Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? I hope you're getting through the week, getting through

the day. Got a great show plan for you, all sorts of things to talk about. Wanted to start by

talking about something I think a lot of us are kind of experiencing right now, which is the re-watching.

I was one of those people who never owned movies or videos because I never re-watched things. Everything was a one-off.

And I was looking at some, I was reading something and by default stumbled upon a commentary on

why a lot of us are re-watching movies and shows. Now, one of the reasons is because we're running

out of things to watch. I think that was the

impetus for me to return to rewatching some things. But then I started to kind of get into

this groove of wanting to, to finish a series that I've already seen, rewatch other ones.

And this one, and this article was just very gently kind of exploring why that is. And I thought

it was some really interesting points that they made. And it's something that I think a lot of us, like I said, are kind of experiencing.

One of the things is we know how they'll make us feel. So we'll turn to some of these television

shows and movies that we've already seen as a way to help us regulate our emotions. And that's good.

It's called coping. We need coping mechanisms, right? Things are going to happen that are bigger than what we have the internal resources for. And we're allowed to rely upon other things to help us get

through a difficult time. We're allowed to check out. We're allowed to temporarily dissociate. And that's

what we do when we're napping, reading a book, watching a movie, listening to music, window shopping,

daydreaming. All these are different ways of self-soothing and regulating

our emotions and re-watching certain TV shows and movies are about that. It's kind of like

how I was talking a lot about music. You know, I'll listen to music that matches the kind of

mood to them in to help me drop deeper into it or to maybe pull me out. If I'm having a rough day and I kind of

want to just take the edge off, I might listen to some happier, bouncer music. Movies and

television are that way as well. And if we know the show or the movie or the series, we know

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