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On this show we talk about the benefits of music and nature for your body. We discover why music makes us smile and why a nice walk will make you feel good! And isn't that what we all could use. #music #nature #mentalhealth #healthbenefitsofmusic #walkingyourwaytogoodhealth #benefitsofnature
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good afternoon everybody I'm Rob this is
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I call her mom but you can call her
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Karen and this is a new episode of
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alternate verse live we're going to go
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about a little differently this time we
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will explain in just a minute so without
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further Ado Let's Roll
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[Music]
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thank you
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hey guys it is Rob uh this is one of the
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videos Under the Umbrella of the
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official Rob Glasser we have multiple
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Series this one in particular is ultra
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Universe Live usually a very nerdy and
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geeky style however we do have our other
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show that we do Mining and mental health
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which covers some of the similar topics
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here so I thought it'd be kind of cool
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to get our guys from that end to come
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here and vice versa so we haven't
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checked it out my mom just put up the
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link to the audio at Spotify so it's
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also video rub they can watch the video
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that is true I forget things sometimes
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um all right so today we're going to
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talk about why music and nature makes
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you feel so good
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um and we talked about this before in
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other shows and I'm sure we'll talk
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about it again because it's a very cool
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topic here so first up the question we
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have to ask you is why does calming
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music make you smile or make you relax
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um science shows that the neurobiology
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of the brain gets very happy when you
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see hear smell eat or do something that
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also makes you happy so it's no surprise
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that when you put on a pair of
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headphones pop in that YouTube uh
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concert that somebody taped or you know
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listen to a cartoon theme that you love
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your brain is going to send the uh Vibes
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so to speak that you want so
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exploringyourmind.com a really cool
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website with a bunch of different uh
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topics here they have uh 10 benefits to
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relaxing music relaxing music by the way
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can be anything you feel like if you're
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a fan of heavy metal go for it just not
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near me I'm gonna stick to I don't know
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how relaxing it is Pokemon and you know
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those weird elevator songs that you hear
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in the uh you know yeah number one it
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reduces stress so I'm pretty sure I just
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answered that question before even
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starting this conversation but yes the
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biology behind your brain proves that
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when you hear something happy you feel
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good so short of you know having you
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play the piano for us
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um I'm sure though you know joking aside
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I'm sure though when you did that or do
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that it does bring you the good feelings
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of hearing it playing it you know and
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I'm sure you are de-stressed right
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absolutely I mean that's why I have
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music playing all the time when I'm in
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my office and working I like to have
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music in the background because it does
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bring me joy so it's it's a good thing
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for your mood
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there you go what happened here oh come
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on computer let's go all right number
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two my computer decided to change its
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page number two the sounds of nature
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improve your concentration
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so whale songs uh those really weird
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videos of fishies swimming around and
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all you hear is like
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um all of those things have been proven
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to
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um
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uh improve what you're doing as I can't
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concentrate now improve your
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concentration that's what I need whale
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songs
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um
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again uh the site here doesn't say
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specifics but for instance they did give
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a
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um example during a bird life focused
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natural product it showed that relaxing
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music with nature and animal sounds
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improves the concentration and
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performance in children with ADHD so my
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guess is they probably put them all in a
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room one room had no music one room did
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and they decided to see who was actually
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doing their work better and it turned
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out the kids listening to the animal
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sounds got more done okay interesting
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we're more focused on their job so you
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know a lot of times you go to like a
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dentist office whatever you do here kind
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of whatever maybe that's the reason for
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it I don't know well you know yeah it's
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fun that you're saying that Rob um I as
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as we've mentioned before I use the calm
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meditation app and one of the things
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that it lets you do is set background
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noises or music and one of them is
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nature and the other one the one that I
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have in my background is the rain coming
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down and there's something very soothing
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that's a good one of rain so it's it
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helps I mean obviously it does help the
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meditation apps actually include it as
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part of what they do
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a lot of times you see videos where you
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know it's a cabin with rain falling and
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the occasion of the wind you know so
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apparently people like that kind of
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thing number three it reduces a person's
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perception of pain I didn't know this
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one listening to rocks in the music
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after a surgery improves patient
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recovery it also makes this critical
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time more pleasant and less stressful
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um it explains that relaxing music
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lessons a person Association of pain
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because it produces more endorphins and
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strengthens your immune system all at
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the same time I did not know so
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um I don't know if they do that in
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hospitals or not but maybe it's
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something they want to do maybe they
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start playing calming music in the room
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I don't know but it is kind of cool I
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mean I think it all kind of falls under
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the same you know monitor number four
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and we've talked about this one before
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it helps you sleep better some people
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use
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um the call Maps like you the music I
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like the White Noise which is a similar
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type of music sound some people use it
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through the headphones uh we have ours
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playing in the room
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um I didn't think anything of it I just
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knew of white noise machines via Android
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via other stuff didn't really have any
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perception but after using it and we've
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had it now for about a year it's now
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just kind of part of the thing and I
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don't know what it is or why obviously
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it's the brain doing its thing right but
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somehow the White Noise just kind of
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depletes everything else maybe it
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distracts us maybe it distracts us from
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listening to the the refrigerator door
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slamming or the cars outside and the
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noise like muffles everything the White
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Noise I believe right
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that makes a lot of sense
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yeah and this one has different sounds
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so there's the bigger fans or the
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smaller fans there's winds there's brown
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black and white there's it's a whole
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slew of different versions of it it all
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kind of sounds the same but you know it
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does its thing
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um number five improves brain
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functioning so I think we see we're
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getting somewhere on this right it's not
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just the enjoyment but it's actually
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helping you do something so for example
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they say playing an instrument as a kid
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helps your brain develop and actually
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improves your math skills as well
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possibly because you have to learn the
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timing you have to learn the finger that
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you have to learn whatever and it's
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almost like taking a vitamin for your
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neurons so you're doing the hobby or
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doing the activity is actually growing
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your your brain I had actually heard
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that musicians naturally were good math
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students because of that because
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you know you have four quarter notes
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equals a whole note so literally it is
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math but I'm here to say that even
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though I as the musician
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um not so much the math never like you
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know kind of sunk in so we were playing
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the wrong type of music I guess
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instrumental I don't know I don't know
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um number six your heart also
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appreciates it
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um again for people who are recovering
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from something or for somebody who might
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have high blood pressure or maybe an
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increased heart rate it actually proves
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to help uh rhythmic Rhythm your heart so
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if you have an arrhythmia you actually
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get fewer of them because the music is
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literally keeping your heart beat kind
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of in time
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um I guess that makes sense because when
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you exercise you do something upbeat
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your heart is elevated obviously it's
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because you're also exercising but your
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heart is also moving with the tune so
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that's kind of cool number seven like
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they've already mentioned more serotonin
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and endorphins so we know that number
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eight it helps you eat more attentively
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so apparently we should be listening to
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music while we eat
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um something as simple as relaxing music
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can help us meet in a more conscious
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balanced and healthy way it helps us eat
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more slowly who recognizes that we're
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Fuller to maybe help things like obesity
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or diabetes or other weight related
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problems and my favorite thing you get
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to savor it more because you're actually
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enjoying your meal so let's say you have
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like for instance you know me Sushi's my
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thing I already like it but apparently
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if I listen to music while eating it
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I'll probably like it even if that much
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more so interesting I find that so
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interesting that there's a correlation
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to that wow you know uh number nine well
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we know this one will help you meditate
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and again we've talked about this many
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many times uh the music the the no
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movement or the movement depending and
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number 10 it helps you study so similar
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to showing that it helps concentration
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well those who might be studying in
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school studying for work or just
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studying pop on some music and do your
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thing so they say relaxing music and
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again I'll say whatever floats your boat
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my opinion is I think it's more low-key
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mellow maybe a fun song like let's say
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You're really in the 90s and a 90s song
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get you in the mood sure I don't think
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anything else really works but that's
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just me so I like I like music without
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words
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totally get distracted I can't folk if
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I'm supposed to be reading with music in
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the background and the music has words
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then I'm listening to the words and
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trying to figure out why the words are
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not on the page
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I get confused you can listen to two
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cellos that it's actually a group that
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plays cello but they play popular music
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with only their cellos if you want a
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popular song but you don't want to hear
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the words yep there you go yep all right
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so what music does for the brain nature
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does for well I guess everything else
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really right
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um recently obviously we're all trying
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to do our thing and get out but even
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minus the pandemic and all that
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sometimes you're just not in an area
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that is accessible to places uh By Us
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however there are a lot of parks there's
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a lot of outdoor hiking trails but let's
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say you might be in a place like New
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York City a place like New Orleans or
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maybe downtown L.A it doesn't mean you
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can't get out and do the nature you just
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might want to do it differently so we're
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going to talk about and this is from the
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other website put up the APA which is
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the American Psychological Association
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they wrote an article it's called
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nurtured by Nature
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um all right so some of the cognitive
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benefits you're really were it helps
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improve your working memory so of course
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we know there's two different versions
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there's the passive and the working
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working memory if I if my memory serves
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right it's what you use on a regular
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basis and actually function and do your
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thing so the fact that being outside
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taking a walk whatever helps you
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continue to be prosperous basically not
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a bad idea it helps your cognitive
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flexibility now cognition is also
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another thing it's kind of being able to
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do things in this case the flexibility I
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believe means the ability to kind of
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like do more with it and then lastly
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attentional control so if you are like
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me or you with add this is going to help
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you kind of keep your thoughts more or
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less in line or at the least at least
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kind of organized all the craziness and
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the little chunks so it's not so crazy
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it's just kind of mini crazies
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throughout the day crazy
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so that came out of a couple different
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um
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of Psych uh psych uh articles there
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um let me get down to
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okay so let me see next up
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nature and happiness so a college in
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Ohio Oberlin College one of the
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professors wrote spending time in nature
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has cognitive benefits but it also has
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emotional and existential as well that
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go beyond just being able to solve
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arithmetic more quickly
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to me that quote states that nature is
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good to get the job done but it's more
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important to make you feel good while
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getting that job done now we joke
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obviously with Nick is not our thing but
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wouldn't you want to be able to do the
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arithmetic while actually kind of
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enjoying yourself doing so well that's
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why I mean when you were growing up
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um I don't think back in the dinosaur
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days when I was growing up but when you
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were growing up that exactly is what
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happened there were there were groups
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that would put math things to music or
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spelling to music so that you would
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remember or the the states of the United
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States all 50 and they put it in a song
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so you literally would learn it by the
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music helping you to integrate it into
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your system so there were some a
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Schoolhouse Rock I think was one of the
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programs oh yeah I remember Schoolhouse
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Rock and they would and that's a great
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way we learned our times tables you
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learned your times tables Rob via a song
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which I can't remember right now but
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there was actually a song that you would
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sing and it you would memorize it that
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way so it's it's uh music does have a
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place I think in in everyday life
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So speaking of a time frame between 1985
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and 2003 research from 900 000 kids
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showed that those who lived in
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neighborhoods with more green area
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have less of a risk of a psychiatric or
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mental difficulty including things like
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depression mood disorders schizophrenia
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eating disorders and substance abuse as
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well those with lower Green Space had a
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55 percent higher uh uh possibility of
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developing now again these numbers don't
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base everything but it does give you an
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idea of what it means as far as what the
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outdoors really actually does right now
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experience versus connection the
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question they ask is with so many
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benefits linked to Nature how much time
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outside is enough
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so I read this little thing earlier and
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really the experience versus the
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connection
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I don't think experience really has
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nothing to do with being the outside
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versus connection I think to me
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connection is more important than the
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experience you can be outside for five
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or ten minutes and if you're enjoying
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the view if you're enjoying the whatever
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that's good
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if you are out for three hours taking a
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hike
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cool also nice
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to me I think between the two that they
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did I think it's more the connection
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because experience to me is more of like
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can you do it and yes I know a lot of
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people aren't able to due to certain
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limitations but everybody for the most
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part can connect
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even if they're doing it in a
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different pattern maybe
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you know yeah so it's kind of a funky
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little section there but I figured I'd
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bring it up for a minute
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um all right so then they talked about
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green and blue spaces and this was kind
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of interesting
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um
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so let's see in a survey 4500 UK
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residents
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um this particular uh Professor found
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that people reported more connection to
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Nature after visiting Rural and Coastal
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than they did in urban green spaces uh
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now I get what they're saying okay so if
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you were to go to we talked about those
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Gardens in L.A right that would be an
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urban Green Space you're really not
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necessarily in the midst of it while you
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are outside you're in the middle of the
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concrete jungle oh yeah I was just going
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to say that Concrete Jungle right that
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came to me from that book I think I read
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um however if you take a trip to the
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beach if you take a trip to let's say an
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island like Catalina or Hawaii something
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like that where you have real Greenery
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out there they reported that that kind
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of connection and that kind of outdoor
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space actually does much better than
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doing it for the city now you might say
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well that's kind of rude to those who
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can't get there and yeah I can see that
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however
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and it might just be me I notice the
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difference between the two
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and I'm sure you probably would too like
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if I'm going to take a hike
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I want to take a hike
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I don't want to walk around the block
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necessarily right
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well you know
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it said it's bad I don't mind walking
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around the block but
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sure I want a good picture
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and to that point I walk every day with
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Christopher and
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um we tend to not want to walk on the
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sidewalks well that's Christopher but we
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want to be more on the nature side we
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want to be where there's grass we you
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know because that the animal smell
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that's kind of there's the way they
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think of something safer and not safe
17:47
they want to smell everything right
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exactly right and so we were walking
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down the sidewalk today though because
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all of the green here everything was
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being watered so we were on the sidewalk
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about that weird yeah right and so what
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happens is instead of having the smells
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of nature which is the grass in the
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bushes and we have the fumes of the cars
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that were driving up the street it's a
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different experience correct yes so
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really the three key points that they
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wanted to get out of this article where
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spending time is not only good for your
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cognition but also your emotional
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well-being being connected to Nature has
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similar benefits uh regardless of how
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much time you spend out there and not
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only do you want a green space but a
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blue space like the ocean literally an
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aquatic environment you want to get more
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of nature if you can again unless you
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have you know a passport around the
18:38
world you may not be able to travel
18:40
everywhere you want to but there's
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probably something within maybe 30
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minutes of you that
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would be nature nature E I guess
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naturesque nature asks sure
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um all right so those were the topics at
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hand and I think you want to get some
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good stuff to have with you right when
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you go out and do
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said nature walk
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um I'm going to share a screen right now
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yeah so she's going to pop something up
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so this is some of our new uh gear that
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we have as you can see for the winter
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months we have a new hoodie we just put
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up our water bottle which is awesome
19:18
we're gonna make some ones with
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different
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um logos we're going to have one for all
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to Universe have one for my new mental
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health all that
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um it's having not showing up on mine is
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it showing up on your end not yet we're
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having some connectivity issues thank
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you internet Chrome ones there you go I
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hope your internet Grandma let's try it
19:36
um sorry so we got that we have our
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hoodie it is you know sort of went oh
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okay there's the water bottle there
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um pretty cool it's your typical
19:43
stainless steel but I think those things
19:45
last I mean Krista has one from like
19:47
three years ago and it's still usable
19:51
um not so much outdoorsy but hey if
19:53
you're a griller you want to grow in the
19:54
backyard what the hell there you go yeah
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the hoodie I think is great especially
19:59
when you do get cold because hey just
20:01
because it's cold doesn't mean you can't
20:02
take a walk so why not stay warm
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um you want to look fashionable we got
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some of our bananas this is from our
20:10
other episode the other day as well for
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your dog and you or if you have a really
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big cat too you can do that
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and lots of different designs we have
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lots of different designs in here right
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um and then what do we have okay so one
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of our new t-shirts I love it they
20:24
actually they faded my logo it looks
20:26
really cool on there well that is cool
20:28
that's kind of an old retro look on
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there so it's really nice I don't know
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if you can zoom in oh yeah there you go
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it kind of gave you a little retro yeah
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Vibe so those are up there uh we're
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gonna have more colors as well so if
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you're not all black you can get it and
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then write about your experience being
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outside and one of our few journals we
20:45
have we have uh this one from one of our
20:47
other episodes importance of now
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um pretty standard but really cool you
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know we got these nice little designs we
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got flowers and all that
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love yourself
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and everything is fairly a good price I
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think on this side yeah and it's all
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very good they have
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um let's see here they have 140 pages in
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it Rob so it's it's very
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um I think you get a lot for your money
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and yeah so you get one of those and
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that thing will last you for a good time
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and then when you need one more come
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back grab another one um and you know
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holidays are here so why not grab
21:21
somebody something uh just an FYI we
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will be adding more stuff so just
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because it looks very limited we had to
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revamp our store so we're going to
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re-add everything else so and if you
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have something you'd like to have one of
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the altered universe or any of the logos
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on let us know you know if you're
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watching live or on replay let us know
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what kind of stuff you'd like to be able
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to wear because we can do all sorts of
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stuff I mean from coffee mugs to uh to
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t-shirts to cool we could even make you
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dog tags and kitty tags for your pets
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too like literally oh that's pretty cool
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that is I might just do that for me just
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uh just to do it because that's pretty
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mean you're gonna get a dog tag for you
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yeah aha very funny
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so yeah
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um I think this is a good intro not only
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to audio verse live but also to our
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money or mental health show so like we
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said the first link we put up was the
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Spotify so go check out Spotify now let
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you watch and listen so if you want to
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listen if you want to listen if you want
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to watch you want to watch you want to
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do both go for it go for it um
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and as always we'd like to thank you all
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because you know you have a choice where
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you spend your time you chose to spend
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it with Rob and I today and we are
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thrilled about that go out give somebody
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an awesome day and we're gonna see you
22:40
next time Rob I'm going to see you next
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time right right probably see you more
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next week so you know probably more next
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week have a great weekend everyone
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bye-bye
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