Right About Now with Ryan Alford - 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. 

It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than 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. 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 happen with holidays but here we are and here's open mic um just you and i but i'm excited because i feel like we have a lot of cool things to talk about today um even though again for the most part it's just pretty um unscripted yeah 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. Dude, me too. Traveling and stuff. Yeah.

Because you went to Vegas, right? Yeah, for a night and then went to LA. And then 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 LA with COVID. Oh, whoa, whoa.

I was like, wait, what? Oh, yeah. The thing that's still happening and still going on in the world, like the pandemic. I forgot. Yeah. But hunkered down, masked up, stayed away from people and um it was fun yeah they were recording with the band it's good stuff how did that go it was great got got three songs started yeah what kind of music do you produce josh uh we do we like make kind of old country style stuff now that is so

cool and the likes of like patsy klein cool cool definitely if you haven't listened patsy klein um give it a shot take an afternoon off you have my permission your boss said it's okay take the rest of the day off at work i think uh i think you're definitely the one who instructs everyone that listens to the podcast right here i called the the CEO of your company. And all the shareholders actually bought your company out just to say you can listen to Patsy Cline all day. That is funny. But they'll understand.

You can just walk out and just say, Patsy Cline, you're good. That is funny. That is funny. But got back here. Yeah. Crank it down. Taking it easy. Yeah.

Trying to get back in the work groove getting the ad zone right right right did you uh did you have a good new 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 time change that's super fun about three hours after you did you beat me to the new year how does that feel honestly it was pretty good um i actually had a pretty fun new year's to be honest it was um funny because when ryan and i recorded an episode last week when we were talking about it like i and you know at that point we already had our new year's plans like you know and 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 it that would have already passed so we were talking in like hypotheticals 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 so um we had you know a couple of my friends came down from west virginia that i went to school with at wvu and um you know a couple of my friends came down from west virginia that i went to school with at wvu and um 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 um we honestly i didn't even turn um 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 i don't remember like anything really big happening about it because i we were just like oh okay so we played knowing we played cards yeah we played a bunch of card games and um you know obviously i did not win um you know um 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 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 um but

no it's a good good new year's and um but yeah um apart from that um we heard some interesting news um 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 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 uh no pun intended we have to 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 um apparently like 2020 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 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 it'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 2023 when you know all the members that decide time or whatever get together and basically go

okay you know where i guess we're going to change time but or change the scope of a minute um because that's what this essentially is like getting affected i guess is just i'm imagining like a big time convention like did you go to time con last year but like what is your opinion like what is your thought on that like 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 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 traveled

just a couple times right right right can we edit this out because i don't want any like of your agents knocking at the door again again yeah i 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 um no it's interesting because it kind of begs the question of like, because you know how, I mean, you get out of work and it's like 5, 5.30 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's already down. Do you feel like, I mean, I feel like this debate's been around for a while and obviously like we're in 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 yeah 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 setup it's kind of like important to think about of like like time is our concept of time is made up right like only um 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 um 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 um it's like oh like well next time i can do it whereas like western you're kind of like oh i'll never get that chance again um 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 like when you visualize a different way it's 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 it i forgot where it is yeah like 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 so it's like it's hard to wrap your head around yeah um 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 do you know what i mean just be like okay 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 affects just,

I mean, everything else. I mean, like essentially I wish there was like, you know, seven more hours in the day to where I can 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 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 i always try to make sure i'm leaving space for other things other than work um 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 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 right it's relative to some things like yeah i mean obviously but like um 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 the eight-hour work week um yep kind of little industrial revolution product there um and then i am team uh abolish uh daylight savings oh go on this i can tell you want to go off go off no it's fine people can just you can just wake up 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 needed now like it was needed for a time yeah it was needed for a time but now we don't have time 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 more stuff at home more like thinking and honestly more rest i think that's a really a lot of people that'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 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 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 there are 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 Like you can come in and 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 saying to piggyback off of you know circling back yeah um per my last statement I'm just kidding um no but I feel like to that point as much as society 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 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 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 as much as I mean like I'm like I I do I I need to give myself more time I I genuinely wish I had and I talk about seven hours of the day I wish I had more time i 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 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. Oh, we have 24 hours here.

Like what are we doing? 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 was your what was your biggest one um well like some people ask like do you feel like time's 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 um 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. It's really useful. That's exactly why we have time and how we can get so much done. We are probably in a given day producing more than people were doing in weeks in the past. the past absolutely but like that's why we've 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 um 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 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 little 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. Cause 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 i mean there's so many factors yes it's like an expectation piece is now in front of our face all the time you are 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? 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. 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 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 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 what 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 And 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. Like other people are doing that. It's like, okay. It's so important,

especially in the world of social media and 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 like right really take a look as like do you actually want to be doing that at this is that good 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 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 right that's kind of where i try to go if like i don't have to be one thing at a time. I can do a lot of different things. I agree with you. I think this is something else. I was talking to someone the other day. We were discussing this a little bit. I also feel like there's all this pressure of, you just said this, what are you going to do? Who are you going to be?

What career are you trying to do? What is X? It has to be this definite thing you make when you're in your early twenties. 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, 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 re-establishing 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 in one part in your life and then you can be you know you can be a career uh person in your another part of your life you can be, you know, you can be a career person in your, in another part of your life, you can be a mother and you can be all be at the same time too. Like, I'm like, I don't, like, I don't expect to ever like figure out, like, I don't think, I don't think I'm like, I'm not even like trying at this point where 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? No, I'm curious. Like, 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 right yeah usually i'm like i am pretty curious i mean a lot of people are but it's like i um 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 gonna look it up and then i was like oh wait a lot of people don't 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 um 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. It feels more free because like when you when you like lock yourself into a schedule because i'm i don't like schedules um me neither i like uh the wes anderson movie darjeeling unlimited where he's like he's like f the itinerary

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 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 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 it's like i'm then like i'm gonna go home and i'm gonna like play like do my next bass lesson right and 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 the gym when i get home for i'm gonna work out for an hour i'm gonna do this for an hour and 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 it anymore now it's just another task another task 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 podcasts that are like i don't only listen to advertising podcasts right i listen to fun podcasts like but more time like i'm either like reading a book that's fun watching movies um like reading i said reading books already i like 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 to 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. 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 you can you can disagree with critics right right 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 i'm kind of like anti this like weird like right hyperactive productivity culture where it's like right right you 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 podcasts 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 have some flavor have some like 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, um, 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 noticed 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've given yourself time now you can give people other times 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 going to go, really? Like, I thought we're onto something here. These people need help.

Yeah. That's probably what's actually happening. Honestly, there's probably psychologists listening to this then going, okay, we got to talk to someone about this. But, 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 the 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 can't 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. I think it's part of the whole like production.

That we are talking about. 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. Right. It's like you can't you have to kind of let go of 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 like that's pretty wild that's fun yeah and that's when i can 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. Like I'm taking online bass lessons. That's dope. I don't ever plan on playing bass live like or recording. I just think it's fun. Yeah. You're doing it for you. I love to like cook and stuff. I might not ever work in a restaurant.

I might not even make a meal again. Like it'll be like it's fun. Right. 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 and 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 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 back to and you know you're um 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 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. More fulfilled. Yeah. We just went down a really crazy intense path that was fun okay i'm here for it i'm here for this like that

felt like that was good you know um yeah no but i mean and less less of a serious note i feel like we always get on a tiktok topic in some point some form or fashion so i feel like i feel like you have to have an opinion about something that happened on tiktok this week you're you're like you know what else is inspiring tell me tiktok make time for tiktok yes 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 um i saw a glimpse of it and then part of me was like it's probably a joke realized it's not a joke um it's actually pretty serious they raised a million dollars yeah actually actually super casual little pocket change but they raised a million dollars to help um

the actors uh actors guild yeah actors guild actors something yeah actors fund basically Actors Guild? Actors. Something. Yeah. Actors Fund, basically. Yeah. The fund for actors to. The Guild Fund. Yeah. Fund. Yeah. Who've been affected by the pandemic, so. But very sick. Amazing.

Classic movie. Ratatouille. Oh, yeah. Rats cooking. What could be better? Obviously. Everyone loves rats in their kitchen. Clearly.

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.

But 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 it 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 were 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 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 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. People are like, wait, but 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 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 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 they were like pitching them where it was like, it was like a job interview. They're 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, I want the people to decide.

And thus created Ratatouille TikTok musical, right? That 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 camera's on you. a graphic design.

Yeah. But like. Oh my gosh, stop. Amazing. Oh my gosh, now I'm just crazy excited about this. Oh my God. 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 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 i love that once you once you let it go it can be better oh maybe that's 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 i 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 happen too we've got more tools than ever 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 absolutely i think if you kind of like lean into it like you can 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 um 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 for math. Six is too much. Yeah, no, no, no. But no, but that go to school for math. Six is too much. Yeah, no, no, no. But no, but that's it for us today.

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