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Speaker 1: Have you checked it out yet? Arrow dot net. It's

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more than just a podcast. It is several different podcasts,

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one of them being Forest Stories. I live in a

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beautiful forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, A

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gorgeous lake, a slow moving stream. But where did it

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come from? What is the history of this forest? If

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we would just take the time to share those stories,

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That's what Forest Stories is all about. From Arrow dot

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nete dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Hey, what's going on?

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It's that guy that's always asking questions because it's really

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fun to research for answers such as has there ever

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been an invention where the human being wore out its welcome?

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Plus food plays a very important role in this game

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of overuse and abuse. My name is Arrow. I'm a

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daily writer, a silent wolf. That means I stand on

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the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study, then activate.

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I call it the Daily Mess because it's a chronological

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walk through an everyday world. It is my morning writing

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as a receiver of thoughts and ideas. We as people

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tend to throw things to the side because we all

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think we're gonna deal with it later on. Well, when

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a subject arrives inside of me. You drop everything and

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get this monkey jotted down, because you know what, it's

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still keeping that daily journal, and by doing the research,

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the picture will become clearer. This is the daily mess.

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Have there ever been any inventions where the human wore out?

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It's welcome, Oh my, my, my, my mind. You know,

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it's not always the invention that went bad. It's how

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we tend to overuse and misuse things and then push

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it from our public view. Digitally speaking, Facebook, Instagram, and

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TikTok first started out as tools for human connection, but

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over time, we as people felt like social media addicts.

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We became distracted as well as isolated because of our

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actions and reactions. This is where doom scrolling came into being.

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The digital platforms haven't failed us, we are extremely guilty

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of overusing them. Guess what else made this list of

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things that humans have worn out? Cars and trucks, cities

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have become congested, polluted, and urban design. It just can't

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keep up with our reasons to endlessly change. It's who

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we are. I mean, look at the twenty four hour

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news cycle and what it's done to us. It's generated

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a constant need for urgency. And oh my god, look

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at our anxiety. It's encouraged sensationalism and left the majority

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of us completely exhausted. Coming up next, what else are

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we going to find on this list of things that

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we have totally worn out? Does it include food? Hey,

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welcome back to the daily mess human beings that do

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what human beings do best. We are beautifully designed to

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really overuse a lot of stuff, and that also includes

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ultra processed foods. I mean, there was once a time

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when McDonald's and Taco Bell were really fast. When it

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came to take out food, diets changed every bit of that,

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as did portion sizes in the act of getting back

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to real nutrition. Guess what else is on this list

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of human abuse? Nuclear technology? Oh yeah, the human realized

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it had created something way too destructive to morally justify

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its existence on the planet. It is said that nuclear

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technology is one of the clearest cases where the invention

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outpaced the human wisdom. It's not that we as humans

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wear things out. We are just guilty of changing the

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department of overextending our stay. We always underestimate the long

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term effects. Then we find ourselves in a position of

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having to discover and rediscover this thing called balance. There's

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no such thing as a bad invention. It's horrible human patterns. Mmm.

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I'm Marri Owen. That's the daily mess.