Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.

I'm David Chen, joining me, as usual, Patrick Lepick, back from vacation overseas.

Patrick, welcome back to the podcast.

Thanks for having me.

It was nice to have a little break.

I'll have to see if I can still podcasts, you know.

How was your vacation? You went to England and France, if I'm not mistaken, right? Is that correct?

Yeah, it was, it was a true vacation. I turned the badges off on my, my email client on my, on my phone, so I wouldn't be stressed out. I'm not an inbox zero person, but I do, I like a clean inbox, like to make sure I've gone.

Yeah. I use email as a almost like a note and calendar app. And so email is like a way that I

shape a lot of what I do day to day and week to week. And so turning that off and just like,

you can just deal with that on the eight hourhour flight home was stressful, but also very free.

When I was a really good trip.

When I worked a corporate job, I would, there is removing the little badge icon next to the email.

That's useful.

That's helpful, right?

Because otherwise, it's this like red number that's screaming at you every

time you look at it. And so I have sometimes taken that off. But I find I just, when I've gone

on vacation in the past, I'll just like move the email app completely off of like the first

couple of homescreens. Because what I don't want is to accidentally tap the email app and then it opens up like

you have like 30, you know, even if I turn the badge off, like sometimes I might accidentally

tap the email app and then it opens up and then it's like, oh, now I'm going to world the pain.

The problem was I still had to check the eye route for over at Remap, the video game publication I help run.

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