Welcome to The Crunch. The only podcast that's going to read more books and use less social media in 2024. It's your boy, Ethan. And I'm Patrick. Oh, boy. That's our new year episode. It's just. Yeah, that's it. It's done. We don't have to do any resolutions. I really feel like I just need to use, I just got to use less social media. I just

feel like I'm really got to get off my phone. I'm too much with the phone. Stupid resolutions.

Ridiculous. Have some, have some gumption. Please. Or if you're going to, if you're going to get off

your phone, I challenge you, I challenge you to get off your phone without telling everybody about it.

Yes.

Reducing screen time is the crossfit of social media.

That's true.

Homeboy wrote a whole article about how he was leaving.

This guy, this priest who deleted his social media,

wrote a whole article about why he did it.

And it's like, dude, no one is going to this.

No one cares.

I'm sorry.

This is just how social media is.

I forgot that I followed you and now you're gone.

And it's just, it's okay.

And that is good because we will all die eventually it's not a bad thing posting posting the stack of books that you're going to read

in 2024 is the equivalent of like posting your first workout at the gym in the first week of January

it gets you all the attention and all the dopamine and then you don't have to read the books

that's the key that maybe all do this I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna collect you all the attention and all the dopamine and then you don't have to read the books.

That's the key thing. Maybe I'll do this. The reward. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, this is actually would be funny is if I just got a bunch of Peter's books, like a bunch of board books and just put this my reading list for 2024. That actually would be fun. I'm going to read 100 books, but it's, But it's a very hungry caterpillar over and over and over again.

Toddlers setting their New Year's goals. I'm going to read 100 books, but it's, it's, it's brown bear, brown bear for yeah. Yes. Dude, the, I, I swear. I talked about this in the bonus show, but the footbook, the footbook. I can't, I can't handle the footbook anymore. I wasted my, but I wasted my hilarious footbook joke on the bonus podcast. It's locked behind a paywall. No one of the, I saw it on the list of Dr. Seuss books on the back of Leo's books. And I was like, oh, I know exactly what I'm going to do with this. That sounds really suspicious.

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