June 5, 2025 • 18 mins
As we cross the halfway point of 2025, Anney and Samantha check in with some ups and downs.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to stuff I never told your production by her radio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. We're doing
an AM addition, so just a peek behind the curtain.
But if you are not doing the AM edition of
this and you're enjoying the actual Happy Hour and all
of its intentions, do so responsibly. We are not currently
sponsored by any of the products that we talk about.
(00:39):
If we do talk about products or companies or of
the such, just fi that can quickly change some of
those companies that.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We would love to work with.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Anyway, Annie, are you slipping on something on this AM
recording times?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
No, I just coffee.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Just you know what that is? Sound something that's just delightful?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is it takes me forever to drink coffee?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah, so it's kind of become a thing where I'm like,
I don't drink it as often as I used to anymore,
because like I've have been drinking this for two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But you know, I drink mine.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Very fast, is the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
But I only can do one cup apparently because I
do it very strong and then add things to with it.
I'm like, anyway, I am drinking all some bubbly water,
because again, we're trying to get through the day.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Am I right? Am I right?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And yeah, And I thought for this happy hour because
we have hit June officially, that means we are halfway
through the year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Celebrate those small victories. We made it halfway through one year.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Anyway, So I thought we do a quick review and
do a check in, check in with y'all, check in
with everybody all around us.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But Annie, how has this year been going?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Tell me some of the good things and some of
the struggles.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, well, obviously there's been a lot of.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Difficulties.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
We're just getting through the day is the thing that
you have to focus on because of our politics in
the world we live in. So that hasn't been great.
I did love the Last of Us Season two came out.
That was really fun and we got to hang.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Out and do that.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And I feel like I've seen a lot of my
friends this year, which is it's a wonderful thing. But
it's also like I'm still building up that social battery
that got killed during the pandemic. So I'm really tired.
But it's a great it's a wonderful thing. I need
to build it back up. But it also is impacting
(02:50):
my fan fiction, which is so good because now I'm
way behind. I haven't published anything since March.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
March. Oh no, this is terrible. I used to publish
once a week.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I know, I remember you were very bound to it too.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah. Yeah, but I'm also going to find a doctor.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm going to the doctor, okay, because I had a
panic attack and it was really bad, so I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, that's a progress that you're actually admitting that you
need a doctor, which you're usually like very dismissed above, like, eh,
maybe I do, but.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But now you've got some determination.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I usually just go to urgent care. But yeah, I
need a doctor.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Unfortunately, our insurance system is not great, and I feel
like change you can't really have a primary care physician
because they leave or they're no longer in your network.
But that's okay, that's another different conversation. Yeah, I will
also find a doctor because I have hit all the
aches and pains. I don't know if like technically this
would be midlife crisis a year. I think for me,
(03:59):
this is about that time. Not because I'm saying I
have one. I'm just saying that because in general timeframes,
my birthdays coming up and it's hit the like five
mid forties, y'all, and everything hurts. I think I'm complained
about this repeatedly, but like the aching has been new again.
Some of these things I'm wondering because I've seen a
(04:22):
lot of videos telling me it could be perimenopause, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Like, is it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Someone just needs to tell me. Miked of Coologist was like, eh, maybe,
or it just might be life, and I was like, well,
just so fair enough, fair enough. But yeah, this year
has been a lot of things happening. I feel like
watching when I'm watching other friends going through things and
(04:46):
or going through good things like getting to celebrate with
everybody is an amazing time finding like the small moments.
I really built a great community in my like Zoomba Cruise,
Slash Workout Cruise, and I've made amazing, amazing people and
I just keep being thankful for that. Like I'm not
a social butterfly. We know this, but I also have
(05:07):
a very strong core of friends that I might not
see every day, as in fact, it might be months
before I see you, but the way we connect that
every time I see them, it feels so good and
it feels like home, Like I just really feel like
it's one of those things that keep me going. And like, yeah,
I don't have as many friends as I did in college.
(05:28):
I don't have as many friends as I did in
high school. But that's okay because the friends that I've got,
we've gone through so much together that when we do
see each other is a celebration. And again, it feels
like coming home. It's nice. I've had to do a
lot of adult things recently, and I figured out I
really need to figure out how to mow my lawn. Anie,
this is a failing that I have. My partner had
(05:49):
to be gone for a little while and my yard
looked real rough, and I have never in my forty
five years have I ever mowed the lawn for use
the law and nowhere any of the such. So I'm
a little wary of that because you know, there are
too many horror movies where you lose limbs.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
With those things.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And I am super kletzy, like standing up is a
challenge half the time for me. So I'm like, oh,
but I know I need to try. I want to
be self sufficient, but I'm not very self sufficient. But
I have money to give to other people to come
to it for me. But that feels like a chore
because I'm like, I also don't want to be taken
advantage of. I also don't want to take advantage of others.
(06:32):
Are they actually going to do this or are they not?
I don't want to pay a monthly fee of two
hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And there's not that many teenagers around this area, which
is unfortunate for me that I could pay fifty dollars
like mow a small, small loan lawn. Yeah, you know,
I see all these really cute, go like feel good
stories of the kids trying to do that, and there's
not any around here.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
We're an older crew of people or a childless crew
of people.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Hmmm, oh well, so that's how it is.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So maybe that's I guess that's part of the regret
of not having children to make them do chores.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I'm sorry, no, it's not okay, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So it's been an interesting year and reflecting like aging.
I think we've talked about that a lot, just like
aging in general, and watching other people age and how
we deal with this being still childless and watching our
environment change but not change. I've had this conversation a
lot with myself and TikTok because these videos come up
(07:34):
for me, like there are conversations between people who chose
to be childless, people who cannot have children, and those
who did choose having children, and the honest conversation has
been really refreshing. There's also been a woman recently that
I saw her talking about some of the regrets, and
she's my age, and she's like, some of them, here's
(07:55):
some of my truths, and some of them being the
same things that I'm like, No, I'm very happy being childless,
but there's still a small part of me that's like,
am I going.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
To regret this later?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Like there's still parts of that in my mind that
I've talked about many times. There's still parts of me
talking about like, but I still don't feel like I'm
in my age.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Because I don't have these things.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
There are things that I'm like, I feel like I've
missed these marks and so am I truly an adult?
But at the same time, I feel like I've adulted
way more in the past two years, three years than
I have in the past twenty, which is when I
was supposed to be an adult, right, It is quite.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
An interesting conversation.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then also like reflecting back when I see like
twenty year olds now and I love you twenty year olds,
y'all are amazing, but like really understanding, Oh yeah, you
really don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I did not know.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I really thought I was so wise and make these
decisions and I was so adult. And then coming into
like being forty five still not feeling adults such a
weird place.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It is.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It is I still feel like I'm a I wouldn't
say child, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I don't have that.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
When someone is like, oh, you're an adult, I'm like, yeah,
I guess, I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
So I feel like when I'm hanging out with twenty
year olds, my nieces, my like the friends that I
make in Zoomba, they're all younger, like early thirties, late twenties,
mid thirties. Like they to me, I'm like, oh, I
was like babysitting you essentially, or I was in college
when you were born, or all of these thought processes.
And in my mind, though we have similar personalities, we
(09:35):
have similar schedules. So therefore, what has changed outside of
the eggs and pains and the saggy.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Face like.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And all of those very physical but like emotionally mentally,
all of this, like, it doesn't feel like outside of
what I've seen and what I've learned, like the life
lessons that I've learned, is that I'm like, Oh, they
come up on you so gradually that you don't realize
has happened.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You know, Yeah, it's one of those things that you
kind of you know it's going to happen one day,
but then you keep telling yourself, no, not, I'm too
young for that, and then you look at your face
in the morning You're like, oh, no, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I do that often that I just sit there. I
was like, oh, no, does that me.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm glad to know that people my age or people
close to my age also feel this. It's like it's
still twenty like early two thousands, twenty tens. Maybe when
I hear twenty twenty five, it feels foreign. That seems
more unfamiliar than anything else, I guess, because you know,
it's less likely we've not been in this time frame
as much as we've had in the past timeframes.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
No, it's getting too deep now.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But recognizing all of that and seeing all of this
has been new adventure, Like twenty twenty five, coming back
from the lessons that we were learned from twenty sixteen,
not realizing that we haven't learned them.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Like it's it's.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Both alarming but kind of reassuring in that is like
we survived it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Now, of course we're still in battle mode. In so
many ways, I have become more resistant, you know, in
so many ways. I have also become a lot more
cynical and less trusting.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I missed the days where I trusted people.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But also realizing AI is full on and some of
the things that I have to sit there and question
is this real?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is this not real?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Our generation is weird because we definitely came upon not
having internet, not having mobile devices like cell phones and such,
and then coming into learning all of that and then
now growing with it in such a way, but remembering
the days before.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, yeah, it was a huge spike in technology, and
we also got the nineties was when we got cable news.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So before that I was too young to really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
But you didn't have that, like, oh god, I know
what is happening everywhere all.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The time, and now it's like everywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
But it is interesting having remember a time when there
was no internet and if you had it, when you
did get it, it was so slow and if somebody
answered the phone, too bad. Yep, that's it too now
having Yeah, is this ai?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, like having so many things in trying to track
so I don't feel like I'm being fooled and I'm
just spreading misinformation because I also don't want to be
a part of that. Yeah, twenty twenty five is weird.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
It's also annoying because twenty twenty five is so weird
that a lot of times I'm like, that couldn't be true.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That sounds wild, right, but it could be. I don't know,
it could be a thing.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I mean, twenty twenty five is the year that a
woman uses racial slurs as a child and gets half
a million dollars and people are outright supporting her with
no qualms, saying that yeah, white people woo like this.
Twenty two like proudly I missed the days. I guess,
like it's both the things that I'm glad to see.
Who is whom, But I feel like I also miss
(13:51):
the days. I'm like, you should also be ashamed, right,
you should also ashamed.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But at the same time.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Again I have seen them any of like amazing individuals.
Again I talk about the younger generations who are doing
some amazing things, the younger generations who also are bringing
back the trends of old, the gen X, early millennials,
late millennials, whatever. Who we are where they think we're
(14:22):
the quote where it is cringe, but they're already out
of style.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
According to so many of the neo generations. It's a weird.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It's a weird place to be where I feel that
old when I'm like you kids, right, just.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You wait, just you wait.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But you know, honestly, I still wouldn't want to be
that age. I love y'all.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Well, I feel like I don't know we meant to do.
We're working on an episode on regret, Like when I
look back the things I regret, like that felt like
such an unstable time for me, and this doesn't feel
like all that stable. But if that, like looking back
fills and I didn't have all of the right social
(15:09):
media and technology and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, and also.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
The world was on fire then, but it's like real
in your face about it now. Yeah, So yeah, I
don't wish I was that age right now either.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There's so many things and yeah, we are talking to
doing the episode on regret and gender and honestly generations,
Like there's a lot of conversations in different generations. And
I guess, like, if I try to think about my thirties,
I loved my thirties, I will say that. And I
don't know if that's just the time where you feel
the most like growing into yourself and you realize how
(15:44):
silly and you start shedding the baggage a little bit.
And what I mean by baggage is bad friendships.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, that really.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Really like are some of the things that I'm like, Yeah,
I really wish I could go back and had more confidence.
I don't change because it did help me make U
become a lot more confident in like my personality and
my growth. But in looking back and understanding you.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Don't have to like everyone.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Everyone doesn't have to like you, and not everybody meshes
and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And there are people who you should not be around
and they are not good for you.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes, And just like the.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Kind of internalized whatever misogyny, you grow up and you
kind of confront that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I will say, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
At least when it comes to LGBTQ stuff, there has
been a lot of progress. That's so there's ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah, and twenty twenty five has been.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A long process.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I feel like we've been in twenty twenty five for
about twenty years now because so constantly back and forth,
so many, so many battles, so many losses, so many wins.
There's a lot happening. But we're halfway through this year. Congratulations,
and we are still here.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Proud of you, Proud of us.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yes, proud of all of you listeners, proud of us.
Thank you for listening and being part of our community
because I'm sure as you know, even as a listener,
sometimes it can get difficult with the topics we cover.
But we're still going to cover them, of course, but
that is sometimes like very exhausting. Yes, but we've gotten
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through this half. We'll get to the next half.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Listeners. If you have any.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Victories our thoughts about your twenty twenty five so far,
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Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to stuff I never told your production by her radio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. We're doing
an AM addition, so just a peek behind the curtain.
But if you are not doing the AM edition of
this and you're enjoying the actual Happy Hour and all
of its intentions, do so responsibly. We are not currently
sponsored by any of the products that we talk about.
(00:39):
If we do talk about products or companies or of
the such, just fi that can quickly change some of
those companies that.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We would love to work with.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Anyway, Annie, are you slipping on something on this AM
recording times?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
No, I just coffee.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Just you know what that is? Sound something that's just delightful?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is it takes me forever to drink coffee?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah, so it's kind of become a thing where I'm like,
I don't drink it as often as I used to anymore,
because like I've have been drinking this for two hours.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But you know, I drink mine.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Very fast, is the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
But I only can do one cup apparently because I
do it very strong and then add things to with it.
I'm like, anyway, I am drinking all some bubbly water,
because again, we're trying to get through the day.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Am I right? Am I right?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And yeah, And I thought for this happy hour because
we have hit June officially, that means we are halfway
through the year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Celebrate those small victories. We made it halfway through one year.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Anyway, So I thought we do a quick review and
do a check in, check in with y'all, check in
with everybody all around us.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But Annie, how has this year been going?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Tell me some of the good things and some of
the struggles.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, well, obviously there's been a lot of.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Difficulties.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
We're just getting through the day is the thing that
you have to focus on because of our politics in
the world we live in. So that hasn't been great.
I did love the Last of Us Season two came out.
That was really fun and we got to hang.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Out and do that.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
And I feel like I've seen a lot of my
friends this year, which is it's a wonderful thing. But
it's also like I'm still building up that social battery
that got killed during the pandemic. So I'm really tired.
But it's a great it's a wonderful thing. I need
to build it back up. But it also is impacting
(02:50):
my fan fiction, which is so good because now I'm
way behind. I haven't published anything since March.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
March. Oh no, this is terrible. I used to publish
once a week.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I know, I remember you were very bound to it too.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah. Yeah, but I'm also going to find a doctor.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm going to the doctor, okay, because I had a
panic attack and it was really bad, so I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, that's a progress that you're actually admitting that you
need a doctor, which you're usually like very dismissed above, like, eh,
maybe I do, but.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But now you've got some determination.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I usually just go to urgent care. But yeah, I
need a doctor.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Unfortunately, our insurance system is not great, and I feel
like change you can't really have a primary care physician
because they leave or they're no longer in your network.
But that's okay, that's another different conversation. Yeah, I will
also find a doctor because I have hit all the
aches and pains. I don't know if like technically this
would be midlife crisis a year. I think for me,
(03:59):
this is about that time. Not because I'm saying I
have one. I'm just saying that because in general timeframes,
my birthdays coming up and it's hit the like five
mid forties, y'all, and everything hurts. I think I'm complained
about this repeatedly, but like the aching has been new again.
Some of these things I'm wondering because I've seen a
(04:22):
lot of videos telling me it could be perimenopause, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Like, is it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Someone just needs to tell me. Miked of Coologist was like, eh, maybe,
or it just might be life, and I was like, well,
just so fair enough, fair enough. But yeah, this year
has been a lot of things happening. I feel like
watching when I'm watching other friends going through things and
(04:46):
or going through good things like getting to celebrate with
everybody is an amazing time finding like the small moments.
I really built a great community in my like Zoomba Cruise,
Slash Workout Cruise, and I've made amazing, amazing people and
I just keep being thankful for that. Like I'm not
a social butterfly. We know this, but I also have
(05:07):
a very strong core of friends that I might not
see every day, as in fact, it might be months
before I see you, but the way we connect that
every time I see them, it feels so good and
it feels like home, Like I just really feel like
it's one of those things that keep me going. And like, yeah,
I don't have as many friends as I did in college.
(05:28):
I don't have as many friends as I did in
high school. But that's okay because the friends that I've got,
we've gone through so much together that when we do
see each other is a celebration. And again, it feels
like coming home. It's nice. I've had to do a
lot of adult things recently, and I figured out I
really need to figure out how to mow my lawn. Anie,
this is a failing that I have. My partner had
(05:49):
to be gone for a little while and my yard
looked real rough, and I have never in my forty
five years have I ever mowed the lawn for use
the law and nowhere any of the such. So I'm
a little wary of that because you know, there are
too many horror movies where you lose limbs.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
With those things.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And I am super kletzy, like standing up is a
challenge half the time for me. So I'm like, oh,
but I know I need to try. I want to
be self sufficient, but I'm not very self sufficient. But
I have money to give to other people to come
to it for me. But that feels like a chore
because I'm like, I also don't want to be taken
advantage of. I also don't want to take advantage of others.
(06:32):
Are they actually going to do this or are they not?
I don't want to pay a monthly fee of two
hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And there's not that many teenagers around this area, which
is unfortunate for me that I could pay fifty dollars
like mow a small, small loan lawn. Yeah, you know,
I see all these really cute, go like feel good
stories of the kids trying to do that, and there's
not any around here.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
We're an older crew of people or a childless crew
of people.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Hmmm, oh well, so that's how it is.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So maybe that's I guess that's part of the regret
of not having children to make them do chores.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I'm sorry, no, it's not okay, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So it's been an interesting year and reflecting like aging.
I think we've talked about that a lot, just like
aging in general, and watching other people age and how
we deal with this being still childless and watching our
environment change but not change. I've had this conversation a
lot with myself and TikTok because these videos come up
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for me, like there are conversations between people who chose
to be childless, people who cannot have children, and those
who did choose having children, and the honest conversation has
been really refreshing. There's also been a woman recently that
I saw her talking about some of the regrets, and
she's my age, and she's like, some of them, here's
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some of my truths, and some of them being the
same things that I'm like, No, I'm very happy being childless,
but there's still a small part of me that's like,
am I going.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
To regret this later?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Like there's still parts of that in my mind that
I've talked about many times. There's still parts of me
talking about like, but I still don't feel like I'm
in my age.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Because I don't have these things.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
There are things that I'm like, I feel like I've
missed these marks and so am I truly an adult?
But at the same time, I feel like I've adulted
way more in the past two years, three years than
I have in the past twenty, which is when I
was supposed to be an adult, right, It is quite.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
An interesting conversation.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then also like reflecting back when I see like
twenty year olds now and I love you twenty year olds,
y'all are amazing, but like really understanding, Oh yeah, you
really don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I did not know.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I really thought I was so wise and make these
decisions and I was so adult. And then coming into
like being forty five still not feeling adults such a
weird place.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It is.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It is I still feel like I'm a I wouldn't
say child, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I don't have that.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
When someone is like, oh, you're an adult, I'm like, yeah,
I guess, I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
So I feel like when I'm hanging out with twenty
year olds, my nieces, my like the friends that I
make in Zoomba, they're all younger, like early thirties, late twenties,
mid thirties. Like they to me, I'm like, oh, I
was like babysitting you essentially, or I was in college
when you were born, or all of these thought processes.
And in my mind, though we have similar personalities, we
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have similar schedules. So therefore, what has changed outside of
the eggs and pains and the saggy.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Face like.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And all of those very physical but like emotionally mentally,
all of this, like, it doesn't feel like outside of
what I've seen and what I've learned, like the life
lessons that I've learned, is that I'm like, Oh, they
come up on you so gradually that you don't realize
has happened.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You know, Yeah, it's one of those things that you
kind of you know it's going to happen one day,
but then you keep telling yourself, no, not, I'm too
young for that, and then you look at your face
in the morning You're like, oh, no, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I do that often that I just sit there. I
was like, oh, no, does that me.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm glad to know that people my age or people
close to my age also feel this. It's like it's
still twenty like early two thousands, twenty tens. Maybe when
I hear twenty twenty five, it feels foreign. That seems
more unfamiliar than anything else, I guess, because you know,
it's less likely we've not been in this time frame
as much as we've had in the past timeframes.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
No, it's getting too deep now.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But recognizing all of that and seeing all of this
has been new adventure, Like twenty twenty five, coming back
from the lessons that we were learned from twenty sixteen,
not realizing that we haven't learned them.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Like it's it's.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Both alarming but kind of reassuring in that is like
we survived it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Now, of course we're still in battle mode. In so
many ways, I have become more resistant, you know, in
so many ways. I have also become a lot more
cynical and less trusting.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I missed the days where I trusted people.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But also realizing AI is full on and some of
the things that I have to sit there and question
is this real?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is this not real?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Our generation is weird because we definitely came upon not
having internet, not having mobile devices like cell phones and such,
and then coming into learning all of that and then
now growing with it in such a way, but remembering
the days before.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, yeah, it was a huge spike in technology, and
we also got the nineties was when we got cable news.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So before that I was too young to really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
But you didn't have that, like, oh god, I know
what is happening everywhere all.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The time, and now it's like everywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
But it is interesting having remember a time when there
was no internet and if you had it, when you
did get it, it was so slow and if somebody
answered the phone, too bad. Yep, that's it too now
having Yeah, is this ai?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, like having so many things in trying to track
so I don't feel like I'm being fooled and I'm
just spreading misinformation because I also don't want to be
a part of that. Yeah, twenty twenty five is weird.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
It's also annoying because twenty twenty five is so weird
that a lot of times I'm like, that couldn't be true.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That sounds wild, right, but it could be. I don't know,
it could be a thing.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I mean, twenty twenty five is the year that a
woman uses racial slurs as a child and gets half
a million dollars and people are outright supporting her with
no qualms, saying that yeah, white people woo like this.
Twenty two like proudly I missed the days. I guess,
like it's both the things that I'm glad to see.
Who is whom, But I feel like I also miss
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the days. I'm like, you should also be ashamed, right,
you should also ashamed.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But at the same time.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Again I have seen them any of like amazing individuals.
Again I talk about the younger generations who are doing
some amazing things, the younger generations who also are bringing
back the trends of old, the gen X, early millennials,
late millennials, whatever. Who we are where they think we're
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the quote where it is cringe, but they're already out
of style.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
According to so many of the neo generations. It's a weird.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It's a weird place to be where I feel that
old when I'm like you kids, right, just.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You wait, just you wait.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But you know, honestly, I still wouldn't want to be
that age. I love y'all.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Well, I feel like I don't know we meant to do.
We're working on an episode on regret, Like when I
look back the things I regret, like that felt like
such an unstable time for me, and this doesn't feel
like all that stable. But if that, like looking back
fills and I didn't have all of the right social
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media and technology and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, and also.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
The world was on fire then, but it's like real
in your face about it now. Yeah, So yeah, I
don't wish I was that age right now either.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
There's so many things and yeah, we are talking to
doing the episode on regret and gender and honestly generations,
Like there's a lot of conversations in different generations. And
I guess, like, if I try to think about my thirties,
I loved my thirties, I will say that. And I
don't know if that's just the time where you feel
the most like growing into yourself and you realize how
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silly and you start shedding the baggage a little bit.
And what I mean by baggage is bad friendships.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, that really.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Really like are some of the things that I'm like, Yeah,
I really wish I could go back and had more confidence.
I don't change because it did help me make U
become a lot more confident in like my personality and
my growth. But in looking back and understanding you.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Don't have to like everyone.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Everyone doesn't have to like you, and not everybody meshes
and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And there are people who you should not be around
and they are not good for you.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yes, And just like the.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Kind of internalized whatever misogyny, you grow up and you
kind of confront that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I will say, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
At least when it comes to LGBTQ stuff, there has
been a lot of progress. That's so there's ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah, and twenty twenty five has been.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A long process.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I feel like we've been in twenty twenty five for
about twenty years now because so constantly back and forth,
so many, so many battles, so many losses, so many wins.
There's a lot happening. But we're halfway through this year. Congratulations,
and we are still here.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Proud of you, Proud of us.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yes, proud of all of you listeners, proud of us.
Thank you for listening and being part of our community
because I'm sure as you know, even as a listener,
sometimes it can get difficult with the topics we cover.
But we're still going to cover them, of course, but
that is sometimes like very exhausting. Yes, but we've gotten
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through this half. We'll get to the next half.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Listeners. If you have any.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Victories our thoughts about your twenty twenty five so far,
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