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Sarah (00:03):
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Chris (00:23):
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Becca (00:48):
Wow.
Sarah (00:49):
That might've been it.
That might've been it.
We might just need to pluck thatfrom this outside of me saying,
weirdly I am Sarah.
Outside of that,
Chris (01:01):
everything else was
great.
Nailed the intro.
I'm so sad that I've wasted thattitle on another episode.
'cause now we really have nailedthe intro.
Sarah (01:09):
Yeah.
A year.
That was great.
That was great.
A year into it.
Christina, I think that you needto go back and write down
everything you just said.
I can't even remember it.
My head hurts.
No, that's why we record shit.
So you could listen to it andwrite things down.
Oh,
Chris (01:26):
oh yeah.
Oh,
Sarah (01:26):
that's so convenient.
That's so convenient.
And that's always why I say whenwe start meetings is somebody
recording this?
'cause I will not remember.
I will be distracted.
Chris (01:35):
Hilarious.
Sarah (01:36):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there you have it.
Um, I feel like after last weekwe should update everybody on
the Pope's status.
Chris (01:45):
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Are you aware of the popestatus?
Yeah, he is doing much better.
Uh, okay.
He, um, he was seen, uh, goingto mass.
Sarah (01:57):
I didn't notice.
I believe I'm actually justreading something about it
Chris (02:02):
now.
No, I watched the news everynight so I can see the weather.
I heard outside the, this
Sarah (02:08):
morning about it.
So I thought that it was goodnews, which is why I wanted to
do this.
Um,
Chris (02:13):
and again, I'm a little
disappointed.
I mean, I like that the Pope isdoing better.
That's nice.
But I also also, well, you justwanna see the
Sarah (02:19):
smoke come out of the
building.
Just one of, I
Chris (02:22):
also really, I really
like when we elect a new pope.
Like it's one of my favoriteCatholic things, like fish fries
and new popes.
That's what I'm in it for.
Sarah (02:31):
Well, um, he's, he is
using high flow oxygen therapy
with nasal cano can canula,C-A-N-N-U-L-A-E.
How do you say that?
Chris (02:44):
Cans canal.
Sarah (02:46):
Okay.
Less frequently.
So that's good.
Chris (02:49):
You know what that is,
right?
That's the things they stick upas nose like
Sarah (02:52):
this is it the little
oxygen things?
Yeah.
I used to wake up with thosearound my neck when we would go
out down to Sports Rock in thestrip district.
'cause they had oxygen bars backin the day where you paid
somebody money to sit there.
They would breathe, give youyour little tubes, and you could
plug them into different typesof oxygen that.
Chris (03:15):
I remember
Sarah (03:15):
this.
Swear to God.
Swear to God.
Right.
Okay, Becca.
So anyway, I
Chris (03:19):
feel bad that you didn't
grow up in this time.
Becca, the intern.
Everyone.
Yeah.
Sarah (03:24):
The one time I woke up in
my tiny little shady side
apartment.
In the hallway.
Do you remember that hallway?
It was very curved and I waslike snuggling against the curve
in the wall.
And I had on, I had on that nosethat that.
Can thing up my nose from thebar.
I was like, ooh.
Hmm.
(03:45):
Interesting.
Chris (03:46):
It seems like something
that you would just wear around
after too.
Like you would go to another barlater.
Oh sure.
And you would just have the
Sarah (03:52):
fuck
Chris (03:53):
things up your nose.
Be like, look how cool I am.
YI was at the oxygen bar
Sarah (03:57):
everywhere I went.
That shit was up my nose forsure.
Mm-hmm.
Wow.
Chris (04:02):
Wow.
Ridiculous.
I had already had children atthis point.
A child.
Yeah.
Yes.
Sarah (04:08):
Um, but yeah, so it seems
the pope's doing better.
Um, he's, he has some swellingin his hand, seen in a photo
taken and published yesterday.
The fuck
Chris (04:18):
kind of paparazzi is the
Pope getting that are like, get
a picture of his hand, get apicture of his hand,$10,000 for
a picture of the pope's hand?
Sarah (04:27):
Well, the good news is
it's just reduced, uh, or it's
due to reduced mobility and it'simproving today.
So are they taking, like, arethey taking time lapsed?
Chris (04:36):
Hand shot?
Obviously, obviously someone isgetting that picture and they're
like, alright, we paid$10,000for this picture.
Let's compare it to last year'shand and see what's up with that
hand.
Maybe the pope is a hand model.
You know, uncle Paul used to bea hand model.
Yeah, I do remember that.
Thank you.
Your dad and Uncle Paul alsoinvented a, uh, a snack, which
(05:00):
was a peanut wrapped in apretzel.
Like a lot of shit went down.
They didn't have an oxygen bar,so they didn't get to have as
much fun.
They just put peanuts inpretzels, which I'm trying to
imagine.
Did they just eat the peanut andthe pretzels together?
Yes.
I think that's what happened.
They were at the Blue Diamondand mm-hmm.
Somebody like the idea of eatingfood at the blue Diamond?
(05:23):
It's, yeah.
Sarah (05:23):
If, eh, mm-hmm.
Chris (05:26):
Like anybody local, uh,
having been to the Blue Diamond
will remember the men's restroomhad a carpet.
Sarah (05:32):
I was just gonna say
there was a carpet in the
bathroom.
I mean, the, it was justcarpeted flooring, wasn't it?
Carpeted floor in the men'sroom.
In a public men's room.
Chris (05:45):
I hate to make the vomit
noises because you're so much
better at it.
But, but I mean, thi this was a,this was a.
No, I mean it was one of myfavorite favorite.
I feel like you places to go.
I feel like you
Sarah (05:58):
make, you make good vomit
noises,
Chris (06:00):
but yeah, appreciate
that.
Oh, thank you.
I appreci the appreci bluediamond.
Was it,
Sarah (06:02):
man, the blue.
I loved going to the bluediamond mostly because mommy and
daddy would pay for all my beerswhile I was there, right.
That was the advantage.
And I would just sit at thelittle machine and play the
block game and smoke cigarettesand drink beer.
And mommy would make me go tothe bathroom with her a couple
times so she could sneak mycigarettes.
Chris (06:20):
I love your mother.
I love your mother
Sarah (06:22):
the best.
She's the fucking best.
Chris (06:24):
I think we, I think we
went to the blue diamond the
night before my wedding, likeafter the rehearsal dinner.
We were at the blue diamond.
Sarah (06:33):
Yep.
I do, I I wasn't allowed todrink
Chris (06:37):
this.
I wonder because you were 20 diddrink.
Um, this has, I lost 20.
This is our gastro story of theweek.
Everyone, welcome to the, to thepodcast.
Oh, okay.
These are, the gastro story ofthe week is now about the blue
diamond, because this is muchmore fun than the topic I had
laid out.
So, I mean, we can do both of
Sarah (06:52):
em, but I do love, I love
the blue diamond.
It's where I went for my 21stbirthday with
Chris (06:57):
my mom and dad.
I mean, I think at one point thebartender at the Blue Diamond
tried to fix up my friendDenise, uh, Denise, uh, f at the
time.
But Denise, you now.
Yeah.
Tried to fix her up with one ofher sons.
She, and by saying, are you, uh,I wasn't attached, but it was
like the overtone was thatDenise was in the mafia.
Sarah (07:21):
Oh,
Chris (07:21):
well,
Sarah (07:22):
yeah.
I mean, I'm just making sure.
Don't think
Chris (07:25):
Denise is in the mafia.
She's a very small, like, she'snot gonna, not gonna be a very
good hit man.
Plus she was noisy, so shewasn't gonna sneak up on anybody
anyway.
So yeah, the night before mywedding, where are we?
We're at the the local dive barwhere people are peeing on the
carpeted floor in the men'sroom, eating.
Obviously I'm pretzels andpeanuts
Sarah (07:46):
obviously together'cause
that is where the peanut wrapped
pretzel came into existence, atleast in Daddy and Uncle Paul's
minds.
Chris (07:54):
Right.
Right.
So for those of you who may benew here, our Uncle Paul is
actually not, uh, related to usat all.
Our Uncle Paul is our dad's bestfriend from high school,
Sarah (08:04):
and my godfather
Chris (08:05):
and Right.
And Sarah's godfather.
It's a bit of a sore spot.
Um, so what happened?
Sarah (08:12):
I got the best godparents
Chris (08:14):
You did.
I mean, you couldn't have askedfor, for better godparents, like
with the gifts and with theirknowledge of Catholicism.
Sarah (08:22):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Right.
Chris (08:24):
Uncle Paul to everyone
else is called preacher, like
reacher, except for a lotsmaller and with a P.
Right.
But now I wanna talk aboutreacher real bad.
Me
Sarah (08:35):
too.
I love reacher.
Chris (08:39):
Oh, okay.
No podcast.
We podcasting.
Okay.
Yeah.
So Uncle Paul's nickname waspreacher, so who had jumbo and
preacher and they wereinseparable.
They were hanging aroundtogether, uh, went on vacations
together many a time.
Sarah (08:54):
Why, why did they call
Uncle Paul?
Preacher?
Because he was gonna go to the,the preschool, not preschool
priest school.
Chris (09:03):
He went to the school for
priests.
Did he,
Sarah (09:06):
did he go for a second?
Yeah.
Chris (09:08):
Yeah.
He was there for, for aheartbeat.
And I think the story I rememberin my head, which I think we've
discussed many a times, couldpotentially be completely
inaccurate, is that he missedAunt Kay.
Sarah (09:21):
I was gonna say, so did
he miss Aunt Kay and was like,
eh, or did he meet an, I don'tknow when he met Aunt Kay.
Like, did he meet Aunt Kay?
Was she a secretary at thepriest school?
No.
And he was like, heys not, hewas like, Hey, hey girl.
Hey.
Then he said, fuck this priest.
Shit, what's up, cutie?
Chris (09:42):
Right.
Not, not gonna do the priestthing anymore.
That priest, Ew, these are ew.
Sarah (09:52):
Back to the Blue Diamond
Bar and Grill, which Blue
Diamond Bar and
Chris (09:56):
Grill was, was there a
grill there?
I don't reme.
I like, I, once again, I am not,I am not too keen on eating food
from someplace where there'scarpet in the men's room and,
yeah.
I mean, it was a, it was a verynice establishment run by, uh,
run by an old school, uh, familyhere in the area with a, it had
(10:17):
a long and glorious tradition,uh, the Blue Diamond Bar and
Grill.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, many generations ahead of ushad hung out at the Blue Diamond
Bar and Grill when I moved back.
Your dad would go to MondayNight Football at the Blue
Diamond Bar and Grill?
Sarah (10:32):
Yeah, it was his ride to
Monday Night Football most of
the time.
Chris (10:35):
Right, right.
And then I would, I ended uppicking him up sometimes.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
So, uh, and he would always beup the blue.
You would go up the blue.
Yeah.
Hey, we're going up the blue.
Up the blue.
Right.
So it was never down the blue.
It was never over to the blue.
Sarah (10:51):
Never.
It was up the hill.
Chris (10:52):
It was up
Sarah (10:53):
a little
Chris (10:53):
hill.
It was, I feel like it was alsodown a hill.
Like there were, there were manyhills was, we had to go up
Sarah (10:57):
the hill first and then
you come down the hill.
So, I mean, there's, you just gowith like the first thing.
I don't dunno.
Off the blue.
I dunno.
We're gonna build blue.
Alright.
Alright.
Oh my God.
Tell Diamond, right.
Dad, are you ready?
Dad, I'm here to pick you up.
Are you ready?
Just one more.
Sarah.
Sarah.
Just gonna have one more.
Sarah, come on in.
(11:18):
Come on in.
Come on in.
Come on in.
Come on in.
Hey,
Chris (11:20):
do you guys, have you
guys met?
My daughter?
This is my daughter, Sarah.
A hundred times Sarah, I'm gonnahave one more time.
One more.
Hi, Jan.
Hi.
Hi, uncle Paul.
Hi other Paul?
Mm-hmm.
Like hi.
A tall guy who had, uh, cassettetapes in his pockets all the
time.
Forget what his name was.
Sarah (11:40):
I don't, I don't remember
that guy.
Chris (11:41):
Very weird.
This was much more weird.
He, he wasn't weird.
It was just very strange when I
Sarah (11:44):
was smoking, like right
when I would smoke in front of
daddy, like, be like, it's likethis is much.
In fact, I, well I think by thatpoint I was smoking in front of
Tady, so I could just sit thereand smoke, so it was fine.
Chris (11:57):
Right, right.
Sarah (11:58):
Mm-hmm.
At point.
Yeah, because that's, my liferevolved around
Chris (12:00):
at.
At one point, David and I joineda bowling league that met at
the, uh, at the Blue Diamond.
They had a bowling machine, notin a bowling alley, but it had
like a tiny little, it was duckpins.
It was kind of like duck pins.
Yeah.
Kind of, kind of like acombination.
Like if bowling and shuffleboardhad a baby.
(12:20):
Yeah.
That's what this game would be.
The shuffleboard, the, the puckthing was kind of big and you
would slide it down.
Mm-hmm.
And it would go over thesesensors and the sensors would
then go click clip and the pinswould click clip up like that.
Sarah (12:33):
They could go up.
We had, um, I used to drive homefrom the city to participate in
that.
Mm-hmm.
Times, I forget what night itwas.
Wednesdays or Thursdays, and wehad an actual, um, banquet.
Like we went down to Wheelingthe one year for the, uh, the
Blue Diamond Bowling League.
Chris (12:52):
Right, right.
It was an actual league.
There were teams.
I was on a team, I believe Dalewas on a team.
Dale a Dale.
Mm-hmm.
Um, yeah.
Yeah.
And it's sometimes Davidwouldn't go because there were
people who would lick theirfingers and then throw the,
throw the thing and David waslike, I can remember, I must
have quit
Sarah (13:11):
before David started.
'cause I don't remember David, Iguess my drive, that was
probably when I decided Icouldn't make that drive anymore
or I couldn't remain soberenough to make that drive
anymore.
Chris (13:21):
There's always that.
There was always whatever.
Sarah (13:23):
What?
Chris (13:24):
Yeah.
Fun times.
Fun times, uh, fondly.
Remember spending time at theBlue Diamond Bar and Grill.
I think I actually tried to goin and visit later and it's hard
when, uh, when your dad doesn'thang out there.
Yeah.
And then you walk in and it isjust like a bunch of, um, maybe
older gentlemen who have beendrinking since 8:00 AM and
you're like, hi, uh,
Sarah (13:46):
weird.
Okay, I get it.
I have to
Chris (13:48):
go.
Sarah (13:49):
I don't think I ever went
there by myself, ever.
I don't think there was ever atime where I would've gone there
by myself.
Chris (13:56):
No bizarre, but cheers to
you.
Uh, blue Diamond Bar and Grill.
Uh, happy day after St.
Patrick's Day and I hope thateveryone had a, uh, had a
fantastic time.
St.
Patrick's thing.
I really wish, I really wish wegave Becca the license to speak.
Um,'cause I would like to hearwhat college kids are doing for
St.
Patrick's Day, hopefully.
Course, I feel we're in
Sarah (14:14):
charge of this and we can
promptly tell her to unmute and
talk.
Chris (14:19):
I feel like it's better
or was if law against it keep
her, if we just keep her overthere in her corner.
I
Sarah (14:23):
don't know.
I feel
Chris (14:24):
like just doing the
editing, so excited.
Sarah (14:26):
She, it was like her
little tail came up for a second
and was like, oh, oh, oh.
And then I wanna talk.
Then you were, I wanna talk.
No, we're just gonna leave herin the corner.
And her little tail went back
Chris (14:35):
down like then.
She's sad.
She's sad.
Um, that's mean,
Sarah (14:39):
it's really fucking mean.
Mean it's
Chris (14:40):
mean.
It is.
It is mean.
I'm sorry, Becca, but
Sarah (14:42):
my sister's the one who's
in charge.
Chris (14:45):
Great.
Well, alright, Becca, I take youoff mute.
I take you off mute.
Come on outta your corner.
Becca (14:52):
I.
Chris (14:53):
Tell us what, tell us
what the college kids are doing
for St.
Patrick's Day.
You know, a porch fell on somekids here in Pittsburgh.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Becca (15:01):
Yes.
So fake patties is bigger thanthe actual day itself.
I knew a few people who went outyesterday, but Friday and
Saturday, the past weekend,those were really busy.
Um, but then this weekend, um,the 22nd is.
Two bar stool, which is veryofficial.
(15:22):
It's like the communicatoracross campus for party events
and stuff like that.
Said March 22nd is fake patties,so that's when, oh, all of the
fraternities will, you know, dolike day parties and stuff like
that.
Um, I have roommates getting upat like 5:00 AM to start
drinking and that cakes
Sarah (15:40):
and egg eggs,
motherfuckers
Becca (15:42):
won't be sleeping until
maybe 10 and maybe go out.
We'll see.
It's
Sarah (15:47):
nice.
It's nice to be a senior.
Mm.
I bet I can find directions tothis university.
I bet you
Chris (15:54):
can.
They don't hide it.
Turns out they don't hide it.
Sarah (16:01):
I can't wait to track
Becca down on Saturday.
Chris (16:04):
Becca.
Becca.
It's us.
You doing?
We party.
Weird, sleepy.
It's three 30.
We have to go.
We have to go home.
We're good.
Oh, I
Sarah (16:15):
wish I could, but, uh,
yeah, Owen has two freaking
soccer games.
Stupid.
Chris (16:20):
I have a Lego hogs, Mead,
uh, to set up.
So, yeah.
Oh, for like, of these a time,
Sarah (16:26):
like, do you guys have
like a parent's weekend,
Chris (16:28):
Becca?
Yes.
I think
Sarah (16:29):
she's graduating in like
four weeks,
Chris (16:33):
so we could go back and
be her friend's parents.
Oh my God.
Now we're, now we're gonna goback for homecoming.
Becca (16:39):
Yeah, homecoming is a
big, big deal here.
Sarah (16:43):
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Becca (16:44):
We've also had a lot of
college athletes, specifically
our football team.
I think we lost every singlegame this season.
I could be very wrong, but very,very close.
So we've had a lot of players goto the portal, so I don't know
how good our team is gonna befor next Homecoming.
I don't know anything about it.
What
Sarah (17:01):
does
Chris (17:02):
that mean?
Go
Sarah (17:03):
to the portal?
Chris (17:04):
They're gonna transfer to
a different school.
There's a process for it now.
Like, you don't just quit theteam and then go to a different
school.
There's a whole
Becca (17:11):
thing.
Sarah (17:12):
Ah, geez.
You said the portal.
I like, for some reason Ipictured the portage one.
Like, do they just go in thereand disappear?
Yes.
They don't go to school here nomore.
You suck.
Get to the portal.
Chris (17:26):
Just volunteering like
lemmings.
Sarah (17:28):
Wow.
Wow.
That's interesting.
Chris (17:31):
Okay.
Yeah, I'm, I think that we'lldo, we'll do, uh, coming.
Oh my God, I'm so excited.
I can't wait.
This is gonna be epic.
Mm-hmm.
Epic.
What year did you graduate,Sarah?
What year did you graduate?
Sarah (17:45):
1999.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Seems right.
I feel like it makes me, I, Ilike that better than 2000,
Chris (17:52):
right?
Right.
I'm gonna go with, um, I'm gonnago with the older, I'm gonna go
with 87, like I was there in 87.
Wow.
Yeah.
You guys don't know how epic itwas.
Sarah (18:01):
You just wanna do that.
So everybody says to you, ohGod, you look so young.
No, you
Chris (18:04):
don't
Sarah (18:05):
look that old.
Yes.
Chris (18:07):
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Yes.
No way.
No.
Yes.
Oh my god, I'm so old.
Wow.
Sarah (18:13):
You look so youth.
Chris (18:14):
Right?
I look great for 64 or whateverthat would make be.
Mm-hmm.
Sarah (18:18):
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
64.
Chris (18:22):
No idea.
I didn't It's a lot of math.
It's a lot of math.
I've been math all day.
Been math thing all day.
Oh, okay.
We should do, uh, we should doour podcast now.
We should do, uh, we should dofan mail.
Okay.
Um, so.
Feedback this week has beengenerally good, uh, about the
podcast.
I've heard from maybe a coupleof people, and it honestly, like
(18:45):
the weeks are starting to runtogether.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, so, you know, thanks guysfor, for showing us some, some
love.
Um, we, we appreciate it.
Uh, we can't get enough fan mailand I will tell you that.
God bless you.
Excuse me.
Um, Becca, if you could justmark what time Sarah Belched in
my ears, that would be, thatwould be great.
Sarah (19:06):
And if you can just like
cut her off so you can get the
full effect of the little tinyburp.
I think that we should do that.
It was just a little baby burpAnyway, little baby bird burp.
Anyway,
Chris (19:18):
um, we enjoy knowing that
we're not just talking out into
the void.
Mm-hmm.
So if you guys could, if youguys could keep, uh, sharing
your fan mail and sending ustext messages and stuff like
that, we definitely appreciateit.
We dig it.
I think that's it.
I think that's all for me.
You know, Gaster story of theweek ended up being the Blue
Diamond, so, we'll, I'll justtuck away, uh, the other Gaster
(19:39):
story of the week that I had andwe'll, we'll do that when the
next time I'm in charge of it.
Sarah (19:45):
I forget which one you
were gonna do.
Chris (19:47):
Me too.
Sarah (19:48):
Okay.
So luckily we landed on the Blue
Chris (19:49):
Diamond Bar and Grill.
Sarah (19:51):
Luckily we started
talking about the Blue Diamond.
Chris (19:55):
And a pretzels, uh,
peanuts covered in pretzels, or
I think it was peanuts coveredin potato chips.
Oh, that's what it was.
And then somebody made thatsnack in the early two thousands
and I think your dad got mad.
Your dad was like, look at thisshit.
Yeah, look it up.
Look it up.
I bet if you asked the Google ifthere was a snack of a potato
(20:17):
chip wrapped around a peanut, itwill give you an answer.
Sarah (20:19):
I bet.
I know.
Who's asking?
Google.
Chris (20:22):
The only one here who's
typing?
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
That would be Becca.
That's why we pay her or don'tpay her
Sarah (20:29):
or
Chris (20:30):
Right.
Sarah (20:31):
Just tell her to do shit.
Right.
Becca?
Um, uh, that's like the Snuggie,the SI think we also invented
the Snuggie and didn't, I feellike there's lots of shit we
invented, but we're just toodamn lazy.
Our dad invented
Chris (20:46):
a lot of things.
I think we covered like all ofhis topics.
Sarah (20:49):
Ooh, ooh.
Potato chip, candy clusters.
No.
No.
'cause those have the, thechocolate in them.
Chris (20:57):
Yeah.
There's no chocolate in this,Becca.
Oh, I'm so disappointed.
Oh, a nutter.
There it is.
There it is.
It was a nutter.
Wait.
There it is.
What's it called?
Nutter.
Nutter.
Up up at the top.
Be more nuts.
Sarah (21:09):
It's a review.
There's actually a bag that saysNutter.
Nutters.
So when you say nutters, I'msurprised.
A bunch of porn.
With a Z.
With a Z.
Oh, nutters with a Z.
Because with a Z.
This is where the porn's gonnacome up.
Chris (21:24):
D's nuts.
There it is.
There it is.
There it is.
Look at At the
Sarah (21:27):
nutters.
Oh, how be more nuts.
P cheddar.
Chris (21:30):
Yeah.
Sarah (21:31):
Yeah.
Nutters.
Chris (21:33):
Yeah.
Pappy
Sarah (21:34):
was mad about that
Chris (21:34):
potato chip coated
peanuts.
Like if is it's still,
Sarah (21:38):
does it still exist?
Could we buy these somewhere?
Chris (21:40):
I think you should be.
Are they on the Amazon too?
Should Tough nutters?
No, that's not what?
Tough nutters.
Sarah (21:45):
No, no.
Netters.
I don't
Chris (21:47):
snacks.
No, I'm telling her how tosearch nutters snacks.
Sarah (21:54):
It's like a uh, it's like
a game show.
Potato chip coated peanuts.
Crab flavor.
You know who had crabs?
Don't say it right now.
Buy snacks on Amazon.
So you buy them on Amazon?
Oh my God, maybe.
I don't know.
We've taken it down here.
No, they don't.
I don't think that they actuallyexist anymore, but I love the
(22:15):
fact that they're callednutters, which, speaking of
nutters, let's go to theconversation we were having
yesterday.
Forget, I think that you broughtsomething up about our listeners
and you said boner and out ofnowhere.
Yeah.
I was like, Hey, remember thebest friend on growing pains?
I did.
They really call him
Chris (22:35):
boner.
I am surprised, frankly, that ithas taken you this long to
reference Richard s stab.
Is his name.
And this is, this is the nextthing.
Sarah (22:46):
I wasn't even, I like, I,
I did not remember and did not
acknowledge back in the day thathis name was Richard Stubo.
Dick Boner.
Dick Boner did not.
I did not, no.
And I wanted to laugh about it,but I also read a little bit
about him today before we got onhere.
And it's, you don't sad.
Chris (23:08):
Like I thoroughly enjoyed
thinking about Richardson and,
and how his
Sarah (23:12):
mom used to.
Kirk Cameron stitch his nameinto his underwears, but the
name she stitch into hisunderwears wasn't a boner.
Chris (23:21):
She would write boner in
his underwear on the show?
Like on the show?
Not in, not in real life.
'cause his real name isn'tRichard Deone, like just on
family Ties.
He was Kirk Cameron's bestfriend.
They got caught cheating on atest.
Sarah (23:33):
Yeah.
His real name is Andrew Koenig.
Mm-hmm.
Chris (23:36):
Right.
Uh
Sarah (23:37):
um.
Very unfortunate
Chris (23:40):
it topical for our show
Sarah (23:42):
though.
But I do believe that that was,was it 2010?
So anyway, yeah, he, he died bysuicide.
Um, I didn't read the wholestory.
I didn't get to the, the end ofit.
There is this very long storythat I found about him.
I didn't get to read the wholething, but he was actually
missing for two weeks and he wasvery, um, yeah.
He thought things out.
(24:03):
He thought things out for sure.
But anyway, so I pour a littleout for.
Boner.
Yeah.
I dunno what poor little outmeans.
Chris (24:09):
I think it's a gang
thing.
So now you're in a gang.
Awesome.
They're gonna come and make you,uh, make you sell drugs.
Now.
Sarah (24:16):
I, I bet I end up with
some pretty cool fucking tattoos
though.
Boner tattoos.
Chris (24:21):
Alright, let's talk about
mental wellness while we, okay.
Well, I still have the energy tohate Mel Robbins.
Like, stop.
I
Sarah (24:27):
feel like this is gonna
be a very short episode.
Chris (24:31):
I mean, there are only so
many things that you can say.
I will say this, that I washaving this discussion with my
therapist who we were talkingabout the first rule of mastery,
like how.
You know, you kind of have to bein the moment and however you're
going to be able to adjust tothe kind of stress and pressure
(24:52):
that is going to happen to youin your life.
Like there's a part in the firstrule of mastery where he's
talking about, I.
Being in stressful meetings andbeing in stressful situations.
And you can sort of go one oftwo ways.
You can say, this is the moststressful thing that has ever
happened to me in my whole life.
And that kind of gets you tofocus in and do the thing.
Or you can be like, this doesn'tbother me at all.
(25:14):
Like, I'm gonna have to just letthis, let this all be chill.
Mm-hmm.
But you have to figure out whichone of those mindsets.
Put you in the right space toattack it the, the way that you
naturally would.
And that is she was talkingabout, oh, she's like, oh, have
you read Let Them by MelRobbins?
And I was like, yes.
(25:34):
Yes I have.
And uh, I'm still struggling to,to get through the book and I
don't know if it's because of mysometimes attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder.
People will not like everythingthat everybody else likes, just.
Because we feel like that'ssomebody telling us what to do
when we don't really enjoy beingtold what to do.
Sarah (25:55):
I feel like that's people
in general a lot.
I feel like the, with this,maybe it has a mix also that,
that we read this book already,
right?
Three times.
I'm pretty sure that we readthis book.
I, I'm going to finish it, butwe can discuss if you want to
move on to another book for thepodcast, because we've literally
said all of this shit before.
There are a few things I'm gonnatalk about today that I was able
(26:17):
to pull out of these twochapters, but there's not,
there's not really a lotconsidering that this section is
called some shit about people'sopinions.
We just finished that book forreal, like.
And I look through the rest ofthe names of the chapters and
there are some things that are,that are interesting.
So maybe we will discuss how wecan attack things maybe a little
different and get through it alittle bit quicker.
(26:39):
I'm gonna finish reading itbecause I'd like to, to see what
we can, what we can pull out ofit.
But are you ready for my, mythoughts about.
About what I read.
Chris (26:49):
I told my therapist, I'm
like, I, I just don't know.
I don't know what, what, I don'tknow what it is.
And she was like, have youexpressed that on your podcast?
'cause I would like to see howhard people come for you when
you say you don't like thisbook.
And I was like, well, you didlast
Sarah (27:03):
week.
Yeah, we've already said that.
Yeah.
Chris (27:05):
Well, I mean, I will say
that Mel Robbins is dead on with
everything she says.
I've just.
Come at it from different placesand I, I think that a part of my
anger is because I've alreadyread it.
Like part of my anger is I'vealready read it.
Part of my anger is everyonesaying how amazing it is.
And I'm like, well, this allseems like common sense to me
(27:28):
now.
And then I get furious becauseshe wrote a book about common
sense things and is makinggajillions of dollars.
I think maybe that is also thepart I can't get over.
Sarah (27:37):
Yeah.
I get real mad at that guy whoinvented the Snuggy.
Right.
I get pissed, man.
I get pissed.
Potato chip, chip coveredpeanuts.
Yeah.
I knew it.
Like I, I know that that was myclaim to fame or let them,
grandma's let them or something.
I don't know, but let them.
But that's originally, I mean, Ioriginally, when you said this
book, I was like, eh, because,and that's why I was kind of eh
(28:02):
about it because it's verypopular.
It's very popular right now, andI swore like a year ago is when
I first heard about it.
And I was like, oh yeah, that's,that totally makes sense.
That's good.
But then like just recently, thebook gained some, some speed and
there's a lot of let themtattoos and, and I, I don't, I
don't think any of it's badwhatsoever, but I think that
(28:23):
both of us maybe have anaversion to things that are
popular.
Chris (28:26):
Right.
Right.
Sarah (28:28):
I don't, that's dumb.
It's,
Chris (28:29):
and it's fine.
It's fine.
It's, I I will say that I agreewith everything that I've read
in the book so far.
Sarah (28:36):
Yeah.
That's the thing, because weagree with everything that
Michael Dravet said and MarkManson.
Right.
It's all, it's all the samestuff.
But the thing is, I think thatwe need all of these authors to
write their books because noteverybody reads.
Mark Manson the way that we did.
Not everybody reads Michael vetsthe way that we did.
So I think it's, it's good forus to have all of these'cause,
(28:58):
you know, different people needto read different things.
But anyway, so that's, that'sit.
That's, we're not talking aboutanything earth shattering today
that we haven't alreadydiscussed, but, but lay, I'm
gonna lay it about the twochapters.
Okay.
So the first chapter for todayis chapter five.
Let Them Think Bad Thoughtsabout You, which is something
that I've always, um.
(29:20):
It reminded me of me saying,that's fine.
I mean, I don't really, if youdon't like me, like that's fine.
Just talk about me behind myback.
Like, I don't wanna hear itbecause it's happening.
It happens, it's going tohappen.
People are not all going to likeme, and I'm, I'm okay with that.
I think that we have, as afamily, discovered that I am not
(29:40):
everyone's cup of tea all thetime.
Chris (29:44):
But like the contrast of
that is I really like for people
to like me, like it isfoundational in, in how I grew
up.
Do, do you know what I mean?
Like foundational in my place inthe world is the fact that I can
charm.
People.
And when I can't, I also findthat very irritating and, and
(30:06):
upsetting.
So I, I mean, I think, I thinkyou have, you have the both of
us and we, we approach thisproblem in different ways.
I think the, the nice thing isthat I'm also able to, uh, now.
After, you know, doing thispodcast for a year and reading
the same book nine times, uh,and coming to the same
conclusions is that I can, I canbe in a situation where I find
(30:31):
out that somebody doesn't likeme and it doesn't, it doesn't
make me spiral the, the way thatit used to.
Mm-hmm.
And I think that's the, that'sthe key.
Like, it's always gonna botherme.
Like, I always wanna be liked,like my general approach to
things is you should like me, Iam awesome.
Sarah (30:48):
Do you think that's a
problem with me?
That I don't really care ifpeople like me?
Chris (30:52):
No.
I think these are just twodifferent ways to look at
things.
Like these are just twodifferent ways.
Sarah (30:57):
Maybe it's easier for me
to be okay with that because
generally people do like me.
I mean, it's legit.
I mean, I can name some peoplewho don't like me, but I, it's
like one or two.
I mean, for the most part.
I don't know.
I,
Chris (31:12):
I dunno, because, you
know, I expect people to like me
too because, you know, at thispoint of my life, I like me and
I, I would be, I'm alwaysconfused when it happens.
Like, do you, why?
Sarah (31:23):
But I mean, genuinely
though, like, I, I do know of
people who exist specifically,who I know do not like me, and I
do not really like them.
Um, and I don't really care.
Like it's, uh.
Sorry.
Like, I don't, all right.
Well I'm glad that you know thatyou don't like me, so you can
move on with your life too.
Great.
(31:44):
Um, I don't really think aboutit all that much, but in this
chapter, one of the, the mainthings here, and this is, I was
getting to this'cause I thinkthat I've grasped onto this and
been okay with it, is that youneed to just assume that people
think negative thoughts aboutyou because they do.
They are, there will be peoplewho have negative thoughts about
you.
And the big thing here in this,in this little segment is
(32:07):
talking about, um, people wholove you.
There are people, the people wholove you, think bad thoughts
about you every day.
Every day, all the time in thebook, Mel Robbins gives you an
example of everyone in herfamily.
And I'm like, yeah, it's 100%true.
She's like my husband, and thisis one of my favorite parts.
She said, my husband wakes upevery morning and lets out a big
(32:29):
fart.
And that makes me think badly ofhim because I think he's
disgusting.
And then she goes through eachof her children and I thought it
was cute.
She gets to her son and she waslike, yeah, no, he's perfect.
I was like, no, no, justkidding.
He's, he does this, he doesthat.
He's also gross.
But having these thoughts andyou can have these negative
thoughts or bad thoughts aboutother people.
(32:53):
But you could still have loveand respect for them.
Like these things can coexist.
And if you tell me no, that's myhusband.
I love him.
I would never think anything badof him ever, because we have
such a perfect relationship.
I think that you are a lyingpiece of shit and I.
I feel bad for you actually.
(33:15):
'cause man, your life's gotta beboring.
But anyway, that's the judgingme.
Yeah, it's okay.
These things can't exist.
People are gonna have badthoughts about you and that's
okay.
And I think I've mentioned itbefore, one of Owen's little
sayings in the bathroom, it'snone of your business what other
people think of you.
Chris (33:31):
I love it.
So.
Sarah (33:33):
Yeah, and I'm perfectly
happy with that.
So that's really all I tookoutta chapter five.
Like I said, wasn't a lot,wasn't a lot of earth shattering
shit.
So move on to chapter six, whichis How to Love Difficult People,
which is the one I was reallyexcited about reading and I
definitely got a a bit more outof this.
So one of the first things shetalks about is the frame of
(33:53):
reference.
And this is something again thatwe've talked about.
And it's really justunderstanding somebody else's
frame of reference.
Meaning that the lens throughwhich they see something is
going to be different than whatwe see something.
And we need to understand thatwe're not always aware of what
someone else is thinking and howthey're, what's the word?
(34:14):
Comprehending.
I don't think that, it doesn'tseem like the right word,
Chris (34:18):
is it?
They're, you don't, you cannever really understand their
perspective.
Like they now bring the sameYeah.
Exactly.
They don't bring the samehistory to it that that, yeah.
That you bring their interactionwith this thing is different.
Like the dress in.
Yeah, exactly.
So we definitely rule ofmastery.
Definitely fucking
Sarah (34:35):
talked about it.
In this case.
The example that she gave waswhen her husband proposed to
her.
She was all excited about it,and she told her mom, and her
mom was like, uh, okay.
Sounds great.
And she was like, what the, andshe just, she, again, we tend to
just create our own reality orput ourselves and think that
that's exactly what, whatsomeone else is thinking.
(34:57):
And so she just thought thatthis was something she didn't
like her husband, or whateverreason, she wasn't happy.
And that was kind of her faulttoo, Mel.
And she carried that for likevery long time and finally came
to see her mom's.
Frame of reference, which was,yeah, this guy proposed to you
and he lives on the East Coastand now you guys are gonna live
(35:20):
on the East Coast and now you'regonna have a family on the East
coast, which is not where Ilive.
So of course, no, I wouldn'thave picked this guy for you
because you and your family arenow going to live far away from
me.
So that makes me sad and I findit hard to be excited about it,
even though I love your husband.
Feel like he's great for you.
It's fucking with my life.
So that's the understanding ofwhat other people are thinking.
(35:42):
And in this chapter, she talksabout how we need to give grace
to other people's frame ofreference to kind of back up and
give.
That other frame of reference, alittle bit of room so you can
figure out what that other frameof reference is and understand
what that frame of reference is.
And like she was talking abouthow she really understands that
(36:04):
now having older children likeit, it definitely, it, it makes
it.
It makes it a lot different.
So the frame of reference is,again, just knowing that people
are looking through things in adifferent lens, looking at
things through a different lensthan what you are.
And this is just reality.
(36:24):
And another thing to rememberwhen it comes to relationships
and understanding someone else'slens is that not everyone else
is trying to be a better person.
Not everyone else is going totherapy.
Not everyone else is digginginto their past to find their
trauma, and there's nothingwrong with that Sometimes it's
just just the way it is.
(36:45):
Maybe not everybody has trauma,and I personally believe that
everybody should go into therapyas soon as they're born, but I
mean, whatever.
We need to remember that thereare people who aren't doing that
and they're okay with that.
In these cases, these people areonly going to be able to meet
you as deeply as they've metthemselves.
(37:07):
So we can't expect them to uptheir behavior to match what
what you're doing.
We can't expect them to say,yeah, just automatically I'm a
fucking idiot and figure thatout.
'cause it doesn't.
It doesn't happen.
And in these cases, this iswhere you need to remember that
(37:27):
the only only thing that you canchange is you.
And that's where, that's whereyou have the control.
So you decide what kind ofrelationship that you are going
to create with these individualsbased on your needs and your
values.
And this was the big thing thatI took out of this chapter that
(37:48):
I don't think we've reallydiscussed before, is the fact
that not everybody else islooking to, to better themselves
and change, um.
In these cases when you'retrying to figure out what
relationship you want to build,the extreme cases of course are,
it might mean that you are gonnaalways be the one who's gonna
(38:08):
make the effort even when it'snot returned.
And if you're okay with that andthat aligns with with your
needs, then that's okay.
That's what you're gonna do.
Or it could mean the opposite ofthat.
And again, extremes where you'regonna decide that I need to make
a change and I need to separatebecause this is no longer what I
(38:29):
deserve and what I need.
So it's time, time to move on.
Um, and that's, that's reallyall I have to talk about, but I
figured just that bit would beenough to start to make you cry.
Yeah.
Chris (38:43):
Yeah.
That made me cry.
Yeah.
Sarah (38:47):
Um, and I didn't mean to
make you cry.
Chris (38:50):
No, no.
Um, no, I'm just kind of, it'sfunny because, um, this book is
stupid and I hate it.
And yet, like the perspectivearound that particular thing is
one that like we haven't, wehaven't touched on.
(39:11):
Right.
We haven't talked about how.
Not everybody is like geeked to,to have conversations that are
mature, like right.
And you know, today at work, um,I had a shit ton of
conversations where people wereclearly not ready to approach
(39:33):
things in sort of a grownup in,in adult way.
Um, and I found that extremelyfrustrating and my response to
being frustrated is to cry.
So, yeah.
Sarah (39:44):
Uh, which actually I feel
like is a valid response.
Chris (39:48):
I mean, I think me crying
at work is never about, I'm so
sad about how people havetreated me.
Sarah (39:54):
Yeah.
Chris (39:55):
Me crying at work is, I
am really sad.
I can't stab you in the neck.
Sarah (39:59):
Mm-hmm.
Frustration.
Chris (40:02):
It's the way that that
comes out.
And today was just one of thosedays where everybody was like,
well, you know, Christine.
If I have to hear, well, youknow, Christine, at AT Work, it
means that people are not goingto be collaborative.
People are not going to be, youknow, kind of onboard to solve
problems.
They're gonna be looking to, todo a lot of CYA and that's
(40:26):
always a hard I.
Spot for me to be in because ascheesy as it is, I want things
to work out at work becausethat's what's good for a, you
know, making little babies here.
And that's what's good fordeciding if this medicine's
really gonna work and is reallyworth everybody's time and
effort instead of, we're notgonna do that because it might
(40:48):
make me look stupid to somebodyelse.
And I'm like.
Alright, fine.
We'll play this game and we'lltap dance around this.
So you didn't really make mecry.
Uh, thinking about these thingstoday is, is kind of making me
look at today's workday and, uh.
In a new light.
These are, these are tears offrustration because I, mm-hmm.
(41:11):
I really do want people to workbetter and communicate better
and to look at solutions insteadof, you know, pointing out
problems.
Right.
Sarah (41:21):
So how do you take this
back to your work tomorrow?
'cause I don't, I don't have theanswer.
Right.
And I should preface that.
Like, this is again, the easy,hard shit like.
Right.
This is great.
Like this is opening somethingup that we haven't talked about
yet that I thought was prettyinteresting.
As much as this book sucks, um,I mean, I love this book.
(41:44):
I thought this was, I thoughtthis was, and this actually,
this little nugget was what mademe decide we should finish the
book.
'cause in chapter five, I waslike, this is, we're just
talking about the same shit,
same
thing.
And then when I found thislittle tiny thing in chapter
six, I was like, Ooh.
I still think that there's gonnabe some nuggets sprinkled in
here that we could use.
Chris (42:05):
Yeah, and I think, I
think the way, the way that this
is sort of opening up my eyes issad.
Like it makes me sad too.
Like it's sad that I have to beat work and, well, it's not sad
that I have to be at work.
I'm, I really do like what I do.
I mean, it's frustrating attimes.
I'm sad that I have to
Sarah (42:20):
be at work every day.
Chris (42:22):
But I think the, I think
that the, the way that, that I'm
gonna turn this into somethingthat, that I can use is that I
don't have any control.
People decide to do right?
Like I don't have any controlover how you're gonna approach
this problem.
What I have control over is theway I react to it.
(42:43):
If I go ballistic and get on acall and be like, what the hell
are we doing?
Fuck is happening here.
Let's get our shit together.
Then everybody loses, right?
Like that person is nowconfronted with somebody who
isn't collaborative.
The rest of the team is like,well now everyone, now
everything is falling apart.
(43:04):
Like I owe it.
To the people at work and thepeople on these projects and the
people on my team to come atthis with a, in a way that I
would, I would want everyone tocome at it.
Like that's, that's how we, weturn that into a po.
I don't have any control overhow everyone else is gonna
react, what I do.
So you have to let them is.
Here's, here's what I can do.
(43:25):
I can offer these solutions andI can be the person that people
are going to talk to about whatthey can do.
Like, let me just put it outthere.
Like, yeah, this is a, this is avery hard position to be in.
Like this is very hard todeliver this kind of news and.
When we have to deliver thiskind of news, let's be as open
and honest and, you know, worktogether, cheerleader as we, as
(43:47):
we possibly can.
So that's, that's the, that'sthe thing that I'm gonna fall
back on from the rest of the, ofthe, you know, sort of self
helpy things that we have.
I don't have any control overthe way these people are
talking.
Uh, I don't have any controlover what is going to happen
tomorrow.
What I do have control over isYan Z.
So let's look at that and let'sprovide the best outcome that we
(44:10):
can for the rest of the team.
What's it gonna take?
Sarah (44:14):
And we fixed all your
problems,
Chris (44:16):
right?
And here we are.
And now I'm not crying anymore.
But it is, I
Sarah (44:21):
mean, it's kind of, it's,
it's funny, it's not funny, but
like talking through it, it'sexactly what the fucking book is
about.
Like that's, you just explainedexactly what the book is about.
Let them do whatever shitty, letthem react in every shitty way
that they want to let them beassholes.
Let them make poor decisionsabout how they speak to someone.
But you know what?
That shit doesn't matter'cause Ican't fucking control it.
(44:42):
So let me.
Be the change.
Let me show these people how wecan do it.
And if they don't wanna fuckingfollow, then let them.
Right?
So now we love the book andwe're gonna go get tattoos
tomorrow.
We're gonna go get, let themtattoos.
I'll,
Chris (45:00):
I'll jam something into
my eyeball.
You know what?
We should also get teardropstattooed on our faces because
now we're all in a gang.
Sarah (45:11):
Yes.
The Mel Robbins.
No, what was the gang I wasjoining?
Oh, I was pouring it out for theboner.
Chris (45:17):
You were gonna be in a
gang with Richard Steon.
Sarah (45:20):
With Dick Boney.
Um, yeah, so yeah, I, I don'thave anything else to talk about
as far as the book goes.
I think that we summed that uppretty swiftly.
Chris (45:31):
Yeah.
It makes
Sarah (45:34):
sense.
Chris (45:35):
It it.
And there's, there's somethingto be said, and I know I've said
it a million times, that thefundamental truth to all of this
in that you can come at it likeso many different ways, like
mm-hmm.
Sarcastic, kind of a-holerelationship advice from Mark
Manson.
He is like, you know, you knowwhat's more important than that?
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These are fundamental truthsthat I'm uncovering.
Like you can come at it fromlike ancient philosophy, like
the stoics, the stoics, that,that kind of, uh, you know, kind
of run through everything
Sarah (46:09):
that I didn't even know.
Like the stoics were a thing.
Like I, I didn't, this is allme.
Right?
Just so you know, like I didn'tknow That's what we referred to
these people as.
I was like, you're stoic.
Like, I thought that's whatthese emails were all about
until I started reading, I waslike, oh, that's like a group of
people.
Wow.
Wow.
Okay.
Cool.
Ancient philosophy,
Chris (46:26):
like Yeah, not a clue.
That is, to me it is, it is wildthat you can find your way back
to, uh, to these sort of commontheme themes, right?
In these crazy ways, likeMichael Erve vase being like the
whatever, like coach of thecoaches, like right.
Supreme Mastery Guy and MelRobbins, just trying to get
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soccer moms through the day,
Sarah (46:51):
right?
Chris (46:52):
Like both of these people
are doing the same, like the
advice is the same.
Mm-hmm.
Like Mark Manson.
And when we eventually get toour, the, the master of the TED
Talk, who now what I would liketo see is Brene Brown.
Mm-hmm.
And Mel Robbins do like a cagematch.
I was just gonna say fight,fight, fight.
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Right.
I want him to fight.
I want him to fight.
I want him to both be the man inthe arena and I want him to
fight.
Show me how it's done, girls.
I
Sarah (47:20):
bet.
Listen, if this happens and wedon't get some cut of it, I'm
gonna be pissed.
Seriously, God
Chris (47:26):
damnit.
Sarah (47:27):
I'm saying there's Snu,
I'm saying right now there's my
Snuggie.
If they go to a cage match andwe are not involved and we don't
get any money from it, I'm, I'mgonna get, I'm getting a lawyer.
That's it.
It's final.
That's it.
Motherfuckers, honestly, we'reputting it out there.
Chris (47:40):
We're putting it out
there.
Sarah (47:44):
But I mean, and, and
something that we found in, in
this chapter is that one littlenugget that you can just, you
can get a couple things fromeach of these books that you
didn't get in the one previous.
So let's try not to have theattitude that we already know at
all.
I mean, even though I know itall, I mean, yeah.
Chris (48:02):
Yes.
This is a good.
This is a very good lesson inhumility.
Thank you.
I appreciate the fact that I waslike, fuck this book.
It's so goddamn boring.
I already know it.
Sarah (48:13):
No, I'm saying both of
us.
'cause I was literally, when Isat down to read this, I was
like, wah wah.
Like in my head, you know, wehave these 70,000 thoughts a
day, like 50,000 of themyesterday were yesterday when I
was reading this book, and theywere WWWW.
Meow, Meow, meow, meow, meow,meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
(48:33):
That's what it was.
Um.
Excuse me.
So I'm, I'm wi I'm 100% withyou.
I was giving up on the book aswell, so I think this, this was
a great lesson that yeah, wedon't know it all and there are
little things that we can pullfrom, from all of these types of
books.
So we will continue to read andyou will bring a little nugget
(48:54):
to the, and every time I sayNugget, I think of like, I bring
a little nugget, macho, littlepoops,
Chris (48:59):
right?
Same.
That's what I, that's whateverybody thinks of.
It's what everybody thinks of.
Nugget, a golden nugget vibe.
Sarah (49:07):
I just think of a little
nugget, a little macho poop
nugget.
Anyway, so I would like to throwout there that we have a fun
interview coming up next week.
So we will, uh, we'll beinterviewing Sam next week.
It should be interesting.
And she's super funny just likeus.
And she'll say, fuck.
So I think that's pretty cool.
Chris (49:25):
And that's really all I
have.
The party, the party, the partycome and hang out with us.
What
Sarah (49:29):
party?
Chris (49:30):
We're having a party for
our birthday.
I was like,
Sarah (49:32):
what
Chris (49:33):
party?
What party?
Well, I don't know.
I know it's here.
Sarah (49:36):
Well, hey, I was super
excited to see Heather post on
the, on the page.
Michael Ovation is gonna becoming to join us.
Kim d and Mel are gonna bethere, and I believe that, uh,
Tony d who's the other half ofKim d will be there.
Nice.
Someone's gonna
drive them, I think.
And us and Becca.
And the Becca mom.
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And the Becca dad.
So we are And, and the Gastermom.
And the Gaster dad.
'cause we're making them.
So mom and dad also.
Chris (50:06):
Me and Jean will be there
too.
Sarah (50:07):
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And me and Jean will be there.
Is David gonna join us?
Chris (50:13):
Maybe.
I mean, it's always a maybe,right?
Sarah (50:16):
Well, I said I'd be there
at five.
I'm not sure that Noah can behome and drive me down there by
five.
We might have to leave my car.
You can either there.
I'm gonna be drunk.
Chris (50:24):
I am.
Probably not.
Can you be drunk?
I am.
Sarah (50:27):
I'm gonna.
I'm gonna be drunk.
I'm
Chris (50:29):
so anxious.
I am.
Sarah (50:30):
I reserve some tables for
us.
We'll be closer to the door,which is farther away from the
stage, which was intentional,which is a good thing for you.
Because number one, I like totalk to people and I like to
hear them.
And in my old age, I typicallysay, well, how loud is that
place?
And the last time we went,Becky, you know how
Chris (50:49):
it is.
You know how it is.
How loud is it?
How's the parking are?
We will like, will I need, willI need to drive around the
block?
Like do I have to parallel park?
'cause I'm not gonna go, wellthey have valet parking too,
Sarah (51:01):
so that's
Chris (51:01):
good.
Not gonna go.
Right.
Sarah (51:03):
These are all things so
old that I question.
And when we were there for the10 band, is that their name?
The Pearl Jam cover
Chris (51:11):
band?
The Pearl Jam cover band.
Sarah (51:12):
My ears weren't right for
weeks and we sat so loud right
up by the, by the state.
So loud.
I couldn't do it, so, so yeah.
So I reserved us some spacecloser to the back, closer to
the door where we might actuallybe able to hear each other.
So that's cool.
That's what old people do,thought Mommy and daddy might
appreciate that.
(51:32):
'cause they're older than weare.
However, they're older thanthey.
Chris (51:34):
They can't hear anything.
They're older.
I was just gonna say, they'relike, they've gone beyond,
Sarah (51:39):
they're to the older
stage where they can't fucking
hear any of it.
Chris (51:43):
They're like, this is
great.
Perfect volume.
I can see
Sarah (51:45):
right now people talking
to daddy and Daddy just going,
do they know John
Chris (51:49):
Prine?
We will take, we'll take betslike an over under on how many
times your dad asks about JohnPrine.
Sarah (51:57):
It's a, oh, it's the
fucking, it's gonna be the best.
It's gonna be the best.
So, uh, so yeah, come join us.
That's April 4th.
It, the craft house, stage andgrill, craft, stage and grill.
Chris (52:08):
I always get them
Sarah (52:09):
messed up.
Chris (52:10):
That's stage, house craft
and grill.
Yeah.
I say stage, craft, grill, housestage, and craft.
Sarah (52:16):
Well.
'cause my, my body, who owns it?
Charlie stage.
So that's always what I wantedto start with.
But anyway, but Charlie, I don'tthink he listens to the podcast,
but I'm gonna throw this outthere.
He will not be there because hewill be visiting his new grand
baby.
Yeah.
So, no,
Chris (52:33):
it's funny to be like old
enough to be worried about
parking being old enough.
Where we're visiting the GrandBabies is maybe beyond what.
Is needed
Sarah (52:42):
brand new grand baby.
I can't remember the name so Iapologize, but she is sweet,
baby.
He sent me a picture and then ofcourse I saw some on Facebook
and I, you know how I feel aboutbabies.
They're not all cute.
I will not say that they're allcute if I just go, wow,
congratulations.
That means your baby's ugly.
But if I tell you how cute yourbaby is, your baby is fricking
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cute and this little.
Baby girl is fucking adorable.
Like she just has all theselittle perfect features, and she
had one of those little, thoselittle hats with a big bow
that's bigger than her wholebody, and it still looked
ridiculously cute.
So, um, yeah, on the off chancethat they listen,
congratulations.
She's a beautiful baby.
Aw.
So enjoy.
I think they're leaving the dayafter, like, super early in the
(53:28):
morning, so they, they're notgonna be there.
But I told him I accept thatexcuse and that's probably one
of the only excuses I wouldaccept, baby.
Chris (53:36):
All right.
I think we've said all thewords.
Sarah (53:39):
Yeah, I've said, I've
definitely said all the words.
This is actually longer than Ithought we were.
I thought we were gonna wrap itup at 40.
We
Chris (53:45):
never, we never do, we
never do.
This will be, this will be likea 45 minute episode though.
'cause there's 15 minutes of usgoing, blah, blah, blah.
Sarah (53:54):
Hey, I had, um, I did
have a sign off here.
Another one we're gonna keep,we're just gonna keep throwing
EMS out there.
Do until, uh, found one that
Chris (54:00):
sticks.
Sarah (54:01):
Yeah.
Until we, so this one, this one,I would, I would categorize it
as snappy and bold.
Actually, that's what chat isthat what you told?
Told Chatty.
That's a chat.
Snappy and bold sign off.
So here it is.
Stay weird, stay well, and keeplaughing through the chaos.
See you next time on the MentalFunny Bone.
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Love you guys.