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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What are the best and worst things about life right now?
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Chapter 3: How do we misuse our free will in daily life?
Part one. Behind the scenes with a member of the show. Happy, happy weekend. I don't know the rest of the words. I just know the beat to it.
What is that song?
What's that from? Oh, oh. Never remember bad memories. That's when I was a server. It reminds me of softball. Happy birthday. Is it the happy birthday song at restaurants? That's what I used to do when I was a server. I was like, happy, happy birthday from all of us to you. Where was it? It was like Chili's or something. It feels like it was one of those chain restaurants that we used to love.
Red Robin. I knew it. Okay. There it was. Well, happy weekend. We just did the happy birthday song. Happy weekend. That's so funny. Wait, is that what it's from? You said it was softball. Maybe. I remembered it was softball, but I think they made chance to it. I don't know where the origin of that comes from, if it's a happy birthday song or if it's an origin of something else. That's funny.
You know, obviously the origin happy birthday song that I know is happy birthday to you. So I don't know if that one is. Yeah. Anyways, Abby joins me this weekend. Hey, what's up? I appreciated that you just jumped in with me and you knew it. And it was just like a beat that had come to my head and I recalled, you know, when random things just come to your head.
You're like, oh, I forgot I knew that.
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Chapter 4: What interesting plans do they have for the CMA Festival?
Oh, yeah. They come to my head all the time. Yeah, that was one of those moments. So it was Red Robin. Happy birthday song. Happy weekend song. All things collectively. That's funny. And that brings me to the first thing I want to talk about because we just used our free will so correctly. There's this huge concept talking online lately of people talking about their free will.
You become an adult and you get to have your own free will to do things. that nobody can really stop you from doing, right?
That's free will.
And so this concept has been kind of floating around me lately and I've just been thinking about my life and how I've not been using my own free will correctly. Well, you know when you get a pair of tennis shoes or sneakers and you're really excited about them and you just immediately go and wear them? I realized I don't have to wear the shoelaces that come with them. Yeah.
There are so many shoelaces that I can put in shoes that aren't just like the boring normal ones that come with it. And you know what sparked all this? So I was getting my ceremony shoes, which I'm not wearing heels. I'm wearing sneakers. And I got like plain white sneakers. And I was like trying to do our wedding color. And then I was like, that feels weird.
And I was just experimenting with laces. And I was like, as I was doing it, I realized I have never done this with any of my other shoes. But how cool would it make the other shoes to do it? Oh, my gosh. You know, it's funny that you brought this up the other day. I had on like shoes and the shoelaces are too long. They drag. Yes. You know, and I was like, yeah.
And there's just like getting dirty. And a co-worker was like, you know, you can change them.
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Chapter 5: How has their perspective on adulthood changed?
I was like, oh, yeah, you can. Yes. But yeah, I've never even thought of that. Right. And I just don't. Maybe it's free. Well, maybe it's like I'm not creative enough. Maybe my brain just doesn't go there. I don't know what it is. That is so you can change an entire shoe because, yeah, I just like so many plain white ones. You can clean like say you have an old pair and you've worn it out.
You can clean that pair. Get it like pretty back to brand new. Change the laces. to something fun and have a whole different shoe. My ceremony shoes are going to have full on sparkle shoelaces. Oh, that's awesome. I didn't even know those existed. Me neither. I'm in a whole new world now. And now I'm looking at everything else in my life. Like where have I used my free will incorrectly? Right.
Oh, I have one. Okay. Yeah.
Something come to mind. So like I have my own house, right. That I've had since like 2018. And I was like, I've never painted a wall before.
that's that's a thing like they're white like why I had so I finally like two years ago or so I painted like the door your front door or yeah but the inside of it not yet we can't change the outside because I'm an HOA yeah but I was like wait a minute why did I not do all the creative colors now I don't live there anymore so I don't but I'm like that is so that right there why have all the white walls because we've I've rented my whole life and you can't paint
Yep. And you can't even put nails in walls sometimes when you rent. Right. But at your house, you can do anything.
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Chapter 6: What are the creative ways to personalize everyday items?
You can literally do anything. Yep. Yeah. Like it's almost like we're understanding that we can break this invisible free will, free will wall that exists because of somebody. And we learned that we can do it. And that is totally true. All of my walls are the same color that I got besides my podcast room. Oh, really? Yeah. I finally like change those to a green car.
And I'm obsessed with that room because it's a different color. But tell me why I can't then go to the other rooms of my house and be like, well, let's just change one of these colors. I can't. It's like there's something that stops me from being able to do it. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Also, like my fiance, his kids, he'll be like, OK, you can have a piece of candy if you eat all your dinner.
And so like that's kind of in my head. And then they go to bed and I'm like, wait a minute. That doesn't apply to me. I can go eat whatever I want right now. I can have candy for dinner. Yeah. If I want ice cream, I can go get it right now. You start acting like the kids are like, these are my rules too. It's just like in my head, I'm like, did I eat all my dinner? Oh, it doesn't matter.
I can do whatever I want. That's so real, though, because I still do that as an adult. I'm like, I have to have some good food first before I have my sweet treat. Yeah. But when I was a kid, you know, it's so funny. And I don't know if that's, you know, you become an adult and you're put in society and you fall under the societal standards or whatever.
But when I was a kid in high school, my favorite thing to do was go to restaurants and order dessert first. It was? Yes. I would go to Applebee's. Okay. They have a triple chocolate meltdown. That was my favorite dessert. And I would go there and I would order it first and I would eat dessert first. Oh my God. And then I'd save room for food for whatever room I had.
But really the dessert is what mattered to me and what I wanted. That's so funny. So I would eat it first. I never got desserts at restaurants. It was never a thing. That's a family trait. It is. So did your family not order appetizer sodas, dessert? No. Never even appetizers. We're just like, no, we're full. Anytime the bill would come, we didn't even look.
They're like, do you need a dessert menu? I'm like, no. Never growing up. So you went straight to restaurants. It was a water. It was a meal. Yeah. Gone.
Gone.
Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. Because we'd always be so full. I mean, like if they, we would go to places they had bread or, you know, like a Mexican restaurant, chips and salsa. But when it came to desserts, I'm stuffed. Like I can't. It's so funny how much our families play that role and how you do it. So how do you do it with your fiance and his kids? Yeah.
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Chapter 7: How do they navigate dietary restrictions when dining out?
I'm like, those don't even exist. And then you're over here like ordering them before. I was using my free will correctly in that situation for a long time. But yeah, when I go to restaurants now, I will, especially now, because when I go out to a restaurant, I'm trying a new place. That's always my goal. If we are deciding to go out to eat, I'm trying somewhere new.
Living in a place like Nashville, there's so many options that if I keep going back to the same place, there's no point in me spending money to keep going back to the same place over and over again.
in this type of city I will if we have people visiting there's a favorite you know we're really craving something whatever but if we just decide on a random Friday to go out to dinner it has to come from one of the new restaurant lists that I have in my phone and when I go to one of these I have to try everything to know if it's a full experience because there are some places I love strictly for their dessert some places I love strictly for their appetizers others I love the entire meal
Oh my gosh, that's amazing. And then I create a list from that of like, this is the best for this type of thing. If you want just dessert, get this here. If you want to have like a fun happy hour appetizers, get this there. And I've curated my own little thing from that. Yeah. But that's become a thing for me. And I think it's because my parents very much were also foodies in a way.
Foodies meaning we, you know, growing up in Wichita, we had Olive Garden and very seldom...
mom and pop places it was mostly chain restaurants so yeah we went to the same places all the time yeah like I think we went to Olive Garden all the time and then on the border and then we had one mom and pop place which was Timberline and another mom and pop place Red Cajun Bayou Grill those were the two like
local spots did you go to amarillo girl i was really young so like it may have been it switched and changed to something else but we switched to timberline after amarillo amarillo girl was so good so did you love amarillo girl more than timberline yes yeah and i was really sad i was probably like seven or eight when it switched over i just loved it it was so fun it was just like that old country feel like the way they had it decorated in there and
Okay, do you have a favorite restaurant ever? Do you have a top restaurant in the entire place of all the places you've ever been lived? Oh my gosh, that's a hard one. Number one. Okay, I love Bella Luna. I just love it. I do love Bella Luna too. That's a good choice. The hummus, you can't beat it. Anytime I get hummus anywhere, I just compare it to Bella Luna.
And I'm like, it's never going to live up to it. It's just so creamy. I love the salad there. I always get like the Bella Maggie house salad. It's just like their Mediterranean salad. And it's the best. I'm not really a foodie. That's the thing. That's where we like differ. Like I'm just so kind of boring. Like I just love like chicken. Like I love a chipotle rice bowl.
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Chapter 8: What are the impacts of societal expectations on personal choices?
Yeah, probably. If it's the easiest thing. I don't want to like search. I don't want to wait an hour to get in if it's popular. I'd rather like see the city than be in a restaurant. OK, let me ask you this, because to me, to know a city, to really explore and understand a city is to do something there and eat something there.
Those are my two ways where I'm like, OK, this is how I immerse myself into whatever the city has to offer. Mm hmm. What does immersing look like for you going to a city? Like walking around, seeing what I run into. Like I went to Asheville and we just like walked around, saw the history. There's like a cute little, well, it's like an old arcade. It was an arcade at one point.
It has like a glass ceiling and it was just so cute to walk through. There was like a double-decker bus that was coffee. So I'm kind of that way with coffee, I guess. Oh, you'll try new coffee shops? Yeah, that's more my like vibe. I feel like that's a popular one. I think a lot of people go to new cities and want to try new coffee spots. Because then I get the coffee. I'm in a good mood.
Then I get to walk around and explore. That's kind of my... I like to be like... What is it when you're like in it?
Immersed.
Yeah, just like immersed. Like the... You're really immersed into the daily life. Yeah, I'd rather be walking and seeing what I can run into. And, oh, that's cute. Instead of like looking. Top tier feeling when you're walking around exploring because I'm with you. I love exploring. That's one of my favorite things.
But when you're exploring and you stumble upon a really cute place to have a meal or Or have a drink or whatever. And you're like, this is awesome. And this is what the locals go and hang out at. Do you do that at all? No. Mine's usually just like a drink. I like to see the drink menu. That's fun. You're a drinkie. Yeah. I'm a foodie. You're a drinkie. A drinkie. Bar. I like going to bars.
Cute little where you can just go in, grab a drink, and then leave. Go to another one. I'd rather bounce around. You want to go to a city that has open container laws where you can walk around. Yeah. You are a drinkie. We have discovered your name. Oh, my gosh. You know what? We do.
Like when we're out of town, we'll put like White Claw in a coffee cup, like to-go one with the lid on it, like in the hotel. And walk around and people are like, now it's a joke because they're like, oh, you got some coffee or oh, you got decaf. That's smart. And we're like, yep, got the coffee. So we're like walking around in the evening.
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