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A father and daughter discuss life across their generations. Science, medicine, music, and whatever else they choose to discuss are on the table.
Aubrey
00:00
This is fantastic. I've wanted to hate Drake for a valid reason for so long.
Peter
00:21
Welcome back to Generations. I am one of your hosts, Peter.
Aubrey
00:25
And I am your other host, Aubrey.
Peter
00:27
Aubrey, how have you been?
Aubrey
00:30
You know, I've been pretty good Um, it's starting to warm up a little bit here, which is nice. I don't expect it to last too long, um, but it's been a little rainy um, which has been kind of gloomy 'cause I I wanted to get to the weather where I could go for walks outside consistently, but it's it's getting to the rain, the rain season, so is not the best. But Yeah.
Peter
00:57
Yeah. It you know it's interesting. It was in the fifties here, right? Mm-hmm. And then on Thursday Thursday. Yes. On Thursday, it had gotten like I went for a walk Wednesday afternoon and it was like 54 degrees at five o'clock when I went for a walk. Yeah. And it was windy, and then your mom had a line snap and she texted me and said, Oh, the weather's changed. I just thought she meant it was windy. They said, Well yeah, I can hear the wind. And she's like, no, it's snowing.
Aubrey
01:32
What?
Peter
01:33
So I look outside, a little bit of snow, wake up Thursday morning, put on my weighted rucksack, went for a walk. And it was kinda cold and snowing blowing a little bit. And then by the time I got home from work, it's like seven inches of snow
Aubrey
01:49
What?
Peter
01:50
Yeah. So and of course your mom and Gareth are out there shoveling the driveway and they have it half done. And I like pull in and I walk into the garage and I grab the snowblower and I just kind of wheel it out. I'm like They're like, oh, we forgot there was a snowblower. So then I fire up the snowblower and I finish everything. But I had to go out and do it again a second time later in the day. And now today it's like forty-nine degrees right now and it's supposed to get a fit get to fifty-six. So it's probably all gonna melt today, tomorrow. Then it's supposed to be down into the twenties again Tuesday and Wednesday night Gikes. So it's just weird. It is. It is a little weird. But other than that, you know, work going okay still.
Aubrey
02:37
Yeah, work's going good. The kids are a little um antsy whenever they don't go outside. Uh like if it's like too rainy and they don't go outside. Sure. Um they get very antsy and then they get very crazy. Um but other than that we get we just take 'em to the gym sometimes and just let 'em, you know run around, do their thing.
Peter
02:59
Just got them run run wild.
Aubrey
03:02
Yep, exactly. Um we did get a whole bunch of new toys. Um we got some like grant for a whole bunch of new toys though. So that's been super exciting for them. to try all the new toys, but we got jump ropes, which was I don't know if it was the best idea because one of my kids was like ho hanging onto one handle of the jump rope and like swinging it around in a circle so that kids could try and like jump over the jump rope. Um But then of course it hits a kid's legs and wraps around like five times with the momentum that it had, and then he trips and falls. And then everyone's crying 'cause everyone's tripping and falling over the jump rope. Um, so I had to say you cannot use the jump rope for anything except for jumping rope. Sorry.
Peter
03:55
Yep. Yep. They can be they can be a little Extra or something, I don't know.
Aubrey
04:02
So Yeah, so but they they've been they've been chilling. Um I'm excited to I mean daylight savings uh spr sprung forward or whatever last night, which means that we can now take them outside and keep them outside until program is done. We would have to like go outside for a little bit, come back inside 'cause it would get too dark and then their parents would pick 'em up from wherever we were inside. But now we can be back outside, which is great, because then they can just run around and we can just not worry about like we can go back inside and clean up the program space without kids still being in there and still wanting to play with the toys.
Peter
04:44
So that is always nice. That is. That that will be good. I'm sure that will make a difference. So
Aubrey
04:49
Yeah, so that's been he's been pretty chill. But how about you? How have you been?
Peter
04:53
Yeah, you know, doing okay. Just just work. Uh you I shared with you our um the the project we were gonna record yesterday and we we kind of had a whole big project so long and short of it is I have been Casually dropping hints for a while that I think it makes sense for us to get a new TV.
Aubrey
05:22
Okay.
Peter
05:24
So I've been dropping these hints. Hey, I think it'd be nice for us to get a new TV. You know, the old one downstairs is a 60-inch, 1080p. Uh and again, because of the time we got it, it was 3D because we thought that would be cool, because you know, for like two years it was everything was gonna be 3D. But we don't ever really watch TV down there. And then uh but understandably, you know, your mom who doesn't care about it that much was like, no, I don't think we need to. Okay, fine. And I never pushed it. I was just like, sure, okay, whatever. And then when Alex and Lily were moving into their apartment, your mom said to me, Well, you know, if we give them the TV from downstairs. Then you can get a new TV. And I was like, oh, okay. So you know, we we because it was easy, because it's just here in town. We moved the TV to their apartment. And we haven't had a TV downstairs for almost a month now. And I've been to toying around with ideas and I kinda knew what I wanted to do, but I didn't know how I was gonna get it home from Costco. And so that then I just kinda didn't do anything about it. But then it it hit me, Gareth had been hanging out with Emmy, and usually they're kind of like here, there, here, there, back and forth, but they'd really just been over there. And then it clicked, I was like, oh, 'cause there's like no TV downstairs. Yeah. And it's kind of taken a it's kind of like taken apart So that was finally my impetus. And then I knew what I wanted to get, but I again I still I'm like, am I gonna have to rent like a U-Haul to get this TV home? And then I found out that if I buy it online, then um If if I order it online from Costco. com, it would deliver it. But then it was a couple hundred dollars more. But then I realized it also included somebody coming and mounting it on the wall and all this stuff. So Long and short of it, last Saturday I finally um I finally ordered it and It delivered, it was gonna deliver Thursday, it delivered, then it was got updated to deliver Friday, and they were gonna come and install it Saturday, and then I got a call from the guy who was gonna do the mounting it on the wall on Friday. at like two and he was like, Oh, hey, I'm in town. Any chance we could do it this afternoon? And I was like, Yeah, sure, that'd be great, 'cause then we don't have a you know, TV and a box just sitting in the living room for a day. So he came over and that took a little while, but he got we got that up. We got the new TV all mounted, and then I was just kind of cleaning everything up and getting everything set back up and all this stuff. And then yesterday spent many hours just getting the basement all set back up. We'd moved everything. We'd kind of cleaned everything up. So I got the TV mounted on the wall down there, moved stuff back, kinda got things set up again. And It's ridiculous. It's big. TV that is like, yeah, that's that's big. Yeah. We moved up to a 98-inch TV.
Aubrey
08:38
Mm-hmm.
Peter
08:39
It's real big. Yeah. It's really big. I mean, it's it it it doesn't fit down where the 85 inch or used to in between the two bookshelves, obviously. It's like eight inches each direction, it sticks out. So it sticks out further there. But then it's so much taller as well that it just it looks massive. And so every time we walk into the living room we look at it, we're just like That is big. Yeah, that's big. But then uh Gareth and Emmy hung out last night downstairs over here because hey, there was a TV back. And so So we got that all kind of straightened out. So it's been a it was a busy few days, but it was I mean, it's exciting to have that all done.
Aubrey
09:22
So Yeah, totally. Very good.
Peter
09:24
Well, I thought this week and I kind of threw this out earlier this week and and it was Uh the uh the thought I had is hey let's talk we both like music a lot. But not so much uh let's talk about like recent music recommendations. We can talk about that if we want. But what I thought is the role that music plays in our lives. Like where does it work? Where do you use it? What do you use it for? What kind of music do you listen to, depending on what you're using it for? And the same for me, kind of kind of how do we make that fit. So I don't know. What what are what are your thoughts? What's something that you thought of after I yeah proposed this idea?
Aubrey
10:00
I actually remembered this funny funny story from when we first moved to Idaho. And there was like a whole bunch of um they were doing like bios about you, like working at the hospital 'cause you're like the new doctor or whatever. So they did a whole bunch of stuff about you. And I remember there was like some I don't even remember where this was. There was some big like image that was like our our interview with the new Doctor Jones or whatever and one of the like the bio thing about you was like um how much you love music. And I of course was like what nine years old and I was like, do you really like music? I didn't know that. Because my concept of listening to music was like the music mom sings at that time.
Peter
10:50
Right.
Aubrey
10:51
Like I didn't understand the concept of like listening to your own music and like having own music taste. If I heard the word music, I I thought of what mom would practice at the piano. And so I was like, y to is I was like, that's ridiculous. Do you even like that music? And you were like, yeah, of course I like music. Like what do you mean? And I was like, oh, I didn't realize you were into classical music like that. That's funny. Like that was what came to mind, so I thought that was kind of funny, but It did get me thinking of kind of like how old I was when I first like realized the concept of listening to my own music. and like choosing the songs 'cause you know you could only buy a few certain songs. There was like back then when I had that whatever iPod Nano that was like the weird rectangle, still rectangle iPod Nano. whatever generation that was. And I had like one EP and two singles on there. And would just listen to that on repeat. Um And so I was just kind of thinking about how even when I was however old I was, like seven when you gave that to me. Um, I always loved having music on in the background for basically anything. Sure. Um And I also was kind of thinking about it and I I am very I'm very picky about the music I listen to, which I think me and you can kind of relate in that way where sometimes we'd be like on a drive and you were like, I just don't know what to listen to and we'd like switch between like seven different Different albums and you were like, oh, I don't know, I just it's nothing's hitting right now. And I think we're very similar in that where I'm like, I can't really exactly say why But I'm like, this is just not hidden right now, and I just have to kind of channel surf for a while. Um So I don't know. I kind of wanted to talk about that a little bit. Is our just like how we're both weirdly specific. But like do you know when you are being weirdly specific about the music you're listening to, do you know why? Like are you like I don't want to listen to this for this exact reason or is it just like hmm, it's just not hitting the vibe?
Peter
13:12
No, it is it is completely vibes uh based. Yeah. And and it's very much that. It's it's I'm kind of sitting there and I'm like, I don't know what I want to listen to. Like what do I want to listen to? And and it's, you know, again, I'll think, well, okay, maybe this, and then I'll put that on. And I'm like, no, that's not working. Then I gotta try something else. No, that's not working. And eventually I'll get to a point where I'll something, I'll start playing something and then it will click. But it can sometimes, like you say, it can take a bunch of different time reason or a bunch of different tries. for me to land on what that is and and figure it out. And I don't really have an explanation. Like I couldn't say that it's because I was looking for X, Y, or Z. Because if I knew, well then I would know what I wanted, you know, I would have been able to get it from the from the get-go. And there are times where I think something sounds like it's gonna click for me and be what I want and I'll throw it on and then you know uh maybe I make it through a song or two, maybe I don't even make it through a full song and I'm like, no, this this is this is not it. This is not what I was looking for.
Aubrey
14:25
Yeah. The other thing I I know that I think we have this slightly differently is do you usually listen to like albums, like not playlists? Like, I feel like you don't do you have many playlists that you have so many playlists. Okay, okay.
Peter
14:42
But interestingly, all of my playlists are collections of full albums.
Aubrey
14:49
Okay.
Peter
14:50
I don't have any pay I have I think I have like one or two playlists that are just like some songs. Uh and I rarely go to those I do listen to playlists and the main here's the thing. The main reason I make playlists is because I want to listen to multiple albums in a row. And I want to be able to start something and have it go. So for example, when I'm in clinic, I have music playing all day Yeah. I just put my you know, turn on my speakers that are on my desk, get my phone playing. And sometimes I do pick a playlist and shuffle it. And sometimes I pick a playlist and just hit play start to finish. And every once in a while, if I'm really in the mood for a certain artist, I'll just go to them in Apple Music and hit play, and then it'll play through their albums in a row. But the main reason I do playlists is to have multiple albums queued up together in a row.
Aubrey
15:49
Okay.
Peter
15:49
And be able to come back to them.
Aubrey
15:51
Yeah.
Peter
15:51
What about you?
Aubrey
15:52
Yeah, I'm a big playlist guy. There's a few albums that I'll be like, I actually kinda just want to listen to this full album, like of this one artist Um so occasionally I'll do that, but I usually am a playlist listener and it usually is just a collection of songs. Okay. Um because usually when I'm making a playlist there's a very specific vibe I'm trying to tailor it to. Because like that's a big thing is if I'm in a specific mood or I want a specific type of music, I want to have a playlist that matches that. Sure. So sometimes I'm really in the mood for rap but like more chill rap that's not like super hype. So I made a playlist That is just kind of chill rap. And I can just shuffle that and then that's exactly that vibe. Kind of more chill, not anything crazy. Then I also have a couple of playlists where it's almost the entire discography of like two artists. Okay. Like I have a Kendrick and Sciza playlist where if I'm like I don't really know what I wanna listen to, but I do want to listen to these two artists, I have that playlist. I have a couple other ones like I have like a metal super hype playlist That's like specific metal songs that are very hype. Not any of the chill ones will be on that one. Okay. Um Yeah, so I have like a whole bunch of playlists. Some of them I I used to do playlists, which is it's funny that now this is different. I used to have playlists where I would just make one of like all my favorite songs at that moment, but they would be such different vibes, like each song that it was kind of like whiplash listening to those playlists because they weren't like a consistent vibe.
Peter
17:46
Uh-huh.
Aubrey
17:47
It would just it would be like one's like a really preppy pop girl song and then all of a sudden it's like a really sad like ballad and then all of a sudden we have a metal music and then all of a sud like it was like kinda weird whiplash so I do not do that anymore Now I like I'm a playlist curator. I put so much time and energy into my playlist. Okay. Um, and what's funny is that Hayden Literally only listens to my music. So like he doesn't have his own music taste, really His music taste is just my music taste and all of his playlists that are on Spotify are my playlist. I don't remember the last time he made his own playlist. Actually it might have been a little recently. Maybe. Um so I take pride in my playlists because I put a lot of time and energy into those. Um But I did want to mention because I think this is funny. I have certain artists that are blocked on Spotify so that they never come up in any suggested like you know, they'll make like daily mix like daily mixes for you or whatever. I have certain artists that are blocked because I never want to hear their voice ever again. Okay. Um and those three artists are Taylor Swift
Peter
19:08
All right.
Aubrey
19:10
Drake and Kanye West.
Peter
19:13
Okay. Fair. Fair.
Aubrey
19:16
Um And the other thing I wanted to mention is that I have a very specific thing about voices. Like occasionally a voice Um, someone's voice will be so it just like will rub my brain the wrong way, and I just cannot listen to it. And sometimes it's like valid, like they'll have like a kind of like a gravelly voice and other people can understand why I don't like their voice. True. But most of the time I just don't like their voice and I can't even describe why. It just is horrible and I can't hear it Drake is one of those.
Peter
19:50
Okay.
Aubrey
19:50
So I always hated Drake before the Kendrick and Drake beef. But then there was the Kendrick and Drake beef, and I had a real reason why I could hate Drake. And I was like, yes, this is fantastic. I've wanted to hate Drake for a valid reason for so long. And now I have evidence to back it. Um so that was a great anyway, yeah. So it's just funny 'cause I'm I'm very I'm very specific. Do you have any of like the voice thing where you're like mm, I just can't listen to them 'cause of their voice or not really?
Peter
20:19
Um I wouldn't say blanket. There may be times where I'm listening to something and I'm like, ugh. So for example Um a a band I like a lot is Exodus. And we saw Exodus. Yeah. Testament, Death Angel, Exodus. And Zetro Souza, who has been the vocalist for Exodus for the most time. Um his voice can really bother me. Mm-hmm. And and so sometimes I'm like, I just can't listen to Zetro Exodus. And then I'm like, okay, then I'm just gonna focus on the three soon to be four albums that um That the other dude which I knew his name and now I've I've I'm blanking on it. But but a different vocalist who doesn't he still sounds He sounds similar, so it still sounds like Exodus. Yeah. But it's it there's just something about Zetro's voice that just yeah, rubs me the wrong way. Um, so I I think I have moments like that, but there's nobody where it's just like just straight up, no, I just can't ever.
Aubrey
21:26
I think I'm a little stubborn where if I have like a reason why I don't like the artist, then I'm like, oh I w I will never listen to them.
Peter
21:34
Like Kanye I mean, and that's totally fair. There are certain artists who I just don't like, but so I don't use Spotify. I use Apple Music and I don't ever go into their the the only Apple Music playlists that I ever do are the Replay ones at the end of the year.
Aubrey
21:56
Yeah.
Peter
21:57
Which is just like here's the 100 song most songs you listen to the most this year.
Aubrey
22:01
Yeah. So you know they're gonna be bangers.
Peter
22:03
Right. So so Clearly that's gonna be stuff that I like. I do have a question. So when you make your playlist, it's mostly songs, it's not whole albums, right? You're like curating your playlist. Yeah. Okay, so here's here's a question for you. And this is just I I don't know. This is I'm I'm curious how weird I am. And I know the answer is very. Uh how do you name your playlists? Can you can you read me names of some of your playlists?
Aubrey
22:29
Yeah. Let me Let me pull them up. They're not anything too crazy. Um so for example, my rap chill playlist is just called Rap to Vibe 2. Okay. Like decently normal one. Sure. Um I have the one that's f like Kenny Kendrick's and Sizza's like full discography is just called Kenny and Sizza. Um there's an ow a playlist I have that's more chill Kendrick and more chill scissors and they're called it's called My Pookies.
Peter
23:01
Okay.
Aubrey
23:03
I have a playlist that I made for my twenty-first birthday party that I still just listened to because it has hyper Songs that's called Beat A Bumps. So that's like pretty self-explanatory. Okay. Um and then I have The metal playlist is just emojis. It's a spiderweb emoji, a rock emoji, and a gravestone emoji. Um And then I have like a nighttime chiller, like wind down playlist that's literally called Nighttime Chill. Um So they're pretty self-explanatory.
Peter
23:48
Okay. And that's at the end that's for the end of the day. And that's stuff like Um it's a it's muskox, it's Raphael Weinroth Brown, so it's like piano or cello or strings or stuff like that. Yeah. Um but I I do have I I don't know. I try and get creative with my playlist names.
Aubrey
24:09
All right. Let's hear it.
Peter
24:10
Uh let me give you a few. So I have one called A State of Denial. And and Nile is capitalized. And these are all bands who play Egyptian-themed death metal like the band of the oil or crescent or things like that. Uh I have one called A Mournful Mass, and Mournful is spelled M-O-R-N-E-F-U-L, and it is a combination of Amenra's albums, which up until their most recent were all called Masses one through six, and then Mourn. A Brit a Bostonian Brit uh sorry, a Boston like sludgy metal band, and for some reason those two click, so that's where I get a mournful mass. Um I have one called An Elder List. It is all bands whose albums are based on the HP Lovecraft Elder God's Cthulhu mythos. I have one called I have one called Deeper Down and those are the albums by the ocean that are all about their their Jurassic, Cenozoic, Triassic period albums.
Aubrey
25:14
Oh my gosh. I gotta get get better at my playlist naming.
Peter
25:19
I have one called Everything Under the Sun and it's all bands who have the word sun in their name somewhere.
Aubrey
25:27
That's good. That's good.
Peter
25:29
Let's see, let's see. Oh the again I have one called Let My People Go And that's all of the albums Exodus. You know, Exodus, the Bible. And and then a couple offshoots of the band Exodus, but it's all again bands with members of Exodus in them. Let's see, what else do I have here? I have one that's called Pop Goes the Weasel, and it's all bands that are a little more poppy, not quite so like metal, or that have albums that are more poppy. I have one called Quoth the Raven. And it's all it's all music that has from it's all bands that have members of the band Nevermore in them. Quoth the Raven, nevermore. There's my Poe reference. That's good. You know That's Golden I I go for that kind of I try and see if I can get creative when I'm coming up with something.
Aubrey
26:20
But here's a question. Do you have a surgery playlist or do you just listen to whatever your vibe is for the day?
Peter
26:27
Sometimes I do have a playlist that's for the OR. um that I will sometimes go in and make if there's something specific where it's like I want this combination of artists today and I don't already have that playlist made, I'll throw them on there. But most of the time Here's the thing. Most of my surgeries I can finish in under an album's length
Aubrey
26:53
Okay.
Peter
26:53
So so most of the time I'll just start an album. If it's something that's going to be longer, uh a longer case like a robotic case or something like that, and it's going to be a few hours, that's where I'll make a playlist. Or I'll pick a playlist that I already have. Or sometimes, you know, again, I'll just go into a particular artist and I say, okay, we're just going to listen to this artist for this case, and I'll just hit play and play all of their stuff. But um are there certain times of day or certain situations where you're like, yeah, I'm gonna go to this or the other or that? Because For me, you know, in the office it it can kind of be whatever, but most of the time it's things that are a little bit more high energy. But you know, like I mean, I have a playlist called Muscle Metal And that's like if I'm gonna when I'm when I'm weightlifting, like that's gonna be one of my go-tos. Or you know, again, I have the winding down playlist, which again, it's all It it's it's more chill, not electric instruments, more acoustic kind of stuff. Um when I when I I have a number of playlists for writing and I have found that There's certain types of music that are a little more atmospheric that work well for me. So things that are in like what I would call post-metal, um, those work well for me. Or lately I have found that um There's a an Icelandic band, Arstad or Lifsfins, and because they sing in Icelandic and I can't understand it Uh uh. Sometimes that's good for writing because I'm not sure. You don't want to like hear the words.
Aubrey
28:32
Yeah.
Peter
28:32
Yeah, but so I'll pick something where I'm like, oh I'm actually not gonna understand this.
Aubrey
28:36
Yeah.
Peter
28:37
Because it's in another language or something like that. But what about you?
Aubrey
28:41
Yeah, I do have pretty specific times times of day that I will want certain music. Um During the gym, I I agree. I kind of have pretty similar. It's always like pretty high energy, either sometimes I'm more feeling rap, like high energy rap. Sometimes I'm feeling the higher energy like metal kind of punk rocky stuff. Um and sometimes I just really like super high energy like pop. I've been super into like early two thousands, two thousand tens pop these days, like the classic Lady Gaga and Rihanna shit and b early Beyonce and stuff like that. So those are all those are good choices for the gym. Um when I was in school, which sounds weird to say when I was in school because I feel like I school was like yesterday. Um When I would study, there's this YouTube channel. Let me find. Let me find him. That genuinely this guy I owe my degree to this man on YouTube. Um his channel is called Jason Lewis Mind Amend. Okay. And he just does Like in in his YouTube description, like his little like bio, it says I've been designing and producing isochronic tones and brave wane brain wave entertainment Um, in tr and entrainment audio sessions since two thousand six. I mix my tone sessions with music soundtracks and add extra amplitude entrainment effects to the music with sync with isochronic tones. Okay. Um so of course I don't really know what that means or if that's real scientifically, but I don't care because they're bangers. He has this playlist that's um It's like upbeat study music. That's it's super repetitive. The beats always super repetitive, but sure it'll be like sometimes it's like more tech house, sometimes it's more like EDM, sometimes it's more he's got like a liquid drum and bass. And it's always like the name of the video is always Peak Focus for Complex Tasks or something like that. But it's always some The picture is always some animal that has like headphones on and it's just like bump into the bee.
Peter
31:06
Okay.
Aubrey
31:06
So there's like there's like a clownfish one. There's like a bunch of different kind like dogs. There's a dolphin one. My one of my favorite is a uh lizard one where I think if I heard that song I listened to that specific video so often while studying If I were to hear it again, I would probably like snap back into like a like crazy you just took me back It's time to do astrophysics now. Like I need to do math. I need to start studying. But that sort of really repetitive, high-energy Like beats, where there was still kind of something interesting to listen to, but not so interesting that it's distracting, um, was super, super good for studying. Um And they were always like either there would be like one hour long, three hour long videos. You could just set it down. And then that also was a good way to know how long I've been studying for is when it's like, okay, time for a new time for a new video. Um So I I do love that sort of music for like important productive tasks. Okay. Um I also can't really listen to anything with words because I'll just start like singing along Even if I was doing math, which like math I wa it wasn't it didn't like have any words, so it w it couldn't really confuse. You know, if I'm doing like English stuff or like writing a paper, I definitely can't listen to anything with words. Math I probably could, but I still didn't really like to. I still just liked the super consistent beats with like very electronic sounding stuff. Um but when when I'm just chilling at home, even if it's like during the day, I do prefer more chill music, like chiller rap, chiller R and B stuff like that. Um, which is where Kendrick and Sizah make their main appearances. Um and for if I'm doing anything productive at home, then I'll always kind of crank up the energy a little bit and go for a little bit more high energy, but It's almost never as high energy as the gym. The gym is where I have to just like bring bring the question.
Peter
33:22
Unchain it.
Aubrey
33:23
Yeah, exactly. Like Soft Spine, the amount of times I've hit like PRs to Soft Spine by Spirit Box, that's like if I don't know which song To do for a really heavy set, it's always soft spine. Always. It's a good one. So that kind of snaps me into like lock-in mode too. Like this beginning of that song goes and I'm like, I gotta lift heavy. Yeah, and definitely like winding down since I know you've been trying to work on your nighttime routine. I've also been trying to work on my nighttime routine and get better sleep. It does help to have sort of like chill Like oh the it's time to go to bed now music. Um something funny that happened a few years ago in in addition to that, I would listen to the same album going to sleep like every single night because it was when I was working at the hospital so I'd have to go to bed at literally like eight forty five PM to get like a solid amount of sleep before I'd have to wake up for my twelve hour shift. So I would listen to this one specific album, which was called Five Easy Hot Dogs by MacDamarco, which is it's pretty much just instrumental, like just kind of guitar. Um And I listened to it so much that when it came to be my Spotify rapped at the end of that year, it was like 2023, my top five songs, my no no, my top twelve songs were just the album. And I was like, are you kidding me? No way I ruined my Spotify rap with my going to sleep music. Like literally the first the f my top five songs was just the fur like just the album, just in order. Because I would just hit the beginning because they also had good transitions. Each song would go into each other, so it was really nice to listen to. Um so that was funny because I was like no way. And I would just listen to it every night and now if I can't sleep on planes, I will play that playlist and I will fall asleep. I mean, conditioning Yep. I trained my brain to fall asleep to that. Um so yeah, but here's my question. When you are just like driving to work Do you have a consistent vibe you go for when you're like, you know, if you're trying to like kinda get hype for the day? Or is it just whatever the vibe is in the morning?
Peter
35:42
Honestly, it's almost always podcasts.
Aubrey
35:45
Yeah, that's fine.
Peter
35:46
I'm usually listening to podcasts when I go into work um and and stuff like that. Or maybe an audiobook if that's where I'm at. So it's less music, more more podcasts Sometimes at the end of the day, I will definitely need some music just to be like I just to kind of purge purge the day from me. But on the way in, it's almost I'm just always listening to podcasts. So
Aubrey
36:09
Yeah, that's the yeah, that's the other thing is if I'm listening to a book or something, or podcasts, pretty much any time I'm in the car, that's what's playing usually. So I haven't really like listened to music in the car that often. It's mostly every other time of day. It's not
Peter
36:31
Especially when I'm at work and stuff, it's just easy to have on and I don't want to I don't want to be listening to Talkie talkie something where there's something for me to follow. So yeah, definitely. Well, what else? Any other thoughts?
Aubrey
36:48
Not that I can think of. I don't know. I do have a lot of anytime I have um it's the Spotify wrapped at the end of the year and it like tells you how many minutes you listened, I always have like an outrageously high number of minutes listened than a lot of people. So like Which is funny.
Peter
37:06
What what what is outrageously high number of minutes?
Aubrey
37:10
Let me see. Let let's let's just go see. I think it's usually outrageously high minutes of of specific artists. Okay. Um like can I just go to my Spotify Rept twenty twenty-five. Like I think it said I listened to My top song for 2025, I believe I listened to 300 times or something like that. Okay. Let's see, can I even see my Spotify wrapped again? What?
Peter
37:46
Yeah, I'm trying to see if I can find it in my uh my Apple music replay that they do. Yeah. I am not finding it at this time.
Aubrey
37:57
I'm sure yours would absolutely beat me. Crazy style though. Oh, listing stats.
Peter
38:03
Let's see. Again, I have that advantage of being able to turn it on while I'm at At work. Oh, I can't actually find oh no, that's just the playlist.
Aubrey
38:14
Oh, it only has my listening stats for this year. That's stupid. Why can't I Go back and see. Eh, it's all good. Whatever. Whatever. That's the thing is I do listen to things on Repeat a lot. Like Sciza only has a few albums, but with the amount that I listen to Sciza Like, I just am listening to those ones on repeat. I kind of am in a bit of a funk of music right now though. I kind of want to find some new find some new stuff. So this is kind of motivating me to go on a bit of a search for some new stuff.
Peter
38:51
You know, that that is the beauty of the streaming stuff is that you can just go and find it for the most part.
Aubrey
38:57
So it's true. It's true. Yeah, I will say with Kendrick I do kind of I I listen to like full albums of his. Um pretty consistently, but there's a few songs on his albums that I'll be like, I just Can't listen to this. Please stop monologuing me about how the country is going to hell, Kendrick. I need something different.
Peter
39:22
You're like, I'm aware.
Aubrey
39:25
I know that the world is horrible But I don't want to listen to the song right now.
Peter
39:31
Yep, totally fair.
Aubrey
39:33
You know. Anyways.
Peter
39:35
You have anything else? I don't think so. Do you have a an astro fact of the day If not, it's all good because I don't have a a health one this week. There was nothing that jumped out, so I will I have my spring break coming up.
Aubrey
39:50
In an in a few weeks, which means I won't have work for an entire week. So I'm thinking of a project I'm gonna do to keep myself busy and I think I'm gonna do a deep dive. on some astrophysical concept. So I think I should have some facts by then.
Peter
40:06
Very good. Very good. So
Aubrey
40:08
We will see.
Peter
40:09
Well cool. Well we will be back in a couple of weeks. And until then, go ahead and uh share this with other folks. Subscribe if you haven't. Leave us a review and a rating, and we'll talk to you in a few weeks.
Aubrey
40:21
See ya.