<v Speaker 1>Jeremy, Katie and Josh in the morning.

<v Speaker 2>We have really been enjoying the two gigantic owls in

<v Speaker 2>our backyard.

<v Speaker 1>Lately.

<v Speaker 2>We've got some really massive like evergreen trees in the

<v Speaker 2>back and Uh, all you hear throughout the day.

<v Speaker 3>Is I have a third one. What kind of owls

<v Speaker 3>are they?

<v Speaker 1>I love they're a great horned owl. I don't know. Big.

<v Speaker 4>Yes, that's an impressive sight, like the wingspan of an owl.

<v Speaker 1>And they're quiet, so quiet. Yeah, it is funny.

<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you go out the back door and it's like

<v Speaker 2>there's a tree right directly from the back door and

<v Speaker 2>they're up in there at the very top of it.

<v Speaker 1>And sometimes you kind of spook them when you come

<v Speaker 1>out the door in it.

<v Speaker 2>They take off all majestic with the big wingspan.

<v Speaker 3>The wing like you don't expect it, and then swoop.

<v Speaker 1>Down on you.

<v Speaker 2>The beautiful, beautiful animals. And just to sit there and

<v Speaker 2>watch them, I feel like an old man. I'm like, oh,

<v Speaker 2>the owls are out, they spin their heads.

<v Speaker 1>All the way around. I think they're so neat.

<v Speaker 2>Yesterday one took off that when I walked outside and

<v Speaker 2>there was a squirrel on the fence, and that scrawl.

<v Speaker 1>Took off like just.

<v Speaker 2>Just nuts nuts, squirrel nuts, like just took off like

<v Speaker 2>an owl.

<v Speaker 3>Not today, sir.

<v Speaker 1>Not today.

<v Speaker 2>But the things with owls, if you're familiar with them,

<v Speaker 2>which you're probably not, they they regurgitate these things called pellets, Yes,

<v Speaker 2>you're familiar.

<v Speaker 3>They're so gross.

<v Speaker 2>Basically the pellet, it looks like a giant turd that

<v Speaker 2>comes out of their mouth, and it's full of things

<v Speaker 2>that they can't digest. So it's fur and feathers and

<v Speaker 2>teeth and bones and fish scales and insects, ecdoskeletons and.

<v Speaker 1>All this stuff that they just can't process. They just

<v Speaker 1>puke it up. Okay.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So we've got these two big horse owls up

<v Speaker 2>in the tree and they spitting this stuff out.

<v Speaker 1>Okay, here there.

<v Speaker 2>And what is it doing? They're all landing on the ground.

<v Speaker 2>And as soon as I let the dog out, guess what.

<v Speaker 2>The dog is now running over and eating up these.

<v Speaker 1>Pellets that they alls are puking up. And sometimes I

<v Speaker 1>just don't forget. I just opened the door.

<v Speaker 2>I forget, and I just opened the door, and the

<v Speaker 2>dog goes running out, and I go about my business.

<v Speaker 2>But then I look out the window I'm like, oh God, Goldie,

<v Speaker 2>stop eating, beating on the window.

<v Speaker 3>Stop it.

<v Speaker 1>And she's out there.

<v Speaker 2>And she is cleaning up every one of these pellets

<v Speaker 2>that gets dropped from the tree.

<v Speaker 1>It's so foul.

<v Speaker 3>The circle of life. I guess she is play the

<v Speaker 3>song happened.

<v Speaker 2>She is a rescue dog. She came from the streets

<v Speaker 2>in Kansas, exactly where we uh you know, donated her.

<v Speaker 2>She's from the streets, we always joke. So she's used

<v Speaker 2>to scavenging and this is just an easy meal for her,

<v Speaker 2>I guess. And I proceeded to tell the children last night,

<v Speaker 2>don't let the dog lick you.

<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say, dog lick you.

<v Speaker 4>You don't strike me as someone who lets a dog

<v Speaker 4>lick your face, Like, I just don't see that happen.

<v Speaker 1>I don't like the dog on the couch, none of that.

<v Speaker 4>Kids, It's like that's just part of being a kid.

<v Speaker 4>So I feel like you're gonna get pellet stuff.

<v Speaker 1>On your I know.

<v Speaker 2>My daughter's a huge animal lover, and take as she

<v Speaker 2>gets home from the school, she's.

<v Speaker 1>Like God, and the dog's licking her all over and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like.

<v Speaker 3>Stop it. You don't know what's in that mass.

<v Speaker 4>She's sting exoskeleton and stop it.

<v Speaker 2>So that's one of the things that's going on at

<v Speaker 2>my house. The second is I got to give my

<v Speaker 2>son some kudos because he's doing this community project thing

<v Speaker 2>in middle school where they've got to do something for

<v Speaker 2>the community, document it, present it, get a grade. Okay,

<v Speaker 2>he's been doing something super cute. These I've told you

<v Speaker 2>guys before. He's into the three D printing. His three

<v Speaker 2>D printers have been running NonStop for like a month.

<v Speaker 2>And I went into his room the other day and he.

<v Speaker 1>Had a big old bucket full of like fidgets.

<v Speaker 2>He's making all these fidgets that people can just okay, yeah,

<v Speaker 2>yeah with and they do different designs and they're just

<v Speaker 2>this constant thing that you fidget with when you've got

<v Speaker 2>time or anxiety, depression, whatever you fidget.

<v Speaker 1>I guess he's doing.

<v Speaker 2>For his community project, this thing for retirement communities, and

<v Speaker 2>he's dumping off all.

<v Speaker 1>Of these fidgets at retirement homes.

<v Speaker 3>Oh, isn't that the sweetest thing ever?

<v Speaker 1>Of that?

<v Speaker 3>It's so sweet.

<v Speaker 2>So him and Nick Knack and one of his buddies

<v Speaker 2>went over this past weekend to a couple different retirement

<v Speaker 2>communities and just dropped him off for all the residents

<v Speaker 2>and they were so grateful, and I was like, that's

<v Speaker 2>the cutest thing ever.

<v Speaker 1>And Nicole went with him and she's like, it's pretty

<v Speaker 1>darn sweet.

<v Speaker 2>Like some of the residents they like look at it,

<v Speaker 2>They're like, what the hell is what is this contraption?

<v Speaker 1>And then some of them are like, well, would.

<v Speaker 3>You look at that? This is the sweetest thing ever.

<v Speaker 3>It's the sweetest thing ever.

<v Speaker 1>Isn't that great?

<v Speaker 4>Your children are actually quite like a adorable and sweet

<v Speaker 4>and care They must get that from their mom.

<v Speaker 1>Hunt you can do right now is go to hell, Katie.

<v Speaker 1>You can go to hell.

<v Speaker 3>Very selfless though it is.

<v Speaker 1>They're pretty sweet.

<v Speaker 2>So Knickknack was there and she took pictures of them,

<v Speaker 2>like presenting to the residence on what they're doing and

<v Speaker 2>what they made and how.

<v Speaker 1>To use them and all that. It's like, that's really

<v Speaker 1>sweet and.

<v Speaker 4>What a neat project to like something that's outside the box.

<v Speaker 4>Like he put his own little spin on it.

<v Speaker 3>But it's really really impressive.

<v Speaker 1>Not too bad. The weird thing, though, is the dog

<v Speaker 1>went over and locked all of them before wed.

<v Speaker 3>Those pellets are free.

<v Speaker 1>Don't let the.

<v Speaker 3>Dog, like the fidgets.

<v Speaker 1>What are you doing? All right? So, Katie, you have

<v Speaker 1>this story this morning talking about this hot new thing

<v Speaker 1>amongst the gen zers.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well, it's the thing that's been around forever. They

<v Speaker 4>just gave it a new name. So here we are

<v Speaker 4>talking about it. But it kind of goes hand in

<v Speaker 4>hand with what we've talked about a lot lately, and

<v Speaker 4>that is the younger generation. They're not partying like we did, right,

<v Speaker 4>Like the alcohol rates consuming of alcohol that is down

<v Speaker 4>like fifty four percent across the US, record low drinking rates,

<v Speaker 4>and nearly half of Americans saying they want to stay

<v Speaker 4>away from that kind of lifestyle. That the way they

<v Speaker 4>put it, and it fascinated me and I really was like,

<v Speaker 4>well that makes sense when you go out at night

<v Speaker 4>and you're doing all the things like that, partying, drinking

<v Speaker 4>a lot, doing other things that whatever, we'll do the

<v Speaker 4>party they parted. They say that it depletes you, right,

<v Speaker 4>like it really does. I mean wait till you get

<v Speaker 4>older kids, But they're saying that, like it takes from you.

<v Speaker 4>It's not adding to your life. You're waking up with

<v Speaker 4>a hangover, You're not able to do things the next day.

<v Speaker 4>You're making ridiculous decisions that maybe you wouldn't make if

<v Speaker 4>you were sober. So they're swapping that. They're swapping the

<v Speaker 4>night life for the day life, and that's what they're

<v Speaker 4>calling it. They're they're enjoying their day life journey, is

<v Speaker 4>what they're saying. But they're saying that like like swapping

<v Speaker 4>the night life stuff with day things, like you're going

<v Speaker 4>to a yoga class at nine am, so instead of

<v Speaker 4>staying out super late, you're going to bed at nine

<v Speaker 4>o'clock so you can wake up sober and ready for

<v Speaker 4>this yoga class, and it adds to your life. The

<v Speaker 4>person that they followed in this story specifically was like,

<v Speaker 4>first of all, I came to this yoga class and

<v Speaker 4>I didn't know anybody, but when I went there, we

<v Speaker 4>were all like minded, so I ended up making friends.

<v Speaker 4>And then you know, we're talking about adding to your

<v Speaker 4>life and not taking away from it. And I just

<v Speaker 4>think that this is such a neat way that they think,

<v Speaker 4>like that's cute. For whatever reason, we thought we had

<v Speaker 4>to go out there and get completely annihilated every weekend, right,

<v Speaker 4>Like it was just part of growing up in your twenties.

<v Speaker 3>It's just what you do, and I just I love

<v Speaker 3>that they're like I don't want to do that.

<v Speaker 1>I just like to a yoga and then have a

<v Speaker 1>salad and then maybe a jama.

<v Speaker 4>Juice and your fitness ernie and blah blah blah.

<v Speaker 3>Like so much of that is a part of it.

<v Speaker 1>Because I just want to tight and jump of juice.

<v Speaker 4>Well, you have that side of society now, the influencers.

<v Speaker 4>I mean when we were growing up and you had

<v Speaker 4>the fitness people who put out the VHS tapes, right

<v Speaker 4>like like that's what I mean, Like that was a

<v Speaker 4>whole lifestyle of people, but it was it wasn't like

<v Speaker 4>everybody who did it. But now with the addition of

<v Speaker 4>social media and social media fitness influencers, I mean, it

<v Speaker 4>really does.

<v Speaker 2>Reach a whole It's in your face constantly, and then

<v Speaker 2>if you watch one video, that's your algorithm all of

<v Speaker 2>a sudden, so you're just getting punched in the abs.

<v Speaker 1>Well and fitness fitness fitness.

<v Speaker 4>Thing well, and I think it does really prove a

<v Speaker 4>point that the influence of it. I mean, it's just

<v Speaker 4>like it I had no idea I had to eat

<v Speaker 4>so much protein, but now I know, so I'm about it, right.

<v Speaker 3>When I was in my twenties, I didn't know you

<v Speaker 3>had to have that.

<v Speaker 4>Like I would go through a whole bag of chips

<v Speaker 4>and think that was okay.

<v Speaker 1>But now I know that still do.

<v Speaker 3>Now I know it's not okay.

<v Speaker 1>But then I'll add a scoop of protein into my

<v Speaker 1>jump of.

<v Speaker 4>Juice exactly if I have the chips with cottage cheese.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a good cheese journey. I'm a jump deer.

<v Speaker 3>It isn't this fascinating?

<v Speaker 4>I just think it's more way again, it's something new

<v Speaker 4>because we've had people who abstain from this stuff. But

<v Speaker 4>now I think it's it's it's what the story is

<v Speaker 4>saying is there's more people who are doing we.

<v Speaker 1>Don't want to.

<v Speaker 2>They're all going to be in great shape, their livers

<v Speaker 2>are going to be fine, but you know what, their

<v Speaker 2>stories throughout life are going to suck.

<v Speaker 1>Their stories will suck.

<v Speaker 3>You make a really good point.

<v Speaker 2>Never has there been a story that was like, I

<v Speaker 2>was at this yoga class once.

<v Speaker 1>No, it was I was at the bar. Here's what

<v Speaker 1>happened when I had a salad? Who I went.

<v Speaker 2>Home with, Here's who I got in a fight with.

<v Speaker 2>Here's the car I stole like those are all the

<v Speaker 2>good stories.

<v Speaker 1>That are passed down from generation to generation.

<v Speaker 2>My story is like I was a yoga and then

<v Speaker 2>I went to a jump of juice. Will leave it.

<v Speaker 2>Your stories are going to suck, but you look good,

<v Speaker 2>very tightly A long time too