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When Did We Stop Having Fun? | Why Everything Became Work
When was the last time you did something just because it was fun?
Not because it was productive. Not because it burned calories. Not because you could turn it into a side hustle. Not because you could post it online.
But just because you wanted to.
This week on the Health, Tech & Wellness Podcast, John Adams and Crystal Nevedale ask a surprisingly difficult question: Are we having fun anymore?
As kids, we rode bikes, played outside, drew terrible pictures, went fishing, bowled, played games, and invented things to do when we were bored. We didn't track the steps, measure the results, or wonder whether we were any good at it.
Then somewhere along the way, everything started needing a purpose.
John and Crystal talk about why adulthood can turn hobbies into work, why being bad at something might actually make it more fun, and whether our unlimited access to phones, streaming, social media, and entertainment has actually made it harder for us to simply enjoy ourselves.
They also challenge the idea that turning something you love into a career automatically ruins it. Sometimes doing what you love doesn't kill the passion. Sometimes it lets that passion grow.
And Crystal leaves all of us with a challenge: Find something you've always wanted to try... and go do it.
Take the class. Go bowling. Get on the kayak. Draw the terrible horse. Skip the rock. Dance in the rain.
You don't have to be good at it. You don't have to monetize it. And you definitely don't have to justify it.
You are allowed to do something simply because it's fun.
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1 Oct 2026
Why Are We So Busy? The Difference Between Busy and Productive
When did being busy become something we're proud of?
“Busy” has almost become the default answer when someone asks how life is going. Work is busy. Weekends are busy. Family life is busy. Even our downtime somehow gets filled with something else.
But there’s a bigger question hiding underneath all of it:
Are we actually being productive, or are we just busy?
In this episode of the Health, Tech & Wellness Podcast, John Adams and Crystal Nevedale take an honest look at our obsession with staying busy and how easily productivity, ambition, distraction, and even guilt can start blending together.
And they're the first to admit they haven't figured it all out.
John and Crystal talk about their own packed schedules, trying to juggle work and family, feeling guilty when they're doing “nothing,” turning downtime into work time, and those days when you've been moving nonstop only to wonder what you actually accomplished.
Because being busy and being productive aren't necessarily the same thing. As John points out, you can spend hours answering messages, scrolling, jumping between projects, and constantly switching tasks while still ending the day feeling like nothing actually got finished.
They also dig into something even bigger: What is all that productivity supposed to be for?
If we're working this hard to build a better life for ourselves and the people we love, but we're constantly too busy to actually spend time with those people, where's the line?
Crystal also raises a simple question worth thinking about: Do you intentionally set aside time every day for the people you love, or do you just hope there will be time left over?
Maybe the goal isn't to stop being busy.
Maybe it's to make sure we're busy with the right things.
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24 Sept 2026
We Actually Believed This?! The Wild Things We Were Told as Kids
Remember when swallowing gum meant it would stay in your stomach for seven years? Or going outside with wet hair would give you pneumonia? And whatever you do... DON'T swallow a watermelon seed.
This week on the Health, Tech & Wellness Podcast, John Adams and Crystal Nevedale are having a little fun and looking back at all the things we were told growing up that we just... believed.
No Google. No smartphones. No instant fact-checking.
If your parents, grandparents, teachers, or some kid on the playground said it with enough confidence, it basically became scientific fact.
We revisit some of the classics:
Swallowed gum stays in your stomach for seven years
Wet hair will make you sick
Watermelon seeds will grow in your stomach
Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis
Coffee stunts your growth
Reading in the dark ruins your eyes
Turning on the car's interior light while driving is illegal
Touching a toad gives you warts
"Because I said so"
"Money doesn't grow on trees"
You'll always need to know math because you won't have a calculator in your pocket
Cursive will be important your entire life
Don't meet strangers from the internet
That last one aged particularly well considering we now get into strangers' cars, sleep in strangers' houses, and have strangers deliver food directly to our doors.
And then there are all the things people were convinced would never catch on: buying things online, cameras on phones, streaming TV... and somehow we've ended up living in exactly that world.
This isn't a serious fact-checking episode. It's two people looking back, laughing at how much the world has changed, and realizing that maybe our parents weren't wrong about everything.
So what did YOU completely believe as a kid that turned out to be totally wrong?
Drop it in the comments. We want to hear the best ones.
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