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Katie Nolan (0:43)
Hello, and welcome to Casuals, the podcast that's sports but not boring. It's sports, but, like, in a cool way. I'm Katie Nolan. I'm your host. Today on the show, we have a big guest. We got Heidi Gardner in studio. Very excited to talk to her. I. I feel really bad because much like our Stavros episode, I just think our batting average isn't great here in terms of booking someone who's a fan of a team, and then right before they come on the show, their team loses in a big way. But we do have Heidi Gardner, big Chiefs fan, in studio today. We're going to talk to her about the Super Bowl. We're going to talk to her about SNL50 and all the exciting stuff happening around that. Um, and, yeah, that's pretty much it. A quick reminder, if you want to reach out to us on the interwebs or on your phone. Our emails, Casuals with Katie Nolan, gmail.com. our voicemail box is 646-801-0043. And on IG and TikTok, we are at Casuals, the podcast. But of course, as we always do, we start this podcast off with a yap where I just yap at you. And now, here's the deal. I'm gonna break the fourth wall a little bit here. It's Wednesday where I am, and it's Thursday where you are. So today's yap had to be a little bit evergreen. It had to just be kind of something that I was thinking and feeling. And I don't know if everybody does this, but I certainly do. I keep notes apps of any thought I've ever had. They're just indexed in my notes app. So I guess, first of all, let me say, when I die, publish the drafts, you know, go through, find the good stuff, put it out, monetize. But I had an old little yap that's like, half formulated, and it's. It's a silly idea, but I really do think by the end of it, we will all be Agreeing and believing what I have to say. And the thesis is we're not dancing enough. There's not enough opportunity for adults to dance. I think. Okay, so I saw. Let me just pull in all the disparate thoughts I've had about this into one big pile and then we'll look that pile and we'll decide if it was a good yap. I saw an article in February, Dancing may be better than other exercise for improving mental health. Now look, that is written for me. That article title is written for me. A lady who's constantly told she needs to work out more if she wants to be less depressed and who looks at the gym and cries. It's just not a motivating place for me. It doesn't make me feel good or happy. It makes me feel sad. Sad and bad. And you know, if you have depression, sad and bad is like you're supposed to try to go away from that. So I understand the hurdle of like, if you work out, you will eventually feel better. But that mount, that molehill looks like a mountain to me. But this was saying that actually dancing is better than regular old exercise. I don't know if you know this about your girl, but she was a dance minor in college dance. Used to be, believe it or not, my entire personality. I was a big dance's life. The rest is just details. I had that shirt. It was kind of the whole thing about me. So I was like, is this real? And then I thought about it actually. The night before the election, I had made this like playlist of songs that feel good. And I put on these headphones. I got some of those. Well, Dan got those Apple, you know, the ones that aren't connected to anything. I'm usually a wired headphones girly, but I got those. Dan got those as a gift from Bert Kreischer for going on his tour. He got those like Apple over the head wireless. And I put those on and I put on this playlist that I liked and I like, did chores while dancing around the house. And guys, I'm telling this was the night before the election and I somehow slept like a baby that night. I somehow was like, I felt happy and okay. And then I was thinking about it and I was just like, we as a society, where would we be dancing? Where is dancing happening? Because it used to be the club, right? That's where you would go out and you'd dance. But I'm not, I don't know about you, I'm not going to the club anymore. You know, stuff about the club sucked. Like wearing high heels and having to keep your friend from talking to that guy for too long. But the dancing part of it was sick. But now that's gone. Weddings, I guess you can dance at, but you have to be mindful of, you know, someone's grandma. You don't want to pop. You don't want to both pop and lock it. And you certainly can't drop it in front of somebody else's grandmother. You don't know. You don't know what she's seen, what she's survived, what hardships she's been through. I guess another place you could dance, if you've got a husband who has friends who date 20 year olds, you could go to one of their Halloween parties. You can dance there, they'll have a dj. Unfortunately, that does happen a little pretty often for me, but I don't imagine everybody else has that experience. So I, I just feel like as a society, there's nowhere to dance and just like dance because dancing feels embarrassing, but it is, like not doing it for other people. You do it for you. You do it to like, feel the music. And like, that's. I'm like, we're not a video podcast and we will not be posting this clip. But as I'm talking, I'm like wiggling and still going like, I, I don't want to be perceived. So I guess what I'm saying is we need to be dancing more. And if there's no like, societal solution, which I know we got bigger fish to fry, I think I. I'm recommending that if you are sad like me, on just a kind of a constant basis, if your baseline is sadness, you should get a cheap pair or go on tour with Bert Kreischer. Get a cheap pair of wireless headphones, make a playlist of songs specifically that you're like, that's a fun little groovy. And then just like, when nobody's home, go for it. And I mean, go for it. Don't like, care about what it looks like. You're in your own little music video. Just go for it. And I think you'll be surprised. I think you'll find that it actually rules.