Nov. 17, 2025

Nov 18-ADHD, Mickey Mouse, Kevin Nealon. Kim Wilde, Owen Wilson, Calvin & Hobbs, Teddy Bears

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Today we are literally going to blow your mind.  My co-host Steve August will help you know if you have ADHD.  If you do, he will coach you to use your ADHD to improve your life. Yes, ADHD might have held you back, Steve can help you not only live successfully with it, but also thrive.  Check him out
ADHD Assessment
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National apple cider day. Entertainment from 1985. St. Peters Basilica consecrated, Will Tell shot an apple of his sons head, Time zones created, Jonestown massacre. Todays birthdays - Imogeane Coca, Alan Shepard, Mickey Mouse, Linda Evans, Kevin Nealon, John Parr, Kim Wilde, Owen Wilson, Duncan Sheik. Chester A. Arther died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran     https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Apple Cider song - People
IWe built this city - Starship
I'll never stop loving you - Gary Marris
Birthdays - in da club - 50 Cent      http://50cent.com/
Mickey Mouse TV theme
Naughty naughty - John Parr
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Barely breathing - Duncan Sheik
Exit - I'll never know if I don't ask - Buck Ford     https://www.buckford.com/
History & Factoids about today webpage

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Welcome to history and factor is about today. I am Jeff.

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Now today's show is really interesting and it might help

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you are someone that you know a lot out. See,

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we're going to talk all about ADHD, so see if

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you have it or not, or if someone you know

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or love has it. So we brought in an ADHD guru, Steve.

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Why don't you introduce yourself.

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Hey, there, Jeff, great to be here. How my name

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is Steve August. I'm talking to you from Portland, Oregon.

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We're having a lovely autumn. And yeah, so my story

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is that I'm a lifelong entrepreneur and it turned out

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that I also had ADHD my whole life, but didn't

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really find out until I was fifty four years old.

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And there's a lot of a lot of attention on

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it right now, I mean partly because our current social

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media driven, algorithm driven society makes everybody feel a bit ADHD.

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But it really is interesting. The more I learned about

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it and understood how it worked in the different ways

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that it works, the more I understood myself. As somebody

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I said the other day, it's like getting the It

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was like getting the blueprints to the house I lived in.

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My whole life. And for those of you who may

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not be familiar with what ADHD means, it's attention deficit

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and hyperactivity disorder. And what you should probably know about

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that is that it's not a very helpful name for

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what they term a disorder, and it's really just a

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way that a brain brains work a little differently. And

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now the classic of the classic vision or the visual

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of a ADHD person is like a young kid usually

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avoid bouncing off the walls and not being able to

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pay attention to anything or sit still. But really what

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it is is it's not so much an attention deficit.

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It's act almost like a surplus. Is that our brains

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are paying attention to a lot of things, and we

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have a challenge of putting our focus where we want

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it to be when we want it to be. So

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it's not really a deficit. It's more of an executive

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function type of thing. So, and what happens is for

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a lot of folks is that we ADHD brains tend

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to be often really good at at ideating and creating

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and learning because it's very dopamine driven. So they've ascribed

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ADHD brains to having lower levels of two important transmitters

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dopamine and nore epinephrine, and it just changes a bit

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of how our brain kind of works. And so and

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what happens is like the part of our brains that

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are really good at like paying attention thing and ideating

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and learning and knowing, and we get a lot of

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dopamine out of novelty. And these types of things are

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couple with the part of our brain that is the

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executive function, part of the brain that helps us organize

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and prioritize and start and not get distracted. Like that

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part of our brain is less powerful. So as doctor Hallowell,

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who wrote the book ADHD two point oho goes describe it,

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it's like having a Ferrari brain with bicycle breaks. And

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so what happens is is for especially for a lot

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of adults, is that we get into the situation where

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we know a lot, and we have a lot of skills,

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and we have a lot of things that we have

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to offer, and yet we have a hard time actually

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doing those things and making those things happen. And that creates,

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you know, a really can be very challenging mentally. And

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so what I do is help people, especially specifically entrepreneurs,

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people running businesses because ADHD brains tend to want to

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often start businesses or feel like they've got so much

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creativity and have a struggle working in a very rigid,

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routine environment that they often do start businesses. And so

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they're really good at parts of it in terms of

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being able to come up with ideas and and and

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be creative, but the execution side of things becomes a challenge,

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and so I've created systems and communities to help people

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do that. So I have a course called Your Weekly

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OS that helps people have a really amazing week in

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making progress with ADHD and making the things happen they

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want to have happen. And then I have a program

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called ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator, which is a community specifically for

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ADHD entrepreneurs and it's a great group of people who

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are ADHD brands and can be exactly who they are

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and make and we work with each other and support

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each other and create an amazing progress and actually make

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all those brilliant ideas and things and schemes that we

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come up with happen. So that's uh, yeah, that's the

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that's my story, and I'm really happy to be here.

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Cool. So adult DHD. Do you have it the entire

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time and you just don't get it till later or

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does it develop later on in life.

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It's passed genetically. And a lot of adults get diagnosed

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because their kid has it and then they go in

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and watch they see the diagnostic or hear the diagnostic

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the kids going through and they're like, wait, I do that.

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I have that?

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And what's interesting is that, you know, I was never

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hyper as a kid, and so that was something that

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I learned is that hyperactivity isn't always part of the deal.

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And there's like like three types that they describe. There's

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the there is hyperactive ADHD, and there's in a tent

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of IDEOHD. These are people who are more like daydreamers

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and spinners in their in their mind and that was

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definitely me. And then there's people who are combined to

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have both both types. And what happens, uh, And what

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happened for me is like as we go through our

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adult life, if we haven't been diagnosed, but we are

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having it work actually paying an ADHD tax the whole

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time that things are taking us harder, taking us longer.

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We have to work harder to make certain things happen

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to focus, and especially as we age, like early in

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our lives when we're in twenties and thirties and in

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our forties where we have energy to like to kind

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of like grind through. But as we age sometimes it

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just sort of drops. And especially for women who hit

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perimenopause and you know, post post child, having children and

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menopause and just hormonal changes like those things affect executive function.

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So it's really more of an executive function the type

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of thing. But it's not something that generally develops over time,

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something that's been in the whole time and you've just

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learned to compensate over it until a point where you're like, oh,

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I run out of gas and that burnout and I

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can't compensate anymore. So and that's when you know, getting

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a diagnosis and you know there's there are medications that

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can work, and some people use medications to good effect

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and some people don't and to good effect. And it

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really becomes this this way of thinking of understanding, like

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I look to think of it, is it just a

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different brain type. We need all types of brains to

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make the world go around, and an ADHD brain type

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has some really amazing strengths and it has some really

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interesting challenges. Just like anything else in life, we work

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with a you know, take advantage of the strengths and

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and mitigate the challenges to get where we want to go.

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Well, that is really interesting. I've got a lot of

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questions now coming up. First, do you know what we're

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going to celebrate today?

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Hmm? I think it's a really good fall holiday.

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I bet, I think so.

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Oh we're going do you have a apple side?

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Yesterday is National Apple Ciderday. An apple cider fan.

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A lot of apples, but it's a very seasonal like

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kind of like like if you ask me in in

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July fourth like I don't want you. I don't own

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apple cider with my fireworks, but I do want to

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unify with with my Halloween candy.

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There you go. Now, apple cider. It goes way back.

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It goes back to about three thousand BC. It was

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actually created better celts over in England. Now, the only

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apples they had back there in England they were crab apples. No,

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not the best, so it was pretty bitter. But then

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in fifty five BC, the Romans they invented England. Now

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they kind of liked that apple cider, but they said

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those crab apples had to go. So the Romans started

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bringing in their own apple trees. So the good thing

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was that apple cider was a lot better. The bad thing, Oh,

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if they're planting trees, they ain't leaving your country.

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Yeah, well it's a you know, another another thing. And

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you know, if you recall money Python's Life of Brian

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where there's that that that moment where they're saying, what

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have the Romans ever done for us? And I think

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we have to add apple cider there you do that list.

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Now it's a lot better. Yeah, okay, now not the

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hard cider. Okay, but you're right on your apple sider.

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It's actually pretty healthy for you.

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Yeah imagine. So yeah, I think it's so flavorful. It

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just it just it just really makes you think about

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fall and and uh that season and the comfort of it.

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Love it.

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Yeah, it's just like you said, there's a comforting kind

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of brings comfort to you and everything. So I don't know

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if anybody out there has a little girl or a

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little girls at home, but day is also a National

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Princess Day too. Wow, Hey, instead of having tea, I

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guess you can serve apple ciders today.

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Yeah, that that you could. You could merge the holidays

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and uh, you know, just up the up your observation

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game so you can have your your your princess apple

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cider party.

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All right, let's see it going on an entertainment on November

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the eighteenth. Let's back in nineteen eighty five. The number

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one album was the Miami Vice soundtracked Starship at the

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number one song with We Built This City. Gary Morris

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had the number one country song with I'll Never Stop

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Loving You. I'm not a Memphis on a fast moving

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dreams common now some trump didding Western the fast Lane,

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but I'll never stopping. The number one book was The

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Mammoth Hunters by Gen m I top movie list King

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Solomon's mind. That's where Richard Chamberlain he hooks up with

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Sharon Stone and they try and find her father in

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the wilds of nineteen hundreds Africa. Okay, now, Steve, you

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actually have a test that we can take, and I

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actually went on there. So if you're wondering, if you know,

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do I have ahd adhd or do I have symptoms

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or you know, like that he gives you a free

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test you can take to help help you out. So

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I scored a fifteen and a sixteen on your quiz,

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So that puts me just a little bit there. There

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are some truths and I kind of thought, well, okay,

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the big ones that hit me when you talk about

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at the end of the day, you just can't look

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back and go, man, where did that day? Why didn't

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they get anything done? And where you're bridged with new

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ideas all day long. You know, you'll start working and say,

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oh man, this would be a cool project in this

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cool building. But then when you started talking about the

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three different types of ADDHD, then I think, well, that

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might raise my score up quite a bit. Ever since

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I've been a little kid, I've been a daydreamer and

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I'm fifty eight and I'm still a big time daydreamer.

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Yeah, it's it's really interesting. It sounds like you scored

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sort of middle of the scale, but on a stronger likelihood.

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And again that assessment does incorporate one of the self

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reported assessments that that doctors use. Of course, isn't an

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official undiagnosis, but it is an interesting directional thing. And yeah,

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there is Yeah, the daydreaming and certain aspects of it.

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It's it's a spectrum, so some things might jump out

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more and some things might jump out less.

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So you mentioned a little bit of drug like, like

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you said, little boys, the hyperwes, they're the ones who

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are given the drugs and all that kind of stuff.

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Is that bad for him in the long run?

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You know, it really depends. You know. Uh, I'm not

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a doctor, so I can't, like, you know, offer medical advice.

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But I think there is a balance, right if there

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is medication and neurochemistry is so individualized like i've, you know,

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just being transparent like i've i've you know, the main

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first line of drugs that they give are stimulants like

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adderall and ridlin, and that what that does is it

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helps kind of kind of accelerates all parts of the brain.

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you get enough executive function to go along with everything else.

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coaster ride, and it can work for a while and

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then stop working, and there can also be some some

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side effects. So it's really a very much a very

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individual thing, and there's always a balance with medications. In

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terms of you know, being able to live your life

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versus whatever side effects, because there's never any medications without

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side effects. Right. So so my takeaway, you know, what

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I would invite people to take away is is you know,

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it is really an individual choice. And because each each

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person's brain chemistry is different, so I would you know,

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suggest everybody consult with their their doctor, their kids a

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doctor to figure out what the best course for them is.

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you'll have some with your hardcore and some m'st like

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you said, our borderline and all that kind of stuff.

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in my group who don't do medications. There's and do

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it with you know, diet and exercise and and things

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like that, and that definitely helps. And definitely the taking

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care of your body helps take care of your brain.

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the better you're you're able to leverage your executive function.

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And there's other folks who you know, who are having

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a lot of success with medication, and so it's you know,

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you've got a brain that works a certain way, and

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just like we have, you know, we have different levels

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of eyesight, which is also kind of a nerve of

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the brain. The eyes. We get glasses when we're when

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we can't see exactly right right to help, and nobody

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thinks twice about getting glasses or lay six or contacts,

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attitude I like to take with with with with other

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brain stuff is like, hey, if we have stuff that

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can help, then let's use that and if it if

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it doesn't help, then don't use it. So but it

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is that that kind of attitude of like, Okay, we

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don't expect people to squint all the time and just

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tough it out for their eyesight, and I think we should,

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you know, give people the space to and support they

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need when there are other parts brain that work a

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a disorder is kind of given it a diserve. I mean,

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you wouldn't call somebody who needed glasses they have an

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eye disorder.

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for the medical field, they have to have a diagnostic

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so they have to almost almost have to call it

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a disorder. But in the sense of I think it's

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more helpful to think of it as a different brain

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type for the people who have it, because there's no

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cure for it per se. There's just different ways you

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can support it and work with it, like you would

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easier to work with once you understand that you have it.

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my life to actually understand how my brain is working,

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and then I can understand these behavioral patterns, because what

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a lot of people experience on ADHD is the sense that,

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you know, oh, if only I had more discipline, if

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only I had more willpower, if only I had you know,

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I must not be driven enough, or might not be

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ambitious enough, or it's just basically, it's so easy to

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turn it into I'm not this, I have this character flaw,

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whereas if it's just, hey, my brain works this way

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and I just need to work with it so that

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I can get the best out of it and understand

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that certain things are going to be challenging and certain

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things are going to be easy for me. And as

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long as I look at it as oh, that's just

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the way my brain works, and I just have to

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deal with it, I think of it like again, like

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we look at executive function. One of the things we

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say is we have to manage our executive function, which is,

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you know what we have a limited resource of. We

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have to manage that like we like a diabetic might

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manage insulin. Right. It's something we just have to be

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conscious of. And it's not character flaw and it's not,

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you know, an indictment of our abilities as a person.

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It's just Okay, this is our brain works, and this

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our body is working, and we're just going to do

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the things everything we can to support it so that

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we can get where we want to go.

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And I think it helped with a lot of frustration

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because I mean, if you, yeah, you don't think anything's

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wrong with you, and you go, man, why does everybody

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else is doing this? I'm not now, man, then I'll

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send you oh okay, that's just me. Okay, no reason

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to be frustrated anymore.

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of the folks that go through my weekly OS course

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and the folks who are in my accelerator program, and

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that they do feel that sense of relief of like, oh,

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I can just I understand why these things are happening.

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I understand better when my brain works this way and

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I have some things, some tools I can then deploy

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to make it go to get where I want to go.

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week's kind of messy, or we didn't get quite as

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much done as we wanted, because one of the things

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that comes with ADHD is is something called time blind.

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long things are going to take. You know, the joke is,

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how do you know if you're in a relationship with

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somebody with ADHD. If you say, hey, we have to

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leave in five minutes and they say, okay, great, I'll

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go jump in the shower, you know you're probably dealing

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with somebody who hasn't got it quite the grasp of

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time that you would hope. But once we know that,

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we can work with it and say, okay, I know

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my sense of time is going to be a little

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of bit challenged. So we can use different kinds of

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external supports, whether it's timers or One of the things

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that I do a lot with books is host co

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working sessions sometimes called body doubling, where we get together

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and if we want to get something done, we just

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tell each other what we're going to be working on,

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and then we set a timer and we all sit

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together and work on it over the zoom and it

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just it's like magic. People can actually get stuff done.

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They wouldn't be so frustrated too. Like you said, the

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shower thing, Okay, we can't tell him we're going to

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leave in five minutes. We got to tell him a

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half hour before him.

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happens that AHD brains have, and this is all part

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of the executive function, is this thing called working memory,

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and that's the ability to keep things that are out

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of sight in mind. So it's very the opposite is

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out of sight out of mind. And I always wondered

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why I go to these conferences when I was leading

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my startup, and I'd meet all these people and they

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would literally have name tags on them and I would

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look at their name and meet their names, and then

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I'd walk away and I'd be like, I have no

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idea you know what their name is like, It's not

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even that I could reach it. It was just gone. And

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that's like a deficit and working memory. So ADHD brains

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often will have a challenge of keeping things in mind,

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and that can be really frustrating for people who are

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around them and are in relationships with them or working

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with them. But when we all understand what might be

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going on there, then we can all kind of work

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together and kind of understand, Okay, it's just how somebody's

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brain work, and we have to work with that. They're

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part of the it's part of the package, and so

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we'll work together to figure out how to best navigate that.

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Okay, and we'll talk about that in a little bit. First,

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let's see what happened on November the eighteenth throughout history. Now,

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according to legend, it was today in thirteen oh seven

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over in Switzerland that William Tell refused to honor as king.

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He wouldn't jump up and bow to his hat. So

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the king and he was pretty mad, so he ordered

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William Tell. For his punishment, he had to shoot a

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son off with his bow and arrow off of his

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son's head. Well, the apple off of his son head

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and it's split in half. Well that started a whole

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chain reaction of events and ended up with Till killing

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that killing that game. Then he wouldn't honor now through history.

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It's pretty good little folk story, but it's probably not true,

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so fummer.

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But they made the movie about it, right, it makes

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a good gotta be true if they made a movie

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about it.

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That's true, and it's not even on the internet.

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Yeah, jeez.

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In nineteen twenty six in Rome, Saint Peter's Basilica it

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was consecrated. Now it's built on the same spot that

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they don't the original Saint Peter's church back in thirty

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twenty six. Now, they had to tear that down in

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fifteen oh five, so they started building again in fifteen

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oh six, finished it in sixteen twenty six. Now, when

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a church is consecrated, that means that's blessed and formally

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dedicated to a sacred space. Now Saint Peter's it is

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the largest Catholic church in the world. And this surprised me. Started, well,

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what's the largest church in the world, it's actually being built,

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you have any idea where it would possibly be.

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I think it's weird. But I always feel like the

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biggest thing that in the world that's being built right

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now is kind of being built over in China like

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that they just opened up. But I bet you I'm

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wrong on that this one.

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No, I don't think anybody would get if they didn't

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know Nigeria who they're building an evangelical church that's like

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one hundred and fifty times or one hundred and fifty

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thousand feet bigger than Saint Peter's Basilica.

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Now, back in the day, every city in town they

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had their own zip code. Yeah, you just made it

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up whatever you want. And you said, Okay, we're going

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by mountain or well it's ten o'clock here, Well it's

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nine o'clock there. Well we don't care, we're going by

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ten o'clock whatever. When eighteen eighty three, the United States

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and Canada they were they had to do something, it

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was just a mess for railroads. You know, there's no

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standard time zone. How are you gonna be able to

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do that? So they decided that they were going to

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have four time zones, the Atlantic, the Central, the Mountain

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and Pacific and that's it, just those four time zones.

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So they replaced over a hundred different time zones across

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the country. Well, the rest of the world out saw

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that thought, you know what that is really cool. Wellin months,

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the rest of the world they had standard time zones. Now,

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what it does starts at the prime Meridian. It goes

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through Greenwich, England. So when you hear which meantime, that's

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where it starting. And the reason it starts there is

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because the primary radio it's at zero on the longitude scale.

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So then you just work from there twenty four times

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around and you got it. Nineteen o two in Brooklyn,

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New York, Morris Mitchton. You named the stuff bears that

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he was selling, Teddy Bears. Yep, name him after President

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Theodore Roosevelt.

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Amazing it back in the back in the day. Cool. Okay,

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let's uh, let's let's fast forward to nineteen sixteen. A

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British general Douglas Haig finally called off the Battle of

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Somme in France. Now, this is a battle that had

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been raging since July first, so July first and November twelfth,

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and it was the classic trench warfare of World War

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One and maybe the worst of it. The front Light

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had only just five miles in that entire whole time,

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and it's one of the bloodiest battles in history, and

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it's between England, France and Germany. Over one million, one

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hundred and twenty thousand men were killed or wounded. This

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is like the height of a mechanized warfare, insanity and

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sending young men into the meat grinder. And finally Haig

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realized how stupid the fight was and then put a

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stop to it. And you know, my own editorial would

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be like a little late, but thank god he did. Yeah.

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So let's fast forward to nineteen sixty one, and this

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also was an interesting moment in history, especially for our country.

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US President John Kennedy sent eighteen thousand military advisors to

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South Vietnam. So this was sort of the beginning of

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the beginning of the Vietnam experience and Vietnam War for

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the US and unfortunately it did not turn out well

467
00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:55.200
for anybody involved. So that was the start and went

468
00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:59.480
through what the I think Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations

469
00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:05.640
so cool. On a happier note, the nineteen sixty three,

470
00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:10.119
the first Touchtowne Telephones went into service started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

471
00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:12.559
and if a customer wanted a touch tone phone instead

472
00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:15.680
of a rotary dial phone, it cost an extra dollar

473
00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.039
fifty a month, which is probably a lot more in

474
00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.480
today's dollars. If you don't know, you could not buy

475
00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:24.200
your own phone for your home until nineteen eighty three.

476
00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:26.880
You had to run a phone from your local telephone company.

477
00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:31.519
And I remember those days well. I remember rotary phone

478
00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:34.000
and that the sound of it, you know, dialing that,

479
00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:37.920
and I thought it was pretty cool when we did

480
00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.440
get a touch tone phone. So good job us for

481
00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:47.599
Humanity for creating the touchtne phone. All right, Moving along

482
00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.480
nineteen seventy eight, Boy, Jeff, you gave me some really

483
00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:56.680
im ones. The ones I know you got, the cool

484
00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.640
ones I've got, like, okay, the Jones to come. Massacre

485
00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:04.000
took place in Guyana. It's on the northeast coast of

486
00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.400
South America. And this was a huge deal at the time.

487
00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:11.119
And you know that phrase drinking the kool aid has

488
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.599
been the longest kind of survivor of that episode is that,

489
00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:18.559
you know. It was a religious cult named the People's Temple,

490
00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:20.440
which was led by Jim Jones, who was this very

491
00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:24.559
charismatic person out of I believe it was San Francisco.

492
00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:26.799
Almost all of them were for the United States. They

493
00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:28.880
fled to Guyana to flee the United States government that

494
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:31.960
wanted to shut them down for being well nuts. Jones

495
00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:34.119
ordered all the members to commit suicide by drinking a

496
00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:37.920
great drink laced with sign it basically kool aid. Nine

497
00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.240
hundred and eighteen people, including Jones, died, and those who

498
00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:43.759
didn't drink were shot and killed. So this is a

499
00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:46.880
really crazy cult and this is where the phrase drinking

500
00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:52.519
the kool aid came from. So just one footnote on this.

501
00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:56.559
If you've ever watched The Studio, the show on I

502
00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:58.839
believe it's Apple TV called The Studio, they did a

503
00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:01.680
little send up on this in a weird way. Is

504
00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:04.960
that Seth Rogan's character, who's a new studio head, has

505
00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:07.799
been given the ultimatum to do a kool Aid movie

506
00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.599
and then happens to bump into Martin Scorsese who wants

507
00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:15.200
to do a movie about Jonestown, and he thinks this

508
00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.039
is like the best thing, And then of course the

509
00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:20.480
studio and everybody is not happy that that would be

510
00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:23.799
the cool Aid movie they would make, so and now you.

511
00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:26.839
Know why that's a neat though, what's that? So that's

512
00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:27.960
kind of a neat concept.

513
00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.000
Yeah, it was pretty funny because basically he ended up

514
00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:34.279
killing Scorsese's movie, and it's literally Martin Scorsese in the

515
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:38.160
in the show, and so they basically send up everybody.

516
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.480
So it was a pretty funny episode, seeing you know funny.

517
00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:44.519
Nineteen eighty five, the greatest comic strip of all time

518
00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:50.559
debuted Calvin and Hobbes, created by Bill Waterston Waterson, about

519
00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:52.799
a six year old boy, Calvin and his best friend

520
00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.119
and Steff Tiger Hobbes, who comes to life and if

521
00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:58.440
you want to win a bet, Calvin's last name was

522
00:26:58.519 --> 00:27:03.039
Jacobson and Alvin and Hobbes has been. It has stood

523
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:05.440
the test of time because I introduced my kiddo to

524
00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:09.359
it about when they were younger, and we have like

525
00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:12.279
we still quote it and we've had moments where we

526
00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:15.400
were laughing so hard we were crying. So if you

527
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.599
haven't read Calvin Hobbs, go read it. If you have

528
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.519
read Calvin and Hobbs in the past, go back to

529
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:22.400
it and relive some great memories.

530
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.880
Yeah, that was definitely my favorite. I mean I remember

531
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:28.759
sitting in college and reading on the school newspaper during class.

532
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:30.880
I've read Calvin and Hobbs instead listen to the professor.

533
00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:33.920
Oh yeah, way more entertaining, Way more entertaining.

534
00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:36.799
Okay, so we know what ADHD is now, and we

535
00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:39.920
think WHOA might have it, and we know that drugs

536
00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:41.440
might be but there is a way to deal with that.

537
00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:44.000
You need a good coach, like stay here. So how

538
00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:46.440
do you? How do you what is your process? I

539
00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:48.480
mean you don't have to go into great detail, but

540
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:50.599
if I came to you and I said, yeah, I

541
00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:53.319
have it, and you know, now help me, I guess

542
00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.240
basically it just helped me live with it, right, Yeah, I.

543
00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:58.759
Mean, you know, my specialty is working with entrepreneurs, but

544
00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:03.160
some of the things I the techniques I teach work

545
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.079
for all folks. And what I've found that because ADHD

546
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.400
brains have a really tough challenge with time, that basically

547
00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:14.720
narrowing things down to a weekly cadence having a system

548
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.440
to navigate your weeks is kind of the best container

549
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:20.559
for progress. Because the thing about ADHD brains is they're

550
00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:23.799
only motivated into action by really two things, and that

551
00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:28.480
is intense interests and urgent consequences, and in between there's

552
00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:30.480
this kind of dopamine desert that we have to navigate,

553
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.440
and that's where like steady progress happens. And so if

554
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.319
we can actually do that, we can actually make progress

555
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.359
when there isn't an urgent deadline, then our life is

556
00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:41.400
going to be a lot less stressful, a lot more free,

557
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.400
and a lot more fulfilling. And so what I've developed

558
00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:48.680
is something called a weekly operating System or weekly OS

559
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:52.920
that helps you figure out what's important for the week,

560
00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:55.680
how to make progress, and then how to make your

561
00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:58.200
brain exactly where it is so that you end the

562
00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:02.319
week feeling like proud of your progress and able to

563
00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:05.960
be free and enjoy your life in the weekend. So

564
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:10.839
that is the heart of what I teach. And it's

565
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:14.599
a really fun program and it's about takes about three weeks.

566
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.079
And yeah, you want to find out more. Steve august

567
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.039
Coaching dot com is a place you can find out

568
00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:20.440
about it.

569
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.720
Well, I'm assuming in a type a personality probably doesn't

570
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:27.000
have ADAHD. That's probably pretty basic, right, I mean.

571
00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:31.799
No, I mean it really is independent of personality type.

572
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:36.200
It's really uh, you know, there's there are a a style,

573
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:39.640
ADHD brains, you know, a type personality, AHD brains, and

574
00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:46.359
everything in between. So it's it's really about click. It's

575
00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:48.799
really about the ability to make good on the things

576
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:51.039
that you've created and you want to do, or the

577
00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:52.880
things that wait, how you want to show up in life.

578
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:56.240
And you know, a type personality sometimes have that drive

579
00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:58.640
that really pushes them, but they're still dealing with with

580
00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:03.519
all with the issues around focus and clarity and often

581
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:09.160
overwhelmed because ADHD brains also have a way of making

582
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:12.160
everything seem equally important and equally urgent all at the

583
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:16.720
same time, and so even a type personalities can can

584
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:18.799
have to navigate that.

585
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:21.519
So do people with ADHD Are they kind of driven

586
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:23.599
to be like entrepreneurs and creative people?

587
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:27.519
Then they're often driven to be creative people. They're not

588
00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:30.519
always driven to be entrepreneurs. But what makes them often

589
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:35.480
want to go into entrepreneurship is that is that doing

590
00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:37.960
the same thing over and over in a very structured

591
00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:41.119
environment can be very challenging for an ADHD brain because

592
00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:43.440
once something isn't interesting anymore, it's really hard for them

593
00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:46.200
to ANHD brain to be motivated to keep doing it,

594
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:49.880
and so often an HD brain will will work in

595
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.079
if they work in a job and really like it. It

596
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:55.079
might be like a startup or a very dynamic job,

597
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.400
or something that's moving from like crisis to crisis and

598
00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.759
you're always putting out fires, and ADHD brains will will

599
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:04.200
sometimes often thrive in that. But often people will say, Okay,

600
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.279
I have something I've created. I have all these amazing ideas,

601
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:10.240
and I can't do them in my current structured job.

602
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:12.160
And a lot of the folks in our accelerator are

603
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:14.920
people who are excited about something they want to create.

604
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.160
They're working a current job and are making in the

605
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.079
process of making the leap, and the thing that's been

606
00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:22.240
in their way is their ability to actually make consistent

607
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.559
progress each week in order to make good on that

608
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:27.960
idea that they have. And so a lot of us,

609
00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:31.440
a lot of folks in the the ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator

610
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:35.079
program are launching new businesses and creating new things. And

611
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:37.519
it's a beautiful thing to see.

612
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:39.759
Yeah, I can see that definitely, because you're sitting there

613
00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:42.640
and you're okay, yeah, this great idea. But then getting

614
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.680
from the idea to actually actually doing it, that's kind

615
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:46.039
of hard.

616
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:50.480
Yeah, And that's that becomes the real sticking point, right,

617
00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:54.599
is not the coming up with the ideas, but just

618
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:58.240
making good on the brilliance. And that takes kind of

619
00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:01.000
consistently showing up and being able to show up even

620
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:03.720
when the interest fades a little bit and you have

621
00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:06.400
to get through the stuff that's a little harder and

622
00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:09.119
it can be also challenging if you're doing it on

623
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:12.200
your own, that you create all your own deadlines. And

624
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:17.079
so what we do in the ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator is

625
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:19.200
help people with that so they can make the progress,

626
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:24.200
so they don't squander their their brilliant and they're able

627
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.640
to like, for example, we have one person who always

628
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:31.400
wanted it to a couple ideas around travel, and one

629
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:32.880
of the things she wanted to do was a kind

630
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:35.640
of travel journal that really helped people capture their their

631
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.599
memories in a really interesting way. But she was never

632
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:40.400
able to like, like make it happen. You know, she

633
00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.920
had her day job and she was kind of struggling

634
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:44.359
just to get things done in the day job. And

635
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.759
then as she started to get able to consistently deliver

636
00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:49.400
the things in her day job, she at started making

637
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.400
amazing progress with this journal idea she had and she

638
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.079
finally has one in her hand and is getting ready

639
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.359
to go out and sell it. So really exciting things happen.

640
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:01.200
Oh that's really cool, all right, less. She was born

641
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:08.680
on November the eighteenth. Joke joke, joked joke, show dish

642
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:11.240
shibt day. He left this.

643
00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:14.759
Shiverday, we got simple car. She was like this shibirth day,

644
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.400
and you know you don't give day.

645
00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:20.440
Do you remember the original vacation movie where chevy Chase

646
00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:22.640
takes his family in the Waly World? Do I ever

647
00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:26.759
classic remember they had to give a ride to aunt Edna. Yeah,

648
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:28.839
but she was played by I'm a Gene Coca.

649
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:29.160
Now.

650
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:31.359
She was born in Philadelphia in nineteen oh eight. Start

651
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:33.880
acting in nineteen twenty five. She stayed pretty busy acting

652
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:36.319
your entire life. She was nominated for a Tony and

653
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:38.720
she was when she was eighty years old. She was

654
00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:41.000
actually nominated for her sixth Emmy. Yeah, it was for

655
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.119
an episode of Moonlighting. All right.

656
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:43.599
Yeah.

657
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:46.039
Her first husband died after twenty years of marriage. Her

658
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:48.359
second husband died after twenty seven years of marriage. I'm

659
00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.480
a Jene. She died from natural causes in two thousand

660
00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:52.039
and one. At ninety two years old.

661
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.359
Wow, good eatings and a lot of laughs along the way. True.

662
00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:57.759
I mean, nobody could have played that part any better

663
00:33:57.799 --> 00:33:58.240
than she did.

664
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:00.319
No, and she goes way back. I think she was

665
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.799
part of Sid Caesar's cast, right, I think in the

666
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:04.000
mad Man shows.

667
00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.319
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, asked not Alan Shepherd. He

668
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.440
was born in Darry, New Hampshire in nineteen twenty three.

669
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:11.880
Now he was the second person in First America to

670
00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:14.679
go into space. Ten years later, in nineteen seventy one,

671
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:16.719
he was a fifth person to walk on the Moon.

672
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:19.639
Now he's the astronaut that hit the golf balls up there. Now,

673
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:21.079
he got in a little bit of trouble for that. See,

674
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:23.199
he had to sneak the six iron head on there

675
00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:25.440
and a couple of golf balls onto the space ships. Yeah,

676
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:28.119
that was in no, no, no. But what he did

677
00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:30.159
when he got up there, he attached that six iron

678
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.880
head to a dirt sample shovels of coop pandle And

679
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:34.360
then when he went out and hit the golf balls.

680
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:36.920
Now you think they would just fly like crazy, but

681
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.559
he says, because of that big old bulky space suit

682
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:41.760
and the hardest part of those big old gloves. His

683
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:44.400
first shot only went twenty four yards and his next

684
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:46.679
shot only went forty five yards. So I don't know.

685
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:49.360
I think he just might have sucked at golf. Now,

686
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.199
Alan he married nineteen forty five and they had three daughters.

687
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:54.639
He died from Leikemi in nineteen ninety eight, a seventy

688
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:55.280
four years old.

689
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:14.760
Hi there, hold there, you're as welcome there, all right,

690
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:18.920
Well that's a little bit of a giveaway. Today is

691
00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:23.280
also Mickey Mouse Day. It's Mickey's ninety seventh birthday. In

692
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:27.280
nineteen twenty eight, the first Mickey Mouse short film was released,

693
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.920
the classic Steamboat Willie. Originally, Mickey was supposed to be

694
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:34.840
Mortimer Mouse. Walt Disney's wife, however, insisted it be Mickey,

695
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.760
which proved to be a very good call by her.

696
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:40.880
Mickey was the first cartoon character to get a star

697
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:43.400
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And the reason Mickey

698
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.559
wears white gloves this is really interesting, is so that

699
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:48.679
you can see his hands, because without them, they would

700
00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:50.800
just bleed into the rest of the body and you

701
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.719
wouldn't see what his hands were doing. So Mickey's full

702
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:58.239
name Michael Theodora Mouse and Mickey and Minnie. Interesting enough,

703
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:01.360
were never married, but in a ironic twist of faith,

704
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:05.440
the actress who voiced them, Wayne Allred Mickey and Russi

705
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:09.639
Taylor Minnie and did marry in real life. Okay, moving along.

706
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.039
Actress Linda Evans is eighty three born in Hartford, Connecticut,

707
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in nineteen forty two. Most known for TV. She first

708
00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:20.760
got known on The Big Valley and then she hit

709
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.599
it huge on Dynasty. Her first time husband was director

710
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:27.159
John Derek, and after six years of marriage, he left

711
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.800
her for a seventeen year old and looked alike essentially

712
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.360
bo Derek and Linda married a second husband for four years,

713
00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:40.039
and then she dated Yannie for ten years and low key. Definitely,

714
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:44.079
she was my definite crush on Dynasty. Some people were

715
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:48.360
more Joan Collins crushes, but I was definitely Linda Evans crush.

716
00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:49.400
I would have gone Linda.

717
00:36:49.800 --> 00:37:16.119
Yeah, all right, we've got John Parr was born in

718
00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:19.239
works Stop, England. I hope I'm saying that right, nineteen

719
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:21.920
fifty two, seventy three years old now, and grew up

720
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:24.079
in Sherwood Forest in England. Yeah, it's a real town.

721
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:28.760
Some of John's hits Naughty, Naughty, Magical, and Saint Elmo's Fire,

722
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:30.599
which is I think he's probably what he's best known

723
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:33.639
for and blame it on the radio. He has two sons.

724
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:38.039
One is a big soap opera start in England, so great.

725
00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:40.760
Good for his son to make it inhow biz.

726
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:44.159
Yeah. Actor comedian Kevin Neil and he's seventy two. He

727
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.440
is born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen fifty three.

728
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.320
Started out as a stand up community. Well he still lives. Yeah,

729
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:50.840
he's actually on tour right now. He was just in

730
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.440
Denver here last Friday and Saturday Night. He's got shows

731
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:54.960
all the ways scheduled up to April. If you want

732
00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:57.159
to check Kevin out on stage, He's on Saturday Night

733
00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.199
Live from nineteen eighty six to ninety five. Then that

734
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.360
on TV. He was on Weeds for seven years now.

735
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.440
He's been in pretty much every Adam Sandler movie. But

736
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:07.320
I guess he did Daddy Daycare without Adam. Kerevin. He

737
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:09.280
married his second wife in two thousand and five and

738
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:33.320
they have a son. And she is sixty five year

739
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:35.719
old Kim Wilde. Now she's still tours in Europe. She's

740
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.519
really big over there now. She was born in Chris Wick,

741
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:41.480
England in nineteen sixty Now in England, Kim, she was

742
00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:43.760
the most charted female singer of the nineteen eighties.

743
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:47.360
That surprised you, Yeah, it kind of does, because there's

744
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:49.039
a lot of big female singers in the eighties.

745
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.360
And that song I played Kids in America went to

746
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:55.159
number two over there. In Britain, yeah, United States got

747
00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:56.000
to number twenty five.

748
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.800
Yeah, I guess she was a big deal in the UK.

749
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:04.440
She out said, you came, say you really want me

750
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.119
our biggest dead wise you keep me hanging on. That

751
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.039
went to number one over here, Kim. She was married

752
00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:12.199
for twenty five years and they divorced and she has

753
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:16.000
a son and a daughter. She still looks pretty good actually, yeah, amazing.

754
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:18.719
Actor Owen Wilson. He was born in Dallas, Texas in

755
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:22.719
nineteen sixty eighties. Fifty seven. Younger brother is actor Luke Wilson.

756
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:24.880
Now only he's made over seventy movies. Some of the

757
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:29.039
big ones are Armageddon, the Zoolander movies, Behind Enemy Lines,

758
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:32.039
Wedding Crashers, the Fucker movies. Now he has done a

759
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:34.400
lot of writing. Yeah. He was actually nominated for an

760
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.719
Oscar for the screenplay for the Royal tenembumps. So I

761
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:39.599
can't vic see him as a writer, but he's done

762
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:40.119
a lot of it.

763
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:43.880
Yeah, apparently has a huge reputation as somebody who can

764
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:46.119
really really write. I think in the Wedding Crashers, just

765
00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:49.039
that line that you know, he said, there's a study

766
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:50.840
that we only use a small percentage of our brains,

767
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.159
but really, I think we only use a small percentage

768
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:55.440
of our hearts. And apparently that was one he came

769
00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:55.840
up with.

770
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:57.320
Got some doubt then, didn't he?

771
00:39:57.519 --> 00:39:58.039
Yeah, he does.

772
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:01.239
If you're wondered about his nose, he twice. He broke

773
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:03.480
it once in high school in a fight, and then

774
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:05.880
he broke it once in college playing flag football. But

775
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.480
he said that that's how he meant. So he's not

776
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:09.960
going to change it. It's made a lot of money.

777
00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:12.559
Why would he? Yeah, Now he has two sons and

778
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:16.199
one daughter, all from three ex girlfriends. Really cab, you.

779
00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:21.199
See why Lussy.

780
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And Sion Black Cabin.

781
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:37.000
Don't go liet lag. Yeah, all right, that's Duncan Chic

782
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:40.599
bring me a flashback from the nineties with that song.

783
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:43.679
He's fifty six born in Montclair, New Jersey, nineteen sixty nine.

784
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.719
When he was going to Brown University Ivy League boy.

785
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:49.199
He played a guitar, played guitar in a band who

786
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.280
singer was Lisa Lope. They went their separate ways after college,

787
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:55.599
both finding some great success. Some Duncan hits like barely Breathing,

788
00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.360
we just heard Reason for Living and wish We'll thinking

789
00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:00.960
on a high. He can a lot of music for

790
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:04.559
movies in Broadway now and he's won two Tony's and

791
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.440
Duncan and his girlfriend have a daughter.

792
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.039
Okay, now that so, what do you think the most

793
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:12.840
important thing is for people who even suspect that they

794
00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:16.679
you know, m bas D eighty eighth D. What do

795
00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:18.079
you think the first step should be?

796
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:21.360
Yeah? I think if you suspect it, then I would

797
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:24.079
take the step of like seeing if you can get

798
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:27.360
a diagnosis, you could start. There are some organizations online

799
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:32.159
that have some you know, online assessments, but yeah, talk

800
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:36.480
to your doctor because you know, whether you decide to

801
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:42.840
treat it or with medications or or not. Understanding how

802
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:47.679
your brain really works is so helpful for understanding you

803
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.280
know your own behavior patterns and for making your way

804
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:52.840
through life and to do it with to do it.

805
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.840
The better we understand ourselves, the better, we can make

806
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:59.519
our lives. It is my philosophy. So my invitation to

807
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.159
anybody who feels is says, yeah, you know, what you're

808
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:05.440
talking about kind of resembles what I experience. I would

809
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:10.159
take that step and get curious and take a step

810
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:11.079
towards diagnosis.

811
00:42:11.320 --> 00:42:14.079
How do I know? You can't ask this? I'm just

812
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:16.199
kind of thrown it out there. How proficient Do you

813
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:18.840
think though, that your regular doctor would be into helping

814
00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:20.920
you with ADHD or do you think they just have

815
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:21.639
to push you off?

816
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.960
Well, so there's there's different levels of assessment so they

817
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:27.559
can at least administer the it's an assessment. It's usually

818
00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:34.400
a questionnaire. The there's like two questionnaires. There's like a

819
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.360
six question questionnaire and then there's an eighteen question one

820
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:41.880
and they can they can probably at least get you

821
00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:43.840
started with that or point you to where you can

822
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:47.400
get started with that, and then if that shows like yeah,

823
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:49.559
you might be done with ADHD here, then there's there's

824
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:52.079
bigger assessments that you can do if you decide to

825
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:54.320
do it, but they can at least get you started.

826
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:56.920
And if you want to take the assessment on your website,

827
00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:58.960
you at the quiz people can actually come take that.

828
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:02.159
Yeah. Yeah, that'll give you some direction.

829
00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:04.920
As well, and you get an answer like immediately. We

830
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.400
not even have to wait a week or anything for sure, Okay.

831
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:10.360
And so make sure it's going to be in today's

832
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.559
show notes and they'll get you into your website and

833
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:14.519
it shows you a lot of interesting things about coaching

834
00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:15.079
and stuff too.

835
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:18.679
Yeah, check it out. We've got that. We've got a

836
00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:22.800
weekly dashboard template that you can use. And yeah, and

837
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:26.079
you can also check out my podcast ADHD Entrepreneur Accelerator.

838
00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:32.039
You can find it on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, all the places.

839
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:33.599
Okay, and that link will be on there too, So

840
00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:36.000
you have no excuse not to hit up Steve and

841
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:39.360
learn all about your ADHD. All right here quote today

842
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:41.440
comes on the twenty first President of the United States,

843
00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:43.880
Chester A. Arthur. He died to day in eighteen eighty

844
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:47.000
six at fifty seven years old. Many men have died

845
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:50.239
so that the fabric of a free institution remains unshaken.

846
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:51.159
And do you get that.

847
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:53.840
Yeah, that's a good one.

848
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:56.280
All right, Thank you, Thank you Steve for benninger Man.

849
00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:57.679
It's been a really good time talking to you.

850
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.119
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. Jeff, I love taking this

851
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:01.960
trip down through a history link.

852
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:04.360
All right, and all you follow us. It makes it

853
00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:06.440
easier to follow and see the show to the description.

854
00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:08.760
That's where you have the links already catching on the

855
00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:11.960
Steve stuff and our stuff too, our country underground radio

856
00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:15.079
artist today. It comes from Leah out in Phoenix. So

857
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.239
she wants to hear but forward songs. I'll never know

858
00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:19.400
if I don't ask you. Guys, have an awesome day

859
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:20.199
and we'll talk tomorrow.

860
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.920
Girl, where'd you get bad accent? Are you from Tennessee?

861
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.639
And did you come here by yourself? Are you with somebody?

862
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:41.960
What's your name? What you're drinking? In that line? Can

863
00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:43.719
I buy you the next one?

864
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:44.840
Mind?

865
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:50.320
If I sit down? Wanna move with the music? Ain't so?

866
00:44:55.199 --> 00:45:03.960
I'm bout wi the b am I moving to face.

867
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:06.400
I'll never know.

868
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:12.800
If I know I've got it.

869
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.960
I get full of questions. Are you looking for love,

870
00:45:18.559 --> 00:45:22.199
looking for a friend, or just trying to catch a bus?

871
00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:27.360
Do you read it? I can boys? Now do you

872
00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:28.519
wander ta?

873
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:32.320
I don't never know.

874
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:40.719
If I know. Man, Now, where'd you get that necklace?

875
00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:46.599
So that's say forever? Where's he at? Now? Oh? How

876
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:52.960
long were you together. Wow, that's a long time. Do

877
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:54.480
you miss what you had?

878
00:45:59.400 --> 00:45:59.559
Get?

879
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:03.119
Your Ma gives you that grand a nose from here?

880
00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:06.280
That all you that happy and over?

881
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:12.679
Did you buy me that beer here? So thanks girl?

882
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:15.840
I should have done that.

883
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:23.559
Well. P J mus that I have all.

884
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:26.239
You never know if I told him about