Episode #442 - Adult Boredom and Middle-Aged Motivation

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

What does boredom look like and feel like as an adult?
Do boring people know they are boring?
How do we escape boring interactions?
What motivates us at this point in life?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ram Podcast. I am Ted Cluck.
0:18.0	joined as always in studio by my good friends, my partners in Radio, my partners in bravado,
0:26.2	Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin boys.
0:30.2	We've got a tidy like 21 minutes pipe of radio now with Ronald. Our boy's busy.
0:36.9	He's going here and there doing things. We'll get as much radio in with him pipe as we can and
0:42.2	then and we'll go as long as we need to
0:44.3	to finish up our radio program today boys we got a couple of intriguing topics
0:50.1	what does boredom look like as an adult I think think that's fascinating. I've been thinking about that a little bit lately
0:56.4	And then what motivates you at this point in your life? We'll get to those topics
1:01.7	And so many more right after this quick break.
1:08.1	All right boys we're back let's talk about boredom.
1:10.7	What does boredom look like as an adult and what makes you bored? I feel like I'm almost never
1:19.2	bored unless I'm in a meeting and then I'm very bored but then I I start doing my own stuff and I make myself on board again
1:27.7	I don't get bored a whole lot
1:29.9	Where are you guys out on this do you do you experience boredom and if so like what does it look like what makes you bored?
1:35.6	Yeah, so this this question came up. I was talking to a friend who is also raising teenagers and we were laughing because of
1:42.4	You know our kids are constantly like I'm bored I have nothing to do and we both had the immediate reaction of nothing to do sounds like heaven like that's when there is nothing to do. I'm not bored. I'm I'm at peace.
1:56.0	Enjoying yourself. Yeah. Yeah. And so it was the just the total the total difference in I don't know stage in life age maturity whatever
2:05.0	where at some point you just learn to like sit and do nothing and just kind of go oh
2:09.3	this is restful because there's always so much to do that you don't even have a chance to be to be bored by like vacancy that never happens.
2:17.0	Yeah, no, it's true. Big R what about you baby?
2:21.0	Yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you,? Yeah I'm with you too. I think I'm thinking of the things that
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