Latest / Pod Therapy / #448: Science vs Therapy, AuDHD Assessment, Routines
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- 2:54Speaker 1: We've got some great questions for today's show, leading off
- 2:57Speaker 1: the order Neuroscience versus Therapy from Pickets Pickett.
- 3:02Speaker 3: Hey guys, it's Picket Q Jacob Ticket.
- 3:07Speaker 1: No crazy drama today, but instead I have more of
- 3:10Speaker 1: a discussion slash curiosity question. I've been reading up on
- 3:14Speaker 1: repressed memories and how there's a huge debate that's been
- 3:18Speaker 1: going on for decades about whether or not they exist.
- 3:21Speaker 1: The crux of the debate hinges around clinicians believing the
- 3:24Speaker 1: accounts of their patients and the patient's responses to particular treatments,
- 3:29Speaker 1: and scholars looking at more empirical data in neuroscience. I'm
- 3:33Speaker 1: sure I'm oversimplifying both sides, but that's the main thing
- 3:35Speaker 1: I took away from my reading and the kind of
- 3:38Speaker 1: thing I wanted to ask you guys about, what are
- 3:40Speaker 1: your opinions on utilizing neuroscience and empirically driven aspects of
- 3:45Speaker 1: the brain, such as physiological things we know from scans
- 3:49Speaker 1: and dissection, rather than more abstract mental things like emotions
- 3:53Speaker 1: and some therapy techniques in your jobs? How do you
- 3:56Speaker 1: reconcile with the idea that a method you used worked
- 3:59Speaker 1: for a patient but might not necessarily mean that the
- 4:02Speaker 1: method is proven. Do you have any pet peeves in
- 4:05Speaker 1: regards to people who focus more on physical evidence rather
- 4:09Speaker 1: than patient experience. I know I cheated a little by
- 4:12Speaker 1: asking several questions, but mostly I wanted to hear your
- 4:14Speaker 1: opinions on using cold, hard evidence in an arguably abstract
- 4:19Speaker 1: and immaterial health and science field. Hope everyone's days are
- 4:23Speaker 1: going well and that Jacob is successful in isolating another
- 4:27Speaker 1: embarrassing Jim Clip, big love for.
- 4:29Speaker 5: All, Luck.
- 4:32Speaker 2: Picket.
- 4:32Speaker 3: I am pro your question, Whitney.
- 4:41Speaker 4: There's a lot of questions, Thank.
- 4:43Speaker 3: You, Jim against Yeah, Nick pro, all right, all right,
- 4:50Speaker 3: I'm pro, but way o.
- 4:58Speaker 2: Difficult.
- 4:59Speaker 3: How can Cotrriano?
- 5:02Speaker 6: I love how he acknowledged just answer this very this
- 5:06Speaker 6: question in a very our entire Yes, I'm like I
- 5:09Speaker 6: was thinking reading this, I'm like, nothing is like a
- 5:13Speaker 6: setten step.
- 5:14Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll frame up the debate a little bit just
- 5:18Speaker 1: for the general audience. So we're talking about repressed memories, right,
- 5:22Speaker 1: And for decades there was this like debate where the
- 5:26Speaker 1: question was can somebody go through so much intense trauma
- 5:29Speaker 1: that they functionally black out the memories themselves? And then
- 5:33Speaker 1: later in therapy we would see symptoms of traumatic behavior
- 5:38Speaker 1: ad reactions, aversions, things like that, nightmares, but when we
- 5:42Speaker 1: try to ask the person about their lived experiences, they
- 5:45Speaker 1: couldn't recall these things, and so we started having this
- 5:47Speaker 1: hypothesis that perhaps the memory was repressed, and so there
- 5:51Speaker 1: were some modalities of therapy that said, well can we
- 5:56Speaker 1: recover that memory?
- 5:58Speaker 3: And this got into some of them.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Yes, it got into some very dark water rarely really quickly,
- 6:04Speaker 1: because then all of a sudden, these people would have
- 6:06Speaker 1: these constructed memories of like being molested by parents, and
- 6:10Speaker 1: the therapist and the patient are working through this stuff,
- 6:13Speaker 1: and then the patients going back to their parents be
- 6:15Speaker 1: like did you molest me? And the parents like, no,
- 6:17Speaker 1: that didn't happen, and then like, but now I have
- 6:19Speaker 1: these vivid memories of it. And it became this debate
- 6:22Speaker 1: of like did we create that? Is that something that's
- 6:25Speaker 1: there that was actually imported through this therapy work and
- 6:29Speaker 1: it never was like there in hard science, And so
- 6:31Speaker 1: then they started using like fMRI machines, like oh.
- 6:34Speaker 3: You know that hard science? Do you mean just reality? Reality?
- 6:38Speaker 1: But it was there a way to empirically verify that
- 6:41Speaker 1: this was a real memory. And so what they started
- 6:43Speaker 1: doing is having patients recall the memories okay, and they
- 6:46Speaker 1: would scan the brain to figure out what's lighting up
- 6:49Speaker 1: in the brain. Is it the memory portion of the
- 6:50Speaker 1: brain or is it the imagination portion of the brain,
- 6:53Speaker 1: And so that would tend toward imagination, and it would
- 6:56Speaker 1: be like, oh, so was this all bullshit? A therapist
- 6:59Speaker 1: play an these memories?
- 7:00Speaker 3: So basically some therapists, this is what it sounds like
- 7:03Speaker 3: to me that you're saying, basically some therapists that should
- 7:06Speaker 3: know better about fucking around with people's brains. It was
- 7:10Speaker 3: a dark kind of didn't understand what they were getting into.
- 7:15Speaker 3: And then and then waded into some deeper waters and
- 7:17Speaker 3: then like after the fact, started trying to figure it out.
- 7:21Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that is an ungenerous interpretation.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Sure of that was, and yet is that accurate?
- 7:27Speaker 1: I think at the time they were trying to understand like,
- 7:29Speaker 1: if memories can be repressed, and traumatic memories would be repressed,
- 7:32Speaker 1: can they be unlocked in this collaborative way, And then
- 7:36Speaker 1: later when we followed up with like neuroscience, the neuroscience
- 7:39Speaker 1: seemed to be implying like, no, that's not what's happening.
- 7:43Speaker 1: So that anyway, that's the structure of I think some
- 7:45Speaker 1: of what Pickets talking about. But it seems to basically yes,
- 7:49Speaker 1: and at least this huge, bigger debate in psychotherapy, which
- 7:53Speaker 1: is like our work is not a hard science, but
- 7:56Speaker 1: the hard sciences, like neuroscience can't cure the things we
- 8:00Speaker 1: treat and cure, but we can't remove a brain tumor, right,
- 8:03Speaker 1: and so like we collaborate with our physical colleagues, but
- 8:06Speaker 1: we have different modalities and this is something that we
- 8:08Speaker 1: constantly like have a little bit of a tug of work.
- 8:10Speaker 3: Well, it's at the very I would the only thing
- 8:12Speaker 3: I would push back on with that statement is it
- 8:14Speaker 3: seems like it seems like both sides would have to
- 8:17Speaker 3: add the add the phrase right now. Okay, it seems
- 8:20Speaker 3: like both both sides would would have to say, like, okay, physically,
- 8:23Speaker 3: you can't fix this stuff that we're working on with
- 8:26Speaker 3: physical stuff right now, right, like we don't know the
- 8:28Speaker 3: right spot to poke in somebody's brain, yeah.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Or if it even can be And I want to pivot.
- 8:33Speaker 1: But like this is the debate about hardware versus software, right,
- 8:37Speaker 1: because sometimes it's like a software problem can't be fixed
- 8:40Speaker 1: with hardware solutions.
- 8:41Speaker 2: It just can't.
- 8:42Speaker 1: And and so like we maybe work in two different
- 8:44Speaker 1: modalities where we work in mind work and they work
- 8:47Speaker 1: in brain work, right, And so like sometimes what you're
- 8:50Speaker 1: seeing on the scans with the brain is telling you
- 8:52Speaker 1: what the mind is doing.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Sometimes it's not.
- 8:54Speaker 1: And so like they they can't ask the computer like
- 8:56Speaker 1: what was that person thinking? They can only see what
- 8:58Speaker 1: region was lighting up and generally what region lights up
- 9:01Speaker 1: with other people. Right, But every human's kind of a
- 9:03Speaker 1: snowflake too. But anyway, that kind of Contextufies contextualizes.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Let's go with that. Pickett's question, well, we'll see you
- 9:13Speaker 3: next week.
- 9:14Speaker 6: I know, I like the question he asked, where do
- 9:17Speaker 6: we have any pet peeves in regards to people who
- 9:19Speaker 6: focus more on physical evidence rather than patient experience. And
- 9:23Speaker 6: I don't think I have pet peeves or judgments around that.
- 9:26Speaker 6: I actually really enjoyed neuroscience in college, Like it was
- 9:30Speaker 6: super fascinating to me at a really great professor. And
- 9:35Speaker 6: I mean I never felt like I, you know, thrived
- 9:39Speaker 6: in the sciences, but that was a science that I
- 9:41Speaker 6: really really enjoyed. And so I mean when it comes
- 9:46Speaker 6: to my general work with clients, yeah, we tend to
- 9:51Speaker 6: focus more on just like we talk about and hear
- 9:53Speaker 6: the patient, the client their experiences and how that affects them,
- 9:57Speaker 6: and a lot more validating whether we know something true
- 10:00Speaker 6: or not. We don't always know. But I'm going to
- 10:03Speaker 6: go off what you tell me and we're going to
- 10:04Speaker 6: go from there. And if you're just lying to me
- 10:07Speaker 6: and therapy, not that these people are lying or press memories,
- 10:10Speaker 6: but if somebody chooses to say whatever they want in therapy.
- 10:13Speaker 5: I'm only going to go off what you tell me.
- 10:15Speaker 5: That's up to you. If you want to pay me
- 10:16Speaker 5: to it's to analyze, you.
- 10:20Speaker 4: Know, false memory, false memories or whatnot.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Well, And I think to your point though, for our chair,
- 10:26Speaker 1: what we're here to do it's true to the person. Correct,
- 10:28Speaker 1: it's causing things in their life. It's changing the way
- 10:32Speaker 1: they talk to their parents, it's changing the way they
- 10:33Speaker 1: feel when they're at home. They're feeling depressed. So regardless
- 10:36Speaker 1: if it's just apps like empirically true or false, perspective wise,
- 10:42Speaker 1: it matters to them. And that's something that a brain
- 10:44Speaker 1: scan can't do anything with. But when we talk to
- 10:47Speaker 1: the human, the human is saying, I feel like something
- 10:49Speaker 1: bad happened in my childhood and I'm very confused about
- 10:51Speaker 1: I saw this movie. It brought something out of me. Great,
- 10:54Speaker 1: we get to go try to untangle that ball of yarn. Yes,
- 10:58Speaker 1: And there's not like we can't just sit there and
- 10:59Speaker 1: cut it apart and find out the truth. It's more
- 11:01Speaker 1: about helping that person like emote through language and metabolize
- 11:05Speaker 1: everything they're experiencing. But we're not on a quest for
- 11:08Speaker 1: like what is empirically true.
- 11:10Speaker 6: Yeah, and some clients tend to lean toward more scientifically based,
- 11:16Speaker 6: you know, theories. They want to talk about more of
- 11:18Speaker 6: that in session, and that matters more to them versus
- 11:21Speaker 6: some some clients who come in and they care more
- 11:25Speaker 6: about just how they feel day in and day out
- 11:27Speaker 6: and they may not even care so much what's really happened.
- 11:30Speaker 5: They just they just want to function better really life.
- 11:34Speaker 2: It seems to me like the best solution between these
- 11:37Speaker 2: two is having an informed perspective of the of the other. Yeah, right,
- 11:43Speaker 2: so like having a therapy informed perspective in neuroscience or
- 11:48Speaker 2: having a neuroscience informed perspective and therapy.
- 11:51Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. So there's the answer there.
- 11:56Speaker 1: It is like the pet peds. I think I've several
- 12:00Speaker 1: pet peeves about this topic, Picket. This is something I've
- 12:03Speaker 1: gone off about over the nine years of the show
- 12:05Speaker 1: quite a bit. Buckle up, bitches, Jim's on a rant,
- 12:08Speaker 1: all right.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Number one.
- 12:10Speaker 1: I dislike when the general public mischaracterizes psychotherapy as not
- 12:15Speaker 1: empirically based, like we are more We're not just asking
- 12:18Speaker 1: about your feelings and like doing pros and art and
- 12:20Speaker 1: poetry and sand trace. Everything that we do for the
- 12:23Speaker 1: most part, if it's within our licensed profession, it is
- 12:26Speaker 1: empirically based, like we have hard science, one hundred years
- 12:30Speaker 1: of hard science. But you still do that other stuff too, right, Yeah,
- 12:32Speaker 1: I still do the butts, but that's extra. But like
- 12:35Speaker 1: the stuff that we do in psychotherapy, it validated work.
- 12:40Speaker 1: We have one hundred years of data and like all
- 12:42Speaker 1: these different modalities to show that therapy always beats placebo
- 12:46Speaker 1: and that there are certain modalities that work in certain
- 12:48Speaker 1: modalities that do not. And so we are a self
- 12:51Speaker 1: refining profession and scientific endeavor that has books and books
- 12:54Speaker 1: and books of science behind it, tons of research, but
- 12:57Speaker 1: a lot of times the popular myth and think Pickett
- 13:00Speaker 1: believes this. I'm just Picket asked about pet peeves, and
- 13:03Speaker 1: this is one of them I have. The popular myth
- 13:05Speaker 1: of psychotherapy is that it is this fringe, gray area
- 13:09Speaker 1: thing and it's not a health science.
- 13:11Speaker 3: That's just not true. Like that's just not true.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Like you have to go do evidence based, research driven
- 13:18Speaker 1: curriculum in order to become a licensed professional, and these
- 13:21Speaker 1: licenses are guarded by boards that are holding you to
- 13:24Speaker 1: that empirical data. So that's my first pet peve is
- 13:26Speaker 1: that there is a misunderstanding that we're not research or
- 13:29Speaker 1: scientific science backed. But the other pet peeve I have
- 13:33Speaker 1: is how many fucking therapists go off roading into goddamn
- 13:36Speaker 1: mythology all the fucking time and start becoming reiki masters
- 13:40Speaker 1: and all this other bullshit and doing like energy work
- 13:43Speaker 1: and like repressed memory work, even though repressed memory work
- 13:46Speaker 1: has been debunked and you should not do it. We
- 13:49Speaker 1: now know of it as a pseudo science, but it
- 13:51Speaker 1: goes into this book of a whole bunch of other
- 13:52Speaker 1: fucking pseudosciences like phrenology and all sorts of other shit
- 13:55Speaker 1: that like a lot of therapists want to play with
- 13:57Speaker 1: now and they depart from their license to work the
- 14:00Speaker 1: thing they trained and got research driven back pronologies like
- 14:03Speaker 1: head shape, right, yeah, you can touch that bumps on
- 14:06Speaker 1: your head, and it tells you about who you are.
- 14:07Speaker 3: Like, there's so many different like.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Quackery, debunked quackery that like a lot of therapists go
- 14:14Speaker 1: indulge in, and it pisses me off because like this
- 14:17Speaker 1: is this is what feeds a lot of like the
- 14:19Speaker 1: public's misunderstanding that we're not a science backed discipline, that
- 14:23Speaker 1: we're not healthcare providers, that we are just these fucking
- 14:25Speaker 1: voodoo specialists. You know, there's a bunch of therapists out
- 14:28Speaker 1: there giving you like amethysts and ship to like feel better.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, but.
- 14:36Speaker 4: The energy from the earth Okay, yeah.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Sorry, that's geology.
- 14:40Speaker 3: That's nothing to do that is that is something though,
- 14:43Speaker 3: that's going to happen when your profession, when when you
- 14:46Speaker 3: do at the end of the day just say like
- 14:48Speaker 3: we like the goal is to get you to a
- 14:51Speaker 3: good spot to get through the day. Yes, and it's
- 14:54Speaker 3: not because the goal is not to fix a base problem.
- 14:57Speaker 3: The goal is to just get to the next day.
- 15:00Speaker 3: It is.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Sometimes we're much more follow the patient into whatever works
- 15:07Speaker 1: than a lot of other healthcare sciences because they're like there,
- 15:10Speaker 1: if you go to a gastroenterologist then and you're like, hey,
- 15:13Speaker 1: it helps me to use essential oils, they're gonna go great.
- 15:16Speaker 3: I have no opinion about that.
- 15:18Speaker 2: I'm not gonna encourage.
- 15:19Speaker 1: We talk to a therapist and you're like, my depression
- 15:21Speaker 1: seems to go away whenever I smell lavender. We're be
- 15:23Speaker 1: like more lavender, do that, and so like you're right,
- 15:26Speaker 1: like our profession does lend itself to solution focus like
- 15:29Speaker 1: anything that's helpful, but it does start to play in
- 15:32Speaker 1: the sandbox of like completely non substantiated like modalities that
- 15:38Speaker 1: I don't I think if you're gonna do that, it's
- 15:40Speaker 1: definitely it has and like for me, it's like I
- 15:43Speaker 1: don't like it whenever a clinician who's licensed wears the
- 15:46Speaker 1: cloak of their license, which commands public uh security and safety,
- 15:51Speaker 1: and then we do off roading things that we're not
- 15:54Speaker 1: licensed to do. Like it's like if your surgeon started
- 15:56Speaker 1: doing voodoo and it's like, that's not they're not operating
- 15:59Speaker 1: as a surgeon and now they're operating as a voo
- 16:01Speaker 1: boo voodoo guy.
- 16:02Speaker 4: Like bookay, I'm talking.
- 16:05Speaker 1: About the Yeah, yeah, that's right. So yes, I do
- 16:09Speaker 1: have pet peeves about this picket. But we aren't empirically
- 16:12Speaker 1: supported healthcare professions.
- 16:14Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you've said that several times, which is definitely
- 16:17Speaker 3: what people who are very confident in that statement do
- 16:19Speaker 3: is say it's several.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Times people who are destigmatizing the profession.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Can we just throw in untrained people should not be
- 16:28Speaker 2: handling crystals? Okay? True, if you're not a shaman. Takes
- 16:33Speaker 2: the number.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Of therapists right now that identify as a shaman on
- 16:37Speaker 1: your website all the goddamn times.
- 16:39Speaker 2: You don't see.
- 16:40Speaker 4: Yes, Energy worker.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Reiki Masters, level two Reiki master just like.
- 16:51Speaker 3: To compare to trast the difference between level one Reiki
- 16:55Speaker 3: masters at level two I as a level.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Difference which those two. It's like Congress when they said
- 17:03Speaker 2: about porn, like, you know, when you see it, if
- 17:06Speaker 2: you think.
- 17:07Speaker 1: You've had reiki, wait till you get to level too.
- 17:09Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, don't worry about it, you'll figure it out. Yeah,
- 17:14Speaker 1: you'll be fine anyway, hopefully that's helpful.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Pick it.
- 17:17Speaker 1: It's a really good question. But this is an evolving
- 17:20Speaker 1: healthcare science. As all healthcare is an evolving thing. There
- 17:24Speaker 1: are things that you you know, put to the dustbin,
- 17:26Speaker 1: there are things that you move forward with. Repressed memory
- 17:28Speaker 1: work is something that generally speaking, psychotherapy doesn't try to
- 17:31Speaker 1: do anymore because there have been too many instances that
- 17:34Speaker 1: we discovered that in our attempts to reveal the repressed memory,
- 17:38Speaker 1: we accidentally imbued one right, inception right, and so like
- 17:43Speaker 1: then that person became very confused. And so nowadays ethically
- 17:46Speaker 1: we do not do that anymore. But there's an example
- 17:48Speaker 1: where neuroscience was saying at the time, hey, this doesn't
- 17:51Speaker 1: add up, and psychotherapy like ran away with this trend.
- 17:55Speaker 1: So we needed to be rained in and that's why
- 17:57Speaker 1: it is a collaborative healthcare profession with the other allied
- 18:00Speaker 1: professions that work in psychology. So We love our neuroscience
- 18:03Speaker 1: friends and our psychiatrists and our psychologist's friends. We collaborate
- 18:07Speaker 1: with them. Does it need a higher barrier of entry psychotherapy. Yeah,
- 18:13Speaker 1: it's going to be lowered. Actually, that's that's the future
- 18:16Speaker 1: because now the federal government will no longer pay the
- 18:18Speaker 1: student loans to go become a therapist because a master's
- 18:21Speaker 1: degree in psychotherapy is similar to like a law degree,
- 18:24Speaker 1: and the federal government has recognized it does not earn
- 18:28Speaker 1: enough money to substantiate the student loans that we're going
- 18:31Speaker 1: to issue out.
- 18:32Speaker 3: Gotcha, But they will not.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Enforce the federal parody laws, which are the reason why
- 18:36Speaker 1: psychotherapists don't earn enough money. They'll just cut it all off. So, yeah,
- 18:39Speaker 1: there's going to be a race to the bottom where
- 18:41Speaker 1: you're not going to have to be empirically trained, and
- 18:43Speaker 1: we're going to get more raiki masters instead of psychotherapists.
- 18:46Speaker 3: That's the direction we're on. Well, patroon dot com slash
- 18:49Speaker 3: the health.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Oh Manja Smith's reki master would be amazing.
- 18:58Speaker 3: If we could just do a quick how bet you
- 19:00Speaker 3: could get certified during the show. I'm just saying, I
- 19:05Speaker 3: feel like this whole racket is a field that I
- 19:09Speaker 3: could do really well.
- 19:10Speaker 2: Crush. Yeah, you're already doing so much, this whole, this
- 19:14Speaker 2: whole Shenanigan.
- 19:16Speaker 1: We're gonna take quick break and when we come back,
- 19:18Speaker 1: we're talking about self assessment. While waiting for an assessment,
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- 19:52Speaker 1: No, what is a pirate's favorite letter?
- 19:55Speaker 6: Are? No?
- 19:56Speaker 2: 'tis the sea?
- 19:59Speaker 4: My answer is better?
- 20:01Speaker 2: Yeah? So anyway, Uh, we're naming the I'm going to
- 20:05Speaker 2: give you clues and you got to name what or
- 20:07Speaker 2: identify what they all have in common that I'm so sad, Nina, Penta,
- 20:12Speaker 2: Santa Maria, do you in the bottom I'm drinking sangria? Sangria?
- 20:18Speaker 2: Is the answer correct? All right? So buzz in when
- 20:20Speaker 2: you know it. Here we go first one scarlet, Ah peacock,
- 20:28Speaker 2: also Joe Mustard, Oh clothes clue, Okay, here we go.
- 20:43Speaker 2: I eye wall rain, hurricanes.
- 20:49Speaker 4: Yeah, features of a hurricane Louisiana.
- 20:52Speaker 5: You should have gotten No, I thought for sure. I
- 20:56Speaker 5: don't have the weather channel and everything I watched so much.
- 20:59Speaker 2: We chack, escapement, balance wheel, main spring, crown, the bezel, bezel,
- 21:13Speaker 2: isn't it for pastries? Say it again? Definitely heard the squeeze, escapement, Yes,
- 21:25Speaker 2: balance wheel.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Balance with pottery, main spring, buzz, the sexy scene and
- 21:32Speaker 1: ghost No.
- 21:36Speaker 2: In the pottery j the last no close though, when
- 21:41Speaker 2: they get it parts of a mechanical watch.
- 21:46Speaker 1: I don't think the bezel is an icing thing. Okay,
- 21:49Speaker 1: what Oh it's the turn thing? Ash, Why did you
- 21:54Speaker 1: validate me?
- 21:54Speaker 3: I was wrong?
- 21:55Speaker 2: MOHAMMEDA. Gandhi, Julius Caesar, I mean buzz rulers, Nope, there's
- 22:03Speaker 2: more to it, okay, Martin, human rights, Abraham.
- 22:09Speaker 3: Lincoln, Oh buzz Yes, political leaders who were assassinated.
- 22:13Speaker 2: Correct, I was off the one, uh, Thermopyla, the Alamo,
- 22:23Speaker 2: but little big horn last stands. Yeah, very good?
- 22:30Speaker 3: Are we tied?
- 22:31Speaker 2: Is it to too? Yeah?
- 22:33Speaker 7: Point yes, I get them for just participating. I get
- 22:38Speaker 7: my participation trophy. I forget David Bowie.
- 22:46Speaker 3: Whitneys.
- 22:47Speaker 6: Let her explain the your Witney's VERSI Mexico was invading
- 22:52Speaker 6: on their own land, on their own land.
- 22:56Speaker 8: We wanted, we wanted to stand here and say no,
- 22:58Speaker 8: that's our land. Now get out of your land. This
- 23:03Speaker 8: is our And that's when the Bowie knife and and
- 23:10Speaker 8: what's the other guy's name, Sam Houston, they came in and.
- 23:13Speaker 4: Said no, no, no, Tom Dallas, Yeah, Dallas.
- 23:17Speaker 5: I think I was like.
- 23:19Speaker 2: Was in there.
- 23:20Speaker 4: Yeah, there wasn't.
- 23:25Speaker 6: Bowe's first name David, David, David Daniel. It's not Daniel Bowie, Daniel.
- 23:31Speaker 3: Boone, Daniel Daniel Boone was a man?
- 23:34Speaker 2: Is Daniel Boone? Daniel Boone? That maybe that's what I
- 23:37Speaker 2: think of.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Bowie is a singer.
- 23:39Speaker 5: The Bowie knife is named after.
- 23:41Speaker 1: That Bowie knife, Jim Bowie. I'm right, look it up.
- 23:46Speaker 1: It's Jim Booe.
- 23:47Speaker 4: I don't want to, don't care, James.
- 23:49Speaker 6: Then you.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Mentioned Voodoo earlier. Do you know the history of like
- 23:55Speaker 2: where that came from? This is Louisiana, fascinating, Okay, No,
- 24:00Speaker 2: what it is? It's it's because black people were not
- 24:04Speaker 2: taught how to read, like it was illegal for them
- 24:07Speaker 2: to read.
- 24:08Speaker 3: So if they went and we're it and you come
- 24:12Speaker 3: to this show for history, that's what you're here for.
- 24:14Speaker 2: They would go see their their local person, their medicine person,
- 24:19Speaker 2: and they would be complaining about something. They would make
- 24:22Speaker 2: a doll of the person and put a pin, so
- 24:26Speaker 2: like I'm complaining of a headache, they put a pin
- 24:28Speaker 2: in the head, and then they would put on the shelf.
- 24:30Speaker 2: So when the person came back, they would grab it
- 24:32Speaker 2: and like like, oh, how is your head doing, because
- 24:34Speaker 2: there's been If it's still hurt, they leave the pen in.
- 24:36Speaker 2: If it was better, they'd take it out. It was
- 24:39Speaker 2: the first medical records that they would use, but then
- 24:43Speaker 2: it was misinterpreted and then people then took that and
- 24:46Speaker 2: be like, oh, they're causing it to happen as opposed
- 24:48Speaker 2: to a recording.
- 24:50Speaker 1: Okay, well now I feel silly, Kay people, Okay, you
- 24:55Speaker 1: came out ahead. Yeah, all right, I'm now pro voodoo.
- 24:59Speaker 1: I think we're going beat this. It's just really medical records.
- 25:02Speaker 1: It's honestly, I hate writing medical notes, so I'd rather
- 25:05Speaker 1: just have a little pin with like a thing and
- 25:06Speaker 1: a heart.
- 25:07Speaker 2: Like he said insurance. Look at the doll. So if
- 25:15Speaker 2: you're working with like a like in drug treatment, then
- 25:18Speaker 2: you just put a pin in the nose. Looks like,
- 25:23Speaker 2: how's that going? The dolls just holding a little build
- 25:29Speaker 2: a bear drug addict bears.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm billing for PhD self assessing while waiting for
- 25:40Speaker 1: an assessment from our buddy Wayne.
- 25:43Speaker 9: Hi.
- 25:44Speaker 1: Everyone. Over the last few years, I've suspected I'm neuro
- 25:47Speaker 1: divergent in some way. It never really bothered me, and
- 25:50Speaker 1: I never really felt like I needed a label. Recently, though,
- 25:53Speaker 1: that's changed. I suspect I may be a u DHD
- 25:57Speaker 1: ADHD plus autism, and I feel like I should pursue
- 26:00Speaker 1: an assessment. My psychologist and GP both encourage it because
- 26:04Speaker 1: they think having an answer could make life easier and
- 26:07Speaker 1: help guide support. That's reassuring, especially because assessments are expensive
- 26:12Speaker 1: and I'd rather not spend that money only to be told, Nope,
- 26:15Speaker 1: you're neurotypical. Another reassuring factor is that almost every spicy
- 26:19Speaker 1: brained friend I've spoken to has had one of two reactions,
- 26:23Speaker 1: when were you diagnosed or you're autistic? Honestly, the second
- 26:28Speaker 1: one somehow feels like stronger evidence. Over the last few months,
- 26:31Speaker 1: I've been dealing with what I think might be burnout
- 26:34Speaker 1: and emotional dysregulation. Around the same time, thanks to the
- 26:38Speaker 1: magical algorithm, my Instagram feed became almost entirely ADHD and
- 26:43Speaker 1: autism content. To my surprise, a huge amount of it
- 26:46Speaker 1: wasn't just interesting, it felt uncomfortably familiar. One thing I've
- 26:50Speaker 1: learned is that for some people with AUDHD, ADHD traits
- 26:55Speaker 1: can overshadow autistic needs. The result can be years of
- 26:59Speaker 1: pushing through sense reoverload, masking, and poor self regulation until
- 27:03Speaker 1: the system eventually falls apart. Whether that's what's happening with
- 27:07Speaker 1: me or not, I decided to experiment while I wait
- 27:10Speaker 1: for an assessment. I've started treating myself as though I
- 27:14Speaker 1: might be a UDHD and trying strategies that are commonly recommended.
- 27:19Speaker 1: If they help, great if they don't. I've learned something
- 27:22Speaker 1: so far, I've been masking less. My social mask was
- 27:26Speaker 1: what I call me extra, an exaggerated version of myself
- 27:30Speaker 1: that tried to make every joke, join every conversation, and
- 27:33Speaker 1: be the center of attention. I eventually realized how exhausting
- 27:36Speaker 1: that was. These days, I still joke around, but it
- 27:38Speaker 1: feels natural rather than like a performance. I've also found
- 27:42Speaker 1: healthier outlets through Twitch, streaming, podcasts, and similar activities.
- 27:46Speaker 2: Two.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Letting myself stem if I need to stim I do
- 27:50Speaker 1: even at work. For me, that's things like clenching my hands,
- 27:54Speaker 1: touching my fingers together, or vocal stems like echolalia. Three
- 27:58Speaker 1: Planning for regulation. I don't leave home without my bag
- 28:02Speaker 1: of safety and preparation, containing things like my iPad, headphones, water, snacks,
- 28:06Speaker 1: and notebooks. I don't always need everything, but knowing it's
- 28:09Speaker 1: there makes life easier. These changes have genuinely helped. I'm
- 28:13Speaker 1: recognizing overwhelmed sooner, regulating before I hit a wall, and
- 28:17Speaker 1: treating myself with far more compassion. But I also feel
- 28:20Speaker 1: more neurodivergent than I did before. Executive dysfunction is the
- 28:25Speaker 1: biggest example. Before, I'd force myself through tasks by assuming
- 28:29Speaker 1: I was lazy or needed to try harder. Now, something
- 28:33Speaker 1: as simple as putting a bathroom drawer back after cleaning it,
- 28:36Speaker 1: true story, feels overwhelming because my brain immediately sees every
- 28:40Speaker 1: step involved. It's almost as though my brain has decided.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Now that you understand how much forcing yourself has been costing.
- 28:47Speaker 1: We're not doing that anymore. Sometimes I wonder whether this
- 28:50Speaker 1: is burnout depression or whether I'm simply noticing things that
- 28:53Speaker 1: were always there because I'm no longer suppressing them. One
- 28:57Speaker 1: unexpected change is that my self hatred has reduced dramatically.
- 29:01Speaker 1: Instead of asking what's wrong with me, I've started asking
- 29:04Speaker 1: what does my brain need right now? Whether I receive
- 29:07Speaker 1: a diagnosis or not, that shift alone has been incredibly valuable.
- 29:11Speaker 3: So I have a few questions.
- 29:13Speaker 1: What is the professional view on self identification while waiting
- 29:17Speaker 1: for an assessment? Is it generally helpful if it leads
- 29:20Speaker 1: to healthier coping strategies? Or are there risks? Is imposter
- 29:25Speaker 1: syndrome common during.
- 29:26Speaker 3: The assessment process?
- 29:28Speaker 1: I regularly wonder what if I'm not neurodivergent? What if
- 29:32Speaker 1: I'm somehow faking all of this without realizing it? Is
- 29:35Speaker 1: it common to feel more autistic or ADHD after learning
- 29:40Speaker 1: about that and accommodating yourself. Are the traits becoming more noticeable?
- 29:45Speaker 1: Or am I simply becoming aware of things that we're
- 29:47Speaker 1: always there? How do clinicians distinguish between burnout related skill
- 29:52Speaker 1: regression and simply giving yourself permission? To stop masking. Sometimes
- 29:55Speaker 1: I genuinely don't know which I'm experiencing. Finally, if someone
- 29:59Speaker 1: starts using neurodiversity friendly strategies before receiving a diagnosis, and
- 30:04Speaker 1: they consistently improve their quality of life, how much weight
- 30:07Speaker 1: should they give that? Obviously it's not evidence of a diagnosis,
- 30:11Speaker 1: but can it still be meaningful? Thanks for everything you
- 30:15Speaker 1: all do. Hopefully I'll see you all in Vegas again soon,
- 30:18Speaker 1: your pal Wayanne Geo.
- 30:20Speaker 2: Wo.
- 30:21Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good question.
- 30:22Speaker 2: That's a really good question of questions. Yeah, which one
- 30:25Speaker 2: do we start?
- 30:27Speaker 3: Put them all in a hat, So let's start with
- 30:29Speaker 3: the first one.
- 30:29Speaker 2: What is your professional view and self identification while waiting
- 30:32Speaker 2: for an assessment? Is it generally helpful? I always call this,
- 30:38Speaker 2: and this is kind of a solution focused approach, we
- 30:41Speaker 2: call this preseason change. This was always really helpful when
- 30:46Speaker 2: whenever I was doing an assessment or a meeting with
- 30:48Speaker 2: a client, I would ask them, Okay, what have you
- 30:50Speaker 2: done so far?
- 30:51Speaker 8: Right?
- 30:52Speaker 2: Right? Because then it's it kind of gives a little
- 30:56Speaker 2: bit of like hope and inspiration for the person realizing that,
- 31:00Speaker 2: like when you come into treatment, you're actually further ahead
- 31:05Speaker 2: than where you think you actually are, You're not at
- 31:07Speaker 2: your low point, because sometimes people feel like I go
- 31:10Speaker 2: into treatment on my low point, Like, no, the going
- 31:14Speaker 2: in is your swing back up, right, right?
- 31:18Speaker 3: Most people have been at their low point yeah when
- 31:20Speaker 3: they get to treatment, but they're not.
- 31:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what you mean.
- 31:23Speaker 1: Well, in adjacent to this, Nick, I think that this
- 31:25Speaker 1: is something we can relate to from the addiction's side,
- 31:27Speaker 1: because we've had people come to treatment and say, I'm
- 31:30Speaker 1: here to find out if I'm an alcoholic, right, I'm
- 31:33Speaker 1: here to find out if there's a problem, And we
- 31:35Speaker 1: sort of approach that like, Okay, are you going to
- 31:38Speaker 1: wait for me to say yes or no before like
- 31:40Speaker 1: you do anything about this, because clearly it's bad enough
- 31:42Speaker 1: that you're here, right, So what are you looking for?
- 31:45Speaker 1: And like this is a very adjacent question that it
- 31:48Speaker 1: isn't so much the diagnosis that's going to decide any
- 31:51Speaker 1: of this. Like if you believe that you are, that's
- 31:55Speaker 1: enough for us to do something about it.
- 31:57Speaker 2: Yeah, do I fit in the label of alcoholic? I
- 32:03Speaker 2: need to kind of rephrase that into like is your
- 32:06Speaker 2: alcohol causing a problem? Right, because like you're here for
- 32:09Speaker 2: a reason, whether so so, whether or not the label
- 32:13Speaker 2: fits is irrelevant at that point.
- 32:15Speaker 6: But I feel like in a similar way that we
- 32:18Speaker 6: hear people seeking that like validation through a diagnosis of
- 32:24Speaker 6: either autism or ADHD.
- 32:26Speaker 5: That's a really good analogy.
- 32:27Speaker 6: I never thought about it because most people are coming
- 32:30Speaker 6: and I imagine, especially like alcoholism, something that's legal and
- 32:33Speaker 6: commonly used, so like, uh am I an alcoholic, Like
- 32:37Speaker 6: and I hear your perspective as a clinician, but I
- 32:40Speaker 6: feel like that's got to be really common, like or
- 32:43Speaker 6: more common than you think for people to come in
- 32:44Speaker 6: and they're looking for you to tell them. Maybe it's
- 32:47Speaker 6: because they were in an argument with their spouse about
- 32:49Speaker 6: it or family like it's not a problem, it's not
- 32:52Speaker 6: a problem, and they're looking for you to say, well,
- 32:54Speaker 6: you tell me, is this a problem?
- 32:56Speaker 2: Oh yeah?
- 32:56Speaker 3: That is that generated from other people telling them that
- 32:59Speaker 3: they're alcol hauling, right, and then like they've been fighting
- 33:02Speaker 3: back against that right.
- 33:04Speaker 2: That's that's smoking different between these two examples.
- 33:08Speaker 1: The difference, well, but think about it, like, and this
- 33:10Speaker 1: goes back to Wayne's second question about imposters.
- 33:12Speaker 2: I'm just getting distracted imagine that.
- 33:14Speaker 1: I know it was interesting to be imagine that an
- 33:16Speaker 1: addiction diagnosis or substance use disorders, the technical term. Imagine
- 33:20Speaker 1: that that was liberating. Imagine that hearing that you go, oh,
- 33:23Speaker 1: now I know why I love cocaine. It's been such
- 33:26Speaker 1: a mystery I have a disease.
- 33:27Speaker 2: I thought it was weird that I loved so much.
- 33:31Speaker 3: I love it so much more than everybody else in
- 33:33Speaker 3: the orgy. But like, ah, now I get it, And like, yeah, now, I.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Who don't love it just haven't tried it.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Honestly, Yeah, it seems to me it's always a good
- 33:44Speaker 1: but like, yeah, I mean, that's the difference with autism
- 33:48Speaker 1: and with ADHD in the present age is that it
- 33:51Speaker 1: is a liberating diagnosis, which is ironic because like when
- 33:54Speaker 1: we were kids in the eighties, in the early nineties,
- 33:56Speaker 1: that's whenever the proliferation of ADHD became really really common,
- 34:00Speaker 1: because in d S M three it was like simplified,
- 34:02Speaker 1: Like the ADHD diagnosis was hyper simplified, so pediatricians could
- 34:06Speaker 1: use it who had no mental health training and they
- 34:08Speaker 1: would literally just use the list, right, And that's when
- 34:11Speaker 1: we started seeing tons of our peers and our generation
- 34:14Speaker 1: getting a diagnosed of ADHD, which wasn't a good thing.
- 34:17Speaker 1: It wasn't like, oh, that's it, Okay, we need to
- 34:19Speaker 1: appreciate that our kids different.
- 34:20Speaker 3: It was like the kids, oh, all of the kids
- 34:22Speaker 3: like a few years younger than me. Like I was
- 34:25Speaker 3: just a little outside of it. I bet Nick was too.
- 34:28Speaker 3: Gen Xers were right on the edge, and then the
- 34:30Speaker 3: millennials come.
- 34:32Speaker 2: And feel did we decide if you guys are xenials?
- 34:40Speaker 2: Is that what we decided?
- 34:41Speaker 3: If you guys are right there on the borderline. I
- 34:42Speaker 3: think that's what we technically are. Yeah, the zials, we're
- 34:47Speaker 3: that like six year weird window gap. We all played
- 34:51Speaker 3: Oregon Trail.
- 34:51Speaker 2: You do beat it?
- 34:53Speaker 1: Yeah, you had the competence to complete the game.
- 34:57Speaker 4: Yeah, of death.
- 34:58Speaker 2: In our generation, you played it because your better games
- 35:01Speaker 2: were at home.
- 35:03Speaker 8: We got it.
- 35:04Speaker 2: We were excited to go to school so that we
- 35:06Speaker 2: could play it.
- 35:08Speaker 5: There.
- 35:10Speaker 3: Trail or math blasters, those were the options.
- 35:16Speaker 2: Did y'all have Solitaire?
- 35:20Speaker 3: These were computers that had like a five and a
- 35:22Speaker 3: half inch or five inch or whatever. The measurement was
- 35:25Speaker 3: floppy disk and you you'd put the disc in the drive,
- 35:28Speaker 3: you'd close the drive, and then you would turn.
- 35:30Speaker 4: It on and turned the computer find it to click
- 35:33Speaker 4: on the screen.
- 35:35Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean like, yeah, it wouldn't it wouldn't any.
- 35:38Speaker 5: Of that other so simple. Back then.
- 35:41Speaker 1: The kids younger I forgot, well yeah, but we saw
- 35:44Speaker 1: the proliferation of it.
- 35:45Speaker 3: This goes back to like the kids younger than than us,
- 35:48Speaker 3: Like it was like the holes were just literally everybody.
- 35:53Speaker 1: And then the reason exactly it was true, and and
- 35:55Speaker 1: the reason why was because the d s M three
- 35:58Speaker 1: was placed in such a way or designed such way
- 36:00Speaker 1: that pediatricians could diagnose with it.
- 36:01Speaker 3: So it just exploded.
- 36:03Speaker 1: And then you fast forward twenty something years, thirty years
- 36:06Speaker 1: in our case, and like now we see autism and
- 36:08Speaker 1: ADHD as this explanatory force for people where they almost
- 36:14Speaker 1: crave the diagnosis or the diagnosis be validating, whereas our
- 36:17Speaker 1: other example of addiction not so much. Like people are like, oh,
- 36:19Speaker 1: that's not a good thing. I would be ashamed to
- 36:21Speaker 1: find that out. But with autism or DHD, it's like, oh, okay,
- 36:25Speaker 1: so I've struggled in these areas, or I've noticed I
- 36:28Speaker 1: can't complete tasks or low motivation or low focus or
- 36:31Speaker 1: all these other things, or hyperstimulation or things like that, overwhelm, masking,
- 36:36Speaker 1: pretending to be somebody I'm not aping what I think
- 36:38Speaker 1: other humans are, but it feels inauthentic to me. And
- 36:41Speaker 1: then later they learned I could have this diagnosis and
- 36:45Speaker 1: there is a validation to that, and so I want
- 36:47Speaker 1: to like support Wyne in that because that's a very
- 36:50Speaker 1: common thing to crave, right, because it feels like society's built.
- 36:55Speaker 1: It's like being a left handed person in a right
- 36:56Speaker 1: handed world, right, like the world is built for the
- 36:59Speaker 1: quote unquote typicals. And then whenever you're neurodivergent, either we
- 37:03Speaker 1: diseasify that and pathologize it like we did in the
- 37:05Speaker 1: nineties and in the eighties, or now we embrace it
- 37:09Speaker 1: and we almost celebrate it, which I think is better,
- 37:12Speaker 1: but it does create this other, you know, the Teeter
- 37:14Speaker 1: Totter slips the other side effect, where now it's celebrated,
- 37:17Speaker 1: it's heroized, and instead of being something that's managed, sometimes
- 37:20Speaker 1: it's like, no, the world needs to change around me.
- 37:23Speaker 1: That's where I'm really glad to see that Wayne's not
- 37:24Speaker 1: doing that, like Wayne is saying, no, I'm borrowing the
- 37:26Speaker 1: skills that people with these things with the diagnosis use
- 37:30Speaker 1: to optimize their lives and do better great and that
- 37:34Speaker 1: includes like ridding yourself of an authenticity and like being
- 37:37Speaker 1: who you really are and not having to be performative
- 37:39Speaker 1: and masking and stuff like that. So all of that
- 37:41Speaker 1: I think is really good, and I think the imposter
- 37:42Speaker 1: syndrome is normal too, Like yeah, you feel like something's
- 37:45Speaker 1: really validating. It's like, oh, if that were true of me,
- 37:47Speaker 1: that would explain so much. And it's like, Okay, that'd
- 37:50Speaker 1: be great if that were true.
- 37:51Speaker 6: That fear is really common. I see that a lot
- 37:53Speaker 6: with clients who come in and they're maybe in a
- 37:56Speaker 6: similar situation. I talk with them about going to get
- 38:00Speaker 6: maybe evaluated if they can, if they can afford it,
- 38:02Speaker 6: or their healthcare will cover it. And that is a
- 38:06Speaker 6: huge here going into it's like almost being scared. Yeah,
- 38:11Speaker 6: like that they're just going to say, yeah, you're neurotypical.
- 38:13Speaker 6: That's all in your head, Like you're kind of gas lit,
- 38:15Speaker 6: a little bitter.
- 38:16Speaker 1: And this is something like if you really want to
- 38:18Speaker 1: test yourself, Wayne, now that you're back on the Patreon,
- 38:22Speaker 1: go find my ADHD deep dive and.
- 38:24Speaker 4: Do that test.
- 38:26Speaker 2: That's the test.
- 38:26Speaker 4: You have to listen to it through.
- 38:29Speaker 1: Then you do have six hours.
- 38:30Speaker 2: It's four parts.
- 38:32Speaker 1: Each one's ninety minutes, but like one of the things
- 38:34Speaker 1: we talk about in there. I talk about in there
- 38:36Speaker 1: is that the several people the diagnosis is not what
- 38:40Speaker 1: you think it different. A lot of people put so
- 38:43Speaker 1: much weight into the diagnosis. The diagnosis only has value,
- 38:46Speaker 1: in my opinion, for legal reasons. It may have access.
- 38:49Speaker 1: It gives you access to medicine. It also gives you
- 38:52Speaker 1: access to accommodations, and sometimes that's really really helpful in
- 38:56Speaker 1: the society you live, in your workplace. But like for
- 38:59Speaker 1: personal valid dation, the diagnosis is not like a blood test.
- 39:04Speaker 1: There's no empirical science. It's a self report, diagnostic assessment.
- 39:09Speaker 1: Somebody sits with you and asks you questions. If you
- 39:12Speaker 1: use your AI to ask, like what would an autistic
- 39:15Speaker 1: or adia person say to those questions, you could just
- 39:18Speaker 1: answer them all and you'll receive the diagnosis. The only
- 39:21Speaker 1: thing more elaborate than a self assessment of just asking
- 39:23Speaker 1: you questions is sometimes sending in surveys to like a
- 39:26Speaker 1: former teacher of yours, a coworker of yours, a parent
- 39:29Speaker 1: of yours, and saying what was Wayne like when he
- 39:31Speaker 1: was ten?
- 39:31Speaker 3: And like again, all of that.
- 39:33Speaker 1: Is people's huge, just a douche, You're just so mean.
- 39:37Speaker 1: This is constantly pulling the wings off. Yeah, so like
- 39:40Speaker 1: all this is so subjective.
- 39:45Speaker 2: He had a huge brought his own. He didn't have
- 39:52Speaker 2: to give him any.
- 39:54Speaker 4: Over the bok.
- 39:56Speaker 1: So, yeah, don't put too much into the diagnosis. A
- 39:58Speaker 1: lot of people look for that as this human validator.
- 40:01Speaker 1: And the thing I talk about in the Deep Dive
- 40:02Speaker 1: is it will never be that. And if you do
- 40:04Speaker 1: do the assessments, you'll come away being like, oh no,
- 40:08Speaker 1: did I lie? Like that's the number one thing I
- 40:10Speaker 1: hear people say, like, I wouldn't got the professional assessment,
- 40:12Speaker 1: but I'm scared, Jim, did I embellish things because it
- 40:15Speaker 1: was important to me to get the diagnosis?
- 40:17Speaker 3: Is it true or not true?
- 40:18Speaker 1: And I tell them you're asking the wrong question. What
- 40:20Speaker 1: you need to be looking at is do you benefit
- 40:23Speaker 1: from the treatments and do you subjectively align with the
- 40:27Speaker 1: way other people relate to these things. If those two
- 40:29Speaker 1: things are true, then call yourself autistic, call yourself ADHD,
- 40:33Speaker 1: call yourself both. I don't care, because at the end
- 40:35Speaker 1: of the day, you benefit from this new strategy.
- 40:38Speaker 2: Use the strategy well. Also, I think it's important to
- 40:41Speaker 2: point out too that at the end of the day,
- 40:43Speaker 2: the strategy works, and that's the most important thing because
- 40:47Speaker 2: it's also possible that the diagnosis is completely wrong, but
- 40:51Speaker 2: the strategy is the same, right, Yeah, I mean there
- 40:55Speaker 2: could be a new disorder that we don't even realize yet,
- 40:58Speaker 2: that we don't know about, that in ten years we realized,
- 41:01Speaker 2: oh Wayne actually had this. However, the strategies were very
- 41:06Speaker 2: similar to how we would treat these other issues, these
- 41:09Speaker 2: other diagnoses.
- 41:10Speaker 3: So, Wayne, that should make you feel better. You probably
- 41:12Speaker 3: have something that hadn't even been identified yet.
- 41:15Speaker 2: Yeah, really not any hope, You're welcome. Wayne.
- 41:19Speaker 4: Another thing to worry Wayne, You have Wayne tism.
- 41:24Speaker 2: He's wayneistic.
- 41:29Speaker 6: I wanted to comment to on like once you feel like,
- 41:33Speaker 6: oh I have this diagnosis or yeah, okay I'm autistic
- 41:36Speaker 6: or I'm audihd am I displaying more traits now? Is
- 41:42Speaker 6: that like almost exacerbating the issue? And so it's kind
- 41:45Speaker 6: of like I don't think so, I mean maybe, but
- 41:49Speaker 6: I don't think it's faking. It's just that that the
- 41:52Speaker 6: pendulum has swung from I have to mask and keep
- 41:56Speaker 6: this a big secret to I can be really.
- 41:58Speaker 5: Free about this.
- 41:59Speaker 6: And so maybe is going like you know, further the
- 42:02Speaker 6: other way where it's just like no mask, which we
- 42:04Speaker 6: all put on masks for different roles. Let me just
- 42:07Speaker 6: throw that out there.
- 42:09Speaker 5: But I think that.
- 42:10Speaker 1: Whitney wears a Chewbacca mask and we've asked her not to.
- 42:13Speaker 4: I won't stop.
- 42:14Speaker 3: I can't, so it really kills my boner.
- 42:18Speaker 2: You're welcome, disinvited from all the high.
- 42:29Speaker 3: Who's the chicken chaka Whitney?
- 42:31Speaker 4: You just said wear a mask?
- 42:36Speaker 3: In the invitation, nobody was wearing a Chewbacca mask.
- 42:38Speaker 4: There were examples Tomato, Tomato, it.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Gotta be me, my you.
- 42:45Speaker 1: You bring up a really good point, which is like,
- 42:48Speaker 1: can't do it.
- 42:50Speaker 2: It sounds so sexual now.
- 42:55Speaker 5: A lot of gurgling.
- 42:59Speaker 2: Joey.
- 43:00Speaker 3: All right, this is the one of a kind show.
- 43:04Speaker 3: Therapy is an unusual thing in the world.
- 43:07Speaker 5: Like the symptoms becoming more Yeah.
- 43:10Speaker 1: Well, I think there's two truths to that, one being
- 43:13Speaker 1: really learning more about a diagnostic structure, you start to
- 43:16Speaker 1: connect your own dots that can happen out all by itself. Also,
- 43:19Speaker 1: adopting any form of language that tries to describe things,
- 43:23Speaker 1: you will connect dots. If you adopt a religion and
- 43:26Speaker 1: you or you go start going to a religion, right,
- 43:28Speaker 1: but if you start attending Sunday School and you learn
- 43:30Speaker 1: about sin and shame and mistakes and redemption and grace.
- 43:34Speaker 1: You will then take that and apply it to your
- 43:36Speaker 1: life and go, yes, it must be true because look,
- 43:41Speaker 1: those things connect to these things. Any meta narrative can
- 43:44Speaker 1: do that.
- 43:45Speaker 2: What's the sharpshooter fallacy? Go on?
- 43:47Speaker 1: Where you that's somebody who's beaten Oregon trail. That's a
- 43:51Speaker 1: man who's beaten Oregon trail. We don't know about the
- 43:53Speaker 1: sharp call.
- 43:54Speaker 2: Of duty, but you you fire the arrow first and
- 44:00Speaker 2: you draw the target around it.
- 44:01Speaker 4: Oh I see, Yeah, so I'm not a sharp shooter.
- 44:05Speaker 3: You shoot, you shoot it, and then you're like, oh
- 44:07Speaker 3: that that's the that's the that's whatever you hit.
- 44:09Speaker 2: That's what I meant, that's why. Yeah. So it's yeah,
- 44:12Speaker 2: it's kind of yeah, you're kind of doing this a
- 44:15Speaker 2: different different way. The other thing, too, is like it's
- 44:17Speaker 2: kind of like you become more aware of things. You know,
- 44:22Speaker 2: Like if you're shopping for a car, this is so true.
- 44:25Speaker 2: You never see that car until I want to buy
- 44:28Speaker 2: that car and see him.
- 44:30Speaker 1: They ruined me about ten years ago by pointing out
- 44:33Speaker 1: that Las Vegas has a.
- 44:34Speaker 2: Lot of he tore it up.
- 44:37Speaker 3: He was like, God, what's up with all the Nissan
- 44:38Speaker 3: Ultima's in Las Vegas? And I was like what?
- 44:41Speaker 1: And from that day on, Yeah, everywhere I looked, I
- 44:44Speaker 1: was like, oh my god. I was like I could
- 44:47Speaker 1: see the matrix all of a sudden, like everybody fucking
- 44:50Speaker 1: has any's on Ultima. And then I bought one that same.
- 44:52Speaker 2: Year, did you Yeah, Oh yeah, that's on you. I know,
- 44:58Speaker 2: And I think you planted that thought since a story. Yeah,
- 45:02Speaker 2: tell us more about the Nissan. It was pretty bad.
- 45:04Speaker 1: It was a really bad news Ultima, very bad news
- 45:08Speaker 1: on Altama and the way they're built of a headlight
- 45:11Speaker 1: goes out, it's a pain in the ask to change something.
- 45:13Speaker 1: You can't just reach in and do the head I
- 45:14Speaker 1: gotta go through the fucking engine.
- 45:16Speaker 5: Have more questions.
- 45:17Speaker 2: There were some other things.
- 45:18Speaker 1: In there, burnout skill regression versus simply giving yourself permission
- 45:23Speaker 1: to stop masking. So like, I've had patients that ask me,
- 45:26Speaker 1: do you think I'm autistic?
- 45:27Speaker 2: Do you think I have a h D?
- 45:29Speaker 1: I think I asking all these things. I tell them
- 45:32Speaker 1: I want you to be less interested in me rendering
- 45:34Speaker 1: a verdict on this and more interested in telling me
- 45:37Speaker 1: about your truth, right, So do you feel that you
- 45:41Speaker 1: falsely present yourself to the world and what does it
- 45:43Speaker 1: feel like to stop doing that? And I think that's
- 45:47Speaker 1: really really healthy because there is a burnout whenever you're
- 45:49Speaker 1: constantly like pretending to be somebody gonna poll Well, yeah,
- 45:54Speaker 1: and so like I as a therapist, if I have
- 45:55Speaker 1: a patient that we're exploring, that that's awesome. Like as
- 45:58Speaker 1: a clinician, I don't need to different wrensheet between the
- 46:00Speaker 1: two to figure out what's true in that situation. Wayne,
- 46:03Speaker 1: I'm interested in what your subjective experiences. You're feeling overtaxed, overstimulated,
- 46:09Speaker 1: and overwhelmed. And when we start to change the little
- 46:12Speaker 1: knobs and dials on your life, we're experimenting with loosening
- 46:16Speaker 1: the grip of that overwhelm.
- 46:18Speaker 2: I want to do that with you.
- 46:19Speaker 1: I don't have a name for what that is in
- 46:21Speaker 1: your life. I'm fine with your hypotheses. I just want
- 46:24Speaker 1: to experiment and see what that feels like for you.
- 46:26Speaker 1: I think that's how most therapists would approach that, except
- 46:29Speaker 1: for Nick, because he's only thinking about Nissan Ultimus.
- 46:33Speaker 5: Yep, he said, he's pro but kind of against So
- 46:37Speaker 5: to that answer.
- 46:37Speaker 2: Contraryan perspective.
- 46:40Speaker 1: It's the duality of tangiment.
- 46:42Speaker 2: You can't put me in a box.
- 46:43Speaker 3: Nobody puts.
- 46:49Speaker 5: It works. Okay, let me tell you.
- 46:52Speaker 3: Luckily he had dressed so best. Orgy, we've had it
- 46:56Speaker 3: pod therapy. We're gonna take a quick break and when
- 46:59Speaker 3: we come back, he wasn't the word.
- 47:01Speaker 1: We're talking about morning and evening routines. You're listening to Politics.
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- 47:22Speaker 1: SA alright, last, Tria, I believe I'm in the lead.
- 47:25Speaker 2: Okay, let's go with here we go, intake, compression, power, exhaust.
- 47:37Speaker 2: Give it to Whitney an engine. I'll give it to you.
- 47:40Speaker 1: It's the four.
- 47:41Speaker 2: Strokes of a four stroke engine. Oh oh wow, that's
- 47:44Speaker 2: what their strokes are. Strokes.
- 47:47Speaker 3: Yeah, No, you did better than me. I was going
- 47:48Speaker 3: to say a car, and I don't think you'd have.
- 47:50Speaker 2: Given it to me. Uh no, I would not have
- 47:52Speaker 2: given that to you.
- 47:54Speaker 5: Uh that's my my highway. I never get these, So
- 47:58Speaker 5: I'm an on that one.
- 47:59Speaker 2: All got it, walks away on a way. There's no
- 48:03Speaker 2: way any of you're going to get this one.
- 48:05Speaker 4: Challenge accepted.
- 48:06Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, Vatican City, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates buzz and
- 48:14Speaker 2: no fuck buzz.
- 48:16Speaker 3: Yes, people are countries that are led by a dictator
- 48:19Speaker 3: or a single leader.
- 48:21Speaker 2: No, this is a geography question. Just yeah, So Samgan Bahrain,
- 48:27Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, Vatican City, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates.
- 48:32Speaker 6: Bahrain, places surround or like tiny countries within a country.
- 48:39Speaker 2: Or all three or all five of these countries don't
- 48:44Speaker 2: have something something.
- 48:51Speaker 1: I mean Vatican City, so they've got a pope.
- 48:55Speaker 2: That's Arabia, Vatican City, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, bahering a
- 49:01Speaker 2: lot of those oil.
- 49:02Speaker 3: One of them has Mecca.
- 49:04Speaker 2: They they don't have what they don't have. They don't geographical,
- 49:09Speaker 2: they don't have features like an ocean front.
- 49:12Speaker 3: They don't have they don't have their own body of water.
- 49:15Speaker 2: No, Saudi Arabia does quate does a b u A?
- 49:23Speaker 2: This is fun?
- 49:24Speaker 4: What do they not a mountain.
- 49:26Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a mountain, No, you're an idiot. A river, yes, river.
- 49:33Speaker 2: Countries with no permanent rivers.
- 49:36Speaker 9: There you go.
- 49:38Speaker 2: God, Okay, let's do uh, let's do this one last
- 49:43Speaker 2: one Sherlock Holmes, Jessica Fletcher. But yes, yeah, yeah, fictional detectives, yeah.
- 49:55Speaker 4: Jessica, She wrote, I was like something, I just need
- 49:58Speaker 4: a detection, ben Wa Blanc.
- 50:02Speaker 8: Ye.
- 50:06Speaker 2: I love those balls.
- 50:09Speaker 1: To morning and evening routines, Hi, Jim Nick Whitney and
- 50:15Speaker 1: doctor Jacob Evening. I'd love to know whether you have
- 50:18Speaker 1: any morning or evening routines you'd like to share. Whenever
- 50:21Speaker 1: I start thinking about creating routines for myself, there are
- 50:24Speaker 1: so many things I want to fit in that end
- 50:27Speaker 1: up doing nothing at all. For example, meditation, reading something inspirational,
- 50:32Speaker 1: learning something new, exercise, journaling, getting sunlight, and more. How
- 50:37Speaker 1: do people make time for all this while also working,
- 50:40Speaker 1: doing chores, and spending time with friends. Ideally I'd also
- 50:44Speaker 1: like to get eight or more hours of sleep, but
- 50:47Speaker 1: even that feels difficult. Instead, I often end up doing
- 50:50Speaker 1: the opposite, staying up late, scrolling and not getting enough sleep.
- 50:54Speaker 1: What do your routines look like? When do you usually
- 50:57Speaker 1: get up and go to bed. Which of these things
- 50:59Speaker 1: do you do or intentionally not do? And how do
- 51:02Speaker 1: you fit everything together without becoming overwhelmed. I'd also be
- 51:06Speaker 1: curious whether you have any simple, nutritious breakfast or dinner
- 51:09Speaker 1: ideas that realistically fit into your routines. It seems like
- 51:13Speaker 1: Nick would have a few good ideas here too, thanks
- 51:15Speaker 1: from the therapod. Pronouns are she and her?
- 51:18Speaker 2: Okay?
- 51:19Speaker 6: Go on? Nick?
- 51:20Speaker 2: Okay?
- 51:21Speaker 5: Well do you have them?
- 51:22Speaker 6: Your morning starts so early, like so in some ways,
- 51:26Speaker 6: I'm like it's a routine because you know, like I'm
- 51:27Speaker 6: gonna get up, I'm gonna go to It's fun.
- 51:29Speaker 2: Because the three of you in our text chain will
- 51:33Speaker 2: have texts that go to midnight yeah yeah, and then
- 51:36Speaker 2: I will be texting back at like five am, a hey, yeah,
- 51:40Speaker 2: so that good guys.
- 51:41Speaker 1: And then during the star year, I'm on both of
- 51:43Speaker 1: the yeah so one wake up at five?
- 51:46Speaker 3: Yeah'll y'all haven't noticed that my late nights and morning
- 51:49Speaker 3: when have started running together as well?
- 51:52Speaker 1: I know?
- 51:52Speaker 2: Yeah, so my morning's I'll be up at four thirty
- 51:57Speaker 2: and then I'm usually at the gym at six. Then
- 52:00Speaker 2: I've got.
- 52:02Speaker 5: Her alarm goes off.
- 52:03Speaker 6: What do you do nexts, Yeah, ten eggs, jump in
- 52:09Speaker 6: the cold plunge, the gold plune, do yoga in the
- 52:12Speaker 6: cold pluge.
- 52:13Speaker 2: No. The first thing I do is I take Penny out.
- 52:16Speaker 2: She'll go outside, and then does she wake you up?
- 52:20Speaker 2: She'll wait to get up. Well, she wakes me up.
- 52:22Speaker 2: She'll sleep in her bed until about one o'clock in
- 52:25Speaker 2: the morning, and then she comes over to the bed
- 52:28Speaker 2: and starts whining and then I have to I have
- 52:30Speaker 2: to get up and I have to physically.
- 52:32Speaker 4: Pick her up and carry her into my The stairstep.
- 52:35Speaker 3: For I was like what she calls a mister nick
- 52:41Speaker 3: instead of father.
- 52:45Speaker 2: But yeah, she usually just jumps down like four thirty
- 52:47Speaker 2: in the morning, she's ready to go. Okay, So then
- 52:50Speaker 2: I take her outside, feed her, and then I start
- 52:54Speaker 2: getting ready for the day. And then I go to
- 52:55Speaker 2: the gym by six because I usually have a I'm
- 52:58Speaker 2: usually there by five thirty six before you leave.
- 53:01Speaker 6: Yeah, you skipped like an hour and a half and
- 53:03Speaker 6: there I feel like, yeah, well, like forty five minutes
- 53:06Speaker 6: on the toilet just you.
- 53:07Speaker 4: Know, scrolling into that's true.
- 53:08Speaker 3: Scroll, It's an important ritual.
- 53:10Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of my Yeah, so I get caught
- 53:15Speaker 2: up on the news scrolling not at night, not at night,
- 53:20Speaker 2: and then yeah, so I usually just just get ready
- 53:23Speaker 2: and just leave because it's about twenty minute drive to
- 53:25Speaker 2: the gym. So then I'll get to the gym by
- 53:27Speaker 2: about five thirty or a little after, do a session
- 53:30Speaker 2: from six to seven, and then I go home. And
- 53:33Speaker 2: then there's usually some other stuff, random shit around the house.
- 53:36Speaker 2: I try to pick up or clean or something. Then
- 53:39Speaker 2: just get ready for the day and then work. My
- 53:42Speaker 2: My day starts at eight thirty, work eight thirty to five,
- 53:46Speaker 2: and then i go back to the gym and then
- 53:47Speaker 2: I'm back at the gym until about eight o'clock, nine
- 53:50Speaker 2: o'clock at night. Damn. So yeah, it's a lot of
- 53:52Speaker 2: time at the gym. Yep.
- 53:55Speaker 6: Just to the fitting in all the things that the
- 53:57Speaker 6: writer mentioned, this is something that it has been discussed
- 54:01Speaker 6: in our household many times. Were like how do people
- 54:03Speaker 6: with normal jobs?
- 54:05Speaker 5: And like you have your your eight to five kids.
- 54:09Speaker 6: All that stuff, say both parents have that if the
- 54:11Speaker 6: two parent household even harder and single parent, but you
- 54:14Speaker 6: have kids, you have all these things. We're like, how
- 54:18Speaker 6: how are they doing anything? How are they doing half
- 54:20Speaker 6: the things we want to We want to do all
- 54:21Speaker 6: those things too. I want to meditate for like ten minutes.
- 54:24Speaker 6: I want to you know, stretch and like go to
- 54:26Speaker 6: the gym and get my steps in and then like
- 54:30Speaker 6: it's just a lot, and make a good breakfast.
- 54:32Speaker 3: And yeah, I barely had time to go get a
- 54:35Speaker 3: massage today.
- 54:36Speaker 4: Exactly bare. But yeah, you don't work in normal jobs.
- 54:41Speaker 2: That's why I don't have time for a happy ending.
- 54:45Speaker 6: I do.
- 54:46Speaker 1: Actually, whatever you were going to do, cancel that. I'm
- 54:52Speaker 1: gonna be late, sorry, mom a few minutes, like blood
- 54:57Speaker 1: the candles with that.
- 55:00Speaker 4: So my answer is I don't think there's enough time.
- 55:02Speaker 6: I don't know what what else is going on, but
- 55:04Speaker 6: I think there's barely enough time if you're just a
- 55:06Speaker 6: single human existing to fit it all in. But I
- 55:10Speaker 6: think that if most days you can fit some of
- 55:14Speaker 6: those things in. Like maybe you're not meditating every day,
- 55:17Speaker 6: but you're you're doing it three days a week or
- 55:19Speaker 6: four days a week. Maybe you're not going to the
- 55:21Speaker 6: gym every day, but you're doing it two days a week, three.
- 55:24Speaker 4: Days a week.
- 55:25Speaker 6: Like, I think that finding balance is important. And then
- 55:29Speaker 6: what has helped like me and Peter, like stay on
- 55:32Speaker 6: courses we fill out like actual worksheet. Oh, this is
- 55:36Speaker 6: weirdly really helpful, and I don't I'm not selfish.
- 55:42Speaker 5: It was it Amy Amy.
- 55:45Speaker 6: He's really into stuff like that, like finding ways to
- 55:49Speaker 6: get organized. He's structured.
- 55:51Speaker 5: I'm all over the place.
- 55:52Speaker 6: So but actually writing down your to do list and
- 55:56Speaker 6: sometimes for the day it's like eight eight like time blocking.
- 55:59Speaker 6: I guess what it is, but just it's literally a
- 56:02Speaker 6: worksheet we print out because we're, you know, forties now,
- 56:05Speaker 6: so we're old people. But I like that.
- 56:08Speaker 5: It's it's.
- 56:10Speaker 4: Yeah, it's on a giant, giant board.
- 56:18Speaker 6: But yeah, well there's like part of it where it
- 56:21Speaker 6: is just like literal time blocks, and we give more
- 56:23Speaker 6: of that. So if you're struggling with those of you
- 56:26Speaker 6: out there with nerdive vergence, I know this is a
- 56:28Speaker 6: real challenge trying to stay on task and fit in
- 56:30Speaker 6: all the things you want to do without getting distracted
- 56:32Speaker 6: or scrolling for hours. Like, if you know it's going
- 56:35Speaker 6: to take you, you know, thirty minutes to do something,
- 56:38Speaker 6: give yourself forty five. Yeah, yeah, give it an hour.
- 56:41Speaker 6: If you have extra time, great, you can you can
- 56:43Speaker 6: go get your steps in or you can do whatever.
- 56:45Speaker 6: Just rest it will probably take you that long. Like
- 56:47Speaker 6: we always think things are going to take less time for.
- 56:49Speaker 3: Me in the morning if I if I'm really looking
- 56:53Speaker 3: to have a nice morning and like get my day started, well, yeah,
- 56:58Speaker 3: there's you know, the pre requisite of getting enough rest.
- 57:01Speaker 2: You know that, that's the easy one to point at.
- 57:04Speaker 3: But also not being hurried in the morning, having enough
- 57:08Speaker 3: time to just you know, like if I'm gonna sit
- 57:11Speaker 3: and have some tea or something like that, I want
- 57:13Speaker 3: to have I want to have some time to sit
- 57:15Speaker 3: and have some tea. And and you mentioned in the
- 57:16Speaker 3: letter as well, just getting outside. I like having my
- 57:20Speaker 3: morning tea outside.
- 57:21Speaker 5: Yes, some sunlight.
- 57:22Speaker 2: It's so nice just having it outside.
- 57:24Speaker 3: If I have emails to respond to, I do that outside.
- 57:27Speaker 2: Uh you know, I just said, ye know, when it's
- 57:29Speaker 2: hot right now. I went outside this morning it was time.
- 57:31Speaker 5: She's ninety five degrees and it was I have.
- 57:36Speaker 2: A thermometer out there right next to where I sit.
- 57:39Speaker 3: It was ninety nine degrees at Yeah, it was like
- 57:42Speaker 3: eight thirty or.
- 57:43Speaker 2: Nine o'clock in the morning.
- 57:44Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong. I have started.
- 57:46Speaker 3: But turn the fan on.
- 57:47Speaker 4: I've got Yeah, the fan holds a.
- 57:49Speaker 5: Lot and in the shade.
- 57:50Speaker 4: As long as you're in the shade with a shade
- 57:52Speaker 4: fan and swamp.
- 57:52Speaker 3: Cooler, you've got their block of ice you put your
- 57:55Speaker 3: balls on.
- 57:55Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, cools everything.
- 57:57Speaker 3: She has a name.
- 57:58Speaker 1: Oh sorry, and it is Jim's wife that Hey, we
- 58:02Speaker 1: appreciate the benefits, honestly, very generous package.
- 58:06Speaker 2: It has been a very good package.
- 58:08Speaker 1: I didn't think you were gonna put a four oh
- 58:09Speaker 1: one k in the job, and we're just thankful makes
- 58:12Speaker 1: the opportunity.
- 58:13Speaker 3: It's been really great.
- 58:14Speaker 6: No getting up early, that's a good point. I am
- 58:17Speaker 6: not a morning person. Like, I'm not someone who gets
- 58:19Speaker 6: up before seven am. And man, I've been getting up
- 58:23Speaker 6: at like five point thirty to go meet a friend
- 58:25Speaker 6: to go on like runs two days a week.
- 58:28Speaker 5: And I come back and I am like full of energy.
- 58:31Speaker 6: I get like dishes done at seven. I'm like doing
- 58:33Speaker 6: all kinds of stuff. And yeah, it's it's crazy how
- 58:37Speaker 6: much your energized I am.
- 58:38Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, yeah, if you can train yourself to
- 58:41Speaker 2: be a morning person, it makes such a difference.
- 58:44Speaker 3: It's amazing how much more of your day you get.
- 58:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 58:46Speaker 1: Just I mean during the school year, right, like during
- 58:48Speaker 1: the summer, I wake up at like eight, and during
- 58:50Speaker 1: the school year, I wake up at like five, and
- 58:53Speaker 1: it's incredible how much of my hour is gone by Yeah,
- 58:55Speaker 1: but by the time I wake up like what I
- 58:57Speaker 1: normally wake up my summertime, I've done so much shit.
- 58:59Speaker 6: Yeah, it's incredible, Like I can do anything right, but
- 59:02Speaker 6: it takes me having to meet someone.
- 59:04Speaker 4: I am not a self starter in that department.
- 59:05Speaker 6: I'm just gonna throw that out there, Like, if it's
- 59:07Speaker 6: up to me to get up at five theory, yeah,
- 59:09Speaker 6: probably think I might be up by six.
- 59:11Speaker 1: Then if you're like I do think that there's a
- 59:12Speaker 1: little bit too much. And I've seen this a lot
- 59:14Speaker 1: in the manisphere, and maybe you know others have noticed
- 59:16Speaker 1: this too, that there's like this mythologizing of the morning
- 59:20Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, you've got to wake up
- 59:21Speaker 1: to do one hundred push ups and like yeah cold plunge,
- 59:23Speaker 1: like and it's like, look, we're all kind of slow
- 59:25Speaker 1: and lethargic in the morning. And sometimes I don't think
- 59:27Speaker 1: you have to force yourself into this David Goggin's fucking
- 59:30Speaker 1: lifestyle to like torture yourself and that's the only way
- 59:33Speaker 1: you're going to meet all your goals. Like some of
- 59:35Speaker 1: this shit is so arbitrary.
- 59:37Speaker 3: If I have, like truly, if I have half an
- 59:39Speaker 3: hour that I can go sit down, have some tea,
- 59:42Speaker 3: maybe respond to some morning emails, maybe just sit there
- 59:45Speaker 3: for for ten minutes, and that's maybe not do anything.
- 59:49Speaker 2: Like by the time I stand up, Yeah, I'm moving,
- 59:53Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
- 59:54Speaker 2: need cold plunge.
- 59:55Speaker 3: I don't need any of the other bullshit. Like I'm
- 59:57Speaker 3: I'm my body has what it wants to do, and
- 1:00:01Speaker 3: it's gotten itself going, and like okay, now I'm now.
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: I get some path to that is meditation. Some people's
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: path to that is like exercise or activation, yoga, you know,
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: like a prayer, fine, or like morning reading. But like
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: I really think it's all going to the same goal,
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: which is just I want to be mentally ready.
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: If I'm busy for the day, like Whitney talks about
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: her worksheet, you know, I might sit there and just
- 1:00:24Speaker 3: think through my day. Right, It's like, Okay, here are
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: the things I've got to get done. Here's you know,
- 1:00:28Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna leave this at this
- 1:00:30Speaker 3: time so I can get across enemies every day.
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: Oh, I n them over them, like the like the
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: Stark girl, if.
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: I had Stark, we all knew.
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: But I did this too when when Jim and I
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: worked together for a while. This was like something that
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: really worked for me is I would I would go early,
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: Like I would leave like an hour early. I'd go
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: to a coffee shop that was down the street, and
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: I would sit there and have my coffee and I
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: would read and I would read a book. And it
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: was just kind of a way to just kind of
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: start my day and just kind of be ready. But
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: it's a lot of trial and error. You just have
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: to try something, and some things are gonna work for
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: some people. They're not gonna work for others. But you
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: kind of have to force yourself to find time to
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: work it in and be able to. I like, I'm
- 1:01:27Speaker 2: a big proponent of the mornings because then you get
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: everything started off in a in like the right pattern.
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: Like I think, I feel like we can all be
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: successful if we start off working towards success as opposed
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: to trying to catch up and be successful at the
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: end of the day. Yeah.
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: I think one other thing that the writer's talking about,
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: which needs to be addressed is the progress versus perfection problem.
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: So for a lot of people, they can't go do
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: a full workout and they think, well, if you're going
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: to work out, you're trying to build muscle. And so
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: if I can't go three or four day week, then
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: why even do anything right? Why even just go on Saturdays?
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: If I'm only gonna go on Saturday, then it's not
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: worth it. I shouldn't do anything at all. Or if
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: I can't meditate or read these books all at the
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: right times, if I can't develop a solid routine, then
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: it's not worth trying at all. And that's that perfection mindset.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: And I think we all need to take this like
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: no one percent improvement approach. If you can meditate on
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: your drive to work and instead of listening to a podcast,
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: which you should always listen to ours, but after ours,
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: you just turn on silence and you choose to think
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: over an intentional thought on your morning drive.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: That's it.
- 1:02:35Speaker 3: You did it right.
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: If you can just do it for five minutes while
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: you're sitting on the john while you're doing your Instagram
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: instead of going through Instagram, put that aside and do
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: your meditation right there. Just these small things like I
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: saw this thing of the day that has changed my life,
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: and it's.
- 1:02:46Speaker 4: That I'm imagining mind Testine.
- 1:02:52Speaker 3: I'm vacating, I'm imagining things moving evat waiting.
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: I saw this thing the other day. That is I've
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: been using it NonStop. Love this idea so much. You
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: should look at every week as a seven game series,
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: and all you're trying to do is best of seven
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: all and if you lose, if you lose a day
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: bad Tuesday, it's all right, come back Wednesday. You're just
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: trying to get four out of the seven. And so
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: whatever your habit is that you're trying to integrate, a
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: lot of times you get yourself what kind.
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: Of magical cookie cutter life? You can win four days
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: out of seven, it's a better goal. Because a lot
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: of they'll say.
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: This week, i'm gonna meditate every day this week, I'm
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: going to extralyze every day, and then Tuesday they fail,
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: they're like, well, fuck it, I'll start again next week.
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: And that's a bad idea, right because a lot of
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: us flush the habit and we don't get practiced doing it.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: So instead, if you fail on Tuesday, you say, okay,
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: I'm going for best of seven. It's a series, right, Okay,
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: I dropped game two, let's go to game three. I'm
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: gonna try it again. And like that gives you so
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: much more mental freedom, though, feel free to quit, go
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: for the seventh. That's when it's time to just down.
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: Come back next week, hit it hard. I like that
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: mentality because it allows us to do the progress not
- 1:04:08Speaker 1: perfection mindset where you're trying to just get a small
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: new routine, a small version of that routine.
- 1:04:14Speaker 3: And it doesn't have to be every single day.
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: Then it's develop a habit. The old saying is like,
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: don't let perfection be the progress. Yeah, so that be
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: the enemy of better.
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: Well, and I think I can relate to that too,
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: because like, the the busier my personal training calendar gets,
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: the more out of shape I get. Oh interesting, because
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: I'm at the gym all the time working not for me.
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: I'm never there for me. So like if I want
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: to get my workouts in, I get them in between
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: sessions or before a session or after a session, and
- 1:04:46Speaker 2: they're not quality working right right, But it's just like
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: but it's just it's what I got, it's what's available.
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: And this is that is the worst when I'm looking
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: at that full calendar and going like, I know, I'm
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: going to feel like garbage. I'm going to eat like
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: shit and feel like garbage. Like I'm not gonna have
- 1:05:01Speaker 3: enough time to eat, I'm not gonna be able to relax,
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be able to digest. I'm not going
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: to sleep, I'm not gonna do anything. I'm just gonna
- 1:05:07Speaker 3: be miserable for this long of a time.
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: Yeah, see it coming. Have you thought about getting a
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: personal trainer? No, I don't know any Okay, yeah, yeah,
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: I'm the only good one I know.
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:05:18Speaker 6: I was going to say something that's helpful for me
- 1:05:22Speaker 6: too in the mornings is not looking at my phone
- 1:05:25Speaker 6: right away. Oh yeah, I know it sounds like so
- 1:05:29Speaker 6: simple and cliche, but the mornings where I'm like, let
- 1:05:32Speaker 6: me just look the one thing and then I start
- 1:05:34Speaker 6: down the rabbit hole.
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: But even just the light getting going into your eyes,
- 1:05:40Speaker 3: that's a rough way to start your day. It's a
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: jarring way to start.
- 1:05:43Speaker 5: Your day in the mornings.
- 1:05:45Speaker 9: The same thing going to bed, like that's I don't
- 1:05:48Speaker 9: know about the Yeah, I don't claim to know anything
- 1:05:50Speaker 9: about the mental side of like, you know, slowing your
- 1:05:54Speaker 9: brain down and not reading and not scrolling everything as
- 1:05:56Speaker 9: you're going to sleep.
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: But not just dumping that light into your eyeballs like
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: that's something. Then you're all better people than I am,
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: because I am not going to be left alone with
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: my thoughts.
- 1:06:09Speaker 5: Oh well at night?
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: Do you remember the old days?
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: And we used to read like shampoo bottles and ship?
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: Do you remember that? I used to.
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: It's like you could go through like the bathroom and
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: be like, all right, so what's this madam?
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: That there's like John's Bathroom Reader and things.
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: Like that, like the comic you read, basket of newspapers
- 1:06:28Speaker 3: and stuff. I have never been somebody who just wants
- 1:06:31Speaker 3: to hang out on the toilet.
- 1:06:32Speaker 4: Really, you're like the only man I know business.
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: I get my business done and I'm gone him. I turned.
- 1:06:40Speaker 3: It does its business that drives me off, and then
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: I'm I'm off and running just moving on.
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: I got ship to do.
- 1:06:46Speaker 3: Apparently have ship to do. He has doing some ship.
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: He's got high horses to ride that.
- 1:06:57Speaker 5: What is your meals?
- 1:06:58Speaker 4: Answer? Because I have a oh meal.
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: I've got a couple favorites. Okay, okay, so like if
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: you uh for eggs, like scrambled you put them in
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: a mug. Do you cook them in the microwave?
- 1:07:12Speaker 3: No, I never done that.
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: Crack a couple of eggs in a coffee mug, throwing
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: diced onions like you do, like a thing of pre
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: diced onions.
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: Is all like that?
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: Cheddar diced onions, salt and pepper. Uh, stirred up bacon.
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: If you have like chopped up bacon bits, throw it in.
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: I make breakfast with the kids. So like you stir
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: this up inside of the mug. You throw it in
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: the microwave for a minute, pull it out, stirred again,
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: put it back in one more minute. It's scrambled egg
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: omelet inside of a mug.
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: It's really I'm not eating microwaved eggs. Now, what I
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: do like microwave judgment eggs shots, let's go, No, I'll
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: do I'll do scrambled eggs. But what I like to
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: do is I'll take sun dried tomatoes, diced sun dried
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: tomatoes with like uh basil head.
- 1:08:00Speaker 3: I've heard some people say basil, but that's yeah, and.
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: Then uh, maybe a little bit of cheese. But like
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: that's a really good recipe that I like for eggs.
- 1:08:10Speaker 2: Really quick, really easy. You just throw it all in there,
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: mix it all together. Another one and I think I
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: actually bought this for you. I'm sure you probably just
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: threw it away. I'm not sure how to pronounce it's yeah,
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: duck a spice d u k k a h. That
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: was nasty. It's so gross. No, it's an Egyptian Middle
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: Eastern condiment. It's a spice mix and it's kind of
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: I'm not even sure what's all in it. It's got
- 1:08:51Speaker 2: to have maybe chunks of almond or something in there.
- 1:08:54Speaker 5: But uh oh yeah, the picture, that's a video I
- 1:08:58Speaker 5: took Jacob.
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: Yeah, it goes in and comes right back out.
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: Nothing on the bone. So I'll take baby spinach bone,
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: a bunch of baby spinach, put it in a saucepan
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: or frying pan, and then uh the Duca seasoning and
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: then some cocoaminos and just and then just kind of
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: stir that around. So that's nice and green. That's a
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: really quick easy way to get some vegetables.
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: In what is a what is a busy person, So
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: like my busy person dinnertime thing. Crock potting, dude, I'm
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: so loving the crock potting is good. Yeah, I just
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: got this new one that's like a metal interior instead
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: of like the ceramic bowl, so just cleaner and it's
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: like so much easier to deal with. But oh my god,
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: I have so many crock pot meals in my rotation.
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: I love it.
- 1:09:49Speaker 5: What's your favorite easiest crock pot.
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: I'm gonna experiment with another one this week. One I've
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: never done before. It's walking tacos, and so.
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: Like I do walking tacos all the time, do you
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: I don't make him with a crock pot. I'll just
- 1:10:01Speaker 2: do like just a regular taco meat and then I'll
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: just have Dorito's put them in a big bowl. I
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: was actually thinking, like, because we were talking about doing
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: Christian Movie Night, I was thinking about doing like an
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: Iowa themed food and I was going to do walking tacos,
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: you know, snicker salad, course bush light.
- 1:10:27Speaker 8: And then.
- 1:10:30Speaker 6: I just got lunch today with two friends from Arkansas
- 1:10:34Speaker 6: and we went to a tie place and Peter was like,
- 1:10:37Speaker 6: they're not gonna have a bush light on that, and
- 1:10:41Speaker 6: so our buddy says, oh my god, they have bush light.
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: I do a really One of my favorite crock pot
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: meals is it's like a chicken with a bag of
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: mixed veggies and stuff and like cream of chicken stuff,
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: like you let that all got in there. Then you
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: go buy one of the Pillsbury biscuit cans, the ones
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: that like flake off into layers.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what those are called, but croissant.
- 1:11:08Speaker 4: No, the little yeah, the crystal maybe it's that, but.
- 1:11:11Speaker 3: Yeah, you do the flaky layers things, and you get
- 1:11:13Speaker 3: those and you lay.
- 1:11:14Speaker 4: It on off ones peel off and yeah, biscuits.
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: And so you do the little like things and you
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: you like lay it on top of all the chicken
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: and stuff inside and it bakes the whole thing together.
- 1:11:29Speaker 3: The chicken pot pie. Yeah, and just like get chicken
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: pot pie and a scoop.
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: Dude, it's so easy. That's really cool.
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: Crockpot that that's my answer to like busy person like dining,
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: Like I had.
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: All in there chili croc pot recipe. Okay, that was
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: that was a go to. I do that one a lot.
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do some instant pot stuff. I'll also do
- 1:11:48Speaker 3: a lot of just stuff.
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: In a in a pan. Yeah, just like a chicken breast,
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: like a chicken breast in a pan and or like
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: if I.
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm doing pasta, like, I'll cook the chicken
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: breast in there and then and then just pour the
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: pasta sauce in there and little.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: We're doing pan meal. Those ones are easy too, well.
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: Chop veggies, roast them up on a sheet.
- 1:12:05Speaker 5: Pandles discord threat about easy.
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: Yeah, we need a rest, yeah, witness.
- 1:12:12Speaker 5: Okay, the easiest breakfast.
- 1:12:14Speaker 6: This is again I'm gonna claim all the credit even
- 1:12:17Speaker 6: though I do none of the work arounds.
- 1:12:19Speaker 4: I don't do.
- 1:12:20Speaker 6: Ship is a smoothie in the morning because here's what
- 1:12:24Speaker 6: we here's what goes into the smoothies. Yeah, I don't
- 1:12:27Speaker 6: eat breakfast. That's why Peter walk But he's like, you know,
- 1:12:29Speaker 6: a smoothie half the talk, I like, no halftime.
- 1:12:31Speaker 5: I'm like yes.
- 1:12:31Speaker 6: So the smoothie, though, has everything because Peter will not
- 1:12:36Speaker 6: eat vegetables. That's his one time to get vegetables in.
- 1:12:39Speaker 6: So he was like, frozen vegetables, frozen fruit. There's coq tin,
- 1:12:43Speaker 6: there's turmeric. You gotta add pepper because you pepper for
- 1:12:46Speaker 6: the turmeric. It's all liquid that goes in there.
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:12:49Speaker 6: Then there is flax seeds, chia seeds, and green juice. Yeah,
- 1:12:56Speaker 6: so you get everything everything. Everything is a big smoothie,
- 1:13:00Speaker 6: and you're good for the day. You can eat pizza
- 1:13:01Speaker 6: later because it doesn't matter.
- 1:13:02Speaker 4: You already had your health and everything done. Wow, you're welcome.
- 1:13:06Speaker 2: You can have four thousand calories after that.
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: Finees, I did one good?
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: Do whatever I want? What is green juice? I don't
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: know either, but it's in there. It's just that it's
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: kind of I think it's like purple drink.
- 1:13:19Speaker 5: Well, like, is anybody a healthy dinner?
- 1:13:22Speaker 3: No?
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: You just heard gems the easy God damn it. I'm
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: proud of it. There's veggies. Honestly, the thing that I've
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: been doing when I'm doing really good. I used to
- 1:13:34Speaker 2: meal prep, but that's who's got time for that. It
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: takes an entire day to do that. So I'll go
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: to in Vegas we have Foody Fit.
- 1:13:42Speaker 5: I love Foody Fit.
- 1:13:44Speaker 4: Usually on Monday nights when we record, I'll eat there
- 1:13:46Speaker 4: on the way.
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: It's all pre made meals. It's like somebody did the
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: work of meal really good too, and the matros are
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: all listed macros buy your premiate meals. Yeah, other than
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: you can just take those for the little crow.
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: Shree stores also have like the taken bag Aisle now,
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: which I like. It's starting to get really good. Yeah,
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: this is a standalone store or is this a brand?
- 1:14:09Speaker 2: No, it's a standalone there's two locations and hew you so.
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: Move to Vegas writer sign factor something.
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: Every city has one of these.
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- 1:15:27Speaker 2: True.
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: Wayne has a really great comic that you can find
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: if you search not so Good at this comic does
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: a lot of piff crossover. Yeah, yeah, a lot of
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: ICs crossover, and has been a really good friend to
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: all of our podcast certainly years.
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: Wayne join us, and we've got a new therapod, Eric Dyer.
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: Nice first week of the month. We like to thank
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: all of our therapods by name.
- 1:15:52Speaker 2: For some reason.
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: I'm definitely gonna lobby hard to make sure we don't
- 1:15:55Speaker 3: do that in season ten, but for now we're still
- 1:15:58Speaker 3: doing it.
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: University, Jeff Richard Bruins, Robert Paulson, Linda Brandmeyer, Scoopstrenat, Joseph Bengrazio,
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: Corey Owens, Christine Phillips, Gavin Bristow, Take an ev Podcast,
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: Kerrie Terhark, Kiwi Fruit Scoop, Craig Little, Jim Hunter, Scoop Atron,
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: Todd Canfield, David Sorens and, Felicia Butler, Vie Brettre Shayla Bullock,
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: Lauren is O, Kitty Chiwakowski, Adam Petanuzo, Matt's Lenegren Scoopiter,
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: Sending What Weekend, Mama, Ninja Scoop, James Dawson, Grumpy Lake,
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: Mead Park Ranger, Sam Buck, Karen McCulloch, chimist Lyla, Kelly Gagner, Nippy,
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: Brian Emra, Matthew Johnson, Alec Lancaster, Julius Cappell, j D Congan,
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: Drew Hellige, Matthias Vanda, Brandt, Ken Tinsley Flindley is looking girthy.
- 1:16:40Speaker 3: Today in a positive way.
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: Matthew Cubic, William Dick Fit, Wilma Dick Fit, Chad, Chad
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: the Safety Lad, Scoop Knack, Patty Wax Almost doctor Nurse,
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: Joey w Amft Therapist Pair, Philip Guiten to Mystery Here,
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: Kristen Robbins, Kirka Grim, Trisha or Ts, Melissa Lgeisler, g
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- 1:17:07Speaker 1: Patty Glad, Frontastic, Kyle, Anthony, Camarada, jamiebi David Williams, Kate Police, Curonipillar,
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: Buddy Dobbins, Eric Dyer, Welcome, Glitch, Scoop per Sephonie Hazzard,
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: Nathan Mookie, Adam Bela's bug Nuts, Stephen Landon, Carmen Perry,
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: John Finlayson, Kenneth Wong, kJ Mister pof K, Pizzle Dizzle,
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: Robert Cole, Jeff Darnell, Temporary Reality, Jacob Hurt, Ben Sherman,
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: Ray J. Shark, Recreated k Trauma, Sherry Hare, Silka Daniels,
- 1:17:33Speaker 1: Phil mccumb, Phil mccumb, Phil meacom No, Alec bal Ashling, Carton,
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: Dylan Collopy, Adam goff Linus Hakkasan WOLFEO Five, Chris Courtney,
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: Kevin Tribe, Cedar, Hayden, Grace Terrible, tay Any, Bitty Chicken, Farmer,
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: sam Ka, Matthews, Biathlon, Anna oh Yeah, Zachary w al Mondo,
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: Nora charm City Therapist, Jaiva Scoop, Bucky Squabby, the Lastician,
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: Foxy Sally, Chill Food, John Cavatas, Winter Scoop, Sam and Scoop, LC,
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: Chris Hunter, McCrae, Cloudy Pies, Andreas, m bb Hermit, Matthew Connor.
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: Women aren't good leaders. That's not a name, just stating
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: my opinion. Nick Neck, Pubes, sc Platypus, sam mervs Renee Okay,
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: Sherry Phillips, Kyle Sharton, Chelsea Saras and Emily Cope.
- 1:18:27Speaker 4: That a real.
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: Kyle Sharton, Fuck, Garrett Godfrey, Nate Walk, Tanya mccrya, Yes,
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: Matt Sunrise, Cod Bob Peas and Clams, Finn Rainalbeads, Uh,
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: Tom Power, Mike j Nielsen, Sharp Fire, Christy Valentino, Gomez,
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: Claudia Doohan, Joseph Wagner and.
- 1:18:50Speaker 6: Scoop Shooter Arthurd actyls Are Scoop, Brady Ice Blue Scoop,
- 1:18:54Speaker 6: Brian Layman, Frozen Cusser, Andre Anderson, Scoop, Lindsay Lori Elsroth, Polygons,
- 1:19:00Speaker 6: Scoopy Scoopy, just Es, Size, Shaunagan, Okie Scoop, Dank Butta
- 1:19:04Speaker 6: brooks Lyle Adam Ribchick, Lovely Spark but Jim and Manusant
- 1:19:12Speaker 6: Casey or Bitch Mommy Demante, Mike Lush Rays Okay, Rebecca
- 1:19:21Speaker 6: Boonstra nice.
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: If you are a therapy partner, a therap producer, end up,
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: keep an eye out on the Patreon because we are
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: re engineering our fantasy football league.
- 1:19:31Speaker 3: It is August as you're hearing this. We're getting ready
- 1:19:33Speaker 3: to kick it off.
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: We're on the way and so we're going to be
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: setting up our draft and we've already announced to all
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: of our current members of our league that we are
- 1:19:42Speaker 1: shaking things up. We're rebooting the league. There's been a
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: lot of non accounts people that are that's right, they're
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: not doing much.
- 1:19:50Speaker 4: She won last year.
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: So we are purging and.
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: Rebooting, and it's going to be open to anybody, everybody
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: at the therap producer level and up. It's going to
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: be first come, first serve, So keep an eye out.
- 1:19:58Speaker 1: If you want to play, you can set up on
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: that link. If you would like to play and you're
- 1:20:01Speaker 1: not currently a therap producer, you still have time patroon
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: dot com Therapy up yourself to their producer level and
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: perhaps you will be able to join our fantasy football
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: league and play.
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: Against most of the hosts. That's right, Jacob's not playing, Jacob.
- 1:20:13Speaker 1: I'm joining the ICs league though, and I talked to
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: the commissioners and I was like, hey, I want to
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: join this year, and like, great man, we're going to
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: put you in. And I was like, is there any
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: way I can play in, Jacob, And they're like, no,
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: Jacob is in the premiere tier. You have to play
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: in the relegated and if you win there, then you
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: earn the right to go play.
- 1:20:29Speaker 3: That's the problem is I didn't want to do, but
- 1:20:34Speaker 3: then I won last year, so I can't quit.
- 1:20:39Speaker 2: You can't I get. I get like, like, well, it.
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: Looks like I want guys, you're in the premiere tier.
- 1:20:45Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm joining the league with the hope that
- 1:20:48Speaker 3: I can dominate your one and enter into premiere in
- 1:20:51Speaker 3: League two.
- 1:20:52Speaker 2: That's good.
- 1:20:52Speaker 3: And my hope is that I can do middling enough
- 1:20:56Speaker 3: that I can quit just.
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: After this draft vikings.
- 1:21:01Speaker 3: There you go, we'll do great. I auto drafted last year.
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: It's still I want.
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: I just can't stop all this winning. We'd like to
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: thank the benevolent, revered, generous, and flagrantly pro Therapy Diehard
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: who loves you all so much. They give till it
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: hurts our therap partner pickets, and we want to thank
- 1:21:17Speaker 1: our bosses. The mysterious and shrouded Illumini members of our.
- 1:21:20Speaker 3: Fan club are there.
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: Producers Jake Schneider, Myra, Robert Brownie, Junior, Mint, Smitty Scoop,
- 1:21:25Speaker 1: Richard Fucking Macy, Malia No wait, Judy Schneider, Leon Casab,
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: Carolyn Albert, Kevin Chamberlain, Tess Miller, Dan Martin, Sammy Scoop,
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: Slurpy k a motherfucker, Ben Stanley slapping. The first thing
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: that Smitty and I talked about when we talked about
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: changing the league and like cleaning it out, was we
- 1:21:41Speaker 1: got to get rid of Slurpye right, very first item
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: of business. Immediately, Spoopy drafts all of his players based
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: on how sexy they are without shirts on.
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: But he builds an Excel spread. Sheep, get this, Slurpe.
- 1:22:01Speaker 3: He just doesn't manage his team.
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: He just does draft.
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: It's always very hard picks, That's right. Yeah, Whitney will
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: do all your picks, Slurpy.
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: They can try to kick you out, Vito, you're.
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: The people, You're champion, Ben Stanley, Slap your Face, Sarah Smith,
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: Adam Hathaway, Builer Team, Mike Helm Oscar Swan Rose, Paris
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- 1:22:53Speaker 3: That's all the time we got for this week's session.
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