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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Breaking Free From The Comparison Trap
Have you ever caught yourself scrolling through social media and suddenly feeling inadequate? Or glanced sideways at a colleague's success while trying to stay in your lane? The comparison trap has a sneaky way of creeping into our lives, stealing our joy and zapping our confidence in milliseconds.
In this deeply relatable conversation, we unpack the various ways comparison manifests in our lives – from coveting the seemingly perfect lives of social media influencers to measuring ourselves against colleagues' successes and even comparing our current selves to who we once were. We explore how comparison operates on multiple levels and why it can feel so difficult to escape its clutches.
The discussion takes an honest turn as we share personal struggles with comparison and the self-doubt that follows. We examine how social media creates unrealistic benchmarks for success and happiness, showcasing curated versions of reality that nobody – not even the influencers themselves – can actually maintain. But this isn't just about identifying the problem; we offer practical strategies to break free: unfollowing accounts that trigger negative feelings, focusing on your unique journey, practicing gratitude, and celebrating others' successes without feeling diminished.
Perhaps most powerfully, we discuss the importance of extending grace to ourselves. As one host notes, "The comparison trap is the opposite of grace." Learning to accept where we are right now doesn't mean giving up on growth – it means acknowledging our humanity and treating ourselves with the compassion we'd easily offer others.
Ready to break free from the comparison trap? Listen now, and remember this powerful affirmation: "My worth isn't up for comparison. My story is mine alone." Subscribe, share your experiences with comparison, and let us know what topics you'd like us to explore in future episodes!
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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Speaker 2:I don't need a and good evening and welcome to another episode of three cocktails in make an appearance yeah, we do have three.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's my cocktail.
Speaker 4:Oh oh, she just wanted to make a cocktail.
Speaker 2:Oh, she just wants to make a dramatic entrance, yeah evidently, evidently, yeah, cheers.
Speaker 4:Cheers, sisters and misters, if there are some listening, and we know there are.
Speaker 2:There are Sisters and misters. I love it. Good evening everyone, welcome. This is Three Cocktails In. You've got Amy Stacey and myself. We get together once a week and have these chats, and so two years ago we decided to turn it into a podcast and we're having a blast. So we cover lots of different topics and I just want to put this in here right at the beginning we do want your input and your suggestions, so if you have ideas for future episodes, please send them our way.
Speaker 4:Please do.
Speaker 2:Write them. Please do so today, ladies. We are talking about a topic called the comparison trap.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And this is different from imposter syndrome, and I don't think we've ever really talked, have we talked about the imposter syndrome. I don't think we've ever really talked, have we talked about the imposter syndrome?
Speaker 3:I don't think, really, not really. We'll write that down as an episode, yeah.
Speaker 2:We're going to dive into this topic that really probably everybody deals with. Everybody probably wrestles with it at some point. Whether you're scrolling your social media, you're maybe watching someone else's success, kind of glancing sideways when you're trying to stay in your own lane it's it. The comparison trap has a sneaky way of creeping in. And let's, let's be real, it's. It can steal joy, right? Yes, absolutely. Just suck it right out of you and it can. It can zap your confidence in a, in a millisecond. It can zap your confidence, um, and and your peace. So kind of the big question is well, what is it, what? What does that mean to you guys? Let's maybe, Maybe we'll start there. We're going to talk about what does that mean? Why do we do it? What does it cost us and, most importantly, how do we break it? How do we break out of it? How do we push it away? Because we need to? So what does it mean to you guys?
Speaker 4:to. So what does that mean to you guys? I guess I look at. When we started talking about this as a topic, my mind kind of went in three different directions, which is not unusual. You know the whole focus thing Comparison with online media, media via online media, whether it's influencers or celebrities or um people that I'm nearly acquaintances with. So that's one. The the other was, um, comparing my life now to my life as it was. So comparisons in my own life against myself. And then I also thought a little bit about work and the comparison, especially because I'm in sales. We've talked about this. You know we get, every time somebody sells a home, they send out the board of who sold what, and it's great because I had got a lot of people that cheer you on. But at the same time, it can be very frustrating to see.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So you know, to me that's a short term comparison. So there's long term comparisons, there's personal comparisons, there's I mean, it's everywhere yeah, yeah, yep, it is, it is, it is everywhere.
Speaker 2:And so I think it is good that I'm glad that we're talking about it, because even if we can, just if this episode for somebody helps them recognize the fact that they they're doing it oh yeah, right that that that could be just huge and being able to identify it. And then, of course, we have to figure out ways to, you know, squash it, but at least identifying the fact that, oh, that's what's happening. That's why I feel like shit when I pull up social media and I look at so-and-so and so-and-so and these people who I don't even know I don't even know them and we all know that what we see on social media isn't necessarily real life but anyway, being able to address it and acknowledge it and push it away, what about?
Speaker 4:okay, we'll get to that. Maybe Do you find yourself comparing to people that you don't even know, that are on social media.
Speaker 2:I don't. I can answer. So here's one area where I do, and Bill hears this from me all the time. So, and maybe the biggest mistake, is that I follow these influencers who are in their mid-30s. So they're all having babies and they're printing money. So let's just recognize the fact that these people are living with different means than we did when we were in our 30s, having babies. So everything is gigantic. You know, they're grandiose, everything is grandiose. They're building these multi-million dollar homes they're having. You know, just everything is grandiose, everything, everything. And what I find myself doing is feeling like you know what I hear. These are the exact words that pop into my head. I could have been fabulous then too.
Speaker 4:You're fabulous now, sister. You are fabulous now.
Speaker 3:And you were fabulous then.
Speaker 2:Well, just different, different, right. I mean I look back and I'll go and look at pictures and I'll be like what the hell was I wearing? What? I mean, I don't know. We didn't, we didn't have the, the fashion then that we have now, and I know, I know that time does that. I mean fashions of the forties were different than the fifties, but you guys know what I mean here by this right.
Speaker 4:I get it. I have to say that you could not pay me to live that life. I don't find that to be a comparison that I'm interested in at all. I think back to when, if we were to go back during that time, raising kids being this great, I couldn't keep my little house clean. I couldn't keep my little house clean. I couldn't keep. I. I struggled on a day-to-day basis to keep my shit together. I am so thankful, I am routinely thankful that there was no social, because I now I realize, 30 years later, I think I had a lot of anxiety issues and if I would have had to compare myself then or live that sort of life, I would have been a complete and total basket case, even more than I was. Yeah, I think that those again, I think that a lot of that is for show. I don't know how you live that life.
Speaker 3:I don't know Beyond filming the time it would take the pressure to keep it up. You know all those things I don't know how. I don't know how they do it. They have to have more help than we think do it. They have to have more help than we think. I'm guessing women of that age now seeing it. That's a lot to try to live up to.
Speaker 1:You know what?
Speaker 3:I mean Kids of that age.
Speaker 4:I look at the women who are going in to have a baby and they're getting their hair and makeup done. I'm like are you kidding me, Do you not? Realize you're going to sweat that off in about six seconds when it really gets into it, you know. So I feel bad that you find that that is a comparison point. Yeah, that you find that that is a comparison point. Yeah Well um, yeah, does it make you feel bad? Um, does it just irritate?
Speaker 2:you, it's, it's. I find it to be mildly irritating. It doesn't make me feel bad. I mean Okay, good. No, I don't feel bad about myself because I also. I also say that there really isn't any time period in my life that I would like to go back and live over again.
Speaker 2:Because I do love, I do love, love, love this stage of life that we're in. Yes, so many reasons why, and I think we all agree, we all agree on that. So I mean, sure, there's probably there's a little bit of jealousy in there, for sure, which I think is probably normal, but because, because social media is there, it's just so in our face, and I mean that takes discipline. I mean I really do, especially now that I'm working at home and so much of my, so much of my work is, I might, I mean my phone is in my hand or my tablet is in my hand pretty much all day. If I'm not doing a show, I'm, you know, I'm working in the app or on the website or whatever. So I really have to discipline myself to not click on Instagram, to not click on Facebook and just don't, just don't go in there.
Speaker 4:Okay. So part of this conversation is what can we do about it? To push it aside, I'm going to offer up the idea unfollow those influencers, yeah. If it, no, if it is not serving your purpose, unfollow them. Yeah, I can understand. Follow, like in your particular case, following people that are in the similar business as you, that are you know that you can look at as mentors or or as how to you know to learn from that. You're in the same stage, yeah, as them, but you're not having babies, you're, you know. I mean if and if it is a bother, I mean you can always go back to them, but that's something that we can choose to do all of us.
Speaker 4:If it is a bothersome thing to you, unfollow them. I mean, that's not just you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my research on this topic. Of course, I went to AI and asked the question you know, how do you, how do you mentally not compare yourself to others? You know, give me some tips. So number one was recognize that everyone is on their own unique journey. So we're on a journey, they're on a journey totally different, right, you know? And? And, like you said, you know the little bit of jealousy part and you know we don't know what their life is really like. They show the good part, you know, on social media, and that's it.
Speaker 3:I think a big one would be focus on your strengths and accomplishments. You know what you know, we're doing what we're doing, and, well, we don't need to compare to anybody else. Yeah, um, practice the gratitude for what you have. That's probably a big one. And then the next one was limit your exposure to social media. So that's what you're saying. Um, you know, kitty, just you know. And, and again, we're all about social media, but, and like amy said, move away from the people that you know just seem too unreal, you know, unrealistic maybe.
Speaker 4:Yeah, or look at them with a little bit more critical eye, not not to say what they're doing wrong, but, um, what are some of the techniques that they're using? What's the music that they're using, so that you can at least garner something good, learn something from what they're showing? So it isn't necessarily about their lifestyle, but it's more about how have they been able to profit? Eyes, prop, prop. What's the word? Monetize?
Speaker 3:Monetize.
Speaker 4:There we go. That was a George Bush Profitize.
Speaker 1:Profitize.
Speaker 4:Monetize Um that lifestyle into current social media.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, learn instead of compare. That's a good one, that's good. Yeah, yeah. Next one um, celebrate other successes without feeling inadequate. So, amy, your example from work yes, you get to celebrate what everybody else is doing and then you think, oh shoot, you know I'm not, I'm not meeting this goal fast enough for myself, and that that is hard, you know. Know that is hard to do to see somebody else being successful at whatever and not feeling down about you know how fast you're meeting goals.
Speaker 4:yeah, it's that I look at that as a short-term comparison. In our particular sales team, our vice president loves to say that everybody gets a chance to be flavor of the month, and it's pretty much true that over the course of a year or over the course of a few weeks, somebody gets on a roll and that momentum goes and you are the flavor of the week or the flavor of the month. You got everything cooking for you and you are the flavor of the week or the flavor of the month. You got everything cooking for you. And so to look at that little piece, that little week or a couple weeks that you're not where you wanna be, and to be able to recognize that I'm doing the work, I'm doing what needs to be done, my turn will come.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:Go ahead.
Speaker 4:I just going to say perspective, to step back from the emotion, because it's oftentimes it's that first gut thing is like why not me? Why am I not being able to do it? But then, to you know, sometimes I finally figured out how to turn the bell off that notifies me when I get work emails, because I was training myself like Pavlov's dog. I'd hear the bell and I'd immediately get an upset stomach. I'm like what the hell? Why am I doing this to myself? So I turned off the sound for the notifications.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's smart, you know what little things can we do. If it is, if we're unable to separate the emotion from the intellectual side of it.
Speaker 3:You know, yep. The next point was set realistic goals for yourself, and you know that would that to me would be more personal. You know set goals personally. You know you get. You get your work goals sometimes set for you or you have to agree to something, but set realistic goals for yourself. You know you're not going to be a millionaire in a year. You know what I mean. Your social media may not blow up. You know our podcast after a year and a half isn't going viral. Did we expect it to? You know? Did we set that goal?
Speaker 4:I don't know, you know did we put in the work to get it there?
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's, and there's a good one too. Exactly, I think this is the most important one. Remember that comparing yourself to others is often based on superficial appearances, and I would say that's the social media thing. You know, they're not showing the really crappy days. Some do. There are some influencers or just people on, you know, tiktok reels, whatever that are really showing this is, how bad this is today. You know kind of things that those are the ones I like the most, not just because I'm, you know, haha, you're, you know, really having a crappy day, but just that it's realistic.
Speaker 1:Authentic you identify with.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes, authentically showing what they're, what's going on? Yep, last one Seek support from friends, family or a therapist if needed. Where's Deanna? There you go.
Speaker 4:The free cocktail's in Therapist on call right um, yep, I think those were good.
Speaker 3:You know good things, to just remember. You know, I wouldn't say um, I compare myself to others and let it, you know, let, let it bother me much, but these are always good things. Just to remember, you know not everything on social media is 100% true accurate.
Speaker 2:Well, and this is another reason why our friendships are so important. I mean, hopefully you have friends that you're not comparing yourself to your friends and feeling bad about yourself, and hopefully your friend group they are the people who can you know. If you are having a tough day or a low self-esteem day or whatever, there are people that you can reach out to and they'll be your biggest cheerleader and they'll pump you up.
Speaker 2:And you know, and not everybody has that, which is unfortunate, but that's you know. As we're talking so much about friends and developing our friend network, that's a true friend.
Speaker 4:That takes a lot of vulnerability and I think a lot especially Gen Xers. We're very stoic, we I got it, I'm fine, I got it, I'm fine, I got it, I'm fine. So to be able to, if you are having that low day, if you are finding yourself comparing to somebody else, for you to call a friend and say I'm feeling just really awful today, or I'm having a bad day or I'm feeling blue, you've got to open yourself up to somebody. Yeah, and I think, whether that's a Midwest thing or whether it's our age thing or a woman thing or whatever, you have to be vulnerable about where you're at, and that requires trust, but it's one of those circle things.
Speaker 4:How do you gain trust if you're not? And that requires trust, but it's one of those circle things how do you gain trust if you're not authentically yourself? How do you ask for help? It you know chicken or the egg, it ultimately it doesn't matter. You you have to do it. Yeah, so that you can have those friends, and I think it's. I think it's hard with family. Do you find it's hard to get a good? I mean, are my sister supportive? I'm sure your sister Stacy?
Speaker 3:you've got brothers, I don't yeah, but I think it's harder with family than it is with friends. You know what I mean. I would tell you guys way more than I would ever probably tell my family.
Speaker 4:Because they've got a different idea of you. Yeah true, you know. There's such a history there. They remember when X Y Z happened. What are you complaining about? I remember when blah blah, blah, blah, you know yeah okay, I have. I have a question. So, in addition to comparing ourselves to others, do you ever compare yourself to where you're at now, to where you were? This is where I fall into it. This is my big problem right here.
Speaker 3:Okay, as in, it's worse than it used to be. See, that's the. That's the part I would. I know Kitty's going to say oh, this is so much better because she says it all the time. I would say the same thing my life today so much better than you know, even 10, 20, 30 years ago, so much better.
Speaker 4:I will say that I am a much happier person in general now than I was at various times, but I do find myself thinking um, my god, if only I would do xyz, I could look like, have energy like. You know, um, if I would have taken this job five years ago, I would have been where I'm at now. So I find that there is I don't know if it's comparison per se, but a lot of looking in the rearview mirror to see where I could have made changes. That would have made life better now, equally as helpful as comparing yourself to somebody on social media. You can't go back and change things now again. Identify and learn yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 3:Well, my thoughts on that are first change is hard and it probably takes us a lot longer than it should to adapt to the new yeah, no, I think, just to make the decision, to make the change, that takes a long time for me.
Speaker 3:I'm speaking for you, but that's probably part of it. And, just like you said, well, why didn't I do this five years ago, right? Two, I don't remember what. My second, you know, here's the day. Oh, second, are you, are we sure this isn't an aging thing, you know? Because sure, I would love to have my, you know, 30 year old body again, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm not going back that far.
Speaker 3:No, you're not going back that far. Well, I need to go back that far. Yeah, pre-medicine oh yeah, you know what I mean. Is it that that's you know? We just want to be younger, is that what you're thinking?
Speaker 4:No, it's not a younger thing, it's. How did I do? Yes, I'm sure it's aging. Our bodies are different, our metabolism is different, our everything is different than it was. But I keep going back to. Well, if I could just do X, y, z like I did six years ago, 10 years ago now, then I could, and I don't know that that's realistic either. I mean, do I beat myself up about it or do I love myself for where I'm at?
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 4:Adapt to where I'm at and try and move forward.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes and yes.
Speaker 4:I'm seeing some overlap again with the one thing that we've talked about from the very beginning, and that is expectations.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:Matching reality. You know what we expect, what we expected when we started the podcast, what we thought this age was going to be like, what the expectation was of quitting a full-time job, taking a new job, being a grandma having kids out of the house. The expectation is different than the reality and I think that that's very much true in the whole comparison thing again.
Speaker 3:Right, right, the whole comparison thing again right.
Speaker 4:So when I say something, I'm looking to you, two lovelies, to help me get over like still, I just snap out of it. You're anymore. Oh, is that what you want to be? Is 48? No, I'm just saying that that was a year. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like. It's like the saying about worry, worrying, worrying about tomorrow robs today of its joy. Yes, and so what you're doing by all of those things, if I, just if I just that's sapping the joy out of who you are and what you are and what you are doing right now, Now. So ask yourself the question, and you don't have to share it here. You can if you want to, but like what is it? Is there like, if you could pick one thing that you are always thinking about, if I? Just what would the sacrifice be to do that? Are you willing to do that? And if you're not, then stop beating yourself up about it.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Choice identification, choice expectations. These are overriding themes where we just really have to take control of our own life.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. One thing when I was you know like, maybe like six months before I knew I was going to quit my job um, I would. When I would be driving to work in the morning, one of my favorite things to do was dreaming about that day when I was ready to be done and let it go, and then what my day would look like. And I talk to myself like pretty much all the time so I would. It's good. I think it's a good, healthy thing. I'm sure you live by yourself.
Speaker 3:Who else is there to talk to your neighbors?
Speaker 2:probably always think that you have people over.
Speaker 4:My favorite meme is I don't know why you need other friends, I would have thought my eight personalities are enough to keep you occupied.
Speaker 3:It's so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, so I completely laid out my day and it started with every morning I'm going to get up at and I like to get up early, right, so that's not the issue. But I'm going to get up every day at six o'clock and I'm either going to but we have a whole workout room in our house, right, I can work out right here or, when it's nice out, I'm going to go walk like I used to every day day religiously and I've maybe done it twice.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, that's putting it out there. I mean that's, that's a hard thing to make yourself do but does it bother you now that you?
Speaker 2:don't. Well, it does kind of bother me that I don't, because because I know I have time. I know I have time to do it, I. But you know, now, when I my alarm goes off at six and I love to get up and make coffee Right, I love to, not just because when I used to do that, it was out of necessity you get up, you, you work out, you race to get to work and you know and that was that was the only time that I could ever fit it in and then. But so now it's like I just feel like it's such a luxury to have the alarm go off at six.
Speaker 2:That never changed but then make my coffee and relax a little bit. Check my messages, look at my day. I don't want to wake up at six o'clock in the morning, and so then I don't, and then I get into the day and then I just don't do it. And so this is where that question comes. Well, do you want it bad enough? Because if you wanted it bad enough, you would. You would carve out the time and you would make it happen.
Speaker 4:So I have two, well, and I have two thoughts about this. One, just because you're not doing it now doesn't mean you won't do it in the future. Yeah, right now you're enjoying that me moment, that, like you said, the luxury of having time, and I I think that you, that's probably what you need. You got up and and hustled your butt for decades. Yeah, take six months, you know. And and then the other thing which I always enjoyed when it came to those walks is making it a social activity.
Speaker 4:So, now that the bling boss is home, maybe it's a walk you guys take at night. Yeah, maybe it transitions from this workout walk to this recap of the day at the end of the day. So, so you still get the walk in, it might not. I mean, you know you can walk as fast as you want or as far as you want, but I think that and I should take my own advice, because I have so much time in the morning, so much time, but I don't go do it, but to look at what we want and see how it works for us now yeah because just because this is how it's working now doesn't mean it's a forever thing.
Speaker 4:give yourself grace. I think we are so hard on ourselves about everything and the comparison trap is there's no grace, it's the opposite of grace yes it is.
Speaker 4:Because the comparison trap isn't inspiration. It isn't looking at somebody and trying to be inspired by them. You know, I would like to follow their regime or whatever it is. It's usually they're better. I'm not. Why do they? Why am I not? Mm-hmm. Yep, there's no trap, don't fall in it. Yeah, it's hard to be us, so hard. It is hard to be in your 50s, a 50 year older no well, and you know, I mean like you said, kitty. I'm sure that those women, those influencers, are comparing themselves to other influencers.
Speaker 4:Probably we know that younger kids are comparing themselves to other people on social media. We know that neighbors always notice who's got a new car, who's going on a vacation somewhere. I mean, yeah, gotta realize that we're not living with them. We don't know everything that's going on.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yeah, and this has always been a thing. Yes, I mean you could go back decades. I mean we could ask our parents, we could ask our grandparents what did it look like for you? What does it look like now?
Speaker 4:It's a thing for everybody yeah, social media, like many things, makes it harder because it's right there. Yeah, yep, so maybe, maybe it's a hiatus, not of total social media, but, um, the things that don't serve your purpose. I went through and I unfollowed a bunch of people, bunch of people, last weekend. A lot of them were, I don't know, celebrities or influencers or whatever. I'm like I don't need to know, I don't interact with them, I don't, and you know what? This is just a weird aside. I've started seeing more people that are actually people that I know in my feed now.
Speaker 3:It's like I got rid of some.
Speaker 4:So now I've got more actual people I know showing up. So I wonder if all the ads and those sponsored things were taking up space in my world.
Speaker 3:Could be. Yeah, good tip of the day, there's your shot.
Speaker 1:There's the shot, get rid of 25 entities that you are following and see what happens.
Speaker 3:There you go, there's a shot.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, we are at about time. Anybody else have a shot? I just so this is funny. So I just started watching Sirens. Oh, I did too. Okay, so I pulled it up this morning while I was having my coffee, right, I couldn't get. So Hulu is our live TV. We have Hulu live and it wouldn't. Something was funky with it this morning Because usually I like to watch the local morning news from 6 to 630. So pull up Netflix. I start sirens. Bill comes home from running the dog, he sits down and he binged the entire thing today.
Speaker 1:So I got it.
Speaker 4:I'm only probably four episodes in. I find that there's some cringe stuff in there that I can't binge it and stay true. I need to take a step back. I need to let it float away from my train of thought.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's funny. That is, I wouldn't have guessed bill for, uh, sirens, you know barney didn't make it past the first episode and I have the last one left. Okay, that doesn't surprise me all he went and we literally had this conversation. Right after that one, he goes. I just want. And I said I know this is not for you, I already know. Yeah, I just want guns and shooting and it's like I know. That's why I get tired of every time just give me yellow stone every time.
Speaker 3:That's all. That's all he wants to watch. Okay, so we can always tell after about a half an episode of something new. Nope, he's out, he's out.
Speaker 4:I think that we need to persevere, cause I found this with myself Like it took me four episodes to get into Schitt's Creek and now that is like a classic. It took me a couple episodes of Ted Lasso to get into it. I now am thinking that I have to watch at least three episodes before I can decide that it is not for me, because you can't get into the meat of it in one episode.
Speaker 3:Yeah, first few episodes is character building. You know, it's introducing the cast. Yeah, yeah, oh well, I'll make sure to tell barney that he has to give four episodes to everything. He'll three.
Speaker 4:he's got to go three okay three sure whatever but you don't have to watch them all three in a row because you could easily get turned off by that.
Speaker 3:But yeah, yeah, but bill hitting the silence all in one day. That's interesting. He must have liked it. Yeah, I liked it too. I'm liking it Like I said I only have part of the last one left.
Speaker 4:I'm really looking forward to and I'm going to have to get the Hulu pulled up, because I want to see that.
Speaker 3:Is it Nine Perfect Strangers? Is that the name?
Speaker 4:of it. Season number two yeah, okay. Season number two yeah, okay. I think both bill and barney should enjoy that, because it's a no, it's, there's men in it, there's weird shit that goes on, there's intrigue, there's a little mystery. It's not touchy-feely, you don't think you'll go for it stacy.
Speaker 3:oh, I know, because we started I started over on eps on the first season just so he could watch it. Nope, we didn't Made it through one, and that's nope, nope.
Speaker 4:Oh come on. That's like watching one quarter of a football game. I'm telling you.
Speaker 3:You're too soft, can you?
Speaker 4:turn it off. No. Four quarters in a football game, four episodes in a series.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he really liked Ted Lasso. So it either has to be very funny and sports related, or guns and shooting and mystery maybe, or he'll go to the basement and watch golf. That's the choice. Oh, because that's thrilling.
Speaker 4:No, there is so much action in a golf match Holy hell.
Speaker 3:None Talk about wanting a gun. That's why he goes to the basement and I stay and keep watching whatever we were watching.
Speaker 4:Yes. The beauty of two TVs, yes, and laptops and iPads.
Speaker 3:And cell and iPads, and cell phones Yep, all right, yeah, all right. So, yes, we are all three thumbs up for Sirens. If anybody's made it this far in this episode, give it a shot.
Speaker 2:Give it a shot. Yep, I mean Julianne Moore, right, we love her. Oh, is she not fabulous.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she is fabulous. She's always so kevin bacon's in it. It took him a while to get into the movie. I think he was episode three, wasn't he?
Speaker 2:two midway through two or three I think it might have been midway through two, because that's really all the far, that's all the further. I got today and then, oh um, I had to go to work oh yeah bill just did nothing.
Speaker 3:The rest of the day did he put on?
Speaker 4:his slippers and make himself a cocktail while he watched it. No, he did not. No, but that sounds good doesn, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, my dear friends comparing ourselves.
Speaker 4:No, you're all fabulous the way you are.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are, we're spectacular. Oh, I did have a quote. Let's close with this quote. My, my worth isn't up for comparison. My story is mine alone.
Speaker 3:I like it, I do too. Perfect, perfect closing Good.
Speaker 4:We bid you farewell.
Speaker 3:It's a do. I know it's a do. I was going to say We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1:Bye-bye, We'll see you next week. Bye, I got that wild, here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'ma tour the forest running, Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past ten.
