Rapture and continue the full five months until the actual end of the world on October 21st hamsters I'll have to check with my manager hamsters you're in luck ma'am we cantake care of of the soless Little Critters after all but I'll have to assess an additional cage cleaning
And I remember you walking in that circular wheel. The hamster cage, yeah. And just wondering if there's going to be any more things like that at today's concert.
I swear, the laziest hamster . With hamsters , you get them wheels, and they run on those wheels. They're supposed to run for hours and hours and hours.
I swear the laziest hamster . With hamsters , you get them wheels, and they run in those wheels. They're supposed to run for hours and hours and hours.
Now at the time, I had a pet called Rupert. Now Rupert was a hamster , and I loved Rupert the hamster very, very dearly, but I wasn't really raised around animals, and my family didn't have pets. And so Rupert was the first pet I ever had.
He loved broccoli. Also, Rupert the hamster was the laziest hamster who'd ever lived. I swear the laziest hamster . With hamsters , you get them wheels, and they run in those wheels.
So they lived it. I like the hamster wheels and all that.
I go to bed smashed. Like an alcoholic hamster on one of them little wheelie things. Every evening the same, every morning the pain.
You're up. Thanks for being here, Patton. When I-- Hamster , yay or nay?
He was wonderful. And so whenever I felt sad, I'd always give Rupert some food, because when Rupert ate, he looked so cute. There's something about hamsters eating. Their paws, right? You just-- when you watch them eat, just everything in the world instantly becomes fine again, just for those few minutes.
In that first half Ironman that I did-- that was the hardest race I'd ever done. We're like hamsters in a cage and we're addicted to action.
So then suddenly being cut open and all of this stuff, and then a baby being slammed on my chest. I was a bit mean to my hamster , Vanilla, by putting him in the drawer for 20 seconds when I was a kid?
We have, for decades, been shaping our brains to function in the world in a particular way. We're forced to get off the hamster wheel and rethink everything in our lives.
And so I'm feeling a little bit down, feeling a little bit sad. I'm going to give Rupert the hamster some broccoli, because Rupert loved broccoli so much. It was his favorite food.
Or I'm churning about this thing that my boss said. And so any time there's that hamster wheel of thinking, there's always a correlation. So if you follow the branch down into your body and check out in your throat, in your chest, in your stomach,
Maybe I'll do this. And that just pushes the hamster wheel more. And you all know this, I'm sure.
ago called ahead of the curve uh curve two years at Harvard Business School by Philip Del's Bron and he talks about what he calls the MBA hamster wheel where you go to school and you borrow a lot of money and then you have to work this very intense job to pay back the money that you borrowed in the first place and it's kind of like the Red
To get online at all was an enormous pain. You had 300 baud modems powered by hamsters . And most of these bulletin boards could only take one incoming call at a time.
And my mom was actually accused of child abuse because she was allowing me to be vegan. Also, Rupert the hamster was the laziest hamster who'd ever lived. I swear, the laziest hamster .
Also, Rupert the hamster was the laziest hamster who'd ever lived. I swear, the laziest hamster . With hamsters , you get them wheels, and they run on those wheels.
Because I thought if this is what media jobs have become, I don't think I can do this. And it's because it's really about spinning that hamster wheel and traffic and catchy headlines. And you don't ever have time to really do a good story or meet people.
And for about 10 years, I was just another struggling writer in LA, writing at night, going to my job by day and sort of on the big hamster wheel, not getting anywhere. And it was only when I went back and wrote a book, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," about six years ago that my film career took off.
And I constantly felt like I was this hamster in a wheel, searching and searching and searching for happiness and inspiration outside of myself.
What are these, hamsters ?
others falling from about 40 ft from this giant what she calls a giant hamster wheel and they go to the top and
And he would eat it, but he wouldn't be very happy. He loved broccoli. Also, Rupert the hamster was the laziest hamster who'd ever lived. I swear the laziest hamster .
another piece about her uh and and by that time she had this 30 fot uh hamster wheel which is an extraordinary I mean
And so we're stuck on a-- we might be triggered, and then we're stuck on this energy hamster wheel.
So as much as it's a nice pat on the back-- and that's another lesson I urge people, is I call it the elite status hamster wheel, right?
It's ineffable. Then the other thing that happens in this space is not that we're passive, nor are we like hamsters on a hamster wheel.
You feel like it's a benevolent lie to tell your kids that Santa is going to bring them presents if they're good, or that their hamster actually went to live on
that sudden death that I mentioned in here, if we want to be able to get off that hamster wheel and do something important.
You did a brilliant job of describing it. It's like, you're sitting there in a hamster cage with your time monitored, your voice being listened to, and people are not calling
You know, as any of you that have kept fish, or have hamsters , or children know,
like, come on. I can find like a bag of hamsters and give it to you. So, what you're saying is you guys actually
You're packed in. You're always visible. Ooh, that's a nice way to put it. You're always visible to somebody. So it's basically a warren of cubicles, hamsterlike