[00:01] I'm sitting here like the, the piece of equipment that I, a piece of software rather than I used to record these. I kind of do it weird. I don't use garage band. I'm a MAC person just because they're so much easier for me to use than a PC. But I'm on my Mac. I have obviously I have garage band and I also have my movie. I like to record my podcast even if they're just audio inside of I movie rather than inside of garage band because I movie has a little button that you can click that supposed to make the sound all better, like automatically fix everything. So I do it from there and then I export like a piece of audio out and then I put it into garage band. I have to make it as complicated as possible, but that's just how I'd like to do it because of, uh, a guy, uh, Robbie hearst that I used to kind of work.

[00:46] We shared an office and he has a media company and he knows about all this stuff a lot more than me. And he kind of taught me about the movie side of it and I just liked it a lot better than the garage band side of it. But the downside to that is that I can see myself in the camera every time I do it and it's not. I don't like turn the lights on. I don't have a camera like at the right angle or anything. It's just like looking up on me and I'm becoming very, very aware that I am getting like old man Nick, you know, how you can tell when people are getting older just because of how their neck looks like. It's not necessarily like a full on Turkey Gobbler, but it's Kinda like, yeah, you're 10 years older than you than you used to be because your neck has is just kind of old looking.

[01:27] You have old nick. Anyway, that fits perfectly into what I'm talking about today because one of the things that I struggle with that I can tell very obviously that a lot of people are struggling with it is when you're on facebook. So we all need social media to drive our businesses forward. I'm not like breaking new ground here. This isn't anything that is necessarily an original thought, but it's something that I struggled with so I wanted to talk about it. A lot of times we're forced to be on social media so often that we don't realize how much time we're wasting on there. There's so many distractions and right now, like with most of us that are in this realm, like you've maxed out your profile to like 5,000 people. So you're looking at kind of these random people's facebook like you used to. So you're scrolling through your feed.

[02:16] Maybe you see some people that you actually know, but most of the people you don't know and you're, you're getting not necessarily engaging with them, you know, at least you shouldn't be engaging with them. But you're seeing how they're engaging with everyone. And it's a lot of negativity on both sides. Like politically, it's, there's a lot of political distractions and you need to make sure, at least I need to make sure this isn't necessarily like a self help or motivation podcast. You know, I kinda just talk about what I'm doing, but something that I see a lot of people do, I just don't engage in any of that stuff anymore. Like there was a time when I used to engage politically, but now it never made it. It never made a difference. Not like it's any more divided now than it was before. It's exactly the same as it was before.

[02:59] It's just there are a lot more mediums for people to express their beliefs than there were before. So I'm under the, you know, I, I believe that nothing has changed. Everything is the same. We're split about 50 slash 50, you know, and it teeters from 55, 45 to the left to the right, depending on what's going on in the country, what's going on in the world. And you can very easily get distracted, get depressed on both sides. You know, a lot of people think just the leftist depressed right now because the right has so much power, but the right people on the right, they don't view it that way. They, they feel like they about to lose power. So it's like both sides are very depressed and angry and there's just, it's not that these things don't matter, but your opinion on facebook doesn't really matter, so it's not even worth engaging.

[03:48] It's not even worth even looking at or and having a feeling about it one way or the other just because it is not. You're not going to be able to affect it. Of course these things are important and you should have a feeling one way or the other. I guess if you don't, I guess you know you're very, very lucky that you just are able to to be completely compartmentalized and just focus on your business and focus on things that you can control in your life. But you can't control what's happening politically. I mean, yes, you can vote. You can. You can voice your opinion. If you're going to go start a grassroots campaign to help the environment or, or to get some specific candidate elected, that's one thing, but probably you're not going to do that. Most likely you're just going to put posts something on facebook and get angry and mad and caught up and just be going back and forth and waste all of your time and not have moved your business forward at all and had, have a good excuse for not actually accomplishing what you need to accomplish.

[04:47] So it's better to just not engage with it. Uh, you know, understand that it's going on. Understand that people are upset, understand that not everybody's going to feel the way that you feel. Understand that there are bad people out there and they're going to post really mean and terrible things on facebook. Um, but there's nothing that you can do about that. All you can do is worry about what's in front of you and look at your goals and work towards those goals. And I know that's really, really hard to do for some people. It's hard for me to do. I've posted that a lot of stuff where I've started replying to something I've seen that's just so mean. Somebody just being extremely mean. I had had a guy that I grew up with that, um, his dad had passed away several years ago. Well, a friend of his dad's came onto his page because it's something that he posted about the freaking cavenaugh hearing something that none of us have any control over, and this guy said, you know, your dad would be so ashamed if he were alive.

[05:40] He's rolling over his grave. Just some main terrible shit to say to somebody, you know, it's not funny, but you have to laugh because you're just like, oh my God, people are just nuts. Um, so people are mean. But, and I started to write out something to that guy, just like you're a real piece of garbage, you know? Um, but it's just, it's not worth it. Like you're not going to change his mind. You're not going to have any effect on the cabinet, all hearings. You're not going to change any, anything that's happened in the past. All you can do is worry about yourself and make sure that you know you're making good decisions that are in line with your ideology. That's all you can do anyway. That's what I'm dealing with today, and, and trying to stay focused and not get distracted by all the things that are going on.

[06:21] Of course I'm paying attention. I know everything that's going on. I course I have an opinion on it, uh, on, on what I think is happening. But at the same time I know that what happens that you know, with a Senate confirmation hearing is I have no bearing over that. There's nothing that I can do, so I'm watching, but I'm kind of silently watching and making sure I'm moving myself forward everyday in my business. And you have to be able to put that stuff aside. Don't let that hold your whole life up. Don't let that keep you from accomplishing the goals that you have every day. Don't let that stuff you know, stop you in your tracks and waste your time because time is the most valuable thing that you have. Especially if you're bootstrapping a business and you're an entrepreneur like I am. It's just not worth it. To get caught up and lose time that you could either be investigating something in your business, talking to a potential client, potentially, you know, following up with a, with an old lead, anything is more productive than, than than, than engaging with. Going back and forth politically on social media is just not worth it.