Speaker 1: Hey guys, Sunday Sampler Time, just some of the podcasts
Speaker 1: from the Nashville Podcast Network. Since a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't put up podcasts on Sundays, we put this up
Speaker 1: maybe here a little bit of what you like, and
Speaker 1: you go listen to the whole thing. In the Vets
Speaker 1: Office with Doctor Josie, Doctor Josie sat down with doctor
Speaker 1: Amy Addis, who is a house called Veterinarian in New
Speaker 1: York City. So that means celebrity pets like share Billy, Joel,
Speaker 1: Joan Rivers and some crazy stories. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Four Things with Amy Brown. I had Marcus King on
Speaker 1: Who's Awesome Morgan's podcast? Oh that's coming up here, but
Speaker 1: I do want to get started with a clip from
Speaker 1: in the Vets Office with Doctor Josie, with that New
Speaker 1: York City Vet.
Speaker 2: You're listening to In the Vets Office with Doctor Josie Horschhak.
Speaker 3: The people you got close to you were pretty high profile.
Speaker 4: And what I have noticed on this podcast especially is
Speaker 4: will have stars, country music stars or like Bobby Bones
Speaker 4: come on and you talk to them about their career
Speaker 4: and their goals, and they're they're kind of one person.
Speaker 4: And then when you talk to them about their animals,
Speaker 4: you can just see like a completely different side of them.
Speaker 4: I think just from watching her on TV that Joan
Speaker 4: Rivers is pretty intimidating. I'm assuming that you probably saw
Speaker 4: a lot more of a softer side to her with
Speaker 4: her animals.
Speaker 2: I saw all sides of Joan Rivers. She was an
Speaker 2: enormous personality. She was driven in a way that very
Speaker 2: few people are.
Speaker 5: When I would go.
Speaker 2: Into her home to work with the dogs, there would
Speaker 2: be posted on the refrigerator her daily schedule, and it
Speaker 2: said things like up at five, exercise, makeup, leave for studio,
Speaker 2: and then her entire day was calculated down to the
Speaker 2: moment and it ended at midnight. I mean, she was
Speaker 2: very regiment, old enough to be more than my mother,
Speaker 2: and she had a schedule that would have run me
Speaker 2: into the ground. So she was an enormously busy person,
Speaker 2: and she was extremely demanding, and her dogs were so
Speaker 2: important to her. So I was used to getting yelled
Speaker 2: at on occasion or emails that I wish she had
Speaker 2: never sent to me. But when she was finished with that,
Speaker 2: she turned out to be, of course a very dear friend.
Speaker 2: So we would go through the cycles of Joan's love
Speaker 2: and her wrath. She was an enormous supporter of mine.
Speaker 2: When I started my house call practice, she told everyone
Speaker 2: she knew. The relationship over those years turned into a lovely,
Speaker 2: lovely friendship where we went out to dinner together. I
Speaker 2: mean she called one day. We had homes close to
Speaker 2: each other, about one hundred miles north of New York City,
Speaker 2: and she called and said, take me to the movies
Speaker 2: on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: So it was like she didn't ask.
Speaker 2: Of course, she didn't ask a question. She would have
Speaker 2: the most beautiful dinner parties where the group of people
Speaker 2: around the table were just from all different types of
Speaker 2: parts of her life, and every person felt like they
Speaker 2: were the guest of honor. She was an enormously gracious, warm,
Speaker 2: loving person with a little bit of a biting part.
Speaker 3: Of her person.
Speaker 4: You don't want to be on her bad side. Oh no,
Speaker 4: I love the story about her Yorky. I think it
Speaker 4: was a Yorky that you had encouraged her to get
Speaker 4: a surgery that she did not really want to do,
Speaker 4: and then she ended up doing it and was like
Speaker 4: I was right to do it.
Speaker 2: Said, well, she was never wrong, of course, But you know,
Speaker 2: like even with her first Yorkie, Spike. Spike went to
Speaker 2: work with her wherever she was. He traveled around, he
Speaker 2: was part of the show, and I recommended that because
Speaker 2: he wasn't feeling well, that maybe she would leave him
Speaker 2: out of the show that week and he should stay home.
Speaker 2: And like all of a sudden, you know, she had
Speaker 2: just looked at me and she said, don't tell me
Speaker 2: what to do, just make my dog well enough to go.
Speaker 6: Like you didn't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't messed with them exactly. Wow. Yeah, it's funny
Speaker 3: we do, even if they're not famous.
Speaker 4: You have everybody that's a bugineer and has owners that
Speaker 4: can be a little bit more demanding, And I think
Speaker 4: our job is to kind of look past at and
Speaker 4: see like, Okay, where's this coming from. They just really,
Speaker 4: at the core of it, love their pet and want
Speaker 4: their pet to be okay.
Speaker 2: I had a client who moved to New York after
Speaker 2: he retired. He had been a movie producer, so he
Speaker 2: moved from California to New York and he lived in
Speaker 2: new apartment with his two cats. And he paged me
Speaker 2: on a Saturday night for an emergency and I called
Speaker 2: him back immediately. I said, what's the problem. He said,
Speaker 2: my cat just scratched me with his nails. His nails
Speaker 2: are too long. Come and cut them. I said, it's
Speaker 2: ten o'clock and a Saturday night. I don't I don't
Speaker 2: make house calls. If you truly had an emergency, it
Speaker 2: would help you. But I'm not coming to cut your
Speaker 2: cat's nails. And he kind of hesitated and said, you know,
Speaker 2: in La, nobody would ever say no to me. So
Speaker 2: he was like being brought back into the real world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like not in New York, no means no.
Speaker 2: And you're retired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4: Another thing that you talked about in the book that
Speaker 4: I really loved and I have seen with my own
Speaker 4: experience as a veterinarian, is that no, there is no
Speaker 4: such thing as a disabled pet, and so we have
Speaker 4: a lot of patients that require amputations, or they lose
Speaker 4: an eye, or they go deaf, and so I really
Speaker 4: loved how you put an emphasis on that. I think
Speaker 4: I tell my owners all the time. We can learn
Speaker 4: so much from our animals. I have had dogs going
Speaker 4: through chemo that are bouncing around and rolling in the grass.
Speaker 4: Dogs on three legs or cats on three legs that
Speaker 4: would never know the difference. And if someone cut my
Speaker 4: leg off, I probably would be in bed crying about
Speaker 4: it for six months.
Speaker 3: You're the rest of my life. Who knows.
Speaker 4: But they are just so resilient in that way.
Speaker 5: What was your house like South Carolina?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 7: What was it?
Speaker 1: I don't know the physically, what was the house like
Speaker 1: a couple of bedrooms?
Speaker 6: Yeah. So I initially grew up in a ranch, three bedroom,
Speaker 6: one bathroom house with a side room where I had
Speaker 6: my drums set and my guitar and I would just
Speaker 6: spend hours in there, either playing drums. My grandfather tell
Speaker 6: me how to play a train beat, and he'd play
Speaker 6: along with me.
Speaker 5: What's the train beat?
Speaker 8: Can you.
Speaker 5: Oh like it got it gotta go out? I hear
Speaker 5: the train coming. That's what I think when you do that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, maybe just because we're trains in it
Speaker 1: and I'm very slow.
Speaker 6: Yeah no, no, no, I mean that that's the train
Speaker 6: be that's the quint essential. And he taught me, you know,
Speaker 6: because it's all about the timing and like not letting
Speaker 6: it drag, not letting it rush, just keeping it right there.
Speaker 6: And I started on drums actually, so I just I
Speaker 6: spent a lot of time alone. But it was you know,
Speaker 6: next door was my grandparents' house, and I just hang
Speaker 6: out with them when my dad was work and just
Speaker 6: played guitar all day or drums to sing.
Speaker 1: We'll just call it the blues. Before your voice hits puberty?
Speaker 1: What do you I don't know, man, And how bluesy
Speaker 1: can you be with a high pitched voice?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean you'd have to ask, Like like Tina Turner,
Speaker 6: I mean that was that was the and like Aretha Franklin,
Speaker 6: like I liked soul singers. Sure, I feel like you know,
Speaker 6: even like bb King after like sixty eight sixty nine
Speaker 6: Bibe was putting out like soul records.
Speaker 1: But did it change for it at some point where
Speaker 1: you were singing but your voice had hit puberty and
Speaker 1: then after it.
Speaker 6: Was I started singing when I was when I was thirteen,
Speaker 6: So I think that's why I made before that Nah, Wow,
Speaker 6: I just played guitar. I was too bashful to sing.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first time singing. Then then why in public? Why
Speaker 1: what got you there?
Speaker 6: Well, you know I had always kind of expressed my
Speaker 6: you know, trauma or whatever it was, just through the guitar,
Speaker 6: and you know, when I was thirteen, the girl I
Speaker 6: had a crush on died in a car accident, and
Speaker 6: it really fucked my head up. And I had had
Speaker 6: all these abandonment issues anyway, and they all just kind
Speaker 6: of like came to a head, and I was really
Speaker 6: not able to, you know, find a way to comfort myself,
Speaker 6: you know. And we didn't have the distractions that we
Speaker 6: have now, you know, so I wasn't on an iPad
Speaker 6: or anything to like fully escape and immerse myself in
Speaker 6: something else. So that's when I decided to start writing
Speaker 6: and start singing, you know, just so I had two
Speaker 6: more vessels to put my pain through. And I think
Speaker 6: the first time I sang publicly, I sang not my
Speaker 6: Cross to bear by the Oman Brothers.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 5: Well, that's not an easy one.
Speaker 1: It's not an easy so you decided to just go Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's I'm a little teapot, right.
Speaker 6: That's how I learned to swim, you know, just get
Speaker 6: thrown into the deep end.
Speaker 5: I spent a lot of time in therapy. I got
Speaker 5: some crazy abandonment issues myself. Dad left when I was
Speaker 5: five or six.
Speaker 1: Mom died drugs in her forties, and so you know,
Speaker 1: mine are to the point where.
Speaker 5: They're built in, like they're cooked in.
Speaker 1: But I can acknowledge them, and I can see them,
Speaker 1: and I can see it affect and I can feel
Speaker 1: it affected me.
Speaker 5: But I can ignowlre it. Right like forever, I didn't
Speaker 5: even know.
Speaker 7: I gotta know why.
Speaker 5: I was just wanted to be by myself or.
Speaker 1: You know, everything told me. I loved them tomorrow about
Speaker 1: my wife a few years ago. But I was just
Speaker 1: always like, this is who I am, This is who
Speaker 1: I am, this swam But that's that was like what
Speaker 1: mine were rooted in.
Speaker 5: What was yours a parent thing? Was yours a home
Speaker 5: type thing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, my mom left when I was very young, and
Speaker 6: that was really hard for me, and that was it's
Speaker 6: still something that I really struggle with.
Speaker 5: You know, is she alive now, she's still alive.
Speaker 6: Her health's not very good, but we you know, we've
Speaker 6: packed things up and we're we're a lot closer now.
Speaker 5: You know that you're a better man than I am.
Speaker 5: Like my real dad's still alive. I don't talk to him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's it's challenging.
Speaker 5: You know, how old were you?
Speaker 6: I was like five, so like that age is really
Speaker 6: really tough because you know, I'd go to school every day,
Speaker 6: I'd get sent home from kindergarten every day because I'd
Speaker 6: cry so hard that i'd throw up. And this was
Speaker 6: a daily thing because you don't know where her mother's at.
Speaker 6: It's you know, just as a as a mammal, a living,
Speaker 6: breathing mammal, You're just instinctively you're gonna need your mother's
Speaker 6: affection and love and attention. And I didn't have it.
Speaker 6: And I have my grandmother, who was, you know, really
Speaker 6: like my mother.
Speaker 1: My grandma adopted me. We might be the same person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're except for that smoothie. That's too much I need again,
Speaker 1: I need lots of show. Yeah. So your grandma was
Speaker 1: very instrumental and your your upbringing, huh.
Speaker 6: And she was, you know, just a really sassy German
Speaker 6: woman and just very loving, very affectionate. And it almost,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of balanced it out. How affectionate she was,
Speaker 6: you know, made up for the fact that my mother
Speaker 6: had left. But you know, I still I love my
Speaker 6: mother and I try to take care of her the
Speaker 6: best I can.
Speaker 7: Cast up little food for yourself.
Speaker 1: Life always pretty, but it's pretty beautiful that for a
Speaker 1: little mouth.
Speaker 5: Said, cut your kicking with full with Amy Brown.
Speaker 10: First, I want to go over what real alcohols you
Speaker 10: can have or the ones you may want to stay
Speaker 10: away from again if you're trying to avoid the anxiety. Apparently,
Speaker 10: dark liquors like whiskey, prosecco, champagne, and red wine are
Speaker 10: the worst. They have chemicals that worsen hangovers and anxiety.
Speaker 10: Sugary cocktails are also a no go, which after I
Speaker 10: read this, I was like, oh, okay, my drinks the
Speaker 10: other night on my date YEP had prosecco mixed in
Speaker 10: a sugary concoction, So damn that was likely my problem.
Speaker 10: The high sugar, which leads to a sugar spike and
Speaker 10: then a sugar crash, which then will increase my anxiety,
Speaker 10: my irritability. And then also I had no idea about this,
Speaker 10: but the bubbles in prosecco and champagne they speed up
Speaker 10: the absorption of alcohol in our bloodstream, which lead to
Speaker 10: a quicker and more intense effect. So at the time,
Speaker 10: it's feeling really good and it's all enjoyable and you're like, oh,
Speaker 10: I feel great, this is fun, which might lead you
Speaker 10: to order more, and then the after effects of that anxiety,
Speaker 10: which I was also surprised to see red wine on
Speaker 10: the worst list. I mean, the whiskey, the sugary drinks,
Speaker 10: I get that was easy for me to understand, but
Speaker 10: red wine was a little confusing. But I guess it's
Speaker 10: a sugar and chemical thing. And I am bummed to
Speaker 10: see prosecco on there. And keep that in mind though,
Speaker 10: with New Year's Eve coming up, prosecco, champagne, a lot
Speaker 10: of that is served, and maybe you want to avoid
Speaker 10: that this time of year and see if you feel
Speaker 10: better the next morning. Now, as for the best drinks
Speaker 10: to have to decrease your anxiety, the article said to
Speaker 10: stick to clear liquors like vodka, gin, or tequila with soap.
Speaker 9: Tequila kayala is a little.
Speaker 5: What are you all?
Speaker 11: I was sitting back here and I was like, man,
Speaker 11: I can't wait to hit this. When she says tequila, okay,
Speaker 11: that's scuba.
Speaker 10: Steve, I had no idea he was even listening to this.
Speaker 10: He's back in his glass production room.
Speaker 3: Tequila.
Speaker 10: You can have vodka, gin or tequila with soda, water
Speaker 10: or fresh citrus. Those are easier on your system. And
Speaker 10: then again, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, don't forget water between drinks.
Speaker 10: It can make a huge difference. And we know this.
Speaker 3: I know this.
Speaker 10: We don't always do it, but just make a deal
Speaker 10: with yourself, make smarter choices, and then you'll have less anxiety. Now,
Speaker 10: Ray speaking of the glass room where Scuba works. He
Speaker 10: is one of our producers on the Bobby Bone Show,
Speaker 10: and he was actually just making fun of me this
Speaker 10: morning for being sold that I can't even handle one drink.
Speaker 10: Ray likes to drink, but mostly I would say, now
Speaker 10: it's during brunch on Saturdays. That's his time to go out.
Speaker 10: And he's the one that got me on on Booze
Speaker 10: a while back, which is a supplement that helps you
Speaker 10: feel better after drinking. And I will say it has
Speaker 10: helped me, but sometimes I run out or other times
Speaker 10: I just forget to take it. And last weekend, you know,
Speaker 10: I had those drinks, but I was out of unboozed.
Speaker 10: So I do need to order more. And I will
Speaker 10: shout out Ray because he has a code sisin twenty three.
Speaker 10: So I think his handle on Instagram is like sisin
Speaker 10: Ray Mundo, but sisin is like for season, but s
Speaker 10: z N twenty three, and that'll get you a discount
Speaker 10: if you're curious about Unbooze, and I'll link it in
Speaker 10: the show notes. But in addition to taking something like
Speaker 10: Unbooze that may help you out. Another option might be
Speaker 10: non Alcoholic Spirits.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 10: I came across that brand recently, like I told you,
Speaker 10: thanks to that Instagram ad, and what I ordered specifically
Speaker 10: was from Little Saints. It's a whole non alcoholic brand,
Speaker 10: so there's nothing confusing about it. You don't go to
Speaker 10: the website and you're like, wait, which one's the alcohol,
Speaker 10: which one's not, because they all look like alcohol but
Speaker 10: nothing is. And I was most intrigued by their drink
Speaker 10: that mimics tequila. I thought it would come in handy
Speaker 10: for when I want a margarita something like that. When
Speaker 10: I got the bottle and the mail, I saw that
Speaker 10: the company is also founded by a woman, which I love.
Speaker 10: And my overall review is four point five out of five.
Speaker 10: I really liked it so much so that, Yeah, I
Speaker 10: may order more stuff from the site, Like I was
Speaker 10: saying to Eddie, maybe I'll order some gifts for people.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 10: There's a lot of na brands out there. This is
Speaker 10: just the only one that i've tried and really enjoyed
Speaker 10: so far. And this one is infused with lines Made,
Speaker 10: which is a functional mushroom. It's an adaptogen. It's good
Speaker 10: for brain health, mood support, gut health, and a lot
Speaker 10: of other things. I've always loved lines Made, so to
Speaker 10: have it in my mocktail it's like a bonus. I
Speaker 10: don't know if it's just me or if y'all are
Speaker 10: also getting more non alcoholic type ads, but I do
Speaker 10: think that drinking is on the decline drinking alcohol. People
Speaker 10: are drinking less, which I guess is good and probably
Speaker 10: why some brands have increased marketing because they want to
Speaker 10: capitalize on the fact that people are drinking less, or
Speaker 10: they are curious about drinking less.
Speaker 3: And speaking of.
Speaker 10: Curiosity, I decided to do a little research because I
Speaker 10: was like, Okay, what are the statistics on this, like,
Speaker 10: is drinking actually going down? And I found that, on average,
Speaker 10: this is from NC Solutions, Americans are drinking three drinks
Speaker 10: per week and that's down from four to five drinks
Speaker 10: in twenty twenty three. Millennials in particular are drinking less,
Speaker 10: like forty percent less this year than last year, with
Speaker 10: an average of three drinks per week. Which is crazy
Speaker 10: to think about if we were going from five drinks
Speaker 10: to three and with dry January coming up next month
Speaker 10: might be the highest year of participation yet because this
Speaker 10: last January was up ten percent from the year before,
Speaker 10: So it's just in one year and ten percent jump.
Speaker 10: That is a lot of people. And the top of
Speaker 10: reasons Americans are drinking less include while we want to
Speaker 10: improve our physical health, we want to save money.
Speaker 3: Although I will say.
Speaker 10: The non alcoholic drinks they might be more expensive than
Speaker 10: the alcohol ones, so maybe they're saving money and just
Speaker 10: not drinking anything, not even the fake version. And overall,
Speaker 10: we just want to make lifestyle changes.
Speaker 11: We're gonna do it live.
Speaker 7: We are the one, two three sore losers. What up, everybody?
Speaker 7: I am lunchbox. I know the most about sports, so
Speaker 7: I'll give you the sports facts, my sports opinions, because
Speaker 7: I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 12: It's Sison. I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male.
Speaker 12: I live on the north side of Nashville with Bayser,
Speaker 12: my wife.
Speaker 11: We do have a farm.
Speaker 12: It's beautiful, a lot of acreage, no animals, a lot
Speaker 12: of crops, hopefully soon corn pumpkins. I believe maybe a
Speaker 12: little fescue to be determined over to you, coach, And.
Speaker 7: Here's a clip from this week's episode of The Sore Losers.
Speaker 7: My in laws come in and they act like my
Speaker 7: house is a pile of shit. They act like we
Speaker 7: can't take care of ourselves. They start up, They're like,
Speaker 7: my father's like, hey, where is that curtain rod that
Speaker 7: your your wife once hung up? I'm like what, She's
Speaker 7: never mentioned a curtain rod in her life to me.
Speaker 11: All the stuff you didn't do.
Speaker 7: I'm like, what curtain There's no curtain rod and he goes, yeah,
Speaker 7: she said she gave me a to do list and
Speaker 7: one of them was hanging this curtain rod.
Speaker 11: I coach, you haven't done it for six months.
Speaker 7: I have never been told about a curtain rod anywhere.
Speaker 7: And I'm like what. And he's like, yeah, she told
Speaker 7: me that you guys want to hang a curtain rod
Speaker 7: in the kid's bedroom. I'm like, we do. So he
Speaker 7: goes down and hang. He hangs the damn curtain in
Speaker 7: the kid's bedroom and I'm like, what the hell you
Speaker 7: want to just take my man card to then? Oh,
Speaker 7: then we bought a mirror that she bought a mirror
Speaker 7: in an estate sale, and she I was like, well,
Speaker 7: where do you want to hang it? I don't know.
Speaker 7: I do notice she's stuck in the closet. Never said
Speaker 7: anything else about it. Her parents are there and her
Speaker 7: father and La was like, now, so where is this
Speaker 7: mirror going. And I'm like, I don't know, and he goes, no, no,
Speaker 7: she said she wanted it in the kitchen right And
Speaker 7: I'm like, no, she has not mentioned anything about a
Speaker 7: damn mirror to me since we you know, like we
Speaker 7: bought the mirror we put in the closet and she
Speaker 7: said she was gonna think about it. He's like, no,
Speaker 7: she said, she wants it hung up right here. So
Speaker 7: he gets out the tape measure and starts marking shit
Speaker 7: and hangs it right on the wall.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let me get the tape measure. It's in the bedroom.
Speaker 7: And I'm like, well, what the hell? Like they start
Speaker 7: just doing everything, but you got him knocked off the
Speaker 7: list though it was never on the list.
Speaker 11: But you're saying it's a little bit. It's a little bit.
Speaker 13: I was gonna say, emasculating, yeah, and a little bit
Speaker 13: of like okay, and like the kid's laundry, you know
Speaker 13: what I mean, it gets washed and it stays in
Speaker 13: the laundry room and you never put it away.
Speaker 7: So they go in there and that's where they pick
Speaker 7: out their clothes. I'm the man in this house, Jim, No, No,
Speaker 7: father in law like, Hey, we're gonna clean this up
Speaker 7: right now. We're gonna clean this laundry up right now?
Speaker 11: What in this place look like?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 7: I'm like, holy s. They like, we can't even take
Speaker 7: care of ourselves.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 6: Oh you're talking about mount laundry?
Speaker 11: Honey, what happened to the mountain back here? Dude? It's
Speaker 11: awesome though, once it all gets done.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But I'm sitting there trying to watch football going.
Speaker 11: Across the top.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to relax, and there's drilling freaking knocking stuff out,
Speaker 7: like pulling this out, moving this, doing that, And I'm like, so,
Speaker 7: am I allowed to relax? Or am I supposed to
Speaker 7: go help that?
Speaker 12: That was my big dilemma, right, You just stand there
Speaker 12: and really you're in support.
Speaker 7: I mean, I can't see a TV.
Speaker 11: Well, see, we have a lot of tea.
Speaker 12: I made sure that we're a TV household, so usually
Speaker 12: any project.
Speaker 7: We're doing, I have a TV I guess what spare bedroom.
Speaker 7: How often do I go in the spare bedroom?
Speaker 8: You do?
Speaker 12: But bezos, you got this roller TV that I can
Speaker 12: roll roll around the spare bedroom.
Speaker 7: Never go in there. That's where the in laws are staying, right,
Speaker 7: And what a pointless room, right, It's so dumb. It's like, oh,
Speaker 7: we need a spare bedroom, you know when people come visit.
Speaker 7: Guess how often people come visit? Maybe once a year.
Speaker 7: So you can figure it out through an air mattress subury.
Speaker 7: You don't need a spare bedroom. It's absolutely stupid. But
Speaker 7: I'm I don't go in the spare bedroom. But since
Speaker 7: they're staying in there, we need to tidy up the
Speaker 7: spare bedroom.
Speaker 11: So we're in there.
Speaker 7: The in laws are moving the bed, vacuuming behind the bed, dude,
Speaker 7: and I'm like, what the they're acting like that we
Speaker 7: live in the damn shithole. And then I've never done
Speaker 7: anything in my life. I mean, they've got the vacuum out,
Speaker 7: they got the mop they're you know, doing washing the
Speaker 7: sheets and the comforter and the pillows and the every
Speaker 7: day coach.
Speaker 12: That's not even the worst of it. Did you get
Speaker 12: criticized for your tools?
Speaker 7: Oh, next, Hey, where are your drill bits? Oh they're
Speaker 7: right there in that closet. They may have a little
Speaker 7: dust on them. And he's like, I didn't see him.
Speaker 7: I don't think you have any drill bits. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 7: I have drill bits, man, they should be right there.
Speaker 7: So I didn't. I didn't find them. He goes, I'll
Speaker 7: just go to home depot and get them. You got
Speaker 7: home depot and I'm like, all right, man, and he
Speaker 7: goes home Depot gets whatever he needs. He comes back
Speaker 7: and he's like, oh, they are in that closet. They
Speaker 7: were just underneath something. I'm like, I told you. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 7: but these these drill bits are better. These are these
Speaker 7: are a little bit newer. And he goes to get
Speaker 7: my electric drill and he's like, seems like you need
Speaker 7: an electric drill. The battery's not holding a charge. No,
Speaker 7: I charge that thing every night.
Speaker 5: Should be good.
Speaker 7: And he's like, you want to go pick you up
Speaker 7: one right now? I'm like, or he goes, you want
Speaker 7: to go to home depot with me and get one.
Speaker 7: I'm like, no, I really don't. I don't have any
Speaker 7: desire right now at this moment, at this point in
Speaker 7: time to go to home depot to get a gosh
Speaker 7: darn drill. I would just like to relax. And he's like,
Speaker 7: I'll just go to home depot. So he goes back
Speaker 7: to home depot.
Speaker 11: He made a double trip to depot.
Speaker 7: He made a triple tip trip to depot. Right, that's bad.
Speaker 11: That means you didn't have it.
Speaker 7: Coach, No, I had a drill. I had the drill bits,
Speaker 7: but apparently the battery wasn't holding its charge. Then he
Speaker 7: the back door, like when it's wintertime, it's harder to
Speaker 7: lock it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you gotta winterize it, man, And.
Speaker 7: He's like, oh, you need a chisel. He's like, do
Speaker 7: you have a chisel?
Speaker 12: I might Coach, you've been asked for the electric gun,
Speaker 12: the chisel, the curtain rod in an ancient mirror.
Speaker 7: And I'm like, no, no, man, I don't I don't
Speaker 7: have a I don't have a chisel.
Speaker 8: Heels.
Speaker 7: I wish i'd known that for I got to go
Speaker 7: back to home depot and he goes back down. Nebo
Speaker 7: gets the chisel and he's like, chiseling out where the
Speaker 7: lot goes because I guess it's sunken down or it's
Speaker 7: not level anymore. So it was hitting the top and
Speaker 7: he chisels a little piece of the wood off. I'm like,
Speaker 7: none of this shit bothers me. None of this bothers me.
Speaker 7: Can we like, I've lived in this house and none
Speaker 7: of this has bothered me. I have not wanted to
Speaker 7: fix any of this. No one has told me I
Speaker 7: need to fix any of this. But they come to
Speaker 7: town and it's like, oh my god, this house is
Speaker 7: falling apart. And then the spare bedroom. Guess what, right,
Speaker 7: we never used the spare bedroom. I never put a
Speaker 7: curtain rod up never, or a shower curtain, right, and
Speaker 7: so like, how are we supposed to take a shower?
Speaker 7: I never, I didn't think about that. Whenever you come,
Speaker 7: we usually just hang a towel and it gets on
Speaker 7: the or put some towels on the floor and then
Speaker 7: brust the water. Well that's unacceptable. Well we'll just run
Speaker 7: the target real kit quick and we'll get a shower
Speaker 7: curtain and rot and oh my god.
Speaker 12: Damn dude, four depots and a target.
Speaker 7: It was like, I mean, it made me just sitting
Speaker 7: there going and then my wife's like, is everything okay?
Speaker 7: I'm like, well, besides the fact that they think I
Speaker 7: am incapable of doing anything. And b I don't know
Speaker 7: if I'm other supposed to sit there and help, or
Speaker 7: if I'm if I'm allowed to sit here and watch football.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 7: The you know protocol here.
Speaker 12: The protocol is this, you offer something that's just completely pointless.
Speaker 12: So for example, for me, it's just Gary, let me
Speaker 12: hold this ladder for you. No, man, does these things
Speaker 12: hold themselves? It it's four legs, stupid, Okay, no worries.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 12: You offer something that you know they don't even need
Speaker 12: help with. You know, hey, dude, it is getting darker.
Speaker 12: You to grab a light or something.
Speaker 5: No, man, I'm good.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, Uh, just let me know if.
Speaker 11: Anything you know you're offering, you know what am I
Speaker 11: gonna do?
Speaker 12: Hold a light?
Speaker 7: You know, stuff like that. Because I looked at the
Speaker 7: curtain run and they were I mean, it took him
Speaker 7: forty five minutes to do the curtain run.
Speaker 12: I'm like, guys, you gotta measure it. That's a whole thing.
Speaker 12: It's not just sticking it up there. Gary would measure it.
Speaker 12: He would put a laser on it, dude, he would.
Speaker 12: He's got the drill gun. You're gonna do one side
Speaker 12: then the other. There's a lot to level it. There's
Speaker 12: a level on top. Me dude, me, I'd stick it
Speaker 12: up two darts in the sides right.
Speaker 7: And we had the exact same conversation. I said, guys,
Speaker 7: it's been forty five minutes. What's going on? Why is
Speaker 7: their tape all over the wall. And my wife's like, oh,
Speaker 7: you know how my dad is. He likes to measure
Speaker 7: everything and make sure everything's perfect. And she goes, that's
Speaker 7: how I prefer it. You know what I mean is
Speaker 7: if we just measure, measure, measure, measure, measure, make sure
Speaker 7: everything's perfect. You prefer perfectly measured. She goes, let me
Speaker 7: guess your dad would have just got up there and
Speaker 7: eyeballed it. I said, yeah, I think he would eyeballed it.
Speaker 7: That's what I would have done. I'd have just looked
Speaker 7: your dad would I'm a construction guy, I know, but
Speaker 7: I think he eyeballed a lot, like a curtain rod.
Speaker 7: I don't think you is a big deal.
Speaker 12: I would almost imagine that the curtain rod can probably
Speaker 12: there's probably what is it called backsplash or something where
Speaker 12: it's actually level there. You would just need to level
Speaker 12: the top and boom it.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but I'm just saying I left that
Speaker 7: week feeling like, holy s man. He this dude thinks
Speaker 7: I am the laziest person in the world because I'm like,
Speaker 7: I don't want to do any of this crap. I
Speaker 7: just want to watch football. I'd never planned to do
Speaker 7: any of this be he criticized my tools, what I'm
Speaker 7: working with. He was like, you need to step up
Speaker 7: your game, and b see, they're coming back in like
Speaker 7: two weeks.
Speaker 11: Dude.
Speaker 12: The worst is a tool criticization, criticizing It happened to me.
Speaker 12: I would I He goes, hey, will you go get
Speaker 12: me get me something to screw this in.
Speaker 14: Dude.
Speaker 11: I just went and got a Phillips screwdriver, like a
Speaker 11: hand one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, dude.
Speaker 11: He wanted like some drill gun. That's I bring him
Speaker 11: that and he's like, what.
Speaker 5: The is this?
Speaker 11: I was like, at Phillips, fuck you want.
Speaker 12: He goes, We'll be out here all night if I'm
Speaker 12: gonna do it with that, my that's a good point.
Speaker 12: He's like, you ain't got that thing, you know, whatever
Speaker 12: the name is, it's just it's like a hydraulic gun.
Speaker 12: And he's like, but dude, my I hand him like
Speaker 12: it's limp and it has no cord connected to it, and
Speaker 12: I'm I'm.
Speaker 11: Like, yeah, just this little phillips.
Speaker 7: Dude.
Speaker 8: He's like that, get out of here, man.
Speaker 11: So then I do it, and then I'm walking with
Speaker 11: my little phillips.
Speaker 5: Screwy. Wasn't good at all.
Speaker 2: Take personal mules men.
Speaker 15: Well, because November is men's Mental Health Awareness month. It
Speaker 15: just happened. The whole November movement was happening. I really
Speaker 15: wanted to focus this episode on men's mental health and
Speaker 15: talk about it in a lot of different ways. But
Speaker 15: first up, I have an expert on with me. Doctor
Speaker 15: and doctor Adra you are a psychotherapist, but also you
Speaker 15: kind of focus heavily on men's mental health.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 14: I'm great, I'm so good. I'm so happy to be
Speaker 14: here and excited to talk more about my passion.
Speaker 15: Say you're a male and you did finally find a therapist,
Speaker 15: and you're like, okay, this could be a fit for me.
Speaker 14: Yep.
Speaker 15: But then taking that a step further, is they feel
Speaker 15: uncomfortable to do so why do you feel it has
Speaker 15: been generally harder for men to get into.
Speaker 14: Therapy generally, I think we expect men to be hyper independent.
Speaker 14: They're problem solvers, you know, there's the trope around the
Speaker 14: lone wolf, like you can do it on your own,
Speaker 14: you can figure it out, and you are the provider,
Speaker 14: you are the protector. Like they're all these and even
Speaker 14: if these are stereotypes, they are really powerful expectations that
Speaker 14: still exist in our society. And there are powerful expectations
Speaker 14: that some men really hold true. Like there are a
Speaker 14: lot of men that feel really proud of that traditional masculinity.
Speaker 14: There are a lot of women who look to men
Speaker 14: who want men to uphold that real traditional masculinity. There
Speaker 14: are men who may be feel in conflict with it,
Speaker 14: but regardless, there's an expectation. And so we're essentially asking
Speaker 14: men to set aside everything that society has asked them
Speaker 14: to be. You're a little boy, boys, don't cry, suck
Speaker 14: it up, be a man. Don't cry. I'll give you
Speaker 14: something to cry about. Like I have men who are
Speaker 14: commenting on my videos on TikTok and sending me dms
Speaker 14: all the time, sharing the experiences they had at ages
Speaker 14: as young as four or five or six where they learned, oh,
Speaker 14: I'm too old to cry now. And so when you
Speaker 14: learn that young that you're not supposed to have those
Speaker 14: sorts of emotions, that you're supposed to figure it out
Speaker 14: on your own, man up. And then we expect them
Speaker 14: decades later to feel super comfortable walking in and asking
Speaker 14: for help. There's just such a discrepancy there between what
Speaker 14: we generally expect men to be and then what the
Speaker 14: experience and process of asking for help and going to
Speaker 14: therapy usually is.
Speaker 15: So being someone who is such an advocate for mental
Speaker 15: health for everyone to address these issues and go to
Speaker 15: therapy utilizing this space, How is the best way we
Speaker 15: can encourage men that they are not losing their masculinity
Speaker 15: and in fact gaining emotional intelligence and emotional vulnerability to
Speaker 15: become like a better version of this man that they
Speaker 15: want to be. On this podcast, if I am encouraged,
Speaker 15: somebody's listening to this and like, yes, this is all true,
Speaker 15: this is how I feel. Yes, how is someone like
Speaker 15: me or say the women who are listening and their
Speaker 15: partner or their brother or their family member, how can
Speaker 15: they make it a space for that person in their
Speaker 15: life to show them that they can have both because
Speaker 15: they have been taught, you know, on learning these things
Speaker 15: is part of that. But how can people help them
Speaker 15: to understand that better?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 14: I think part of what happens is that I do
Speaker 14: believe therapy as a resource or like coaching, even I
Speaker 14: feel like I know a lot of men's coaches who
Speaker 14: do essentially what I do in therapy, But there's a
Speaker 14: branding shift which I think can be a little bit
Speaker 14: more accessible for some men. But I do think even
Speaker 14: therapy is becoming a less stigmatized resource, and even in
Speaker 14: some places in the country, almost like a status symbol,
Speaker 14: like oh, yeah, I've got the best therapist in New York,
Speaker 14: Like you're in LA Like yeah, I'm going to go
Speaker 14: see my therapists. Like there are places where I see
Speaker 14: that shift happening, And I think especially versus for that,
Speaker 14: I do see that shifting a bit. I think what
Speaker 14: we can do general population can do is in our
Speaker 14: own homes and with our own relationships with men. What
Speaker 14: I hear from a lot of men is that before
Speaker 14: they're even considering going to therapy, you know, they're gauging
Speaker 14: in their own life. Is there space for me to
Speaker 14: be emotional? Is there space for me to be vulnerable?
Speaker 14: And what happens when I do take up that space.
Speaker 14: What happens when I do allow myself to be vulnerable.
Speaker 14: I open up, I cry, I share that I'm struggling,
Speaker 14: I share that I'm hurting, I share that I'm I'm worried,
Speaker 14: I'm scared. And what happens, what I hear happen. And this, again, generally,
Speaker 14: this is not everyone, not at all. But I think
Speaker 14: the men who are especially reluctant to therapy is that
Speaker 14: in their own lives, they're experiencing what happens when they
Speaker 14: are vulnerable and emotional, and it's completely turning them off.
Speaker 14: So they're feeling like, Okay, I opened up to my spouse,
Speaker 14: I opened up to my girlfriend, or I opened up
Speaker 14: to my friends, and they they shut me down, or
Speaker 14: they laughed it off, or they dismissed me, or you know,
Speaker 14: I told her how I was feeling, and she seemed okay,
Speaker 14: maybe she seemed a little uncomfortable in the moment that
Speaker 14: I cried. And then three weeks later we got into
Speaker 14: a fight and she turned it against me and she
Speaker 14: threw it in my face. And so I think that unfortunately,
Speaker 14: we are all unlearning a lot of these stereotypes. Women included,
Speaker 14: are unlearning what it looks like for a man to
Speaker 14: be a man, and what our expectations are and what
Speaker 14: we want and how we reconcile those differences. If we're
Speaker 14: wanting men to ship, then we're also having to recognize, like, oh,
Speaker 14: my expectations and and what I've been socialized to expect
Speaker 14: speets to show.
Speaker 16: Hey, it's Mike d And this week on Movie Mike's
Speaker 16: Movie podcast, I did a spoiler.
Speaker 17: Free movie review of Mowana two.
Speaker 16: I love me some animated Disney movies, and I know
Speaker 16: I'm saying that as an adult male in his thirties,
Speaker 16: but I broke down the entire movie. There have been
Speaker 16: so many major movies coming out recently, so be sure
Speaker 16: to subscribe to my podcast to hear more spoiler free reviews.
Speaker 16: But right now here are my thoughts on ma Wana two.
Speaker 16: Let's get into it now. A spoiler free review of
Speaker 16: mo Wana. To the question I want to answer by
Speaker 16: the end of this review is was it even necessary?
Speaker 16: And yes, I know, I'm an adult man talking about
Speaker 16: a movie primarily meant for kids, but it's a Disney movie.
Speaker 17: It is important, so we're here to talk about it.
Speaker 16: Pretty much, what this movie is about I hate to
Speaker 16: say it, it's basically the same thing as the first one.
Speaker 16: When it comes to the plotline, Mowana goes out on
Speaker 16: another big adventure. This one is going to test her
Speaker 16: levels of being a leader. Now somebody now who can
Speaker 16: speak and communicate with the ocean to a whole new level.
Speaker 16: Main problem I had it with this movie not just
Speaker 16: that the story was very repetitive from the first one.
Speaker 17: There's no real struggle. It kind of feels like.
Speaker 16: The villain was a rehashed version of the villain from
Speaker 16: the first movie.
Speaker 17: It was the music.
Speaker 16: The music was so important to Moana one, really so
Speaker 16: important in.
Speaker 17: Any Disney movie right now.
Speaker 16: You need that one big song and Mawana you had
Speaker 16: that song how Far I'll Go, which is a big
Speaker 16: anthem from that movie. It is the character defining song
Speaker 16: of Mowana. That is your hit from that Every Disney
Speaker 16: musical movie needs that song to really resonate with kids,
Speaker 16: to really drive this to be a movie that a
Speaker 16: kid is gonna leave the theater and immediately want to
Speaker 16: go watch it on Disney Plus, even though it isn't
Speaker 16: available yet. You need that song to define your movie.
Speaker 16: Mawana Io did not have that song. It didn't have
Speaker 16: a how Far I'll Go. It didn't have a year Welcome,
Speaker 16: which is another character defining song from Maui. It didn't
Speaker 16: even have the shiny Thing song from one of the
Speaker 16: villains in the first movie. There were no memorable songs
Speaker 16: whatsoever in Mowana Too. And what I believe it comes
Speaker 16: down to is that Linn Manuel Miranda was not a
Speaker 16: part of this movie. He did not write the songs.
Speaker 16: You have two new female writers who did all the music,
Speaker 16: and they were really just given guidance from Lynn Manuel
Speaker 16: Miranda before they started making the music for this movie.
Speaker 16: He sat down with them and gave them the blueprint
Speaker 16: of what he did on the first one and what
Speaker 16: worked in that movie. And then they said he was
Speaker 16: just a phone call or FaceTime away. So maybe they
Speaker 16: used him with some guidance here and there, but you
Speaker 16: really felt his presence missing in these songs because they
Speaker 16: lacked originality, and it felt like they were given the
Speaker 16: assignment of, hey, do what we did in the first movie,
Speaker 16: channel your best Linn Manuel Miranda and create your own songs,
Speaker 16: but you have to fit in this box. And what
Speaker 16: happens when you do that? When it comes to music,
Speaker 16: is you lose that creativity because you're just trying to
Speaker 16: do an impression. You're trying to cover the songs from
Speaker 16: the first one and make them your own. But you
Speaker 16: don't have that say artists doing it, and you don't
Speaker 16: have that originality. Because if Lynn Manuel Miranda was given
Speaker 16: this movie and said, hey, let's see what you can
Speaker 16: do here with all these new characters, with this new storyline,
Speaker 16: what songs can you create? He's not gonna do exactly
Speaker 16: what he did in the first one. He's gonna experiment
Speaker 16: and do different things. And that is where you get
Speaker 16: the better songs, not trying to do an impression of
Speaker 16: what you did in the first one, but trying to
Speaker 16: build upon it and create new songs. And you see
Speaker 16: this happening in movies all the time. Whenever the Batman
Speaker 16: movies lost Danny Elfman and they had to bring in
Speaker 16: a new composer and say, hey, do what Danny Elfman
Speaker 16: did and create these themes. You can't do it because
Speaker 16: you're trying to do an impression of somebody. You're not
Speaker 16: being original, and you're really not growing the.
Speaker 17: Music in any way.
Speaker 16: So I really felt out of everything that was really
Speaker 16: what was lacking in this movie. The improvements I do
Speaker 16: think they made was the animation style, and where this
Speaker 16: movie looked the best was in the nighttime animation scenes.
Speaker 16: I think on the water at night there was a
Speaker 16: level of depth and the shading and the overall flow
Speaker 16: of these characters. I think that is where this movie
Speaker 16: really shined. And those action sequences, especially in that third act.
Speaker 16: So maybe the story was kind of the same thing
Speaker 16: over and over again. The music was kind of just
Speaker 16: slapped together, but the animation really I thought was improved
Speaker 16: from the first one, so I think at least Disney
Speaker 16: is getting that right. Because even the comedy wasn't anything new.
Speaker 16: It was really just rehashing some of the jokes from
Speaker 16: the first one, which again I don't think kids are
Speaker 16: really going to care about that, and the theater people
Speaker 16: were still laughing as this movie went along. But I
Speaker 16: think the main thing was we didn't really see a
Speaker 16: whole lot of development from the character of Moljana from
Speaker 16: one to two because she went through that entire journey
Speaker 16: in one, and at the start of this movie it
Speaker 16: almost felt like she was back at that point after
Speaker 16: going through all those things and finding out all these
Speaker 16: things about herself and being this really strong character. By
Speaker 16: the end of one, it almost like she regressed a
Speaker 16: little bit and was.
Speaker 17: Learning all over again.
Speaker 16: Instead, I would have liked to have seen her shine
Speaker 16: more at the beginning of this movie. He has still
Speaker 16: been given a test that she had to overcome and do.
Speaker 16: What she set out to do was find this island
Speaker 16: and connect her people with the rest of the world.
Speaker 17: That still could have been a test. But I would
Speaker 17: have liked to see her.
Speaker 16: Be kind of a stronger leader in the beginning, because
Speaker 16: I think that would have been more impactful to kids
Speaker 16: of seeing like, oh, she learned something from the first one.
Speaker 16: She has these leadership skills now that she has to
Speaker 16: hone in and the struggles of being the leader, where
Speaker 16: even though you are strong and have proven yourself, how
Speaker 16: do you kind of advance on that. Instead, it was
Speaker 16: kind of just her from the beginning again all over
Speaker 16: and then trying to do what she did in the
Speaker 16: first one. So I think you have to give the
Speaker 16: kids like a stronger role model at the beginning and
Speaker 16: show what comes with even though you have proven yourself,
Speaker 16: how you have to do it again. I will say
Speaker 16: as much crap as I give the Rock. He is
Speaker 16: actually a really good voice actor. I think he should
Speaker 16: stop doing live action movies and just do a voice
Speaker 16: acting because he really shines as I think he really
Speaker 16: gives it as all. You can see his inflections and
Speaker 16: how much he puts a lot of his personal details
Speaker 16: into Maui. I think he has a lot of fun
Speaker 16: with it. It's probably also easier to fit into his schedule.
Speaker 16: He can just get into a recording booth, lay some
Speaker 16: lines down, and then get on his private jet and
Speaker 16: go work out for ten hours or whatever he does
Speaker 16: whatever causes him to be five twelve hours late to set.
Speaker 16: I think he actually does really great work in voice acting.
Speaker 16: Maui is his best character in the last ten years.
Speaker 16: Why is Maui his best character in the last ten years.
Speaker 16: It's because it's the only character that he portrays that
Speaker 16: actually has depth, that actually goes through something, that actually
Speaker 16: has ups and downs, and doesn't win all the time.
Speaker 16: Maui loses fights. Mali also wins fights. Maui goes through
Speaker 16: sad times. All his other characters in every other movie,
Speaker 16: he's just the same thing over and over again, wins
Speaker 16: every fight, doesn't get a scratch on him, faces no adversity.
Speaker 16: Maui actually has that, so I think that is why
Speaker 16: he's so attached to this character and why he's gonna
Speaker 16: do it again in the live action movie. But I'm
Speaker 16: not that excited for that. I think he should just
Speaker 16: stick to doing more animated roles. So for Mawana too,
Speaker 16: I don't think it was entirely necessary. I was even
Speaker 16: at a two point five for a while, but there
Speaker 16: was some clapping at the end of this movie, and
Speaker 16: I think people did leave satisfied, and I saw a
Speaker 16: lot of happy faces all around. So I think I
Speaker 16: have to give it a point five just because I
Speaker 16: am an adult talking about an animated movie meant for
Speaker 16: a much younger demographic, and if they had a good time,
Speaker 16: I think that is worth a point five boost. So
Speaker 16: for ma Wana two, I give it three out of
Speaker 16: five hooks.
Speaker 8: Carrylone.
Speaker 6: She's a queen talking.
Speaker 8: He was sown you. She's getting really a.
Speaker 5: Soul.
Speaker 6: Just let it flo no one can do it.
Speaker 8: Quiet Cary Line. It's time for Caroline. I just I
Speaker 8: love being a dad. I love shape and and I
Speaker 8: love it's I just think it's important for them to
Speaker 8: see how I carry myself and what's important and how
Speaker 8: I treat their mama and and just them the truth.
Speaker 8: They're they're half crazy there. So we have a six
Speaker 8: five twenty three year old and I'm just kind of
Speaker 8: all about teaching them to grow up and be men.
Speaker 9: How do you teach men in this world? I feel
Speaker 9: like that's a lost art a little bit.
Speaker 8: There's been so much people talk about you know, what's it?
Speaker 8: Toxic masculinity is yes, And the worst thing you could
Speaker 8: be is a is a man.
Speaker 9: It's gone through a season where it's like being just
Speaker 9: like a man's man is kind of like the worst truly,
Speaker 9: the worst thing is And.
Speaker 8: It's sad because I think that that's what we're supposed
Speaker 8: to be. And I just I don't know, man. I
Speaker 8: talked to him about every night we have storytell okay,
Speaker 8: and it's I love it, a cherish it. And we'll
Speaker 8: start off.
Speaker 11: Got any questions, that's a great hit me with.
Speaker 8: Some and they'll ask me, you know, was Bigfoot real?
Speaker 9: Well? Apparently he is real and lives at y'all's farm.
Speaker 8: True.
Speaker 9: I've seen footage video footage on your TikTok of the
Speaker 9: Bigfoot in the wild.
Speaker 3: Do your kids know? Have they?
Speaker 9: Do? They still they know Bigfoot's real.
Speaker 8: Yes, they know Bigfoot's real. Santa Claus is.
Speaker 9: Real, everything's real. I love that tooth keep the magic going.
Speaker 9: I feel the same way. That's so fun. Everyone needs
Speaker 9: to check out Rodney's into his TikTok and dig a
Speaker 9: little deep and you'll find the real sighting of Bigfoot.
Speaker 8: He was there, man, it was a birthday party at
Speaker 8: the farm and it was a blast. I was laughing
Speaker 8: and sweating. God, it was hot. Bugs were burning in
Speaker 8: the commitment. But yeah, we have story time, and I'll
Speaker 8: start off with you got any questions, and then all
Speaker 8: hearts and mind's clear, can we move on?
Speaker 9: And then all you see you say that all hearts
Speaker 9: and mind's clear.
Speaker 8: Sometimes yeah, a lot of times, so are we good?
Speaker 8: And then we'll move on to a lot of times
Speaker 8: it'll be some little Bible story. Last night it was
Speaker 8: what was it, Oh, the the Jericho and marching around
Speaker 8: Joshua would And so we went through that for a
Speaker 8: little bit, and then we'll go into some story. And
Speaker 8: I try to tell stories that incorporate them in the
Speaker 8: story that it's them going through some crazy adventure and
Speaker 8: it's just a special time. And I'll make them lay still,
Speaker 8: close your eyes, pictured in your head, and we do
Speaker 8: it every single night. I love it.
Speaker 9: That's amazing, it's fun. Why is being a dad so
Speaker 9: important to you?
Speaker 8: It's a responsibility. I mean, it's the most challenging and
Speaker 8: most rewarding thing I've ever done, will ever do. It's
Speaker 8: it's part of you, know what you leave behind, And
Speaker 8: it's teaching them to be in service and connected, to
Speaker 8: be more than just a good citizen, but to make
Speaker 8: a difference. And I mean that's the future of everything.
Speaker 8: I just I truly believe that. And how they see
Speaker 8: me carry myself and live my life is the first
Speaker 8: thing on my mind what I'm thinking about. And it
Speaker 8: is cool because Rose is How do I explain Rose?
Speaker 8: I say, she's she's kinder than she's tougher than life
Speaker 8: and kinder than love. She's just what a.
Speaker 9: Wonderful thing to say about your wife. Tougher than life
Speaker 9: and kinder than love.
Speaker 7: She is.
Speaker 3: Oh, how has her love changed you? How has it?
Speaker 9: How has it affected your heart and being married to her?
Speaker 8: Man, I don't know if I do that.
Speaker 9: Without crying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so sweet, Rodney, What a gift?
Speaker 9: Having a love like that is also the biggest gift
Speaker 9: you can have, exactly.
Speaker 8: And for them to see that, I think that's so.
Speaker 9: She's completely just metamorphosized you as a human with her love.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's with her. It's when somebody loves you
Speaker 8: that way. You're vulnerable, but you're tougher than anything that
Speaker 8: could ever come at you. At the same time because
Speaker 8: you have that.
Speaker 9: Do you have a place to a soft place to land.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're kind of fearless. Nothing else can hurt you.
Speaker 8: Nobody on earth can hurt me, but her. I don't know.
Speaker 8: Things fall into place when you when you see somebody
Speaker 8: love you, and you just I just quit, I quit
Speaker 8: listening to me about me and just trust her.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, so what did you about you tell you?
Speaker 9: And what does she tell you about you?
Speaker 8: I mean, it's that golden rule thing about you know,
Speaker 8: treat others how you want to be treated. But that's
Speaker 8: I can't remember where I even got this from. Hit
Speaker 8: me a long time ago about I wouldn't walk up
Speaker 8: to you and I don't know, say awful things to you,
Speaker 8: punch me in. I wouldn't force a gallon a whiskey
Speaker 8: down your throat or large or you know, super double
Speaker 8: large pizza just cram it down your throat. So I
Speaker 8: don't know why people do it. You do it to yourself,
Speaker 8: those things you say things to yourself.
Speaker 9: Like bad self talk exactly. That's it. It took me
Speaker 9: forever to even realize what self talk was. Like, I
Speaker 9: didn't know that for a long time until I started
Speaker 9: getting into therapy and self aware that, like I even
Speaker 9: had bad self talk. And then when I realized it,
Speaker 9: I'm like, man, I am an asshole to myself, Like
Speaker 9: I am picking myself apart, I'm tearing myself down. I
Speaker 9: don't believe in myself. It takes a lot to change that.
Speaker 9: Did you have some pretty gnarly self talk?
Speaker 8: I think so? Yeah. You know, I grew up, I
Speaker 8: was adopted, and.
Speaker 9: Your adoption story is so touching and it's such a journey.
Speaker 9: I mean, that's a lot to go through as a kid, it's.
Speaker 8: But what it does to you is it makes you
Speaker 8: you deal with self worth and you're trying to overcome
Speaker 8: just abandonmenton that's your It's just a lot of self
Speaker 8: worth stuff. So you you beat the ship out of
Speaker 8: yourself over and over.
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