're trying to jump to something else and it's like
 Yeah, I'll have 20 brothers here
 I think it helps to have like what really helped me is like I spent a long time like kind of learning about different
 Cultures like perspectives on time and stuff and different conceptualizations. There's there's a lot out there. Yeah, like what what was your
 What was your biggest one?
 Well, like some people ask like do you feel like times moving forward or it's time happening to you?
 Some people visualize it and like the circles like I said right other people see it as like a
 Collage of events that aren't like linear
 Uh-huh, and I think kind of if you kind of really like dig into like how are you actually
 Conceptualizing time. That's kind of like the groundwork of how you think because some people get really caught into
 a linear time where it's like
 They always like keep putting things in front of themselves
 And so it's like a bunch of goals that you're gonna keep not reaching and then it's all these things of like
 If you get too far and it's like really useful like
 Like that's exactly why we have time and how we can get so much done like we are
 Probably like in a in a given day like producing more than like people were doing in like weeks
 Oh, absolutely, but like that's why we've like advanced so fast like as a society
 Like a world recently, but like because time gives us that it like kind of agreed upon like here's how we're gonna measure
 Time and like distance between things of like events
 So we can meet together and collaborate on things and kind of like be on the same page right but some people get into this mindset of like
 We've measured it. So like I only have this much time left
 Right you constantly feel like you're running out of something and that's like it's not it's it's true and it's not true
 It's like it's true if you visualize it that way if if you don't then it's not true anymore. It's like it kind of like
 This sounds I feel like I'm in the like the trippy side of things
 No, I mean, I feel like we kind of went down this road now
 We're just gonna stay on it like I mean at this point like we're just gonna talk about this because I think it's useful for a lot of reasons in the sense of
 I mean we're both we're both in the Gen Z millennial bracket and I feel like our generation
 Specifically and I think this definitely applies for every generation
 But I feel like our generation specifically has just been like absorbed and
 There's so many factors. Yes
 Yes, it's like an expectation piece is now in front of our face
 All the time you were seeing what everyone is doing all the time and what do you realize or not?
 You're like even comparing yourself to like oh my gosh, this person's already doing this in their life
 Like like what you know, and it makes you think about things and then and then you feel rushed with your time
 You feel like am I even making use of my time and it's like I
 Have you know I made a thing I liked how Caitlin
 One of the episodes last week before New Year's released and the open mic episode
 She was talking about New Year's resolutions and she was talking about making a word for your year
 Yeah, and I really liked that idea and so I kind of took it on and kind of made a word for my year
 And I kind of chose the word of growth and I'm trying to apply that in a couple areas in my life
 Whether that's like you know personally like you know from a spiritual religious standpoint whether it's like mental health like physically
 You know like growth like trying to grow trying to be better work all that kind of stuff
 But in that like I have to
 Accept the fact that this this is my only
 This is like my window of opportunity, right?
 Like this is my no one else gets to really do like no one else gets to do it Josh is doing no
 And I'll get to do it right is doing no one gets to do what you as the listener, you know
 Like no one else gets to really do what you're doing right now and like how cool is that that you your role
 You know in society is contributing to who you are and it's like, you know
 It's like this bigger idea of just being
 You and making the most of that even though it probably feels like oh other people are doing this
 Yeah, like other people are doing that. It's like okay
 It's like it's so important especially in like the world of social media and like hyper connectivity. It's like
 You you can easily feel
 Like you're way behind other people and then easily feel like you're not unique at all
 Oh, yeah, and so you get caught in this world of like watching other people live
 And then you just kind of like beat yourself up of like oh, I'm not doing this
 It's like no, do you actually want to do that?
 Like really take a look at it's like do you actually want to be doing that at this one your life?
 Yeah, it's like you need to like there's a bunch of different timelines like I think you can be a lot of different things
 Absolutely, it's like I
 Do this for myself. It's like some people are like, oh, what's the next thing I'm gonna do?
 I'm like well, what else am I gonna do?
 That's kind of where I try to go like I don't have to be one thing or at a time
 I can I can do a lot of different things like I agree with you
 I think this is something else like I was talking to someone the other day. Um, we were discussing this little bit because
 I also feel like there's all this pressure of
 To your you just said this. What are you gonna do like who are you gonna be like what career are you trying to do?
 Like what what is X like what like you know, and it's like it has to be this definite thing
 You make when you're in your early 20s. Yeah, and it's like chill like I am figuring myself out still
 I am you know, I mean, there's all these other factors that are coming into play here
 And I also think that like it's like a really false
 Like expectation to hold on people because there are people you know way older than us like people
 Even in their 70s and 80s who are reestablishing their life and like recreating their life and redefining their life
 And there's nothing wrong with that like you're never one thing in your life
 Like you can be you can be a student and one part in your life, and then you can be you know, you can be a career
 Person in your they're not a part of your life can be a mother, and you can be all be at the same time too like I'm like it
 I don't like I don't expect to ever like figure out like I don't think I'm like
 I'm not even like trying at this room. I'm like I'm just gonna see what else I'm gonna do. Absolutely. No, I totally agree with that
 I totally agree with that. Where do you get your inspiration from?
 Like when you're like looking at things like when you're when you're like trying to work on things about your life or do whatever like
 Where are you going for that kind of inspiration? Like I you've already talked a lot about going through other cultures and kind of learning through things like that
 That was a clearly big part of your life. Yeah, usually I'm like I'm pretty curious. I mean a lot of people are but it's like I
 I'm kind of like
 Get in and like look at all the pieces of something kind of guy. So like I was like
 I was like why do we think of time and a line?
 And so I was like I'm gonna look it up and then I was like oh wait a lot of people don't
 Mm-hmm
 Like I like also like part of what led to that was like I saw an artist had
 Was making a series of watches. Yeah that only you could only see the
 The hand during like date like when there's sun and so like or like basically like after like 5 p.m.
 Or something it just like disappeared and so like you couldn't see where the hand was
 That's interesting. Then I saw another one
 He made a second one where it's just like there was sunlight out on for like it would basically is a watch that said
 Is the sun out or like is a daytime or is a nighttime basically and I was like what did you take away from that? I was like I think it
 Feels more free
 Because like when you when you like lock yourself into a schedule. I don't like schedules
 I'm like
 The Wes Anderson movie Darjeeling Unlimited where he's like he's like F.D.I.
 Tinerary like that's what I feel right it's like when you
 It's so much more freeing when you're just like I'm like yeah, I work I work nine to five and I don't have a problem with that
 but like when I leave I'm like I
 Want to do this. Yeah, I'm not leaving. I'm not saying
 Like you want to have like you kind of need to have like some options available like there is some planning still
 Absolutely, but it's not the like lock-in planning where it's like
 5.15 or like five o'clock pack up leave 5.15 get home
 Right like 5.30 start making dinner. 5.17. Yeah, exactly stop at the stoplight up the street
 I'm then like I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna you like
 Play like do my next baseless and right and I don't have a time frame set up
 I'm like I'm like I want to do this this and if I have time this and I think I really like that
 I get home like I think people it kind of helps like it helped me realize this of like you can do a lot more than you think you can
 Like after work because like when I was like okay
 I'm gonna go to the gym when I get home for I'm gonna work out for an hour
 I'm gonna do this for an hour and then I'm gonna do this I'd get home and like I'm like I don't want to
 Right, I don't want to do it like I'm not excited about anymore now. It's just another task
 Another task is and all the sudden and I've extended my work day
 Mm-hmm, and then it's like not fun anymore. Mm-hmm, but like doing
 Setting it up to where it's like I want to try these things and more more that's kind of helped
 And I think a big key of like inspiration is like you got to think of like look at first stuff outside
 Like I don't listen to podcasts that are like I don't only listen to advertising podcasts
 I listen to fun podcasts like
 But more time like I'm either like reading a book. That's fun watching movies
 like reading
 I said reading books already. I like reading articles like also when I do read books or watch a movie and stuff that I really like
 I'll like read reviews on it too like read critics
 Thanks like read articles about it like watch there's really great video essays out there on like YouTube
 Which is really easy like digest like that helps you like really break down like
 What the artist was trying to say and like how different people are interpreting it
 because you can either
 There's like a two ways here is like you can miss like maybe you missed a point that like a different person picked up or
 A critic will might say like
 Oh, it was about this and you might disagree like you can disagree with critics right?
 That's kind of the fun of art
 Yeah, and that's where I get a lot of ideas from okay
 Consuming art. It's like I'm just like trying to like
 Bring in things that bring enjoyment or like make me think stuff like that
 And I think I think it's another thing that's kind of progressed
 It's helped me learn a lot more than say like
 Again, I'm I'm kind of like anti this like weird like right hyperactive productivity culture where it's like right
 Only need to you only need to you need to schedule every day. You need to meal prep no seasonings
 Also, no seasoning you should only listen to
 Business and investing books and pockets like I still I still like read about that stuff like I still like I still keep up
 But it's like you gotta have you gotta have some color. I have some flavor. Have some like
 Shake things up because that's the only way you're gonna take yourself out of your box and also like
 Find inspiration and part of that is like in the rest too. I feel like I agree
 You need to give your mind. I think I like that you and I you need to give your time your time
 You need to give your mind time to just process what happened even in the day
 I'm a big journal or I love to journal. I love to write and
 That is a huge thing for me is just like taking the time to journal and write and I noticed there was a
 A week a couple weeks ago where I did not make time to journal and it was something I normally do every day or every other day
 And it really messed with my week because I just did not have I did not make that extra just Riley time like you know
 And I mean it you know, I make a cup of tea. I have my journal. I just start writing and it's not a certain time of the day
 It's just whenever I deem it
 Necessary for me to start you know writing or I have something on my mind. I want to write about or you know
 Whether it's like poetry or short story or whatever. It's just like the writing just getting it out there and
 It's like really critical to give yourself that kind of time because I have note like when you don't give yourself
 Your own time
 It affects like how you even interact with other people and like I think the other thing I noticed is when I would do
 Like when I would work out or you know do some yoga or something in the morning like when I made the morning about myself
 Or like kind of ritualized my mornings
 I was doing things for myself before I came to work where I'm doing things for other people
 Do you know what I mean? Like I'm not saying like I'm over here. We're I'm not trying to say like
 That felt like that sounded bad
 But you know what I mean like like this is about
 If you make time for yourself. I feel like you can it's like a cycle out a psychology
 Psychological thing. I love to have a psychologist on here and like help us out
 And be like well actually that's because you know you're brain
 You're given yourself time now you can get people all their time. We're just gonna say something like three seconds
 And we're like yeah, that yeah exactly or they're gonna look at us and go okay
 None of what you said is correct. We're really like I thought we're on to something here like I think you know
 Yeah, that's probably what's actually happening honestly
 There's probably a psychologist listening to this then going okay, we gotta talk to someone about this
 But um no, but I mean, you know, I think there's a lot of cool things that I think can come from just giving yourself
 Just the necessary time that you need and um, I don't know as a society
 I kind of fear that like maybe we're not actually giving ourselves a time we think we are like posting on Instagram about yourself
 I think that's fine, but I don't know if that's really and it might be you time. Yeah, but
 It's not really you time like do you know what I mean like is that just time like with yourself
 Like just like giving yourself that time to grow like you know, I think it's part of the whole like
 production
 That we're talking about and if like I think people need to I think that's kind of my key of like concept of time and also like making room for inspiration
 It's like you can't you have to kind of let go the idea of wasting time
 That's a good point. Yeah, because it's like I think that's my key of like
 I'm not running out of time. I'm not wasting time. I'm like
 Maybe I'm sitting there drinking a cup of coffee, but it's like
 people took beans
 They took the pit of a berry dried it out roasted it and then someone crushed them up and like roasted it and I bought it from them
 To help support the local coffee shop and I get to sit there and drink it. Yeah, I like that story. Wow
 That's fun look and that's when I can like
 Like if you open up time to like do something that's maybe maybe not gonna make you money maybe it costs you money
 Like but it's creative and it's helping you express yourself or like
 Learn something new of like like I'm taking online bass lessons
 And like I don't ever plan on paying playing bass live like or recording. I just think it's fun
 Yeah, you're doing a field. I love to I love to like cook and stuff
 I might not ever work in a restaurant. I'm not even not even make a meal again
 Like it'll be like it's fun
 That's what helps give me like helps me learn helps me kind of clear my head and think about something else and a lot of times I'll like learn
 Learn how to learn better for other things like like
 Learning how to play music. I'm like. Oh, I can apply this learning technique to this like advertising thing
 Yeah, exactly. It's kind of like the shower thought mentality
 Absolutely when you like give yourself that space to let your mind wander
 You'll get these like really cool ideas. No, that's that's what's like I agree with that
 I am I have a little field notebook. I just kind of carry with me because to that end like if I am by myself just doing things
 I really like being able to have
 That notebook yeah, where when I do have that thought it's just written down
 Because whether that's helping me in something that I'm thinking about for the podcast or something for another part of work
 Or whether another part of life or you know something else that's going on whatever it is
 I just like having the thoughts written down because they're kind of your
 baseline. They're kind of your foundation. They're kind of where you're going back to and you know, you're
 Just other things you're creating for yourself and um, I think there's
 There's a lot that I think people can take away from just
 I am using the word ritualizing, but you know what I mean when I'm saying that it's like just taking
 The time for you and making it intentional. That's another big word. I love that word
 I mean because I think without like intentionality of things you're gonna miss
 Just a whole scope of opportunity, you know
 But exactly you're not wasting time. Do something fun. Do something creative. Exactly. Do something that's
 I don't know. I don't know. I feel like
 Key here do more fun things. Yeah, it would be more
 Inspired. Yeah more fulfilled. Yeah, we just went down a really crazy intense path
 That's okay. I'm here for it. I'm here for this like that. I felt like that was good, you know
 Yeah, no, but I mean unless less of a serious note
 I feel like we always gonna on a tiktok topic in some point some form of fashion
 So I feel like I feel like you have to have an opinion about something happened on tiktok this week
 You're you're like you know what else is inspiring. Tell me tiktok
 Make time for tiktok
 Yeah, man. Have you seen the
 Ratatouille musical
 Okay, wait we talked about this a little bit
 But I'm not gonna lie to you. I didn't know anything about this beforehand. I
 I saw a glimpse of it and then part of me was like it's probably a joke
 Realized it's not a joke. It's actually pretty serious. They raised a million dollars. Yeah actually
 It's super casual little pocket change, but they raised a million dollars to help the actors actors guild
 Yeah, actors guild actors something. Yeah actors fun basically. Yeah, the fund for actors to um the guild fund
 Yeah, yeah, who've been affected by the pandemic, so but
 very sick
 Amazing classic movie Ratatouille. Oh, yeah rats cooking. What could be better? Everyone loves rats in their kitchen
 I myself have plenty really yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, they cook all my food and stuff eat a little bit
 But like you know, it's a give and take it's a relationship. Oh, but um
 It started as like on tiktok there was all these like
 Trends of people like people like a girl get on her boyfriend's like shoulders and then like pull his hair around the kitchen
 and be like
 It'll be like cooking and I had the music in the background so funny no those trends are the best
 I do love those trends, but um
 It just kept on going from there and then someone one day just made a tiktok and they're like what if Ratatouille was a musical
 And then someone replied to that and with the tiktok and was like it would sound sort of like this and then made a song
 And then someone was like here's a better version and it just kind of snowballed and I think that's kind of the beauty of
 Tiktok is it's so collaborative. Oh, yeah, and you like people will take a trail and just run with it
 And it's cool because like by the end of it you'll have thousands of people are involved
 Like tons of like and the more people like use those songs and stuff and like make jokes about it
 They're people were like wait poop. What if we actually did it right and they're like no
 It's just a joke and then more people did it and they're like but like what if we actually did it and then pull it at this come on
 actual like Broadway actors were getting on they're like but like
 Like we actually did it yet and then I saw like probably like three where there was like
 Real-life Broadway producers
 He were making tiktoks and like I saw one specifically. He was like I've produced these these Broadway shows
 You know I could
 He's like I'm I'm willing to and he like I saw a couple where they were like pitching them
 Where it's like it was like a job interview. They were like I did this this and this I have this much experience like
 Tiktok I'm asking you can I produce this for you and like would love to like would love to be your producer
 Let the people with I want the people to decide and thus created
 Ratatouille a two-talk musical right now. It is a verified account on tiktok
 Ratatouille the musical I think it was literally like stitched together tiktoks stop because like I remember this being like
 Yeah, your your cameras on you. Yeah, but like oh my gosh stop. Oh my gosh
 Now I'm just crazy excited about this. I'll put this in the show. No, so where I know everyone's so curious now
 I think it's an important note here is inspiration
 Sometimes you need to put it out in the world and let other people
 Help take you across the finish line
 It's part of the this part of that part once you once you let it go it can be better
 Oh, maybe as in part of the collaboration. I think I think there's a lot of collaboration that's still happening and needs to happen more and I hope that
 Um, I hope that in 2021 that just you know as a society we see more just coming together and um
 I would love for that to be more of a thing that we see in 2021 because
 I agree it's um
 It's important and I think all jokes aside
 I think the timeliness of this episode and we're talking about time and talking about collaboration and just being together
 I don't know. I think I don't know. It's it's making me putting me in the feels a little bit just thinking about just all the things that in
 The beginning of the year and yeah, it just makes me feel like there's so much that can happen in 2021 and I just I just hope
 I don't know. I would love for it to just be a really positive year and just a lot of like really good stories come out of this year
 I would love for that to happen. Yeah, same. I think I think we're set up
 Really well to have that happen too. We've got more tools than ever. Mm-hmm. Like ready available to like
 Have
 Collaboration and a lot of people are willing a lot of there's a lot of creative people out there who lost their outlets this year
 I think if you kind of like lean into it like
 Kind of even more stuff this year. Absolutely. No, I'm excited for this year
 I think there's going to be a lot of um a lot of fun about this year
 Especially fun on the red cast obviously we're going to have like a lot more of this
 kind of you know open mic ad gab news guests
 It's all going to be there and I'm very excited for this just to continue and um and you know for all the episodes that are up and coming
 It's crazy because if you all saw it we released our 100th episode last week
 Which is super exciting and we'll probably by the I feel like by the rate we were going in 2020
 We'll probably really start 200 this year as well more than likely. Yeah, that's also exciting
 But I am very thankful that you came on today and that we got to do this again
 Yeah, this is fun. Yeah, this is fun. I like open mic and maybe next week we'll have Caitlin and Alex come back on and um
 Maybe one day we'll do all five of us. They cool six all six of us all six five or six six five five
 Sorry, I didn't go too much
 Yeah, no, no, but um, no, but that's it for us today. Um, yeah, we're running out of time
 Yeah, we also I have other jobs and you have another thing that you need. Yeah, I've got a big schedule for the rest of the day
 Right, obviously at um at our afternoon time here, but um no, so uh, please fall along the red cast
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