Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - Open Mic: Utilize your Time

Episode Date: January 7, 2021

Happy Thursday, and welcome to today's episode of Open Mic! In this episode, Josh Hill and Reiley Clark discuss a lot about time:How to make the most of the time we have.The best places to gather inspiration.The best ways to avoid comparing yourself on social media.And more...Enjoyed today's episode? - Share it and leave a review! We love hearing from you. The Radcast is a product of Radical Company, a full-service digital marketing and ad agency in Greenville, South Carolina. | Instagram for Radical: @radical_results | Instagram for The Radcast: @the.rad.cast | For more information, visit our website http://www.theradcast.com | #theradcast #adgab #radicalmarketingresults  If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better placed in here? What better time than now? You're listening to the Radcast. If it's radical, we cover it. 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. And it is us and we are just hanging out and enjoying our fourth open mic. Yeah. 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 is 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. Yeah. I think we were like talking a good bit pre-show about just like different things. And so I think 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, just kind of like hunkered down at my friend's house because, I mean, it's really bad out there in L.A. with COVID. But. Oh, wow. I was like, wait. Oh, yeah.

The thing that's still happening and still going out of the world, like the pandemic. Yeah. But, um, hunkered down, masked up, stayed away from people and it was fun. Yeah. They were recording with the band. It was good stuff. How did that go? It was great.

Got three songs started. Yeah. What kind of music do you produce, Josh? Uh, we do, like, make kind of old country style stuff now. That is so cool. And the likes of like Patsy Kline. Cool, cool, cool. Definitely.

If you haven't listened to Patsy Kline, give a shot. Take an afternoon off. Oh, yeah? You have my permission. Your boss said it's okay. Take the rest of the day off at work. I think you're definitely the one who instructs everyone. Yeah, yeah.

That listens to the podcast right here. I called the CEO of your company and all the shareholders. I actually bought your company out just to say you can listen to Patsy Kline all day. But they'll understand. You can just walk out and just say Patsy Klein, you're good. That is funny. That is funny. But got back here.

Yeah. Hunker down, taking it easy. Yeah. Trying to get back in the work groove, getting the ad zone. Right, right, right. Did you have a good news? Because you were out there for Christmas and New Year's, right? Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Super cool. Very chill New Year's. Yeah. Very just like sat in a kitchen with a couple of my friends and watched the ballroom. That's fun. That's fun.

About three hours after you did. You beat me to the New Year. How does that feel? Honestly, it was pretty good. I actually had a pretty fun New Year's, to be honest. It was funny because when Ryan and I recorded an episode last week, when we were talking about it, like I, you know, at that point, we already had our New Year's plans. Like, you know what I mean?

You obviously had your news plans. Like, everyone pretty much had their plans like set in stone. But by the time the episode actually released, it was, that would have already passed. So we were talking in like hypotheticals. We were like, I'm supposed to. 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. So 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 in 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 we were just like oh okay so we played knowing we played cards yeah played a bunch of card games and um you know obviously I did not win um you know actually this is a good story so the first time I even taught you rummy yeah you kicked my ass I did my best kind of made me upset I was like oh you know this game I love to play and you know then I just like hustled you. I'm actually like a three-time like state champion. Yeah, you probably lied.

You're probably like actually I play rummy all the time. I actually know this game very well. You know. Every single day. Yeah. Actually, yeah, pretty much. But no, it was a good good New Year's. 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 fast? faster in the sense of like there's debate about changing the time length 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, right? Exactly. Exactly. 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 20, had the shortest year. So like, you know how 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. Dang. 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 going to 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, I guess we're going to change time, but or change the scope of a minute because that's what essentially is like getting affected, I guess is 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, 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, it 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 1907, 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. Have you ever time travel? Just a couple of times.

Right, right, right. Can we edit this out? Because I don't want any, like, FBI agents, like knocking at the door. Again. Again. Yeah. I'd have my time travel machine otherwise. Have you had an experience like this before?

Maybe I don't remember. Time traveled it out of you. Does not compute. Right, right, right. No. No, it's 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. It's like five, you know, five 30 or whatever.

The sun's gone. Yeah. It's like you wake up. The sun's not out. You leave the office and the sun, you know, the sun's already down. And do you feel like, do you, 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, you know. I think it's like. a good both like the changing the minute and like also the new like work set up 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 visualize 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 elaborate Right. There's some, like a lot of Asian, like, 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. Or like it kind of feels like you're running out of time. Right. Like when you visualize it's a different way, it's kind of, there's like a very specific like country. like it's like Madagascar or something somewhere. I don't know where it. I forgot where it is. Yeah. They visualize time as like something. It's 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. Uh-huh. But you can only see it as it's going forward. It's like, it's hard to wrap your head around. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to think about this. I feel like this is one of those like you really have to concentrate and kind of like meditate on. Do you know what I mean? Just be 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 to where I think.

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, I guess it kind of even goes into just like agency life in general. But like what is that, what does that line for you look like, you know, as far as like work life kind of stuff? Yeah. I'm always trying 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 time to everything. Yeah, I know. But it's a good, it's a good point, though. Like, time is kind of like a decided thing. We, like, humans made it up. It's relative to some things. Yeah, I mean, obviously. But, 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. Right. But, like, we have different just, like, cultural norms of, like, the eight-hour work week. Yep. Kind of a little industrial revolution product. there. And then I am team abolish daylight savings. Oh, go on this. I can tell you want to go off. Go off. It's fine. People can just, you can just wake up at a different time if you need 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, 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 and 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? Um, 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 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 realized 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 my self 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 you want to think of like if you get on social media especially like LinkedIn you'll 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 dangers to it but also work smart not hard correct 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 um 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 um I think it's an 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. Yeah.

Per my last statement. 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 who you are, your own aesthetic. Like there's all these things that I feel like really try to push people to really be you. And it's your decision and blah, blah, blah. And 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 going to post this because this is what I want to post. and I'm going to 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 outside. You know what I mean? It's like things like that.

And it's like, 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 have 24 hours here.

Like, what are we doing? I think it helps to have like what really helped me is like, I. spend 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 was your what was your biggest one um well like some people ask like do you feel like times moving forward is time happening to you some people visualize it in 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 going to keep not reaching and then it's all these things of like if you get too far and it's like it's really useful like that's exactly why we have time and how we can get so much done like we We are probably like in a given day, like, producing more than, like, people were doing in, like, weeks in the past. Oh, absolutely. But, like, that's why we, like, advanced so fast, like, as a society, like, as a world recently. But, like, because time gives us that, like, kind of agreed upon, like, here's how we're going to 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, oh, we've measured it. So like I only have this much time left. And you constantly feel like you're running out of something. And that's like it's not, it's true and it's not true. It's like it's true if you visualize it that way. If you don't, then it's not true anymore.

It's like it kind of like the 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 going to stay on it. Like I mean, at this point, like we're just going to talk about this. I think it's useful for a lot of reasons in the sense of, I mean, 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, 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 whether you realize it or not, you're like even comparing yourself to like, oh my gosh, this person's already doing this in their life. Like what? Like what? You know, and it makes you think about things. 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 in 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 of my life, whether that's like, you know, personally, like, you know, from a spiritual and 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 what Josh is doing. No one else gets to do it, Riley 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, well, other people are doing this. Yeah.

Like other people are doing that. It's like, okay. It's so important, especially in like the world of social media and like hyper-connectivity. It's like 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. And it's like, no, do you actually want to do that? Right.

Really take a look at it's like, do you actually want to be doing that at this morning in your life? For you. 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 going to do?

I'm like, well, what else am I going to do? Right. That's kind of where I try to go of like I don't have to be one thing or at a time. I can do a lot of different things. I agree with you. I think this is something else. Like I was talking to someone the other day. We were discussing this a little bit because.

I also feel like there's all this pressure of to your, you just said this, what are you going to do? Like, who are you going to be? Like, what career are you trying to do? Like, 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 what 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 your 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 in one part in your life. And then you can be, you know, you can be a career person in your, another part of your life. You can be a mother and you can be all at the same time too. Like I don't like, I don't expect to ever like figure out. I don't think I'm like I'm not even like trying at this point. I'm like I'm just going to see what else I'm going to do. Absolutely.

No, I totally agree with that. I totally agree with that. Where do you get your inspiration from? No, I'm curious. 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 am pretty curious. I mean, a lot of people are, but it's like I, I'm kind of a 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 in a line? And so I was like, I'm going to look it up. And then I was like, oh, wait, a lot of people don't. Like I had 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 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 basically is a watch that said is the sun out or like is it daytime or is it 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, because I'm, I don't like schedules. Me neither.

I like, the Wes Anderson movie Darjeeling Unlimited where he's like, he's like, he's like, F the itinerary. I'm 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 um like you 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 515 like 5 o'clock

pack up leave 515 get home right like 530 start making dinner 517 yeah exactly stop at the stop light up the street of the stuff like I'm then like I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna like play like do my next bass listen right and I'm I don't have a time frame set up I'm like I'm like oh I want to do this this and if I have time this and I think I really like that when you 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 going to go to gym when I get home for I'm I'm going to work out for an hour. I'm going to do this for an hour and I'm going to do this.

I'd get home and like, I'm like, I don't want to do it. Like I'm not excited about it anymore. Now it's just another task. Another task is. And all of a sudden, I've extended my work day. And then it's like not fun anymore. But like doing, setting it up to where it's like, I want to try these things and learn 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 a podcast that are like, I don't only listen to advertising. podcast. Right. I listen to fun podcasts. But more than 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, like, read articles about it, like, watch. There's really great video essays out there on, like, YouTube, which is really easy to, like, digest. Like, and 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 it's 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 you can disagree with critics on art that's kind of the fun of art yeah and that's where I get a lot of ideas from is okay um 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 kind of like anti this like weird like hyperactive productivity culture where it's like.

Right, right, right. You only need to, you only need to schedule every day. You need to meal prep. No seasonings. Also, you should only listen to business and. investing books and podcasts. 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, have some flavor, have some, like, art movie. 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 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 journaler. 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 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 what I mean? 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 a 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've known, 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 where 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 psychological, psychological thing. I'd love to have a

psychologist on here and like help us out and be like, well, actually, that's because, you know, your brain, you're giving yourself time. Now you can give people other times. We're going to say something like three seconds and we're like, yeah, that. Yeah, exactly. Or they're going to look at us and go, okay, none of what you said is correct. We're going to go, really? Like, I thought we're on to something here. Like, I think we are. Yeah. That's probably what's actually happening. Honestly, there's probably psychologist listening to this then going okay we got to 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 is that 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 i think it's part of the whole like production that what you'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 where it's like 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. Like that's pretty wild. Yeah. And that's when I can like like, like if you open up time to like do something that's maybe maybe not going to 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 playing playing bass live like or recording I just think it's fun yeah you're doing it for you I love to I love to like cook and stuff I might not ever work in a restaurant I might not even not even make a meal again like it'll be like it's fun and 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 learning how to play music.

I'm like, oh, I can apply this learning technique to this like advertising thing. Yeah, exactly. And it's kind of like the shower thought mentality of like. Absolutely. When you like give yourself that space to let your mind wander, you'll get these like really cool ideas. No, that's what's like I agree with that. 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. 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 radcast 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 I think there's a lot that I think people can take away from just, I'm 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 going to miss just a whole scope of opportunity, you know. 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 and you'll be more inspired.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We just went down a really crazy intense path. That was fun. It's okay. I'm here for it. I'm here for this.

Like that felt like that was good, you know? Yeah. No, but I mean, and less of a serious note, I feel like we always get on a TikTok topic in some point, some form of fashion. So I feel like you have to have an opinion about something that happened on TikTok this week.

You know what else is inspiring? TikTok. Make time for TikTok. Yes. Yeah. Man, have you seen the Rattatatoui musical? Okay, wait.

We talked about this a little bit, but I'm not going to lie to you. I didn't know anything about this beforehand. 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. Actually, super casual little pocket. change, but they raise a million dollars to help the actors, actors guild.

Yeah. Actors Guild. Actors Fund, basically. Yeah, the fund for actors to. 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. They eat a little bit. But, like, you know, it's a give and take. It's a relationship.

Ooh. But it started as like on TikTok. There was all these like trends of people like 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 it had the music in the background. So funny. No, those trends are the best. I do love those trends.

But it just kept on going from there. And then someone one day just made a TikTok and they were like, what if Ratatouli was a musical? And then someone replied to that with a 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 people will take a trail and just run with it.

And it's cool because 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. People were like, wait, but what if we actually did it? Right. And they're like, no, 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 like this kept going. Actual like Broadway actors were getting on.

They're like, but like. What if we actually did it? Yeah. And then I saw like probably like three where there was like real life Broadway producers who 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 willing to.

And he like, I saw a couple where they were like pitching them where it was like, it was like a job interview. No way. 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 Ratatoui a TikTok musical, right? Now it is a verified account on TikTok. Ratatoui the musical. I think it was literally like stitched together TikToks. Stop. Because like I remember this being like. Yeah, your ear cameras on you. Yeah.

But like. Oh my gosh. Stop. Amazing. Oh my gosh. Now I'm just crazy excited about this. I'll put this in the show notes. Don't worry.

I know everyone's so curious now. I'll put it on the show notes. 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 it's part of the part of work. I love that. Once you let it go, it can be better. Oh, maybe that's part of the collaboration.

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 it's, 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 fields a little bit just thinking about just all the things that it's the beginning of the year and 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 happened to. We've got more tools than ever, like, ready available to, like, have collaboration. And a lot of people are willing. There's a lot of creative people out there who lost their outlets this year. Absolutely. I was saying if you kind of, like, lean into it, like, can I have 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 radcast. 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. So that's also exciting. Um, but, um, 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 maybe one day we'll do all five of us. Be cool. Six. All six of us. All six. Five or six?

Six. Five. Five. Sorry, I didn't go to school. Six is too much. Yeah, no, no. But no, but that's it for us today. Yeah.

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