Speaker 1: Is it just me or does everybody on earth need
Speaker 1: to seriously chill out? Oh I'm down, Yeah, message that
Speaker 1: will work. A new report by the North American Psychological
Speaker 1: Association found eighty seven percent of people in the country
Speaker 1: are feeling overwhelmingly stressed because of the NonStop bad news.
Speaker 1: I actually can't who are the twenty four whatever the
Speaker 1: percentage left? Who are they? They're billionaires? Is that what
Speaker 1: it is? And they don't know? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think billionaires are even stressed. Man. I know they're
Speaker 1: getting their yachts repossessed in all sorts of weird stuff.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to keep good housekeeping teams. That's why
Speaker 1: today we're starting off the show for all our listeners
Speaker 1: with calming music. We're using soft, comforting voices, like after this,
Speaker 1: we're all going to take a communal herbalty bath together
Speaker 1: at Brooks House. Oh, I didn't know that. We'll just
Speaker 1: have to kick out a few of her cousins who
Speaker 1: are already in there together. We have a very small bathtors,
Speaker 1: so get cozy. We'll squeeze it. But seriously, things are crazy.
Speaker 1: So I google the top simple ways that you can
Speaker 1: d stress. All right, this is actually a nice way
Speaker 1: to start the day. Yeah, so number three is go
Speaker 1: for a walk, preferably to a liquor store, and then
Speaker 1: immediately slam a fifth of anything not made in Russia. Good.
Speaker 1: If that doesn't work, go with number two. Watch a
Speaker 1: funny video, or go for a quick drive, or if
Speaker 1: you're super stress, do both at the same time. Has
Speaker 1: doubled the relaxing effect to'se. I was wondering if at
Speaker 1: the end of the drive you were going to say
Speaker 1: over a cliff. But that's a nice way to end
Speaker 1: all the stress. And the number one easiest way that
Speaker 1: you can de stress is to just visualize something relaxing
Speaker 1: in your mind, like picture the waves of the ocean, which,
Speaker 1: thanks to rising sea levels, will someday slowly kill us.
Speaker 1: My hope will finally be waterfronty. You can afford it
Speaker 1: just went up all right. Now that we're all in
Speaker 1: a better place mentally, we can take on the shot
Speaker 1: callar question of the day because we have a bucket
Speaker 1: full of names. Actually see the bucket. This time we're
Speaker 1: gonna draw one out. So who gets asked the trivia question?
Speaker 1: If you answer wrong, you're gonna be punished by getting
Speaker 1: shock while singing in song. So text into seventy five
Speaker 1: nine to tell a switch on you'd like to hear
Speaker 1: Alexis you're joining your name out because you have the
Speaker 1: shot collar. Lasts, who'd you get? Jose, Penny Bunny boy Bunny.
Speaker 1: He's putting on the shot collar while that happens, digital Jake,
Speaker 1: please read us a shot callar question of the day.
Speaker 1: Having kids running around the house all the time can
Speaker 1: be exhausting. Just ask Brooks Brigadive O Pears and they'll
Speaker 1: tell you I wish poor ladies. But when the kids
Speaker 1: finally leave the cozy confines of home and head out
Speaker 1: on their own, there's a little sadness, but also some
Speaker 1: positives about how having an empty nest. Oh, we don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about this. It stresses me out. Because
Speaker 1: of that, a study was done asking one thousand older
Speaker 1: parents to name the best things about finally having kids
Speaker 1: out of the house. And do not ask me again
Speaker 1: your children are too young to live on their own. Way.
Speaker 1: I just told my son this week that he could
Speaker 1: live with mommy forever if he wants. Yeah, yeah, Jose,
Speaker 1: I need you to tell me the top four best
Speaker 1: things about being an empty nester in no particular order.
Speaker 1: And your hint is that all of these things have
Speaker 1: to do with the house. Okay, I think we need
Speaker 1: to think backwards on this, Jose, since none of us
Speaker 1: have been empty nesters. I think we think from our
Speaker 1: perspective when we were in high school, what was the
Speaker 1: most annoying things about us? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I remember the first thing my mom and dad said
Speaker 1: to me was what are we going to do with
Speaker 1: his room? At room? So? Is it an offense? Is
Speaker 1: it like an art room? Is it love Dungeon? Oh?
Speaker 1: I like that. I don't have a bedroom at my
Speaker 1: parents house. Is either anymore? Yeah, it's like a workouts act,
Speaker 1: like converting the old kid's room into something that they
Speaker 1: actually want. Yeah, Alexis, you're the one that is the
Speaker 1: most recent to leaving the nest, although I know you
Speaker 1: do still go back a lot for free biloone sandwiches
Speaker 1: and stuff about food. Though now when I go back,
Speaker 1: they never have good food. Like, I don't think they
Speaker 1: have to buy as much anymore because we're not all
Speaker 1: there to eat it. I was thinking, I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to write down because like, they don't cook for
Speaker 1: me anymore. Do you think less food is a good thing?
Speaker 1: Buy less? Yeah, the oh my god, saving moneyless food.
Speaker 1: I think with cookie, Although the food is one thing,
Speaker 1: I think the dishes are even a bigger thing. Like
Speaker 1: that you don't have to clean up after someone else,
Speaker 1: and that could cover like cleaning up could cover launder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's got the question one more time. I asked you
Speaker 1: to name the top four best things about being an
Speaker 1: empty nester, according to a study of one thousand older parents.
Speaker 1: And as a hint, I'll give you an olden guest
Speaker 1: golden guest, but you'll have to use your best elderly
Speaker 1: voice to ask me if something is on the list,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you if you're correct or not.
Speaker 1: Jake is cleaning lest on the list, aren't you? One
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty? Cleaning is what not on the list?
Speaker 1: We need to think about things that you lose, like
Speaker 1: that parents would be happy about. I thought of one noises,
Speaker 1: it's so much quieter when you're gone. I was thinking.
Speaker 1: When I left the house, my parents immediately emptied their
Speaker 1: attic and they say all this old crap to me,
Speaker 1: stuff that I would never want, Like they sent me
Speaker 1: old CD players and like the Millennium album, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'll keep Millennium, but I but like emptying
Speaker 1: out the house in freeing up space. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's as common that your parents, Like, we're starting
Speaker 1: to get some of that, but it's been you know,
Speaker 1: I think a decade since we've left. More. Once you're
Speaker 1: converting a room, you're cleaning out all yourself. I remember.
Speaker 1: But I do remember that actually because all my baseball cards, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you want them? Yea. So maybe I will say,
Speaker 1: like declutter, what about just something simple like you get
Speaker 1: to pick what you want to watch on the TV.
Speaker 1: Like finally, like it's all your choice. Sleeping more, you
Speaker 1: have teenagers at that point. Teenagers sleep till like two
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. Which ones have you locked in? Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with converting rooms, buying less groceries, decluttering
Speaker 1: the house, and it's quieter in general. According to a
Speaker 1: study of one thousand older parents, these are the best
Speaker 1: things about being an empty nester. Number four is turning
Speaker 1: their bedroom into an officer guest room. Okay, okay, you
Speaker 1: got that right. Number three is your food bills go
Speaker 1: down and cooking that Number two is that your energy
Speaker 1: bill goes down so heavy and number one is less laundry.
Speaker 1: I just we put it in with cleaning. Yeah that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Okay, well didn't get them all right, So Jose,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get shocked. But somebody wants to hear her song.
Speaker 1: Stacy's mom. Stacy's mom has got it going on. She's
Speaker 1: all I want it so totally. I love the TikTok
Speaker 1: trend right now where people are like, I had my
Speaker 1: baby and I named her Stacy Shock calling question of
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