Latest / Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald / Real Doctor Special with Dr. Jonathan Fader
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Here's some stories about shore. We made about a bunch
- 0:10Speaker 1: of doctor nurses. Stories. Yato around here, are Yato around here.
- 0:28Speaker 1: I gotta tell y'all, I got this song in my
- 0:30Speaker 1: head and you're gonna love it. It's an old standard, Joel.
- 0:33Speaker 1: I know you're gonna feel it. I can't. I'm ready,
- 0:36Speaker 1: ready or not? Here I come? You can't hide, Gonna
- 0:41Speaker 1: find you and take it slowly, yes, foojie's ready or not.
- 0:49Speaker 1: It never goes out of style, Joel. I've been singing
- 0:52Speaker 1: it all morning. Whole album still hits. You know, when
- 0:55Speaker 1: you got a song in your head, you wake Do
- 0:58Speaker 1: you guys wake up with a song in your head? Sometimes? Yeah?
- 1:02Speaker 1: Sometimes certainly have. I very often will wake up and
- 1:06Speaker 1: I'll just be like, ready or not? Here I come.
- 1:10Speaker 1: That's not always that song, but maybe I was dreaming
- 1:13Speaker 1: about it or something. But this morning I woke up.
- 1:16Speaker 1: My dog licked my face, and I was just like,
- 1:18Speaker 1: you can't hide. Gone up? He said, you're ready. You
- 1:24Speaker 1: can't run away from these tears I've got. Oh baby,
- 1:28Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure the lyrics right hold on. I
- 1:29Speaker 1: looked him up because I did not want to mess up. Ye,
- 1:31Speaker 1: I don't think you got one wrong yet. Wait wait, wait,
- 1:33Speaker 1: I looked it up because, for those of you don't know,
- 1:36Speaker 1: Lauren and I went to high school together. Lauren was
- 1:38Speaker 1: at my bar Mitzvah. Yes, Lauren, there's a bar mitzvah
- 1:42Speaker 1: game you called called coke and Pepsi, which is basically
- 1:44Speaker 1: just kids running around the dance floor, but you have
- 1:46Speaker 1: to have a partner, and Lauren was my coke and
- 1:48Speaker 1: Pepsi partner at So just you know this, this runs deep.
- 1:54Speaker 1: I want to get that one part she sings, you
- 1:56Speaker 1: can't run away from these styles. I got, oh baby,
- 2:00Speaker 1: hey baby, because I got a lot. Oh yeah, anywhere
- 2:05Speaker 1: you got that's too hot anywhere anyway, anywhere you go
- 2:09Speaker 1: my whole crew gun no, oh baby, hey baby. You
- 2:14Speaker 1: can't hide from the block. All right. Listen, Donald's not
- 2:18Speaker 1: here today, guys. So I had to do the loud singing.
- 2:20Speaker 1: So I'm done. That's set. The audience who hate singing.
- 2:25Speaker 1: That section is now over singing. Oh no, no, I
- 2:31Speaker 1: just don't know, you know, listen, people hate everything. So
- 2:33Speaker 1: I once saw a video on YouTube. I once saw
- 2:36Speaker 1: this is I once saw a video on YouTube that
- 2:37Speaker 1: was to this day one of the sweetest things I've
- 2:40Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. It was a father playing guitar,
- 2:42Speaker 1: singing with his probably four year old and they like
- 2:45Speaker 1: new harmonies and it was it brings a tear to
- 2:47Speaker 1: my eye thinking of it. And there were like this
- 2:51Speaker 1: is back when they would show down votes. There were
- 2:52Speaker 1: like thousands of down votes, and I was like, if
- 2:55Speaker 1: that isn't the ultimate example, wow, I hate joy. That's
- 3:03Speaker 1: the interwebt But somebody was like, took the time to
- 3:08Speaker 1: be like this adorable father and toddler singing to themselves. Nope,
- 3:14Speaker 1: thumbs down, not entertaining to me this. Wow. Um, well,
- 3:21Speaker 1: let me explain the audience. What's happening. We're doing a
- 3:23Speaker 1: special episode today. Um. Donald, don't worry, kids, Mommy and
- 3:26Speaker 1: Daddy aren't getting divorced. We're not breaking up. Um our
- 3:30Speaker 1: our friend Donald is shooting his new show and he's
- 3:34Speaker 1: loving it and it's amazing and he's having the best
- 3:36Speaker 1: time and he's getting that work and so we're so
- 3:39Speaker 1: happy for him. Um. But I felt like, you know,
- 3:42Speaker 1: we hadn't done a show. We did the Florence one,
- 3:45Speaker 1: which was so well received, Thank you for all the
- 3:46Speaker 1: love on that one. But we were going to be
- 3:49Speaker 1: off this week, and I just said to Joel, and
- 3:51Speaker 1: Joel said to me, we were like, let's do something.
- 3:54Speaker 1: And so I came up with an idea kind of
- 3:57Speaker 1: inspired by Jonah Hill and his amazing doc stunts, which
- 4:01Speaker 1: you haven't seen is really good, um, where he brings
- 4:04Speaker 1: his therapist on and sort of talks you know, and
- 4:07Speaker 1: shares some of you know, what he's gotten from his
- 4:11Speaker 1: therapist and just sort of shared the information. His was
- 4:14Speaker 1: done in a very artful documentary way. But I thought
- 4:17Speaker 1: we are called fake doctor's real friends. I do have
- 4:19Speaker 1: a coach psychologist who has helped me with a lot
- 4:22Speaker 1: of my life and certainly is the reason I was
- 4:24Speaker 1: able to write this movie. And um, I just thought
- 4:27Speaker 1: we could have him on and all shoot the ship
- 4:29Speaker 1: and it could just be a conversation about mental health.
- 4:32Speaker 1: It could be a conversation about anything anything we wanted
- 4:36Speaker 1: to be Joel and Daniel, I want you guys to
- 4:37Speaker 1: participate and steer it wherever you want. What do you think?
- 4:42Speaker 1: What do you think about that very here? Of course,
- 4:44Speaker 1: did you hear the doc is in bringing the doc there?
- 4:49Speaker 1: He is the whole team. Yes, So doctor Fader, meet
- 4:56Speaker 1: Daniel Goodman and Joel, Monique l and Joel. Nice to
- 5:01Speaker 1: meet you both. How's it going, Doctor Fanner, Happy to
- 5:03Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Um. So, as I was saying
- 5:06Speaker 1: to the audience, you know, we don't have Donald because
- 5:09Speaker 1: he's working, and I really wanted to thank you the
- 5:12Speaker 1: audience from the bottom of my heart. The the audience
- 5:14Speaker 1: response to a good Person has been just monumental. I
- 5:19Speaker 1: think it currently has a ninety five percent audience rating
- 5:22Speaker 1: on Rotten Tomatoes, which is just pretty unheard of and rare.
- 5:27Speaker 1: And I just you know, this audience, you guys who
- 5:30Speaker 1: are listening, guys and gals, have been with me the
- 5:32Speaker 1: whole journey. If you've been listening to this podcast. I
- 5:34Speaker 1: started writing this when we started this podcast, and so
- 5:39Speaker 1: you know, I really have a journal, in the sense
- 5:42Speaker 1: of an audio journal of my process. The whole time
- 5:47Speaker 1: I was doing this podcast, I was writing this movie.
- 5:49Speaker 1: So it feels so great to share it with you.
- 5:52Speaker 1: And and also I just thought I would go a
- 5:55Speaker 1: little bit. The idea behind this podcast, since we don't
- 5:57Speaker 1: have Donald and can't do an episode of Scrubs, was
- 5:59Speaker 1: to put out something and and talk a little bit
- 6:01Speaker 1: about the process of writing it. M and I thought,
- 6:05Speaker 1: who better to have on than doctor Fader, because he
- 6:09Speaker 1: I couldn't have done this without him, and I so
- 6:11Speaker 1: much of the things that I'm accomplishing in my life
- 6:13Speaker 1: I couldn't have done without him. And I first met
- 6:17Speaker 1: him about seven years ago. I believe there's a very
- 6:21Speaker 1: successful person in my life who will obviously remain anonymous
- 6:25Speaker 1: who I was just killing it. And not only was
- 6:28Speaker 1: he killing it, but he always seemed happy. And I
- 6:30Speaker 1: was like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?
- 6:32Speaker 1: And he was killing it in his career, he was
- 6:38Speaker 1: killing it in his relationships. He was happy, always happy.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And I said, bro, what is the secret? And he said, well,
- 6:45Speaker 1: lots of things, lots of work, but also I really
- 6:49Speaker 1: recommend my coach, my my psychologist, doctor Jonathan Fader. And
- 6:55Speaker 1: so we started working together and and I don't know
- 7:01Speaker 1: what to say. I mean, I have plenty to say,
- 7:03Speaker 1: but I just want to welcome you to the show. Dude. Hey,
- 7:06Speaker 1: thanks man, and thanks for all those those kind of words.
- 7:09Speaker 1: You know, I genuinely feel that this is something that
- 7:12Speaker 1: we've done fully together. And I think your courage and
- 7:17Speaker 1: the hard work that you put in, I mean, this
- 7:19Speaker 1: is hard work to change yourself and it's hard work
- 7:22Speaker 1: to get started, it's hard work in the middle, and
- 7:24Speaker 1: it's hard work all the way through. And you've worked
- 7:26Speaker 1: really hard. Well, I couldn't have done it without you
- 7:29Speaker 1: and I and I I guess I want to just say,
- 7:34Speaker 1: you know, will you explain just for you know, some
- 7:36Speaker 1: people on this podcast are familiar with different types of therapy,
- 7:39Speaker 1: and some don't know anything about it. Some have it
- 7:41Speaker 1: in their lives, some it's been you know, it's looked
- 7:44Speaker 1: down upon in their families. You know, we have people
- 7:46Speaker 1: who listen from all over the world and from all
- 7:48Speaker 1: walks of life. So will you just generally explain to
- 7:51Speaker 1: the layman what the difference is between a traditional psychologist
- 7:55Speaker 1: or traditional there I think of old school therapy, but
- 7:59Speaker 1: and what you call what you do, which is being
- 8:02Speaker 1: a cognitive behaviorist, because and I've been in therapy since
- 8:06Speaker 1: I was a little kid and seen all sorts of
- 8:09Speaker 1: therapists because I had OCD as i've shared on here,
- 8:13Speaker 1: and depression and anxiety. But I really feel like I
- 8:16Speaker 1: started to make some some and now all that's been helpful.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I don't mean to minimize any of it, but I
- 8:21Speaker 1: really feel like I started to make some some more
- 8:24Speaker 1: some larger shifts when I started working with you and
- 8:26Speaker 1: your style of working. So can you explain that in
- 8:29Speaker 1: basic terms for people? Yeah, I mean I think that
- 8:33Speaker 1: most people have a misunderstanding about what therapy is to
- 8:36Speaker 1: begin with, and that you know, just because of you know,
- 8:39Speaker 1: watching the Sopranos or watching the show, you begin to think, hey,
- 8:43Speaker 1: this is really about not not the killing part, but
- 8:46Speaker 1: you know, you begin to think that this is about
- 8:48Speaker 1: only about the past. It's about understanding your past and
- 8:52Speaker 1: going really deep psychologically into who people are. And this
- 8:58Speaker 1: comes from like, you know, the history it's for it's
- 9:00Speaker 1: the beard, it's the pipe, it's lying on a couch.
- 9:03Speaker 1: But that that way of doing things is that old
- 9:07Speaker 1: school way has really evolved over the years. And the
- 9:09Speaker 1: kind of therapy that that I do is based in
- 9:12Speaker 1: cognitive behavioral therapy, which really means two things. It means
- 9:16Speaker 1: we focus on the here and now, we focus on
- 9:18Speaker 1: changing behaviors and actively together in a collaborative way, changing thoughts.
- 9:24Speaker 1: As we were saying before too, it's it's not just
- 9:27Speaker 1: a one person kind of thing where someone just talks.
- 9:30Speaker 1: We talk together, and so it's much more like coaching
- 9:32Speaker 1: where you're jumping in. You're thinking together about which thoughts work.
- 9:37Speaker 1: We tell ourselves these stories. You know, we're all from
- 9:40Speaker 1: from birth right as soon as we learn to talk,
- 9:42Speaker 1: we tell ourselves stories about ourselves. And this work is
- 9:46Speaker 1: really about examining those stories, seeing which stories work and
- 9:50Speaker 1: which don't, and then how in a partnership you begin
- 9:54Speaker 1: to change those stories so your life begins to resemble
- 9:58Speaker 1: the story that you want. That's so well said, and
- 10:01Speaker 1: it jumps right into what I want to say. Is
- 10:03Speaker 1: one of the one of the biggest things I've got
- 10:04Speaker 1: out of working with you and the readings I've done,
- 10:08Speaker 1: is that you're going to make up stories. An experience happens,
- 10:13Speaker 1: and then your brain instantly goes to work making up
- 10:15Speaker 1: a story and an interpretation of what just happened. And
- 10:19Speaker 1: if you're an anxious, depressive person, that that could instantly
- 10:24Speaker 1: go to worry and negativity and the worst possible interpretation
- 10:28Speaker 1: of that experience. But you just but one just totally
- 10:32Speaker 1: made all that up and instantly accepted it as the truth. No, absolutely,
- 10:36Speaker 1: I mean, as you know, I mean, I work with
- 10:38Speaker 1: you know, exceptional performing artists and like the one hosting
- 10:42Speaker 1: this show, but I work with a lot of athletes,
- 10:45Speaker 1: tons of athletes. You know, I've worked for many years
- 10:47Speaker 1: in the Major League baseball in the NFL. One of
- 10:49Speaker 1: the stories I wrote about in my book is exactly
- 10:52Speaker 1: what you're talking about. You know. There's a pitcher who's
- 10:54Speaker 1: in the major leagues for the first time, first time
- 10:57Speaker 1: in the big Show. He's up there, he's pitching, and
- 11:00Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he notices that his pitching coach
- 11:02Speaker 1: looks a little bit disturbed. He just sees it in
- 11:04Speaker 1: in in, you know, down in the dugout, and he's
- 11:08Speaker 1: up there and he's starting to think about, like, what
- 11:09Speaker 1: is this guy? What is he thinking about it? Right now?
- 11:11Speaker 1: He's just sucking totally. You know, he's really suspicious of me.
- 11:15Speaker 1: He's got all these stories going in his head, and
- 11:18Speaker 1: he actually kind of gives up a home run, has
- 11:20Speaker 1: a terrible outing, comes back in the dugout, and the
- 11:23Speaker 1: pitching coach he's saying, how are you doing all right?
- 11:26Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, But part of it is like your
- 11:28Speaker 1: attitude towardsman. He's like, dude, I've had I've had terrible
- 11:31Speaker 1: gas all day. I've been you know, I don't know
- 11:39Speaker 1: what it was. The burritos last night. So you know,
- 11:41Speaker 1: you're right, man. We have this constant story that we
- 11:43Speaker 1: tell ourselves and it's very evolutionary, right. I mean, no
- 11:46Speaker 1: one gives you the handbook on on what it means
- 11:49Speaker 1: to be a human, right, we learned it along the way,
- 11:51Speaker 1: and so CBT cogon behavioral therapy and to some degree,
- 11:54Speaker 1: performance psychologies. It's all about giving people a better manual
- 11:58Speaker 1: about how to live as a human, how to change
- 12:02Speaker 1: your thoughts, how to interpret stories in a different way.
- 12:05Speaker 1: We need training on this, you know, and you never
- 12:08Speaker 1: we obviously never get a manual we get, you know,
- 12:10Speaker 1: we get, we learned. None of this is taught in school,
- 12:13Speaker 1: you know, we have In my school, we had to
- 12:15Speaker 1: take we had to learn. I always I always reference
- 12:18Speaker 1: proofs as the dumbest thing I learned because it was
- 12:20Speaker 1: like and I know some kids needed to be exposed
- 12:23Speaker 1: to mathematical proofs to go on and be math geniuses.
- 12:26Speaker 1: But I remember learning like therefore by the associative property,
- 12:31Speaker 1: whatever the fuck it was, being like this, my time
- 12:34Speaker 1: would be so much more valued with a communications course.
- 12:37Speaker 1: And actually my high school, I'm sure it's long gone,
- 12:39Speaker 1: but in the early nineties had one communications class and
- 12:43Speaker 1: I remember thinking, even at the time, thinking like, this
- 12:46Speaker 1: is pretty progressive for a public high school, and it
- 12:48Speaker 1: was amazing. It was it was about sharing, it was
- 12:51Speaker 1: about listening, it was about all this stuff, and most kids,
- 12:55Speaker 1: this is my me rambling going so much of what
- 12:58Speaker 1: I've learned, and and in late in life it would
- 13:01Speaker 1: be so valuable. I always think when I have some
- 13:04Speaker 1: Eureka moment with you or with a book, I'm like,
- 13:06Speaker 1: oh my gosh, imagine I knew this in high school.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Imagine someone exposed me to this in my teens. How
- 13:12Speaker 1: much easier I could have navigated all all my emotions
- 13:17Speaker 1: and all my insecurity. You know. Yeah, And there's something
- 13:20Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Zach, it's really it's interesting you're
- 13:21Speaker 1: saying that, because there is some movement towards that, like
- 13:24Speaker 1: there's a whole social and emotional learning that's happening a
- 13:28Speaker 1: little bit more in school. But I agree with you,
- 13:30Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with you. I think that fundamentally,
- 13:33Speaker 1: you know, what we need to learn is how to
- 13:37Speaker 1: understand our emotions and how to understand our thoughts and feelings.
- 13:40Speaker 1: And we don't really learn that, right. We spend a
- 13:43Speaker 1: lot of time learning things that aren't that value of
- 13:45Speaker 1: all those proofs you're never gonna use again. But wow,
- 13:47Speaker 1: if people just learned how to listen better to other people,
- 13:51Speaker 1: if that's what was taught, Like if you were taught
- 13:53Speaker 1: how to empathize and how to listen, which is a
- 13:56Speaker 1: really hard skill to learn because we all listen to
- 13:59Speaker 1: reply and so how to I mean, it's one of
- 14:01Speaker 1: the most powerful things I got out of all of
- 14:03Speaker 1: this is like that interpretation, that negative thought you're having
- 14:07Speaker 1: is not the truth, and it's and it's not even
- 14:11Speaker 1: who you are. It's just this trigger response to an event.
- 14:16Speaker 1: And in my case, because I'm a warrior and I'm
- 14:19Speaker 1: anxious and i have OCD, the trigger response is negativity
- 14:22Speaker 1: and worry and fear and and I've been learning with
- 14:28Speaker 1: you that, Like that's just totally the web usepun like that.
- 14:33Speaker 1: The facts of what happened are our X. Okay, you know.
- 14:37Speaker 1: The fact is the pitching coach looked like he was frowning.
- 14:41Speaker 1: That is a fact. But my experience of it is
- 14:45Speaker 1: he's saying I suck. He's swirming, he thinks I suck.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Everyone in this fucking stadium thinks I suck. I do suck.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Why am I here, I shouldn't be here, and then
- 14:54Speaker 1: of course the next day you learn he just had gas.
- 14:57Speaker 1: And I do that every I do that a thousand
- 14:59Speaker 1: times a I mean, even with the work I'm doing it.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I'm actually trying to work on this. I'm obviously catching
- 15:04Speaker 1: myself now, but I'm still it's still a trigger response,
- 15:07Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? No? Absolutely, And that's
- 15:09Speaker 1: what's so great about you know, you talking about it
- 15:11Speaker 1: and being open about it, because you know everybody listening
- 15:14Speaker 1: does that. You know, it's evolutionary. You know we all
- 15:17Speaker 1: have this negative bias. It grew because humans need to
- 15:21Speaker 1: be negative in order to survive. Let's take a break.
- 15:24Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. So the
- 15:34Speaker 1: rule of threes is a really interesting rule. It's it's
- 15:36Speaker 1: about survival. How long can you survive without food? I
- 15:40Speaker 1: want to take a guess, like three days, right, you
- 15:44Speaker 1: can survive longer, Actually you can survive. You're you're actually
- 15:47Speaker 1: thinking about about water. You can survive for three weeks,
- 15:50Speaker 1: But you're right, it's three days without water and it's
- 15:53Speaker 1: three minutes without air. So three weeks out without food,
- 15:56Speaker 1: three days without water, three minutes without are basically right,
- 15:59Speaker 1: and so you're you really we have this conception that
- 16:02Speaker 1: we need that those things, but we can survive longer.
- 16:05Speaker 1: But how long can you survive if you fail to
- 16:07Speaker 1: recognize a predator in your environment, if you don't notice
- 16:12Speaker 1: something dangerous, how long will you survive? Could be no
- 16:15Speaker 1: time at all, No time at all, we're dead. So
- 16:19Speaker 1: if you think about how our brains evolved, they evolved
- 16:21Speaker 1: to notice the thing that was wrong. Right, That's how
- 16:23Speaker 1: we're built. We're built to notice the thing that's wrong.
- 16:26Speaker 1: When I give a talk, I mean, you know, or
- 16:28Speaker 1: give a talk to a thousand people whatever, I go
- 16:29Speaker 1: up there, the first person I notice is the person
- 16:32Speaker 1: looking at their phone. Yeah, first person I know. Oh
- 16:35Speaker 1: my god, I did a Broadway show. Dude, I did
- 16:37Speaker 1: a Broadway show. And I would perform to two thousand
- 16:40Speaker 1: people or I don't know, something like that, and I
- 16:42Speaker 1: would I would see someone yawned, and it would fucking
- 16:46Speaker 1: ruin my whole show. Absolutely, absolutely, one person. I'm ignoring
- 16:52Speaker 1: the nineteen the nineteen hundred and ninety nine people that
- 16:55Speaker 1: are are hopefully enjoying it, and I see the one
- 16:58Speaker 1: dude yawn and I'm like, I suck, this sucks. We
- 17:01Speaker 1: suck totally, right. I mean, that's and that and that's
- 17:05Speaker 1: something that's universal and so you know, so the way
- 17:09Speaker 1: I talk about it, and you know this, you know,
- 17:11Speaker 1: is that there are three parts to being a human thoughts, feelings,
- 17:15Speaker 1: and actions, and that we spend most of our time
- 17:19Speaker 1: focused on feelings, when feelings is a thing that we
- 17:22Speaker 1: control the least. You can't directly if you're feeling shitty
- 17:26Speaker 1: and someone says, hey, cheer up, what do you want
- 17:28Speaker 1: to do? Punch the person in the face, right, Like,
- 17:30Speaker 1: that's you know, the worst thing you could say to
- 17:33Speaker 1: someone who's anxious has calmed down, right, that you can't
- 17:36Speaker 1: you can you really, you just you can lose your mind.
- 17:39Speaker 1: So what are the things that we can affect. We
- 17:41Speaker 1: can affect thoughts, and we can affect actions. The one
- 17:45Speaker 1: thing you directly control is what you do. And so
- 17:49Speaker 1: a lot of behavior of therapy is thinking about that
- 17:51Speaker 1: with people and as you know, doing experiments. You know,
- 17:54Speaker 1: there's this myth that we have to feel a certain
- 17:56Speaker 1: way to act a certain way, and it's just the reverse.
- 18:00Speaker 1: You know, by behaving a certain way, you can you
- 18:02Speaker 1: start to feel a certain way. And I think that's
- 18:04Speaker 1: hard to do. Without some coaching, right, that therapy doesn't
- 18:08Speaker 1: have to take forever, the myth of you know, sitting
- 18:10Speaker 1: on a couch and talking about your past for ten years. Look,
- 18:15Speaker 1: I mean therapy can be really effective done in short duration,
- 18:19Speaker 1: in six weeks, in eight weeks, and twelve weeks, if
- 18:22Speaker 1: you're really working with someone who's focused with you and
- 18:24Speaker 1: who's jumping in and helping you to as you were saying,
- 18:27Speaker 1: examine right, put into a record these thoughts. I always
- 18:31Speaker 1: tell people when I'm working with them. Look, you know
- 18:33Speaker 1: in your head there's a district attorney and a public defender.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Only when we get depressed and anxious, the district attorney
- 18:40Speaker 1: is like Harvard train. They're ready to go, right, they're
- 18:42Speaker 1: attacking every moment, right, But you need to beef up
- 18:45Speaker 1: that public defender. You need to school them. You need
- 18:47Speaker 1: to give them instructions about how to examine these thoughts.
- 18:51Speaker 1: You know, humans have these two errors that we jump to.
- 18:55Speaker 1: One is blowing things out of proportion and the other
- 18:58Speaker 1: one is jump into conclusion. And so as we were
- 19:00Speaker 1: talking about before, what a great coach, a great therapist
- 19:03Speaker 1: is going to help you do is to examine the
- 19:05Speaker 1: evidence and put things in perspective. The more you do that,
- 19:09Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have a different relationship to the
- 19:12Speaker 1: events in your life. As the famous quote says, things
- 19:15Speaker 1: are not as they are, they are as we are. Yeah,
- 19:18Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. I also feel like
- 19:21Speaker 1: you know, Um, and some of this, by the way,
- 19:24Speaker 1: not to plug shrinking, but some of this is happening
- 19:27Speaker 1: and shrinking. If you're watching shrinking. Um, there's a there's
- 19:30Speaker 1: a running joke called called boop where where they refer
- 19:36Speaker 1: to as a pattern interrupt And what I got out
- 19:39Speaker 1: of that is you can change the way you're being
- 19:42Speaker 1: with someone instantaneously and and they can't help but shift.
- 19:47Speaker 1: It's almost like in tennis, Um, if you if you,
- 19:51Speaker 1: if you hit the ball cross court, the opponent has
- 19:55Speaker 1: to has to there's no choice, has to shift to
- 19:58Speaker 1: the other side of the court. And aren't impressed. Talkingment
- 20:01Speaker 1: of sports enalogy. But by the way, I didn't realize.
- 20:04Speaker 1: I didn't realize until last night in the bath, as
- 20:06Speaker 1: I was thinking where I have my greatest revelations, I
- 20:09Speaker 1: was like, how funny is it that of all of
- 20:11Speaker 1: the therapists in the world, I have a sports psychologist
- 20:13Speaker 1: as why But um, yeahs like neither of us, neither
- 20:18Speaker 1: of us have credibility in that department. Well, you're you know,
- 20:21Speaker 1: you're not an athlete. They're terrible. That's I think that's
- 20:24Speaker 1: the thing that makes me good. Weren't you like the
- 20:25Speaker 1: weren't you like the psychologist for the Giants? I was
- 20:28Speaker 1: a psychologist for the New York Mets for nine years
- 20:30Speaker 1: and the New York Giants for two years. Yeah, so
- 20:33Speaker 1: that's amazing that you don't know anything about sports. I mean,
- 20:36Speaker 1: I know about it, but I can't. I mean, the
- 20:37Speaker 1: most you must need to know more than I know,
- 20:40Speaker 1: because I just know, like you're trying to get the
- 20:42Speaker 1: ball with the bat as far as possible. I mean,
- 20:45Speaker 1: I think where I needed my own own techniques is
- 20:48Speaker 1: when I was asked to play catch with these guys
- 20:50Speaker 1: like on the field, and they saw what I was
- 20:51Speaker 1: really made up. That's funny. Um, but um this idea
- 20:56Speaker 1: of a pattern interrupt that you can change who you're
- 20:59Speaker 1: being and like the person that you've I hit cross court,
- 21:01Speaker 1: the guy has to the guy or gal has to
- 21:03Speaker 1: move to the other side of the court. Well, in
- 21:05Speaker 1: micro ways, you can do that anytime you choose in
- 21:09Speaker 1: your life. You've been Let's say you've been reacting to
- 21:12Speaker 1: a certain person's behavior. Your go to reaction is a
- 21:17Speaker 1: certain way, and then you try a pattern and drop,
- 21:20Speaker 1: and you just change who you're being in that in
- 21:22Speaker 1: that relationship and they have to move to the other
- 21:25Speaker 1: side of the court because your reaction is different. Do
- 21:28Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Can you explain that more
- 21:29Speaker 1: particularly than I just did? No? I think you're explaining
- 21:32Speaker 1: it well. I mean, you know Marshall Lenahan, who's a
- 21:36Speaker 1: really you know, an innovator in the field. She has
- 21:40Speaker 1: a quote which she says, like, you can't think yourself
- 21:42Speaker 1: into a new way of acting, You have to act
- 21:44Speaker 1: yourself into a new way of thinking. And I think
- 21:47Speaker 1: a pattern disrupt the way we talk about that is
- 21:49Speaker 1: an experiment. And what I find to be really effective
- 21:53Speaker 1: is you know, once you start to do experiments in
- 21:56Speaker 1: your life, right, you know, once you start to try
- 22:00Speaker 1: something that's different, Yeah, you get a different result, and
- 22:04Speaker 1: that result is reinforcing. There's nothing more powerful than reinforcement
- 22:10Speaker 1: when we do something that A pattern destruct works because
- 22:14Speaker 1: usually when you do when you do a different action,
- 22:16Speaker 1: you have a different result, and if that result is reinforcing,
- 22:19Speaker 1: it's really powerful and it makes you want to do
- 22:22Speaker 1: it more. That just lights me up so much because
- 22:24Speaker 1: I want our audience to hear something that's so powerful.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Is like, that's instantaneous, that's not years of therapy. That's
- 22:30Speaker 1: something it takes. It might take courage in your situation,
- 22:33Speaker 1: and definitely might take vulnerability in your situation, but it's
- 22:37Speaker 1: literally something you can do instantaneously, which is I no
- 22:41Speaker 1: longer will accept just making up example, you talking to
- 22:46Speaker 1: me that way, the way that you're talking to me
- 22:48Speaker 1: is no longer acceptable, and my reaction to it will
- 22:51Speaker 1: now be why even though for a decade it's been X.
- 22:56Speaker 1: And of course that takes courage. This is all about
- 22:59Speaker 1: courage and vulnerability. That's the theme of the whole wall
- 23:02Speaker 1: of working on yourself. But it is something you can
- 23:06Speaker 1: notice instantaneously, right, Doc, Absolutely, I mean I think you know,
- 23:10Speaker 1: to use the shrinking term. You know it is trying
- 23:13Speaker 1: those boops in your life. You know you're worried about um,
- 23:17Speaker 1: you know what someone's going to think of you if
- 23:19Speaker 1: you you know, behave in a certain way. Try that behavior.
- 23:21Speaker 1: What I tell people all the time, And this comes
- 23:23Speaker 1: from a long history of science in what's called exposure therapy. Yeah,
- 23:29Speaker 1: you know, exposure therapy. You know, so much of life
- 23:35Speaker 1: is by you know, finding ways to stop avoiding things.
- 23:41Speaker 1: Avoidance is the enemy of all progress, and finding ways
- 23:46Speaker 1: to stem avoidance is the key. So I mean really
- 23:49Speaker 1: simply with or without therapy, kind of making a list
- 23:52Speaker 1: of the things that you're avoiding and just in the
- 23:55Speaker 1: smallest ways attacking those things is a disruptive pattern that's
- 24:00Speaker 1: going to help you achieve. That could be a huge
- 24:03Speaker 1: conversation that you're avoiding. That could be asking for a
- 24:07Speaker 1: raise at work, that could be changing, you know, starting
- 24:12Speaker 1: your screenplay, it could be starting your business. I mean,
- 24:15Speaker 1: it could be something small like a conversation, or it
- 24:18Speaker 1: could be something big like starting a business right entirely.
- 24:22Speaker 1: And I think you know the thing about I mean,
- 24:24Speaker 1: I was just you got me thinking about shrinking. What
- 24:26Speaker 1: I love about that show is you know, it's a parody, right,
- 24:28Speaker 1: so he's just going and just telling everybody what he thinks.
- 24:30Speaker 1: But what I think is great about that is this
- 24:32Speaker 1: is he's just confronting avoidance. You know, what you find
- 24:36Speaker 1: in your life is when you start to do the
- 24:38Speaker 1: things you're afraid of, you get unusual results and positive reinforcement.
- 24:44Speaker 1: Positive re enforcement is so much more powerful than anything
- 24:46Speaker 1: that you could any kind of other reward. There's a
- 24:50Speaker 1: story I tell about positive reenforcement. So one of the
- 24:53Speaker 1: biggest people who's evolved the field of psychology was this
- 24:56Speaker 1: guy BF Skinner, Right, he was a guy who changed psychology,
- 24:59Speaker 1: came up up with these ideas of positive reinforcement. He
- 25:02Speaker 1: used to do, you know, experiments with where he'd look
- 25:04Speaker 1: at how people will respond to it. And one year
- 25:07Speaker 1: his class decided they were going to actually respond to
- 25:11Speaker 1: him and use positive reinforcement operating conditioning with him. And
- 25:16Speaker 1: so what they decided to do is while he was speaking,
- 25:18Speaker 1: they were going to just reinforce his behavior, try to
- 25:20Speaker 1: get him to move to the left side of the room.
- 25:23Speaker 1: That's the behavior they were encouraging. And so they did
- 25:26Speaker 1: it by reinforcing him in the way that presenters like
- 25:30Speaker 1: to be responded to. So, how do you what do
- 25:32Speaker 1: you want to see when you're presenting? You want to
- 25:34Speaker 1: see smiles and applause and nodding yeah exactly. So that's
- 25:39Speaker 1: all they did. He had no idea what was going on.
- 25:42Speaker 1: When he moved to the left, one step to the left,
- 25:45Speaker 1: they just nodded and smiled, and then when he stopped,
- 25:48Speaker 1: they stopped. That's it. B. F. Skinner, legendary psychologist, spoke
- 25:55Speaker 1: tucked into the left harbor wherever you were speaking, right,
- 26:01Speaker 1: And so you know, it's simply you know, making getting
- 26:06Speaker 1: And this is what depression is about. Whatever one people
- 26:09Speaker 1: want to say about depression, depression is about the lack
- 26:12Speaker 1: of reinforcement in your life. You're not getting enough positive reinforcement.
- 26:16Speaker 1: And so what a great therapist is going to help
- 26:18Speaker 1: you to do is forget about what happened in the past. Okay,
- 26:21Speaker 1: let's talk about getting you in a position to receive
- 26:25Speaker 1: reinforcement in your life. Where does that come from? Not
- 26:27Speaker 1: inside your apartment? Right, just not there, right, You're never
- 26:30Speaker 1: going to find that reinforcement. Like you know what, I
- 26:32Speaker 1: always jove of people a quarter to people come in
- 26:34Speaker 1: to tell me, Hey, I want to find a romantic partner.
- 26:37Speaker 1: I'm like, I can tell you one thing where they're not.
- 26:41Speaker 1: They're not in your apartment. You're not going to find them, right,
- 26:44Speaker 1: So like, we gotta we gotta get out, We got
- 26:46Speaker 1: to start moving and shaking, and we're going to figure
- 26:48Speaker 1: out ways to do that. That dove tails with another thing,
- 26:50Speaker 1: not just looking for a partner, but I am I feel,
- 26:55Speaker 1: you know, one of the things I've been asked. I
- 26:56Speaker 1: just finished the giant press tour for a Good Person,
- 26:59Speaker 1: and one thing that kept coming up was, um, what
- 27:03Speaker 1: are the themes in overarching themes that that that journalists
- 27:07Speaker 1: were seeing in my in my three films, UM, Garden State,
- 27:11Speaker 1: which I was here, which I always mentioned, I wrote
- 27:14Speaker 1: with my brother Adam, who's a brilliant writer, and now
- 27:16Speaker 1: the latest one A Good Person, And so it's caused
- 27:19Speaker 1: me to examine. It's something I really looked at. But
- 27:21Speaker 1: I was again thinking about it in the tub last night,
- 27:24Speaker 1: where I do my great thinking, and I was thinking
- 27:27Speaker 1: that for me, it's it's about looking for The theme
- 27:32Speaker 1: is looking for human connection, and it really comes out
- 27:36Speaker 1: of my my my loneliness. UM that I've felt my
- 27:40Speaker 1: whole life very even even when I'm surrounded by people
- 27:45Speaker 1: and friends and others, I have felt different and other
- 27:49Speaker 1: than and very lonesome. And so I think all three
- 27:53Speaker 1: films are are are about yearning for a deeper connection
- 27:58Speaker 1: to someone hmm. And and I think the response to
- 28:03Speaker 1: this film, um, since it's come out, and and and
- 28:06Speaker 1: the messages the beautiful, heartfelt messages and commons I'm getting
- 28:11Speaker 1: on Instagram and and and other social media platforms. I'm
- 28:16Speaker 1: seeing this connection to that obviously to grief and to
- 28:20Speaker 1: addiction and to but I feel people really tapping into
- 28:26Speaker 1: that yearning for a deep connection to other human beings. Yeah,
- 28:32Speaker 1: I mean, all your films are certainly about that. For
- 28:42Speaker 1: I'm just curious, though, you know what, what's your hope
- 28:46Speaker 1: for what this film does? How does it? What does
- 28:49Speaker 1: it bring out in people? And what will what will
- 28:52Speaker 1: how will they walk away after seeing it? I hope
- 28:56Speaker 1: that they feel less lonesome, I mean, or or just
- 28:58Speaker 1: or just that they see themselves in the movie. I mean,
- 29:02Speaker 1: the movie is obviously an extreme it's it's it's no secret,
- 29:05Speaker 1: it's in the trailer. It's about a vehicular manslaughter and
- 29:08Speaker 1: and and how that affects the lives of these two families.
- 29:12Speaker 1: And now, God willing the audience won't have something that
- 29:16Speaker 1: extreme in their in their life, but they will. Everyone
- 29:21Speaker 1: grieves something, Everyone has a pain in their heart about something,
- 29:26Speaker 1: and I and I hope that they that they that
- 29:29Speaker 1: they go and experience it and um and and feel
- 29:32Speaker 1: less a little bit a smige and less alone that
- 29:34Speaker 1: there's other people, Because when I'm really depressed and anxious
- 29:37Speaker 1: and lonesome and I just feel I just feel like
- 29:40Speaker 1: I'm the only one feeling those things. I know in
- 29:42Speaker 1: them in the macro that's ridiculous. I know that we're
- 29:45Speaker 1: all human beings, but but but that's what you feel,
- 29:48Speaker 1: that's what's overwhelming feeling. So I hope that people see
- 29:51Speaker 1: this and feel um see themselves and feel seen and
- 29:56Speaker 1: feel less lonesome. That's what I really hope. Yeah, well
- 29:59Speaker 1: I'm you know, what do you think people would be
- 30:02Speaker 1: surprised to know about you that that led to this film,
- 30:08Speaker 1: that led to this coming out, and led to this
- 30:12Speaker 1: come into fruition. I think probably that I've suffered from depression.
- 30:16Speaker 1: I mean that's something I just spoke about him really
- 30:19Speaker 1: openly for the first time on the Rich Role Podcast,
- 30:21Speaker 1: which is a podcast I really recommend everybody. It's my
- 30:24Speaker 1: favorite podcast other than this one, obviously, But Rich Role
- 30:29Speaker 1: is just a fantastic interviewer, and he's he's just a
- 30:31Speaker 1: guy who wasn't addict and he turned his whole life around,
- 30:34Speaker 1: and then he became like one of those marathoners who
- 30:36Speaker 1: runs like insane marathons, and now he's just I don't know,
- 30:41Speaker 1: he's just a I saw him the other night and
- 30:44Speaker 1: I said, you're like my rabbi, Like I think I
- 30:46Speaker 1: was like, I think you're I think what you do
- 30:48Speaker 1: for me in my life is what a rabbi is
- 30:50Speaker 1: supposed to do for Jewish people, because I just find
- 30:53Speaker 1: him so inspiring. And but anyway, I'm rambling. Um, that's
- 30:56Speaker 1: what I think that people would be surprised to know.
- 30:58Speaker 1: Because I'm known for being a a comic actor. I'm
- 31:01Speaker 1: known for being silly. I come and do this show,
- 31:04Speaker 1: for example, and you know, throughout the pandemic, there were
- 31:08Speaker 1: times when I was really, really really depressed. Um, you know,
- 31:11Speaker 1: Nick was dying, Amanda's was fifty feet away in my
- 31:16Speaker 1: guesthouse in a ball crying, and I was very very sad.
- 31:22Speaker 1: And I would psych myself up to to be funny
- 31:27Speaker 1: on this podcast because I want to entertain people. I
- 31:29Speaker 1: get joy. I do get joy from making people laugh
- 31:32Speaker 1: and entertaining them, and I get I get a dopamine
- 31:35Speaker 1: high from feeling like Donald and I and Joel and
- 31:38Speaker 1: Daniel were funny, and I hopefully made people laugh and
- 31:42Speaker 1: made them feel good. But I certainly. Um. I think
- 31:46Speaker 1: that's the biggest surprise people would probably think, is that
- 31:49Speaker 1: I you know that I've suffered my whole life from
- 31:50Speaker 1: from depression and anxiety and and and it's actively working
- 31:54Speaker 1: on actively working on it with you to to be
- 31:57Speaker 1: able to tackle it better. I mean, I'm just listening
- 32:00Speaker 1: to what you're saying about the Rich Role podcasts and
- 32:02Speaker 1: the marathon and what he does, and I just think
- 32:05Speaker 1: of you and your life, and you certainly have run
- 32:09Speaker 1: a marathon through COVID and through all those things that
- 32:13Speaker 1: you experienced. What what has allowed you to do that?
- 32:17Speaker 1: I mean, how have you, in our work and on
- 32:19Speaker 1: your own been able to get through that and then
- 32:23Speaker 1: use that to produce I think, thank you. That's a
- 32:28Speaker 1: great question. I think I really just focused on. You know,
- 32:30Speaker 1: I'll tell you a story I'd never told anyone, and
- 32:31Speaker 1: that is that I don't know why this is my
- 32:35Speaker 1: answer right away, but I you know this, but no
- 32:38Speaker 1: one knows this. I was super sick in the beginning
- 32:41Speaker 1: of January. I got so I got strapped throat so
- 32:43Speaker 1: the worst I've ever had. It was so painful, I
- 32:45Speaker 1: couldn't even swallow water. I mean, I didn't know you
- 32:49Speaker 1: could get strapped, throught this bad and think I think
- 32:51Speaker 1: I had scarlet fever because I had a rash on
- 32:53Speaker 1: my stomach and I was like googling, Yeah, I was
- 32:56Speaker 1: googling rash. I finally was like rash and the strep
- 33:00Speaker 1: throat and it said scarlet fever. And I was like,
- 33:02Speaker 1: I got a fucking scarlet fever. And I tried to
- 33:05Speaker 1: convince my doctor. I was like, he's like, you wouldn't
- 33:07Speaker 1: get scarlet fever. That's for children in This's like rare.
- 33:10Speaker 1: And I was like, I have fucking scarlet fever, dude. Anyway,
- 33:13Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever convinced him, but anyway,
- 33:16Speaker 1: so I was so sick and I was so sad,
- 33:18Speaker 1: and I was so alone, and I remember just lying
- 33:23Speaker 1: on this heating pad because it was the only thing
- 33:25Speaker 1: that felt good. I didn't even have my dog with
- 33:28Speaker 1: me to I mean, I was just it was a
- 33:30Speaker 1: low point. And anyway, I put on this Burnet Brown
- 33:33Speaker 1: YouTube ted talk about vulnerability, which has gone viral for years.
- 33:38Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, it's it's it's what broke
- 33:41Speaker 1: Brenee Brown as a self help guru if you will,
- 33:44Speaker 1: I don't know what you call her but she's amazing.
- 33:47Speaker 1: And it was her first TED talk and it was
- 33:48Speaker 1: about vulnerability and I just started sobbing. I just started crying.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Granted I was very sensitive and very sick, but I
- 33:55Speaker 1: just what she was saying about being vulnerable and having
- 33:58Speaker 1: the courage to be vulnerable. Um, I just felt this tears.
- 34:02Speaker 1: I cried for the whole thing. And uh. And so
- 34:06Speaker 1: I think that that obviously tapped into something for me.
- 34:08Speaker 1: And that's where it's a similar place that the movie
- 34:11Speaker 1: came out of. It was like, what if I, you know,
- 34:14Speaker 1: just wrote something that was incredibly vulnerable. You know, the
- 34:17Speaker 1: story of a good person is not my exact story,
- 34:19Speaker 1: but all the emotions and the feelings and the everything
- 34:24Speaker 1: that's that is the support structure of the plot is
- 34:27Speaker 1: my story. Yeah. And I think in what you've made too,
- 34:32Speaker 1: I mean, it just it speaks to the fact that
- 34:35Speaker 1: everybody has a struggle, um, and that it speaks to
- 34:38Speaker 1: the fact that we're all experiencing and have experienced over
- 34:42Speaker 1: this past couple of years loss. I mean, if you haven't,
- 34:46Speaker 1: if you haven't experienced loss in the past couple of years,
- 34:48Speaker 1: in some way, you probably weren't awake to what was
- 34:51Speaker 1: going on, Well, wasn't even men. You needn't even be death. Um,
- 34:54Speaker 1: it could be just the the this. I think we're
- 34:57Speaker 1: all in, I mean, this PTSD from what happened, and
- 35:01Speaker 1: we're all moving on, like, Okay, that was crazy. And
- 35:04Speaker 1: I really think. I was talking to my mom about this,
- 35:07Speaker 1: who's also a psychologist. She's been on the podcast, and
- 35:10Speaker 1: I was talking about last night because we were trying
- 35:11Speaker 1: to analyze this and this beautiful audience response, and my
- 35:17Speaker 1: mom was saying kind of like, I think that there's
- 35:19Speaker 1: a there is a collective grief in society that that
- 35:24Speaker 1: people might not even know is there within them, and
- 35:29Speaker 1: that that could be from their very real life experience,
- 35:31Speaker 1: of course, or or it could be just from the
- 35:33Speaker 1: experience of the trauma of COVID. I mean, you know,
- 35:37Speaker 1: I think what's what's the story within the story here
- 35:43Speaker 1: is you know, you were asking me about changing behaviors
- 35:49Speaker 1: and about dealing with grief and about dealing with depression
- 35:53Speaker 1: and overcoming it and how cogn behavioral therapy is a
- 35:56Speaker 1: method for that. But the whole arc of making this
- 36:00Speaker 1: movie was in fact all of that. For you. It
- 36:04Speaker 1: was it was quite a journey, you know, and and
- 36:07Speaker 1: it's this audience has been along for the whole ride,
- 36:09Speaker 1: you know, guys, Joel and Daniel I started talking when
- 36:12Speaker 1: we started the podcast. I thought he was telling even
- 36:14Speaker 1: writing it for a long time. Let's take a We'll
- 36:17Speaker 1: be right back after these fine words. You guys have
- 36:26Speaker 1: any questions for the doc, I don't mean to hog
- 36:29Speaker 1: expensive doctor's time. You guys, it was really fascinating to
- 36:34Speaker 1: hear the two of you talk, so please to apologize. Yeah, yeah,
- 36:39Speaker 1: so okay, I, similar to Zach, have depression. Um I
- 36:46Speaker 1: noticed it at like sixteen, but I also had add
- 36:50Speaker 1: which was also undiagnosed. So I got diagnosed with depression
- 36:53Speaker 1: when I was thirty and with add when I was
- 36:56Speaker 1: thirty one. And when I started therapy. You know, my
- 37:00Speaker 1: first therapist was a lot like you. She was like,
- 37:03Speaker 1: all right, let's figure out what the problem is. Let's
- 37:05Speaker 1: really make a plan, let's go get it. And I
- 37:07Speaker 1: was instansed. I was like, I'm hurting, I don't know
- 37:09Speaker 1: how to start trying. I'm so angry and still confused,
- 37:14Speaker 1: and I'm still trying to get medicated despite being diagnosed.
- 37:17Speaker 1: It was like a whole process and it was frustrating
- 37:21Speaker 1: for me, so I went through two years of just
- 37:25Speaker 1: the emotional kind of therapy, the let's just dive deep
- 37:28Speaker 1: and just talk about your past and all of that stuff.
- 37:30Speaker 1: And then at some point I was like, this is
- 37:32Speaker 1: not changing anything. So like on a new therapist, cognitive
- 37:36Speaker 1: behavioral therapist who helped me change and grow a lot.
- 37:39Speaker 1: But I say all that to ask, is there a
- 37:43Speaker 1: headspace you need to be in or a thing you
- 37:45Speaker 1: need to have done in order to be ready for CBT?
- 37:50Speaker 1: This is such a great question. I really I love
- 37:53Speaker 1: this question. I'm already married, but I would marry this
- 37:56Speaker 1: question if I wasn't there. I love this question because
- 38:01Speaker 1: you know, I think by our discussing this, you're really
- 38:04Speaker 1: going to help a lot of people. Look, the main
- 38:07Speaker 1: advice I have about therapists is if you feel like
- 38:10Speaker 1: your therapist doesn't like you, fire them. And not to
- 38:14Speaker 1: say that this therapist and you didn't get along, but
- 38:16Speaker 1: you know, if there's not mutual likability, meaning you don't
- 38:21Speaker 1: feel understood, forget, it doesn't matter what kind of therapy
- 38:24Speaker 1: they do they can do. You know, I don't know
- 38:26Speaker 1: scarlet fever therapy. It doesn't matter very like they're not
- 38:29Speaker 1: the right person, and so what the research the science
- 38:32Speaker 1: shows us is the biggest effect of therapy is feeling
- 38:37Speaker 1: understood by the therapist and that there's mutual well you know,
- 38:41Speaker 1: likability and positive regard and so that's just like, you know,
- 38:45Speaker 1: it's like when I there was this club, the Palladium
- 38:47Speaker 1: that I in New York City growing up, and I
- 38:49Speaker 1: would go there. They'd be these amazing drag queens out front.
- 38:52Speaker 1: I would go up to the front and try to
- 38:53Speaker 1: get in, and they'd be like you you and look
- 38:55Speaker 1: at me and dead in my face and be like
- 38:56Speaker 1: not you. So you know that later on Zach will
- 39:01Speaker 1: worked that out with me. But anyway, so they have this,
- 39:04Speaker 1: they have these these little ropes, right, the velvet ropes.
- 39:08Speaker 1: You can't get into a great therapy relationship unless you
- 39:11Speaker 1: get past that. And the entry fee is empathy. You
- 39:14Speaker 1: need to be able to show and demonstrate understanding of
- 39:17Speaker 1: the person and connect with them. It doesn't matter what
- 39:20Speaker 1: kind of therapy you do, right, And so I would say,
- 39:23Speaker 1: you know, to me, it's sort of seventy percent that
- 39:26Speaker 1: to your point, and thirty percent the techniques, right, and
- 39:30Speaker 1: so you know, you should find a therapist that you
- 39:32Speaker 1: feel like understands you. And a lot of the research
- 39:35Speaker 1: also shows because is such a great question, I could
- 39:37Speaker 1: nerd out on this forever and I think it's really helpful.
- 39:39Speaker 1: It's like, you know, you got to be able to
- 39:43Speaker 1: do two things as a great coach. You have to
- 39:46Speaker 1: first be able to connect and demonstrate an understanding and
- 39:52Speaker 1: the hurt. Acknowledge the hurt, and show the person you
- 39:55Speaker 1: get the hurt. Only then will you be able to
- 40:00Speaker 1: teach or give skills. I'll tell one other story about this,
- 40:02Speaker 1: because your your question like unfull, you know, sort of
- 40:06Speaker 1: opened a door. But I was once in the clubhouse
- 40:08Speaker 1: of a professional sports organization and I was there and
- 40:12Speaker 1: there was a rookie. He was really struggling. This is
- 40:14Speaker 1: a guy who's just starting in sports, right, it's really struggling.
- 40:17Speaker 1: And I was newer at the field, and I was
- 40:19Speaker 1: just going after him. I was like, hey, man, why
- 40:21Speaker 1: do you try this? Why do you try that? Why
- 40:22Speaker 1: do you try that? And there was a veteran there
- 40:24Speaker 1: who knew me right and for a long time, and
- 40:27Speaker 1: he just sauntered over. Afterwards, the kid was like listening
- 40:30Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, playing my game, and
- 40:32Speaker 1: then he walked away and the veteran just like, look, Fader,
- 40:36Speaker 1: people have to know that you care before they care
- 40:40Speaker 1: what you know, and that just like stuck with me.
- 40:44Speaker 1: It's a cool I think Roosevelt said it or something,
- 40:45Speaker 1: but that's stuck with me forever. To your point, well,
- 40:48Speaker 1: like this isn't even about therapy, it's it's about teaching.
- 40:52Speaker 1: You know, if Daniel's teaching someone else audio video stuff,
- 40:55Speaker 1: It's like if the person doesn't feel like you really
- 40:57Speaker 1: care about them, it doesn't matter what you say. It
- 41:00Speaker 1: doesn't matter the instruction, it doesn't matter the thing. So
- 41:02Speaker 1: your question is also just like a hammering home point, like,
- 41:06Speaker 1: find someone that you feel like cares about you and
- 41:08Speaker 1: that you care about you can develop relationship. There's instant
- 41:10Speaker 1: good feeling. Well within the first meeting, I feel that
- 41:13Speaker 1: you care very much about me, and I do. Man,
- 41:16Speaker 1: I trust you, and I feel like you're rooting I do.
- 41:18Speaker 1: I mean, the coach analogy is so strong. I feel
- 41:20Speaker 1: like you're rooting for me. Another really powerful thing that
- 41:24Speaker 1: I get out of our relationship is that I feel
- 41:27Speaker 1: accountable to you. I'm not going to let you down
- 41:30Speaker 1: because I know. It's like just like an athlete doesn't
- 41:32Speaker 1: want to let their coach down and their team captain down.
- 41:34Speaker 1: I don't want to let you down. So if I
- 41:36Speaker 1: committed to you that I'm going to write, you know,
- 41:41Speaker 1: Monday through Friday for three hours a day, and then
- 41:45Speaker 1: I'll text him like I did it, or I'll send
- 41:48Speaker 1: him pages. We have this relationship where it's like I'm
- 41:51Speaker 1: not gonna not send him pages because I don't want
- 41:54Speaker 1: to disappoint him. And I think that's really great, a
- 41:57Speaker 1: really powerful thing. And you don't have to you know,
- 42:00Speaker 1: you don't have to be in therapy to do it. Obviously,
- 42:03Speaker 1: you can do it with your partner, you could do
- 42:04Speaker 1: it with a friend. But if you're trying to start
- 42:06Speaker 1: a new habit really being accountable to another person that
- 42:11Speaker 1: you don't want to let down, that you can made
- 42:13Speaker 1: a commitment to. Let's say you're trying to do sobriety
- 42:16Speaker 1: for a month, or you're trying to um, you know, write,
- 42:19Speaker 1: or you're trying to you know, eat less. Whatever your
- 42:22Speaker 1: thing is that you have some sort of person. It
- 42:25Speaker 1: could be a therapist, it could be a parent, it
- 42:27Speaker 1: could be a friend, it could be a partner that
- 42:29Speaker 1: you're accountable to and that you don't want to disappoint
- 42:32Speaker 1: and that obviously you're honest with because if you're lying
- 42:35Speaker 1: with the hell's the point, right, Yeah, I mean you
- 42:38Speaker 1: know what you're saying is so valuable, Zach, because not
- 42:42Speaker 1: everybody listening is going to go to therapy for whatever
- 42:45Speaker 1: reason right now, well some can't afford it. We should
- 42:48Speaker 1: say we we we advertise better help on here, which
- 42:52Speaker 1: I think is a is a new and affordable way
- 42:56Speaker 1: for people to seek out therapy. So obviously, um, you know,
- 43:02Speaker 1: I have a great privilege in being able to have
- 43:04Speaker 1: you in my life, so I do want to acknowledge that.
- 43:06Speaker 1: But there are ways to reach out to people and
- 43:09Speaker 1: and sometimes for those who can't, um, it could be
- 43:13Speaker 1: as simple as reaching out to a friend, not not
- 43:18Speaker 1: a friend who's going to give you bad advice. You
- 43:20Speaker 1: know who that person is, don't sort of you everyone
- 43:23Speaker 1: listening knows who's the friend not to go to. But
- 43:26Speaker 1: but but but just being in communication and sharing and
- 43:29Speaker 1: being honest and authentic that I've gotten just so much.
- 43:33Speaker 1: You know. My sort of word for my year now
- 43:35Speaker 1: is is vulnerability. Obviously, releasing a movie to the world
- 43:38Speaker 1: is the most vulnerable thing I can do is in
- 43:42Speaker 1: my profession, and it's it did take a lot of
- 43:45Speaker 1: courage to to just release something and then you know,
- 43:48Speaker 1: have and just show it to the world and have
- 43:51Speaker 1: everyone way in on it. But anyone who's listening's life,
- 43:55Speaker 1: whether it be as small as having a scary conversation
- 43:59Speaker 1: you're dreading or or you know, it's all about vulnerability.
- 44:03Speaker 1: It's all about saying, I'm going to do this because
- 44:07Speaker 1: I'm going to be authentically myself and I'm going to
- 44:12Speaker 1: allow myself to be vulnerable and I'm going to do it. Yeah,
- 44:17Speaker 1: you know, I mean I had I had a therapist
- 44:19Speaker 1: actually who once said to me, this is maybe twenty
- 44:22Speaker 1: years ago, who said, look, you know people people often
- 44:26Speaker 1: regret the things that they didn't do, not the things
- 44:28Speaker 1: they did. And um, and that made a lot of
- 44:31Speaker 1: sense to me. And I think, you know, what do
- 44:35Speaker 1: people who regret later in life? Mostly there are regrets
- 44:38Speaker 1: around relationships. Um. And when you speak about the word vulnerability,
- 44:43Speaker 1: you know, we all have someone in our life that
- 44:45Speaker 1: we could you know, finish this podcast and and be
- 44:48Speaker 1: more authentic too. Maybe they're a friend, maybe they're a partner,
- 44:52Speaker 1: But you know, I think there's so much My experience
- 44:55Speaker 1: has been that that finding the people that you can
- 44:58Speaker 1: build a little bit more clear already in vulnerability with
- 45:01Speaker 1: It's just such an enriching part of our lives to
- 45:04Speaker 1: be able to do that. I just a question for you,
- 45:06Speaker 1: and don't know, maybe maybe you cut this and this
- 45:08Speaker 1: is just a real we never talked about this, but
- 45:11Speaker 1: you know, how do you know that I care about you?
- 45:15Speaker 1: What are the things that that happened that make you
- 45:18Speaker 1: feel that way. I feel that you're authentic, and I
- 45:21Speaker 1: feel that you're genuinely interested, and I feel that you're
- 45:26Speaker 1: rooting for me, and I feel no matter sometimes I
- 45:31Speaker 1: fall down and I don't come through with something I
- 45:34Speaker 1: committed to you that I was going to do, or
- 45:37Speaker 1: I tried every technique you gave me and I still
- 45:40Speaker 1: felt depressed. But I always feel like you're You're in
- 45:43Speaker 1: my corner. You're like you're in if I was a boxer.
- 45:46Speaker 1: You're the guy that's pushing that weird thing on my
- 45:48Speaker 1: forehead and whatever that things. I don't even I don't
- 45:51Speaker 1: even know what that thing does. I get the sponge,
- 45:55Speaker 1: I don't get that weird push down on your forehead thing,
- 45:58Speaker 1: but um, I don't know. That's it. That's it and
- 46:01Speaker 1: I and I and I know that you are because
- 46:03Speaker 1: um you you root for me. I feel like you
- 46:05Speaker 1: you're You're one of my biggest champions, so I want
- 46:08Speaker 1: to thank you. Don't worry everyone, We're going back to
- 46:10Speaker 1: a comedy podcast. Some of the fans right now are like,
- 46:16Speaker 1: oh fuck, no, I promise you this will not be therapy.
- 46:22Speaker 1: Next week we're gonna have Donald back and we will
- 46:24Speaker 1: be playing the bong hit noise on the sound effects
- 46:26Speaker 1: just to prove it to you. You're gonna kick off
- 46:29Speaker 1: the real doctors. Hold on, I gotta get the bong
- 46:31Speaker 1: effects so every no one freaks out talk one second.
- 46:34Speaker 1: Yeah there it is every the show here in honor
- 46:38Speaker 1: of Donald's what you're trying to get into one day,
- 46:41Speaker 1: shoon what you're trying to do. All right, we'll be
- 46:44Speaker 1: back being funny next week. I want to think, doctor Favorite.
- 46:46Speaker 1: I do want to plug your book because you've an
- 46:48Speaker 1: awesome book. Um and uh it's called remind me what
- 46:51Speaker 1: it's called, because I forget Life is Sport and I
- 46:54Speaker 1: know you're writing a new one, Um, but check out
- 46:57Speaker 1: Life is Sport if you want to read some of
- 46:59Speaker 1: these amazing wisdoms from this gentleman who's helped me so
- 47:04Speaker 1: much I genuinely did from the bottom of my heart.
- 47:06Speaker 1: I couldn't have written this film without you, and so
- 47:11Speaker 1: thank you. And I couldn't have written without this podcast
- 47:14Speaker 1: to be honest, Joelle and Daniel, because um, it made
- 47:17Speaker 1: me laugh and it was a hit of dopamine every
- 47:22Speaker 1: every week when we do it. So thank you guys
- 47:25Speaker 1: and audience. Um, thanks for listening, and thanks for a
- 47:31Speaker 1: welcoming doctor Fader into our community. And um, check out
- 47:36Speaker 1: a good person. If you haven't seen, it'll only be
- 47:38Speaker 1: in theaters a little while obviously, and then and then
- 47:41Speaker 1: it'll come on streaming. But I do think, um, there's
- 47:44Speaker 1: something really powerful about seeing it in the theater. It is.
- 47:46Speaker 1: Um there's something communal about about experiencing the emotions that
- 47:51Speaker 1: come up with this with friends, with family, with a
- 47:53Speaker 1: partner in a in a movie theater setting. So you'll
- 47:57Speaker 1: only have a couple of weeks in order to do that,
- 47:58Speaker 1: and um, it just expanded this weekend tonight, I should say,
- 48:03Speaker 1: because we're airing this on the thirty first of March,
- 48:07Speaker 1: right DAYLD. So that's it. We love you. Anything else
- 48:11Speaker 1: you guys want to say, no, come back next Tuesday.
- 48:14Speaker 1: We'll be here, you know. What actually I think. First
- 48:17Speaker 1: of all, this is thanks so much for having me on.
- 48:20Speaker 1: It was really great to talk to all of you.
- 48:21Speaker 1: And you know, I love the questions that you had. Actually,
- 48:25Speaker 1: I think it would be helpful, Zach, just briefly if
- 48:29Speaker 1: you want to talk about the behavioral things you did
- 48:32Speaker 1: to write the book. I think that would be really
- 48:34Speaker 1: interesting to people. I mean, to write the script. I
- 48:37Speaker 1: mean yeah, I mean I think, you know, just talking
- 48:39Speaker 1: a little bit about what, you know, what were the
- 48:42Speaker 1: ways that you got it done. Everybody, everybody who's listening here,
- 48:46Speaker 1: you know, almost to a person is trying to get
- 48:48Speaker 1: something done right. They're trying to lose weight, they're trying
- 48:51Speaker 1: to quit drinking, they're trying to speak differently their partner,
- 48:54Speaker 1: they're trying to write their own screenplay, whatever it is.
- 48:57Speaker 1: They're trying to get something done. And you know, you
- 48:59Speaker 1: you really became a master of some of these techniques
- 49:01Speaker 1: that you and I worked on to well master no
- 49:03Speaker 1: by no means master, but thank you. Um. I just
- 49:06Speaker 1: practiced what you taught me, and that was some one. Well,
- 49:10Speaker 1: the biggest, most basic thing is is committing making a
- 49:13Speaker 1: commitment to do it every day. Um, just like you
- 49:15Speaker 1: make you make a commitment, an important commitment to to
- 49:19Speaker 1: do anything in your life. When you know you commit
- 49:22Speaker 1: to someone in marriage, it's a serious commitment. UM. I
- 49:25Speaker 1: committed to doctor Fader and to myself that I was
- 49:29Speaker 1: going to write five days a week for a certain
- 49:33Speaker 1: amount of hours, and that even if I was staring
- 49:36Speaker 1: at the blinking cursor and and saying to myself, you suck,
- 49:39Speaker 1: this sucks, I suck that I was still going to
- 49:42Speaker 1: show up and be vulnerable. And some days it would
- 49:45Speaker 1: go great and some days it wouldn't. Um, But I
- 49:47Speaker 1: always I was keeping my commitment. I I and I
- 49:50Speaker 1: would say to him, and he Doctor Fader always says,
- 49:53Speaker 1: there's there's great power in a streak. Meaning if I've
- 49:57Speaker 1: done that commitment and I've really wrote five days in
- 50:00Speaker 1: a row, on Monday, I'm gonna I'm gonna start again
- 50:03Speaker 1: because I don't want to mess up my streak. If
- 50:05Speaker 1: you're trying to go sober and you made it five days,
- 50:09Speaker 1: you don't want to mess up your streak. It's exciting,
- 50:11Speaker 1: you know, I've told I think I've spoken about this
- 50:13Speaker 1: on the podcast before, where I would take something as
- 50:15Speaker 1: simple as a paper calendar. You guys can do this
- 50:17Speaker 1: for free, and you don't. I use stickers, but if
- 50:20Speaker 1: you don't want to pay for stickers, use a pencil.
- 50:23Speaker 1: And I would just go. I would give at the
- 50:25Speaker 1: end of the day. When I was when I was
- 50:27Speaker 1: first attempting uh not you know, not drinking from month,
- 50:31Speaker 1: I would uh, I would give myself a smiley face
- 50:34Speaker 1: at the end of that day. And I would see
- 50:36Speaker 1: all the smiley faces and I'd be like, I'm not
- 50:38Speaker 1: sucking up my smiley face streets. So it's so simple.
- 50:42Speaker 1: And I told I sold this to rich Role and
- 50:44Speaker 1: he was like, it's so funny, how reptilian, he said,
- 50:46Speaker 1: our brains are. It's just that we want that. We
- 50:49Speaker 1: want that, We want that fucking smile. It's like when
- 50:51Speaker 1: you're potty training your kids, you know, I know people
- 50:53Speaker 1: use stickers, like if you you you get a sticker
- 50:56Speaker 1: on the day, if you use the potty or whatever.
- 50:58Speaker 1: We still my brain, at a pretty six at the time,
- 51:01Speaker 1: was like, I'm not fucking not getting that smiley face.
- 51:04Speaker 1: I want that. So even stuff like that really helped
- 51:07Speaker 1: me going for a streak. Getting affirmation, sending the pages
- 51:12Speaker 1: to to friends and then getting feedback from them always
- 51:16Speaker 1: felt good. When I would people in my writing community,
- 51:18Speaker 1: I would send a scene to and be like, hey,
- 51:20Speaker 1: can I get your thoughts? And so getting that feedback
- 51:23Speaker 1: was helpful. It would it would inspire me when they
- 51:25Speaker 1: were like this is great, oh my gosh, keep going.
- 51:28Speaker 1: But really showing up, you know, showing up every day,
- 51:31Speaker 1: no matter how I felt, was was the key. It's
- 51:35Speaker 1: so huge. I mean, the gamification of your task is key.
- 51:40Speaker 1: I mean, you know, people of what I've done with
- 51:43Speaker 1: some people, just have them order a light bright you know,
- 51:45Speaker 1: twelve dollars online and just every day that you do
- 51:49Speaker 1: your thing, you put a little light bright key into
- 51:52Speaker 1: the light right right, No, it's good. It's the cheapest
- 51:57Speaker 1: you can do it. So this money money can't be
- 52:00Speaker 1: your excuse if you don't want my free version. If
- 52:03Speaker 1: you don't want my free version, no, my mind version
- 52:05Speaker 1: is free. Everyone should have a pencil. If not, just
- 52:08Speaker 1: pick your finger and use blood. I'm just kidding, but
- 52:13Speaker 1: you can. Anybody can print a paper calendar off the internet.
- 52:17Speaker 1: But but if you want to spend seven bucks, you
- 52:19Speaker 1: can buy a light break. Go ahead, doctor Fader, Yeah,
- 52:21Speaker 1: do it. And I mean I think, look, the reality
- 52:24Speaker 1: is that you know just by having simple gamification and
- 52:28Speaker 1: also connecting it. You don't have to have a therapist,
- 52:31Speaker 1: radio a therapist of coach, but finding someone. The science
- 52:34Speaker 1: shows if you say out loud to someone what you're
- 52:37Speaker 1: intending to do, and they hear it and they know it,
- 52:40Speaker 1: you're much more likely to complete it. And so just
- 52:42Speaker 1: those two simple things or things that anyone listening here
- 52:45Speaker 1: can do and make it much more likely that you're
- 52:47Speaker 1: going to complete your goal. All right, On that note,
- 52:49Speaker 1: m I know that we only had you for the hour,
- 52:52Speaker 1: So thank you so much. You're incredible. Life as Sport
- 52:56Speaker 1: is the book. Thank you, doctor Jonathan Vader, I love you,
- 52:59Speaker 1: dwelling dal And that's our show, Bob six seven eight
- 53:03Speaker 1: stories about show we made about a bunch of doctor
- 53:08Speaker 1: nurses and a janitor who learned him. I said, he's
- 53:12Speaker 1: the stories natural should know. So gada around you here,
- 53:18Speaker 1: are YadA around you here? As free watch shows that
- 53:24Speaker 1: no mm hmmm