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On the podcast that Dave and I have been doing each Monday, we were talking about how what we watch on television gets into our heads and affects what we do.
This seems to be especially true with reality television.
For example, if we watch home improvement shows Dave and I start taking down walls in our house.
When we watch traveling shows we start planning a trip.
Once Dave and I binge-watched an entire season of American Ninja Warrior. That’s the one where people compete on these intense obstacle courses after training for years to prepare. A few episodes in, I decided I was, in fact, a future ninja warrior and started doing push ups on the commercials and jogging in place.
But then we took a break from ninja warrior to watch the Great British Baking Show. A few episodes into that one I was making a layered chocolate cake in the kitchen with raspberries on top and talking about its “crumb.”
(I realize that the baking show and the ninja warrior competition don’t create complementary goals for my life. So I’m going with the cake.)

Whatever we are watching tends to affect what we talk about, think about. Or, in other words:
What we put in is what we get out.
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