Cadre Today - You’ve Got Mail Moment

Come on over, baby Come on over? Come on over, baby Come on over? Come on over, baby Come on? Come on over, baby hey, boy, don't you know I got something going on? I got an invitation don't you keep me waiting for. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today, little Christina Aguilera to play you in some songs, just have a good bop to them, and that's one of those songs that's always felt like a good bop to me. So come on over, Cadre. Let's hang out for a little bit. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, Rose, you and I have spent time in space together before.

So welcome to to the moment. Hey, Shannon. Nice to see you. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. If this is our first time sharing space and time together, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now in the Cadre sphere. I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know the things. I know Jules and I care about you. Jules, what's the temperature up there this morning? It's one of those days that it's fun to hear how darn cold it is. Jules comes to us from the northernmost northern part of the Continental 48.

And it's a chilly one today. But hey, a little Christina Aguilera, a little good morning voice, and a little moment to say, you know what? You're probably going to accomplish something today that you or someone else is going to appreciate, and that's pretty remarkable. So what a better way to start than right here. So one of my favorite movies, actually, my favorite movie is you've got Mail. A wonderful little story about two people who don't know that they. That they appreciate one another. Because in the real world, face to face, they go, we don't like each other.

But through the digital world, they actually kind of fall in love. Starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. There's a moment when they're talking through social media and Meg Ryan says, you know, most of the time, we don't talk about anything, Right? We talk about a bunch of nothings. And then she says, you know, but all these nothings have meant so much more to me than so many somethings. That's kind of something I want to talk about this morning. I was on TV yesterday and there was a screenshot of me going like this.

And all of a sudden I'm like, oh, my gosh. I just unintentionally 6, 7'd on television. Now, if you are older than young. You may go, what does 6, 7 mean? 67 is the current youthful expression that's kind of taken over the world, right? Remember when like hot used to mean cool, or when cool used to mean great, or when bad used to mean good, or when hip used to mean like cool, not like hip. Alright, all of a sudden, 6, 7, the two numbers 6, 7 are now the thing that the young people are saying as if it means something when in reality it means nothing.

And there's a hand action. It goes like this, 6, 7. So yesterday I saw myself 6 7ing and I shared it on the Internet and everyone's laughing and giggling that JC was 6 7ing. You ask a young person what does 67 mean? And they go, it doesn't mean anything, get over it. And I love the honesty and the clarity that our young people are shouting at the world with. We had a conversation earlier this year, very early this year, when it was World Mental Teen Mental Health Day, and all the old people in the room were saying, oh, so social media, social media, social media.

As if social media is the magic icky pill that's ruining the world. And often when I'm presenting, I'll raise the point where it's like, oh, it seems like there's a consensus that the thing that's ruining the world today is technology and social media and that's why everybody is sad and anxious and so on and so forth. So when I ask all the people in the room who are normally people who've lived without social media and on the other side of technology, boom. I go, okay, how many of you lived before social media was a thing?

And normally about 90, 95% of people in the room still raise their hand. And I go, okay, how many of you felt just as awful, just as anxious, just as judged, just as small before social media as you do after? And all of a sudden you can see all their faces go, oh snikeys. And they all raise their hand. I go, oh, so you felt just as bad about yourselves before the thing that you now say is the thing that's causing all the bad feelings. And they go, wow, it must be more complex than that than to say, here's the bad thing.

And then the conversation begins. You know, six, seven, it means nothing and yet it has the potential to create something. Social media is nothing. It is a tool, it is a resource. It can be used in the best of ways and in the worst of ways. And right here in the Cadre sphere we're trying to use it in the best of ways. As Meg Ryan says in you've got mail, all of these nothings have meant so much more to me than so many somethings. Six, seven could mean nothing to you, but it could mean something to somebody else.

So why are you going to be the stank and say, what does this even mean? This is stupid. You need to read more books, you need to go outside, you need get over yourself. Because guess what? Social media, yeah, could do lots of really bad things. Social media, for an introvert, panic ridden individual like myself, is pretty much my number one tool that I'm thankful for on this planet every single day because it allows me to connect, it allows me to do the things that I wouldn't do otherwise, just like we're doing right now.

And yet I can say, yeah, here's where these things do bad, here's where these things do good. Six, seven, y' all have a great day. No matter where you are, no matter what you're doing. And if you're around at 12:30 Central Standard Time today, I'm going to be bopping back on with my friend Brittany, contributor Brittany. And we're going to be talking about setting big mantras to accomplish big things in the new year. We'll be right back here in the Cadre spear, but in the meantime, A little Christina to play.

Yeah, Have a good one.