Mm.

More slop, more stupid shit that gets 38 seasons.

You... tendency to get too attached too quickly.

I watch a lot of television, and I like to watch it nonstop, like, like a-

Yeah, yeah

... especially the women and the people of color.

So he finally goes to jail, which I guess is technically not illegal to be r- racist and misogynist.

[laughs] But anyways, yes.

So what's one thing about, um, the beverage manufacturing side of it that a lot of people don't understand and don't get about? You know, I do seasoning, so I have no idea what, like, the liquid side of the world.

Yeah.

I think, um, there's a lot to it, right? Um, you can co-pack.

I'm sure that you know, you can co-pack all over.

Um, and I think a big part of it is you have to know that there's a lot of waste that can come with it, right? When you formulate your drink, you get it perfected, then you go to a co-packer, buy all the products, or have someone buy the products that work under you, kind of m- scale it out to what your formula is.

Then when you go into production, right, there's, there can be lots of issues.

You know, you have to make sure that your cans are dry when you pack them.

So what is the current flavor profile and, uh, available online and maybe even in stores, um, and, and, and anything coming kind of thing?

Explain the sleeping porch.

Oh my gosh.

Well, it was a whole floor, uh, up from the living area, and, um, [clears throat] I guess we got assigned beds.

I don't think we got to fight over-

A communal room.

Well, I, I will say the rooms we shared were two people per room, and we did...

I think you, you had sort of like a day bed in there, but small.

You, but you were expected to sleep on the sleeping porch.

So Megan, were you gonna say something about the squats?

Um, I mean, any kind of large muscle group activation like squats is going to increase your natural boost of testosterone.

But I would say that it probably would not get you more into like an optimal level-

Okay.

Always.

It's not only cleaner, but it's making sure that you're diverting some protein to your muscles so that we're engaging in that testosterone boosting activity.

But it's also, like, just keeping your overall skin healthier, your hair healthier.

Um, protein is your best friend.

Um, what, what are your thoughts on that tension between Jeff Strong calling for a less legalistic, less strict, more loving, more accepting culture, and how the Mormon Church seems to be funding and supporting influencers that are calling for the exact opposite?

Right.

Well, you've talked about this before, where they're stuck in this place where if they become more compassionate, people like Greg Madsendon't like it.

He had this whole podcast he did about a shadow faith in the LDS, which what he was referencing is active, faithful LDS people who honestly believe that someday there will be same-sex marriage in the temple, and he was calling this, like, an uprising, like a, a, you know, a Trojan horse almost, that it's sneaking up on us.

And so if you have more people like Jeff Strong, which I think would be amazing, then the people who are the most devout, the ones who have followed all the rules, the me from 10 years ago, are like, "Well, why am I working so hard if I could just sit back and love everyone and I didn't have to do all of these things?" But that's really what the church needs.

But if the church does that, if every time they lean a little bit less rigid and a little bit less conservative, they get kickback from all of the people who have followed the doctrine to a T, all of the ones who still remember what Kimball, and Benson, and Hinckley said, and all of those people get in an uproar when things get loosened even just a little bit.

So do they wanna lose those, that really faithful contingent to please the other side? That's the struggle that they're stuck in, and I wouldn't wanna make those choices.

Is this just a sign? Is this a positive sign that the Mormon Church is just allowing now a big tent in 2026, and we should just celebrate that the Church is supporting a big tent and lots of ideologies and is promoting diversity? I mean, that's one way to spin this.

Yeah.

And I think the sound kind of goes from is that we're all from different places and perhaps had different backgrounds, but have found this like very cool community in Chicago which is like, we call it like the honky-tonk scene.

But, um, there's a band called The Hoyle Brothers and they play every Friday night at the Empty Bottle, and that's been going on for like 20 to 30 years.

I don't know.

It's so much.

But it's the same band every Friday night, and there's this whole dance scene that came around with it.

So there's a lot of like really dedicated, fervent dancers, and they started maybe in like swing or somewhere else.

Yeah.

... set like a rate? So you say, "Okay, this is gonna..." Like, do, do you look at it and then estimate, "Okay, this is probably gonna take me eight hours, and uh, you know, I'm going to give myself a rate of $X per hour, so that's gonna come to a cost of Y plus whatever the cost of materials are?"

Yeah, basically.

Basically.

And so for most of my pieces, um, first of all, I don't generally do pieces that take me eight hours, because the price point of those pieces would be hard for me to move.

So if I'm doing a piece that is going to take me that long, it's either something that I have to go into because I'm creating, because I want to, and it's fulfilling kind of those artisticy creative needs that I have in me, and then when it's done, if I've invested eight hours, 'cause...

Okay, so I basically, um, I like to do $45 to $50 an hour is basically what I kind of sh- like aim at when I'm crafting my piece.

So if that's 50 times eight, so that's 400.

... maze would benefit from.

And I'm wondering, after experiencing all of this, what impact does this have on your outlook on your life or your work experience?

Yeah.

I'd say being outside is very grounding to me.

Um, like it, it, uh, provides me a lot of peace and clarity in my life.

So, um, coming here and experiencing not only the outdoors, but o- outdoors in Africa, where we're exper- experiencing totally new environments, has really brought a greater outlook to life to me.

Mm-hmm.

Like, I feel a lot more ready to take on those, like, hard clients at work and those difficult cases.

Um, my partner is here with me, and we've already had a lot of, like, really good conversation just about, like, our outlook on things and what the future looks like for, like, our relationship, especially after talking about conflict styles and all of these things.

Yeah.

I know that's how I've thought about it the whole time, is that they... 'Cause as we were saying, big soap fan, so I think that's-

Yeah

... what really drew me in, and I was, uh, gonna say that I kind of always saw the correlation of the verticals being similar to soaps, especially with how they're filmed too, 'cause whenever I saw all the actors, like, kind of talking about it and how much they had to it, it was like, that's very similar to what the actors from soaps usually say.

Yeah, yeah, [laughs] yeah.

Um, and it was called the Wil- Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard, and I was so proud when I got that job 'cause I was like, I was a journalist at uni, and I was thinking like, "Can I get a journalism job?" It seemed quite hard.

But, um, I remember just, like, muscling in for work experience, and then the editor joked that I just never left.

I just-- I got a job.

[laughs] So I was like, "I'm not leaving now." And but it was like, I think I was on, uh, £14,000 a year, um, as like a real trainee journalist.

And my boyfriend at the time and I got a flat.

Um, we lived very near to my parents, but we got a little flat and started, like, you know, having bills and that sort of thing and spending money on food and stuff.

Is that right?

Yeah

... to keep going down this, this sad little path.

And the quote you read about how, like, everything shifts really slowly until suddenly it's, like, completely unrecognizable, I feel like that is totally what happened.

Like, I was making these little, tiny, incremental changes, and I kept focusing on, like, all right, I'm just gonna be 1% better than yesterday.

Which before I started this process, if somebody had told me that, I would've just been like, "But, like, then you're gonna get nowhere." But we totally underestimate...

Like, what's, there's a Gretchen Rubin quote.

Like, you underestimate how much you can-

Oh, yeah

What was going on, and what was the breaking point?

Sure.

I'll give a little background context of where I started from.

I grew up in an, I would call it, like, an angry household.

Like, a lot of yelling, a lot of fighting between my parents, and, like, just really reactive.

And I've always dealt with anger since I was a little kid.

Like, I've[clears throat] Tantrums, yelling.

... like one or two things, what were the most helpful things for you?

That's so cool.

Uh, and then, I mean, we are working together as a family constantly to develop a lot of things.

Not just the music, but just, like, events for our community and opportunities for other artists, and that's a family thing.

Um, but then on the other side of it is, I mean, it comes back to opportunity, but is that we want our kids and the c- and all these...

A lot of these kids are at our house all the time.

There's a lot of people coming in and out.

Um, and have them have the same opportunities we had.

Mm.

If you're listening to this right now, you know the world is full of encounters with the unexplained.

It was just a shadow of a man standing at the edge of my bed.

There was nothing like that.

Hello.

I'd like to tell a story of, well, a UFO that I observed last year.

I know that social workers are usually not the first people that you think of when you think of trained observers, but having been a social worker for almost 15 years and having to detail every interaction I have with every client, I've gotten quite good at documentation.

So I pulled over immediately after the event happened and called my brother and had him take some notes.

So I have quite a bit of detail that I'm going to share with you.

That's ridiculous! And what is your video talking about, Megan？这太夸张了吧！Megan，你的影片是在说什么呢？

TikTok，抖音。effects，影响。healthy，健康。recreational activity，休闲活动。huddle，围在一起。video，影片。diet，减肥。aunt，阿姨。send a video，传影片。lemon water，柠檬水。lose weight，瘦。one week，一星期。ridiculous，夸张。This video says that if you put your cell phone by your bedside when you sleep, your brain would get smarter and that you would get a better memory.

这个影片说睡觉的时候把手机放在枕头旁边，脑袋会变更聪明，记忆力也会变好喔！

[片头音乐]English Follow Me！[音效]

TikTok，抖音。[音效]effects，影响。[音效]healthy，健康。[音效]recreational activity，休闲活动。[音效]huddle，围在一起。[音效]video，影片。[音效]diet，减肥。[音效]aunt，阿姨。[音效]send a video，传影片。[音效]lemon water，柠檬水。[音效]lose weight，瘦。[音效]one week，一星期。[音效]ridiculous，夸张。[音效]sleep，睡觉。[音效]cell phone，手机。[音效]pillow，枕头。[音效]by，旁边。[音效]smart，聪明。[音效]memory，记忆力。[音效]next week，下星期。[音效]speech contest，演讲比赛。[音效]save，省下。[音效]practice，练习。[音效]

Here's to an exciting adventure with many more stories to come.

[whooshing sound] My name is Megan.

I'm from Bristol in the southwest of England, but I live in South London.

This is my first Highland Trail, and it's a race I definitely didn't see myself doing now.

It had long appeared elusive and out of my capabilities.

But last October, I did a brilliant event called The Tour of Fast by The Adventure Syndicate.

It took in a lot of the Highland Trail route and the confidence I had while riding, as well as the encouragement from the beautiful crew I met there, including Alan, the founder of Highland Trail, is what gave me the push to give it a go.

Bye.

Mm-hmm

... important for fruitfulness.

Um, and there's so many concepts, um, regarding fruitfulness that are i- in John 15, but I'll read a few verses here.

"I am the true vine.

My father is the vine dresser.

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, He takes away, and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Mm

Yeah, yeah.

Um, [laughs] so you can fly direct from Newark and Washington, DC all the way to Honolulu.

So that is a really, really great option, especially if you can get it for that 22,500 miles.

So you- we flew from Maui to Honolulu, and that was...

You can find those as low as 6,000 miles on Southwest or, like, $60, $80.

Um, those flights are only 40 minutes, so they are super cheap.

Or you can use Atmos for 6,500 miles, and the sa- taxes and fees are only $6.

Yeah.

Yep

... we realized that kind of with where we're at in our life and the age of the kids, and, you know, I know sometimes people say, "I just, I, I wanna be there for my kids, and I don't wanna miss things," and I didn't wanna miss it, but more importantly, I didn't wanna miss the future.

I didn't want to see them going into debt for college or doing things like that.

And so we decided to just really floor it and live on beans and rice and do, do the thing.

So he was, he has always been, "Oh, I'm gonna throw a little extra on the mortgage, a little extra on the mortgage," which made a difference-

Yeah.

Being partnership and having those conversations together.

Um, I think we, when we first got married, did not have joint finances.

This was such a fun lesson.谢谢老师，这堂课真的很有趣。We not only drew lotus flowers, but we saw lots of beautiful creatures.我们不仅画了荷花，还发现了很多美丽的小生物。

Yeah, I realized nature makes me like drawing even more.对，我发现观察大自然让我更加热爱画画。Because every small details can help make my work more lively.因为每个小细节都可以让我的作品更加有生命力。

OK, Teacher Judy。

好的，Judy老师。express，表达。mountain，山。fulfilling，收获。looking forward，期待。arrangement，安排。you're welcome，不客气。go home，回家。

Like, what do you suggest for parents and providers that kids should be learning before they go to kindergarten?

There, I mean, there's so much.

When I was teaching, I was like, "How do you not know this?" Or like, "How is this not something that's practiced at home?" Um, I mean, there's a ton, but I'll start very surface level of like tying shoes.

T- kindergarten teachers are teaching eight-plus curriculum sometimes, um, all day, mixed in with library and specials and recess and lunch, and-Managing 20-plus kiddos, we just, there's not time to teach those, some of those, like, life skills, like how to put on a coat, how to zip up the jacket, how to tie your shoes.

And then a big one that I didn't expect was using the bathroom and knowing how to clean up afterwards.

Um, we, like, legally cannot go in there and help your kiddo after they use the potty.

So that's a big one.

That's it.

Oh, happy to hear that

... uh, I have an acrobat here.

[laughs] Um, kind of amazing just [laughs] all the competitors that-

Matt, they're welcome

... came up and said thank you for, to us for being here.

You know, when we were tearing down our tent, everyone was, uh, willing to give a hand.

And, um, yeah, just like Dr. Tim said, the community around it was something like I've never seen, so.

Yeah.

Yeah.Look, I was happy we were pregnant.

We've all, like, we've been so lucky in that we've never had any issues in terms of getting pregnant.

So grateful that we, you know, did continue to not have those problems, but I was dreading it.

I was utterly ...

I was just so, just, like, PTSD had just kicked in.

I wasn't excited at all.

Wow.

[laughs]

He's wonderful.

A very, very nice man.

Um, but you know, you could tell it, it looked tough.

It looked tough.

He earned his name.

And, you know, we decided to sit down and, and talk just about the trail and what it meant to us in just being here, and, and the right to choose.

Sure

Wow, that was such a beautiful butterfly！哇，那只蝴蝶好漂亮。The colors on the wing are so vivid。它翅膀的颜色真鲜艳。It looks like it's about to stop on their flower。看起来像是要停在那朵花上。

Yeah, the butterfly wings had blue and purple patterns.

It's so fascinating。对啊，蝴蝶的翅膀好像有蓝色和紫色的纹路，太吸引人了。Teacher, can I draw it？老师，我可以画它吗？

Tools：画具。Suddenly：突然。Butterfly：蝴蝶。Fly：飞来。Attract：吸引。Attention：注意。Wings：翅膀。Vivid：鲜艳。

On the flower：花朵上。Blue：蓝色。Purple：紫色。Pattern：纹路。Nature：大自然。Inspiration：灵感。Fluttering：飞舞。