August 7, 2025 • 23 mins
Finally taking a chill pill on serious discusions, episode 3 talks about my little joys in life and most likely some of yours :)
00:00 Overview of my week
02:53 Weirdly Specific Top 5
07:35 Odd Top 5
15:00 Deep Top 5
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Hello, welcome to episode 3. I am actually so excited for
this episode for two reasons. One, I've been meaning to make
this episode for a really long time, ever since this was kind
of a trend on TikTok and it's just something I like talking
about. But two, there's an interesting
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statistic. I don't know the exact number,
but it's something along the lines of like 90% of podcasts
fail past episode 3. They don't make it to episode 3.
Not because no one wanted to listen to them or because the
industry was too hard or something like that.
No, it was just because a lot ofpeople couldn't get to that
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point. And so I'm really happy I was
able to get here because yeah, I'm like, really enjoying this,
like a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot,a lot.
And I'm so happy I started. I don't know if you guys can see
him, but this is my good friend Gizmo.
He's my girlfriend's dog, also kind of my dog.
He's chilling. He might be walking around, but
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he's minding his own business. Anyways, welcome to episode 3.
My weirdly, weirdly specific oddand deep top ten.
Sorry, top five. Oops, made a mistake there.
Before I dive into this episode,I do want to talk about my
thoughts I left on Episode 2. If you haven't listened to that,
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go give it a listen right now. But essentially, I was talking
about the importance of finding a center in your life.
Whether this center can be daily, weekly, whatever time
frame you want it to be. And it's supposed to help ground
you in times where you don't know what's going on or there
might be a really busy schedule and all that kind of stuff.
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So I did get some replies from that podcast episode and I was
really happy to hear people say,oh, I'm trying out this, I'm
trying out that. I was really happy to hear that.
It also made me realize that podcasting is definitely become
my center now because I'm excited to come and record
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because I'm like, oh, I get to talk to all my audience, which
isn't like a ginormous amount, but like I'm really happy.
I just like get to come here andtalk to you guys every Thursday,
which is so fun. And it's just a reliever.
I just know that this conversation will be here every
Thursday, so it's amazing. Anyways, I had a great week.
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It was pretty hectic. Lots of curveballs thrown on me,
but also so fun. My kids at work are so adorable.
And yeah, so let's dive in. OK, This is so funny.
This is going to be first is going to be my weirdly specific
top five. OK, Don't judge me.
These are these are good if you just if you just listen to them.
OK, So 5 is planning something in a group chat.
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OK, That is like it's, it's so good.
It's such a good feeling when meand my guys, we're in our group
chat and we're typing and we're like, OK, yeah, we're going to
meet here. Oh, you bring this, you bring
that. It's just like it's such a good
feeling. I don't know how to explain it.
It's just it's just great. It doesn't even have to be with
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my guys. It could be with even one person
just planning a hangout with someone that I've been wanting
to see for a long time. I just get excited thinking
about it or my family, like my siblings.
It's always a good time to see them.
So I just love playing somethingin a group chat or like over
text. It's just like so fun.
Slash. This is also part number 5.
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Having like a specific thing with a friend, like if you guys
like see each other in the hallway and you always give each
other like a specific face, you know?
And sometimes it like pops out out of nowhere.
Like this could be a person you like, don't even talk to
regularly. It's just a person you have this
thing with. And I've been picking up a lot
of those this summer. And it's amazing if you're one
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of those people, you know that Iactually love those interactions
#4 this one sounds weird, but sitting in a weird or irregular
position, guys, it's actually sofar.
It's so far. And I know you guys know what
I'm talking about too. I know you guys know what I'm
talking about. Like if you're on a couch
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somewhere, it could be alone or the other people, but you just
like hit like some weird pose. We got like your legs up in
there or something like that. Or like you're like upside down
hanging off the couch, like you know what I'm talking about.
It's so good, It's so good. It's so far three.
I'm, I'm flying through this 3 When a baby or an animal,
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specifically young animals, but an animal it like let's say like
with a group of people and the baby or the young child is
animal could go to anyone and they come to you.
Yeah, yeah, I know. You guys know what I'm talking
about. Fire, fire, fire, fire.
Because it's like, Oh my gosh. She shows me which might be a
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little like, I don't know, selfish or whatever, but it's
such a good feeling. Even a bonus too is like when
the baby or like the small childwill like laugh with you and
then like become obsessed with you or like an animal starts
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like rubbing on you or like asking for rub.
It's like it's amazing. Two.
OK, I'm not chronically online, although some people would
disagree with that. But watching a really good edit
is so fire. Like that feeling, that feeling,
and maybe this is just me, but sometimes I'm on my phone at
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like midnight and I got my phonein front like glued to my face
and I'm just laughing because like the the edit is so good.
It's not even that it's funny all the time, but it's just so
good. Or I'm just hitting that like
kind of face. It is fire, especially with all
those new edits that have been dropping on TikTok and all those
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different kinds of platforms recently, like that one Creed
edit and that whole genre of edits.
Someone just came home because someone's not happy so far.
In addition, listening to a goodbeat drop.
It doesn't always have to be in an in an edit, but it's a good
beat drop, especially hearing itfor the first time so far, like
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the song Like Him by Tyler, the Creator.
That beat drop is legendary. And then number one in my really
specific list is active rushes of dopamine.
And this could be like, oh, gizmo's really not happy.
This could be like when I'm likeplaying volleyball and like I'll
like dive like really quickly and get like a good dig or
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something. Or when I'm canoeing, which I
haven't done in a while, but when I'm canoeing and I'm on a
rapid and just like the dopamineis rushing as I like dodging
rocks and going down a rapid which is always really fun.
And also recently being on stagewas also so fun like being in
the curtains behind as I was about to run to the stage was so
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fun. It was a blast especially when I
was on the stage and like the lights like shining my face. 10
and 10 would recommend. That is so far.
So I hope you guys were able to relate to at least some of these
because they are definitely experiences that I love.
OK, on to list #2 Hello Gizmo. On to list #2 this is the odd
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list. My odd top five number 5 is any
type of like night activity that's like kind of chill and
then like a group setting, but that's kind of like intimate in
like a certain weird unexplainable way.
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For example, a late night walk with your friends.
Let's say you're walking back from somewhere, you're like
you're walking to like, I don't know, wing stop or something
McDonald's or you're just walking in the night, especially
when you're walking on the road and not on the sidewalk fire or
a night, a night drive and you're playing some music or
campfire. So those kind of like nighttime
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intimate things. 4 is finding a side quest when you're just like
by yourself or you're hanging out with your friends like you
and anyone you're with like, oh,let's go here.
And then you just randomly like you'll either meet like this
random person who just, I don't know, just like really funny or
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you'll find this like random event and it's just so fun.
It's so fun. Highly recommend.
It's kind of hard to plan because the whole like notion of
a side quest is that it has to be random.
But you just get out there with yourself, by yourself or with
your friends and I'm sure you'llfind something like especially
living in a city, especially Toronto, you can go downtown or
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on the TTC and I'm sure you willfind a side quest by talking to
some random person or anything #3 OK, this one is a really good
one. When you're laughing so hard
that like your stomach hurts, but also when the person you're
laughing with says something that like makes the joke even
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funnier, that is like it's so good.
It's so good. And I know, I know maybe I look
weird like smiling, talking to myself right now, but that is
such a good feeling. That is such a good feeling.
Like, you know, your stomach like physically hurts at its
core and like you get like tearscoming down.
You're like bending over like, and especially me, especially me
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when I laugh. Well, not, not especially, but
people who do this, they know what's really good.
When I laugh, I tend to like smack things really hard.
Like if I'm sitting on a table, I'll start like banging it while
I'm laughing. And then a lot of the times
people will make fun of me for like laughing like that.
It's so funny to me. That's always good.
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It's just a good feeling. I don't know, it's hard to
explain. It's just a good feeling
laughing, smiling 2. This is a good one.
Watching someone open a gift I got them or just like enjoy a
general experience that I plan for them.
This one is definitely showed upa lot with my girlfriend
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obviously because like I plan certain dates or like certain
trips or something or get or sorry that did not come out
clearly. I will plan a certain date or a
certain trip or activity or get her something.
Sometimes she's going to quote me on this and say I'm lying,
but I'm not. That's always great.
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But not even just that. Just for anyone in general.
It's hard to be very specific with these, but for anyone in
general, especially my friends. My friends and I went camping
recently and I was like a big part of the planning and that
job, Everyone did their job, butI was a big part of the planning
crew on that trip. And it was just so fun that I
could see everyone having a great time, especially because
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for a lot of them, it was not their first time, but their
first few times camping. So that was great that they were
able to have a good experience. And actually another personal
time this happened was when it was my sister's birthday.
And then like I stole her phone,like her iPad, iPad or something
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a couple days before and messaged all her friends.
And I was like, send me a video saying happy birthday to my
sister. And then I made a huge
compilation and she really likedit.
And that's just a random memory I have that I just will always
laugh. And then number one, I think
this is pretty relatable to everybody having those remember
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when conversations I love, I like, I actually love.
Like it's so it's so, so, so fun.
I'm just smiling at the thought of it.
Honestly, all of these, I'm justsmiling at the thought of it
because they're just such good experiences that I'm so lucky to
have and I'm sure a lot of you are lucky to have too.
Maybe not all of them, but most of them.
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Remember when conversations are actually peak, like actually
they are peak when you're like, Oh my gosh, remember when we
went to this place and yada yada, yada, yada, yada.
Like, for example, one that me and my friends have had over and
over and over again is that in grade 9, I think it was, or
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grade 10, I don't remember whichone.
In grade 9 or 10, we went to Chicago for this music trip that
our school organized. We went to like, play against
these. Like, we played, I'm against.
We played at one school in Chicago.
And then for the rest of the trip, we just kind of like
explore the city. And it was so fun.
I was so surprised with how muchfreedom they allowed us.
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Like they allowed us to just walk around the city alone.
And I was like, whoa, OK, this is fire.
But one story we talk about all the time is the specific day
when they said they asked us allto meet up downtown.
We grab breakfast. I think, no, we had breakfast at
the hotel. Then we went downtown and we met
at the Bean. We took a big photo all
together, so my Instagram. And then they said we could
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split up and we could all go ourseparate ways because there's
maybe like 100 people on this trip.
And so me and my group, we got together and then we just walked
around. We went to the train station and
we were like, Oh yeah, we're going to take a train to what's
that neighborhood? Why am I forgetting it?
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It's like super sketchy. Did a bunch of rap songs.
Very notorious for not being safe in Chicago.
I don't know why I'm forgetting the name of this neighborhood,
but I'm sure maybe you guys know.
We did not. We took the train in the
opposite direction and then we went on this road and got a cup
of clothes from the downtown like mall strip area.
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But then the funniest part is wewent into the Trump Hotel or
Trump Tower or whatever in Chicago, and we walked in
holding our foes to our ears. And we were like, we were trying
to pretend that we actually had this place there so we could get
past reception. And we were like, Papa said that
you and I was like, Papa, you told me I was getting in the
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penthouse. I'm getting in the penthouse.
And it's hard to explain. You just had to be there.
That's why those conversations are so fun.
One of my friends stole like a toilet paper roll.
It was. It's just so fun, so fun.
Anyways, moving on to my third and final list.
Thank you for sticking all this way.
I really appreciate it. This is like the good stuff
here. So #5 #5 is getting a compliment
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and specifically getting a compliment that I've never heard
before or getting a compliment from anyone actually.
I was going to say people that are important to me, but like
from anyone is equally amazing. And I think we're maybe afraid
to say that out loud because if I say that I sound like I'm like
self obsessed or like, you know,all that kind of jazz.
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But it's a great feeling. It's a great feeling especially
when you know what's genuine. I specifically mean a genuine
compliment. And I feel like sometimes among
guys, it's a little rarer, more,sorry, more rare than girls, but
not always. Depends who you're hanging out
with. But it's just a really great
feeling when someone's like, oh,hey, you've been getting better
at this or hey, really like youralphabet.
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Hey, you look good, You know, all that kind of stuff.
It's just, it's just great. Nothing more to explain there.
It's just a great feeling for knowing you're going to miss
this moment. Like when you're standing in a
specific spot or you're just doing something and you're, you
think in your head like, wow, this is so far, I'm going to
miss this. And it's a good feeling because
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when you say, oh, I'm going to miss this, it's not like I'm
going to miss this in like a sadway, like, oh, no, it's over.
No, no, you can do that. Like afterwards it's more just
like, wow, like I'm so lucky I had to, I got to have such an
amazing experience. I have to be the place I'm at.
Maybe with the people I'm with the food I'm eating, whatever,
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whatever it is, I'm just, I'm going to miss this moment.
It's so like, voila, just kids 3.
This is a good one. Realizing that you're doing
better than you used to. That's a big one.
That's a very big one. And this doesn't have to be like
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you were coming from like a place of like horribleness.
It could mean anything. It could be like in your sport,
whatever sport you play, like realizing you're getting better
at it than you were like a year ago.
That's always great. Knowing that like you're
handling something a bit more mature than you would have maybe
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let's say a year ago or maybe even a week ago, whatever.
This could be like recovering from some sort of negative event
that can be like a breakup or like family trauma or you're
just your own like anger management issues or all of that
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stem of situations. It's just great realizing that
you're doing better and not in like a wow past me sucked
version more of like wow, look how far I've gone kind of thing,
and that's always great. Two, which one and two are kind
of the same thing to me, but 2 is having a deep heart to heart
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conversation that is like like my favorite thing to do ever of
all time. It's so fun because I just, I
love getting to know people. I and hence why I started a
podcast. I love getting to know people.
I love talking to people about the stuff I'm going through and
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just random my random thoughts about certain things.
And also the connection you haveafter that heart to heart talk.
Like there's this one guy won't say his name, but there's this
one guy who I work with who like2 years ago, this random night,
we ended up having this deep conversation.
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We were, we were just talking about life and growing up and
all the challenges we face. And like, it wasn't, it wasn't
anything like specific to our situations.
I would say it was more just about like the average like
teenage experience about like, you know, social pressures,
insecurity, all that kind of jazz.
And it was really out of the blue.
I didn't think I was going to have this conversation with this
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guy specifically, not because he's a bad guy, but just because
we weren't like that close. And so we're at this event party
and we ended up going to the bathroom and I sat down in the
bathtub and he sat down on the toilet like with the lid closed.
And we just talked for like 2 hours.
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And that connection I have with him moving past, it's not like
we're like best of buds brothersforever or anything, but there's
like a sense of like knowing andunderstatement.
I have. And maybe it's one sided, maybe
it's not. But as long as I think it's
there amazing. And it's just, it's just great.
It's just really great. Especially when you're saying
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things that you thought you would never tell anybody.
That is amazing and #1. I think we can all agree this is
an amazing, amazing feeling, butit's feeling understood and
supported. I think that's all we want from
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everybody in our lives. And I know it sounds very
general, but it's pretty hard. I would say maybe not rare as
you get older, but I'd say hard to feel really understood and to
kind of break out and for someone to see you outside of
how everyone else sees you. For someone to see you outside
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of the interests you have, the public persona you put on, your
gender, your race, all that kindof stuff.
And yeah, just a second. Yeah, Oops.
I'm getting called down. Oops.
Sorry. I hope that didn't scare you
guys. But yeah, feeling understood and
supported is always amazing. Another one, like side note of
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that, like an example of that sorry, is having someone in the
crowd cheer you on, which I'm sorry if this isn't.
This is not an experience that you get to have too often.
And it wasn't an experience I had for like 99% of my life
until I'd say about this year. But because usually when I'd be
up on stage for any kind of thing like a graduation or a
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show or anything, I wouldn't have someone in the crowd.
I'd kind of just be performing to everybody, which is kind of
what I'm doing right now with a podcast, but happier.
But it's more like, it's more like, sorry, at my graduation
and at my most recent musical, Ihad people in the crowd cheering
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me on, mainly my girlfriend and her family and a bunch of my
friends showed up and supported me.
And it was the best feeling of the world.
Kind of like that trend where it's like, I forgot how they
word it, but it's like, Oh yeah,showing up matters.
Where it's like that video of someone in a graduation when
they finally spot their person in the crowd and their face
lights up, it's amazing. And it doesn't only have to be
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at those events. It's just anywhere in life when
you can tell someone understandsyou and supports you is amazing.
So thank you so much for tuning in.
I hope these reminders of the small beauties of life have
helped you feel more centered inyour life.
Kind of building off the topic of last week, once again, thank
you so much. I cannot express my gratitude
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enough. I can't wait to see you guys
next Thursday. I had a blast talking to you.
So I'll see you guys next Thursday.
Send this to someone that you think would enjoy this episode
and Oh yeah, if you have any other episode ideas, did people
did submit? But I just really wanted to do
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this episode first and I will get to yours next episode.
If you have any episode ideas, go to the link in my bio on my
Instagram. The button at the top of the
Lincoln bio is a place where youcan submit your episode idea
like ideas. It could be anonymous.
You can put your name, whatever you want to do.
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And yeah, thank you so much guys.
I can't wait to see you guys next Thursday.
See ya.
Hello, welcome to episode 3. I am actually so excited for
this episode for two reasons. One, I've been meaning to make
this episode for a really long time, ever since this was kind
of a trend on TikTok and it's just something I like talking
about. But two, there's an interesting
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statistic. I don't know the exact number,
but it's something along the lines of like 90% of podcasts
fail past episode 3. They don't make it to episode 3.
Not because no one wanted to listen to them or because the
industry was too hard or something like that.
No, it was just because a lot ofpeople couldn't get to that
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point. And so I'm really happy I was
able to get here because yeah, I'm like, really enjoying this,
like a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot,a lot.
And I'm so happy I started. I don't know if you guys can see
him, but this is my good friend Gizmo.
He's my girlfriend's dog, also kind of my dog.
He's chilling. He might be walking around, but
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he's minding his own business. Anyways, welcome to episode 3.
My weirdly, weirdly specific oddand deep top ten.
Sorry, top five. Oops, made a mistake there.
Before I dive into this episode,I do want to talk about my
thoughts I left on Episode 2. If you haven't listened to that,
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go give it a listen right now. But essentially, I was talking
about the importance of finding a center in your life.
Whether this center can be daily, weekly, whatever time
frame you want it to be. And it's supposed to help ground
you in times where you don't know what's going on or there
might be a really busy schedule and all that kind of stuff.
(01:51):
So I did get some replies from that podcast episode and I was
really happy to hear people say,oh, I'm trying out this, I'm
trying out that. I was really happy to hear that.
It also made me realize that podcasting is definitely become
my center now because I'm excited to come and record
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because I'm like, oh, I get to talk to all my audience, which
isn't like a ginormous amount, but like I'm really happy.
I just like get to come here andtalk to you guys every Thursday,
which is so fun. And it's just a reliever.
I just know that this conversation will be here every
Thursday, so it's amazing. Anyways, I had a great week.
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It was pretty hectic. Lots of curveballs thrown on me,
but also so fun. My kids at work are so adorable.
And yeah, so let's dive in. OK, This is so funny.
This is going to be first is going to be my weirdly specific
top five. OK, Don't judge me.
These are these are good if you just if you just listen to them.
OK, So 5 is planning something in a group chat.
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OK, That is like it's, it's so good.
It's such a good feeling when meand my guys, we're in our group
chat and we're typing and we're like, OK, yeah, we're going to
meet here. Oh, you bring this, you bring
that. It's just like it's such a good
feeling. I don't know how to explain it.
It's just it's just great. It doesn't even have to be with
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my guys. It could be with even one person
just planning a hangout with someone that I've been wanting
to see for a long time. I just get excited thinking
about it or my family, like my siblings.
It's always a good time to see them.
So I just love playing somethingin a group chat or like over
text. It's just like so fun.
Slash. This is also part number 5.
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Having like a specific thing with a friend, like if you guys
like see each other in the hallway and you always give each
other like a specific face, you know?
And sometimes it like pops out out of nowhere.
Like this could be a person you like, don't even talk to
regularly. It's just a person you have this
thing with. And I've been picking up a lot
of those this summer. And it's amazing if you're one
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of those people, you know that Iactually love those interactions
#4 this one sounds weird, but sitting in a weird or irregular
position, guys, it's actually sofar.
It's so far. And I know you guys know what
I'm talking about too. I know you guys know what I'm
talking about. Like if you're on a couch
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somewhere, it could be alone or the other people, but you just
like hit like some weird pose. We got like your legs up in
there or something like that. Or like you're like upside down
hanging off the couch, like you know what I'm talking about.
It's so good, It's so good. It's so far three.
I'm, I'm flying through this 3 When a baby or an animal,
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specifically young animals, but an animal it like let's say like
with a group of people and the baby or the young child is
animal could go to anyone and they come to you.
Yeah, yeah, I know. You guys know what I'm talking
about. Fire, fire, fire, fire.
Because it's like, Oh my gosh. She shows me which might be a
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little like, I don't know, selfish or whatever, but it's
such a good feeling. Even a bonus too is like when
the baby or like the small childwill like laugh with you and
then like become obsessed with you or like an animal starts
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like rubbing on you or like asking for rub.
It's like it's amazing. Two.
OK, I'm not chronically online, although some people would
disagree with that. But watching a really good edit
is so fire. Like that feeling, that feeling,
and maybe this is just me, but sometimes I'm on my phone at
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like midnight and I got my phonein front like glued to my face
and I'm just laughing because like the the edit is so good.
It's not even that it's funny all the time, but it's just so
good. Or I'm just hitting that like
kind of face. It is fire, especially with all
those new edits that have been dropping on TikTok and all those
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different kinds of platforms recently, like that one Creed
edit and that whole genre of edits.
Someone just came home because someone's not happy so far.
In addition, listening to a goodbeat drop.
It doesn't always have to be in an in an edit, but it's a good
beat drop, especially hearing itfor the first time so far, like
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the song Like Him by Tyler, the Creator.
That beat drop is legendary. And then number one in my really
specific list is active rushes of dopamine.
And this could be like, oh, gizmo's really not happy.
This could be like when I'm likeplaying volleyball and like I'll
like dive like really quickly and get like a good dig or
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something. Or when I'm canoeing, which I
haven't done in a while, but when I'm canoeing and I'm on a
rapid and just like the dopamineis rushing as I like dodging
rocks and going down a rapid which is always really fun.
And also recently being on stagewas also so fun like being in
the curtains behind as I was about to run to the stage was so
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fun. It was a blast especially when I
was on the stage and like the lights like shining my face. 10
and 10 would recommend. That is so far.
So I hope you guys were able to relate to at least some of these
because they are definitely experiences that I love.
OK, on to list #2 Hello Gizmo. On to list #2 this is the odd
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list. My odd top five number 5 is any
type of like night activity that's like kind of chill and
then like a group setting, but that's kind of like intimate in
like a certain weird unexplainable way.
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For example, a late night walk with your friends.
Let's say you're walking back from somewhere, you're like
you're walking to like, I don't know, wing stop or something
McDonald's or you're just walking in the night, especially
when you're walking on the road and not on the sidewalk fire or
a night, a night drive and you're playing some music or
campfire. So those kind of like nighttime
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intimate things. 4 is finding a side quest when you're just like
by yourself or you're hanging out with your friends like you
and anyone you're with like, oh,let's go here.
And then you just randomly like you'll either meet like this
random person who just, I don't know, just like really funny or
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you'll find this like random event and it's just so fun.
It's so fun. Highly recommend.
It's kind of hard to plan because the whole like notion of
a side quest is that it has to be random.
But you just get out there with yourself, by yourself or with
your friends and I'm sure you'llfind something like especially
living in a city, especially Toronto, you can go downtown or
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on the TTC and I'm sure you willfind a side quest by talking to
some random person or anything #3 OK, this one is a really good
one. When you're laughing so hard
that like your stomach hurts, but also when the person you're
laughing with says something that like makes the joke even
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funnier, that is like it's so good.
It's so good. And I know, I know maybe I look
weird like smiling, talking to myself right now, but that is
such a good feeling. That is such a good feeling.
Like, you know, your stomach like physically hurts at its
core and like you get like tearscoming down.
You're like bending over like, and especially me, especially me
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when I laugh. Well, not, not especially, but
people who do this, they know what's really good.
When I laugh, I tend to like smack things really hard.
Like if I'm sitting on a table, I'll start like banging it while
I'm laughing. And then a lot of the times
people will make fun of me for like laughing like that.
It's so funny to me. That's always good.
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It's just a good feeling. I don't know, it's hard to
explain. It's just a good feeling
laughing, smiling 2. This is a good one.
Watching someone open a gift I got them or just like enjoy a
general experience that I plan for them.
This one is definitely showed upa lot with my girlfriend
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obviously because like I plan certain dates or like certain
trips or something or get or sorry that did not come out
clearly. I will plan a certain date or a
certain trip or activity or get her something.
Sometimes she's going to quote me on this and say I'm lying,
but I'm not. That's always great.
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But not even just that. Just for anyone in general.
It's hard to be very specific with these, but for anyone in
general, especially my friends. My friends and I went camping
recently and I was like a big part of the planning and that
job, Everyone did their job, butI was a big part of the planning
crew on that trip. And it was just so fun that I
could see everyone having a great time, especially because
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for a lot of them, it was not their first time, but their
first few times camping. So that was great that they were
able to have a good experience. And actually another personal
time this happened was when it was my sister's birthday.
And then like I stole her phone,like her iPad, iPad or something
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a couple days before and messaged all her friends.
And I was like, send me a video saying happy birthday to my
sister. And then I made a huge
compilation and she really likedit.
And that's just a random memory I have that I just will always
laugh. And then number one, I think
this is pretty relatable to everybody having those remember
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when conversations I love, I like, I actually love.
Like it's so it's so, so, so fun.
I'm just smiling at the thought of it.
Honestly, all of these, I'm justsmiling at the thought of it
because they're just such good experiences that I'm so lucky to
have and I'm sure a lot of you are lucky to have too.
Maybe not all of them, but most of them.
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Remember when conversations are actually peak, like actually
they are peak when you're like, Oh my gosh, remember when we
went to this place and yada yada, yada, yada, yada.
Like, for example, one that me and my friends have had over and
over and over again is that in grade 9, I think it was, or
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grade 10, I don't remember whichone.
In grade 9 or 10, we went to Chicago for this music trip that
our school organized. We went to like, play against
these. Like, we played, I'm against.
We played at one school in Chicago.
And then for the rest of the trip, we just kind of like
explore the city. And it was so fun.
I was so surprised with how muchfreedom they allowed us.
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Like they allowed us to just walk around the city alone.
And I was like, whoa, OK, this is fire.
But one story we talk about all the time is the specific day
when they said they asked us allto meet up downtown.
We grab breakfast. I think, no, we had breakfast at
the hotel. Then we went downtown and we met
at the Bean. We took a big photo all
together, so my Instagram. And then they said we could
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split up and we could all go ourseparate ways because there's
maybe like 100 people on this trip.
And so me and my group, we got together and then we just walked
around. We went to the train station and
we were like, Oh yeah, we're going to take a train to what's
that neighborhood? Why am I forgetting it?
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It's like super sketchy. Did a bunch of rap songs.
Very notorious for not being safe in Chicago.
I don't know why I'm forgetting the name of this neighborhood,
but I'm sure maybe you guys know.
We did not. We took the train in the
opposite direction and then we went on this road and got a cup
of clothes from the downtown like mall strip area.
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But then the funniest part is wewent into the Trump Hotel or
Trump Tower or whatever in Chicago, and we walked in
holding our foes to our ears. And we were like, we were trying
to pretend that we actually had this place there so we could get
past reception. And we were like, Papa said that
you and I was like, Papa, you told me I was getting in the
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penthouse. I'm getting in the penthouse.
And it's hard to explain. You just had to be there.
That's why those conversations are so fun.
One of my friends stole like a toilet paper roll.
It was. It's just so fun, so fun.
Anyways, moving on to my third and final list.
Thank you for sticking all this way.
I really appreciate it. This is like the good stuff
here. So #5 #5 is getting a compliment
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and specifically getting a compliment that I've never heard
before or getting a compliment from anyone actually.
I was going to say people that are important to me, but like
from anyone is equally amazing. And I think we're maybe afraid
to say that out loud because if I say that I sound like I'm like
self obsessed or like, you know,all that kind of jazz.
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But it's a great feeling. It's a great feeling especially
when you know what's genuine. I specifically mean a genuine
compliment. And I feel like sometimes among
guys, it's a little rarer, more,sorry, more rare than girls, but
not always. Depends who you're hanging out
with. But it's just a really great
feeling when someone's like, oh,hey, you've been getting better
at this or hey, really like youralphabet.
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Hey, you look good, You know, all that kind of stuff.
It's just, it's just great. Nothing more to explain there.
It's just a great feeling for knowing you're going to miss
this moment. Like when you're standing in a
specific spot or you're just doing something and you're, you
think in your head like, wow, this is so far, I'm going to
miss this. And it's a good feeling because
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when you say, oh, I'm going to miss this, it's not like I'm
going to miss this in like a sadway, like, oh, no, it's over.
No, no, you can do that. Like afterwards it's more just
like, wow, like I'm so lucky I had to, I got to have such an
amazing experience. I have to be the place I'm at.
Maybe with the people I'm with the food I'm eating, whatever,
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whatever it is, I'm just, I'm going to miss this moment.
It's so like, voila, just kids 3.
This is a good one. Realizing that you're doing
better than you used to. That's a big one.
That's a very big one. And this doesn't have to be like
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you were coming from like a place of like horribleness.
It could mean anything. It could be like in your sport,
whatever sport you play, like realizing you're getting better
at it than you were like a year ago.
That's always great. Knowing that like you're
handling something a bit more mature than you would have maybe
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let's say a year ago or maybe even a week ago, whatever.
This could be like recovering from some sort of negative event
that can be like a breakup or like family trauma or you're
just your own like anger management issues or all of that
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stem of situations. It's just great realizing that
you're doing better and not in like a wow past me sucked
version more of like wow, look how far I've gone kind of thing,
and that's always great. Two, which one and two are kind
of the same thing to me, but 2 is having a deep heart to heart
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conversation that is like like my favorite thing to do ever of
all time. It's so fun because I just, I
love getting to know people. I and hence why I started a
podcast. I love getting to know people.
I love talking to people about the stuff I'm going through and
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just random my random thoughts about certain things.
And also the connection you haveafter that heart to heart talk.
Like there's this one guy won't say his name, but there's this
one guy who I work with who like2 years ago, this random night,
we ended up having this deep conversation.
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We were, we were just talking about life and growing up and
all the challenges we face. And like, it wasn't, it wasn't
anything like specific to our situations.
I would say it was more just about like the average like
teenage experience about like, you know, social pressures,
insecurity, all that kind of jazz.
And it was really out of the blue.
I didn't think I was going to have this conversation with this
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guy specifically, not because he's a bad guy, but just because
we weren't like that close. And so we're at this event party
and we ended up going to the bathroom and I sat down in the
bathtub and he sat down on the toilet like with the lid closed.
And we just talked for like 2 hours.
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And that connection I have with him moving past, it's not like
we're like best of buds brothersforever or anything, but there's
like a sense of like knowing andunderstatement.
I have. And maybe it's one sided, maybe
it's not. But as long as I think it's
there amazing. And it's just, it's just great.
It's just really great. Especially when you're saying
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things that you thought you would never tell anybody.
That is amazing and #1. I think we can all agree this is
an amazing, amazing feeling, butit's feeling understood and
supported. I think that's all we want from
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everybody in our lives. And I know it sounds very
general, but it's pretty hard. I would say maybe not rare as
you get older, but I'd say hard to feel really understood and to
kind of break out and for someone to see you outside of
how everyone else sees you. For someone to see you outside
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of the interests you have, the public persona you put on, your
gender, your race, all that kindof stuff.
And yeah, just a second. Yeah, Oops.
I'm getting called down. Oops.
Sorry. I hope that didn't scare you
guys. But yeah, feeling understood and
supported is always amazing. Another one, like side note of
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that, like an example of that sorry, is having someone in the
crowd cheer you on, which I'm sorry if this isn't.
This is not an experience that you get to have too often.
And it wasn't an experience I had for like 99% of my life
until I'd say about this year. But because usually when I'd be
up on stage for any kind of thing like a graduation or a
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show or anything, I wouldn't have someone in the crowd.
I'd kind of just be performing to everybody, which is kind of
what I'm doing right now with a podcast, but happier.
But it's more like, it's more like, sorry, at my graduation
and at my most recent musical, Ihad people in the crowd cheering
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me on, mainly my girlfriend and her family and a bunch of my
friends showed up and supported me.
And it was the best feeling of the world.
Kind of like that trend where it's like, I forgot how they
word it, but it's like, Oh yeah,showing up matters.
Where it's like that video of someone in a graduation when
they finally spot their person in the crowd and their face
lights up, it's amazing. And it doesn't only have to be
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at those events. It's just anywhere in life when
you can tell someone understandsyou and supports you is amazing.
So thank you so much for tuning in.
I hope these reminders of the small beauties of life have
helped you feel more centered inyour life.
Kind of building off the topic of last week, once again, thank
you so much. I cannot express my gratitude
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enough. I can't wait to see you guys
next Thursday. I had a blast talking to you.
So I'll see you guys next Thursday.
Send this to someone that you think would enjoy this episode
and Oh yeah, if you have any other episode ideas, did people
did submit? But I just really wanted to do
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this episode first and I will get to yours next episode.
If you have any episode ideas, go to the link in my bio on my
Instagram. The button at the top of the
Lincoln bio is a place where youcan submit your episode idea
like ideas. It could be anonymous.
You can put your name, whatever you want to do.
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And yeah, thank you so much guys.
I can't wait to see you guys next Thursday.
See ya.
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