The Intellectual Glow Up: How To Think Deeper
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What is the main focus of this episode and how do the hosts introduce the topic?
This podcast is recorded on Gadigal Land, always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. Hey chicks, I'm Al. And I'm Sal. And this is Two Wrote Chicks Show that shares life lessons and tips to help make you rich in life. And today we are being very intellectual in life. We're gonna be talking about how we wanna use our brains more, attention spans, and bringing back the yap. You know? The intellectual yap.
I mean, that's what we do every week on the show. Exactly. So we need to em everybody needs to embrace it, chicks.
Mm-hmm. Now, Salik,
before we get into it, what's your
obsession
of the week? My obsession of the week is kind of a throwback to one of the very first obsessions or like life lessons, recommendations that I ever shared on this show. Ah. And it's one of my favorite podcasts, which is a podcast called Sixty Songs That Explain the Nineties. Ah, cool. I think this was one of the first wrecks I ever shared on the show, so like five years ago. And the reason I'm bringing it back up is because obviously the name is on the tin, Sixty Songs That Explain the Nineties. They ran through they got through the first 60 songs a long time ago and then they explained. expanded into even more songs from the nineties. But they've moved on to sixty songs that explain the two thousands.
So it's like a two point oh. It's a whole new era. And I feel like for the the girlies who listen to our show, that's a lot of the music that we would have grown up with. And the premise of the show is that every episode they cover a different song and they talk about like the history of the song, the cultural impact. They interview people who were involved in like the production and the songwriting or people who reported on it. And it's so interesting. And they cover like all different genres as well. Um, so they've done Already. They did like Britney Spears Toxic. They've done The Darkness, I believe, in a thing called Love, Paramour, Misery Business, Milkshake by Khalise. What a hit. Most recently, they did Welcome to the Black Parade by Michael McCall Romance.
What are we gonna do? Yeah. I was literally like sobbing on my hot girl walk, listening to it. Like, it's just incredible. And the um music journalist who hosts the show, Rob Harvello, just the references and like the personal stories that he weaves into it. He's like really funny, everything's super thorough. And I feel like it's really good trivia that you would be able to bring up like on a dinner or a drink set with the girls and like a song comes on and you're like, you know what, this song. Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah.
I love when people have shit like that.
Right, which I felt like kind of tied into the episode of having an an intellectual life. Because it's like you're learning something, but it's completely fun.
I love that. I'm gonna steal that and go on a similar vein.
What is the host’s “obsession of the week” and why do they recommend the “Sixty Songs That Explain the Nineties” podcast?
It's something that I've referenced on the show in passing, but I haven't really done a strong spotlight on it. But it's the weekly 50. Oh yeah. So the weekly fifty we spoke about it a couple of weeks back, but it was very like throw out little thing there. Mm. But the weekly 50 is this group of people they're based in Melbourne and every week they write like a trending topic but also some trivia quizzes. It's basically a trivia quiz. Yeah. And it's 50 questions. They put it out every single week. I think it drops on a Thursday or a Friday. But my boyfriend and I do it on Sunday mornings when we like have a morning coffee and we like airplay it to the TV. Fun. And we like sit down. and we do the weekly fifty.
Sometimes if we're going on a date night on a Friday, we'll do it then. And so it'll have questions of like things that happened that week that are like trending in the media. It was like, what's larger? The width of Australia or the moon? Ooh, is it Australia? It's Australia. Yeah, big girl. Yeah, I know. But like I never knew that. But I'm like, now I feel like I have a fun fact. Yeah. And it's such a fun little thing to do. But then they'll also have things like You know, there are four countries that end in an IA sequence.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main focus of this episode and how do the hosts introduce the topic?
0:00–2:50
2
What is the host’s “obsession of the week” and why do they recommend the “Sixty Songs That Explain the Nineties” podcast?
2:50–9:35
3
What is the “Weekly 50” quiz, and how does it help improve attention and curiosity?
9:35–19:26
4
How do the hosts define an intellectual life and differentiate it from simply being intelligent?
19:26–24:23
5
Why are attention spans shrinking and what research supports this trend?
24:23–29:44
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