You Are What You Watch with Walt Hickey

The Holderness Family Podcast

Kim Holderness

Kids & Family, The Holderness Family, Humor, 50s, Laugh Lines, Aging, Education, The Laugh Line, Kim Holderness, Penn Holderness, Getting Older, Holderness Podcast, 40s, Gen X, Self-improvement, Laugh Line, Relationships, Family, Marriage, Familyfriendly, Comedy, 950823, Marriagecounseling, Holderness, Youtube, Raisingchildren, Christmasjammies, Parenting, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Hi friends, Penn here. As some of you know, I am obsessed with all things sci-fi. This traces way back to my childhood during the Star Wars and Star Trek days that sparked a lifelong fascination for all things space. It’s the main reason that I always wanted to be an astronaut. Fast forward to today, you can see that life took me in a wildly different direction. (Plus I have terrible vertigo so I would have made a horrible astronaut.) Dashed childhood dreams aside, the impact these movies and shows had on me got us thinking.

Turns out, the stuff we consume has a greater impact than you think. Walt Hickey wrote a fascinating book called You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything that discusses just that. In it, Hickey dives into (among many other things) the power of entertainment, how it can have an actual physical effect on us, and how it can greatly shape who we are as individuals and as society. So we invited him on this week’s podcast! Also bonus–after the interview, Kim and I test our 90’s pop culture knowledge with our producer, Ann Marie. (And I remain the champ of Britney Spears knowledge…IYKYK.)

Special Announcement: We launched a 3-part bonus podcast series about ADHD! You can listen to the Part 2 now and pre-order our new book ADHD Is Awesome!

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Kim and Penn are online content creators known for their award-winning videos, including original music, song parodies, and comedy sketches. Their videos have resulted in over 2 billion views and 8 million followers across their social media platforms since they (accidentally) went viral in 2013. They have a best-selling book on marriage communication, a top-rated podcast, a fun-filled family card game, and most recently, they were the winners on Season 33 of The Amazing Race.

The Holderness Family Podcast is edited and engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, Julie Frahm, and Sam Allen.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody I'm Kim Holdernus.
0:05.6	And I've been to Wilderness and you have found the Holdernus family podcast.
0:09.0	How you doing, Kim?
0:09.8	I'm doing great.
0:11.4	So this is an exciting and fun episode. I love bringing in
0:14.8	interesting people and Walt Hecky is incredibly interesting the way that he
0:18.9	thinks and views the world is very unique and it has us all nodding our heads.
0:23.7	And you're going to come away from this podcast having such cool things to talk about at cocktail
0:28.4	parties.
0:29.4	You know we've been curious about how to start conversations.
0:31.9	Man, will you have some
0:33.4	ammo after listening to this podcast?
0:36.0	We'll get to him very shortly.
0:37.6	Wanna mention a couple of things.
0:39.1	First of all, the last installment of our three-part series,
0:42.3	all about ADHD ADHD drops this Thursday
0:44.8	April 25th. We hope that you've enjoyed them as much as we've enjoyed making
0:49.2	them. It has been part of the labor of love that includes getting our book into the world and I can't believe I'm saying this right now but Kim
0:58.7	Our book is coming out one week from today if you're listening to this and the dates released it's coming out on
1:04.7	April 30th if you want to learn more if you're not sick of us talking about it go to
1:10.0	ADHD is awesome book.com if you'd like to meet us and give us a big awkward hug have a
1:17.8	sign a book yeah meet in person we're having events in New York City, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Minneapolis in the month of May.
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