<v Speaker 1>Jerry, Katy and Josh makes one.

<v Speaker 2>Hundred interesting story out this morning, and I kind of

<v Speaker 2>believe it. There's a study of over forty thousand American

<v Speaker 2>adults finding that living near more trees, those silly little

<v Speaker 2>trees ye linked to lower biological stress markers. Isn't that great,

<v Speaker 2>including just basic chronic stress, blood pressure, cholesterol, inflammation, and

<v Speaker 2>other physical indicators. Just being down in the dumps, I

<v Speaker 2>guess is the other ones. So if you're around a

<v Speaker 2>lot of trees and greener areas, you get some sort

<v Speaker 2>of better connection to the earth. Greener areas encourage more movement,

<v Speaker 2>so you're going to be outside a little bit more. Yeah,

<v Speaker 2>And just you know, sometimes just sitting under a tree

<v Speaker 2>thinking makes you just kind of reduce all that stress.

<v Speaker 1>I think it just automatically makes you feel a lot

<v Speaker 1>more at ease. Because even when I was searching for

<v Speaker 1>my apartment, I was in a lot of area that

<v Speaker 1>was like zero scape and almost looked industrial like, and

<v Speaker 1>it made me anxious. And when I found my apartment

<v Speaker 1>that I live in now, it was surrounded by trees,

<v Speaker 1>and that was part of the reason I loved it

<v Speaker 1>so much. It was so much more inviting, so much

<v Speaker 1>more homey, and so I agree with this.

<v Speaker 2>When we were looking for a new house a few

<v Speaker 2>years ago, we were looking in those new build neighborhoods. Yeah,

<v Speaker 2>and that's one of the biggest things that turned us off.

<v Speaker 2>It's like it was so sparse and so plain that

<v Speaker 2>we started looking in the older neighborhoods because we just

<v Speaker 2>like the trees. Yes, it's a homey feeling, absolutely, and like,

<v Speaker 2>didn't your heart break during this last snowstorm with all

<v Speaker 2>the broken tree limbs and everything like that? I felt

<v Speaker 2>it was.

<v Speaker 1>Like they were crying.

<v Speaker 2>They were. And we've got one special tree like in

<v Speaker 2>our neighborhood that I in my yard actually in my

<v Speaker 2>neighborhood that we really like, is just right next to

<v Speaker 2>the driveway, and we just it's the most beautiful tree

<v Speaker 2>and it had like four or five snaped limbs, and

<v Speaker 2>both of us, me and my wife Nickknack, when we

<v Speaker 2>saw it, we're like that tree little body.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>But you, you, out of all of us, are out

<v Speaker 2>of nature the most. So I would imagine, like you

<v Speaker 2>you feel this, you got that connection.

<v Speaker 1>I do, And when I walk by trees, I think

<v Speaker 1>of that. I think of how many other people have

<v Speaker 1>walked by you and I will go up to a

<v Speaker 1>tree and just touch it. Billyeah, I love you and

<v Speaker 1>I know you love me back. I can feel it,

<v Speaker 1>and it's like that cyclical feeling giving me so much oxygen,

<v Speaker 1>give it energy, it gives it back to me. It

<v Speaker 1>immediately makes me feel better.

<v Speaker 2>You ever, like they say, hugg tree? Do you ever

<v Speaker 2>hugg a tree?

<v Speaker 1>Your little tree? Wow? Makes you feel better immediate. It's

<v Speaker 1>part of that grounding experience, like they talk about being

<v Speaker 1>one with nature. I mean that is it in a

<v Speaker 1>nutshell exactly why do these people keep hugging me? You

<v Speaker 1>know that tree is out there?

<v Speaker 2>Just I agree with like of this story. And like

<v Speaker 2>we were out in Nebraska over the weekend and driving back.

<v Speaker 2>You know, it's just desolate farmland and you notice it

<v Speaker 2>when you're zipping along and there's like a grouping of

<v Speaker 2>trees on the side of the road.

<v Speaker 1>And you're like, oh my god, there's a tree. Look

<v Speaker 1>at that one over there.

<v Speaker 2>Do you guys ever have a tree treehouse? Growing up? Oh? Yeah,

<v Speaker 2>we did. My dad built one in the backyard. Yes, yeah.

<v Speaker 1>And it was like I think that also makes us

<v Speaker 1>have a huge appreciation is because so many of us

<v Speaker 1>are times our childhoods were spent up in trees.

<v Speaker 2>You know. I can still to this day remember gathering

<v Speaker 2>a bunch of like extra My dad is he can

<v Speaker 2>build things, Okay, So in our garage we always had

<v Speaker 2>extra wood and nails and just bits and pieces. And

<v Speaker 2>I still remember going into the garage with like a

<v Speaker 2>group of my buddies and just kind of grabbing random

<v Speaker 2>stuff and going out in the backyard. We had this

<v Speaker 2>big hot wood tree and just starting to like nail stuff.

<v Speaker 1>Into the tree.

<v Speaker 2>My dad found out like a half an hour later.

<v Speaker 2>I can still remember him coming out going whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

<v Speaker 2>We're gonna do this. Let's do this right, you know.

<v Speaker 2>And he did. He built me an epic treehouse. He

<v Speaker 2>had a trap door and a little ladder and all

<v Speaker 2>sorts of fun stuff a kid.

<v Speaker 1>It builds character, and it makes me wonder. Do kids

<v Speaker 1>even climb trees anymore? Your kids climb trees?

<v Speaker 2>I don't think so. I don't. I can't remember the

<v Speaker 2>last time they were up in a tree.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think the baby Nana has ever climbed a tree.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I have to ask. It's hard to climb a

<v Speaker 2>tree when you got a phone in one, so hey listen.

<v Speaker 2>Shout out to all the trees listening today.

<v Speaker 1>Hollow