3 Tips to FIGHT Burnout when the News is OVERWHELMING

3 tips to fight burnout when the news is overwhelming. I'm Jim drastic. I'm Tiffany

drastic. And today on the dangerous ones, Tiffany and I are sharing our three

most effective tips to reset when we get overwhelmed by the news. Oh,

guess how can you not be? I know. It's spoiler alert. They're all free. They don't

cost money. Plus we got a couple bonus tips. Plus we got some calls to the

people's hotline. Yes, we do. Uh, first of all, welcome everybody. Welcome to the show.

Welcome to all the members of the danger core. Welcome to the family. It's so great to have

you guys here. And again, it's, it's still getting settled back in. I know. Thanks for hanging

out with us on Tuesday. Yeah. We let Nick off. Yeah. We said, get out and get. Well, he's been a

little busy, you know, he's been a little busy. He's been doing a great job. Mark's like, well,

what the fuck have I been doing? Well, listen, give us a call 503 212 4600. You can call

24 hours a day, seven days a week. And you can remain anonymous. You can also email us at shout

at the dangers ones.com. Uh, today I love today's theme. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So today, how did we

come up with today's theme? The three tips to fight burnout when news is overwhelming. And by

the way, these are not tips that came from the internet. We didn't Google this. This is actually

what we do. Yeah. They're not, you know, life hacks. It's just this is what I personally do when

it's a little too much because I don't know about you. But like this run of news in particular

over this last weekend. Pretty heavy. I'm glad you brought that up because right here, I,

let's just, here's just a quick little, I'm going to say it softly to his own freaking freak

air. But we've got the Epstein files. We've got ice, corruption, racism, no health care,

government shutdowns, uh, economic collapse. Jill Biden's ex-husband is charged with murdering

his ex-wife or his wife for crying out loud. Okay. I hate this movie. It's understandable. And

take it from us. We, we obviously do politics every day as a living. And it becomes overwhelming.

And nothing made that shine even more when we were gone for a few days. Yeah. Yeah. We, um, you

know, we went to Primeville, which is classically conservative. A lot of farmers, a lot of ranchers

out there. Real deep Trump country to where like they were physically fine with saying that next

to you in the store. Yeah. Which is, they're just brazenly dick full out mega, right?

And now it's like, there's, there's a lot of flags. I do see a lot of American flags.

A lot of American flags. I don't see any Trump signs. There was a fucking guy out there who had a house

like the last five times who've been out there since 2020. Fuck Joe Biden flags, you know,

let's go brand in like fully in the cult. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like painted his house with the

coolate. And now all of this stuff is like, I think he's pro union. It's gone. I know.

It's gone. Yep. They're like, uh-oh. Uh-oh. So even they're noticing, you know, out, out in

a conservative, uh, central organ there. Yes. And I would even just say being out with them,

it's usually very like, you know, everyone's like, don't talk to me. And now it's, it was good.

Notting, smiling again, very like, but like, right? Cause we're all in hell together, right? Isn't

pretty much. So we've got three tips. Yeah. We've got three tips to that we, I have for God

and about some of these, you know what I mean? And it's true. We really, we found them while we

were gone and we wanted to share them with you guys. Um, just going to be kind of a quick episode

and we have some calls. Uh, but this all kind of came about also because I went to the doctor

this morning. Right. I was having a bit of a, like kind of a, like, I felt like I'm having a

heart palpitation. You know what I mean? And, uh, I went in and they said, uh, yeah, you're

drinking too much caffeine. Oh, Mr. Drastic. Oh, too much caffeine and too much and too much

stress. I heard someone say that to you, like 14 years ago. And then like, okay, okay, we all know,

you know more. Okay. Okay. We got it. Well, everybody knows Red Bull's not good for you. Easy,

killer. Don't you ever talk to like, I'm kidding. So anyways, too much caffeine and too much stress

was leading to, uh, what they call skipped heartbeat. Yeah. I was skipping heartbeat. Turned

out my body was like, you don't need them all. You don't need a rhythm yet. You only need some

of them. Okay. Relax. Right. So it was like, you know, we need to, I need to, you know, just,

just a hair and just being able to step away from this for a couple of days. Oh, yeah. I like

to be outside. Yeah, stepping on the earth. I'm bare feet. We're getting that. So number one,

what is the first tip? Our number one tip. And I just re-discovered this while we were going

is play. Yeah. Play. Yeah. Play. I know. And when we say play, we didn't, I mean, everybody's like,

oh, yeah, we'd all love to just throw it all day. I mean, play like we actually did things like,

I hadn't done in years. We sat down and played cards. I know. I know. When he was watching, we had

no phones. We're just, we have a closet full of games at home board games because we had kids.

They fucking have cobwebs on them. I know. We're just, and I'm just not a naturally playful person

because you learn how to do that when you were a child. And my childhood was pretty serious.

So I wanted to do that. And so I was like, oh, right. Games and just things that have no stakes,

you know, that you don't, you're not going to like, that's the thing about Americans too, is

there always has to be something in it for you. There always has to be, there's always some kind of

competition level. And yes, yes. And with games, yeah. But it's, you're playing for fun. You're

playing to connect. You're playing to pass the time. Even if you play like solitaire or something,

but we played this really great game that I grew up playing. I wonder if any of the danger

core has ever played. It's called spite and malice. I'd never heard of it before I met you.

So much fun. You play with a couple of decks. But you can play with two people and we'd, I'm like,

I don't care less if I win or lose. I'm just happy to be doing it, you know. Yeah. And it's just

nice to, it's a tactile response, you know, regulates your immune system. It regulates your

system. It takes you out of fight or flight where you have to focus on things in your hands. We

put the phones away. We didn't even care. We just sat there for a couple of hours playing cards.

It was fantastic. Another thing we did was where we went, there was actually which we, you and I

are never around, a pool table. Right. Plus we suck at it. We suck at pool. We suck at playing pool.

Really bad. But it's just nice. And the sound and just everything that disconnects you from

what's happening in the news is we should all be doing those a little bit more. Yeah,

remember to play. And I wrote this note down too. Give yourself a no purpose challenge like build

something dumb. Draw badly on purpose. Yeah. Play a game that you can't optimize. You know,

I mean, oh, that's good. Yeah. That's good. I have a couple of things to do. Play, play, play.

I know. And just, you know, when's the last time? We forget to have fun. Yeah.

That you just like danced in the living room by yourself because a good song came on.

We don't even listen to music anymore because we got the fucking TV going or just doom scrolling.

All the things that you do out here in your 3D life are way different brain waves than what

you're doom scrolling doing. And so you need to like take a break from doing that and get out

into the world and see things and touch things. And it sounds like really like woo woo. But that

we are, you know, physical beings. We can't, we're not supposed to be plugged in all the time.

Yeah. So play number one tip is play. And I really, really had forgotten that I had forgotten

to have fun and forgot to. And it doesn't, it didn't cost us any money. Yeah. I mean,

well, we have a serious job. And while we can joke at work, those, that's like the little,

when I, my little, you know, pressure cooker opens where you have to like spout off a little

steam right by memes and jokes and stuff like that. But life is pretty serious. Yeah.

It's important to give yourself time. Yeah. For, for playfulness in games. And what's tip number two?

Tip number two is, I don't know. Oh, no. Tip number two is nature. Nature. Right? I love that.

Do go outside. Do a 10 minute walk. Silently name. 10 things you see. I love that. Yeah.

Five things you hear and three things you feel. They call that a notice walk.

A notice walk. But you go out. Okay. You're purposely just trying to notice things. Oh,

which by the way, when, when I, because I'm always dealing with, you know, I'm constantly moving.

My brain is constantly moving. I'm thinking about this show. I'm thinking about that show.

I'm thinking about editing and all this. I forget that we walk around. You notice everything.

Yeah, I do. She notices everything on a walk. She notices the color of a house. She knows,

she knows that guy lives over there. I don't notice anything. I couldn't even tell you the color of

own our, our own home. I know. So to purposely make myself notice things,

slows me down. Yes. Love that. They also, that's a really one of the tips they give you when you're,

when you have PTSD or when you're a survivor of something, when you're in therapy and you're

starting to feel that flashback coming or you feel that wave of anxiety and it's going to crash

over you, you immediately go, okay, what are three things I can feel? What are three things I can

smell and what are three things I can see? So you reconnect yourself at the planet where you are

and it forces you to focus on something other than that monster that's about to come. It's

really important that you check in with your surroundings. Yeah. And deep breathing is another

one while you're out there. Love it. It's important to just reconnect with the Earth, okay?

Yeah, and even if you can't go like you and I, you know, because we live in the city or whatever,

but we have a mile and a half walk that we do around. Yeah. And for the folks who are watching

part of the danger core who are like, you know, maybe they can't walk, they can't get out all the time.

Even if you can possibly get out, at least outside, I wrote these notes down like,

touch tree bark, touch grass, touch a rock, touch cold air. Remember that one time?

I'm sorry. Remember that one time I told you, I said, we were out getting a Christmas tree.

And I said, oh, it's just nice to be filled cold. Yes. Because I've been locked on a computer

for so many years working and working. Yeah. I never get out. I never get out. Finally,

she wants to, of course, chop down a Christmas tree. And it has to be the last one in the back.

Shopped like it's Christmas vacation. We're chopping down a Christmas tree, but it felt so good

to be for my hands. We're freezing cold. It just felt great. And you forget about the cares of the

world. Yeah. A lot of people know these tips, but sometimes it's nice to hear other people say them.

And I think we're all out of practice after COVID. We've all just really, we got into a really

tight bubble. And it's important now to stretch out because where we're going, we need you to be,

you know, present and understanding what's what's what so you can fight later. So we need you.

It's like R&R, right? Yeah. We're in. We're in a war right now. I feel. Yeah. And it just feels

like, okay, well, we're going to go through it with each other. We have to give each other

tips on how to get through it. And like, what are your tips? Call into the hot one. Let me know.

That's my, my tip, my comment question of the day is, what is your tip? Yeah. Put it right now

in the comments. What is your tip? We have one more major tip. And then a couple of bonus ones.

Yes. One other thing I was going to say, if you're homebound and you can't get outside,

just open your window. Oh, that's a good call. Just a breeze from outside. Just the shift in the

air of where you're at. It stimulates your senses, which helps kick you out of that

fight or fight, because I feel like a lot of us are chronically stuck there now. And especially

with news, you're just feeding your fear all the time. You know, it's like, whoa, okay.

Let's do a little less of that. It's so true. Feeding your fear. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going,

gah. And listen, we're not like, I fully, I'm fully aware that people watch the dangerous ones

because we're not like scare tactics all the time. And yeah. And that's why we thought this

would be a pretty appropriate show. Yeah. And hey, man, I love the doom scroll too. I will waste

hours. Just do a little, but after a while, you know, you're like, I just need to go outside

in my bare feet. Yeah. I need to walk outside where nothing is over my head, right? Just me

in the sky. You are like that. Yeah. You love that. Yeah. I just walk around a little circle

like a cat and I come back in. Yeah. That's why. What do they call that when during the winter and

you're like, uh, disorder like, oh, seasonal affective disorder. Oh, that's me. Yeah. It's got

me this year. Yeah. Yeah. And I have to, there are like things I have to do. Okay. So we got one last

tip. The first one was play. The second one was nature. And the third tip, what is

tip? It is music. Music, right? Which we all know that too, but we don't take the time. That's

right. Here's the thing over the last few years. I suck at that tip. I know me too. I suck at it.

Now, first of all, I like, I like a lot of soft rock lately. I've been lighting. You know, we

listen to a lot of yacht rock on the way to work, but unfortunately because of that, yacht rock has

now associated with work. I know with politics. I know it has nothing to do with that. I know it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's now starting to become associated with that because those songs for me,

that was my go-to music, right? Because that's from a point in my life where life wasn't so bad.

Yeah. And so you would listen to things like, you know, we were just singing to Mark earlier.

I keep forgetting. I mean, I'm not in love anymore. I mean, you look back to those things because

they remind you of something good, right? Yeah. And now, because we listen to them all the time,

not only are they associated with everything, they lose that effectiveness. Yes. You know, like

Gen X, we would go 20 years without hearing something. Yeah. And then Marty Ballon comes on one

day in the supermarket and we're like transported to being five again. It's like it's just that that

has disappeared because and boomers and Gen X know all boomers and Gen X know what we're talking about

because back in the day, if you heard a song, you might not hear it again ever. And you'd go

your whole life not knowing the lyrics, singing it wrong, your whole life. And nobody could ever check

you because nobody knew what it was. I am the king of singing the wrong lyrics. She knows all the lyrics.

It's so cute. It's funny. I spent a lot of time alone in my room. Right. So I personally have been

and now lately as you guys, I probably said on the show ASMR. What are you doing to resist?

So I've been doing a lot of ASMR worth. It's just like, this is probably not going to work,

but sounds on the microphone, you know, just tingles your hair. It calms me down. I listen to it

a night. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. So play, nature, music, those are the three main tips. Yes.

Get ready with that photo mark. And because we're going to put it up because I have another bonus tip,

a bonus tip. It is tear down a Trump sign if you see it. Hey, take a look at this photograph. This

is a photograph of out in central Oregon, where this for years, for like seven, eight, nine years,

this has been a Trump site. It's a massive sign too. It would just greet you on the highway.

It would treat you like a way about a mile or two outside of primeville. As you're going in,

you would see this sign and it's somebody tore it down. It's gone. There's no Trump signs in all

of this very conservative town where we used to see them all the time and we looked, dude. They

don't even have them in their windows that there was not a bumper sticker. Yeah. There was

fucking nothing. Yeah. Yeah. It was incredible. By like, I'm certainly not telling you to go tear down

somebody's, you know, don't know anything that's going to get you shot at with these some of these

nut jobs. You know what I mean? But I do have another bonus tip. Oh, what's the bonus tip? The

bonus tip called the people's hotline. Yes. It's seriously people do it. And they say all the time,

you know more than I do, that it's a stress reliever. It really is. And they just call and just

vent about what's really scaring them and what's really heavy, what's going on in their lives. And

you can, people at the end of the phone call, they always go, oh, thank you. I feel so much better.

Yeah. One girl says you're cheaper than therapy. That's right. That's right. Yeah. And it just,

it helps us too. Because when we hear you guys out there struggling with what we're struggling with,

like I had a full melt down on the, on the treadmill today. Right. And you were at the doctor and I

was just getting super pissed about everything that's happening. Yeah. And then I was getting mad

that I was a person who, when they're super pissed, they cry. Oh, and then I was like having this

whole entire thing, you know, and it's like just, it's heavy. Okay. So just recognize that it's

heavy. Yeah. Sit with it. Do stuff that helps you feel like it's less heavy. And then that's when

you get back into the fight, you know, because the rage doesn't really go away. Yeah. The channel

like correctly. The question, the big question is, is, did you call the people's hotline? I did

not, but I listened to it to get through it. Yeah. And now it's time for us to listen to it. And if

you'd like to call the people's hotline, 503212, 4600, it's completely free. If you've never called

before and you're like, I don't know, I might call it, I might mess up, calling mess up. Yeah.

Call and screw up. Yeah. Call get five way to get five sentences into it and go and go, you know

what? I don't know if I can, my anxiety can take it anymore. Yeah. Nobody's, by the way, nobody's

like on the other end, other than Tiffany later, you know, yeah. And like it's every people say that

all the time. I'm like, Oh, shit. Or like, Oh, sorry. I lost my turn. I thought, I'll call back

and they do. Or they know, you know, and I love all of them. I love all of the calls you guys.

Yeah. It's fantastic. So our first call is, is what? Is South Carolina blue? We were just talking

about him yesterday. He called and he's like, you know, I'm usually like pissed and angry and

I'm inspired by some things. And I'm trying to focus on the good stuff too. Love it.

Hey, dangerous guys. This is South Carolina blue. I'm usually kind of fired up and angry,

but I appreciate you all trying to lighten it up and help us just stick together and fight back.

And I just saw that Neil Young had donated the rights to all this music to the people of Greenland.

Wow. Wow. That's pretty awesome. Again, thanks. I'm going to keep listening so I can learn how to

like lighten up and have some fun with it. I'm just sitting here just to sort of think about

Neil Young. I mean, it's just like totally cool. And Raphael Warnock was on there too. He's in

Minneapolis, you know, given us, given us a little sermon. I don't, I'm not a Christian, but

it's good to hear somebody who can speak, talk about morality and someone who you know

cares about people instead of somebody who's just going to lie to you. Yeah. Hope you all

the well. Keep it up. Oh, love you, man. Oh, thank you so much, South Carolina blue.

And see, just hearing people who care about one another, talk about what they care about,

what's bothering them. It's uniting all of us. It's really, really important right now.

Very, very cathartic. And how about that? I didn't know that about Neil Young.

Oh, yeah. So he donated a year's worth of free access to his music for all of Greenland,

for all of his 62 years of his back catalog, right? That guy's great.

We actually only have time for one more call. One more call. Okay. The call is one more. One more.

Okay. All right. Let's go for Rubin from Texas. He ran into a snafu while voting and he's

got some advice for everyone as we head into no Kings 3.0 and the midterms. Love it.

Hi guys. This is Rubin from Texas. I just wanted to remind everybody the most important thing is

that we make sure that we're registered to vote. The protesting all of that's awesome. Calling

Congress awesome. But the bottom line is we have to make sure that we're registered to vote.

There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. We don't need any unexpected surprises.

I recently went to vote and because of the Jair mandarin or going on in Texas,

I was told that I was not qualified to vote in that particular district. So the maps have been

redrawn. There's some trickery going on. And just a reminder, none of us need any surprises.

We need to make sure that we're registered to vote. We need to start reminding everybody because

before you know it, November is going to creep up. And we don't need any unexpected surprises.

I got caught the other day. I got caught by a surprise, an unexpected surprise. And I was very

disappointed that they turned me away. And I felt very disenfranchised that my vote wouldn't count.

So I'm looking into that right now. And I just want to make sure that we're all ready because

that's the most important thing we can do is make sure that we're registered to vote.

You don't have to air this message. I just wanted to remind you to remind us. Thank you very

much. Bye bye. Oh, fantastic. Thank you, Ruben. Well, of course we're going to play. I

felt like I had to because it is important. It's like they're getting in the way. And they're

coming for us, you guys. So we have to make sure we're registered to vote. It's like one of the

only things that we can do right now. Keep showing up in the streets, keep writing your letters,

keep sending your emails, keep boycotting, doing all of that. But when the time comes,

when November comes, if you are not registered to vote, we're in trouble. Yeah.

I love that. Love that call. And the truth is that one year one, I think it's like 2016,

I caucused for Bernie Sanders. And I, and I'm in politics and I know my peace and cues. And I went

to the school where it was happening. And I was at the wrong place. So even I, not that I'm,

you know, but you know, I got to. And so I had to go. So luckily I was ahead of time. So

that could not be more true. Double check. Yeah. Because that's super important.

No idea what they're going to do. So we have to be prepared. It's probably a lot of

fuckery. But let's just get ready. Okay. Well, listen, I love these tips. Play nature,

music, call the people's hotline and, you know, recycle all the Trump signs you find. You know,

find. Yeah, fine. If you find them, right. That's fantastic. I can't thank you enough. We can't

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So that's it guys. Yeah. Until next time, be safe. Get into good trouble. Get into fun trouble.

And remember, we are all the dangerous ones. Bye-bye. Bye.