Latest / Pod Therapy / #395: Love Languages, Life's Passion, Therapeutic Back Bone
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Oh. The first time I was in Paris Royale with cheese. Okay,
- 0:03Speaker 1: so I moast romantic McDonald's has ever eaten? Y you
- 0:08Speaker 1: handle it?
- 0:10Speaker 2: The McDonald's of the lights they called romantique. If you
- 0:16Speaker 2: watched the Parisian Olympics opening ceremonies, that McDonald's was heavily featured.
- 0:23Speaker 3: No, So I I went there and I ordered the
- 0:26Speaker 3: Royale with cheese. Okay, okay, and the guy's like, we're out, oh.
- 0:31Speaker 1: And I was like, you can't be out, yes, McDonald
- 0:35Speaker 1: that can't happen, right, but you know, And so I
- 0:39Speaker 1: got something else.
- 0:40Speaker 3: And then I went back to the table and I
- 0:42Speaker 3: sat next to my my ex brother in law who
- 0:44Speaker 3: was there, and he had a Royal cheese.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Oh.
- 0:47Speaker 3: The last one, the server he went to was not
- 0:49Speaker 3: a dick okay? The last one, yeah, yeah.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Was it called the Royale with cheese? Okay? I was
- 0:55Speaker 1: wondering if maybe you just said that trying to be cute,
- 0:58Speaker 1: and really it was called something else, and you're like,
- 1:00Speaker 1: like this both fiction.
- 1:01Speaker 3: I'm sure. I like the America that day that Yeah,
- 1:07Speaker 3: there's a good motherfucker berger.
- 1:10Speaker 1: I quenched my first from.
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- 1:39Speaker 1: It's time for some pod therapist Jane the Rockets Studios.
- 1:43Speaker 1: You've changed the script.
- 1:45Speaker 3: Okay, you're gonna have to say that again so I
- 1:46Speaker 3: can write it down.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Bro, it is so obvious. Clearly, Let's say Jacob's house.
- 1:52Speaker 1: I like the scenic choy pond thing you would and
- 1:54Speaker 1: the shout out to es J and the Ruckus. This
- 1:56Speaker 1: is their house, bro, that is this is very much Chase.
- 1:59Speaker 3: We got some new music equipment in here.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Well they just got back from a tour gig this
- 2:04Speaker 2: morning and so some of the gear got loaded in here.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually, when I got here, Jacob was in the
- 2:10Speaker 1: workshop like fixing a like a piano bench, piano. It
- 2:14Speaker 1: was really cool, Like I got to watch him like
- 2:16Speaker 1: do metallurgy. It was really exciting. I bent a piece
- 2:19Speaker 1: of metal. It was wild. I know, it was pretty exciting.
- 2:25Speaker 1: He used a vice and there was like a crowbar
- 2:28Speaker 1: and a and a hammer.
- 2:29Speaker 3: It was really fun. We rent Laura and I uh
- 2:32Speaker 3: uh and uh. I don't know what the deal is,
- 2:36Speaker 3: but every single light switch in her house has just
- 2:40Speaker 3: fucking fallen apart, Like they still work, but they're the
- 2:44Speaker 3: they're the switches where it's just you press the top
- 2:46Speaker 3: part or you press the bottom one of those Rocker
- 2:49Speaker 3: switch Rocker switch, Yeah, and they're all just John Rocker
- 2:53Speaker 3: switch Racial time talking about the New York City subway. Yeah,
- 3:02Speaker 3: google John Rocker. I have to go back to nineteen
- 3:07Speaker 3: ninety seven for that one. Yeah, somebody was listening.
- 3:09Speaker 1: It was like, fuck yeah, baseball reference, You're welcome.
- 3:13Speaker 3: This is pre Chipper Joan's back. This goes so anyway.
- 3:20Speaker 1: There's like one listener who was like just clapping, like yeah,
- 3:23Speaker 1: I get that listener.
- 3:24Speaker 3: I say you're welcome, You're yeah. Uh no. So like
- 3:31Speaker 3: every one of these switches, they're just barely hanging on. Yeah,
- 3:35Speaker 3: Like I don't know who had the house before us,
- 3:38Speaker 3: but they must have just punched.
- 3:39Speaker 1: They caved in, because I feel like those ones cave
- 3:41Speaker 1: in a lot where you're push from two far.
- 3:43Speaker 3: Like, no, they're not caved in but like only half
- 3:47Speaker 3: of it is still like there's like a little catch things. Yeah,
- 3:51Speaker 3: like it's just it's just barely like it's it's very loose.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Like a breeze would shut it off kind of thing. Yeah, okay,
- 3:57Speaker 1: got it.
- 3:58Speaker 3: So Laura's in the bathroom because she's got her own
- 4:01Speaker 3: bathroom upstairs.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Yes, can turn her off.
- 4:07Speaker 3: Her switch had broken and years ago, so to keep
- 4:13Speaker 3: it on you had to have your finger in the alright,
- 4:19Speaker 3: preferbial dyke if you will. She listens to the show again.
- 4:28Speaker 1: What none more? Shut it off by now we gave
- 4:32Speaker 1: up on the Nazi ship, so give up a stroke.
- 4:35Speaker 3: No, we should because that in the last two years,
- 4:38Speaker 3: that's like that's a real thing. Now that's like it
- 4:42Speaker 3: was funny and haha joke, and then now it's like
- 4:44Speaker 3: we do have a real life Nazi.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true.
- 4:48Speaker 3: The world has changed.
- 4:50Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they were fiction all the time. They were Okay, bro,
- 4:56Speaker 1: they're like fairies and vampires. Okay, you read stories about them,
- 4:59Speaker 1: they don't actually exist.
- 5:00Speaker 3: Back to the light switch, So I I was like, okay,
- 5:03Speaker 3: I could put in a work order, but then we
- 5:06Speaker 3: have to wait and we have to have some stranger
- 5:09Speaker 3: candy man come in to do the handed man. So
- 5:18Speaker 3: I just like, not, fuck it. I'm just gonna do
- 5:19Speaker 3: this one myself.
- 5:20Speaker 1: I'm here, sniff all the light switches.
- 5:24Speaker 3: I heard they need to be flipped.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Show me where each light switch is slowly, so.
- 5:32Speaker 3: I go to home depot. I get a couple of switches.
- 5:34Speaker 4: Have you already named each of your light switches? And
- 5:39Speaker 4: name the while we proceed about a label maker. This
- 5:43Speaker 4: is this one's nice. This is not a difficult task. Okay, okay,
- 5:48Speaker 4: you could probably do this. But have you ever switched?
- 5:51Speaker 4: Have you ever the top? But you know I could switch?
- 5:54Speaker 3: Have you ever done any kind of electrical stuff? No
- 5:57Speaker 3: at all?
- 5:57Speaker 1: Okay, I called an electrician ones when a breaker went.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Out that counts. Did you or did your son?
- 6:02Speaker 1: I did it?
- 6:02Speaker 3: Okay?
- 6:03Speaker 1: No. I called him and then he told me, hey,
- 6:05Speaker 1: this is just the breaker. You do not need electrician.
- 6:07Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, I've I've looked into this.
- 6:09Speaker 1: It's not a breaker. And then he literally walks over
- 6:12Speaker 1: and just he's like, that'll be one hundred dollars.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Okay. It's like, damn, never mind, you can't do this.
- 6:20Speaker 3: I'm not the guy that guy, but it's funny because like, is.
- 6:24Speaker 1: That's what it was? Not?
- 6:25Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, so, uh, Laura has not really seen
- 6:29Speaker 3: me do a lot of handiwork because we've just been renting.
- 6:31Speaker 1: The whole time off your shirt.
- 6:33Speaker 3: So I roll.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:36Speaker 3: And then so like I'm doing this and she's panicking
- 6:39Speaker 3: where this is electricity? She's like if you get electrified?
- 6:43Speaker 3: Like she's like, what do? What do I do? Because
- 6:46Speaker 3: I can't, Like if you're being electrocuted, I can't touch
- 6:48Speaker 3: you because then I'll be electrocuted too. Correct And I
- 6:51Speaker 3: was just kind of like, if I die doing this,
- 6:54Speaker 3: let me die, I lie, you can tell people just
- 7:04Speaker 3: I love you. Put the gun in my hand and
- 7:06Speaker 3: shoot me in there and so and so like the
- 7:09Speaker 3: whole time, I'm just fucking around with her. Yeah yeah
- 7:14Speaker 3: that she did not like that at all. But yeah,
- 7:17Speaker 3: the whole thing took Like it's really easy.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Okay. I like those little press light switches that when
- 7:23Speaker 1: you turn them off, they glow like or there's like
- 7:26Speaker 1: a little light bulb inside you know what I'm talking about. Yep,
- 7:29Speaker 1: that's perfect because then you can always see them and
- 7:31Speaker 1: they're like a little red light inside.
- 7:32Speaker 3: Well, I've never I can't remember a time I've walked
- 7:35Speaker 3: into a room and not known where the switches. Dude,
- 7:37Speaker 3: it happens to a lot like I have to be
- 7:39Speaker 3: able to see the switch. Usually you just you.
- 7:40Speaker 2: Know, reach Something that weirdly bothered me in Portugal is
- 7:44Speaker 2: the building code there is a little different. So the
- 7:47Speaker 2: light switches are just a little lower on the wall
- 7:49Speaker 2: than I think they're.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Going to be.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, and they're usually they're in a different place
- 7:53Speaker 2: than the US puts them too, Like the bathroom light
- 7:55Speaker 2: switches are outside of the door, and that kind of thing,
- 7:58Speaker 2: which is that's that's fairly common. Okay, it wasn't anything
- 8:02Speaker 2: weird or anything.
- 8:02Speaker 1: But then you can shut off the lights when somebody's
- 8:04Speaker 1: taking a.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Ship, that's true.
- 8:05Speaker 1: I don't like that.
- 8:06Speaker 2: But then you can also the idea is you can
- 8:08Speaker 2: turn the lights on before you walk into the room.
- 8:10Speaker 3: Okay, makes sense, but does make.
- 8:12Speaker 1: A lot of sense. I don't know the risk perse
- 8:13Speaker 1: of the reward on that. I don't like that.
- 8:15Speaker 3: I was someplace, Oh no, I remember, I remember, I'd
- 8:19Speaker 3: say I was someplace where the stairs were all different heights,
- 8:23Speaker 3: different depths, different, No what it was. It was a castle, yes, okay,
- 8:30Speaker 3: and they do that intentionally, okay, because if the stairs
- 8:34Speaker 3: are all exactly the same, you can just run up them, right,
- 8:38Speaker 3: So it's a defense. And so the other thing that
- 8:42Speaker 3: they do too is they have the staircase, those winding
- 8:44Speaker 3: staircases go it counterclockwise instead of clockwise.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Enemy's right arm against the wall. Oh.
- 8:58Speaker 3: Castle design is really really is kind of cool. That's
- 9:01Speaker 3: really me.
- 9:02Speaker 1: I actually used to use this as a will protect you.
- 9:12Speaker 2: No.
- 9:12Speaker 3: I used to do this in group when we're talking
- 9:15Speaker 3: about like relapse prevention and and about like okay, you
- 9:19Speaker 3: kind of like this is your recovery.
- 9:21Speaker 1: You have a castle there you go.
- 9:23Speaker 3: You have to build a defense mechanism. I would talk
- 9:27Speaker 3: about like castle to hear all the things that they
- 9:30Speaker 3: did to protect themselves from an invading army. That's great.
- 9:33Speaker 1: You know, I love that liquor yeseah. This is the
- 9:39Speaker 1: basement stores of liquor and drugs.
- 9:42Speaker 3: So what I'm saying is when you sneak in your alcohol,
- 9:45Speaker 3: you got to protect that ship. Don't let anybody know
- 9:48Speaker 3: where you're hiding it.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'll tell you. So, as you discovered,
- 9:53Speaker 1: I have started working at a rehab again. Okay, so
- 9:56Speaker 1: Jacob working, Yeah, world's collided. Yeah, okay, because I had
- 10:01Speaker 1: to certify a program.
- 10:03Speaker 3: Are we talking about this, I'm not.
- 10:05Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into I was only gonna
- 10:08Speaker 2: I was I'm going to dig into it.
- 10:10Speaker 3: I was only going to talk about the exit interview.
- 10:13Speaker 3: So we do our exit interviews over zoom. Okay, okay,
- 10:16Speaker 3: So I didn't see Jim at all during the entire thing.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Just one you should explain to the audience. You work
- 10:22Speaker 1: for an organization that certifies substance a piece.
- 10:25Speaker 3: Think of me as an auditor.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and is the man then the
- 10:30Speaker 1: griff of Here's here's the thing, man, here's the thing Jacob.
- 10:34Speaker 3: That you need to know is that the entire time
- 10:37Speaker 3: I was waiting to be able to throw in mister
- 10:42Speaker 3: jobin into the conversation.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Wow, what an asshole, and it never came up. Yeah,
- 10:49Speaker 1: and I left early. I'm glad I did know. That
- 10:53Speaker 1: is really funny. What a dick. Yeah, it ended up
- 10:56Speaker 1: going really well, But that was that was really funny.
- 10:59Speaker 3: On Lord James.
- 11:00Speaker 1: No, definitely not Colonel Definitely not Colonel James. My interns
- 11:05Speaker 1: were so confused that you were there. They're like, I've
- 11:07Speaker 1: met him. He spoke to our class. Yes, he did,
- 11:11Speaker 1: like should he be here? I was like, probably not.
- 11:14Speaker 1: I don't think he knew that.
- 11:14Speaker 3: I worked here, So that was pretty fun.
- 11:17Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I was just gonna say that it's
- 11:19Speaker 1: a shitty trying to monitor people smuggling drugs. Now that
- 11:22Speaker 1: I'm back into that life, I'm like, God, damn it, dude,
- 11:25Speaker 1: so much of your life is just spent trying to
- 11:26Speaker 1: keep drugs out of this house is so hard. It
- 11:30Speaker 1: really should They should put rehabs in a castle. Honestly,
- 11:32Speaker 1: probably more sense. But anyway, if you're wondering where the
- 11:36Speaker 1: hell's Whitney, you know what we don't know. Okay, nobody's
- 11:38Speaker 1: seen her in weeks. It's not our business week.
- 11:41Speaker 3: Nobody's seen her in week.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Nobody's seen her in week, you know, And I think
- 11:44Speaker 1: that you call off the search at that point.
- 11:46Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Just I've abandoned all hope.
- 11:48Speaker 3: I've moved on.
- 11:49Speaker 1: You know, she comes back, it'll be a nice surprise. Yeah. Yeah,
- 11:53Speaker 1: I don't want her to not come back. Yeah, for
- 11:56Speaker 1: I'm emotionally prepared for it. Yeah, I'm fine with it.
- 11:58Speaker 1: I mean not fine. That sounded mean, Okay, I've just
- 12:02Speaker 1: I'll be who are we talking about? Glad shit the
- 12:08Speaker 1: pew pew girl. Remember that chick from Texas love language
- 12:12Speaker 1: is Hi Whitney. Oh that's her name? Oh that was
- 12:15Speaker 1: it Whitney, Colonel Jim, Jacob and Nick. I've been thinking
- 12:19Speaker 1: about a topic a lot lately. It's interesting how our
- 12:22Speaker 1: upbringing shapes our expectations in relationships, and I would like
- 12:26Speaker 1: your perspective on that. Me and my fiance talk about
- 12:29Speaker 1: this topic a lot. We get along great and rarely fight,
- 12:33Speaker 1: but when we do it's usually surrounding this good, the yeah,
- 12:37Speaker 1: juicy stuff. The other night, over dinner, we were talking
- 12:40Speaker 1: about how different our families were and how we grew
- 12:43Speaker 1: up completely opposite from each other. I come from a
- 12:45Speaker 1: family where we show lots of affection with each other,
- 12:48Speaker 1: lots of hugs and verbal affection, and her family is
- 12:51Speaker 1: not as lovey dovey. I told her the way here.
- 12:55Speaker 1: I told her the way her family functions is strange
- 13:00Speaker 1: and foreign to me, and she said it was the
- 13:02Speaker 1: same way for her with the way my family does things.
- 13:05Speaker 1: The problem is I require verbal and physical affection in
- 13:08Speaker 1: our relationship to feel secure, and she doesn't require it
- 13:10Speaker 1: as much. This makes up eighty five percent of our squabbles.
- 13:14Speaker 1: I love that word. Even though I know she loves
- 13:17Speaker 1: me and she tries the best to understand what I
- 13:20Speaker 1: need from her. Not getting that affirmation as often as
- 13:23Speaker 1: I need is hard for me and causes me to
- 13:25Speaker 1: feel insecure at times, especially when I'm already stressed due
- 13:29Speaker 1: to unrelated matters. We're getting better at having conversations surrounding
- 13:33Speaker 1: the topic, but how do you give someone something that
- 13:36Speaker 1: doesn't come naturally to you? We understand we naturally on you,
- 13:40Speaker 1: AH do that doesn't come naturally on you? AH? What
- 13:45Speaker 1: we understand we both are the way we are because
- 13:48Speaker 1: of how we were raised, and we do our best
- 13:50Speaker 1: to understand each other's love languages. We have tried an
- 13:54Speaker 1: app that I believe Jim suggests that if I'm not mistaken,
- 13:56Speaker 1: on the podcast called love Nudge, I did to try
- 13:59Speaker 1: and be more friend of meeting each other's needs, but
- 14:02Speaker 1: the app was unreliable and glitched often. Shit that's sad
- 14:05Speaker 1: to hear. The question is is there a way to
- 14:08Speaker 1: meet each other in the middle on this? Are there
- 14:12Speaker 1: other apps or exercises that we can use to strengthen
- 14:14Speaker 1: this part of our relationship? I hope I provided enough
- 14:17Speaker 1: information was clear enough in my thoughts. Thank you for
- 14:20Speaker 1: this amazing podcast and everything you do and the amazing
- 14:23Speaker 1: community that you have created. Lost in translation, Anthony Camarada,
- 14:29Speaker 1: car Buddy, Tony Kay, Hey, hey, Tony, hey, hey girl.
- 14:34Speaker 1: It's sad to hear that love Nudge is glitchy. I
- 14:36Speaker 1: still recommend it. I need to re download that and
- 14:38Speaker 1: make sure it's a It probably is shitty, I DK.
- 14:43Speaker 3: Yeah, no, this is uh. This is always a fun
- 14:45Speaker 3: thing to explore with couples. Sounds like it how how
- 14:51Speaker 3: we grew up and what things mean to us and
- 14:54Speaker 3: things that we've never questioned before until you get into
- 14:57Speaker 3: a relationship with somebody else. Yeah, and then how everything
- 15:00Speaker 3: they do seems really weird.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Isn't it weird that people end up together though, Like
- 15:05Speaker 1: because you look at things like this and you're like, oh, well,
- 15:07Speaker 1: this person really craves affection and this person doesn't give it,
- 15:11Speaker 1: and yet we're together of each other, and it's like
- 15:13Speaker 1: how did that happen?
- 15:14Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 15:14Speaker 1: And then here we are going like, man, we really
- 15:16Speaker 1: need to like work on this because like I'm unhappy
- 15:18Speaker 1: a lot, or I don't feel very safe in our
- 15:19Speaker 1: relationship and like I'm asking food for these minimal things,
- 15:22Speaker 1: but like, you just do not do these things naturally,
- 15:24Speaker 1: And then it's easy to take offense at that and
- 15:26Speaker 1: like read into that and be like, oh, well, it's
- 15:28Speaker 1: because you don't love me or you don't care about me.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Like I've told you my needs are, you're not meeting them.
- 15:31Speaker 1: The other person's trying to explain to you, Like, I
- 15:34Speaker 1: just not wired that way. I just do not think
- 15:37Speaker 1: that way.
- 15:38Speaker 3: Was your family of origin like affectionate as far as
- 15:43Speaker 3: hugs and stuff like that?
- 15:44Speaker 1: My mom was, yeah, yeah, your mom is as you
- 15:48Speaker 1: guys know, I mean, she can't keep her her hands
- 15:50Speaker 1: off you. You know, it's just very very.
- 15:52Speaker 3: Nor do I ask her to.
- 15:55Speaker 1: Now? Mom was like, lots of hugs and kisses, dead
- 15:58Speaker 1: fine hug kisses. Yeah, not really is The dad is
- 16:01Speaker 1: more just kind of in another room most of the
- 16:03Speaker 1: time doing his own thing. What about you? No, I
- 16:05Speaker 1: feel like in Iowa, you guys like shook hands and
- 16:07Speaker 1: didn't make eye contact.
- 16:08Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, it was just a good handshake, a good
- 16:11Speaker 3: hearty handshake.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Hi mom, how are you at the anniversary as well?
- 16:21Speaker 1: But like animals today, how are the crops? He's been good?
- 16:29Speaker 3: No, my my we Yeah, like hugs still feel weird
- 16:33Speaker 3: to me.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Okay, Like my dad's side of the.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Family, a few people, mostly my female cousins and my
- 16:40Speaker 3: aunt hug and then my sister is a big hugger.
- 16:43Speaker 1: I feel like in feminine culture, it's it's very acceptable
- 16:47Speaker 1: to just hug. It's just yeah, you can just everybody else.
- 16:51Speaker 3: No, we never really did, okay, And even like Laura
- 16:54Speaker 3: and I were just talking about this this morning, like
- 16:56Speaker 3: even things like just things that you learn that you
- 17:00Speaker 3: kind of take responsibility for, like manners, you know, saying
- 17:04Speaker 3: please and thank you for stuff, you know, like she
- 17:08Speaker 3: never did that. She never grew up that way, because
- 17:11Speaker 3: it was like Mom took care of it. Like Mom
- 17:14Speaker 3: just did this. You just don't really say anything. It's
- 17:16Speaker 3: not expect You're like, yeah, it's like okay, I'm done eating,
- 17:19Speaker 3: Leave my dishes there. Leave Mom takes care of it,
- 17:23Speaker 3: you know. And it's not until you like become an
- 17:25Speaker 3: adult or you know, interact with other people and you're like, oh,
- 17:29Speaker 3: no one's here to take this stuff. What happens to
- 17:32Speaker 3: these dishes?
- 17:32Speaker 1: Yeah, they magically go away.
- 17:34Speaker 2: It's like that weird, sly way that you're telling Laura
- 17:37Speaker 2: on the show to put the fucking dishes in the dishwasher.
- 17:39Speaker 1: I feel like this is how he's doing. This is
- 17:41Speaker 1: going to be his new method to passive aggressively.
- 17:46Speaker 3: It's actually, as I think about it, I'm the one.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I'm the problem, Like who is who? If there's more
- 17:53Speaker 1: surprise in your relationship, who is more affectionate? What is
- 17:57Speaker 1: your love language? I feel like this has been discussed
- 17:59Speaker 1: years ago, but don't even mind's physical touch. Oddly enough,
- 18:02Speaker 1: I guess because I crave it. Because I never crave
- 18:04Speaker 1: those handshakes. Nothing gets me off faster hand handshake and
- 18:10Speaker 1: she puts her other hand on my elbow. I'm like,
- 18:13Speaker 1: this is happening.
- 18:14Speaker 2: And so when she switches the handshakes where we're holding
- 18:17Speaker 2: each other's thumbs.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Flip it. Yeah, quick, quick, hard? What what is What
- 18:28Speaker 1: is Laura's love language?
- 18:30Speaker 3: I shouldn't know this.
- 18:31Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's you verybody.
- 18:34Speaker 3: What's the verbal one? Just the affirmation affirmation? That's what?
- 18:38Speaker 1: Verbal affirmation? Verbal affirmation? Okay, yeah, the old out of boy.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Oh she loves a good out of Yeah, ladies love
- 18:45Speaker 1: a good out of boy. Real good there, fella, keep
- 18:50Speaker 1: it up the sport.
- 18:53Speaker 3: Great job, champ.
- 18:54Speaker 1: I now want to do that for like a week
- 18:56Speaker 1: and just see how long it takes. Just keep using
- 18:58Speaker 1: these like you know, chief, hey, Chief has your day,
- 19:02Speaker 1: and just.
- 19:03Speaker 3: Wait until like this gets brought up. Can you go home,
- 19:07Speaker 3: go home tonight and call your wife, chief chief and
- 19:10Speaker 3: please record fun.
- 19:15Speaker 2: No.
- 19:16Speaker 1: But I get this question, and I appreciate it because
- 19:18Speaker 1: I think for a lot of couples it's weird to
- 19:20Speaker 1: us that you know, you you organically fall for each other.
- 19:23Speaker 1: It's a great connection. But then realizing that, like, no,
- 19:26Speaker 1: the way that you do your relationship, and this is
- 19:29Speaker 1: another piece too. We often, as as Anthony said, we
- 19:32Speaker 1: often do what comes naturally to us, right. It goes
- 19:35Speaker 1: back to the old treat others the way you want
- 19:36Speaker 1: to be treated thing, which is very natural. I think
- 19:39Speaker 1: that that is a a lot of times you can
- 19:40Speaker 1: figure out your partner's love language by what they keep
- 19:43Speaker 1: trying to do at you, like the way they're trying
- 19:45Speaker 1: to show you love, and you're sort of like, like,
- 19:47Speaker 1: I know, for us, you know, we've been married in
- 19:49Speaker 1: nineteen years now, but early in the relationship, I discovered
- 19:52Speaker 1: that hers was quality time and for me, I do
- 19:54Speaker 1: not care like I don't need to hang out after work.
- 19:56Speaker 1: I don't want to watch a show with you, Like
- 19:58Speaker 1: you can go watch another show in another room that
- 19:59Speaker 1: does not offend me. But I would do that and
- 20:02Speaker 1: she would just be like, wow, I guess that we're fighting.
- 20:04Speaker 1: And then she'd kind of be a bitch me like why.
- 20:05Speaker 3: Are we what? What's going on?
- 20:06Speaker 1: Like I was that's it?
- 20:07Speaker 3: I like we're good. What the fuck?
- 20:09Speaker 1: And then realizing like okay, So she would try to
- 20:11Speaker 1: spend time with me and I'd just be like, go away,
- 20:13Speaker 1: like I want to play mega man, you know, like
- 20:14Speaker 1: what are we doing right now? You realize that about
- 20:16Speaker 1: the other person, And so like, I love this question
- 20:19Speaker 1: because I think for a lot of couples that is
- 20:21Speaker 1: a really like difficult thing to sort of sit down
- 20:24Speaker 1: and say, Okay, hey, let's let's notice this, because a
- 20:27Speaker 1: lot of times you don't notice it, you just feel
- 20:29Speaker 1: a certain way. And I like that Anthony's noticing it
- 20:31Speaker 1: and learning from it because a lot of people will say,
- 20:33Speaker 1: and I'll hear this in therapy, they'll be like, uh,
- 20:35Speaker 1: my partner doesn't love me, my partner doesn't care about me.
- 20:38Speaker 1: And I'll be like, well, why do you think that?
- 20:40Speaker 1: Like you'll talk to the partner and be like, so,
- 20:41Speaker 1: what's going on. I'm like, you're falling apart. You don't
- 20:43Speaker 1: care for this persontion well by hand anymore, right, Yeah?
- 20:46Speaker 1: And it's like, well you don't. You don't ever give
- 20:48Speaker 1: me hugs And they're like, what what does that have
- 20:49Speaker 1: to do with it? I love you? And it's like
- 20:51Speaker 1: that I don't feel like you do. So realizing this,
- 20:54Speaker 1: I think is huge. And then what I love about
- 20:56Speaker 1: the love language is a lot of people complain about
- 20:58Speaker 1: it now because they're like, it's a really date paradigm.
- 21:00Speaker 1: They they don't like the concept. I like it because
- 21:03Speaker 1: it places an intentional effort in the relationship that your
- 21:07Speaker 1: partner is not going to passively through osmosis pick up
- 21:11Speaker 1: affection or or feel like something's happening in this relationship
- 21:15Speaker 1: that's not gonna do it like, You've actually got to
- 21:17Speaker 1: send that their way, and it burdens you with doing
- 21:22Speaker 1: that in the way they best receive. To take the
- 21:24Speaker 1: time to get to know your partner and be intentional.
- 21:27Speaker 1: And that's what I loved about that love nudge app
- 21:29Speaker 1: And I think why the books have been so wildly
- 21:31Speaker 1: successful is because it basically says, here's a list of suggestions.
- 21:35Speaker 1: And if a person is this way, they like gifts,
- 21:37Speaker 1: they like quality time, they like words of affirmation, they
- 21:39Speaker 1: like physical touch. Like these are things that you should
- 21:42Speaker 1: do for them, And it's good that a book would
- 21:44Speaker 1: teach you that because you don't naturally think that way,
- 21:47Speaker 1: you know, like for you, Nick, I'm pointing at Nick.
- 21:50Speaker 1: I feel like yours is not probably words of affirmation.
- 21:54Speaker 1: I feel like because like you just said, it's physical touch.
- 21:56Speaker 1: Do you know what your second one is?
- 21:58Speaker 3: What are my options?
- 22:00Speaker 1: Words of affirmation, physical touch, money, gifts is one acts
- 22:05Speaker 1: of service just solving the problem in your life, and uh,
- 22:09Speaker 1: quality time. If I guess, I would say yours physical touch, fine,
- 22:13Speaker 1: you know, but then I would probably say your next
- 22:15Speaker 1: one is maybe acts of service. Like I feel like
- 22:17Speaker 1: if somebody just solves a problem for you to like
- 22:19Speaker 1: thank you like that, Yes, that was great?
- 22:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so probably because like, uh yeah, if
- 22:25Speaker 3: Laura just, oh, here's a good example. If she goes
- 22:29Speaker 3: out to eat with one of her friends or goes
- 22:31Speaker 3: out to eat with her sister or something, and she
- 22:33Speaker 3: brings me back something, oh like a dessert or something
- 22:36Speaker 3: you thought of me that was left overs, like, oh,
- 22:38Speaker 3: that totally makes my day.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you do not need compliments very much,
- 22:43Speaker 1: Like in the.
- 22:43Speaker 3: Years that I've I've noticed that.
- 22:47Speaker 1: I've noticed that because in the years that we've worked together,
- 22:50Speaker 1: there have been times where, like mine, I tend to
- 22:52Speaker 1: give out praise generously to team members and stuff like
- 22:55Speaker 1: I try to give people their flowers, Like I have
- 22:57Speaker 1: this whole mantra about like being intentional about that because
- 22:59Speaker 1: I think I need that in my life, right, so
- 23:01Speaker 1: I naturally give that away. And throughout the years, I
- 23:04Speaker 1: can think of so many times that I've tried to
- 23:06Speaker 1: pay you a genuine compliment, and I remember just watching
- 23:09Speaker 1: you the most fucking uncomfortable you've ever been, Like I
- 23:12Speaker 1: think there's been times you've literally interrupted me, like so
- 23:14Speaker 1: you're gonna get the nachos or what. I'm like, Hell, bro,
- 23:16Speaker 1: I just you really handle this, thanks man, I get it,
- 23:19Speaker 1: Like Jesus, you do not. You're not about that, So
- 23:22Speaker 1: you're embarrassing me. Stop it? Well, I did. I do
- 23:25Speaker 1: tell every restaurant that it's your birthday as well, because
- 23:27Speaker 1: mostly for the free dessert.
- 23:29Speaker 3: You're fair.
- 23:30Speaker 1: What are your love languages, Jacob, I'd just like to
- 23:32Speaker 1: be left alone. Oh, that's that's the sixth one. I
- 23:34Speaker 1: think just mind your own fucking business.
- 23:38Speaker 3: I mean, almost eight billion people on the planet love Jacob.
- 23:41Speaker 3: That's right.
- 23:43Speaker 1: I've never felt mar there's this one chick that lives here.
- 23:47Speaker 3: It's kind of a mask.
- 23:49Speaker 1: Not about that one. Sure, do you like everybody else?
- 23:52Speaker 3: Yep? Yeah.
- 23:53Speaker 1: I like the idea of like working on this though.
- 23:56Speaker 3: Yeah, with the the app is nice, but honestly, the
- 23:59Speaker 3: app just gives you, you know, a reminder. So there's
- 24:04Speaker 3: ways to do it without the app. If the app
- 24:06Speaker 3: is glitchy, you can do an old school way of
- 24:09Speaker 3: figuring out. Yeah, you know. For for me, I like
- 24:13Speaker 3: I just kind of make a conscious effort every day
- 24:17Speaker 3: to do certain things or like pay compliments, And it's
- 24:22Speaker 3: one of those things like to me, I feel like
- 24:24Speaker 3: the more I say this, the less it means.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Okay, but that's my interpretation trying to that's like not currency.
- 24:31Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's not true for the person receiving it, right,
- 24:35Speaker 3: If verbal affirmations is what this person needs, it doesn't
- 24:39Speaker 3: lose it doesn't seem to anyway lose its power over time.
- 24:43Speaker 3: It seems like it's always valuable currency.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's absolutely true. The other thing about
- 24:48Speaker 1: that too, So like, first off, I agree with you.
- 24:51Speaker 1: The app was a useful way to connect a couple
- 24:53Speaker 1: of dots, but those dots can easily be connected with
- 24:55Speaker 1: Google Calendar or whenever you're scheduling, like your Apple person whatever,
- 24:59Speaker 1: like back in the day before the app. That's what
- 25:02Speaker 1: I did, is like I just bought the book and
- 25:04Speaker 1: then just like downloaded a list of all the suggestions
- 25:06Speaker 1: that the book had, or like people in the world
- 25:08Speaker 1: had made extra lists and like extra long ones for
- 25:10Speaker 1: different like you know, categories, and I'd just gone through
- 25:13Speaker 1: and found ones that matched my spouse, and I just
- 25:16Speaker 1: scheduled them in my calendar, and I set reminders like
- 25:19Speaker 1: you know it every week, like try this. Try it.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Just be like a one, like it would be an
- 25:23Speaker 1: all day reminder, So just pop up and be like today,
- 25:25Speaker 1: try to do this. It'd be like send a text
- 25:27Speaker 1: message or whatever and be like oh okay, and I
- 25:29Speaker 1: just do it and then click the little task complete
- 25:31Speaker 1: button and it was done. So like, I mean, you
- 25:33Speaker 1: can do that, Anthony without the app. I mean, it's
- 25:35Speaker 1: just there to skip a step and make it a
- 25:37Speaker 1: little bit easier. It's tough though, because I think sometimes,
- 25:40Speaker 1: like in Anthony's case, if you're a person who gives
- 25:43Speaker 1: a lot of affection, a lot of times that person
- 25:45Speaker 1: is also the one who's gonna do the love languages
- 25:47Speaker 1: because they're like, great, I want to be putting an
- 25:49Speaker 1: energy in our relationship, and a lot of times the
- 25:51Speaker 1: other person maybe doesn't do that, and you're like, why
- 25:54Speaker 1: don't you care? And they're like, I just don't even
- 25:56Speaker 1: think to do things in the relationship.
- 25:59Speaker 3: I think thing that's helpful too, just a little trick
- 26:02Speaker 3: is like to try to make your thoughts obvious to
- 26:08Speaker 3: the other person like that. Like so like you know,
- 26:10Speaker 3: if I'm if I'm out like golfing. This actually just
- 26:14Speaker 3: happened the other day.
- 26:15Speaker 1: I was back to golf, just everybody. I brought it
- 26:19Speaker 1: up only an hour into this.
- 26:20Speaker 3: God, I was golfing and something reminded me of Laura. Okay,
- 26:26Speaker 3: so I sent her a text message, Oh there you
- 26:27Speaker 3: go right away, like just right away, hey is thinking
- 26:30Speaker 3: about this or whatever.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Any male dog just walked across the golf course and
- 26:33Speaker 2: I thought of you, you.
- 26:35Speaker 1: As an alligator in the ninth hole. I just twisted
- 26:39Speaker 1: my ankle and the pain bade me think of you.
- 26:43Speaker 3: I just I just saw two rabbits having sex in
- 26:46Speaker 3: a bush.
- 26:47Speaker 2: You what, But like, I just saw two golfers have
- 26:52Speaker 2: a bush I was thinking about you.
- 27:00Speaker 3: Never guess which one was going faster. Yeah, it was
- 27:02Speaker 3: the rabbit. But honestly, it's it's like if the other
- 27:07Speaker 3: person could see your thoughts, they wouldn't know how much
- 27:10Speaker 3: you care. But they can't, right, so you have to
- 27:12Speaker 3: be able to translate your thoughts into something that they
- 27:15Speaker 3: can experience, whether that be verbally written or your acts
- 27:18Speaker 3: of service or whatever.
- 27:19Speaker 1: It is. One thing I really like about this letter,
- 27:22Speaker 1: Badonka Donk. You got to give that Badonka donk a
- 27:24Speaker 1: little slap. But no, like, one thing that I see
- 27:27Speaker 1: go wrong in a lot of relationships is people will
- 27:30Speaker 1: be critical of the needs of the other person because
- 27:34Speaker 1: it'll be like your family was weird, Like you guys
- 27:37Speaker 1: were all huggy kissy and you're all codependent and you're
- 27:39Speaker 1: all enmeshed or what like these really unkind interpretations of something.
- 27:43Speaker 2: Christmas presents are the one that still gets me. Okay
- 27:45Speaker 2: with my wife's family. My wife's family is a Christmas
- 27:49Speaker 2: present given motherfucks.
- 27:51Speaker 1: That they are generous at Christmas.
- 27:53Speaker 3: It is.
- 27:54Speaker 1: It's not even generous, it's just a lot successive.
- 27:57Speaker 2: It is just like I will go to like that
- 28:00Speaker 2: family Christmas and I will leave with like twenty gifts.
- 28:04Speaker 3: Jesus wow.
- 28:06Speaker 2: And it's not that many people. Yeah, there's definitely two people.
- 28:10Speaker 2: There are fewer than twenty of us there. Yeah, it's
- 28:14Speaker 2: just it's so much and I just did not grow
- 28:16Speaker 2: up that way. I think I like my family gives
- 28:19Speaker 2: each other like a gift or two.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Okay, we would.
- 28:22Speaker 3: Usually get like one big gift. Yeah, and then like
- 28:26Speaker 3: a couple really yeah.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Our family certainly not as adults.
- 28:32Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about like currently, I'll go to my
- 28:35Speaker 2: in laws, I'll currently leave with like twenty gift.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Among the adults, we do one right, like we usually
- 28:40Speaker 1: do a Secret Santa. We've stopped everybody's assigned.
- 28:42Speaker 3: We've stopped completely.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Yeah. I love that show.
- 28:45Speaker 3: I do too. We were all and that was the
- 28:47Speaker 3: great thing is we were all on the same page. Yes,
- 28:49Speaker 3: we're all like, hey, I'm gonna give you the gift
- 28:52Speaker 3: of not feeling obligated to give me anything. That's all
- 28:55Speaker 3: I want for Christmas.
- 28:57Speaker 1: I think we should all like our family there's now
- 28:59Speaker 1: like everybody's having kids. Like for a long time I
- 29:01Speaker 1: was the only one with thinning kids. So now everybody's
- 29:03Speaker 1: got kids, and I would love to transition to we
- 29:05Speaker 1: all get the kids ship. Every kid gets a gift
- 29:08Speaker 1: from every aunts and uncle or every couple. That would
- 29:11Speaker 1: be great. All the cousins can get each other gifts.
- 29:13Speaker 1: That's great. And I would love for the adults just
- 29:16Speaker 1: be out of this ship because it is the fucking worst.
- 29:18Speaker 3: We used to do. Our family used to do just a.
- 29:22Speaker 2: It wasn't like a Secret Santa, but it was like
- 29:24Speaker 2: a designated You just get a person.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Okay, you draw that, you draw it, which is sensible.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Yeah, so you'd show up with gifts for the kids
- 29:32Speaker 2: and for the one adult you drew.
- 29:35Speaker 1: See. But what I like about this though.
- 29:37Speaker 3: What I have yet to get Laura's mom a gift
- 29:41Speaker 3: that she appreciates. Oh no, maybe you should get there
- 29:44Speaker 3: the gift, the gifts, some of the gifts.
- 29:48Speaker 1: So one of them was a weighted blanket. Okay, that's
- 29:51Speaker 1: it's fine.
- 29:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I think she returned that.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Did you throw it at her? I did? Okay, there's
- 29:57Speaker 1: just some dumb bells, but that's again that my family's
- 30:00Speaker 1: love language. Yeah, we throw, how we do throw? We
- 30:04Speaker 1: grew up and throw things in people's faces.
- 30:07Speaker 3: So a blanket that she didn't care for I got, Okay,
- 30:10Speaker 3: So I got u a couple of years A few
- 30:13Speaker 3: years back, I got my mom one of those digital frames.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Okay, yes, and that how it's And she's great. She's
- 30:21Speaker 1: constantly seeing updates.
- 30:22Speaker 3: Yes, And so anytime Laura and I go on vacation
- 30:25Speaker 3: or something, I'm posting, shut up there. She absolutely loves it.
- 30:28Speaker 3: So my mom loves it. So I'm like, oh, we
- 30:30Speaker 3: get Laura's mom and I've I still have not seen
- 30:33Speaker 3: it anywhere in the house.
- 30:34Speaker 1: How great would it be if he accidentally sinked the
- 30:36Speaker 1: wrong photo folder to the mother in law?
- 30:40Speaker 3: That would just be great?
- 30:41Speaker 1: Can you can you share the mother in law's photo folder?
- 30:47Speaker 3: Actually, what's yours?
- 30:49Speaker 1: I should if you would have a great idea for us,
- 30:52Speaker 1: like in the next studio, we should get a digital
- 30:54Speaker 1: frame and put the fucking address on the Patreon and
- 30:57Speaker 1: just let everybody put a great would be fun. That'd
- 31:01Speaker 1: be really cool. It'd be a lot of dick pings
- 31:03Speaker 1: and be honest, but we've asked for them before. We'll
- 31:05Speaker 1: finally get them.
- 31:06Speaker 2: We can't have them on Twitch though, oh that would
- 31:08Speaker 2: be cool twitch. We can't have dicks on Twitch.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Okay, so except for Jim, all right, But no, I
- 31:13Speaker 1: do like this idea, Like I appreciate because I've seen
- 31:16Speaker 1: this a lot where couples will be very critical of
- 31:19Speaker 1: the other style and they'll categorize it a certain way.
- 31:22Speaker 1: They're like, oh, your family was dysfunctional, or your family
- 31:25Speaker 1: was you know, excessive or codependent or whatever. Your family
- 31:27Speaker 1: is stoic and unattached, and you guys are cold and distant.
- 31:31Speaker 1: And I really dislike those interpretations. It's just not fair.
- 31:34Speaker 3: Well, because that's a judgment.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:37Speaker 3: It's one thing to be like I'm not used to this, yeah,
- 31:40Speaker 3: or my family didn't go this way, or this seems
- 31:43Speaker 3: foreign to me, that's perfectly fine. But then to judge
- 31:47Speaker 3: it on top of it, I hate that's that's harmful.
- 31:50Speaker 1: No, And I also it also excuses you from any
- 31:53Speaker 1: like obligation to do for your partner because and you're like, no,
- 31:56Speaker 1: you are too needy, that's the problem. And like it's
- 31:59Speaker 1: tough because this is a therapist that comes up, right,
- 32:01Speaker 1: because they'll be like, Jim, make a judgment call here
- 32:03Speaker 1: is this person too needy? Do they need to work
- 32:04Speaker 1: on like reining it in a little bit? Or is
- 32:06Speaker 1: this other person too cold? And it's like tough to
- 32:09Speaker 1: kind of like, as Anthony says, like, how do you
- 32:11Speaker 1: kind of meet in the middle on some of these
- 32:12Speaker 1: love language needs? Like we have to And Anthony, I
- 32:16Speaker 1: think that that's a fair question to ask, because I
- 32:18Speaker 1: do think that there's room for us to ask ourselves.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Am I needing too much reassurance in this relationship? And
- 32:24Speaker 1: that's exactly what Anthony talked about, is like, you know,
- 32:27Speaker 1: I'm seeking a lot of reassurance. That's how I feel
- 32:29Speaker 1: safe in the relationship is you've been making some kind
- 32:31Speaker 1: of gesture toward me or signaling to me with affection.
- 32:34Speaker 1: And it's difficult because I think as relationships do grow
- 32:37Speaker 1: in maturity and they do get more comfortable, I think
- 32:39Speaker 1: that there is kind of a natural waning of a
- 32:41Speaker 1: lot of that affection and that can fill in with insecurity.
- 32:45Speaker 1: And I think a lot of times the partner who's
- 32:46Speaker 1: sort of rescinding that affection, they get annoyed and they're
- 32:49Speaker 1: sort of like, hey, I've already put in my due diligence,
- 32:51Speaker 1: Like I shouldn't have to keep reassuring you that we're okay.
- 32:55Speaker 1: We have time for that, we have history for that.
- 32:57Speaker 1: That's what does it go back in the photo album,
- 32:59Speaker 1: I've stuck around and we're still together, Like we're obviously okay,
- 33:02Speaker 1: but I don't know, Like it's a it's a very
- 33:04Speaker 1: delicate balance, which I think is only best solved with communication.
- 33:09Speaker 1: But I would also just caution you, Anthony, like when
- 33:11Speaker 1: you're the person in that place where you do need
- 33:13Speaker 1: that reassurance, I really think you've got to grow as
- 33:16Speaker 1: a person too through that process of relationship. That was
- 33:19Speaker 1: something that I had to go through a lot of
- 33:20Speaker 1: like transformation in was like realizing, Okay, like some of
- 33:23Speaker 1: the things that I'm meeting in this relationship, I am
- 33:26Speaker 1: not going to get And like that doesn't mean that
- 33:29Speaker 1: you're not love, that doesn't mean you're not important, But
- 33:31Speaker 1: you've got to like have that personal ability to reassure yourself,
- 33:35Speaker 1: to come back to your own history to find other
- 33:37Speaker 1: things that your partner does that that are meant to
- 33:40Speaker 1: be communicating of love. And I think that that matters too,
- 33:43Speaker 1: because a lot of times the love language theory can
- 33:45Speaker 1: like nullify what people naturally do, because it's like, well
- 33:47Speaker 1: that's not what I need, and I don't think that's
- 33:49Speaker 1: fair either, Like if your partner naturally cooks for you
- 33:52Speaker 1: or something or does something sweet like gets you the
- 33:54Speaker 1: leftover or does some other nice thing like does a
- 33:57Speaker 1: chore or something like that, and just that is how
- 33:59Speaker 1: they show life looks your buttle. Occasionally, you know, a
- 34:03Speaker 1: special occasion, Well everybody does that, you know, yeah, like
- 34:06Speaker 1: it's a Saturday or something, you know, just like a
- 34:08Speaker 1: normal and special occasion.
- 34:09Speaker 3: In Iowa, that's just how.
- 34:11Speaker 1: They say hello, quick, little quick, little U look ado.
- 34:14Speaker 1: So yeah, but like I think it's tough because some
- 34:16Speaker 1: people will be like, well that doesn't count because that's
- 34:18Speaker 1: not how I receive love. I don't love that either. Man, Like,
- 34:21Speaker 1: I think you've got to also have this sense of
- 34:23Speaker 1: like I know your intentions. I remember once like I
- 34:26Speaker 1: heard a therapist describe it as like if a little
- 34:28Speaker 1: kid draws you a picture and you look at that
- 34:30Speaker 1: and go. But I don't give a fuck about art,
- 34:33Speaker 1: and I don't care about this, and I don't I
- 34:34Speaker 1: don't like to die. I already have a picture, yeah,
- 34:36Speaker 1: I already have pictures. I have selfies that are way
- 34:38Speaker 1: fucking better than this. Thanks a lot. You're a douche
- 34:40Speaker 1: because you don't appreciate that that little kid put their
- 34:43Speaker 1: heart into that little potato figure of you, and that
- 34:46Speaker 1: was meant to be this thing of Like I was
- 34:47Speaker 1: thinking about you, you're the best like I like you.
- 34:50Speaker 1: I hope you receive it in the intention it was
- 34:52Speaker 1: offered right and like to me, Anthony, that's also meeting
- 34:55Speaker 1: in the middle, per your question, Like, I think that's
- 34:57Speaker 1: part of it too, is understanding the other person's intentions
- 35:00Speaker 1: on things that don't resonate with you and learning to
- 35:03Speaker 1: lean in that direction too so that can still count
- 35:05Speaker 1: for something, and reminding yourself to make it count. Yeah,
- 35:08Speaker 1: lick that butt hole, Anthony. Anyway, we are gonna take
- 35:11Speaker 1: a quick break and when we come back, we're talking
- 35:13Speaker 1: about losing life's passion. You're listeners Pod Therapy.
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- 35:38Speaker 2: All right, you just reminded me of something happened to
- 35:40Speaker 2: be at a gig a long long time ago. I just, uh, okay,
- 35:46Speaker 2: you've reminded me two things that happened against Yes, but
- 35:49Speaker 2: one of them was when saw a children's theater production
- 35:53Speaker 2: of a of some show.
- 35:54Speaker 1: And it was a company, a children's theater company that
- 35:56Speaker 1: I just started working for.
- 35:58Speaker 2: And I said, after the show was to the woman
- 36:01Speaker 2: who was directing it, who was a new coworker of mine,
- 36:04Speaker 2: said yeah, I made four kids show.
- 36:05Speaker 1: It was really good.
- 36:06Speaker 2: I thought it was, and I was being just genuine enough,
- 36:09Speaker 2: and I was really happy with it and was in
- 36:11Speaker 2: a good mood. I was like, man, for a kid
- 36:13Speaker 2: show that was so good, and she like got a
- 36:15Speaker 2: little dour and was like, don't don't do the four
- 36:20Speaker 2: kids show thing.
- 36:21Speaker 3: Just say it's either good or bad. Oh.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Well, in that case it was ship Broadway. This was
- 36:32Speaker 1: no cats. I saw likew York a week and a
- 36:35Speaker 1: half ago.
- 36:36Speaker 3: This was much worse.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Don't have the caveat for a kids show. Just so
- 36:41Speaker 1: it was a great complimenting it and saying that I
- 36:43Speaker 1: had enjoyed my time. That is so salty. Yeah, that
- 36:45Speaker 1: is just dumb. Get the stick out of it. It
- 36:48Speaker 1: was shitty, then that's dumb. Wow, just say it was
- 36:51Speaker 1: a good show. Okay, it wasn't that it was bad.
- 36:54Speaker 1: You're welcome trivia.
- 36:56Speaker 3: Wow.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Several of the children didn't look suited to the parts
- 36:58Speaker 1: they were playing it all. That kid that played the
- 37:00Speaker 1: tree sucked a bag of old deuteronomy.
- 37:03Speaker 3: I'm not even sure if he use a cat. I'll
- 37:06Speaker 3: be honest. I don't think that beard was real. Alright.
- 37:10Speaker 1: I saw that kid before the show.
- 37:11Speaker 3: He was four. Uh, trivia from Emma before they were famous.
- 37:18Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, this is gonna have to be multiple choice. Yeah, alright, Jacob, all.
- 37:24Speaker 1: Right, showdown action Jacob will one v one.
- 37:27Speaker 3: Who once worked as a telemarketer selling ballpoint pens. Okay,
- 37:33Speaker 3: A Brad Pitt's b Jennifer Aniston, C Johnny Depp or
- 37:39Speaker 3: D George Clooney. Geez, I know I've heard this before.
- 37:43Speaker 1: Oh Clooney, I like that answer a lot.
- 37:49Speaker 2: No.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Oh, that's where my heart was. Do I get rebounds
- 37:52Speaker 1: on this?
- 37:52Speaker 3: Sure?
- 37:53Speaker 1: All right, it's gonna be process of elimination until Nick
- 37:55Speaker 1: just fucking gets five points. Give me Johnny Depp.
- 37:58Speaker 3: It is Johnny Depp right, give you half a point from.
- 38:01Speaker 1: I'll take that.
- 38:02Speaker 3: I'll take that half a point, all right, Jim, which
- 38:04Speaker 3: actress was once a human statue in New York's Central Park.
- 38:09Speaker 3: Oh my god, Lucy Lou, Angelina, Jolie Whoopy Goldberg or
- 38:14Speaker 3: Kristin Wig Kristin Wig.
- 38:17Speaker 1: No shit, oh, Angela jo Lee will be Goldberg?
- 38:22Speaker 3: And who Lucy Lou Bro It.
- 38:24Speaker 1: Cannot be Angelina and Jolie. She she was famous as
- 38:26Speaker 1: a kid. There's no way she would even bother with
- 38:28Speaker 1: that ship. I'll say, whoopee. I feel good about whoopee.
- 38:32Speaker 3: No, okay, Lucy Lou, I believe that's my point.
- 38:36Speaker 1: Shit, wow, both This guy's an Assholey who luy?
- 38:44Speaker 3: All right, Jacob, This Marvel star used to be a
- 38:48Speaker 3: children's party entertainer dressed as a giant chicken.
- 38:52Speaker 1: Oh wow.
- 38:53Speaker 3: Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Paul Rudd or Hugh Jackman.
- 38:58Speaker 1: Oh wow, huge, I feel good about it. Huge as
- 39:02Speaker 1: hey because he was like a pe teacher eight points.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Oh he was, yeah.
- 39:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 39:08Speaker 1: There's a whole bit where he's on the red carpet
- 39:10Speaker 1: and like one of his old students became a member
- 39:12Speaker 1: of the press, and he interviews him, and he recognizes him,
- 39:16Speaker 1: and he's like, not answering the guy's questions, and stead
- 39:18Speaker 1: he's asking the guy questions. He's like, so, if you
- 39:20Speaker 1: kept up with your physical education, not really, man, if
- 39:23Speaker 1: you give a reporter, he's like, oh, so you.
- 39:26Speaker 3: Do some push up? Okay, climb this rope? Jim before
- 39:30Speaker 3: landing major roles, who cleaned chicken coops and sold newspapers
- 39:34Speaker 3: door to door?
- 39:35Speaker 1: Okay?
- 39:36Speaker 3: Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey or Robert de Niro?
- 39:41Speaker 1: Oh boy, yeah, de Niro is another one. He's been
- 39:44Speaker 1: doing this a long time. Jim Carrey's been doing this
- 39:47Speaker 1: a long time.
- 39:48Speaker 3: What what what do you do? Clean chicken coops?
- 39:51Speaker 1: What chicken coops?
- 39:52Speaker 3: Sold newspapers door to door? Okay?
- 39:54Speaker 1: What was the first one?
- 39:55Speaker 3: Tom Cruise?
- 39:56Speaker 1: No, it's not Tim Cruse. Here's the third one, Jim Carrey,
- 39:59Speaker 1: second one, Harrison Ford, Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford feels like
- 40:03Speaker 1: a guy who kind of stumbled into his fame. I
- 40:05Speaker 1: don't think so, No, shit, I think it's both wrong.
- 40:10Speaker 3: Jim Carrey, Harrison Carpenter, Yeah.
- 40:15Speaker 1: That's what it was. Yes, all right, I think I'm
- 40:18Speaker 1: winning by five points there, all right, losing life's passion.
- 40:23Speaker 1: Hello pod therapists. Hopefully all of you like how everybody's
- 40:27Speaker 1: referencing Whitney. Fuck you writer, you can't count on Whitney. Sorry,
- 40:33Speaker 1: he's a flake. I'm a relatively new listener, and I
- 40:37Speaker 1: remember hearing episode one and mumbling to myself, thank God,
- 40:41Speaker 1: I'll never need to ask them a question. And yet
- 40:44Speaker 1: here I am. Wow, all right, I'm in therapy. I
- 40:50Speaker 1: talked to my friends wild I know, and I've built
- 40:53Speaker 1: a good toolkit for my mental health. But there's one
- 40:56Speaker 1: topic I'd love to hear your thoughts on. I grew
- 40:59Speaker 1: up with more vintage cars than siblings, and they definitely
- 41:03Speaker 1: received more love too. These cars have become the most
- 41:07Speaker 1: important thing in my life, but they require a lot
- 41:10Speaker 1: of work and knowledge to maintain, so from early on
- 41:13Speaker 1: I showed interest in learning how my father restored them.
- 41:17Speaker 1: Despite that, and unless Eastern Christmas fell on the same day,
- 41:20Speaker 1: he was never keen to teach me. So I thought, fine,
- 41:24Speaker 1: I'll prove to him that I'm serious. I studied mechanical engineering.
- 41:28Speaker 1: I even worked for a while with in the modern
- 41:31Speaker 1: engine industry, but it wasn't my thing. During a project
- 41:34Speaker 1: in Australia. I fell in love with a man and
- 41:37Speaker 1: the adventures we had in his vintage cars. Long story short,
- 41:41Speaker 1: he turned out to be a narcissist like my dad.
- 41:43Speaker 1: He also didn't let me in the workshop or behind
- 41:46Speaker 1: the wheel. It took me far too long, but I
- 41:49Speaker 1: finally left him to fulfill my life dream by myself.
- 41:52Speaker 1: I moved to the UK to finally learn how to
- 41:54Speaker 1: restore cars properly in a real workshop. I found a garage,
- 41:58Speaker 1: sorted my visa and made it happen. But over the
- 42:01Speaker 1: past year they slowly pushed me out of the workshop
- 42:04Speaker 1: and into the role of the tea lady and desk
- 42:07Speaker 1: dust catcher. I bought my own car and through trial
- 42:11Speaker 1: and error, began restoring those myself. I've learned a lot,
- 42:15Speaker 1: but I'm exhausted. I poured all my savings into trying
- 42:18Speaker 1: to make this life possible, and the situation at work
- 42:21Speaker 1: frustrates every cell in my body. And as the cherry
- 42:24Speaker 1: on top or was it the filling, I'm leaving the
- 42:27Speaker 1: vintage car world because I've been bullied out of it,
- 42:30Speaker 1: mostly out of jealousy. I assume I worked hard to
- 42:33Speaker 1: earn my place, but I was constantly met with resistance, condescension,
- 42:37Speaker 1: and subtle and not so subtle ways of being told
- 42:39Speaker 1: I didn't belong. I tried to stay strong, but it's
- 42:42Speaker 1: worn me down more than I care to admit. After
- 42:45Speaker 1: much back and forth, I've accepted a spot on a
- 42:48Speaker 1: psychology conversion master's program. I'll leave my job in a month.
- 42:52Speaker 1: A few years ago, while studying for a semester in Israel,
- 42:55Speaker 1: a professor read my final paper and made it his
- 42:58Speaker 1: mission to convince me that my place was in psychology.
- 43:01Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by human decision making and everything that comes
- 43:04Speaker 1: with it, but I never thought I could make a difference,
- 43:07Speaker 1: especially because my father always told me psychology was wizard
- 43:10Speaker 1: poop and not a real profession. All wizard poop. Fucking
- 43:13Speaker 1: episode title, that's fantastic. I'm trying, Bethole. Okay, yeah, skip
- 43:18Speaker 1: the slurping sounds. I got that. Shall not o, man,
- 43:24Speaker 1: I really thought you were gonna go with you shall
- 43:26Speaker 1: lick my ass or something? Right there? It was right there,
- 43:29Speaker 1: So here I am. And yet notes for a child?
- 43:35Speaker 3: Yeah, really good. It was a pretty good joke for
- 43:38Speaker 3: a child.
- 43:39Speaker 1: And Yet, the closer I get to leaving the vintage
- 43:41Speaker 1: car world, the more I feel like I'm breaking despite
- 43:44Speaker 1: the struggles and always depending on the support of others.
- 43:47Speaker 1: I had some amazing adventures last year. I'll miss the cars,
- 43:50Speaker 1: not for their material value, but for the life I
- 43:53Speaker 1: lived with them. And now I'm swapping all that for
- 43:55Speaker 1: what feels like a boring psych student life that so
- 43:58Speaker 1: many people choose. Every One keeps telling me I can
- 44:01Speaker 1: always come back to vintage cars later, but I fought
- 44:04Speaker 1: for so long to finally own one. I have to
- 44:06Speaker 1: sell them now for many reasons, and to be allowed
- 44:09Speaker 1: to work on them. Now that I'm so close, I
- 44:12Speaker 1: have to let it all go again. So I guess
- 44:14Speaker 1: here are my questions? Or how can something feel so
- 44:18Speaker 1: deeply like my life's purpose and yet leave me so exhausted?
- 44:22Speaker 1: And if it is my life's purpose, why am I
- 44:25Speaker 1: running constantly in situations that want to or why am
- 44:28Speaker 1: I constantly running into situations that want to prove the opposite?
- 44:32Speaker 1: And how do I cope with this overwhelming feeling of
- 44:35Speaker 1: becoming an insignificant person? Sorry for the ramble. My grammar
- 44:39Speaker 1: school teacher told me twenty years ago that summaries aren't
- 44:42Speaker 1: my strength, But to be fair, she also said, I'd
- 44:44Speaker 1: never managed to form a full sentence in English. She
- 44:47Speaker 1: was closer to write on that last one. Thank you
- 44:49Speaker 1: so much. The anonymous insignificant. My pronouns are she and her.
- 44:54Speaker 3: So this actually kind of, first of all, writer sucks
- 44:57Speaker 3: because it does feel to me that, at least to
- 45:00Speaker 3: some degree, some of this is just being a female
- 45:04Speaker 3: working in a male dominated and that really sucks. Have
- 45:08Speaker 3: you guys seen on Netflix there's a they do, the
- 45:12Speaker 3: Untold series where they're breaking down like a sports story
- 45:17Speaker 3: or something. They've got one on Hope Solo. Okay, okay, okay,
- 45:21Speaker 3: soccer player. Yes, she was huge, like as far as like.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Women's women, like Andrea the Giant. Yeah yeah, I.
- 45:31Speaker 2: Meanolar disorder back and like late ninety well it would
- 45:36Speaker 2: be early two thousands.
- 45:38Speaker 3: She was the big name.
- 45:39Speaker 1: Okay.
- 45:40Speaker 3: She was all over like when you thought of women's soccer,
- 45:43Speaker 3: Hope Solo, that was the name.
- 45:44Speaker 2: She would paint like, she would paint her face and
- 45:46Speaker 2: she would run down to the ring and shake the
- 45:48Speaker 2: ropes yet people, yeah, the whole thing.
- 45:51Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 45:52Speaker 3: But anyway, and then all of a sudden she just
- 45:55Speaker 3: disappeared like she didn't exist. She fell into a hole.
- 45:59Speaker 1: Oh my god like Whitney.
- 46:00Speaker 3: So this story is fucking fascinating if you get the
- 46:06Speaker 3: chance to watch that on Netflix. This little documentary, now,
- 46:11Speaker 3: granted it's probably one sided because it really kind of
- 46:15Speaker 3: focuses on her side of the story versus us women's soccer,
- 46:20Speaker 3: but the whole thing of how she's just pretty much
- 46:23Speaker 3: like persona on grata, like completely excommunicated from women's soccer,
- 46:29Speaker 3: and how that all happened, and some of the things
- 46:31Speaker 3: were like comments that she made. She is very outspoken.
- 46:35Speaker 3: You ask her question, she'll say what she thinks and
- 46:38Speaker 3: so and But anyway, the thing that I left with
- 46:42Speaker 3: at the end of that was like, had that been
- 46:46Speaker 3: a male athlete that said the exact same thing, it
- 46:50Speaker 3: wouldn't have even made the news. But because it was
- 46:54Speaker 3: her and it was just a completely different world, it
- 46:58Speaker 3: became a huge deal.
- 47:00Speaker 1: And it just sucks.
- 47:01Speaker 3: Yeah, and this kind of this letter kind of reminded me.
- 47:04Speaker 1: I feel like it's one of the most tired things
- 47:06Speaker 1: that you'll bump into in any industry, Like you'll meet
- 47:09Speaker 1: a female police officer, and like pointing out that this
- 47:12Speaker 1: is a female police officer just seems dumb and like,
- 47:15Speaker 1: but it's like the number one thing I'll see people
- 47:16Speaker 1: do is like this person's the writer's a mechanicals.
- 47:18Speaker 3: That's why I always just say hatty police officer.
- 47:20Speaker 1: Yeah, like that much more respect. Yeah, Yeah, they really
- 47:25Speaker 1: appreciate when you just say that badge with badge but no,
- 47:28Speaker 1: like a episode title. No. But like I this comes
- 47:32Speaker 1: up a lot like and it just sucks because you're
- 47:34Speaker 1: working in vintage cars. You're kind of signaled over and
- 47:37Speaker 1: over again that you don't belong you're a mechanical engineer,
- 47:39Speaker 1: and they're sort of like this energy of like, oh
- 47:41Speaker 1: that's cute, you know, like you don't you're not one
- 47:43Speaker 1: of us, you Like the writer keeps talking about earning
- 47:46Speaker 1: the the opportunity to work on vintage cars. Is this
- 47:50Speaker 1: Is there something I'm not understanding about this that like.
- 47:53Speaker 3: You have to you're not doing you're not doing the
- 47:54Speaker 3: math all the way through.
- 47:55Speaker 2: Okay, so if I have a vintage car, If I
- 47:58Speaker 2: own a vintage car, there aren't that many of them.
- 48:00Speaker 2: Oh so if I own a vintage car, I get
- 48:03Speaker 2: to be picky with who I'm going to allow to
- 48:05Speaker 2: work on my vintage car. I see, So if you
- 48:07Speaker 2: don't own one, like if you own if you own
- 48:09Speaker 2: one and you want to work on it, I see,
- 48:11Speaker 2: knock yourself out.
- 48:12Speaker 1: So she's not getting opportunities maybe because of stigma, not
- 48:16Speaker 1: getting taken into body shops because it's like, well maybe
- 48:18Speaker 1: we don't, you know, think that we can showcase her work.
- 48:21Speaker 3: Maybe.
- 48:22Speaker 1: Wow. Interesting.
- 48:23Speaker 2: It's also I mean vintage cars, it's also a weird
- 48:26Speaker 2: one because it's almost a hobby made into a profession. Okay,
- 48:32Speaker 2: because like the people you're dealing with are almost all
- 48:34Speaker 2: going to be basically I mean it's a different form
- 48:37Speaker 2: of being a hobbyist, right yeah, like like collecting a
- 48:40Speaker 2: vintage car. So I mean that does that puts you
- 48:43Speaker 2: in a weird mindset because then it also you're you're
- 48:46Speaker 2: getting into that, like people are doing this for more
- 48:49Speaker 2: reasons than just having a vintage car, right, you know
- 48:52Speaker 2: they might have it like a father might buy one
- 48:55Speaker 2: to work on with their son.
- 48:56Speaker 3: You know, it could be it could be things like that.
- 48:59Speaker 3: I don't.
- 48:59Speaker 2: I mean, it's probably a lot of sticky little things
- 49:02Speaker 2: to wade through in that industry.
- 49:04Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 49:04Speaker 1: That it's interesting how the writer talks about kind of
- 49:07Speaker 1: that self awareness of this was something my dad loved
- 49:10Speaker 1: more than me, Right, So I wanted to be good
- 49:13Speaker 1: at this and I like it kind of like the
- 49:15Speaker 1: writer seems pretty aware and like there was kind of
- 49:18Speaker 1: a quest for Dad's approval throughout the years that turned
- 49:20Speaker 1: out to be kind of a narcissist. I haven't bumped
- 49:22Speaker 1: into other relationships that were like again familiar to me
- 49:25Speaker 1: because like this was similar to my father, and it
- 49:27Speaker 1: took me a little bit to like connect these dots.
- 49:29Speaker 1: And it seems like the writer's been like on many
- 49:31Speaker 1: ways a lifelong sort of journey of revelation through the
- 49:36Speaker 1: lens of the vintage car stuff and like this pursuit realizing,
- 49:40Speaker 1: like a lot of this just has to do with me.
- 49:42Speaker 1: Excepting that Dad may never approve or whatever, I may
- 49:45Speaker 1: not win that affection that I've kind of like been
- 49:47Speaker 1: yearning for my whole life, and that's fine. Like maybe
- 49:50Speaker 1: I'm ready to go like blaze my own trail. It's
- 49:52Speaker 1: interesting this idea of like knowing your life's purpose and
- 49:56Speaker 1: like hitting these headwinds, hitting these obstacles, and if it
- 49:59Speaker 1: is my life's purpose, do I get exhausted? That's an
- 50:03Speaker 1: interesting concept of like life's purpose.
- 50:06Speaker 2: It's so hard because I'm betting this is a lot
- 50:10Speaker 2: like the entertainment world, you know, people trying to break
- 50:14Speaker 2: into that to work inside it, because I mean, it's
- 50:16Speaker 2: just going to be such a niche community in so
- 50:18Speaker 2: many ways. For your life's purpose to be tied directly
- 50:26Speaker 2: to your income always makes me feel a little weird
- 50:30Speaker 2: because life's purpose seems bigger to me than your than
- 50:34Speaker 2: your gig. Yeah, Like, if you love working on old cars,
- 50:40Speaker 2: then you get a gig whatever whatever job you have,
- 50:43Speaker 2: and then your hobby is working on older cars because
- 50:48Speaker 2: that's what you want to be doing, that's what you
- 50:50Speaker 2: want to spend time doing it. If you can make
- 50:52Speaker 2: a living doing it as well, maybe bonus. But at
- 50:55Speaker 2: the same time, like this, this situation shows us like
- 50:57Speaker 2: maybe not bonus. Maybe it it kind of sours you
- 51:01Speaker 2: on the whole thing.
- 51:02Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing that.
- 51:04Speaker 3: Makes me kind of itchyre kind of weird. It's just
- 51:07Speaker 3: the idea of the life's purpose general.
- 51:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear a lot of people talking about met
- 51:13Speaker 1: to do this.
- 51:14Speaker 3: Yeah I've found my special purpose. Yeah, I've never felt
- 51:18Speaker 3: that way because to me, that feels very, uh like
- 51:23Speaker 3: fate driven.
- 51:24Speaker 2: I think you're I think you're just such a wonderful person,
- 51:26Speaker 2: and I think you're so good, you know, achieving your
- 51:29Speaker 2: life's purpose and you and you're so attractive while you're
- 51:32Speaker 2: doing it and such so handsome and rugged looking.
- 51:35Speaker 3: Like you make a good point and really.
- 51:37Speaker 1: Just you know so kind may really really really ridiculously. Yeah,
- 51:43Speaker 1: you're doing great. By the way. I like this, uh
- 51:46Speaker 1: physical touch actually is my give me a handy twitchraw
- 51:53Speaker 1: just the foot went right across across, just started rubbing
- 51:57Speaker 1: his thighs, your toes on my cheeks, just feel which cheeks?
- 52:02Speaker 3: Yeah, all.
- 52:06Speaker 1: In there.
- 52:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear you.
- 52:07Speaker 1: Though, there's there's a particular world I think.
- 52:10Speaker 3: Yeah, because like to say I have like life's purpose,
- 52:15Speaker 3: it puts so much pressure on you, like number one,
- 52:19Speaker 3: like you've got to be good at this thing, right right,
- 52:21Speaker 3: and you damn well better enjoy it, right, I mean,
- 52:24Speaker 3: it just seems like a lot of pressure to put
- 52:26Speaker 3: on yourself. He does.
- 52:28Speaker 2: We'll do that, like say the ship Like, oh, you know,
- 52:30Speaker 2: if you love what you do, you never go to
- 52:31Speaker 2: work the day in your life. And then when you
- 52:33Speaker 2: get through with work on something that you think you
- 52:35Speaker 2: love and it felt it felt like a day at work.
- 52:38Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like, wait, do I really love this thing?
- 52:40Speaker 2: And you start questioning and yeah, I mean, don't tying
- 52:43Speaker 2: it to your income get sticky really fast in the
- 52:47Speaker 2: INDIEA what what Nick said too?
- 52:49Speaker 1: I also like this, So like this is problematic as
- 52:53Speaker 1: a way of thinking, because I do think it puts
- 52:54Speaker 1: you in an identity box that then you're scared to
- 52:57Speaker 1: leave because like who am I if I'm not this thing? Yeah,
- 53:00Speaker 1: and I think it's fascinating. Like for me, I went
- 53:04Speaker 1: through several like career evolutions, like originally went to school
- 53:08Speaker 1: to be a church pastor, Like that's what I thought
- 53:10Speaker 1: I was called to do. I felt, did you go
- 53:12Speaker 1: to school for that? Liberty University? Uh? Sponsored? I've heard
- 53:17Speaker 1: of that somewhere where Have I heard that name before?
- 53:19Speaker 1: Usually in four Chan and in a lot of hate media, Yeah,
- 53:23Speaker 1: a lot of Liberty Drive, Yeah, very strong populations. So yeah,
- 53:28Speaker 1: we show up in a lot of rallies. But yeah, no,
- 53:31Speaker 1: Like I mean my first that was gonna be my career,
- 53:32Speaker 1: and so like my identity was wrapped up in that.
- 53:34Speaker 1: And then I became a school teacher for eight years,
- 53:37Speaker 1: which I didn't intend to be a profession. I was
- 53:40Speaker 1: trying to pursue that the church stuff, and I kept
- 53:43Speaker 1: hitting all these obstacles. I just could not get a
- 53:45Speaker 1: position in a church. Either I was too young to
- 53:48Speaker 1: be like, you know, an adults pastor, or I was
- 53:50Speaker 1: a little bit too old, and like they wanted to
- 53:52Speaker 1: just kind of raise up their own like you know,
- 53:54Speaker 1: people from their own high school groups into college, and
- 53:56Speaker 1: I didn't want to bring this guy from outside, even
- 53:58Speaker 1: though he went to school for it. Just like I
- 54:00Speaker 1: could not find an opening. And I remember like really
- 54:03Speaker 1: struggling with not the Catholic church. Yeah, the Catholic Church
- 54:06Speaker 1: was not let me in.
- 54:07Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and.
- 54:07Speaker 2: So the Catholic Church, I hear, is good at finding
- 54:09Speaker 2: opening all day.
- 54:13Speaker 1: But yeah, let me get.
- 54:14Speaker 3: Behind those drugs.
- 54:15Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, we're not using this thing.
- 54:17Speaker 3: It's right there, like thing really fast.
- 54:20Speaker 1: But I remember like going through that identity shift of
- 54:22Speaker 1: being like, oh no, this is my life's purpose, and
- 54:24Speaker 1: you know, obviously it was very tied into religion at
- 54:25Speaker 1: the time, and then like switching around Oh sorry, that's right, flipper,
- 54:32Speaker 1: So yeah, like and and then like switching roles become
- 54:34Speaker 1: a teacher, and then switching roles again and going into
- 54:36Speaker 1: mental health. And mental health can be one of those
- 54:38Speaker 1: things that can like very much define you right, Like,
- 54:40Speaker 1: I mean, we started a podcast around it, We do
- 54:43Speaker 1: a lot of charitable work around it. There's a lot
- 54:44Speaker 1: of public education around it. I think that the public
- 54:47Speaker 1: welcomes it a lot, and so like you would just
- 54:49Speaker 1: become associated with it so much like that's who Jim is.
- 54:52Speaker 1: Jim's a therapist whatever, But like it's a dangerous game
- 54:55Speaker 1: because like I've been in the career now long enough
- 54:57Speaker 1: that if if I hit the lottery, i'd probably like
- 55:00Speaker 1: I'd probably be like, I'll still do pod therapy or
- 55:02Speaker 1: something because I derive joy from this. But no, my
- 55:05Speaker 1: identity doesn't have to be this anymore. Like if you
- 55:06Speaker 1: and LV called me and said, hey, man, we're just
- 55:08Speaker 1: gonna make you a professor and you're gonna stick to
- 55:10Speaker 1: teaching this stuff, you know, forever, and like you're not
- 55:12Speaker 1: gonna perform it anymore. I could see myself saying, Okay, great,
- 55:15Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a professional teacher again. Like I could
- 55:18Speaker 1: leave this identity. So like, I do think that there's
- 55:20Speaker 1: a little bit of a an interesting intermingling of putting
- 55:24Speaker 1: too much of your identity into a profession. I get
- 55:28Speaker 1: why it happens. I've struggled with it, but then it's
- 55:31Speaker 1: like Jacob said, like I'll have a bad day at
- 55:32Speaker 1: the office and or like I suck and like I'm
- 55:35Speaker 1: just I'm not doing very well as a therapist right
- 55:37Speaker 1: now or something, and then I'll think like I am worthless,
- 55:40Speaker 1: and it's like, no, it could also just be this
- 55:42Speaker 1: industry is really tough and like there's a lot of
- 55:44Speaker 1: like land minds in it, like the writer, It's like, hey,
- 55:46Speaker 1: it could just be vintage cars is a very unique industry.
- 55:49Speaker 1: And Yep, the deck is stacked against you in a
- 55:51Speaker 1: lot of ways, and that shouldn't be, you know, your identity.
- 55:55Speaker 3: It also depends too, like how you enjoy it as
- 55:59Speaker 3: a career that you know, pays the bills, right, versus
- 56:03Speaker 3: how you enjoy it as a hobby right right, you know,
- 56:07Speaker 3: and those are two very different things. Yeah, and yeah,
- 56:10Speaker 3: I mean maybe maybe this is a good thing.
- 56:12Speaker 2: I would I would take the opportunity while you have
- 56:15Speaker 2: it to step back from it.
- 56:17Speaker 1: I mean, like us, step back from it and and
- 56:20Speaker 1: kind of.
- 56:20Speaker 2: Look at it and look at the place that it
- 56:22Speaker 2: holds in your life and maybe decide if you like
- 56:26Speaker 2: that place. I like that maybe trying to kind of
- 56:28Speaker 2: think about it a little bit and kind of reflect
- 56:29Speaker 2: on the little bit. Maybe, dare I say, meditate on
- 56:32Speaker 2: it a little bit?
- 56:32Speaker 1: Whoa getting all new age WU in this ship?
- 56:35Speaker 3: Yeah? Yea, throw the wo.
- 56:39Speaker 2: Be mindful about it, be thoughtful about it, Yeah, and
- 56:43Speaker 2: be unafraid to examine it and and examine how much
- 56:47Speaker 2: happiness it is bringing to your life or how much
- 56:50Speaker 2: sadness is bringing to your.
- 56:51Speaker 1: That's a good point because I think a lot of
- 56:53Speaker 1: times we align with shit and we're like, no, this
- 56:54Speaker 1: is who am, this is what I do, and it's
- 56:56Speaker 1: making me miserable.
- 56:57Speaker 2: Don't do the sunken cost fallacy thing on this. You don't,
- 57:00Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh, I've spent you know, however many
- 57:02Speaker 2: years doing this, right. I don't want to turn my
- 57:04Speaker 2: life around now. No, no, yeah, we only have so
- 57:07Speaker 2: much time to do all this shit.
- 57:09Speaker 3: Well, so do what you want to do.
- 57:10Speaker 1: That's directly connected to the second question, how do I
- 57:14Speaker 1: accept insignificance? Overwhelming feeling of becoming an insignificant person? That's
- 57:19Speaker 1: a big thing, but the kind of goes hand in
- 57:21Speaker 1: hand with what you're saying of like, it's okay if
- 57:24Speaker 1: that didn't work out, Yeah, especially like in industry's like
- 57:27Speaker 1: entertainment and talent. There's so many people chasing the star, right,
- 57:30Speaker 1: and at some point, I'm sure many of them have
- 57:32Speaker 1: to hit a point of like, Okay, I'm not gonna
- 57:34Speaker 1: make it quote unquote. And I know people who have
- 57:36Speaker 1: done that.
- 57:37Speaker 2: After they have made it, Okay, they have made it,
- 57:40Speaker 2: done huge jobs, huge gigs, they that people have heard of,
- 57:44Speaker 2: and then go like cool, that was fun.
- 57:47Speaker 1: Yeah, and how do I accept that that will not
- 57:49Speaker 1: last forever?
- 57:49Speaker 3: I'm going to do something else now.
- 57:51Speaker 1: Wow, and they can just do something entirely different. Yeah,
- 57:53Speaker 1: that's pretty cool.
- 57:54Speaker 3: I would give some thought too to what it means
- 57:56Speaker 3: to be an insignificant person.
- 57:59Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, they're like significant than other people
- 58:04Speaker 2: measure that or also like, I mean, there's eight billion
- 58:07Speaker 2: people on the planet.
- 58:08Speaker 3: I am insignificant to almost eight billion of them. Yeah,
- 58:13Speaker 3: eight billion of yeah. Yeah, if I'm round all of them, yeah,
- 58:18Speaker 3: first all of them. Yeah, But that doesn't mean that
- 58:21Speaker 3: my life isn't important. I'm very significant to me. The
- 58:26Speaker 3: dogs that I mean, I am, my priority of putting
- 58:30Speaker 3: the food out themselves, that's right. And you know, I
- 58:32Speaker 3: mean so the people that I do have significance with,
- 58:35Speaker 3: I think that's very important. I don't know just the
- 58:38Speaker 3: whole you know, who we define as significant or what
- 58:40Speaker 3: we define as significant. I think it needs context.
- 58:44Speaker 2: I mean we're spending time on it, right, Yeah, yeah,
- 58:49Speaker 2: it's been significant, this segment at the very least.
- 58:51Speaker 1: This is a I think it's a really good existential
- 58:53Speaker 1: question that I've I've often struggled with because I've listened
- 58:55Speaker 1: to some really good talkers that have shared, like some
- 58:58Speaker 1: of those important humans who have ever existed, right, like
- 59:00Speaker 1: people that shaped empires, right, like Julius Caesar Epstein, the greats. Yeah,
- 59:06Speaker 1: you know your Einstein's here we are ye talking about.
- 59:16Speaker 3: Sorry about that, but you.
- 59:18Speaker 1: Know, like it, no matter who you were, how significant
- 59:21Speaker 1: you were, even if you owned the world, you're the
- 59:23Speaker 1: Genghis Khan of your time. Nobody gives a fuck today
- 59:26Speaker 1: like it, and it does not take very long before
- 59:29Speaker 1: you achieve insignificance.
- 59:32Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was pretty significant to a
- 59:35Speaker 3: lot of people.
- 59:36Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we're talking about it forever. So when
- 59:41Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan died and they were, you know, they announced that,
- 59:43Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I remembered that in high school
- 59:46Speaker 1: I had gone to the ninety nine cent store with
- 59:47Speaker 1: my buddy, and there had been a Hulk Hogan c D.
- 59:51Speaker 1: It is Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling boot Band, and
- 59:55Speaker 1: I think it was just self title thing. It was
- 59:56Speaker 1: just called Hogan Hogo maniacent like that, and I remember
- 59:58Speaker 1: we bought it as a joke and started listening to
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: it and kind of unironically got into it and like
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: really started like this is great, like blasted shit all
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: the time. And one track is called when the Hulkster
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: Comes to Heaven, and it's like, when the Hulkster comes
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: to Heaven, we'll tag up again when we lose another
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: Hulk Maniac, you know, like Hulk weeps and like one
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: day he'll find Heaven. Yes, it's fucking awesome. Okay, is
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: so fucking good and in a terrible kind of way,
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: like just not good. So like when he died, I
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: messaged my buddy, who I haven't talked to like in
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: probably fifteen years, and I'm like, dude, you do you
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: remember the CD? And he sends back a photo of
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: him holding the CD. Is that The Hulkster goes, oh, yeah,
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: oh it's just wasn't that horn so good?
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: Yes?
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: Can we get away with this?
- 1:00:47Speaker 3: Are we gonna get flagged. No, we're talking about it.
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: Okay, it's gonna get flagged on YouTube, but whatever that might.
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: I can take a few strikes on YouTube. But yeah,
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: it was anyway, Hulk Hogan, Uh, greatest entertainer of our time.
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: Just good guy, very significant.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: Yeah, but he sent me back a phot of him
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: holding the CD. He still had it. No, that's really cool.
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: That's a collector's item right now. Anyway, right, go buy
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: a Hull Cogan CD. I think is where I'm going
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: with this. But no, like insignificance, like Hull Cogan just died.
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: Oh my god, he was so important for so many years,
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: and like in five noy'll ever talk about him again.
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: It'll just be a meme and that'll be the end
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: of it. There is no such thing as like significance
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: in a sense, like it is inherently a lie that
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: we tell ourselves so we can feel like we matter.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: So I really like that both of you are kind
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: of like challenging that narrative to say, hey, like redefine
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: what significance is, or like to who, or like what
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: else in your life you could be living for, Because
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: if your whole point is to feel like you matter
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: to an industry that doesn't fucking care about you or
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: respect you. You're chasing the wind, you know, like you'll
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: never be satisfied. It'll never matter. It's like being famous
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: enough to like matter some bullshit like that. It's like
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's all inherently pointless. So like I kind
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: of like what you said, Jacob, of like finding something
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: that means something to you in the now that you derive,
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: you know, some kind of joy from that meets your
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: needs and is stable, and that it's about life and work,
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: life and just friendships and all that. Like, find other
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: values I think, to pursue versus just significance. How do
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: you deal with being an insignificant person?
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: Nick, who I'm not talking to me? That's right, I'm
- 1:02:16Speaker 3: very significant.
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: You won golf trophies, my man.
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: Yeah, I I have the power to uh remove certain certifications.
- 1:02:25Speaker 3: Are we doing this again? Fuck around and find out
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: never mind, I'd like to retract. I'm not, like I said,
- 1:02:33Speaker 3: I'm not a very significant person to a lot of people.
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: But to the people I am significant to, I'm very significant.
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, that's that's a that's a key point. Yeah,
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: So then who matters in your life? And writer, I mean,
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: like not to psychoanalyze you too much here, but my
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: last thought on this, you seem to have a lot
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: of good insight into chasing your father's approval throughout life
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: and then also chasing other men, uh and and their
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: approval of you, and in the same kind of way,
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: like still trying to catch that that thing that always
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: eluded you. And I would just ask you to continue
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: to reflect on that, like how much of that concept
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: is really woven into your you know, And again that's
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: not to minimize your own affection for vintage cars and
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: like this being independently your hobby, something you discovered through
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: your dad, but not something necessarily always to be redirected
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: to your dad. I realize it could just be independent
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: of him. But like questions like would I still be
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: significant if I abandoned that career and found something else
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: that kind of smacks of this idea of approval And
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: just I think that that's interesting, and I would just
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: encourage you to continue to meditate on that and ask
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: that question of like do I weave my sense of
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: value and relevance through this one particular venue and is
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: there really just a vacancy of my father's approval, and like,
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: is that what I'm really chasing?
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: Deep?
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: Hashtag deep. We're gonna take a quick break and when
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: we come back, we're talking about how to have a
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- 1:04:17Speaker 3: I'm a head by ten Kay Jacob which Friends star
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: dammit once worked as a bicycle messenger in New York City.
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: I would give him a plaavid name all.
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: Of Shwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry or Courtney Cox gonna
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: be one.
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: Of the dudes.
- 1:04:37Speaker 3: Matthew Perry.
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: No, you can't rebound, give me, give me le Blanc rebounded.
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: It is matt rebound?
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: What damn it?
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: Who was discovered working while at a fast food restaurant
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: called Tommy's.
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: This is also Friends related.
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: No, uh yeah, I guess you need options, don't you?
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: Any celebrities Okay, yeah, there's only like five of them, right.
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: Uh Charlie's stern was that one? Uh, Jennifer Lopez, even
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: Mendez or Megan.
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: Fox's throw Uh oh, it's Gym's turn, it's my I'm
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: not falling for your fuckery.
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you right now. Too obvious, my man, Okay,
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: not subtle, good, don't fall for I'll bet you it's
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: Eva Mendez Mendoz that one. She is so gorgeous that
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: I feel like if she just walked in, sister and
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: she was like serving you, you'd be like you just
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: should be before.
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: Yeah, his first role was on TV Better Young.
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: Brothers. That's right, those guys.
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: It was not even.
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: Oh fuck, oh my god, I really thought you were
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: working with me. God damn it. Uh Okay, Jake absolutely
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: just picked what with it and it just turned out
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: to be right. I was hoping that's what turned out
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: all right. At least that wasn't wrong. At least my
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: instincts were correct.
- 1:06:10Speaker 3: Uh, do what I say. That's what your instinct should be.
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: I probably should just follow your advice.
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: Jacob which a list actor used to clean lion cages
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: at a zoo.
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: Huh, I'm just gonna be really critical of these names
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: and whether they are a listers.
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: Liam Neeson.
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see the new Naked Gun so bad.
- 1:06:28Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks it's great, It looks great. I did
- 1:06:31Speaker 3: see a Fantastic Four today. Oh, I think I'm done
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: with comic book movies.
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: I think you should be. But I've been dealt with those. Yeah,
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: although I did see the last movie last night. Oh,
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: I don't consider that comic book. This is a good
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: popcorn flake, Like it's it's silly and great. You know
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: exactly what's gonna happen. Yeah. Yeah, you've hung in there
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: with this stuff longer than.
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: I can't do it anymore. It was time.
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was definitely time. Anyway, Pedro Pascal is
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: like that.
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: He was good. Like they all did a great job.
- 1:07:00Speaker 3: Everybody in that movie did a great chop.
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: The plot is just too package at this point. You
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: just don't care.
- 1:07:06Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and like the way that they get their powers.
- 1:07:11Speaker 3: Here's the other thing to like, it doesn't work in
- 1:07:14Speaker 3: the world that we live in.
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: Most of them don't because like I'm not going to
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: give it a radiation the Hulk.
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: Yeah, but like like they live in a world where
- 1:07:27Speaker 3: they can just address the world and the world is like, yeah,
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: you're right, we're on your side. Oh yeah, it's no, Yeah,
- 1:07:35Speaker 3: that would never happen matter what you do. Fifty of
- 1:07:38Speaker 3: the world has a conspiracy theory that you're trying to
- 1:07:41Speaker 3: kill them.
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: Twenty four hour News Network with you right now, like
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: it just doesn't fit anymore. Thanks for explaining it. We're
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: on your side now.
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: Uh, Lion cages at the zoo, Jacob all right, Liam Neeson,
- 1:07:53Speaker 3: Invester Stallone, Hey lister, Harrison Ford.
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: Hey lister. I would argue, no, I'm fine with Stallone,
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: Clint Eastood, I wouldn't put on the list anymore. His
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: time's done. Hall of Fame.
- 1:08:07Speaker 3: Fine.
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: I feel like a lister is a very current events state.
- 1:08:10Speaker 2: You think you stay active to be and I think
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: I think once you're once you're an A lister, you're
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: an A list. I don't think you once you're dead,
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: you're still an a list. There are people that were
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: a listening dead A listers or whatever, like people that
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: were being like trotted out as like like Joey Lawrence
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: was an A lister one, No, he wasn't.
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: Come on, there was a time man, Toby fucking maguire.
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Though there was a time people
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: were like that was it. There were a heart throb,
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: that's a get You get that one on the Late
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: Show like they're pumped about it, like, come on, Vince
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: Vaughan was an a lister. I don't consider him a list.
- 1:08:48Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, let's see, I'm either gonna go Eastwood
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: or lying Harrison Ford.
- 1:08:55Speaker 3: I think.
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: Don't fall for him. Twice bro here, he got me
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: what I thought. He was the guy who did the
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: chicken eggs thing or something, and he turned out to
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: not be the right choice.
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: Now, I know Harrison Ford worked as a carpenter, but
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: it would surprise me if he mucked out some stalls
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: or something at some point. Who were the other two?
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: And it's that's right, Yeah, I don't think it was
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: the lone. I don't know about Liam Neeson.
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: Boy that there's room for that. I could see that
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: one being true. I feel good about that. No, buddy,
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: I would like Clint Eastwood, please, yay, all right?
- 1:09:33Speaker 3: Just always fucking listen to Jake last one before stardom,
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: who was a breakdancer on the streets of Paris.
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: Oh, go ahead, say it more.
- 1:09:48Speaker 3: Uh then Diesel? No, Jean Claud van Dam very likely
- 1:09:54Speaker 3: Iris Alba or Tom Hidleston.
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, oh fuck, give me Jean Claude von Dam.
- 1:10:05Speaker 3: Which is the one I would have picked.
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: You got to be the red herring.
- 1:10:08Speaker 3: Yeah, ship from Brussels. Yeah, he's from Brussels, so that's well.
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: I figure he can get to that place. All right,
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: Where are you going with Jacob? Who is off the rim? Irish?
- 1:10:24Speaker 3: As soon as you said Vin Diesel, I thought it
- 1:10:25Speaker 3: was Vin Diesel, so let's go there. Wow.
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: What that seems like a douchebag gig that Vin Diesel
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: would have had. How dare you?
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: Vin Diesel is somebody who would absolutely answer to the
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: question hey can you break dance with an affirmative?
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: Ah?
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, but there's not a single
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: chance that my answer that question is ever going to
- 1:10:49Speaker 2: be a guest. Okay, No matter how much I think
- 1:10:52Speaker 2: I can break dance, I'm never going to say yes to.
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: You will never identify as someone who can break down?
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: Got it?
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah?
- 1:11:00Speaker 3: All right?
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: Fair that. I like how you logiced your way through that. Yeah,
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: because I think Idris Elbow would have been my next go.
- 1:11:07Speaker 2: I also just heard a long form interview with andrews
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: Elba on Amy Poehler's podcast recently, and he didn't talk
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: anything about street performing.
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: Oh, that was probably would have come up.
- 1:11:18Speaker 3: I feel like it would have come up.
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I tried to bring that up.
- 1:11:20Speaker 3: I think Ben Diesel would have been the last one
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: I would have picked out.
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: Of that list. You would have gone Van Dam Who
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: would have been your second choice?
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: Tom? Who is that? Spider Man?
- 1:11:31Speaker 1: Huddles, Huddles, the spider young one, that one? No, he's Loki.
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: Tom who is spider Man?
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: Uh?
- 1:11:43Speaker 3: Spider Man? He's an attorney. Attorney Tom Sendaia Uh.
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: Tom Holland. That's Tom Holland. I the fries. All right,
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: I like it. I'm winning how to have a backbone
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: as a therapist? Hi, all, Duffy the as soon as
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: I get my number, I'll be a therapist.
- 1:12:02Speaker 2: Bear.
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: That's sweet. It's neat how Duffy's name has changed over
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: the years. Congratulations Duffy. That's wonderful. And I have a
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: serious question I work with kids as a therapist. Seven
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: has always the answered. I've been told that my strength, Okay,
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: I've been told my strength is how many kids.
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: Can I hit.
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: To get out of media? We've already hit the button.
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: The police, they are on their.
- 1:12:27Speaker 3: Way to remove you.
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: I work with kids as a therapist. I've been told
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: that my strength is also my weakness. My strength that
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: I strength I hit them too hard, also my weakness
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: I love too hard. My strength that I want people
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: to feel safe and connected, and that I want to
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: give them grace. How is this a weakness? I'm so
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: glad you asked. I struggle with pushing people past their
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: comfort zone. I hate confrontation. I never want to be
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: that bitch. I come from a long line of what
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: I perceive to be that bitch women, and I've seen
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: how awful they can be. I vowed to not be
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: like that. But being that hard nose gets Being like that,
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: it gets results. When I call parents and kids out,
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: they seem to snap into attention, they stop fucking around
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: and do what they need. So how do I balance that?
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: How do I give people that safe place but also
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: not take their crap?
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: Yes?
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: Also, I am still at that place of employment. From
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: my very first letter over four years ago. The paperwork
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: has gotten easier, and I was finally diagnosed with ADHD
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: and started medication which helped me so much thanks of
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: the podcast Duffy.
- 1:13:37Speaker 3: I do kind of remember that letter.
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: Yeah about the paperwork. That is a really good question.
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: I think a lot of my answer with this would
- 1:13:46Speaker 3: depend on the context in which you're working, right, Like
- 1:13:50Speaker 3: when you're talking about working with kids, Yeah, okay, so
- 1:13:54Speaker 3: kind of being hard nosed and being more directive. Yeah,
- 1:13:58Speaker 3: Like that to me sounds like a lot of the
- 1:14:01Speaker 3: work that I've done in substanitute treatment, you know, working
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: in rehabs or working with kids, working with foster kids
- 1:14:09Speaker 3: or kids in treatment or whatever. Because yes, that sometimes
- 1:14:14Speaker 3: is a difficult line to walk, because you want to
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: be safe, you want to be kind, you want to
- 1:14:20Speaker 3: be empathetic, and then you also have to enforce very
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: specific boundaries and sometimes you just have to tell people
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: that what they need to do, you know, like especially
- 1:14:31Speaker 3: working with kids, you know, you can't just be like, well,
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: I know, you know you feel this way and blah
- 1:14:37Speaker 3: blah blah, but but you need to put the knife down,
- 1:14:40Speaker 3: you know, like like no, you need to do like
- 1:14:43Speaker 3: you got to stop. And so I think for me,
- 1:14:47Speaker 3: what has been helpful And so that's one situation or
- 1:14:49Speaker 3: one context. The other context is motivating. Yes, And how
- 1:14:55Speaker 3: do you you know, outside of holding them accountable, how
- 1:14:59Speaker 3: are you able to be kind of hard nosed and
- 1:15:02Speaker 3: motivate them to be I think those are two different questions.
- 1:15:06Speaker 3: To go back to the first one. What worked for
- 1:15:09Speaker 3: me is to try to remove emotion from the equation
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: and just focus on facts. Okay, yeah, I understand this
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: is what you're going through. I understand how this is
- 1:15:22Speaker 3: your how you're feeling. However, if you do this behavior,
- 1:15:26Speaker 3: this is going to be a consequence, right, I will
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: beat the shit out of Yeah, that's hard. I will
- 1:15:32Speaker 3: double backflip split kick you in the base.
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: Sean Claude Van damn it.
- 1:15:37Speaker 3: If you don't stop yelling, I will let you pick
- 1:15:40Speaker 3: which arm I beat the fuck out of you with.
- 1:15:46Speaker 3: Uh No, So I think you kind of have to.
- 1:15:49Speaker 3: But but just be and again, like, you can't be
- 1:15:51Speaker 3: emotional when doing that, Like, because once you get emotion involved,
- 1:15:55Speaker 3: and now we're in a pissing match.
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: Yeah, And it also disqualifies your advice because then it
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: seems like you're more attached to this advice than you
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: are presenting me with my truth in an obvious way.
- 1:16:04Speaker 3: That feels right, Yeah, And presenting options correct and being
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: in a presenting options from the context of like, my
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: feelings are not affected one way or another, but you
- 1:16:15Speaker 3: should know, yes, that doing this behavior elicits this response. Right,
- 1:16:20Speaker 3: doing this behavior will elstit this response, So go ahead
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: and choose whatever.
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: Fine with that. I'm fine with being what you might
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: call directive only whenever it's rooted in an understanding of
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: the patient. What drives me crazy is whenever some therapist
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: is some asshole hot shot that just thinks that they're like,
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: quote unquote is stuff he's at that bitch. There's a
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: lot of really ignorant therapists that fame being great at
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: this by like constantly calling people out and like doctor
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: filling everybody and like that's a fucking.
- 1:16:52Speaker 3: That bullshit.
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: And then it's just like, oh, that's a great therapist
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: because they're no nonsense, they don't put up with it,
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: they call you out, and it's like there's no shortage
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: of people in the world that will fucking boss you
- 1:17:02Speaker 1: around and tell you what to do, and yet that
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: doesn't seem to cause a lot of change a lot
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: of people's lives. Therapists start from a posture of deep
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: and I feel like if you start from that position
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: of like, I've taken the time to really get to
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: know you, I know the world that you live in,
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: I've really come to understand where you stand. And then
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: whenever you present to me like, yeah, this thing is happening,
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: and now I challenge you from a position of deep
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: understanding in your life, where I'm just saying, you know, Nick,
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: the last two times this happened, it seems like this
- 1:17:33Speaker 1: keeps being the outcome. Like, whenever you date this kind
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: of person, this kind of you, you end up being
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: really upset later on. Doesn't seem to work out. Can
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: I challenge you today? I'm concerned that if you do
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: this again, you're gonna get that same response.
- 1:17:45Speaker 2: That is basically the same speech that John Rocker gave
- 1:17:48Speaker 2: on that subway Okay, full circle.
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: The language was a little different, but it's basically the
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: same idea.
- 1:17:55Speaker 3: Yeah, he was just trying to motivate people.
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right to be better, that is the right
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: way to do it, John Rockers way, the John Rocker therapy.
- 1:18:03Speaker 3: I think we're all on John Rockers.
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, I think in the fullness of time, yeah,
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: it's proven right hindsight me in twenty twenty.
- 1:18:12Speaker 3: Oh, that's terrible. John Rockers had horrible things. Yeah, don't
- 1:18:15Speaker 3: look them up. Everybody, we're joking.
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, caveat, none of this is endorsed. But no,
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: Like I just to me, that's one of the most
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: annoying kinds of therapists that I'll ever meet is somebody
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: that like tries this directive like call them like they
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: see him method, and they like they try to like
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: clothe themselves as like a straight shooter.
- 1:18:33Speaker 3: And I think we are.
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: I think every profession knows people like this.
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is someone that you that you quickly
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: realize has a bag of tricks, yeah, and says these things,
- 1:18:43Speaker 2: has kind of these but buzzwords that they say, and
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: they they do the whole thing where like, I'm this person,
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: so you should respect the things that I'm saying, right,
- 1:18:55Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say them in such a way that
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: I'm just gonna rattle them off.
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I'm very almost militaristically.
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna put this persona on and
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: I'm just gonna bark these things out and I'm going
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: to work with the assumption that you respect me. So
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: much that you're just gonna soap that language in. But
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: nobody respects you. No, they don't know who the fuck
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: you are. You haven't you haven't earned that respect yet. Yeah,
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: and that's how you get to be known as that bitch. Yes,
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: and then your insistent now itself that bitch is yelling again,
- 1:19:24Speaker 2: that bitch is what to do again, That bitch is
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: telling me how my life isn't right anymore, and how
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: and how that bitch knows the knows the right thing.
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: I don't admire people like that, but I get that like,
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: and I like that the writer is trying not to
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: be that bitch right and and look duffy, there there
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: is a time and a place for directive, and there
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: is time and place for challenging and and observing things.
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: But like, I like therapists, and I think they are
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: more effective overall when they observe patterns in a way
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: the patient can agree with. Whenever you point this out,
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: not as not not as your antagonist, not as your teacher,
- 1:19:58Speaker 1: but as the person standing shoulder to show with you
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: in the journey. And like, I observe, Hey, it looks
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: like this keeps happening. What do you think about that
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: in this really like unoffensive way that's non threatening. It's
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: more able to be ingested and understood and like life
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: change can happen. So like to me, I've never admired
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: people that are like overly directive, overly challenging, calling people out,
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: unless they've earned the right to do that and they're
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: reading that person correctly and they realize that person will
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: thrive with this, and I'm gonna call them out and
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: that's what they want from it.
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: But I think I might have a good middle ground
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: for Duffy here, Okay, because Duffy, it sounds like, is
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: a direct person at gonna be but they're also you
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: know that this carrying and supportive person, right, So I
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: think the goal that the target that I would aim
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: for if I were you, is not one or the other. Okay,
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: I would aim for that carrying, uplifting person who is
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: no nonsense. Okay, it's not that you are that bitch,
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: it's simply your no nonsense. Yeah, but you want to
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: strive for that repute of being the no nonsense person
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: that truly has my best interest in mind, A very.
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: Honest person that's right, Like I won't sugarcoat it doesn't
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: sound like no nonsense.
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you always will know that I'm coming
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: to it from a place of caring and compassion.
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: Okay, that I'm fine with that. Yeah, it's just it
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: has to start with that that sense of empathy and understanding,
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: which I do not think is a weakness, like one
- 1:21:25Speaker 1: of the And again, every therapist has different styles I'm
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: really aligned with, like motivational interviewing, which I've always found
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: when when you meet a therapist who can really do it,
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: the ones who do it very naturally have done it
- 1:21:36Speaker 1: for your especially in substance abuse counseling. It is a
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: superpower to witness them at work where they're like walking
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: backward and guiding this person right into huge conclusions and
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: decisions that the worst consequences of life couldn't do but
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: they've managed to do while not seeming like they were
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: making them do it or pointing them in direction or
- 1:21:57Speaker 1: forcing them or chasing them around with a stick, but
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: like helping this person arrive at genuine personal conclusions that
- 1:22:04Speaker 1: the therapist walked backward into without being challenging, but like
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: if they are, they're doing it in this again, motivational
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: interviewing is sort of like a way of talking that
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: encourages people to arrive at these conclusions in these epiphanies
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: in a pretty organic way, and it doesn't usually challenge.
- 1:22:22Speaker 1: It uses resistance and rolls with it. It can playfully challenge,
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: it will earn the right to do that. But like
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: it works with people that are the most disagreeable, the
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: most ignorant of their patterns, and arrives at like genuine
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: epiphanies that like change their lives. So to me, that's
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: just a style that like uses agreeability while also like
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: peppering in truth, but in this way that isn't like
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: shining the light right in their eyes. It's like this
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: non directive way.
- 1:22:46Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like if the way I've always
- 1:22:50Speaker 3: viewed this is it's like if if there was a
- 1:22:53Speaker 3: path with a fork in the road, and you are
- 1:22:57Speaker 3: you are as a therapist, are on one branch and
- 1:23:01Speaker 3: the client is on a different branch. You can't just
- 1:23:06Speaker 3: yell and say hey, come here, because they're not going
- 1:23:10Speaker 3: to do that. They see where you're at, they see
- 1:23:13Speaker 3: where they are at. They're not going to be like,
- 1:23:16Speaker 3: oh yeah, I'll just come over to you.
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: Sure.
- 1:23:18Speaker 3: No, it's not going to work. So what you have
- 1:23:20Speaker 3: to do is you have to slowly work backwards until
- 1:23:24Speaker 3: you are at the same point before the path split off,
- 1:23:29Speaker 3: and then you just start talking with them as you're
- 1:23:32Speaker 3: walking walking and you just have that conversation and they
- 1:23:35Speaker 3: don't even realize that they've made a decision until you
- 1:23:39Speaker 3: started down that path. And that's how to truly get
- 1:23:43Speaker 3: real motivational interviewing working, because they can't know that it's happening,
- 1:23:49Speaker 3: and it's got to be authentic, organic, and it's got
- 1:23:54Speaker 3: to be their idea.
- 1:23:55Speaker 1: Yes, it is the closest thing to ethical mind control
- 1:23:58Speaker 1: that I could possibly think of, Like, and it is ethical,
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: Like it's very hard to do, and like I think
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: it comes with an incredible restraint on the therapist part.
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: But like addiction treatment and teenagers are very difficult populations,
- 1:24:11Speaker 1: and like Duffy's working with younger people, but like teenagers
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: are another one where it's like I don't see that
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: that there's a problem here a lot of the times,
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of stubborness, especially teenage addiction, and
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: like you know, there it takes a lot of connection
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: and congruence before you can get somebody to see some things.
- 1:24:27Speaker 1: But I feel like, especially with teenagers. I think that
- 1:24:30Speaker 1: is a special population where you do have to take
- 1:24:34Speaker 1: the risk at some point as a therapist, you do
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: have to be bold. You do have to kind of
- 1:24:37Speaker 1: like not break the relationship, and I think leverage it
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: and cause truth to happen.
- 1:24:42Speaker 3: And for that to occur, I think it goes back
- 1:24:46Speaker 3: to Jacob's earlier advice, which is you have to know, Yeah.
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: Okay, get to lick it. Yeah, it seems to always
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: solve the problem.
- 1:24:53Speaker 3: You gotta know what your relationship. You have to have
- 1:24:57Speaker 3: that awareness of what your relationship with.
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: This person everything.
- 1:25:01Speaker 3: Yeah, before you can just throw that out because like
- 1:25:05Speaker 3: I can think of one bullet that gun, if you
- 1:25:07Speaker 3: spend it right now, hit what you're aiming at. I
- 1:25:11Speaker 3: can think of maybe in the twenty plus years I've
- 1:25:15Speaker 3: been doing this, two maybe three clients that I was
- 1:25:20Speaker 3: able to just kind of use a sarcastic comment, okay
- 1:25:26Speaker 3: to get them to understand something.
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: But you you wagered the whole relationship on that.
- 1:25:30Speaker 3: But I knew my standing, I knew where I was
- 1:25:35Speaker 3: with this person. I knew why we had already established
- 1:25:40Speaker 3: a really good rapport. They knew my sense of humor,
- 1:25:44Speaker 3: they knew I was coming from a good place. They
- 1:25:47Speaker 3: knew I was there to help them, and I was
- 1:25:50Speaker 3: able to throw in something like a hey, that seems
- 1:25:53Speaker 3: like a great idea. You've never tried that before, have you? Yeah,
- 1:25:56Speaker 3: And then they were just like I got it. Yeah,
- 1:25:59Speaker 3: fuck yeah, I have done this before. You know. But
- 1:26:02Speaker 3: like that's one tenth of one percent of the people
- 1:26:06Speaker 3: I've worked with. Right, you know, Now that makes for
- 1:26:09Speaker 3: amazing TV and movies. Right, if you want to think
- 1:26:12Speaker 3: of a TV therapist, Yeah, that makes for a great TV.
- 1:26:15Speaker 3: There bangs the table, calls.
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: You out like that's what they want to It's also
- 1:26:19Speaker 2: a good way to communicate with Laura. It works well
- 1:26:22Speaker 2: with Laura, backhanded comments and sarcasm at loves it, I guess.
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: But you know what's what's tough too, is like I
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: think that's.
- 1:26:31Speaker 3: The visions don't need to be washed.
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: It's fine. I just living a pig stick.
- 1:26:34Speaker 3: I guess.
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: Fine, I love it. Yeah, it's fine.
- 1:26:37Speaker 3: I love not being able to see the countertop. It's great, wonderful.
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: Who cares remember what color it is?
- 1:26:42Speaker 3: Then we don't have to wash it.
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: No, But like one time here in the question you
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: asked the white staff at the restaurant. I feel like
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: with kids it is a little bit more difficult because
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: I think that a lot of times the relationship can
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: flow really naturally, and it's hard sometimes to even keep
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: it focused on therapeutics. And sometimes you do have to
- 1:27:01Speaker 1: like just kind of be direct sometimes and like say
- 1:27:05Speaker 1: the thing in an obvious way, Whereas with adults, most
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: of the time, depending upon you know their cognitive abilities,
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: I feel like we can take this scenic route to
- 1:27:14Speaker 1: epiphany and to realization by helping them understand patterns, asking
- 1:27:18Speaker 1: probing questions, repeating themes, like you can get them there,
- 1:27:21Speaker 1: and you can get that agreeability and that therapeutical liiance
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: strong enough that you can use subtle things like humor,
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: teasing or even when we're direct. We've earned the right
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: to be direct in this way that they finally accept
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: and it actually lands. With kids, sometimes I feel like
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: they just forget everything week to week, and so it's
- 1:27:35Speaker 1: just like sometimes you just have to be like, hey, yeah,
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: it sounds like you're lying again. Is that something you're
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: trying to stop doing or what's going on with that?
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: And like, yeah, I feel like sometimes you can't pussy
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: foot around this thing with especially with pediatrics like that, well.
- 1:27:48Speaker 3: Especially I mean the other thing too, is like, I
- 1:27:50Speaker 3: mean a lot of kids that I've worked with, how
- 1:27:54Speaker 3: they learn to say things for shock value, right, you know?
- 1:27:59Speaker 3: And so another example, God, he's a parent screaming up coming,
- 1:28:05Speaker 3: Oh yeah, shock value kids a parent. Kids and parents
- 1:28:12Speaker 3: are basically the same, yeah, teenage parrot. But even kind
- 1:28:17Speaker 3: of being just genuine about that and kind of calling
- 1:28:20Speaker 3: it out and just like it feels to me like
- 1:28:22Speaker 3: you're saying this because you want my attention, right, you know,
- 1:28:26Speaker 3: and it kind of disarms them a little bit, you know,
- 1:28:28Speaker 3: Like I've done stuff like that, and that's I don't know,
- 1:28:31Speaker 3: if you call it direct, it's more. But again like
- 1:28:33Speaker 3: I'm not saying it with an attitude, I'm not saying
- 1:28:36Speaker 3: it with any emotion.
- 1:28:37Speaker 1: I'm saying it very Yeah, I'm fine with being direct.
- 1:28:41Speaker 1: I'm final being challenging duffy, especially with youngsters. I think
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: that's fine. I'm never going to step away from my
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: Carl Rogers kind of you know, synthesis of of like foundations,
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: which is it always Oh Jesus Jesus Christ, what wow?
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: Witnes's gone for one week and we've doven into pedophilia again. Jesus,
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: she was the rope holding us up. But no, Like,
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: I just feel like you've got to start with that relationship.
- 1:29:10Speaker 1: And I'm fine with some amounts of directive, like you know,
- 1:29:15Speaker 1: challenging somebody. I think that can always be accomplished from
- 1:29:18Speaker 1: a position of I like you, I'm rooting for you,
- 1:29:22Speaker 1: I believe in you, and gosh darn it seems like
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: this keeps happening. Why do you think that is? And
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: if the kid wants to sit down and talk about
- 1:29:29Speaker 1: their latest video game and waste fifteen minutes of the
- 1:29:31Speaker 1: session talking about life, I do think we have to
- 1:29:33Speaker 1: come in as therapists and be directive sometimes and say, so,
- 1:29:36Speaker 1: how is that challenge going, what's better, what's worse? What
- 1:29:39Speaker 1: are we doing to work on that? I think you
- 1:29:41Speaker 1: can borrow from solution focus brief therapy. I think that
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: is a great technique that likes to address what's happening
- 1:29:47Speaker 1: in approving and optimistic ways, while also still identifying how
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: we can be intentional. I like that theory, am I
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: I think is a great theory for this too. But yeah,
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: I think that both can be done. I think you
- 1:29:59Speaker 1: can be directed. In my opinion, I have no respect
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: for therapists that just come out guns blazing trying to
- 1:30:04Speaker 1: teach everybody, and they're not doing the work. They're not bonding,
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: they're not connecting, they're not disarming, and I think ultimately
- 1:30:10Speaker 1: they're ineffective. Even if in the session people are like, Wow,
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: you're really smart, it's like, clearly you're a self aggrandizing
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: asshole therapist that needs to be padded on the back
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: until how fucking smart you are, and like, to me,
- 1:30:20Speaker 1: that's just it's it's just self serving. I just don't
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: think it's client focused. So mister, you'll get your ass
- 1:30:26Speaker 1: back in the fucking closet.
- 1:30:27Speaker 3: Oh terrible.
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: You do what I tell you to do. You're not
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: invited to come out here. You stay in that closet anyway. Duffy, congratulations,
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: I'm waiting for your number. That's terrific that you have
- 1:30:36Speaker 1: made it into the winner's circle of this profession. I
- 1:30:39Speaker 1: saw the other day at fifty seven percent of people
- 1:30:42Speaker 1: that graduate from graduate school do not ultimately go on
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: to achieve their full licensure. Fifty seven percent, two thirds
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: of people that graduate do not make it to this
- 1:30:54Speaker 1: to where Duffy is getting why washing out an internship,
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: just not completing the hours, maybe not passing the exams. Uh,
- 1:31:01Speaker 1: getting distracted along the way, maybe like life's happening.
- 1:31:04Speaker 3: You get your ass bat.
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you that finished line. My interns will
- 1:31:08Speaker 1: always make it. Supervision carry you across. That's right.
- 1:31:12Speaker 3: I was.
- 1:31:13Speaker 1: You know that. My my interns are very impressive. They
- 1:31:15Speaker 1: get their shit done. They're they're they're hard workers. So
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: no thanks to me, but I think that they do
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