In Moderation

New Year, Same Chaos, Smarter Goals

• Rob Lapham, Liam Layton • Season 1 • Episode 116

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Ever feel like January dares you to set a giant goal you’ll abandon by the second week? We flip that script with a smarter, kinder approach: monthly goals, clear boundaries, and systems that respect your energy instead of punishing it. Along the way, we riff on time-zone chaos, a viral Brooklyn Bridge “fireworks” hoax, and a running DeLorean bit that somehow keeps steering us back to sustainable change.

We open with the truth behind creative burnout: daily posting streaks, analytics anxiety, and the illusion that “more” equals “better.” Then we get tactical. Take real time off without tanking momentum by batching on high-energy days, lowering output when your tank is empty, and treating deep research like a campaign with a clear scope. If you lift, think like an athlete—cycle intensity, plan recovery, and aim for weekly consistency over heroics.

Instead of one grand resolution, we offer two on-ramps you can actually keep: pick a date (“I start by March 26”) or pick a condition (“I start after three nights of 7-hour sleep”). From there, switch to monthly goals with one behavior, one metric, and one constraint—three 30-minute workouts, four home-cooked dinners, or one off-screen evening each week. We also take on internet grifters and the dopamine drip of “up 3 percent, down 4 percent,” and explain how to protect your attention so your work stays sharp and your life stays sane.

The thread through the jokes and trivia is identity. You don’t need a new year to become the person who shows up—you need a smaller target, a repeatable system, and the grace to reset often. Tap play, set one tiny goal for the next four weeks, and tell us what you’re starting. If this helped, follow, share with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review so more people find the show.

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to the first episode of the year because we didn't put one out on the first, and that was my fault. Basically, Liam. By the time Liam was ready, I uh I was already in bed.

SPEAKER_03:

It's holidays, man. We got time with family and friends and things of that nature, fairy tales, whatever. Well, I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely, it's not my fault. Yeah. Um but speaking of the calendar. Happy New Year! New Year's.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. Is that is it the same day in Canada? New Year's?

SPEAKER_00:

No.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_04:

Or do you do it in like October, like you do it with Thanksgiving?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we do it two months early. It's our New Year's is actually in November.

SPEAKER_03:

Wait, hold on. Let me let me ask some because I wanted to know this, like with the countdown, because they do have like the rockin' New Year's Eve, whatever, at midnight, the ball drops in New York City. Does like every time zone have that? Do they have their own party somewhere? Do they all decide like, hey, it's gonna be in friggin' like you know, this city, whatever? Like, is is that what what's going on with Canada? Do they I I know there's only one road, but there's different time zones.

SPEAKER_00:

And it's it's funny because um Americans think that Eastern time zone is the easternmost time zone in North America, but it is not.

SPEAKER_03:

Right. There's one, there's there's more, right? Like, I know like what is it, like Puerto Rico's like Newfoundland time is the easternmost. I was thinking, like, I remember I was listening, I was like watching, they're like, oh, what's it? Puerto Rico's countdown. Like, oh, I guess they must be an hour like ahead. I I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

That one I don't know. But uh with Newfoundland, I can tell you that there's no major city that has uh the big ball or something. Everybody's at a kitchen party.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay. Well, what the hell are you doing in yeah, as Estonia?

SPEAKER_00:

Estonia, that's um close enough. In Alberta, where everybody it's it's like you know, northern Texas. Yes, um, everybody just goes outside and starts firing off their guns and fireworks.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, okay. So America. So they do whatever they sound like.

SPEAKER_04:

Did you guys hear about the thing on TikTok where somebody had convinced everyone that there was going to be a fireworks show at the Brooklyn Bridge? I did not, and that's great. I love it. Like hundreds, if not maybe like a thousand or so people showed up and they're waiting, you know, three, two, one, and they're waiting for the fireworks to go off, and nothing, nothing happened.

SPEAKER_00:

Wow.

SPEAKER_03:

That what that how long the moment of realization where you're sitting there and every you're just kind of staring at everyone else, like, do we just get fucking duped? Like, what do we do? Do we admit to this? Do we all just walk away right now in shame? Do we say anything? Do we just be in silence? What do we do? I think I would probably just go the silence route. Just be like, and just and just walk away, don't say a word. That's what I think.

SPEAKER_04:

Everybody just walks away, no one makes eye contact. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03:

We never speak of this. No one ever speaks of this.

SPEAKER_00:

I feel like that's a great opportunity to just start everybody in a singing old Lang Zine, just everybody pitching in on a bridge.

SPEAKER_04:

No, what was it? The new year was the friends, you know, you know, the thing.

SPEAKER_03:

I I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00:

The friends we made along the way.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, that's because 90% of my knowledge is DeLorean-based. But what do you guys think about for resolutions? How do you guys think about this?

SPEAKER_04:

I'm thinking of buying a DeLorean this year.

SPEAKER_02:

Your resolution is kind of.

SPEAKER_04:

I'm fairly certain. I I think I'm seeing a DeLorean in the future. Sorry, spoiler alert, Liam hasn't seen the fucking movie.

SPEAKER_03:

No, I will not. Uh once I get the DeLorean, it's gonna be the best joke ever, and I refuse to spoil that joke.

SPEAKER_04:

No, there's too much riding on you not seeing the film.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly. Once I get my DeLorean. Eventually, like at some point, like the 84 DeLorean or whatever, people gotta be like, all right, whatever, 100 bucks. And I'll be like, yeah, mine, please. 83? I thought there was 84.

SPEAKER_04:

I thought that was 81 to 83.

SPEAKER_03:

81 to 83. It's not like cars now we're gonna be. If someone's trying to sell you an 84 DeLorean, I'll take it. As long as it's called a DeLorean, that's all that matters. I don't care what it looks like.

SPEAKER_04:

Were we talking about the other day, like we should sell a knockoff car called like DeLorean?

SPEAKER_03:

DeLorean, yeah. If you say, fast. 84 DeLorean.

SPEAKER_04:

If you want an 84 DeLorean, you can definitely get some guys who don't have their hearing anymore who were around when the first run of them came out. Just hit up all those people on the Brooklyn Bridge.

SPEAKER_03:

You guys need a ride home, right? Well, guess what I have?

SPEAKER_04:

New Year's resolutions are going great. We can't even commit to the fucking episode.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, that's our change. That's we started day one with that, and we're not changing that. If people are still listening to this for some fucking reason, they're already on board with it, so we're going with it.

SPEAKER_04:

Welcome to Inmoderation, the show where we give you a moderate dose of info, sarcasm, and you already know we're not approved. But uh we we do approve, I guess what? Well, we're gonna talk about some tips on how to make your year a good one, a sustainable one.

SPEAKER_03:

That's probably a good idea. That's not what I had because uh again, I pretty much things are just DeLorean-based. But I uh for me, I was thinking, you know, we each give our like uh New Year's resolution, and like maybe some ways we're gonna hopefully keep to it, even though we probably won't, as most people don't, you know, the the usual.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, maybe if we if we put it out there, you know, when we have a record of it, we'll we'll feel more inclined to chase it.

SPEAKER_03:

And that's we do talk about like like filming your progress and shit in the gym. Like, this is what that's basically what this is. It's the same thing.

SPEAKER_00:

It's this is filming our progress on a podcast.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly. Yeah, it's not a good progress. The progress has been very bad, but it's still documenting what's going on. Documenting the fall of Liam. That's what 2026 is going to be both.

SPEAKER_04:

2026 is gonna be the fall of Liam. Why?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, he's probably gonna trip over Oakley at some point.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, there's uh so many things are gonna go bad. I'm sure of it. I can hear Oakley right now just screaming as my wife tries to get her to bed. I can already hear her. So yeah, that's going that's awesome. This is already coming through. I don't hear it. Yeah, well, that's good. Then it didn't happen. So my my resolution for the year, I'm gonna I'm gonna say right now because I'm gonna try and stick to it, is be a little bit easier on myself with the the making the videos and be able to just take some days off and whatnot. Because like it's still like something I really enjoy. So like I will some days just like push myself too much. Like, oh, I can film another one, I can do another one, and I think I should just take a little bit more time. I don't think I uh it's not like I'm doing it by overdoing it by a lot, right? I don't think I'm going crazy, but there's like a little bit where I just like I finish my fourth or fifth video and like fuck. What was what was I even saying with that last one? I don't know. I'm so tired at this point. So I I think I need to just take a step back and just do like a little, a little bit less, a little bit more in moderation.

SPEAKER_04:

When was the last time you skipped the day of posting?

SPEAKER_03:

Of posting? Yeah, posting videos, probably like several months, four or five months ago.

SPEAKER_04:

It can become a bit of a gr like I I sort of lost my love with it through the latter half of 2025 due to just you know the the grindy part of it, but also some life circumstances, and I stopped posting for the first time in two and a half years in early November, and I took a two-month break. I didn't start until a couple of days ago. Two months, not a video was posted, and it's it really did help with my mind. I I feel more like I'm excited to get back to it. My my ideas feel a little bit better.

SPEAKER_03:

And I I take days off, even sometimes multiple days off from filming. I do that pretty frequently because I need that. Like I don't film every day. I take at least one day, if not two days a week, just from like, all right, I'm just taking today and just relax. I need that. I would go crazy without without doing that. But I always, you know, on the days I do film, I'll film extra and so that I have those to post. Or I might just post one video or something like that. But it it's still, yeah, it it feels it can get just catch up with. I've never gone like and if I skip a day, it's like one day here and there from like posting it. It's not, I've never taken a month off. It's also difficult though when it's like your job and you're like your family, right? Like I support my family through this, right? So, like, I mean, like, oh, we're gonna take a month off, like, oh, that's a month without pay. You know, I could probably afford that, but still, like, that's tough to be like a whole month, and then what's it gonna be like when you come back? All these different things. If you post on something like YouTube, they're constantly showing you, like, oh, this video did better than that video, that video didn't do as well as this video, and you're down by like three percent on this, and up by and so like they're showing you all these analytics, and it's very easy. Like, I'm pretty good at being like, All right, you know, it is what it is, I'm I'm making enough money, it's fine. But it's very easy to look at that and be like, oh shit, it's down by like four percent. What do I gotta do to get back up to where you know that sort of stuff?

SPEAKER_04:

And that's why I stopped. Yeah, I I was getting so involved in the numbers, and how is this video doing and how's that video doing? I lost track of why I got into it in the first place, which was one to have fun and and to share information. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

I burnt myself out so badly doing six hours of research on videos. Yeah, and I mean, the people it help, it helps. But when you put that much effort into a video and then it doesn't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, like the videos that you and I do, Liam, they're a little bit more fun, or like we don't we don't have to do a ton of research. We we do our research, but like yeah, to do I've never done six hours of research for uh for a video.

SPEAKER_03:

I've done like for some videos, they'll take me like an hour. Some of them can because I'm doing I'm talking about something specific and I'm like, I don't really know a lot of this. I'm gonna have to read and listen to about this or that. So some of them can take that long, and then you there's the editing and film and all these things you have to do, they can take a while, but typically, yeah, not not that the that's why I try to do more of just the fun ones because those are quicker and easier. I ranted about not seasoning your food and being white and not seasoning your food today. That was one of my videos, just as a fun joke one. So, like, I need to do those ones are a little bit easier, and I just kind of have fun with it.

SPEAKER_00:

The longest I spent researching a video, and I don't even know how long it was, but um, it was the uh debunk of Eddie Abut. I remember that um where he uh he had all those magical numbers of protein uh synthesis and X gives this much protein and all that, and everybody was like, he's just making those up. And if you asked him, he'd be like, Google it. And I spent so much time trying to find because I knew he wasn't making them up, I knew he was getting them from somewhere, and I had to find what that was so that I could be like, no, and it took me forever, but I found it, and I made the video, and he hasn't been able to talk about that since. And it that that I will admit that feels so amazing. That's he's still afraid of you to this day, right? He has never once responded to any of my stuff.

SPEAKER_03:

But that's the thing with those guys, is they don't they can just ignore all of it and just keep saying whatever they do.

SPEAKER_00:

Eddie Eddie's responded to lots of people.

SPEAKER_03:

He he has, and I'll just call him a fucking idiot. That's really just like this fucking blah blah blah. And that's it. Like he'll never respond to any of the claims anyway.

SPEAKER_00:

And uh he can't do that with me because he said Google it, and I did. And I found where it was.

SPEAKER_04:

Too much, yeah. All that. Then you you've got people like Paul Saladino who they just get angry. Like, I did you see the the video that uh Jacob did, Jacob Foods did with uh Paul Saladino on the street?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, on the street, yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, yeah. He asked him a very like softball question, and he just Paul lost his mind. Yeah, like could not handle it. He fell apart when he couldn't produce his talking points. It he just he got angry.

SPEAKER_03:

I remember specifically one thing he said that really I think just distilled him as a person. He said, My sperm mogs your sperm, was his exact quote. And I was like, this is the epitome of Paul Saladino, just so knuckle dragging that he devolves into my sperm count is higher than you, therefore I'm more of a man, maybe I'm more alpha, I don't know what the real end game is, but you know, somewhere in that region, and that's kind of sad. Um, yeah, I I I'm it's it's it's an interesting character.

SPEAKER_00:

Does he think he's going to impregnate a thousand women in a single jack-off or something?

SPEAKER_03:

I I really ask more on that, just like where what what's what's your end game there? Like, what makes that in any tangible way important to the conversation he's trying to have? I it's it's quite fascinating, really.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's it's a it's a hilarious point that um carnivores try to make that there is research uh showing that vegans have a lower sperm count, but lower is still like tens of thousands of sperm. That's enough to impregnate somebody.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I don't yeah, I I I I the carnivores are very interesting. What do you so what Mike, what are you doing this year besides going carnivore?

SPEAKER_04:

I'm I'm trying to impregnate a thousand women. That's if you want to write it, per day. Yeah, send your application of the inmoderation inbox. I think it works out, what, three a day or so?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Here's the problem. I got a vasectomy, so I don't know. I I'm gonna have to try real hard.

SPEAKER_00:

So I mean, there's they're still in there, you just gotta, you know, take a take a needle and just kind of pull them out.

SPEAKER_04:

Like a claw machine going in there to grab one and just like wiggling, like, no, no, no, please!

SPEAKER_03:

I don't want to pay taxes. Well, clearly my sperm's working because I've got a toddler yelling at me for the for things. Clearly, it works well enough.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, since you have a kid and Saladino doesn't, does that mean your sperm is fine?

SPEAKER_03:

I feel like I honestly thought about that for that. I was like, what if I just hold up my child and be like, uh, I'm saying, Paul, uh, do I have to say anything? Right here. Right here. What are you gonna do about that, Polly Baby? She's coming to look for protein bars. She loves protein bars.

SPEAKER_04:

I bet just like his arteries, his urethra's all clogged up with cholesterol. He can't even come anymore.

SPEAKER_03:

His aphobe is through the roof. Yeah. Oh my goodness. It's a chocolate cigar. It's a chocolate cigar. Yeah, it's pretend. I have an idea for a video. I'm not gonna open it. No. This I'm telling me to open it. No, it's for a video. It's gonna be funny. I have an idea. I haven't filmed on it yet. I haven't filmed about it yet. But there's like a woman who's like smoking, and she's like, and they're like, Don't you hear aspertane's terrible, and she's like, it's awful. She's got like a cigarette in her mouth as a joke. And I'm just like, I just want to kind of tag along with like this just stogy and then just take a big bite out of it. I think it'd be funny.

SPEAKER_00:

Perfect. Okay, back to you, Mike. What about me? Resolution.

SPEAKER_03:

Resolution doing besides DeLorean and impregnating women. We need to.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, I've got a probably a better shot of the DeLorean than anything. But I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

You impregnate a DeLorean. God damn it, I'm gonna try! There's a will, there's a way. And I need a way to make more DeLoreans.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, they don't make them anymore, and they haven't made them in a while. Somebody's gonna subscribe to the Inmoderation Patreon to see me fuck a car.

SPEAKER_02:

Our Patreon went downhill.

SPEAKER_04:

So I'm in the back and the the fucking doors are like flapping. Uh yeah, um, I want to say yes to more things. Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

That's uh more like like what, people asking you to go out and do shit, like social events, or yes like that.

SPEAKER_04:

For sure. I'm I'm doing something this Friday because I, you know, I'm just trying to say yes to more stuff. And it's uh I I've historically always talked myself out of doing things, saying, well, I I shouldn't be here, I don't belong here, or I'm not gonna be any good here, or whatever. And I I want to challenge that more. I've I've done a great deal of that so far, but um, I want to do more of it.

SPEAKER_00:

Join an improv group. Then you have to say yes.

SPEAKER_04:

I already did it. No, you gotta say yes, and improv group would be cool. Yes, I am.

SPEAKER_00:

Sorry.

SPEAKER_04:

Or you can go there and be a huge stick in the mud and every time somebody comes in, like, would you like to talk on my phone made of peanuts? I go, no, I'm alert for peanuts. And furthermore, I'm gonna fuck your mom.

SPEAKER_03:

I there was once, I think it was like TED 2 that had me dying because they're like, hey, you want to go to the improv and just fuck with them? And so like they're in there, like, we need a place. And it's like it's like Robin Williams. Robin Williams like saying Robin Williams on 9-11. On 9-11, just like these horrible things, like, all right, guys, come on. What we need a real place, the second tower or whatever they're saying. Like, it's just it's just horrible awful to have me crack it up.

SPEAKER_04:

Speaking up, uh, when is under moderation coming back?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah, all right. We need to do that again.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, so my New Year's resolutions.

SPEAKER_01:

There we go.

SPEAKER_00:

I was just gonna say no. I mean, I'd love to bring it back um once I have life again. I can book people. Um, it's it's not so much a case of booking people, it's a case of I So if I if I knew this was gonna be on resolutions, I would have like made up one before we started. Uh we decided to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_02:

We're gonna like we're gonna prior plan our video a fucking episode. We've never done that before, Rob. You think we're gonna start now?

SPEAKER_00:

Planning? Because yeah, I I don't have a resolution because the last couple weeks have I've just had so much on my mind. And so stuff like under moderation is just it's a case of I need to get to a better place. Wow.

SPEAKER_04:

Right. No, same. I I've not been in a great headspace the last many months, and um I would like to be in a better one. And I I've I'm moving here in a couple of weeks, and life is gonna look very different uh than it has in a while. And I've I've gotta learn a new way to live, you know, new way to think, a new way to act. New way to say yes. New way to say yes to more things, new way to say yes to all those applications we're gonna get in.

SPEAKER_03:

So here's what you go, you just go on Tinder and you just fucking swipe right. Wait, left or right? What does swipe rights? The yes, I don't remember. I don't even know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

I think it's good.

SPEAKER_03:

Right means yes.

SPEAKER_00:

I no idea. So I have all the dating apps, but I like never freaking use them. Because um I can't use I can't use them. I can't freaking I said I was too handsome.

SPEAKER_05:

Too handsome.

SPEAKER_00:

Like I've I've got them all. And hold on, that's not Tinder. Where's Tinder? Oh that's grinder. It's right, sorry. It's right for like. It's right for like right for like called farmers only. I can't frickin' do it. I can't base dating off of pictures and stuff. Yeah, that's just it on my phone unused.

SPEAKER_04:

And then you try to do it. I'm saying yes to more things. So I can base it off of pictures. There you go.

SPEAKER_02:

In fact, if there's even a more superficial way to do it.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, if there's more? Oh, okay. I'll find a way. Imagine you scroll and it's just a picture of a DeLorean. You're like, oh, I've never like, super like that to me.

SPEAKER_02:

I'll pay for all the super likes. Give me that one.

SPEAKER_04:

Is there like a double like that I can do? An extra?

SPEAKER_03:

Can I can I send like money? I remember there was a way to like buy like I remember I this was like six years ago or something. I don't remember. You could buy like a super like or something. Like all of the apps. There's a super like, it's swipe up. Oh, and you can pay for more of those. That's how that's why they get you.

SPEAKER_04:

I love classism. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

I love classism.

SPEAKER_04:

Only the ultra-rich get to reproduce, got it.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, makes eugenics tinder. But I think there's a lot of people out there that are that are going into the new year um confused and not knowing anything about where their life's going and stuff like that. And maybe they didn't get a resolution set, and that's okay.

SPEAKER_03:

I think not having a resolution is more than okay because most years I would say I did not have one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

You can also start a new one whenever you want. Doesn't have to coincide with the calendar.

SPEAKER_03:

That's a good point. I feel like you have like there's a week when it starts with the new year where you're like, this is it. If I don't get this, just done. I don't get to pick one. Wait till next year, run it back.

SPEAKER_00:

It's yeah, you can do that anytime. My new year's resolution is going to come on March 26th. Is that the Canadian New Year? No, the Canadian New Year's in November. We already went over this. Right, right, right. God, you don't even listen to me. There's only one date in Canada.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, you can just turn your life around anytime you want. I was just talking to my um my group the other day, and I was saying, like, you know, before I got online, you guys didn't know that I was the uncool kid at my old school. You know, you didn't realize I was the person who had trouble making friends, or that I had a stutter and a speech impediment. You know, like you don't know all the stuff that I think about myself because I didn't present it when I showed up, and now I'm perceived differently.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly. So what you're saying is you should lie as much as you possibly can get out there, churn, turn your life around, and lie. And people will catch me if you can.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. Frank Abignell, yeah, that whole thing. You know that the story that he told was also like about lying was also a lie.

SPEAKER_01:

What's the wait? Which story is this?

SPEAKER_04:

It's it's a story, it was a movie called Catch Me If You Can. It was based off of this guy, it was like a master con man. The story that he was telling was a lie. That none of that stuff happened, but that was his con, was telling the story. So just lies upon lies.

SPEAKER_00:

Liam and I are sitting here, like, yeah, we don't watch movies.

SPEAKER_03:

I don't, I have not. That's Back to the Future, Catch Me If You Can, Scarface. I don't know. There's a bunch other up there that people always yell at me about. Pulp fiction.

SPEAKER_00:

I've not seen a lot of movies. Wow, at least I've seen pulp fiction.

SPEAKER_03:

I haven't seen pulp fiction, yeah. There's still a lot of older movies that I have not gotten to. But yeah, no. I feel that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, exactly. You at any point you can kind of pick like a New Year's resolution. And I don't know. I think with a lot of it, like we see it all right in the space we're in, right? What do we see it a lot with like, oh, I'm gonna, you know, lose weight, I'm gonna do this thing, I'm gonna go to the gym, this off, you know, this much. This these are the things we see, and then you see you go to the gym for the first week or two, they always have the gym sign up things to encourage you to sign up, and then you have trouble sticking to it. Yeah, and I think people just put so much pressure on themselves for that thing because it's something they've dealt with for a long time, right? If you're making a New Year's resolution, it's probably something you can deal with with for a long time. So you put your this enormous amount of pressure on yourself, and when you don't achieve it, yeah, it's just it's so much easier to be like, eh, fuck it. Next year. Next year, right? So I feel like instead of having a timeline of making well, this was a stupid idea. We shouldn't have done New Year's resolutions. We're gonna come back another time with our mid-year resolution where we're just gonna at some point just have ideas of things we what we want to do.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I've already I've already set the date for mine. So there we go.

SPEAKER_04:

We're all gonna set a date for what this actually does lean into something that I tell people to do if they're having trouble starting something, and that is to either decide on a condition to satisfy or a date to meet. That's it. So if if ever someone is like, I don't want to do this because I'm not good enough or I'm not right strong enough or whatever, uh, figure out what that means to get you started, or decide on a date and make sure that it's close enough that it can be achievable in the next few months.

SPEAKER_03:

So you should pick something, are you you telling them that they should probably pick something a little bit smaller, a little like easier to achieve?

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, it's I mean, every everything we do for the most part is just a bunch of small things that equal something much larger. It hardly ever like no one's ever waking up like you know that Spider-Man wakes up and he doesn't need his glasses anymore. I think some of us feel like that's how fitness is supposed to happen.

SPEAKER_03:

Do you think some of the problem might be because you set a new re you set a resolution for the year, right? For the whole 12 months, 365 days, blah blah blah, all minutes. And so, like you usually set like a big goal, right? Because it's a whole year.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_03:

And I feel like that like can we do a new a new month's resolution?

SPEAKER_00:

And then people feel like they have to do that within by February.

SPEAKER_03:

Why not? I think it's easier to get discouraged that way. So I have like a new month's resolution. Every month you have a smaller goal that you set.

SPEAKER_00:

I think I I I that I think that would work a lot better.

SPEAKER_03:

I think that would work a lot better. What am I gonna do?

SPEAKER_04:

That's how you do it. I just I want to do a little bit better with my fitness this month, or I want to kind of cut down on snacking this month, whatever. It's it's not a you don't have to change your whole life.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay, well then at start of every month, we're gonna give a new month's resolution when we remember.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, we're gonna buy part of a DeLorean next week. We're gonna buy small parts of a DeLorean until I create an entire DeLorean.

SPEAKER_03:

I've got the ashtray. I'm so ready.

SPEAKER_04:

This is going great. Next week, the rear view mirror. You're gonna get the speedometer needle. Just the needle. Fun fact the stock DeLorean speedometer only went up to 80 because of Carter era uh limitations on speed.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes. So 80 miles was the fastest you were like allowed to go.

SPEAKER_04:

Cars could go faster, but the speedometer would stop.

SPEAKER_03:

Interesting.

SPEAKER_04:

It was just like a, I guess, a psychological thing. I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03:

Maybe, yeah, to encourage them to not go fast. Because once you get 80, you're like, oh, I don't know how fast I'm going, so I should probably stick to that. Is that maybe the idea?

SPEAKER_04:

That being said, the the DeLorean was a dog shit car.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, he couldn't even go like 60.

SPEAKER_04:

No, you couldn't punch it. Yeah, it was really difficult to get it up to even 70. So when they had the you know, a big plot point of the movie. Sorry, Liam, plug your ears. 88 miles. DeLorean has to get to 88. So they had to put in a new speedometer display so that it could go up to 95.

SPEAKER_01:

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_04:

That's interesting. That that is not something you would find in a stock.

SPEAKER_03:

I want to know all the trivia about the movie, but not see the movie because that'd be even funnier. Like, I'm giving people like fucking tidbits on the movie they don't know about speedometers, and they're like, what's the plot point? I'm like, I don't fucking know. I haven't seen the movie.

SPEAKER_04:

I don't I don't know the main character's name.

SPEAKER_03:

I oh McD's? Mic D's? D's. Mickey's? Yeah, a guy from the Adams family. Close enough. Uh exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03:

Fucking Doctor Who helps him out. That's all I know.

SPEAKER_04:

That's what we need. Let's just do an entire episode where I educate you about some really obscure shit about Back to the Future and DeLorean history.

SPEAKER_02:

For our monthly resolutions, what else would you get? What else you got about Back to the Future?

SPEAKER_04:

Luckily, I am diagnosed, so I've got an excuse. Right before the episode, we were talking about how we were gonna do a whole episode with just train noises. It was gonna crush in the undiagnosed boomer adult male demographic.

SPEAKER_03:

I think everyone else might struggle a little bit. I'm not gonna lie. Any other genre is gonna be it's gonna be a real rough listen.

SPEAKER_04:

It's gonna be pretty tough.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm 30 minutes in and we've just heard the 400th train porn. I don't know if I can keep going.

SPEAKER_04:

Ambient 10-hour loops of being jolted awake in the middle of the night by a train, silent for about a half hour in between, and then every once in a while.

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Woo!

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, somebody out there listens to that for sleep.

SPEAKER_03:

Dude, people listen. I've talked about this in the podcast, so I'm not gonna fucking harp on it, but people listen to the craziest shit for like white noise, like water dripping and stuff. You're you're a psycho. I try I refuse to believe anything else.

SPEAKER_00:

Are the three of us nothing? Nobody listens to Liam rant as their white noise. Could we put out an entire like six-hour video of you just ranting for people to fall asleep to? We just compilation it.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah. Can we get a compilation of every time Liam has said the word DeLorean and just like super cut that together? Too long.

SPEAKER_03:

The video will be fucking too long. We won't be able to put it on YouTube.

SPEAKER_00:

When did we start doing the the DeLorean? Is it been a year since we started the DeLorean jokes?

SPEAKER_03:

No, I think not quite a year. But like texted me. Here's no no no no no. Listen, listen. I've got a New Year's resolution. All right. Fucking last year we looked at our most said word or whatever for the podcast. Like it tells you your most said word, and it was like what Aspartame?

SPEAKER_00:

Aspartame.

SPEAKER_03:

Which makes sense. Next year, come on, guys, we can do it. DeLorean? DeLorean. It's gotta be fucking DeLorean next year. If it's not DeLorean, then I'm gonna DeLorean my DeLorean because I'm gonna be so fucking mad.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, but the DeLorean would be just so DeLorean.

SPEAKER_03:

We're setting ourselves up for success with this one.

SPEAKER_00:

So that's what you do. That's what you do. You want to set yourself up for success.

SPEAKER_03:

What do you think about a DeLorean? You think would you like to uh what if I got one? She she's like, I don't care. Just get stop being in this stupid office. Get out of it.

SPEAKER_00:

Give me the chocolate cigar.

SPEAKER_03:

Over here. Yeah, no, I hear you over here. I'm kind of like, I'm kind of like talking, though, is the problem.

SPEAKER_04:

So, Liam, I texted you on October 9th, and I said, I was gonna text you to say, I hope the move went well and welcome home. It's well deserved, and I'm excited for you to start living this new life. But then I was reminded that you've never seen the greatest movie of all time. I have reconsidered. I will still go halfsies with you on the DeLorean because that is a brilliant bit to own the DeLorean just to elicit conversation about a movie you haven't seen.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes. So we uh we had talked about it before then, though. So, like that's okay. I'm gonna be slowly getting quieter as I get pulled away by a two-year-old. But don't mind me. I'm just off to get a DeLorean.

SPEAKER_04:

It's poll day, that's what it is. Oakley's just getting her exercise, and it's gonna be my poll day right after this extra this uh podcast here.

SPEAKER_00:

That's for sure. Do I want to know what kind of poll? Long one.

SPEAKER_04:

Thick one.

SPEAKER_00:

Me short shriveled. Not short, shriveled, and slightly to the left.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, that too. That's the new name of the podcast. Shriveled and slightly to the left.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay, well, I think I got a freaking time limit on my podcast sheets, and that time limit has gone off. It is now the timer is now screaming at me.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh no. Wait, real quick, before we can I uh before you have to go, can I can I ask a favor of the both of you? Yes. There is somebody listening to this podcast right now who has been bouncing around the idea of a New Year's resolution, and I want to put her feet to the fire. CJ, get to the gym. CJ, get to the gym. CJ, get to the gym. Get to the gym. Get to the gym. There we go. I think that's it. We just want you to get to the gym. We want to see you become your best game.

SPEAKER_00:

You don't have to do any lifting. Just get there. Just go. Yeah, just get there.

SPEAKER_03:

Just get there and start looking up DeLorean parts because I would like the speedometer to one, please. And thank you.

SPEAKER_04:

It's it's very heavy, so we're gonna need you to be strong enough to lift it. The speedometer is I told you it's a very poorly built.

SPEAKER_03:

Is to be able to have the strength to put together a DeLorean.

SPEAKER_04:

The speedometer alone is 400 pounds. Oh god.

SPEAKER_00:

You got this, CJ.

SPEAKER_04:

You got this.

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