The system was wake up, do what needs to be done, come home, repeat.

I love systems. Yeah. I will systemize the out of every single thing.

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Kitchen Talk - Hot takes, weird news, and what’s on our minds this week

Okay. I have kitchen talk because every time, well, not every time, especially lately, I open up Instagram, Facebook, whatever. Somebody wants me to pretty much steal their five-pronged framework. Download their blueprint or learn their exact system. And I'm starting to think we have overcomplicated the hell out of just being alive.

We have systemized our life into systems.

So I have a couple questions for you to get your brains.

497 will get you where you need to be.

So what's something you used to just do that people now apparently need a system or a course or an app for?

Morning routine. Morning routine? Morning routine. Like, listen, wake up if you're a man, scratch yourself into places that need scratching and get your coffee. That's the routine. That's the superior routine that got me to looking the way I do now.

Great job. Great job.

Yep, that's right.

How about you, paddle princess? I would say going to bed. Okay. Everybody has like their whole skincare routine and nighttime routine and everything that they have to put on the right sounds, the right music, the right lighting. You have to do this 30 minutes before you plan on being asleep. It's just it's so overcomplicated.

So do you think the internet has made us smarter or just less confident making our own decisions?

You know, there was a study, I don't know who did it. That's how dumb I am. But there's a study on the effects of the brain, and people when they are asked a question and they use and they use chat GPT to answer it, uh-huh. And then they're and then they use their brain to answer it. And there are just whole regions of the brain not firing when you type that question into Chat GPT.

Oh, I bet.

So it it really is. I mean, we're dumbing ourselves down. We've been dumbing ourselves down since Gen X. Gen X is a superior generation out there. So everything, every generation after that has been become dumber.

Yeah.

Because you don't need a proprietary system to tell you how to do life.

Right.

There there should have been bumps and bruises along the way that taught you, okay, don't do that. That's gonna cause pain. Or don't do that again, or don't marry that person a third time, or what you know, whatever it is.

Valid.

Your your your system, your your ecosystem should have helped you along the way. Not someone's 497 proprietary system.

Well, I just feel like there is a course for literally everything. And I I I feel like when is learning useful, but when is it just like you're just not using your brain or procrastinating and you feel like, oh, I I need this course in order to do this? It's like, no, basically, you just need to go do the shit.

Yeah, the the system was wake up, do what needs to be done, come home, repeat.

And this is coming from somebody who does operations. So I love systems. Yeah, I will systemize the shit out of every single thing. But at what point are you do you not need a system just for life and living? You know, not obviously in business and opening and closing and how you do things. Yes, absolutely. Because, you know, businesses are run on systems and people run systems. So I I get that concept, but it's just the stuff like on social media where I'm like, why would I buy your $24 download for how to make protein coffee in the morning? It's like I'll just look at the back of the damn bag, or I'll figure it out.

You know, it's not, you know, so I was in some high functioning elite level units, military law enforcement, and did you buy a 497 course? No, I bought I I I bought all black because it's very slimming. No. What we had was called habits. You know, I would build a habit. Now, and you know, and you know this in our house, there's nothing I can't do or go to or or figure out in the complete darkness. I know where everything is, I know where all the buttons are for everything, I know where all the lights are, I know everything in our house. Sure. No, it's it's so I built those habits. I don't I don't need I don't need a PDF to tell me, you know, do this this way. You build the habits that allow you to to live your life. That's that's what that is.

So do you think it's a certain type of person that needs all these, or do you think each individual person finds value in certain ones?

I would say each individual person finds value in certain ones. And a lot of it uh has to do with people who are neurodivergent. I'm just saying it. Like when your brain is in a gazillion different places, for me, having like a PDF that says do this, do this, do this, do this, it actually helps me stay on track versus someone who's neurotypical, their brain does not have 10 other things popping in and out with a song playing in the background, and you're trying to figure out why I walked into the room. So each individual person, it's gonna different ones are gonna serve different purposes.

Yeah, so no, I can I can see what Paddle Princess is saying. I, you know, for for different people, there's different mindsets, and again, I th I think it is generational.

Yeah.

You know, it's not that we didn't have neurodivergent people when I was growing up. I think we just didn't understand. And so we categorized them, we had names for them that are not shareable on podcasts anymore. And so I I th I I can understand that that side of it. There are people, types of people that that lists help.

I but I get I'm not talking about lists. Well, you're talking about a whole system.

And apps. Like I have habit apps on my phone. Sure, but I I check things off.

And and you're a different generation, right? Than whom? Than me.

Yes. But I'm not saying I don't like lists and I don't like apps. Hell, that's what I do. I build those things. Right. What I I guess more my thing is is the the frameworks and the download this if you want to get, you know, to the next tax bracket. And it's like if you would have just read the books that came out 30 frickin' years ago, that's all these people are doing is taking the stuff that they learned, and I'm not bagging on them for it. Okay. I'm not bagging on them. Taking the stuff that they learned from books that have already been written, putting their spin on it, calling it a framework, and then selling it.

Sure.

Great. That's what people have been doing for years. But at what point have we stopped going and getting that book, reading it for yourself, creating your your own intrinsic motivation and system to make it work for you. Instead, I feel like we're just cheat code and like hacking. And I think when you hack, you lose the trial and error and the failures that eventually make you better. Yeah, so I think that's what people don't see.

Yeah, I can see, I can see what you're saying there. And just like I said earlier, okay, let's get a system, but then let's not, I don't think that because what it leads to is then, well, this system works and this part of this system, I need more information, so I need another system for this part of this system. Right.

And then you never end up doing right.

And so you you you find yourself in a cycle of just I need more information, I need more systems, I need someone else to tell me what to do here. And we don't pull back far enough to to go out on our own. Right.

It's like, okay, step one, buy the book, step two, read the book, step three, try the shit. Like that's it. And then see, and then make adjustments based on okay, that's not working, let's adjust. That's not working, let's adjust. But it's like, oh, well, this person already did it and created a framework. Well, that worked for maybe that person.

Well, and we've talked about it before on on people put people put their absolute best on social media.

Right.

Very few content creators are just laying it all out there how they are, their messy life and all that stuff. So, so you know, I I I built this system and you need to pay me $49.95 for it, but I'm not going to show you behind the scenes where I don't even use my own system. It really doesn't work. Right. I just want you to keep buying this.

Right. And and that's the other thing, like on TikTok and stuff. It's like, you know, uh, I'll teach you how to sell houses. It's like, if you are so good at selling houses, then why the F are you trying to sell like if if you're making a billion dollars off of selling real estate, why are you on TikTok trying to sell a system? Like you already have a billion damn dollars. Like, right. Does that make sense? So I think people are just hacking, hacking, hacking. And I feel like those people who are selling the courses, not all of them, God forbid, don't come at me. I feel like they are just preying on those, I don't want to say weak minded, but those 100% they are. Those people that are, you know, like, oh, I want to learn how to sell stuff on Amazon. Like, click, click. It's not that damn easy. I want to be a drop shipper. I want to be a drop, yeah, exactly. It's like, no, if you want to be a drop shipper, great. Go through the motions and and see if that works because that framework is going to cost you, you know, nine hundred dollars. And it's not going to give you all the information. It may give you strategy, but not tactics or tactics, but not strategy. And then you're right back where you were because you never, you never had to use it. You didn't use your own persistence. You didn't have to, you know, cry and fail and and pull up your bootstraps and try it again. And I feel like that that is what made entrepreneurs entrepreneurs. Yeah. And I I think that's where my frustration comes in, is because it's like you can't just do one thing, create a framework, and then sell it to these people like it's you know, sliced bread. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's not, you're not inventive, and I feel like you're preying on people. And that is where Yeah.

If you're really good at selling houses, why do I have to meet you at the Holiday Inn and pay $139 to learn how to sell houses?

You get a free dinner with it. That's been going on for years, folks. It's just moved to social media.

Yeah, it's awesome. No, I think it's right. I think it hurts our brains. I think it dumbs our brains down. It it stops us from being create the creatives we were meant to be, the problem solvers we are meant to be. I'm not saying there's no there's no room for systems out there. Certainly, there if there's steps out there that I can take that I haven't thought of, great. I'm just putting the information in. I still and it's what we've said all along with you know some of our business stuff. You can steal whatever we've created, but you can't do what we do.

No, and that's the other thing that I I want to make sure I'm very clear on. I am not talking about coaching and mentoring. Because when you have a mentor, you not only get to ask questions, they provide feedback. A YouTube video does not provide you feedback, right? Right. So if you're just trying to find something out, great. But if you have questions, a mentor's job is to get you from where you start to where you want to go faster than they did it. Yeah. And I understand that. And I am 100% for that because when you have a mentor, it's a mutual like relationship. It's very symbiotic. Yeah. You know, but I feel like a framework and a download and a $299 is parasitic.

And it's specific when it's a coach.

And you get it, and then you're just like, Well, I have questions. Well, guess what? That's another $29.95. Exactly.

Well, now that I'm thinking about it though, we've had this forever. We've had it, at least in my generation, because in the back of the comic books. If I wanted to look like the guy on the beach who wasn't getting sand kicked in his face, I can send in the $9 in the clipping from the back of the comic book.

It's not new marketing. Yeah, I but I don't know. Lately I've just been like, get off my for you page.

Yeah. Let us know what you got out there. You do have a system that came across your feed uh that you like or you use or you don't use or you just found comical. Let us know. Drop up in the comments. Let us know your thoughts. That's what we're all here about, is to uh get your brain thinking a little bit more.

Fan Mail (Shout Outs, Comments, Love)

Oh, let me reach all the way down to the bottom of the fan mail bag where there's all loose change and lint. All right, I got this one from Abigail Sullivan. Abigail sent us a nice Facebook message. She said, Love your pickle energy. Yeah, I know you do, Abigail. Thank you. We appreciate you taking the time to send us some kindness. If you want to be like Abigail, you want to hear your name read on our podcast. Well, get all up in our fan mail areas. Bdepodcast.com is where you can reach us.

There's lots of different ways. There's like six different ways to send us a message.

Yeah, you got carrier pigeons. We'll take them.

Just The Tip - Pickleball Wisdom

Just the tip. Just the tip. Quick pickleball wisdom in and out before you know it. So this week's tip comes courtesy of Jill Braverman and Tracy Wilcox, who taught me that when you're moving sideways on the court, you need to lead with your hoo-haw. So naturally.

Oh yeah.

Naturally, I named it the hoo-haw shuffle so that my brain could understand it and remember it. There are videos, and I attempted it. You should absolutely go watch them on our socials. Jill and Tracy, thank you for the tip and for giving us something we will now call the Hoo-Ha Shuffle forever.

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Pickle Pals - Deep Dive with a Pickleball Court, Club or Influencer

Oh, yeah. Well, today's guest is a 5.0 player, a certified coach, and a licensed chiropractor, which means he's the rare person who can look at your game and tell you how screwed up you are or how screwed up your body is, whether you're losing points because your technique is broken or because it is your body. Most of us need two different experts for that. He's the all-in-one solution. From Daytona Beach, Dr. Lane Odom, the pickleball chiro. Dr. Lane, thanks so much for being here with us on the Big Dink Energy Podcast. Hey, happy to be here. Man, this is this is great. Uh, because I'm a big fan of chiropractic care. I'm a big fan of massage therapy. I'm a broken person. Uh, I think a lot of people out there are, they just don't know it. You know, for what you do, most people would need three different people, right? A coach, a chiropractor, and just someone who can sit back and look at it all and diagnose it. When a player comes to you stuck, how do you know whether it's a skill problem or a body problem?

Yeah, yeah, that's a good question. So typically people are gonna fall into one of two camps. Um, either they're not really dealing with any pain or physical limitations and things that we need to work on are more technical or strategical. And then on the flip side, I deal with a lot of people, especially people, you know, in their 50s, 60s, even 70s, who maybe they don't move as well. Maybe they've had some previous surgeries or rotator cuff tears, meniscus tears, things like that. And they don't, they just don't move very well. Their body gasses out before they ever hit some technical ceiling. And so for a lot of them, I'm like, hey, like your your body is the ceiling. It's not, you know, your third shot drop or your forehand. It's your body is gassing out two or three games in. And so that that's your ceiling. You can drill all you want, but until you address the body, it's like we're not gonna, we're not gonna be able to catch up to that level that we want to get to.

Yeah, that that you that's really uh the way you point it out there is just so important, uh, especially for our listeners to understand. The body generally, you know, I I like a little bit of biohacking myself. The body generally wants to do things in the best interest of itself. When you align it properly and give it all, you know, the nutrition, the rest, and the things that it would like, then you know, you see great results from that. You know, our American lifestyle sometimes gets in the way and our time gets in the way and it's rush, rush, rush, and we don't take those those personal times for ourselves to reset, especially through like chiropractic care. What how do you how do you tell people to manage that? Or, you know, what what's kind of the trick for that? Is it I I I would guess initially you need, you know, a baseline to establish and get them established like that way as a patient, and then and then you build a plan from that. But what's the general path for most people?

Yeah, I I'm a little bit of a different type of chiropractor. So like I still do the adjustments and um the alignment and stuff like that. I'm also looking at how your body moves. So obviously there's a lot of movement patterns that are very fundamental to pickleball, a lot of uh lunging and side lunging and rotation, hip mobility, things like that. So I'm I'm screening everything. I'm looking at how you move, I'm looking at your strength, your mobility, your balance, all of those types of things, including, you know, from the chiropractic perspective. And then I'm putting it all together into a plan. I'm saying, hey, like, you know, we can do some adjustments, try to get your alignment back in place, but then let's lock it in. You know, let's work on some strengthening. I see you're a lot more unbalanced on your right leg versus your left leg. Uh, your lunge isn't as strong on this side. So, like, just things like that. And then I give them a roadmap to get back to where they want to be. So let's say they have knee pain, they want to be able to play three times a week for two hours a night without knee pain. I'm giving them a structured plan and progressing them, you know, back to be able to play at that level.

Right. So you I mean, you see pickleball injuries from the inside, right? Uh, as both as a doc and as a competitor. What's the injury you're seeing over and over uh right now, especially in players over 40?

Yeah, good question. I see a lot of knee pain. That's probably the most, the most common one. And uh the research backs that up. If you look at the most common uh non-traumatic injuries, knee pain is at the top. Uh also see a lot of shoulders, elbows, low backs, feet, uh ankles, stuff like that. Really is predominantly lower body, and then you get some like shoulders and elbows mixed in, but for the most part, lower body is what I'm seeing kind of day-to-day.

I gotcha. And so I I mean, I know you're a big proponent on active care. And I'm I'm guessing based on just my observations when I'm at a court or a tournament, people warm up wrong or not at all. So what's kind of your five minute, what's your five-minute pre-game that people should be doing or you would recommend?

Yeah, good question. A lot of people either, like you said, they don't warm up at all, or it's like, oh, let me just, you know, stretch my quad or my hamstring for a couple seconds and then then we're ready to go. Let's hit some dinks and then we're ready to go. Yeah. I would prefer a dynamic warm-up that includes some movements that mimic pickleball or at least uh works on the body parts that are required for pickleball. So for me, I'm doing a lot of lunges with rotation. I'm doing a lot of side to side lunges. Uh, I'm doing some plometrics, so I'll do just some uh some pogo hops. I may do some single leg variations as well to um, because I've I've had some like ankle sprains and stuff in the past. So I do I'll do like single leg pogo hops, I'll do in place, I'll go side to side, forwards and backwards, covering all the different planes of motion. For upper body, I'll usually do like some windmills, some thoracic rotations, something to get my upper body movement. And then I'll also include maybe like some push-ups or pull-ups, just something to get everything moving. And then uh I keep it pretty simple. I usually do four or five things and then I'm rocking and rolling.

Yeah, and you know, and for our older audience, I think um the analogy I've heard before, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, like most of what you're doing, all your connective tissue, your muscle, and everything, kind of think of it like a rubber band, right? Or a rubber band in a freezer. You wouldn't just pull it right out and stretch it as far as it can go. It's gonna break, it's gonna give. So, you know, doing a little bit of warm-up, a little, you know, and then getting into the more dynamic stuff as things warm up, right? Mm-hmm. All right. And recovery is a whole frickin industry now, too. You see so many things out there, so many contraptions, so many, you know, try this. This is the best thing ever. Cold plunge, red light therapy, percussion guns, all of it. You know, what in your opinion is is kind of worth the money for a rec player?

Yeah, that's a good question because uh you're absolutely correct. There's a lot of gadgets and tools and um gimmicks out there, you know, things that may not necessarily work. Um, the thing with a lot of those like passive therapies and gadgets is that they're usually good for maybe helping, you know, kind of warm things up or calm things down in the short term. But if you're not pairing it with some type of movement therapy or exercise or rehab or mobility work, a lot of it's gonna be very ineffective long term. I see a lot of people they get into this pattern where they just they're constantly relying on the passive therapies, the massage guns, um, the braces. The uh the stretches, you know, just things like that that feel good, but they're not really moving the needle as far as their fitness and their mobility.

Yeah, and you and you came up um through kind of exercise science right before chiropractic care. And how does that kind of formulate or work into your background, uh uh, you know, with your background in that, uh, treating a a patient or someone in this versus just someone who jumped into chiropractic care?

Yeah, yeah. So I have a um, that was actually my undergraduate degree was exercise science. And then so I played tennis for a long time growing up. I played for about 10 years before I even got into pickleball. And then I did some coaching with that. I I was a personal trainer for a little while. So I have a very broad spectrum of perspectives, like whether you're, you know, your body's completely broken and you know, you we gotta start from ground zero and build your body back up, or you're pain-free and you're looking to optimize and enhance your athletic ability. You know, it's like wherever you're at on that spectrum, like I can program and give you a plan to get you where you need to go, right? So that's kind of that's kind of where I how I'm building my brand is like wherever you are on the spectrum, whether, you know, like I literally have a guy right now got in a motorcycle accident and we're teaching them how to walk again. Wow. And then I got people on the other end, I got you know, young teenagers who they're not, you know, they don't have any pain. Like they're just they're trying to, you know, become top junior pros and stuff like that. So like I I deal with a wide variety of different types of clients.

So in your industry, uh are you seeing a trend more to, and maybe it doesn't even lend itself to this, but I see some industries like PTs, they're getting into some of the virtual side of their care now. You know, well, they'll they'll get online with a patient and talk through the injury and the mechanics of injury and then give them some stuff to go do. Are you are you guys leaning into that or is that changing a little bit of your business at the chiropractic side?

Yeah, absolutely. That's actually where a lot of things are trending now in healthcare as uh just the whole entire system, especially with COVID, a lot of that accelerated during that period. Um, people were shut down and they were forced to do, you know, virtual uh healthcare basically. And in my opinion, I actually uh I was working in practi in person at a chiropractic practice for about the first year and a half I was there or um started out practicing. And then I slowly began to realize like a lot of what I was doing, I didn't necessarily need to like touch someone to figure out what was going on. Like I could just look at how someone moves, I could do a couple of different screening tests and really figure out what was going on. And then from there, it was like I already, once I understand how your body works, you know, it's very easy for me to come up with a plan and kind of progress it week to week. And so um, that is something I have been dabbling into is um kind of the online rehab and chiropractic, I guess you could say. But it definitely, there it definitely is a shift in healthcare with more, more and more Kairos, PTs, you know, even other professions getting into more of this um online rehab format.

So you're, you know, from what I understand, you're working on the three O's to four O's, you know, play and players plateauing in that, in that, right? Trying to move from a three, five to a four. Is there like one common movement mistake that's that's wrecking their body and capping their game?

Yeah, yeah, good question. Honestly, I would say the biggest thing that I see is that people don't split step. So they're um, like let's say they hit their their third shot drop and they're working their way through the midcourt, they don't split step at all. And then when they get a ball like at their feet or something or kind of off to the side, they're not split stepping, and so they're getting caught lunging for the ball, they're off balance. That's actually how a lot of injuries start is because you don't have this good foundation, you know, by split stepping, then you try to lunge awkwardly or twist awkwardly for a ball, and then you tweak your back or you twist your knee or you roll your ankle. So that's usually how it starts.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Uh that's that's a great call out. So let me then follow up with this. Somebody listening, right? They've got a twinge going on in their body, something, you know, maybe they're driving away from playing today and they felt something, or you know, last time they played, they felt something. What's the one thing you want them to do or stop doing the next time they step on a court?

Yeah, yeah, that's a very common scenario. So, like let's say you tweak your knee after uh a couple of hours of playing, and uh you're probably thinking, like, oh, you know, did I tear something or did I just strain something? So, what a lot of people will do is they'll go home, they'll sit on the couch, they'll rest, they may throw an ice pack on the injury sites, and they'll wait a couple of days, maybe a few weeks, and then once the pain finally calms down, then they'll get back on the courts, they'll try it again. And what often happens is this is the situation that sets you su sets you up for a recurring injury cycle. So when we take that rest period and we don't do anything to build up our capacity, you know, we're not rehabbing it, we're not strengthening it, you know, we're not doing anything to address the underlying reason for why the injury happened in the first place. Well, then you step back onto the court, your body's deconditioned because you rested for two weeks or however long, and then your body is even more underprepared for the activity or sport, and then you know, you you're basically setting yourself up for another injury. So biggest thing that I would say is take advantage of your rest period, do something active to uh work on your strength, your mobility, your stability, just something to move your body in the right direction because rest is by itself is not the answer.

Yeah, I I often equate uh our our bodies to you know a supercar like a Ferrari, uh something like that. You know, you wouldn't hit a pothole or a curb and feel it driving poorly and just keep driving it like that. You're gonna go to a mechanic, you're gonna get it looked at. And and and the same analogy for fuel, what you put in it, if you don't put the right fuel in there, then it's it you're not gonna drive well either. So I I absolutely like that is get it checked out, you know, and be active about your recovery when you're doing all that. Doctor, how can people get in touch with you? I know after hearing this, they're they're gonna want more, a ton more information. You know, we're we have a small segment, so they're gonna want a lot of more information. What's all the socials? How do they get a hold of you?

Yeah, yeah. The easiest place to get a hold of me is on Instagram. So it's Dr. LaneO or Dr. Lane underscore O. If you just search Dr. Lane on Instagram, I'll probably pop up. But that's the easiest place to get a hold of me. I have some of my other links, like uh if you want to, you know, reach out for coaching or uh rehab or anything like that. Like I have all of my links there. So that's the easiest place to get a hold of me. And then I also have a YouTube channel. It's called PickleballCairo. So if you just search at pickleballcairo, it it should pop up. Um but those are the main two places I'm on.

Awesome. So if you are a Ford Pinto or a Toyota Corolla and you're trying to become a Lamborghini, please go find Dr. Lane out there. Get your game dialed in and get your body dialed in, and that will take you to your next level in pickleball. So thanks so much for being on the Big Dink Energy Podcast, Dr. Lane.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me.

It's time for Pick Six.

I like all the crowd energy.

Pick 6 ( 1 question and 6 answers)

Thank you all for keeping that up out there. Pick six, where we take one question to each, bring two answers, and immediately regret to this segment. Tonight's pick six is things you should be embarrassed you can't do. Things you, not us, you should be embarrassed that you can't do.

I bet you the ones you're gonna name I can't do.

Yeah, for sure.

I have a feeling.

I got a feeling.

I can't do a lot, I've realized.

Yeah. I realized it for the last 20 years.

So my first one would be you should be embarrassed if you cannot read an analog clock.

I agree.

Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one.

Yeah, I totally agree with that. I would say you should definitely be embarrassed if you just can't be on time. If there's something important that you have to be there on time as a grown adult, we should be able to figure that out.

True. For me, backing up a trailer.

I'm embarrassed. I don't think I can back up a trailer.

Just for the guys out there, maybe I guess. Just come on, practice.

I okay. I feel like you should be embarrassed if you can't whistle. Like as an adult, like I feel like you should be able to uh whistle.

Okay. I'm trying to think of if I can whistle.

Go ahead, paddle. Let's see it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I can't use past the test. Just put your lips together and blow.

I would say you should be embarrassed if you can't use basic manners in public. Like letting the door shut in somebody's face. Like that's just rude. Like that's embarrassing for you.

Yeah, okay. So uh don't come at me, old people. You probably won't figure out how to do it anyhow, but unmute yourself on Zoom.

Oh gosh. That's a good one.

Yeah, you oldies aren't getting up at our comments, so I'm not worried about it.

So another one, like, well, I had a couple and I wanted to say them, but they make me embarrassed because I cannot change a tire. I cannot drive a stick, and I can I don't know about that one. Oh Lord have mercy. I am terrible. I'm terrible at parallel parking and I cannot sew a button.

Oh, yeah.

Those are all things that I think you shouldn't be embarrassed of if you can't. I don't know. I disagree. Like, I don't ever want to change a tire. Oh, I don't want to either, but I'm kind of like, well, I probably should be able to do that. But should be able to and care enough to are two different things. I don't want to. But you should definitely care enough to be able to whistle.

I I can't do it effectively. I I can't type without looking at the keyboard sometimes.

Oh, you're one of those.

I'm one of those. I I have to look sometimes. Uh and now, to be fair, a lot of keyboards are different sized.

That's true. That's true.

Nowadays. I mean, now if we're talking about typewriter.

No, I could I could text with my hand in my pocket though.

Yeah.

You won't be able to understand it.

I'm QWERTY certified on a typewriter.

We have Stephanie text lingo that we have to try to decipher. It's it's a fun game. It is. Very fun.

When you're a man and you got one hand in your pocket trying to text, it's a little bit different. That's a little awkward.

I mean, maybe not. Maybe not too that.

I'm just I'm just texting. I'm just texting. Oh my gosh. Just texting.

For 40 minutes. Oh gosh.

News you can use. Coming

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to you live from the BDE news studio. I'm tossing it over to you, Stephanie.

Okay. So Gen X. TikTok has TikTok Gen X has sent me down a rabbit hole this week, and I need to know who else is getting these videos. Okay. It starts with kids who are in gait or gifted and talented programs growing up. And now everybody is comparing notes. The weird tests they remember taking, getting pulled out of class, even heads up seven up somehow gets brought up in all of this. And people are talking about having the same weird reoccurring mall dreams. And because I mean, naturally, TikTok, you know, it's all supposed to be related to the CIA somehow. Oh, okay. Anyways, now thousands of grown adults are like, wait, I've had mall dreams and everybody's comparing, and it's a huge rabbit hole. So I suggest everybody, if you haven't go down, go down that rabbit hole on TikTok.

It's you are gonna uh caution, you are gonna change your algorithm if you do this. I'm not doing it.

I'm just saying if you were a gay kid, you remember weird testing like the hearing test and playing heads up seven up, and if you have dreams where you're wandering around the same mall for 30 years, like go down the rabbit hole.

I'm gonna have to look down this rabbit hole because I'm like, what does any of that have to do with what they're saying?

I didn't apply myself in school, so I was not.

They pulled you out of class and they did all these tests on you that are pretty interesting if you if you're you know what those people do. Oh, science. Like I'm just saying, what do these cards mean? Can you remember this? What are you hearing? Drink this pink drink. So I'm not saying anything. I'm generous. I'm just saying.

Have you had mall dreams?

I I'm not a gen Xer, but I was in gate and I'm not saying anything.

Oh.

I was really good at heads up seven up though.

Did you sign a non-disclosure agreement?

But no, I'm just saying go go down the rabbit hole. It's fun. I love you know me in conspiracies. I'm not saying conspiracy theories. I find out you know me in conspiracies, period.

I find you out in the yard all the time in rabbit holes. Just look it them up.

With her 10 hat on. Go check it out. It's fun.

No, I don't dream, so I don't know what you're talking about. And I would never applied myself, so I wasn't in gate.

I would never apply. You were never in gait or gifted.

Absolutely not. I graduate my I think my school was 300 students. I graduated 294.

Very gifted. But I mean, they also well, I I'm not going. I'm just saying.

Oh.

I'm just saying. Oh boy. Just go look. It's fine.

All right. Maldreams, maul dreams, maul dreams. It's gonna find out. If your phone is near your podcast.

Which it should be because you're probably playing it on there.

Yeah, it could be.

You're gonna get it anyway.

I play mine on the stereo system.

Oh, in your boom box?

Yes.

Shoulder, on your shoulder, walking around with a podcast. Oh my gosh.

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