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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome to MMHC, your go to mental health podcast.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I'm Eddie Coreo, a licensed professional counselor.
- 0:08Speaker 1: And I'm Justin Romano, a Board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist.
- 0:12Speaker 2: We created MMHC to give listeners evidence based information directly
- 0:16Speaker 2: from professionals who work in mental health.
- 0:18Speaker 1: We're not influencers, We're not trying to sell you anything.
- 0:21Speaker 1: We just want to bring love, empathy, and understanding of
- 0:24Speaker 1: mental health into this world.
- 0:26Speaker 2: And we really think that learning about mental health should
- 0:28Speaker 2: be fun, interesting, and most importantly honest.
- 0:31Speaker 1: So thanks for tuning in. This is a show by
- 0:33Speaker 1: two millennials, but it is intended to be for everyone.
- 0:36Speaker 3: We hope you enjoy the show.
- 0:40Speaker 2: MMHC is a production of Speaker from iHeartMedia. I heartma Ooh.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Welcome back to MMHC. We are truly honored that you
- 0:52Speaker 1: decided to join us today. So I spreaker question, Eddie,
- 0:57Speaker 1: how do you want to be remembered when you're gone?
- 1:00Speaker 2: Importantly, did you know that Bubba Sparks is white? You know,
- 1:04Speaker 2: the guy that made Miss New Booty the song? You know?
- 1:07Speaker 3: I did not know that.
- 1:08Speaker 2: No, I found that out. He made it. There's a
- 1:09Speaker 2: TikTok the other day where he talked about the making
- 1:11Speaker 2: of that song.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Ah wow, I wouldn't have been able to tell you
- 1:15Speaker 1: that it was Bubba Sparks, but.
- 1:18Speaker 2: The whole comment section was like, Bubba Sparks.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Why that's the good news we needed.
- 1:28Speaker 2: This is what we needed something. Bubba Sparks is back. Man,
- 1:32Speaker 2: God bless that guy. How do I want to be
- 1:34Speaker 2: remembered after I'm gone? I like the word genuine, authentic.
- 1:39Speaker 2: I feel like I bring that into my my work,
- 1:41Speaker 2: but hopefully into my life too. Fun loving probably would
- 1:45Speaker 2: be part of it, like to laugh and have a
- 1:47Speaker 2: good time. Yeah. I'd actually gotten feedback from one of
- 1:51Speaker 2: my coworkers. Her her son was in our health class presentations,
- 1:56Speaker 2: and I told him like, oh, you should ask him
- 1:57Speaker 2: about them, like make sure he's paying attention, like joking,
- 2:00Speaker 2: and she was like she's like, oh, yeah, you know,
- 2:02Speaker 2: he liked it. You know what he he said the
- 2:04Speaker 2: whole time he was waiting for you to like use
- 2:06Speaker 2: your humor because he knows how you are. I don't
- 2:09Speaker 2: know about but I'm like, yeah, I know. It's just
- 2:11Speaker 2: it's tough to have humor when you're doing a suicide
- 2:13Speaker 2: prevention presentation. I mean so, but yeah, I think I
- 2:17Speaker 2: think those I think those things. What do you think.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Cool like professionally?
- 2:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to be known and remembered as
- 2:25Speaker 1: like someone who was able to connect with people, able
- 2:28Speaker 1: to get people help, able to make this world a
- 2:31Speaker 1: little bit of a better place.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Yeah, sure that'd be great.
- 2:34Speaker 1: But deep down, what I want more than anything is
- 2:37Speaker 1: just to be remembered as a good dad and a
- 2:39Speaker 1: good husband. I think he had a family. Stuff is
- 2:41Speaker 1: the stuff that I really want more than anything. So yeah,
- 2:47Speaker 1: So the icebreaker question was intentionally deep because we are
- 2:53Speaker 1: talking about depth in conversation today because there was a
- 2:57Speaker 1: recent article on the BBC that was titled shortcut to
- 3:02Speaker 1: close bonds, ask Meaningful Questions by David Robson.
- 3:08Speaker 2: I like that.
- 3:08Speaker 1: That's clickbaity, I know, yeah, which is usually not BBC.
- 3:13Speaker 1: It's like the queen went out for a drive and
- 3:16Speaker 1: hit four pigeons in the call.
- 3:19Speaker 2: And I remember that one. That was a good one,
- 3:22Speaker 2: that was a good article.
- 3:22Speaker 3: It was those pigeons were trying to get her.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Oh what did the articles say? What they talk about?
- 3:29Speaker 3: So essentially, this.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Was an article that was summarizing a study that had
- 3:33Speaker 1: been done on kids. These young people had rated their
- 3:37Speaker 1: feelings of closeness with their parents before and after their
- 3:41Speaker 1: parents asked them deep, meaningful questions, and the results showed
- 3:46Speaker 1: that kids felt a deeper connection and more love from
- 3:49Speaker 1: their parents after their conversations. After one conversation, they rated
- 3:54Speaker 1: their connections and love towards their parents even higher.
- 3:57Speaker 3: So it was pretty powerful.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's anytime I've been asked shout out
- 4:02Speaker 2: to coin am extra, but anytime I've talked about like
- 4:05Speaker 2: things like in an interview or anything like that, when
- 4:08Speaker 2: you get asked like how do we what can parents
- 4:11Speaker 2: do at home to help with their kids or have
- 4:14Speaker 2: a deeper connection with their kids, I go back to
- 4:16Speaker 2: kind of that it's just having conversation, and I always
- 4:19Speaker 2: preface it with like, way easier said than done. It's
- 4:22Speaker 2: super easy to be like, yeah, just talk to your
- 4:24Speaker 2: kids when they're home, Like, but there's way more that
- 4:26Speaker 2: goes into that mom, dad, caregiver, guardian. They all have
- 4:29Speaker 2: work or whatever they're doing that takes their day, right
- 4:32Speaker 2: that takes up their time. They're busy, They're tired. Life
- 4:35Speaker 2: is tired. Life right now is super tired. This has
- 4:37Speaker 2: been the longest ten years I've ever had in nine months.
- 4:40Speaker 2: But it's like it's one of those things where like
- 4:43Speaker 2: it's a very easy answer, but it can be super
- 4:46Speaker 2: hard to execute. So just like parents and caregivers, guardians
- 4:48Speaker 2: are tired, have a long day. Kids, same thing, right,
- 4:52Speaker 2: especially in school. I'm in school with them every single day.
- 4:54Speaker 2: They're here eight nine hours a day, all their classes
- 4:58Speaker 2: whatever it is, and then they have extracurriculars and then
- 5:00Speaker 2: they have jobs and they're just tired. And if you
- 5:03Speaker 2: haven't had that as like a habit that we have
- 5:07Speaker 2: these conversations that we talk, it's hard to start it up.
- 5:10Speaker 2: And I say that to also add that it's hard
- 5:12Speaker 2: to start it up. But I think it is one
- 5:14Speaker 2: of those things that you can build on. It's like
- 5:15Speaker 2: a skill you can build on being able to have
- 5:18Speaker 2: that so that your kids start to expect like at
- 5:20Speaker 2: the dinner table, we're talking. At the when we're sitting
- 5:24Speaker 2: on the couch with each other, we're able to talk
- 5:25Speaker 2: and it's just a normalized thing. But we've gotten used
- 5:28Speaker 2: to this, like kind of what is it shifts in
- 5:30Speaker 2: the night, we're just kind of passing each other, not
- 5:33Speaker 2: really connecting. We get used to that and then it's
- 5:37Speaker 2: hard to jump into those conversations when we're just not
- 5:39Speaker 2: used to having them all the time.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've worked with so many families who oftentimes
- 5:45Speaker 1: the child in the situation feels like it's an interrogation,
- 5:48Speaker 1: but the parents are like, we're.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Having time to talk, I'm gonna ask.
- 5:53Speaker 1: You about your day, and you're gonna tell me about it,
- 5:55Speaker 1: and it's just like, okay, well that's not really gonna
- 5:57Speaker 1: be that helpful either. So there's got to be a
- 6:00Speaker 1: little give and take. There's got to be a little
- 6:02Speaker 1: bit of vulnerability on the parents side too. I saw
- 6:06Speaker 1: something recently that if you want your kids to talk
- 6:08Speaker 1: about their day, start by telling a little bit about
- 6:10Speaker 1: your day, saying, hey, I had a stressful situation at
- 6:14Speaker 1: work and I didn't know what to do, but hey,
- 6:16Speaker 1: we were able to resolve it, like I'm glad the
- 6:18Speaker 1: day went.
- 6:18Speaker 3: Okay, how is your day?
- 6:21Speaker 1: And that's that's so much more disarming than just like
- 6:24Speaker 1: what'd you do today at school?
- 6:26Speaker 2: Yeah. I joke with one of my coworkers kids, I
- 6:29Speaker 2: always ask them what'd you learn today? Just put them
- 6:32Speaker 2: on the spot, And then then I was like, yes,
- 6:36Speaker 2: but yeah, I think I've also been reading. I started
- 6:41Speaker 2: this book. It was it's not like not like a
- 6:43Speaker 2: fun book, but it's like informational, right, what do you
- 6:45Speaker 2: even call it? Can I call it a textbook? It's
- 6:47Speaker 2: not really a textbook. It's a nonfiction. It's a nonfiction
- 6:52Speaker 2: mental health counseling book, and it's motivational interviewing in schools.
- 6:57Speaker 2: And I'm on the section where they're talking about like
- 6:59Speaker 2: open ended questions, right, yeah, like the importance of like
- 7:02Speaker 2: open ended questions, Yes, are super important and impactful, but
- 7:07Speaker 2: it's almost like an art form of like bringing in
- 7:09Speaker 2: the open ended with the with the close ended questions. Right.
- 7:12Speaker 2: If you just open ended, it's like, god, damn, how
- 7:15Speaker 2: much you I'm going to answer? Right, Like what are
- 7:17Speaker 2: you looking for? But if you can sprinkle in some
- 7:19Speaker 2: of that like you know, open with close ended, it
- 7:21Speaker 2: kind of helps to build the conversation, to normalize that
- 7:25Speaker 2: that give and take, like you said, of conversation for sure.
- 7:30Speaker 1: You know, I think this is really meaningful for society
- 7:33Speaker 1: because it feels like there has been such a shift
- 7:35Speaker 1: in our society that people are so ideologically and politically
- 7:40Speaker 1: different these days, or at least social media makes us
- 7:43Speaker 1: think that we're very different these days that it seems
- 7:47Speaker 1: like a lot of people are very afraid to go
- 7:49Speaker 1: into deep conversation. I think a lot of people want
- 7:52Speaker 1: to keep it superficial to avoid any topics that could
- 7:54Speaker 1: potentially get people.
- 7:55Speaker 3: Mad or pissed off.
- 7:57Speaker 1: And so a lot of times all of our our interactions.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Are just so surface level.
- 8:03Speaker 1: So healthy relationships are one of the most important elements
- 8:07Speaker 1: of mental health. And we've said it on the show
- 8:09Speaker 1: before it we're gonna say it again in the future.
- 8:12Speaker 1: So we wanted to lead by example, answer some deep
- 8:15Speaker 1: questions to get you our loving audience some ideas of
- 8:19Speaker 1: how you can strengthen the connections and bonds with family
- 8:22Speaker 1: and friends, to really learn how to ask some deep questions.
- 8:26Speaker 1: And I think this is one thing where you can
- 8:28Speaker 1: get some good guides. You know that in the past,
- 8:32Speaker 1: my wife and I got a big deck of like
- 8:35Speaker 1: mindfulness questions.
- 8:37Speaker 3: And they were really awesome.
- 8:38Speaker 1: We tried to do like one per night and it
- 8:40Speaker 1: was going really well, and then, of course, you know,
- 8:42Speaker 1: we forgot about it and we haven't looked at him
- 8:44Speaker 1: in a long long time. But those types of things
- 8:47Speaker 1: really helped and I felt more connected to her than ever,
- 8:51Speaker 1: and it's so much more meaningful than just sitting on
- 8:53Speaker 1: your phone, sitting next to each other with a movie
- 8:55Speaker 1: on in the background, to actually be able to dive
- 8:59Speaker 1: into each other's minds.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think too. We just to your point
- 9:04Speaker 2: of like the phones and scrolling like we're we're just
- 9:06Speaker 2: kind of it's it's like a crutch at this point.
- 9:09Speaker 2: Like you think back in the day you had like
- 9:12Speaker 2: an undergrad party, and there's always like the jokes that
- 9:14Speaker 2: you're standing in the corner just like checking the weather
- 9:16Speaker 2: app because you don't want to like look around or
- 9:18Speaker 2: start a conversation with people. I think this is an
- 9:21Speaker 2: issue that's gone on for a lot longer than just
- 9:24Speaker 2: our current children right our current ends and teens. It
- 9:27Speaker 2: extends to us too. I've definitely been part of the issue.
- 9:31Speaker 2: I was it when I went to the doctor recently.
- 9:33Speaker 2: I made a concerted effort to not take out my
- 9:37Speaker 2: phone while I waited that it was a little difficult
- 9:40Speaker 2: because I waited for time. But I think too, we've
- 9:44Speaker 2: just gotten used to that being like it's it's kind
- 9:46Speaker 2: of a crutch at this point. You can you don't
- 9:49Speaker 2: have anything to talk about, or you don't want to
- 9:52Speaker 2: you don't want to have If you don't want to
- 9:53Speaker 2: talk at all, you just take out my phone. And
- 9:55Speaker 2: that's just the universal sign of like I'm doing something.
- 9:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember growing up, my dad was always just like
- 10:01Speaker 1: striking up conversations with random people all the time. But
- 10:06Speaker 1: you just see that less and less. Like you look
- 10:08Speaker 1: at a bus, you look at an elevator, anywhere. Everyone's
- 10:12Speaker 1: just staring down with their phones all the time.
- 10:14Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. I went to get my DQ
- 10:17Speaker 2: test today for my car because the registration was due
- 10:21Speaker 2: later this month, and me and the attendant had a
- 10:23Speaker 2: great conversation about crossbody bags.
- 10:26Speaker 3: It was nice body bags.
- 10:29Speaker 2: He was super into like you know, like people get
- 10:31Speaker 2: like a vanny pack, but they were a cross. Yeah.
- 10:33Speaker 2: He was super into my codea Pacsi bag. Our six
- 10:39Speaker 2: minute interaction was all about it. Now that you bring
- 10:44Speaker 2: this up, it is kind of cool. At least we
- 10:45Speaker 2: talked that cool. Yeah, I'll take that.
- 10:48Speaker 1: That wasn't quite sure what you were talking about. I
- 10:51Speaker 1: was thinking, like a cross shaped body bag.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have one of those? Is that not
- 10:57Speaker 2: a no?
- 10:59Speaker 3: No?
- 11:00Speaker 1: Well, you know maybe in the in the Bible belt
- 11:03Speaker 1: they have those, but well in.
- 11:05Speaker 2: The big war zone that is Portland, Oregon. It's there today,
- 11:10Speaker 2: so deep.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Question number one, what would you say is your life philosophy?
- 11:16Speaker 2: It's hard when you already look at the questions you're like, oh, yeah,
- 11:18Speaker 2: I could say that.
- 11:19Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 11:19Speaker 2: I think being authentic caring for others I think is
- 11:23Speaker 2: super important, which I'd be completely honest. We talked about
- 11:26Speaker 2: it in like the Compassion Fatigue episode, Like right now,
- 11:28Speaker 2: it can be really tough to like care about others
- 11:31Speaker 2: and genuinely care about others. It's just so tiring. But
- 11:33Speaker 2: I feel like if I were to come up with
- 11:35Speaker 2: something short like authenticity caring for others, and then like
- 11:40Speaker 2: love for yourself, because if you can love yourself, then
- 11:43Speaker 2: you're in a better position to care about the other
- 11:46Speaker 2: people around you and to love the other people around you.
- 11:49Speaker 2: I think about the super cheesy metaphor of like you're
- 11:51Speaker 2: on an airplane and they tell you if the plane
- 11:55Speaker 2: cabin depressurizes, put your mask on before helping someone else
- 11:59Speaker 2: next to you. It' cheesy, but I tell kids it
- 12:01Speaker 2: all the time, and it hits home a little bit.
- 12:03Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll keep it short and sweet with those
- 12:05Speaker 2: three things.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.
- 12:08Speaker 1: I would say, never put money before people. It seems
- 12:14Speaker 1: like so much of our society just values money, and
- 12:19Speaker 1: it seems like when we actually measure what life is
- 12:24Speaker 1: like in the United States, the most important measures that
- 12:26Speaker 1: we use are things like gross domestic product GDP, like
- 12:29Speaker 1: measures of money, how much we're producing. And I know
- 12:33Speaker 1: some European countries are trying to move away from that
- 12:36Speaker 1: and try to focus more on like happiness, well being,
- 12:40Speaker 1: quality of life, and so always just trying to keep
- 12:44Speaker 1: in mind that, like, yeah, this is the world we
- 12:47Speaker 1: live in. You have to be able to support yourself.
- 12:50Speaker 1: It's nice being able to make enough money so that
- 12:52Speaker 1: you're not in constant financial stress, but to never get
- 12:55Speaker 1: to the point of greed to that you're sacrificing the
- 12:58Speaker 1: relationships or or hurting people to make more money.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Like it. What is a childhood experience that significantly shaped you?
- 13:10Speaker 2: Oh man, hmm.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Might have to take a second and think about this one,
- 13:14Speaker 1: because I did write all these, but it was like
- 13:16Speaker 1: two weeks ago and I haven't thought about him in
- 13:21Speaker 1: a while. One time, when I was a young person,
- 13:25Speaker 1: I came home. I was with a friend on like
- 13:27Speaker 1: a vacation with him. I came home and my family
- 13:30Speaker 1: wasn't there, and the house was all locked, and I
- 13:32Speaker 1: was like too young to have a key or anything
- 13:34Speaker 1: like that, so I didn't really know what to do.
- 13:38Speaker 1: So I like broke a window and got inside.
- 13:42Speaker 3: Like I didn't shatter the glass.
- 13:44Speaker 2: I just like.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Muscled the window and snapped the mechanism in it and
- 13:48Speaker 1: like pried it open and got inside. That was one
- 13:52Speaker 1: of those like my parents.
- 13:54Speaker 3: Had to be like, justin what are you doing?
- 13:59Speaker 1: It was like I pay, I couldn't get in the house.
- 14:01Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do, and I found a
- 14:03Speaker 1: window that was slightly open, and so I pulled it.
- 14:06Speaker 1: So learning from that and learning from experiences and to
- 14:11Speaker 1: tie that into kind of the mental health as a whole.
- 14:15Speaker 1: And my friends asked me the other day when they
- 14:17Speaker 1: were all over in the summer. They were like, what's
- 14:19Speaker 1: a common thread that you see amongst young people who
- 14:24Speaker 1: are really struggling with mental health issues? And I was like,
- 14:26Speaker 1: you know what, I got to say, the kids who
- 14:29Speaker 1: never take responsibility and who are constantly blaming other people
- 14:33Speaker 1: for their mistakes tend to have the worst mental health
- 14:36Speaker 1: because they don't grow, they don't change, They don't learn
- 14:38Speaker 1: from their mistakes. So I think that was a really
- 14:42Speaker 1: good moment for me because I had learned that my
- 14:44Speaker 1: parents forced me to save up for months to pay
- 14:48Speaker 1: for that window, and I was like, you know, ten
- 14:51Speaker 1: nine or ten at the time, So yeah, that was
- 14:54Speaker 1: a good shaping experience.
- 14:56Speaker 2: How about you. Yeah, this is going to be like
- 14:58Speaker 2: super cheesy and be like, oh, typical football player. But
- 15:01Speaker 2: I feel like legitimately, like playing football was a huge
- 15:05Speaker 2: like it just flipped everything for me. I wanted to
- 15:08Speaker 2: play it for a long time. I didn't get the
- 15:10Speaker 2: chance to until I was in seventh grade. In seventh grade,
- 15:13Speaker 2: it was pretty much my first like real opportunity to
- 15:16Speaker 2: be like, Okay, I really like this, I am not
- 15:19Speaker 2: good at it? What do I need to do to
- 15:21Speaker 2: get better at it? And it was like the constant
- 15:24Speaker 2: like repetition of practice and like just focusing on it
- 15:29Speaker 2: was like really helpful for me. Like that was like
- 15:31Speaker 2: the first time that I remember doing something like that.
- 15:33Speaker 2: But it's also like continue to impact me today of
- 15:36Speaker 2: like the importance of teamwork and like the job that
- 15:39Speaker 2: I've had, like the team has been like the most
- 15:42Speaker 2: important part of it, and like I carry that and
- 15:45Speaker 2: I continue to like how is this going to impact
- 15:48Speaker 2: the team or like where's the team on this? And
- 15:50Speaker 2: like that's been that was like again it really was
- 15:53Speaker 2: like a has changed a lot for me, like seventh
- 15:56Speaker 2: grade on Like that was super helpful and just we were
- 15:59Speaker 2: talking about it before the show. But just again like
- 16:01Speaker 2: being someone that for me, it's like Okay, I'm I
- 16:04Speaker 2: would like to be better at this. That means I
- 16:07Speaker 2: have to do these things. These things kind of suck.
- 16:11Speaker 2: I guess I'll do it anyway because it's like it's needed.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Like nobody likes to do conditioning outside of practice and
- 16:19Speaker 2: lift weights when you don't have to, and like nobody
- 16:21Speaker 2: likes to do those things, but it was it was
- 16:23Speaker 2: important for me to do those things so that I
- 16:25Speaker 2: could kind of see and thankfully I got to experience.
- 16:28Speaker 2: I was able to go to my whole career really
- 16:30Speaker 2: without any significant drawbacks in terms of injury or anything,
- 16:34Speaker 2: so I could I could really get to see like
- 16:36Speaker 2: how all of that got to play out year after year,
- 16:38Speaker 2: you know, for the ten eleven years that I got
- 16:41Speaker 2: to play.
- 16:41Speaker 1: So yeah, thank god you didn't have any major injuries.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Yeah that's Tyreek Hill and completely obliterate your name.
- 16:48Speaker 2: Think there was definitely brutal. There was definitely one time
- 16:53Speaker 2: it was like a junior where like my knees just hurt,
- 16:57Speaker 2: like I was in pain, you know, like, and I
- 16:59Speaker 2: was an offensive so you got to get down into
- 17:01Speaker 2: your stance every play. So it was it was rough.
- 17:04Speaker 2: I remember thinking specifically like this might be my knees
- 17:07Speaker 2: might give out. Thankfully they did it, but yeah, I'm
- 17:10Speaker 2: very fortunate for that. M cool. This one's tough. So
- 17:15Speaker 2: I'll let you go. But what's one change you'd make
- 17:19Speaker 2: to the world if you could?
- 17:22Speaker 1: You know, I know I mentioned it a little bit earlier,
- 17:24Speaker 1: but I would change the way we measure progress and
- 17:29Speaker 1: measure essentially that gross metastick product thing again. Be able
- 17:33Speaker 1: to switch what our focus is so that we actually
- 17:37Speaker 1: put people first instead of money first. And I think
- 17:40Speaker 1: everything would trickle down from there, because I think right now,
- 17:44Speaker 1: greed and capitalism, I don't know. We've talked about this
- 17:46Speaker 1: a lot in the country. It's like, to a certain
- 17:49Speaker 1: degree it's a good thing, and it's been good for
- 17:51Speaker 1: this country, but it seems like it has gone off
- 17:53Speaker 1: the rails and it is taking advantage of people and
- 17:56Speaker 1: putting a lot of people in this world and in
- 17:58Speaker 1: our country at a sever your disadvantage, so that a
- 18:02Speaker 1: select few at the very top can be uber wealthy.
- 18:06Speaker 1: And so I wish we could just change the focus
- 18:10Speaker 1: so that we actually put in systems into place to
- 18:14Speaker 1: take care of people and protect them and not just
- 18:17Speaker 1: care about how much money a few people can make.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I have one answer that I want, but we'll skip it.
- 18:21Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is I just wish I
- 18:24Speaker 2: wish people would care more about each other. Yeah, like
- 18:28Speaker 2: it with how not only recent things but just over
- 18:32Speaker 2: the last chunk of time in our adult lives have
- 18:34Speaker 2: gone historically in our country, it just feels like there's
- 18:37Speaker 2: way less caring of other people. And then it gets
- 18:40Speaker 2: really tough to when people want you to care about them,
- 18:42Speaker 2: and then you're just like tired, like I'm just so
- 18:45Speaker 2: exhausted of like these shitty things that have happened and
- 18:48Speaker 2: no one caring. But now I have to care about
- 18:49Speaker 2: other people. I don't know, I would say that I
- 18:52Speaker 2: wish people would care about each other more.
- 18:55Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're very much on similar way of
- 18:59Speaker 1: lengths there trying to take care of people, be nicer,
- 19:02Speaker 1: be better.
- 19:03Speaker 3: As a society.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Yeah, any dreams or aspirations you're hiding from others, I
- 19:11Speaker 1: don't think.
- 19:11Speaker 2: So I try not to talk about it too much
- 19:14Speaker 2: because I never want to jinx it. But I really
- 19:17Speaker 2: do feel like I have like a almost like a
- 19:19Speaker 2: dream job currently, and so that's really been great in
- 19:23Speaker 2: terms of like fulfillment that way, but also what it
- 19:26Speaker 2: gives me in terms of like work life balance and
- 19:28Speaker 2: being able to do things, you know, in my life
- 19:32Speaker 2: and with Kevy, and I think that's I don't know
- 19:35Speaker 2: if I could really ask for much more. I know,
- 19:37Speaker 2: I joked with her the other day when the Raiders
- 19:39Speaker 2: were there was a close game and we had an
- 19:41Speaker 2: opportunity to win and we lost, and I think I
- 19:44Speaker 2: said something like, you know, sometimes it just feels like
- 19:47Speaker 2: I don't deserve good day that I that I quickly
- 19:51Speaker 2: was like, but then I look at our life and
- 19:53Speaker 2: then I realized I don't need much. I don't know,
- 19:55Speaker 2: it just you know, get it to do the things
- 19:56Speaker 2: that we get to do and enjoy these memories were
- 19:59Speaker 2: making and like with the job that I have, like,
- 20:02Speaker 2: I really don't know if I can ask for much more.
- 20:05Speaker 2: It almost feels selfish sometimes to want to ask for more,
- 20:08Speaker 2: but I don't know. I think it's Yeah. I think
- 20:13Speaker 2: getting to continue to delive a life where I can
- 20:15Speaker 2: make choices here and there is pretty cool. I can't
- 20:18Speaker 2: I can't ask for much more.
- 20:20Speaker 3: Yeah, we're pretty lucky.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you got? Well?
- 20:25Speaker 1: First, I would like to say it is kind of
- 20:26Speaker 1: painful to be a Raiders fan. Sometimes sports can beat
- 20:29Speaker 1: you down.
- 20:30Speaker 2: Man. Thankfully they don't as much as it used to. Yeah,
- 20:36Speaker 2: I've gotten much better at it, but it's still it's
- 20:40Speaker 2: not great.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel you.
- 20:43Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I would say I don't even know if
- 20:44Speaker 1: I've I've shared this with you too much, but I
- 20:49Speaker 1: would eventually like to be on a platform where we
- 20:52Speaker 1: have like a show talking about mental health and more
- 20:57Speaker 1: of a video content where we can do a lot
- 21:00Speaker 1: of educational stuff.
- 21:03Speaker 3: I think I described it to.
- 21:04Speaker 1: An old mentor of mine that, like I wanted to
- 21:06Speaker 1: be like the Bill Ny the science guy for mental health,
- 21:10Speaker 1: Like be the person who has the videos that impacts
- 21:14Speaker 1: a lot of young people, inspires a lot of young people,
- 21:17Speaker 1: like Neil de grasse Tyson, like Bill Ny the science guy.
- 21:21Speaker 3: If we could get to a level like that.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Where we are the ones who can really shape a
- 21:27Speaker 1: lot of young people's lives and make them better. That
- 21:30Speaker 1: would be amazing, That would be truly an amazing thing. So,
- 21:34Speaker 1: you know, if there's any TV executives out there, or shoot,
- 21:37Speaker 1: you know, people making a new YouTube show out there,
- 21:40Speaker 1: because that's the medium of the future, let us know,
- 21:43Speaker 1: hit us up and you know, we'll go from there.
- 21:45Speaker 2: We'll check our email, let us know.
- 21:47Speaker 3: Maybe I don't.
- 21:47Speaker 1: We're pretty bad at checking our email.
- 21:50Speaker 2: We check it, we just sometimes forget to respond right away. All.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
- 21:54Speaker 1: We just get so many inquiries.
- 21:56Speaker 3: It's hard to keep up.
- 21:57Speaker 2: On real talk though. We do. We we do get
- 22:00Speaker 2: a bunch of fucking yeah anyway, we do. We get
- 22:05Speaker 2: good chunk. We got a good junk.
- 22:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm surprised.
- 22:07Speaker 1: That's a lot of people, you know, prophoning books and
- 22:09Speaker 1: wanting to do wanting to come onto the show to
- 22:11Speaker 1: promote their stuff. And sometimes it's kind of hard to
- 22:14Speaker 1: weed through it.
- 22:15Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard when it's like it just feels like
- 22:17Speaker 2: a big blast that we got added into and it's
- 22:21Speaker 2: not so much like, hey, I really resonated with this.
- 22:24Speaker 2: We should talk, you know. Yeah, tough, because there's a
- 22:27Speaker 2: lot of the other.
- 22:28Speaker 1: One plus, it feels like the guests that we know
- 22:32Speaker 1: personally from our own lives, it just tends to go.
- 22:36Speaker 3: A little bit better.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Like we've had some great guests that we found, Like
- 22:39Speaker 1: I think of doctor Matter, the vet that came on
- 22:43Speaker 1: to our show.
- 22:44Speaker 3: He was awesome.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Yeah, but we've had some super cool ones.
- 22:50Speaker 3: We've been very lucky.
- 22:52Speaker 1: But we're going to bring back Isaiah, one of our
- 22:54Speaker 1: first guests on the show, so I'm excited to have him.
- 22:57Speaker 1: He's probably gonna be on next week. So yeah, always
- 23:00Speaker 1: a good time to have old friends on the show.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, wishing what we got next?
- 23:05Speaker 1: Go ahead, what's the weirdest thing you've ever done in public?
- 23:09Speaker 1: And this is from twenty one Juicy Questions.
- 23:13Speaker 2: It makes me think of the twenty one Questions songs
- 23:15Speaker 2: about fifty it's a good song.
- 23:19Speaker 1: I haven't listened to a lot of Indo club lately.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Oh that's a great song.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Oh my god. I'm currently Every year at our high school,
- 23:28Speaker 2: the dance team does a dance with staff members and
- 23:32Speaker 2: the girls like they get a staff member dance with them,
- 23:35Speaker 2: And I've done the same. The same girl has been
- 23:38Speaker 2: my partner. She asked me the last few years. So
- 23:41Speaker 2: we had practice the other day and the medley We're
- 23:44Speaker 2: dancing too is yeah by Usher oh Yeah with the
- 23:47Speaker 2: Missy Elliott song, and I was just like, my god,
- 23:50Speaker 2: this is I'm old, Holy shit. Anyway, we're just thinking
- 23:54Speaker 2: of public. This one was hard too. The only thing
- 23:56Speaker 2: that really stuck out. Senior year in high school, we
- 24:02Speaker 2: went to Magic Mountain in southern California for our grad trip.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Our grad night. I spent the whole night there, from
- 24:09Speaker 2: like eleven PM to six in the morning, riding rides
- 24:11Speaker 2: and ship with all my friends, and for whatever reason,
- 24:14Speaker 2: me and another one of my friends, I think it
- 24:16Speaker 2: was Eric, we just like laid on the floor. I
- 24:19Speaker 2: don't know if it was because we were exhausted, but
- 24:21Speaker 2: we just like laid there. And I just every once
- 24:22Speaker 2: in a while when I reactivated my Facebook, I'll see
- 24:25Speaker 2: the picture of us just like laying there and like
- 24:28Speaker 2: not caring. And I don't know why we did that,
- 24:30Speaker 2: and that was very unsanitary. Anyway.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Yeah, thinking about this one too, it's a tough one.
- 24:40Speaker 3: I gotta say.
- 24:41Speaker 1: When I first moved to Omaha and I was at
- 24:44Speaker 1: the dog park and a news crew came up to
- 24:47Speaker 1: me and they're like, hey, can we interview you for
- 24:51Speaker 1: a story?
- 24:52Speaker 3: Didn't tell me what.
- 24:53Speaker 1: It was going to be about at all, and I
- 24:55Speaker 1: was like, sure, I'll be on the news, yea. And
- 24:59Speaker 1: so they start rolling and they're like, you know, with
- 25:02Speaker 1: the hot weather in Omaha, like how do you keep
- 25:05Speaker 1: your dog's feet cool? And they just started asking me
- 25:08Speaker 1: about and I'm just a random person that they found
- 25:11Speaker 1: at the dog part.
- 25:12Speaker 3: I just leaned in. I was like, well, you know, I.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Really try and avoid the hottest part of the days.
- 25:16Speaker 1: I try to find trails with lots of tree cover
- 25:19Speaker 1: to make sure there's plenty of shade on my dog.
- 25:22Speaker 1: And so yeah, I just I dove in there. And so, yeah,
- 25:25Speaker 1: talking about hot dog feet on the local news was
- 25:29Speaker 1: probably the weirdest thing I've ever done.
- 25:31Speaker 2: You remember that video from years ago, that couple that's
- 25:34Speaker 2: like running in the middle of like a snowstorm and
- 25:37Speaker 2: they're being interviewed and they girl, yeah, girls, like yeah,
- 25:40Speaker 2: it's it's perfect, you know, it's it's really soft on
- 25:42Speaker 2: the joints, like, oh man, the fresh powder is just
- 25:45Speaker 2: really good. And then they're like all right, thanks, and
- 25:47Speaker 2: she keeps running and she just slips and falls.
- 25:49Speaker 1: Yeah, whoa makes sense because that snow is slicking it.
- 25:59Speaker 2: Oh, this one's I've had to stop myself before. What's
- 26:02Speaker 2: the crazy thing you ever posted on social media? You know?
- 26:07Speaker 1: When I was eighteen years old, I was like getting
- 26:10Speaker 1: into photoshop, yeah, and trying to like figure out how
- 26:14Speaker 1: to do it. I really was not good at it
- 26:16Speaker 1: at all. But there was this girl that I'd kind
- 26:19Speaker 1: of been talking to and I kind of liked. And
- 26:22Speaker 1: I've always had a weird sense of humor, so I
- 26:24Speaker 1: like photoshop a picture of her, like one of her
- 26:28Speaker 1: like you know, senior photos. It's very done up and
- 26:30Speaker 1: there's like this like creepy old man smelling her in
- 26:33Speaker 1: the picture.
- 26:36Speaker 3: Posted it on Facebook.
- 26:39Speaker 2: And she was like, Okay, you feel like this hilarious
- 26:46Speaker 2: creepy old man. Can you find that picture? I need
- 26:49Speaker 2: to see that.
- 26:50Speaker 1: I think I probably turned it to the I either
- 26:53Speaker 1: deleted it or made it so that only I can
- 26:55Speaker 1: see it, cause it was like maybe not yeah, recreated
- 27:00Speaker 1: but with Dana there you.
- 27:02Speaker 3: Go, recreate it with my lovely wife.
- 27:06Speaker 2: So funny.
- 27:08Speaker 3: How about you anything, any take backs anything.
- 27:12Speaker 2: I've been pretty good on social media, thankfully, Yeah, thankfully.
- 27:17Speaker 2: I think I get too self conscious to post things.
- 27:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Fuck, I feel like I just had it, but now
- 27:24Speaker 2: I can't. I can't remember. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm pretty
- 27:30Speaker 2: good on on the social media. In terms of like behavior,
- 27:35Speaker 2: I really can't think of. Man. After I watched Avatar
- 27:39Speaker 2: the Last Airbender with Kevy for the first time, I've
- 27:41Speaker 2: never seen it, I was like, we should watch the movie,
- 27:44Speaker 2: the m Night Shyamalan movie yea, and she she warned me.
- 27:50Speaker 2: It was like no, and I was like, no, no, no,
- 27:52Speaker 2: let's check it out. So I find it somewhere YouTube, Netflix,
- 27:56Speaker 2: who knows. And it was so bad within the first
- 28:00Speaker 2: ten fifteen minutes that I stopped and I tweeted at
- 28:04Speaker 2: M Night Shyamalan and I said something to the effect
- 28:07Speaker 2: of like, how dare you? What is wrong with you?
- 28:14Speaker 2: And I think I left it at that, so.
- 28:19Speaker 3: That's hilarious. It was pretty straight to the director.
- 28:23Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew he wasn't gonna see it, but it
- 28:25Speaker 2: was like, I just remember the first ten minutes, you know,
- 28:29Speaker 2: Aang and fucking Katara and Sokka and they called him
- 28:34Speaker 2: Soka and I was like, Okay, this is bullshit. We're
- 28:37Speaker 2: done here. I'm not what the fuck you had a
- 28:40Speaker 2: whole three seasons where they're very clear with the pronunciation
- 28:44Speaker 2: of names, and you name them Soka. Eh, fuck you
- 28:49Speaker 2: am not you. You ride the coattails of the sixth
- 28:53Speaker 2: cents way too much to think that you can get
- 28:56Speaker 2: away with that shit. I'd agree. Yeah, split was pretty
- 29:00Speaker 2: good though. I think we were sit together? Did didn't
- 29:02Speaker 2: we go together? I think everyone was in optometry school.
- 29:06Speaker 2: Will you there to see it?
- 29:08Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I know I saw it with Dana.
- 29:13Speaker 1: No, I think she had seen it with you, and
- 29:15Speaker 1: then she was like, you gotta see this because it's
- 29:17Speaker 1: kind of like psychiatry related.
- 29:19Speaker 2: For ninety six percent of the movie, it's like, oh,
- 29:22Speaker 2: this is cool. And then he turned into a monster.
- 29:24Speaker 2: I was like, ah, okay, that's why. Yeah, people hate
- 29:27Speaker 2: portrayal of mental health and media. Okay, yeah, exactly.
- 29:34Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on to notice him night.
- 29:36Speaker 2: Oh come on, don't ever, don't you ever?
- 29:41Speaker 1: Well, Eddie, what's your favorite thing about this podcast?
- 29:45Speaker 2: All of it? We get to hang out every couple
- 29:47Speaker 2: of weeks and talk and I feel like a better therapist,
- 29:51Speaker 2: counselor mental health professional because of it. It's made me think,
- 29:55Speaker 2: It's made me connect dots. You've seen me connect dots
- 29:58Speaker 2: live of things that just makes sense finally click for me.
- 30:02Speaker 2: So I think that's that's super cool because I definitely
- 30:05Speaker 2: want to be someone that continues to learn throughout the
- 30:09Speaker 2: entirety of my career, and I think this has given
- 30:11Speaker 2: me the opportunity. But I think for us to have
- 30:14Speaker 2: this conversation at a party of like we should do this,
- 30:17Speaker 2: and then we did years later, it's pretty sick.
- 30:21Speaker 3: Yeah, coming to fruition.
- 30:23Speaker 1: Oh and usually October is our anniversary month, right, so
- 30:27Speaker 1: we're coming up on November sick. Oh, November, Yeah, coming
- 30:31Speaker 1: upon six.
- 30:31Speaker 3: Years of doing the podcast, it's crazy.
- 30:34Speaker 2: A lot of episodes, like almost one a lot of episodes.
- 30:36Speaker 3: Yeah, we're almost the one fifty. That's nuts.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I would echo what you said that it's awesome
- 30:44Speaker 1: to be able to keep this friendship going every couple
- 30:47Speaker 1: of weeks checking in. We usually spending your twenty thirty
- 30:49Speaker 1: minutes just chatting before the episodes and seeing how life's going.
- 30:53Speaker 1: And that's always a fun thing. I laugh so much
- 30:56Speaker 1: when I'm on here with you.
- 30:57Speaker 3: It's just it feels good.
- 30:59Speaker 1: It feels like therapy to me because sometimes I'm having
- 31:03Speaker 1: a terrible day and then I see your face pop
- 31:06Speaker 1: up on my screen, and I'm just like, it feels better,
- 31:09Speaker 1: Like I instantly feel better.
- 31:11Speaker 3: And it's cool being able to connect with people.
- 31:13Speaker 1: And one thing I wish that we could do more
- 31:15Speaker 1: is like get feedback from audience because we've got you know,
- 31:18Speaker 1: we've got thousands of people who listen to the show,
- 31:20Speaker 1: but we don't always hear from them. Say, yeah, if
- 31:23Speaker 1: you guys want to reach out, send us a message,
- 31:25Speaker 1: do it.
- 31:25Speaker 3: We want to hear from you. That'd be great. Yeah,
- 31:27Speaker 3: and so we would.
- 31:28Speaker 1: We'd love topics that you might want or even just feedback.
- 31:31Speaker 1: And yeah, we we appreciate you guys. And the fact
- 31:36Speaker 1: that we've had so many listeners throughout the years is
- 31:39Speaker 1: pretty incredible.
- 31:41Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh well, I feel connected more deeply. Good you.
- 31:47Speaker 1: How would you rate our friendship after this conversation?
- 31:51Speaker 2: Oh man, did it increase at all? I mean, I
- 31:55Speaker 2: feel like we were already pretty close.
- 31:57Speaker 3: That's true.
- 31:58Speaker 2: We do this frequently. Oh. We should title it something
- 32:04Speaker 2: to do with the one of the lyrics from the
- 32:07Speaker 2: song for the twenty one questions. I think one of
- 32:10Speaker 2: them was like are you mad? Because I'm asking you
- 32:12Speaker 2: twenty one questions? Not a bad title? That would be
- 32:16Speaker 2: a good title.
- 32:17Speaker 3: I'm gonna write that down there you go.
- 32:20Speaker 2: It might be this part it Oh, that's true, that's true.
- 32:23Speaker 2: We'll come up with I'm gonna listen to the song
- 32:25Speaker 2: right after this. I just want you to know.
- 32:26Speaker 1: That perfect good. I'll listen to it too, because it's
- 32:30Speaker 1: not ringing a bell for me.
- 32:31Speaker 3: Actually.
- 32:31Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
- 32:37Speaker 1: You gotta remember the era of my generation's music. I
- 32:41Speaker 1: dove back into the sixties and seventies and didn't actually
- 32:44Speaker 1: listen to a lot of music as it was coming out.
- 32:46Speaker 2: I I had a friend in like elementary middle school
- 32:49Speaker 2: who had the fifty cent CDs. I had no business
- 32:53Speaker 2: listening to those should not have it was it was bad.
- 32:58Speaker 3: Vulgar, just.
- 33:04Speaker 2: A lot of those explicit labels back in the day.
- 33:07Speaker 2: They were not kidding o. Yeah, there was some bad ship.
- 33:11Speaker 1: I feel like our generation had the most explicit music there,
- 33:16Speaker 1: like gen Z and Jenaffo is just.
- 33:18Speaker 3: Like we all like that, Like we towed it back
- 33:20Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 33:22Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, Bubba Sparks rocket looking everywhere. Yeah,
- 33:28Speaker 2: we're not hearing that anymore. That's crazy.
- 33:30Speaker 3: No, No, what a banger.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Seriously on that note, you know where to find us
- 33:35Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts, UH social
- 33:40Speaker 2: media at Millennial and Mac. Find us on all the
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- 33:45Speaker 2: channel at gmail dot com and our website millennialmac dot com.
- 33:48Speaker 2: Thank you all for listening. I hope that you feel
- 33:50Speaker 2: deeply connected with us, and if not, that's fine either way.
- 33:55Speaker 2: Take care of all mentals.
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