May 19, 2025 • 47 mins
Christine and Sarah kick off another wild episode of 'The Mental Funny Bone' with a blend of mental health discussions and hilarious personal stories. From navigating the complexities of therapy and mental well-being to sharing side-splitting anecdotes about Sarah’s husband watching Roy Kent’s comedy special, this episode has it all. The duo dives into their unfiltered moments, including an uproarious segment on candy-themed mishaps and a chaotic trip to Philadelphia for a client meeting. Christine reflects on the challenges of living in the present, overcoming stress, and the transformative powers of meditation. They wrap up with funny recollections of their father’s antics and future plans for coaching, making this episode a perfect cocktail of humor and heart.
How to find mental health help when you're struggling. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
https://washingtoncountyhumanservices.com/agencies/behavioral-health-developmental-services
https://www.alleghenycounty.us/Services/Human-Services-DHS/Publications/Resource-Guides
Apps - Just search mental health where you get your apps.
EAP programs are a great place to look for help!!
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Sarah (00:02):
Welcome to The Mental Funny Bone, a podcast of where
mental health meets humor,heart, and a healthy dose of
laughter.
We're here to talk about thetough stuff, laugh about the
awkward stuff, and remind youand ourselves that it's okay to
not be okay.
So settle in, take a breath, andlet's normalize the mess, one
ridiculous story and realconversation at a time.
I am Sarah,
Chris (00:22):
I'm Christine, and my job is to remind you that no one on
this podcast is a mental healthprofessional.
We are here to entertain you.
We are here to be your friend,Uhhuh, and try to kick you in
the butt to be a better person.
So you should probably talk to atherapist if you're listening to
our podcast.
(00:42):
Just saying,
Sarah (00:43):
there's lots of reasons.
Roy Kent actually was justtalking about therapy.
If you hear my husband laughingin the background, he's watching
the Roy Kent standup comedy.
His real name is BrettGoldstein.
Apparently he has a comedyspecial.
Oh, there he is.
So he was just talking about theuse of the word cunt.
I like, wow, I'm sad, I'mmissing it.
And then something happenedreally funny after I closed the
(01:03):
door'cause Noah was laughingvery hysterically.
So now I'm gonna have to rewindand see what I missed.
Chris (01:08):
Oh my God, I love it so much.
But anyway,
Sarah (01:11):
yeah, therapy is great.
If you need any resources, checkout our show notes.
And of course, if you are inneed a nine, eight, eight on
your mobile telephone, give thema call and they will answer and
talk to you or email us becauseI think that everybody is
forgotten about our email.
I'm not sure it's working.
So my request is for somebody.
Chris (01:31):
Other
Sarah (01:32):
than myself.
Send an email to gassergirls@gmail.com.
That would be super, supergreat.
Chris (01:40):
Yeah.
it's just girls, like regulargirl.
there's no l there's an L,there's no UZ,
Sarah (01:45):
there's Z,
Chris (01:46):
there's no Z.
It's just a and a Gasser is justlike it sounds, faster with a G.
So in, in case you were havingtrouble, are you gonna crunch
that penis?
Why?
I wish merely a sound medium.
'cause people are gonna get tohear you eating that dick candy.
And it was
Sarah (02:04):
pink.
Chris (02:05):
They're gonna miss out on, on.
You know you opening up yourmouth and showing us the dick.
Oh no.
The dick fell out of my mouth.
Oh no.
The
Sarah (02:13):
dick fell outta my mouth and now it's on the floor.
Don't eat dicks off the floor.
Dick stained the floor.
What?
Candy.
Shit.
Candy shit's gonna be all overthe
Chris (02:21):
floor now.
Oh, you suck the color off thatone too.
I
Sarah (02:24):
did, and then it flipped outta my mouth.
Chris (02:26):
You need bigger
Sarah (02:27):
It was.
It was a floppy one.
Chris (02:29):
If it's falling at it, can we just
Sarah (02:30):
talk about the candy dicks for the whole entire
episode?
'cause I feel like we can endthe episode now and I'm happy
done.
What color should I put in mymouth now?
Orange, pink, blue, yellow orgreen?
Chris (02:42):
You have blue.
Did you say blue?
Because I'm thinking like tinylittle stuff.
Box penis.
Sarah (02:47):
Or blue balls.
Chris (02:48):
Okay.
That's enough.
That's enough.
So I, I drove to Philadelphiayesterday and I went to see a
client of mine who I had talkedto at some point, and she was
like, oh yeah, I remember you.
You're the let them girl.
And I was like.
Sarah (03:03):
The girl who hates led them.
Chris (03:05):
I don't hate it.
I don't hate it, but like atthis point, where did you go?
What happened?
So there I was in Philadelphiatalking to this client that I
had obviously talked to while wewere starting led them and I was
all into it.
and they were like, oh yeah, Iread the book, so thank you for
your recommendation.
I'm like, You made it furtherthan I did.
(03:25):
You made it further than I did.
I find her tone condescendingand she was like, yeah, I did
too, but the book is good.
Sarah (03:31):
I was like, yeah, like the overall concept of the book
is good,
Chris (03:34):
right?
Yeah.
I was like, that's fine.
It's fine.
Like I'm glad you got somethingout of it.
Now if you really wanna get intothat stuff.
I have five other books that youwill like better.
Yeah.
Here's my card.
There it is.
Also just one other note aboutthat meeting.
I walk in and it was, I was hotand I was in the car and I got a
(03:56):
late, you're gonna be surprisedI got a bit of a late start and
Sarah (04:00):
turns out I'm very surprised I was muted'cause I'm
trying to chew on this dick.
'cause Don don't want to
Chris (04:05):
chew on'em.
Sarah (04:07):
In my mouth anymore.
Chris (04:08):
Understandable.
'cause you're married.
It's making
Sarah (04:10):
me uncomfortable
Chris (04:11):
again.
I am.
Becca is the child of one of myfriends from college.
Sarah (04:15):
Yeah.
But she's 23, 22.
Yeah.
So I know she doesn't, she'sgraduating college in eight
days.
Chris (04:23):
She doesn't understand any of this.
Somehow Mom will explain it.
Sarah (04:27):
I'm sorry.
So you were sweating and late.
I feel like this is your right.
Normal state of being.
Chris (04:33):
right
Sarah (04:33):
here.
I'm sweating late on.
Chris (04:35):
I was like, oh my God.
What are we doing?
Do we start the meeting Sweatyand I late And, my boy Lucas.
Lucas, what's up?
he loves it when he is on thepodcast.
Sarah (04:44):
Oh, that's good.
Shout out Lucas.
Chris (04:45):
He was like, do you wanna show up early?
And, we can go over the slides.
And I was like, yeah.
Does he not know you?
not that
Sarah (04:52):
I feel like you guys have known each other for a while.
Chris (04:54):
I, it probably should have come up.
Hey, I'm gonna be late all thetime.
Everywhere.
Sarah (04:59):
Yeah.
I don't know why he thoughtthat.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Chris (05:02):
Anyway, so I'm texting him while I'm on the turnpike
and I'm like, Hey, got a littlebit of a late start.
And then I had to pull overbecause I had to send an email.
And there is one on single spoton the Pennsylvania turnpike
that does not have reliable cellservice.
And it is the spot, like theexit that I pulled off also.
Sarah (05:20):
Yeah.
Chris (05:21):
There's one gas station and that's it for a thousand
miles.
Yes.
On the turnpike, I was like, ah.
Sarah (05:29):
We found this out too.
Chris (05:31):
Here's where I die.
Here is where all of the TrueCrime podcast lessons come into
play.
And someone is gonna say, hersmile just lit up a room.
Sarah (05:41):
No, no one's ever gonna say that.
I.
Chris (05:43):
That got late.
I'm gonna make sure of
Sarah (05:44):
it.
Yeah.
You know what?
If she wouldn't have been light,it didn't light up, she wouldn't
be dead up a room
Chris (05:48):
because she was never there.
Because she wasn't fuckingthere.
She fucking there.
Oh God.
Yeah.
Anyway, so I'm all sweaty anddiscombobulated and I'm like,
I've been in the car for eighthours, like one of my shirts up
way high in the back, liketrying to wearing dress pants.
But I'm wearing like a, is
Sarah (06:03):
this dress pants up to here?
Chris (06:04):
Dress pants.
Like one of the legs is over myshoulder.
I'm like, I don't know what'shappening.
but I'm wearing like a shortsleeve shirt.
It was hot.
And I forgot that I have a gianttattoo on my arm.
I Oh yeah, you're new tady.
Sarah (06:15):
Can I get a tattoo next week?
Can we really get a tattoo nextweek?
Chris (06:19):
Yes.
Yes.
We'll go to the, we'll go to thesame, we'll go to the same place
by the coffee shop.
We'll get pretentious coffee andthen we'll go get pretentious
tattoos.
Sarah (06:27):
I'm in.
Okay, go ahead.
Gets
Chris (06:29):
jealous back.
Sad.
Anyway, so I got, she has tograduate.
Got this guy.
Yeah.
She's very focused.
Her mom would like her tograduate, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Sarah (06:37):
sorry, Becca.
Next year you can come with us.
Chris (06:40):
so I walk in and I forget completely that I am a
motorcycle, chick.
Now, and I don't put my littlesweater on and I'm sitting down
and I'm like, I should, what doI just keep my hand under the
table and then I look over.
You think that this
Sarah (06:54):
is a, everybody in that room has tattoos on their body.
Chris (06:57):
Because I look over, particularly at my counterpart,
like the data management guy onthe other side.
Yeah.
And he's got a, he's got a snake
Sarah (07:05):
Yeah.
Chris (07:06):
On
Sarah (07:07):
his neck, crawling up his neck.
Yeah.
And
Chris (07:08):
I was like, it was like stepbrothers, yeah.
He just become best friends.
I think we did.
Sarah (07:14):
I mean it literally though, there's, you have
better, like you are more of ademon if you don't have the
tattoos now.
Chris (07:20):
What is wrong with you?
Why?
Why are you just not confident?
Like you can't figure out whatyou like, what's wrong with you?
Yeah.
So it was like, and it was like10 minutes of, holy shit, I'm
gonna, I'm gonna get fired.
And then thinking, which, don'tbe dumb.
Don't be dumb, Christie.
Yeah.
Don't be dumb.
Make friends with the neck.
We're gonna start a club now.
Yeah.
My, my boy Mike, he's got twocats named Luke and Leia.
Sarah (07:43):
Oh, wow.
I love him.
Chris (07:44):
I was like, we are gonna start a club like nerd tattoos.
Sarah (07:47):
Snake.
He's oh, have a light, havesnakes around our,
Chris (07:50):
I was like, where he is?
A light
Sarah (07:51):
saber tattooed.
Where's, I don't wanna know.
I do not wanna know where he'sgot the light saber tattooed.
Chris (07:57):
He said, I can't show you that one.
And I was like, we've talked
Sarah (07:59):
enough about the Dicks.
Chris (08:01):
Every fucking episode is about some kind of penis,
Sarah (08:03):
I feel like.
And in a work environment, youshould never mention the tattoo
that you can't show to someone.
I'm just saying because I'veactually been in a conversation
or been privy to a conversationwhere things were mentioned that
should not have been mentionedby certain people or anybody
ever about tattoos at a workdinner.
(08:24):
And it ended with, yeah, youcan't, I can't show you those
ones.
Chris (08:28):
You gotta be,
Sarah (08:29):
you gotta be careful.
No, it's no good.
It's no good.
Chris (08:32):
Also, the work dinner is hard to manage.
Like you have to be socialenough to have a drink, but then
you can't have nine because you,and that's where I
feel,
that's where I
fail.
Falling around like it, and yeah, it gets to be a point
where like all the boring peopleleave and then you can have nine
drinks.
that's, no, I have
Sarah (08:50):
nine drinks before they leave.
Without a doubt.
I think it, it's just, who's thegirl that drinks all the Miller
Lights?
That's what are you?
Chris (08:57):
That's me.
Are you Canada and you'redrinking the Miller Light?
Is it import beer there?
I bet they tax the fuck.
I'm not paying
Sarah (09:02):
for it.
Chris (09:03):
Fuck yeah.
Yeah,
Sarah (09:04):
I don't pay for it.
I don't fucking care.
if anything, it's like I, Ishould be embarrassed, but I'm
not like, I apologize for it.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
And no, I don't want a glass.
I just wanna drink it outta thebottle.
Chris (09:14):
Do you have, do you have a dirty can?
I could have instead?
Sarah (09:18):
It feels wrong if it's in a glass.
Like I just can't
Chris (09:21):
What kind of glass?
Glass?
Yeah.
It feels wrong.
Sarah (09:22):
And I have a lot of trouble still not tapping the
top of somebody else's bottle.
You know what I speak of?
Chris (09:30):
No.
Sarah (09:31):
That happened to me at a work event.
Yeah.
I chipped, I did tooth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Chipped
Chris (09:36):
a tooth.
Becca, do you know about this?
You can just shake your head.
No.
Oh.
'cause kids are so nice today.
This is the problem with thisgeneration.
They're just so fucking nice toeach other.
Sarah (09:45):
This is it.
Chris (09:45):
No, Becca.
Imagine you're standing at a barand you're holding a glass
bottle of beer just like anormal person taking some sips
of it, and your friend.
In quotes, my sister comes overand takes her glass beer bottle
and bops the top of yours.
You know what happens when it,it gets real foamy because
you've forced air down into it,and now the other person has to
(10:07):
get that thing up to their lipsand drink it before it goes
everywhere, essentially.
I was really good at it.
You have forced someone to chugtheir beer or get it all over
them and the people or chip
Sarah (10:17):
a tooth.
whatever,
Chris (10:19):
I was struggling the one day and I tried to get it and I
chipped my front tooth.
Sarah (10:24):
I'm not sure why you never punched me in the face for
some of the shit that I did toyou, but I had have told you the
story at a work function.
It was our Christmas story.
We went, did you do bowling?
Christmas story?
The Christmas story?
Yes.
Our Christmas vacation.
No.
Party.
Chris (10:40):
Party what?
Sarah (10:41):
In my defense, it was at a bowling alley, but I mean it
was like the main event.
Bowling alley, like fancybowling.
Anyway, I had, I stop it, I hadtwo beers, so I think I was
doing something with this handand I had a beer here, and then
I had the neck of another beerhere.
Oh God.
And
my buddy Rafa came over.
He's a young kid.
(11:02):
He tapped this one.
And as I was going to drink it,my other friend Patrick, who is
now like one below the.
Biggest guy at our company.
I hear Patrick go, no.
And I did this and this one justspilled all over my face.
I wish if you're not watchingYouTube here, like it's hard.
But yeah, it just, beer wenteverywhere.
Chris (11:21):
she had them in a claw.
Yeah.
I was calling, one of them isfoamy and the other one isn't,
and she just, she went to clockbecause I'm good at that.
Sarah (11:29):
cause I'm good at that.
'cause I'm not gonna let it getall over me.
I'm good at the target.
Yeah.
You can't
Chris (11:32):
get messy.
Can't get messy.
Sarah (11:33):
yeah.
Instead I just spilled a wholebeer on my face and what could I
do but laugh and be like, wow,Karma's a bitch.
played Rafa well played.
Chris (11:41):
Just for all those times you had gone around the bar, it
slipped for your eyes.
I was also wearing
Sarah (11:45):
a t-shirt that said grab your balls
Chris (11:48):
at the bowling alley.
No, I like it.
My team, I like it.
Our team, we
Sarah (11:51):
all had, I made them for everybody.
For our little inside salesteam.
Chris (11:56):
Oh my God, you're so extra.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
What else?
What else has been going on?
Liv is taking finals.
Becky, you can identify.
So she has been, she's beengiving me like almost hourly
updates on how that's going.
Yeah, she's doing great.
She's I hear music off in thedistance and I wanna go see what
that's about, but I have a finaltomorrow.
I'm like, why don't you just gosee what the music's about?
(12:16):
That's
Sarah (12:16):
how it always went bad for me.
Actually, I never even tried, Inever even tried to not go hear
the music.
Chris (12:22):
she was like, I'm gonna go back to the room.
I'm gonna pick up Mary.
and then we're going to, andhere's the thing, she's we have
the L Doc stuff.
And I was like, you have what?
She's L Doc.
I was like, but LDOC is the lastday of Class L Doc, God.
Just say last
Sarah (12:40):
day of class, for fuck's
Chris (12:41):
sake.
I was like, oh, is this is justdesigned to make old people feel
bad.
Sarah (12:45):
It is.
it's like fucking contracts.
Lawyers just have to put in allthese fucking words that nobody
can fucking pronounce so theyfucking feel better about
themselves.
Chris (12:53):
Yeah, I was like, L.
Yeah, go have your L Doccelebrations.
She's I had two shots and I washungover the next day.
I was like, they were
Sarah (13:01):
bad shots.
Chris (13:02):
I was like, what were you dread to gasoline?
Don't do that.
Yeah,
Sarah (13:06):
it was a bad,
Chris (13:07):
did I tell you about my trip to West Virginia yet?
'cause I don't think I did.
Sarah (13:12):
I don't.
Chris (13:13):
On this podcast, we took the side-by-sides back to West
Virginia.
So if you remember, decades ago,David and I bought a really
expensive toy to run around inthe woods.
So we went to the Hatfield andMcCoy Trail again in, Southern
West Virginia.
beautiful country.
Very picturesque.
I bought a hot dog off of a ladyin the woods.
(13:34):
Who had a shack where she wasselling hot dogs.
and there was like a wooden walland a wooden bar, and they were
just in the woods and, At thebar, she had a cooler full of,
full of beer so you could stepon belly up there and, order a
hot dog.
And they had two kind.
They had a New York hot dog thatnobody was getting.
(13:54):
And then they had a WestVirginia hot dog that was like
just covered in onions.
I don't know why.
It seems strange to me.
Uhhuh.
I feel like I've spent enoughtime in West Virginia to be
like, I don't think that's aWest Virginia dog.
But
Sarah (14:05):
does that mean they, do they all smell like onions?
I don't know.
Chris (14:07):
I don't know.
and the one guy who was with us,has this whispered conversation
with said lady in the woods.
Okay.
And then he leaves and he comesback and, he would, and then he
has a whispered conversationwith David, and I was like.
I'm like, I don't know whathappens back there.
He's no, come with me.
And I was like, do you reallywant me to come with you if if
(14:28):
you're gonna, I don't wanna bethere.
No.
If she's gonna, if there's gonna be not candy,
anyway, so we go with the nicelady to the other trailer that's
on the property, and she sellsus a mason jar full of
moonshine.
Sarah (14:44):
Okay.
Yeah.
Chris (14:45):
I was like, yeah, I feel like this is appropriate
Sarah (14:46):
and normal.
Okay.
Chris (14:47):
And then she was telling us about her dog, and she said,
I was like, oh, what's his name?
She, he was like a little
Sarah (14:53):
moonshine.
Chris (14:54):
no.
She said his name is DOG.
I was like, DOG, is he Japanese?
No, he isn't Japanese.
Sarah (15:00):
No, he's a dog.
the dog's name is
Chris (15:03):
DOGD, period.
O period.
G Period.
And the way like the SouthernWest Virginia Acts accent made
it sound like D-O-G-D-O-G-D-O-G.
Sarah (15:12):
I was like, that's what it sounds like.
Like what the fuck?
When you call your dog, DOG.
what do you go DOG come here.
I'm offended by this dog name.
Chris (15:22):
It was marvelous.
she had adopted him and therewas a whole tragic country song
about why she had to adopt him.
That I can't remember.
'cause I've wiped, I tookKleenex and just wiped that
story right from my brain'causeI'm not equipped to handle that.
her brother's in thepenitentiary for selling the
moonshine.
I was like, I know that was Soshe just keeping the
Sarah (15:42):
tradition going.
Chris (15:43):
someone has to take care of, them.
Yeah,
Sarah (15:46):
it's way more important to be locking up the moonshiners
than.
pedophiles and shit was,
Chris (15:50):
thats a crime.
It was like, like fuckingamazing me.
Did Rosco pee Coltrane come andarrest him?
He's in the penitent with BonHog involved.
So
Sarah (15:58):
he's taking up, he's taking up a space in the jail.
Which, from what I know, all ofthem are overcrowded.
Chris (16:04):
No.
and we're
Sarah (16:04):
letting this guy have that space.
Chris (16:07):
'cause he sold, some chocolate flavored, not even
alcohol, I'm guessing, becausewe put that shit in the freezer
and it froze.
I was like, I feel like DOGripped me off.
I feel like someone, yeah,
Sarah (16:18):
that shit shouldn't freeze.
Chris (16:19):
I'm like, it tastes like, creamsicle gasoline.
And I don't know why it wouldfreeze, because also I, so maybe
Sarah (16:26):
that's why he's in jail.
'cause he is not, because he isselling people gasoline, but
he's bad at it.
that's what it is.
Chris (16:31):
Like I'm fairly certain we lost a few brain cells on
that whole trip.
Sarah (16:35):
Actually.
Homicide,
Chris (16:37):
it's.
Six years though, so it seemslike a bargain.
Shh.
Sarah (16:40):
O-G-D-O-G-I
Chris (16:42):
am constantly surprised by the difference in accents.
Like when I talk Oh yeah.
And when somebody from anotherstate talks, I was like, I feel,
or
Sarah (16:52):
a real yer.
Chris (16:54):
Same.
Same.
I'm like, wow.
Is it even hi Rosemary, nice tosee you on the podcast.
Yeah.
So that was eye-opening.
I was, and then we were with agroup of people and the group of
people included two Britney's.
Two Britney's, and the Britney'shad, how did they
Sarah (17:10):
end?
What did their names end with?
Chris (17:14):
I did ask, I feel like that's
Sarah (17:14):
how you have to tell'em apart.
Chris (17:16):
No, no one had blonde hair.
Is it I, is it
Sarah (17:18):
two E's?
Is it a y?
Is it an dark hair?
It, ie.
Chris (17:22):
1 1, 1 was called Sippy Cup.
That was her nickname, sippyCup.
loved them.
They were so much fun and acompletely different generation
of people, like completelydifferent generation of people.
Like they show up and I'm like apassenger princess in the side
by side.
Like I just sit there andsomebody fetches me drinks and
snacks.
That's really all I'm lookingfor.
(17:43):
Somebody makes sure I don't gettoo muddy, but muddy enough to
look like I'm having fun, butnot, so yeah, there's a balance.
Uncomfortable.
There's a balance.
somebody takes care of me in theside by side.
These two young ladies showed upin their own side by side and it
is the exact same hot pink coloras my fingernails.
Sarah (17:58):
I would love that.
Chris (17:59):
I know.
I'm so jealous.
I was like, you know who wouldreally
Sarah (18:02):
love that, Heather?
Chris (18:05):
Yes.
I thought of her immediately.
I thought of her immediate.
She would fucking immediately
Sarah (18:09):
dig the shit outta that
Chris (18:11):
Sarah's friend Heather.
Yeah.
She's like a, she's a countrygirl.
Sarah (18:14):
She loves the outdoor lot stuff.
They do the side by side stuffand she loves, pink,
Chris (18:20):
right?
they took the metal parts andthey took them to the, to the
metal.
Painting guy.
The Yeah.
the powder coat.
They powder coated it.
Powder coat is what it's called.
And then the younger Britneysippy cup, if you will, brings
out a beer bong.
And I was like, I'm on the wrongtrip.
No, thank you.
I made a wrong turn.
You want one?
I was like, no, I'm good.
They're like, we're just gonnahave two before we get back in
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the buggy.
I'm like, you have to stilldrive it.
Sarah (18:44):
that's bad for you.
Chris (18:45):
Because it's pink.
and I have never, I have, butI've always surprised by the
fact that dudes will react thesame way to a pretty girl in an
unexpected situation by nearlyripping their heads off, like
trying to turn their head tolook like you're going down the
trail.
It's usually and I'm wearinglike a winter coat.
It's, and the one, it's chili,like the one Brittany has on
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just a jog, a bra and a flannel.
I was like, yeah.
Again, different generation.
Rocket.
If you got it, I'm all for it.
I'm cold.
So every guy that would drivepast and it's 98% guys,
everybody would slow down andlook and slow down and look and
yeah, I was like, and the oneBrittany was like, I'm not
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trying to get the attention andI don't like it.
I was like, you're a blonde girlin a hot pink, razor.
Sarah (19:35):
Yeah, you know what, Brittany?
Suck a dick.
Chris (19:38):
I was like, you, I bet you're
Sarah (19:39):
wonderful, but you're fucking lying.
Please don't lie.
I was like,
Chris (19:42):
I love the attention.
And if I was 20 years younger, Iwould definitely do exactly
that.
Sarah (19:48):
Yeah.
I.
Chris (19:49):
I'm like, we're all friends here.
It's cool.
Sarah (19:51):
It's fine.
But
Chris (19:52):
yeah, I was like, that guy almost fell off a whole
thing.
Yeah.
that pause was because I raisedmy arm up and saw a bat wing
like I used to fight with on mygrandmother.
Sarah (20:00):
You remember what bat wings are, right?
We talked, I know we talkedabout this on an episode.
Jesus,
Chris (20:06):
I totally forgot about bat wings.
Sarah (20:08):
Yeah.
it's
Chris (20:08):
when your, your nut sack gets sweaty.
Sarah (20:12):
not yours.
Up to the side of your leg.
Chris (20:14):
Not yours.
Not yours.
You don't,
Sarah (20:16):
you gotta stretch it.
You gotta stretch out to get ridof it.
To get'em un get'em separatedand like bat wings.
Look at Becca's face.
Yeah.
Chris (20:23):
I can't believe we, like Boise either.
Surprises me every dime.
Shit.
All right.
So that was my West Virginiastory.
Like still just such good, nicepeople.
And it was so fun and.
I am constantly surprised by thedifference in median income in
different places in the country.
They're the, I don't know, Idon't know what they do for
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work.
I, coal mines are stillfunctioning, but like having the
side-by-side and having us comedown there and buy things is
what runs their economy.
It was, I don't know, part of itwas sad.
I'm like, these people, this istheir whole.
They've never been anywhere.
No one new who moves here.
It's just them and their brotherwho's independent and they don't
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know anything.
Sarah (21:10):
They don't know anything more and they love it, maybe, or
maybe they just, I don't know.
They just don't have the moneyto do anything else, and that's
just the way it is.
And I,
Chris (21:18):
we were talking to the one guy and they like taxed the
shit on, he rented us the houseand he Sold us our little pass.
You have to have a pass to goride the side by side on the
trail.
And, he said for every, Everydollar that he collects in rent
or whatever, he has to pay a taxon that.
'cause it's for recreation.
so he ends up paying like 12cents, like a 12% tax on every
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dollar.
And I would think if you'repaying that much money in taxes,
that there would be like newerschools or like playgrounds
would be
Sarah (21:48):
nicer things.
Chris (21:50):
Like maybe a church that had a roof like.
And yeah, everything is justfalling in.
It would be a great place to goand take pictures.
Sarah (21:57):
maybe Elon should go there and figure out where all
the money's going and fix it.
Chris (22:03):
Something that's, that'll help.
interesting trip.
Loved it.
Really enjoyed that.
That was, it was fun.
And, good.
Rudy commented on my picture andI have to get back to him'cause
we might be going side by sidingand Jeeping together.
Nice.
We'll see.
there's a, there's a forestfestival or forest fairy
festival.
I want it to be a forest fairyfestival so much, but I think
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it's just a forest.
Forest.
I don't think it's even a fair,I think it's just a, it's just a
ride through the woods.
Sarah (22:30):
It's just people going into the woods.
Chris (22:32):
Yep.
All right.
I think that's excellent.
That's all the fun news I have.
Do you have other fun news?
Did you do fun things?
Sarah (22:38):
We went to Columbus, Ohio for a soccer tournament.
Chris (22:42):
Did you go to, did you go to the Nike Cup?
Sarah (22:45):
Yes.
Chris (22:46):
Were you in Dublin, Ohio?
Yes.
Yeah.
I sent you guys a
Sarah (22:47):
picture.
I sent a picture on our waythere and I said, on our way,
something like that.
And I said, Liv, I think this isthe tournament where you pulled
that girl's ponytail.
Yeah, and it definitely was.
We weren't at that field, but Irecognized the field like we
were.
We luckily only had to go oneplace for his games.
But yeah, it was fun.
It was fun.
We went to Dave and Buster's onSaturday to celebrate a couple
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of the boys their birthdays.
Yay.
So we went to Dave and Bustersand yeah, I got drunk.
Chris (23:15):
it's a soccer tournament.
Were you in the lobby?
What?
What hotel did you stay in?
Here's,
Sarah (23:21):
I don't even know.
I have so many
Chris (23:22):
questions.
Sarah (23:23):
I don't even know.
It was right by Bob Evans.
'cause all I wanted on Saturdaymorning was Bob Evans sausage
gravy.
So the last tournament we wentto in December, I didn't take
beer'cause I thought we'll justbuy beer.
And then it just didn't workout.
We didn't get beer and thenpeople weren't in our hotel,
which.
Nobody did anything.
So this time I was not going tolet that happen.
Chris (23:42):
Oh no.
Sarah (23:42):
I packed enough beer for a week, like on our way there.
I looked at no, and I was like,I think I packed too much beer.
I'm pretty sure like I packed 24beers for each of us.
I'm not sure.
And we weren't getting thereFriday until 10:00 PM So it's
not like we were drinking Fridayand then Saturday we were going
to Dave and Busters.
if anything, we were gonna drinktwo beers at the hotel, but I'll
be damned, we had.
We were ready, I think.
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I think combine, we drank maybefive beers.
Chris (24:06):
Is it like when we went to the Hootie and the Blowfish
concert and I all of a suddenthought I needed a case of beer
just for myself?
Sarah (24:12):
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, pretty much.
I was like, I don't know why,but now we have to pack that
cooler back up.
Chris (24:18):
Now I have to lift up this heavy as cooler.
Damnit.
Put it back in the truck.
We tailgated for 15 minutes.
Sarah (24:25):
Yeah.
I was like, ridiculous.
Chris (24:27):
Am I gonna drink a beer a minute?
I might.
Maybe never know.
And then I'll have nineleftover.
Yeah.
Anyway, so yes.
I mean I have been with Davidwhere he is packed a little mini
cooler to take to the field.
Sarah (24:39):
Yeah.
Our games, our game was very,both games, we had 8:00 AM games
both days.
Chris (24:44):
Cute that you think that would stop him?
Sarah (24:46):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, yeah, I did.
I drink water that early in themorning.
Call me crazy.
Chris (24:51):
you do you.
Sarah (24:53):
yeah.
So it was fun.
One scored a goal.
They didn't win.
They won two games, lost one.
And
Chris (24:58):
that's really, they don't
Sarah (24:59):
have any, I love his team.
Team though.
Did, because.
Chris (25:02):
When did they lose?
did they go into, did they gointo like Saturday?
were the parents doing thetournament math at the bar or at
David Buster's?
Were they like, okay, if, thisis why I love,
Sarah (25:13):
this is why I love our parents.
'cause no one gives a fuckbecause everyone's like me and
nobody gives a shit and nobodyelse.
There's nobody coming hard onyour back.
It's great.
Nobody's screaming or yelling.
Chris (25:24):
I feel like you need to explain it to Becca.
The
Sarah (25:26):
tournament we were talking about where Liv pulled
the girl's hair, I drove out to,to hang out with them and watch
Liv play and we're standing andthe parents are loud and they're
yelling and there's a ballcoming down the field and there
the girls.
Running after it.
And they wanted to let her knowthat there was someone, somebody
coming up behind her or someonerunning to her, and so they were
yelling, coming hard on yourback,
Chris (25:49):
coming hard, Lauren on your back,
Sarah (25:51):
coming hard on your back.
Chris (25:53):
And Becca, it was before I was like friends with any of
the moms, and I was like, Yeah.
And then, and then finally likea year and a half later, I was
like, Kelly, I don't think youshould say it like that.
Yeah.
Because at first I thought shewas doing it on purpose, and I
was like, I love her.
And then I realized she didn't.
She didn't know.
No, she didn't know.
She didn't, every time she wouldsay it.
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I would giggle though.
Sarah (26:14):
yeah, giggle.
yeah, so I like our parentsbecause everybody is just chill.
I think in order to get to theplayoffs they needed to 15
goals.
Oh, and the other, one of theother teams had to lose
something like that.
So it was something outrageous,so it didn't really matter.
And we all just, we all, me andmy mom friend Kristen, we talked
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about every time a goal wasscored, we were like, all right,
there's only 72 left.
We only need 72 goals sometimes.
At one point it looked like ourboys thought that they might
have a chance because the otherteam was playing on the field
next to us, the one that weneeded to lose, and I looked
over and all of our subs werelike mixed in with that team's
bench and they were watchingthat game.
(26:56):
I.
Chris (26:57):
You guys.
I was like, look at our boys.
What?
Look at those.
What are they doing?
Sarah (27:00):
But yeah.
But yeah, it was a good time.
It was a good time.
I have an aversion to Noah'sdriving well, turns out well.
That
Chris (27:06):
two hour trip to Columbus must have been fun.
Does he not?
Is it,'cause he doesn't turn hisneck anymore.
Sarah (27:11):
Yeah.
that kind of makes things weird.
But he likes to This is the onecar and this is him and we're
going 80.
I know he can hear me right nowtalking about it and he's gonna
listen to this, but it's Iliterally like, and then I have
to say things and then I try todrive and he won't let me.
And I know I'm a better driver.
Chris (27:29):
We always know we're a better driver.
I,
Sarah (27:32):
yeah, but you legitimately are a bad driver.
Chris (27:34):
So is David.
Sarah (27:35):
it's perfect,
Chris (27:36):
but it's, yeah.
Sarah (27:36):
You are a terrible fucking driver.
I
Chris (27:38):
have attention deficit problems.
Sarah (27:41):
You.
You're just a terrible driver.
It has nothing to do withattention deficit when there's a
large fucking rock and you runinto it like, I
Chris (27:49):
didn't hit it.
I just keep running Close.
Doesn't have close.
That's
Sarah (27:51):
not, no.
Chris (27:52):
Listen, we have a book to talk about.
We have a, I know we areavoiding it.
I know you're trying to get outof it.
You
Sarah (27:57):
are the one
Chris (27:58):
who's
Sarah (27:59):
jawing.
Chris (27:59):
I forgot I did so much fun stuff.
Alright, we're gonna get, we'regonna get to the book.
Anything else?
Anything?
Sarah (28:04):
Yeah.
I wanna tell a quick, storyabout our father.
Chris (28:06):
Okay.
Yeah.
Sarah (28:07):
I'm in.
Okay.
It's just a funny little storyabout when we lived in Arizona
and mommy and daddy came out tovisit and we were celebrating
your first anniversary with yourfirst husband.
Oh, yes.
And we had it in the little, itwas the apartment common.
What do you in the, boathouse,what's the name of it?
Boathouse Courthouse.
Courthouse Boathouse.
(28:28):
No, it's not the Courthouse FestFestival House.
I don't know,
Chris (28:32):
like the common area.
I forget what it's
Sarah (28:34):
called.
Yeah, exact.
So anyway, we rented that littleplace or the party room use if
you want the party room.
Party room.
And daddy, we're all having somedrinks.
Daddy goes into the bathroom,which is like a public restroom
and he comes out and I couldhear him and he's saying, Hey
Nita.
Do you see this fancy bathroom?
They have bibs in here and hehad the toilet cover thing.
(28:56):
Toilet seat cover over his
Chris (28:58):
right.
All my friends like, I'm agrownup.
I'm a grownup.
Sarah (29:02):
But immediately, I think everybody loved Daddy before
that, but that was like newpeople.
It was the introduction to Jumboand it was like, yeah, that's my
dot.
And I think he would wore aroundfor a while until.
Mommy ripped it off his neck.
Probably Jumbo.
Jumbo.
Chris (29:17):
And everyone freaking loves him.
All the time.
I don't know, like
Sarah (29:20):
I thought it was really fucking funny.
Chris (29:22):
It is hilarious.
And you got to,'cause they werenew
Sarah (29:24):
then.
Like it's not like they Theywere everywhere.
So I know these are somethingthat have been around your whole
life.
For us, the toilet seat coverswere not around our whole lives.
Like we were expected to justline the seat with toilet paper.
that's what you did.
Chris (29:38):
Or hover.
Sarah (29:39):
I don't hover well.
But anyway, so yeah.
So they were new at the time andmy dad thought it was, and I
can, my favorite part of thisstory is thinking about him in
the bathroom.
I.
Thinking about how he is gonnado it.
Like planning his joke Oh myGod.
And laughing at himself.
'cause I know he did a lot oflaughing at himself in the
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bathroom before he came out.
Had I could hear him in his headbeing like, oh, I'm gonna go out
and yell for Nita and show herthis bib
Chris (30:07):
he had and he had to try it on and see how it fits.
Sarah (30:11):
100%.
I could see my pulling it backto make sure it flas properly
Chris (30:15):
in the mirror.
Dear sweet baby Jesus in heaven.
Sarah (30:17):
Yeah.
So I said it was a quick story,but that was, I, that's what I
thought of.
I don't even know what made methink of it.
Maybe it was my use of publicrestrooms this past weekend.
But yeah, so it never ceases toamaze me.
Chris (30:30):
It goes along with the time that your mom and dad came
down to Bethany to, to see meplay during homecoming.
So it's homecoming and we have asoccer game, and the plan was
for Nita and Gemma to come down,watch the game.
give me a high five and then,head on back.
but it's homecoming and there'sa party happening.
There's a tailgating going onafter the soccer game.
(30:53):
So I bebop up there and Mita andJumbo are like, hey.
And for some reason we were atthe Zeta Tent and the Zetas love
jumbo.
Sarah (31:01):
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And
Chris (31:03):
like they adopted him like a puppy.
And like need had to go to work,I think.
And my game was at like 11o'clock in the morning, so they
stay for most of the footballgame that started at one.
We go and get a bite to eat atthe, at Bubba's bison in, we
take along a bunch of Sigmanews.
Like for some reason Jonathanwas there.
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And I was gonna say,
Sarah (31:26):
I've heard this story when Jonathan was around.
Chris (31:30):
And like my dad's wearing a hat.
The Sigma News for some reasonhave hats, but they're now,
they're trading like I amcompletely superfluous here.
No one gives a shit if I amthere or not.
Like your mom doesn't care ifI'm there?
Nope.
The Sigma News don't.
The only people that are likehanging out are jumbo and this
group of like 20 something yearold boys.
(31:53):
And then we go back up Tosta.
not in a, like we're gonna hiton you kind of way, but I got
it.
I got it.
This is an elder statesman thatwe have to learn from and he's
telling he That reminds
Sarah (32:04):
me, we have to dumb do an update on the Pope.
Chris (32:06):
Go ahead.
I haven't been keeping up.
I feel like there was a lump.
Okay, so jumbo.
Nita has to call off work'causeat this point Jumbo is into it.
Like he is.
He is at the Zeta house andsomeone asked him if he wants to
buck up for a keg.
And Jumbo is no need to worry,ladies.
I got it covered.
Jumbo buys the cake.
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So now he's bought the cake.
He can't very well leave.
Sarah (32:30):
No, Nope.
I'm
Chris (32:30):
taught like I'm ready to go to bed.
Like I'm ready to be done withNita and Jumbo at my sorority,
frankly, because I am going to afraternity and I'm don't wanna
hang out at Zeta.
But now I have to because mydad's bucked up.
He just left his
Sarah (32:43):
ass after.
Chris (32:44):
After that, people are like, Hey, is your dad coming
down?
No.
Sarah (32:48):
Yeah.
Chris (32:50):
Gaster,
Sarah (32:50):
is your dad gonna be here?
Chris (32:52):
I'm here.
And they're like, yeah.
is your dad coming?
God damnit.
Yeah.
More popular than me at all ofmy, on all,
Sarah (32:59):
they came to every one of our soccer games.
It's slippery rock.
the away ones too, like hoursaway, overnight trips.
And they were like the life ofthe party.
And before every trip they, oh,are your parents coming?
Will your parents be there?
Like they would meet us in thelobby.
We're getting on the bus.
Mommy and daddy are getting intheir car.
Chris (33:20):
follow.
Adorable.
Sarah (33:21):
Yeah, adorable.
Wouldn't have any other way.
There were cakes there though.
We didn't have any cakes there.
Chris (33:25):
you guys were a lot
Sarah (33:26):
more serious about things.
Slippery rock and all.
Yeah, and we were in a hotel andRight.
I was 18.
Anyway, let's talk about thisfucking book.
You talk about the book.
I'll just sit here and makesnide comments.
Chris (33:39):
I know we said we were gonna talk about just chapter
two this week, but we are, yeah,we did chapter one
Sarah (33:45):
and two last week.
Chris (33:46):
We did chapter two.
Oh, we were gonna do three andfour.
Here's the thing we're gonnatalk about all the part one,
like we're gonna knock that out.
Yeah.
Because it is a, is a.
How do you say itscientifically?
A bit fucking repetitive.
yeah,
like your brain, you imagining doing things is
equivalent to actually doingthem.
there is scientific research,that talks about the power of
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visualizing.
and there God bless you.
Excuse me.
there's some, there are somegood, There are some good
scientific papers that will backthat up.
so if you visualize yourselfplaying, at a high level, then
you are more likely to play at ahigh level.
So the book talks aboutovercoming, overcoming your
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environment, your.
Your body, the overcoming time,these are the things that are
keeping you from focusing onthat one string out in the
quantum, space that is your bestlife.
So the illusion that everythinghas to happen with your body,
the illusion that your.
Your body has to be the one thatcontrols everything.
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When in reality what happens isyour brain releases chemicals,
your body reacts to thosechemicals, your body gets to be
dependent on those chemicals,and pretty soon you're just
stuck in the same shit you'vebeen doing because you dumb ass
body is like a drug addict whocan't get out of its own way.
Even though you can see thestring out there You can see a
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possible future where your lifeisn't the same as it's always
been, and it's possible tochange that, but you can't
continue to live in that samebody with those same chemicals
and that same dependency.
There's also a sticky note.
Sarah (35:27):
It was the one thing I like that I read to change is to
think greater than we feel.
Chris (35:33):
And that's the whole point of part one is to say that
the reason you're stuck isbecause of the, the reaction
between your brain, thechemicals, and the way your body
reacts to the chemicals that getreleased in your brain and the
way that those chemicals insideyour body impact your cells.
And he gets into like geneticexpression.
(35:55):
And I thought that was a cooldiscussion.
Because it isn't so much aboutcuring cancer.
It is creating a.
For me, it's not about curingcancer, like he's convinced that
you can do it if you're in therate, if you're dedicated
enough.
But, a tad skeptical.
What you can do is create ahealthy environment inside of
your body, one that isn't,constantly flooded with stress
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chemicals, which kind of forceyour genes to express disease.
Like a lot of disease states arecaused by emotional reactions in
the body.
Those emotional reactions aretriggered by hormones and
flooding your body with,cortisol, the stress hormone
isn't good for it.
So I can buy into a healthierlifestyle based on less stress.
(36:38):
I have trouble buying into ahealthier lifestyle based on
genetic expression of,particular genes.
I'm sure there's some scientificbasis to it, but it sounds like
a lot of, hocus pocus to.
I'm still in.
I'm on board.
Uhhuh, I'm all for creating ahealthier environment inside one
that isn't stressed out all thegoddamn time.
Sarah (36:55):
Yeah, I'm digging it.
I'm digging it just like I'vedug the other books, like I like
the concept of it.
it's a hundred and some pages sofar that could have been, I'm
just that.
Chris (37:03):
Five sentences.
Right?
Sarah (37:06):
And that's what irritated with like I am annoyed is it
mind or body?
But the body is the mind.
The mind is the body.
Mind is
Chris (37:13):
body.
The chemicals are chemicals.
And you're addicted to thembecause you can't do anything
and you're repeating the house
Sarah (37:19):
because you just keep doing the same shit and you do
the same shit and you do thesame shit.
You'll always feel guiltybecause you've always felt
guilty.
'cause you've lived 20 yearsfeeling guilty.
You always feel like you're dumbbecause you've lived 47 years
feeling like you're dumb.
These are the things thathappen.
Chris (37:33):
even my boy Dr.
Joe gets into, we're gonna talkabout a chicken and egg kind of
thing.
as we visualize what we want tobe, as we visualize the things
that we want our life to be,we're going to start
experiencing that in our brains,which is equivalent to actually
experiencing that success.
And then my question is, if I'mconstantly looking to what's
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going to be, isn't that the samething as being focused on the
future?
Instead of living in the momentwhere all things are possible,
am I not just focused on thestuff I want to happen now.
So I'm curious about how Imaintain a present while
focusing on the future.
And the kind of thing that Icame to is I don't necessarily
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need to focus on the future, Ijust need to understand.
I don't wanna keep doing that.
Like I don't wanna keep wakingorder to a bitter, angry person
Sarah (38:23):
in order to get to the future.
You need to focus on yourpresent.
And I feel like that's what thepart of that's the big part of
it.
That's the meditation, that'show he was talking about the
conscience and the sub, the con.
Yeah.
Subconscious conscious andconscious doesn't sound right
anyway, conscious.
like con shall so we have 5%,only 5% of our thoughts is that
(38:47):
what it is?
Our conscious.
And then 95% of it is just whatwe've trained ourselves in our
unconscious state to think andfeel.
And that's where the meditationcomes from, is that's where
we're trying to pull out.
The conscious, we're trying totake that 5% and make it more
and battle against that 95%.
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And that's being in the moment.
And the more we can do that, themore we can look to the future
and try to be that person.
We can't do that letting the 95%of the unconsciousness rule our
lives.
So we need to use the meditationto build up the consciousness.
Yes,
Chris (39:26):
exactly.
Sarah (39:28):
1700 pages.
Chris (39:30):
it's a long, it's a long book.
It's a long book.
Yeah.
We're getting into the partwhere we can stop thinking about
the body and the, we're gettinginto the good part where I get a
little bit body in the mind.
Money.
Sarah (39:39):
Money in my mind.
Money on my mind.
That's what it was.
I was trying to think why, whenI say body is the mind is the
body.
I was trying to think of whatsong that was.
Snoop.
That's what it was.
Chris (39:50):
That's what it was.
Okay.
And I think it goes back tobeing able to recognize a
thought.
And once you can recognize athought, then you can say, oh,
that's a past thought.
That is just a, yeah.
Thank you for reminding me thatI would really like to eat a
snack now.
'cause that's always what I'vedone when I'm stressed.
And, thank you brain for tryingto pull me back into the walking
(40:13):
like ghost-like through my lifeof getting up, brushing my
teeth, sitting down at thecomputer.
Thank you meditation for givingme that.
One second pause where I can golike, Nope, I'm sorry.
we're not that person anymore.
And I think he even talked inone of the chapters about being,
learning how to drive.
And I think we, I was like, ohmy God.
Yeah.
(40:33):
We're me and Dr.
Joe.
We are on the, we're on the samewavelength.
Yeah.
same process.
Like the more that we can workon being here now, the more we
can recognize the bad thingsfrom before and the more we can
channel, the energy and thethings that we.
Would like to happen into goingover positive things in our
(40:53):
head.
Sarah (40:54):
And I do would like to say how crazy I think it is that
a year ago before I did anymeditation whatsoever,'cause I'm
still not like professional.
I'm a daily ish right?
Meditator.
But just the little I've doneand the little I know about it,
I'm still amazed that's what ittook to get me to realize.
About like the thoughts thatwere going on and the fact that
(41:15):
I was constantly living in thepast or in the future and not
really focusing at all on thepresent and what was going on.
It's still amazing to me.
Like 46 years of my life, Inever realized how this was
working.
Chris (41:26):
I know.
It's wild.
It is wild.
On the drive back listening tothis book and he starts talking
about, And this is in part two,so I'll just give you a little
bit of a preview.
He starts talking about how youare constantly in survival mode.
Like you're either stressed outabout shit that happened in the
past, or you're so super worriedabout what's gonna happen in the
future, right?
And a lot of it resonated.
(41:48):
I.
So much like I got a littleemotional on the car ride home
because I constantly live in astate of I gotta do X, Y, and Z,
or something's gonna get fuckedup.
I gotta like all of my, like mythoughts don't tend to go
backwards.
They tend to go so much.
Forward, I'm gonna look like anidiot.
I'm gonna, I just, I gotta get18 things done and if I don't,
(42:11):
then something bad's gonnahappen.
all of my thoughts are aboutshit that's gonna happen in the
future and it's gonna be fineagain, if you mix us together,
Sarah (42:18):
we would just make a whole person, I think'cause most
of mine are, if I wouldn't havefucking done that, wonder where
I'd be now.
If we wouldn't have sold thathouse, wonder how much money we
would've now.
Nope.
We wouldn't have built thishouse, we wouldn't be in this
predicament.
Now
Chris (42:33):
I'm like, what happens if I send that email and everyone
finds out I'm an idiot?
yeah, I hit send and
Sarah (42:39):
then
Chris (42:39):
do that.
Like all of my stress is justpreventative.
I'm like, I gotta, Oh my God.
It's gonna be, it's gonna be abit, some something.
So it's gonna be like,interesting to, to walk the line
between living so much in thefuture and pulling that back to
the right now without Thinking,alright, if I'm gonna be like
somebody, and he talks a lotabout being somebody existing in
(43:01):
some time doing something andhe's you have to focus on being
nobody.
I was like, I don't think I can.
I like being be nobody.
don't think I can be nobody.
He's he doesn't mean it likethat.
What he means is somebody, andI'm like, what a, what am I if
I'm not somebody?
This is a green dick.
Those are just les.
it has
Sarah (43:21):
baby powder in between its balls.
Chris (43:23):
Of course it does.
'cause that prevents, bat wingschafing.
We talked about that.
Go ahead.
Anyway, that was it.
I am gonna be, I'm gonna besuper interested to see how much
of future, I'm gonna be able tolet go and just be like, all
right, live here.
Think about the things that needto be done, get that stuff done.
Don't worry, so much about what.
(43:45):
What's going to happen intomorrow?
Don't worry so much about howsomebody is gonna judge your
email.
Sarah (43:52):
Yeah, and I definitely do worry about the future as well.
I worry about the past too, butYeah.
But
Chris (43:57):
Key takeaways.
Key takeaways.
Your, again, it goes back toyour thoughts are powerful.
Like when you're thinking abouthaving those emotions, when
you're remembering what it waslike to get up in front of
everyone and suck.
When you're thinking about whatit's like to send an email and
have people respond poorly toit, then you are, you're
creating that cycle again.
So instead of thinking aboutthat, let's train ourselves to
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have a heartbeat and being like,Hey, thought thank you.
Off you go.
I'm not gonna get sucked intothat whole thing.
You're not your environment.
So again, we come back to you'renot the, outer world.
so you are not a constantreaction to things that are
happening around you all thetime.
So I think what he is getting atthere is that, stuff's gonna
happen and you're gonna have totake your little heartbeat and
(44:41):
be like, oh, okay.
I have choices about how I reactand if I'm living in the
present, then I can pick it andI don't have to just do the
thing that I would have alwaysdone.
I get to choose my string now.
So that's cool.
Your body memorizes youremotions again, the body is the
mind money on my mind.
(45:02):
And time is not linear intransformation is the one where
I'm like, yeah, sure.
Feels linear.
The future exists as apossibility in the now.
So the, it's like having all ofyour strings out there and
focusing your energy on one,because that's how quantum
mechanics works.
So meditation is the accesspoint.
(45:23):
So next week we're gonna starttalking about part two and we're
gonna start talking about thefight or flight and how to get
ourselves out of survival mode.
'cause that's really whereyou're gonna.
Find the way to not live in thebody time or environment.
That's where you're gonna beable to find, that zen state,
the flow as he calls it.
Sarah (45:44):
Can you not listen to that and we can listen to the
next part of this together onour trip down to Raleigh next
week.
Chris (45:51):
Yes.
And we can
Sarah (45:52):
laugh and make fun of it together.
Chris (45:53):
That would be amazing.
Sarah (45:55):
I'm,
Chris (45:55):
yes, I'm in a hundred percent.
I love it.
So next
Sarah (45:58):
week we'll be recording from the road.
Chris (46:01):
on the road again.
Sarah (46:02):
Just can't wait to get on the
Chris (46:04):
road again.
Road again.
I'm already planning where we'reeating.
Sarah (46:07):
When are we?
I'll, we can talk about thatwhen we're not recording.
okay.
I think that's it.
Are you done?
Chris (46:12):
Yeah, I think those are Okay.
That's, that's what I learnedon, eight hours of audio
listening is that, I like it.
Your thoughts are powerful.
Sarah (46:20):
I did forget to mention little thing, I did little
something I did.
I purchased my first how tobecome a coach lesson course.
Chris (46:29):
Oh my God.
We're gonna be so rich.
Yeah.
I'm, that's so nice.
I'm so glad that you're taking astep in a direction that could
be positive for you.
Yeah.
So I'm, please make money so wecan all quit our jobs.
Sarah (46:41):
Taking a coaching course, it's like I'm not getting
certified.
'cause to get certified it costslike a lot, like I have to make
money before I can getcertified, so this was a lot
cheaper.
Chris (46:50):
Listen, we'll get some recent college grads and coach
them.
Sarah (46:54):
The good news is she basically said right off the
bat, listen, I wasted so muchmoney getting certified and
doing all this shit and itwasn't necessary.
And I love the fact that yousay, we'll get recent grads,
because I feel like that's whatI want to do.
I want to coach like that agegroup because I feel like that's
where I did the most damage inmy life.
And I feel like that's where, Icould have used a little bit of
(47:15):
help.
Chris (47:16):
We'll just focus on that group.
We'll build you up a following.
Yeah,
Sarah (47:20):
so anyway, so there's that.
And yeah, next week we'll berecording from the road, so I'm
sure we will have some stories.
We'll tell you about all thefood that we're eating.
Yeah.
Alright.
We don't have a sign off yet, solove you.
Bye.
Chris (47:32):
stay.
Stay.
Alright.
Sarah (47:33):
Are you okay?
Jesus.
Chris (47:36):
Shut up, Sarah.
Sarah (47:37):
All right.
love you.
Bye.
That's how we
Chris (47:38):
sign off.
I just sniffle.
Sarah (47:41):
Bye fuckers.
Chris (47:42):
Love you.
Bye.
Sarah (47:44):
Love you, bye.
Welcome to The Mental Funny Bone, a podcast of where
mental health meets humor,heart, and a healthy dose of
laughter.
We're here to talk about thetough stuff, laugh about the
awkward stuff, and remind youand ourselves that it's okay to
not be okay.
So settle in, take a breath, andlet's normalize the mess, one
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I am Sarah,
Chris (00:22):
I'm Christine, and my job is to remind you that no one on
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We are here to entertain you.
We are here to be your friend,Uhhuh, and try to kick you in
the butt to be a better person.
So you should probably talk to atherapist if you're listening to
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(00:42):
Just saying,
Sarah (00:43):
there's lots of reasons.
Roy Kent actually was justtalking about therapy.
If you hear my husband laughingin the background, he's watching
the Roy Kent standup comedy.
His real name is BrettGoldstein.
Apparently he has a comedyspecial.
Oh, there he is.
So he was just talking about theuse of the word cunt.
I like, wow, I'm sad, I'mmissing it.
And then something happenedreally funny after I closed the
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door'cause Noah was laughingvery hysterically.
So now I'm gonna have to rewindand see what I missed.
Chris (01:08):
Oh my God, I love it so much.
But anyway,
Sarah (01:11):
yeah, therapy is great.
If you need any resources, checkout our show notes.
And of course, if you are inneed a nine, eight, eight on
your mobile telephone, give thema call and they will answer and
talk to you or email us becauseI think that everybody is
forgotten about our email.
I'm not sure it's working.
So my request is for somebody.
Chris (01:31):
Other
Sarah (01:32):
than myself.
Send an email to gassergirls@gmail.com.
That would be super, supergreat.
Chris (01:40):
Yeah.
it's just girls, like regulargirl.
there's no l there's an L,there's no UZ,
Sarah (01:45):
there's Z,
Chris (01:46):
there's no Z.
It's just a and a Gasser is justlike it sounds, faster with a G.
So in, in case you were havingtrouble, are you gonna crunch
that penis?
Why?
I wish merely a sound medium.
'cause people are gonna get tohear you eating that dick candy.
And it was
Sarah (02:04):
pink.
Chris (02:05):
They're gonna miss out on, on.
You know you opening up yourmouth and showing us the dick.
Oh no.
The dick fell out of my mouth.
Oh no.
The
Sarah (02:13):
dick fell outta my mouth and now it's on the floor.
Don't eat dicks off the floor.
Dick stained the floor.
What?
Candy.
Shit.
Candy shit's gonna be all overthe
Chris (02:21):
floor now.
Oh, you suck the color off thatone too.
I
Sarah (02:24):
did, and then it flipped outta my mouth.
Chris (02:26):
You need bigger
Sarah (02:27):
It was.
It was a floppy one.
Chris (02:29):
If it's falling at it, can we just
Sarah (02:30):
talk about the candy dicks for the whole entire
episode?
'cause I feel like we can endthe episode now and I'm happy
done.
What color should I put in mymouth now?
Orange, pink, blue, yellow orgreen?
Chris (02:42):
You have blue.
Did you say blue?
Because I'm thinking like tinylittle stuff.
Box penis.
Sarah (02:47):
Or blue balls.
Chris (02:48):
Okay.
That's enough.
That's enough.
So I, I drove to Philadelphiayesterday and I went to see a
client of mine who I had talkedto at some point, and she was
like, oh yeah, I remember you.
You're the let them girl.
And I was like.
Sarah (03:03):
The girl who hates led them.
Chris (03:05):
I don't hate it.
I don't hate it, but like atthis point, where did you go?
What happened?
So there I was in Philadelphiatalking to this client that I
had obviously talked to while wewere starting led them and I was
all into it.
and they were like, oh yeah, Iread the book, so thank you for
your recommendation.
I'm like, You made it furtherthan I did.
(03:25):
You made it further than I did.
I find her tone condescendingand she was like, yeah, I did
too, but the book is good.
Sarah (03:31):
I was like, yeah, like the overall concept of the book
is good,
Chris (03:34):
right?
Yeah.
I was like, that's fine.
It's fine.
Like I'm glad you got somethingout of it.
Now if you really wanna get intothat stuff.
I have five other books that youwill like better.
Yeah.
Here's my card.
There it is.
Also just one other note aboutthat meeting.
I walk in and it was, I was hotand I was in the car and I got a
(03:56):
late, you're gonna be surprisedI got a bit of a late start and
Sarah (04:00):
turns out I'm very surprised I was muted'cause I'm
trying to chew on this dick.
'cause Don don't want to
Chris (04:05):
chew on'em.
Sarah (04:07):
In my mouth anymore.
Chris (04:08):
Understandable.
'cause you're married.
It's making
Sarah (04:10):
me uncomfortable
Chris (04:11):
again.
I am.
Becca is the child of one of myfriends from college.
Sarah (04:15):
Yeah.
But she's 23, 22.
Yeah.
So I know she doesn't, she'sgraduating college in eight
days.
Chris (04:23):
She doesn't understand any of this.
Somehow Mom will explain it.
Sarah (04:27):
I'm sorry.
So you were sweating and late.
I feel like this is your right.
Normal state of being.
Chris (04:33):
right
Sarah (04:33):
here.
I'm sweating late on.
Chris (04:35):
I was like, oh my God.
What are we doing?
Do we start the meeting Sweatyand I late And, my boy Lucas.
Lucas, what's up?
he loves it when he is on thepodcast.
Sarah (04:44):
Oh, that's good.
Shout out Lucas.
Chris (04:45):
He was like, do you wanna show up early?
And, we can go over the slides.
And I was like, yeah.
Does he not know you?
not that
Sarah (04:52):
I feel like you guys have known each other for a while.
Chris (04:54):
I, it probably should have come up.
Hey, I'm gonna be late all thetime.
Everywhere.
Sarah (04:59):
Yeah.
I don't know why he thoughtthat.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Chris (05:02):
Anyway, so I'm texting him while I'm on the turnpike
and I'm like, Hey, got a littlebit of a late start.
And then I had to pull overbecause I had to send an email.
And there is one on single spoton the Pennsylvania turnpike
that does not have reliable cellservice.
And it is the spot, like theexit that I pulled off also.
Sarah (05:20):
Yeah.
Chris (05:21):
There's one gas station and that's it for a thousand
miles.
Yes.
On the turnpike, I was like, ah.
Sarah (05:29):
We found this out too.
Chris (05:31):
Here's where I die.
Here is where all of the TrueCrime podcast lessons come into
play.
And someone is gonna say, hersmile just lit up a room.
Sarah (05:41):
No, no one's ever gonna say that.
I.
Chris (05:43):
That got late.
I'm gonna make sure of
Sarah (05:44):
it.
Yeah.
You know what?
If she wouldn't have been light,it didn't light up, she wouldn't
be dead up a room
Chris (05:48):
because she was never there.
Because she wasn't fuckingthere.
She fucking there.
Oh God.
Yeah.
Anyway, so I'm all sweaty anddiscombobulated and I'm like,
I've been in the car for eighthours, like one of my shirts up
way high in the back, liketrying to wearing dress pants.
But I'm wearing like a, is
Sarah (06:03):
this dress pants up to here?
Chris (06:04):
Dress pants.
Like one of the legs is over myshoulder.
I'm like, I don't know what'shappening.
but I'm wearing like a shortsleeve shirt.
It was hot.
And I forgot that I have a gianttattoo on my arm.
I Oh yeah, you're new tady.
Sarah (06:15):
Can I get a tattoo next week?
Can we really get a tattoo nextweek?
Chris (06:19):
Yes.
Yes.
We'll go to the, we'll go to thesame, we'll go to the same place
by the coffee shop.
We'll get pretentious coffee andthen we'll go get pretentious
tattoos.
Sarah (06:27):
I'm in.
Okay, go ahead.
Gets
Chris (06:29):
jealous back.
Sad.
Anyway, so I got, she has tograduate.
Got this guy.
Yeah.
She's very focused.
Her mom would like her tograduate, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Sarah (06:37):
sorry, Becca.
Next year you can come with us.
Chris (06:40):
so I walk in and I forget completely that I am a
motorcycle, chick.
Now, and I don't put my littlesweater on and I'm sitting down
and I'm like, I should, what doI just keep my hand under the
table and then I look over.
You think that this
Sarah (06:54):
is a, everybody in that room has tattoos on their body.
Chris (06:57):
Because I look over, particularly at my counterpart,
like the data management guy onthe other side.
Yeah.
And he's got a, he's got a snake
Sarah (07:05):
Yeah.
Chris (07:06):
On
Sarah (07:07):
his neck, crawling up his neck.
Yeah.
And
Chris (07:08):
I was like, it was like stepbrothers, yeah.
He just become best friends.
I think we did.
Sarah (07:14):
I mean it literally though, there's, you have
better, like you are more of ademon if you don't have the
tattoos now.
Chris (07:20):
What is wrong with you?
Why?
Why are you just not confident?
Like you can't figure out whatyou like, what's wrong with you?
Yeah.
So it was like, and it was like10 minutes of, holy shit, I'm
gonna, I'm gonna get fired.
And then thinking, which, don'tbe dumb.
Don't be dumb, Christie.
Yeah.
Don't be dumb.
Make friends with the neck.
We're gonna start a club now.
Yeah.
My, my boy Mike, he's got twocats named Luke and Leia.
Sarah (07:43):
Oh, wow.
I love him.
Chris (07:44):
I was like, we are gonna start a club like nerd tattoos.
Sarah (07:47):
Snake.
He's oh, have a light, havesnakes around our,
Chris (07:50):
I was like, where he is?
A light
Sarah (07:51):
saber tattooed.
Where's, I don't wanna know.
I do not wanna know where he'sgot the light saber tattooed.
Chris (07:57):
He said, I can't show you that one.
And I was like, we've talked
Sarah (07:59):
enough about the Dicks.
Chris (08:01):
Every fucking episode is about some kind of penis,
Sarah (08:03):
I feel like.
And in a work environment, youshould never mention the tattoo
that you can't show to someone.
I'm just saying because I'veactually been in a conversation
or been privy to a conversationwhere things were mentioned that
should not have been mentionedby certain people or anybody
ever about tattoos at a workdinner.
(08:24):
And it ended with, yeah, youcan't, I can't show you those
ones.
Chris (08:28):
You gotta be,
Sarah (08:29):
you gotta be careful.
No, it's no good.
It's no good.
Chris (08:32):
Also, the work dinner is hard to manage.
Like you have to be socialenough to have a drink, but then
you can't have nine because you,and that's where I
feel,
that's where I
fail.
Falling around like it, and yeah, it gets to be a point
where like all the boring peopleleave and then you can have nine
drinks.
that's, no, I have
Sarah (08:50):
nine drinks before they leave.
Without a doubt.
I think it, it's just, who's thegirl that drinks all the Miller
Lights?
That's what are you?
Chris (08:57):
That's me.
Are you Canada and you'redrinking the Miller Light?
Is it import beer there?
I bet they tax the fuck.
I'm not paying
Sarah (09:02):
for it.
Chris (09:03):
Fuck yeah.
Yeah,
Sarah (09:04):
I don't pay for it.
I don't fucking care.
if anything, it's like I, Ishould be embarrassed, but I'm
not like, I apologize for it.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
And no, I don't want a glass.
I just wanna drink it outta thebottle.
Chris (09:14):
Do you have, do you have a dirty can?
I could have instead?
Sarah (09:18):
It feels wrong if it's in a glass.
Like I just can't
Chris (09:21):
What kind of glass?
Glass?
Yeah.
It feels wrong.
Sarah (09:22):
And I have a lot of trouble still not tapping the
top of somebody else's bottle.
You know what I speak of?
Chris (09:30):
No.
Sarah (09:31):
That happened to me at a work event.
Yeah.
I chipped, I did tooth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Chipped
Chris (09:36):
a tooth.
Becca, do you know about this?
You can just shake your head.
No.
Oh.
'cause kids are so nice today.
This is the problem with thisgeneration.
They're just so fucking nice toeach other.
Sarah (09:45):
This is it.
Chris (09:45):
No, Becca.
Imagine you're standing at a barand you're holding a glass
bottle of beer just like anormal person taking some sips
of it, and your friend.
In quotes, my sister comes overand takes her glass beer bottle
and bops the top of yours.
You know what happens when it,it gets real foamy because
you've forced air down into it,and now the other person has to
(10:07):
get that thing up to their lipsand drink it before it goes
everywhere, essentially.
I was really good at it.
You have forced someone to chugtheir beer or get it all over
them and the people or chip
Sarah (10:17):
a tooth.
whatever,
Chris (10:19):
I was struggling the one day and I tried to get it and I
chipped my front tooth.
Sarah (10:24):
I'm not sure why you never punched me in the face for
some of the shit that I did toyou, but I had have told you the
story at a work function.
It was our Christmas story.
We went, did you do bowling?
Christmas story?
The Christmas story?
Yes.
Our Christmas vacation.
No.
Party.
Chris (10:40):
Party what?
Sarah (10:41):
In my defense, it was at a bowling alley, but I mean it
was like the main event.
Bowling alley, like fancybowling.
Anyway, I had, I stop it, I hadtwo beers, so I think I was
doing something with this handand I had a beer here, and then
I had the neck of another beerhere.
Oh God.
And
my buddy Rafa came over.
He's a young kid.
(11:02):
He tapped this one.
And as I was going to drink it,my other friend Patrick, who is
now like one below the.
Biggest guy at our company.
I hear Patrick go, no.
And I did this and this one justspilled all over my face.
I wish if you're not watchingYouTube here, like it's hard.
But yeah, it just, beer wenteverywhere.
Chris (11:21):
she had them in a claw.
Yeah.
I was calling, one of them isfoamy and the other one isn't,
and she just, she went to clockbecause I'm good at that.
Sarah (11:29):
cause I'm good at that.
'cause I'm not gonna let it getall over me.
I'm good at the target.
Yeah.
You can't
Chris (11:32):
get messy.
Can't get messy.
Sarah (11:33):
yeah.
Instead I just spilled a wholebeer on my face and what could I
do but laugh and be like, wow,Karma's a bitch.
played Rafa well played.
Chris (11:41):
Just for all those times you had gone around the bar, it
slipped for your eyes.
I was also wearing
Sarah (11:45):
a t-shirt that said grab your balls
Chris (11:48):
at the bowling alley.
No, I like it.
My team, I like it.
Our team, we
Sarah (11:51):
all had, I made them for everybody.
For our little inside salesteam.
Chris (11:56):
Oh my God, you're so extra.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
What else?
What else has been going on?
Liv is taking finals.
Becky, you can identify.
So she has been, she's beengiving me like almost hourly
updates on how that's going.
Yeah, she's doing great.
She's I hear music off in thedistance and I wanna go see what
that's about, but I have a finaltomorrow.
I'm like, why don't you just gosee what the music's about?
(12:16):
That's
Sarah (12:16):
how it always went bad for me.
Actually, I never even tried, Inever even tried to not go hear
the music.
Chris (12:22):
she was like, I'm gonna go back to the room.
I'm gonna pick up Mary.
and then we're going to, andhere's the thing, she's we have
the L Doc stuff.
And I was like, you have what?
She's L Doc.
I was like, but LDOC is the lastday of Class L Doc, God.
Just say last
Sarah (12:40):
day of class, for fuck's
Chris (12:41):
sake.
I was like, oh, is this is justdesigned to make old people feel
bad.
Sarah (12:45):
It is.
it's like fucking contracts.
Lawyers just have to put in allthese fucking words that nobody
can fucking pronounce so theyfucking feel better about
themselves.
Chris (12:53):
Yeah, I was like, L.
Yeah, go have your L Doccelebrations.
She's I had two shots and I washungover the next day.
I was like, they were
Sarah (13:01):
bad shots.
Chris (13:02):
I was like, what were you dread to gasoline?
Don't do that.
Yeah,
Sarah (13:06):
it was a bad,
Chris (13:07):
did I tell you about my trip to West Virginia yet?
'cause I don't think I did.
Sarah (13:12):
I don't.
Chris (13:13):
On this podcast, we took the side-by-sides back to West
Virginia.
So if you remember, decades ago,David and I bought a really
expensive toy to run around inthe woods.
So we went to the Hatfield andMcCoy Trail again in, Southern
West Virginia.
beautiful country.
Very picturesque.
I bought a hot dog off of a ladyin the woods.
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Who had a shack where she wasselling hot dogs.
and there was like a wooden walland a wooden bar, and they were
just in the woods and, At thebar, she had a cooler full of,
full of beer so you could stepon belly up there and, order a
hot dog.
And they had two kind.
They had a New York hot dog thatnobody was getting.
(13:54):
And then they had a WestVirginia hot dog that was like
just covered in onions.
I don't know why.
It seems strange to me.
Uhhuh.
I feel like I've spent enoughtime in West Virginia to be
like, I don't think that's aWest Virginia dog.
But
Sarah (14:05):
does that mean they, do they all smell like onions?
I don't know.
Chris (14:07):
I don't know.
and the one guy who was with us,has this whispered conversation
with said lady in the woods.
Okay.
And then he leaves and he comesback and, he would, and then he
has a whispered conversationwith David, and I was like.
I'm like, I don't know whathappens back there.
He's no, come with me.
And I was like, do you reallywant me to come with you if if
(14:28):
you're gonna, I don't wanna bethere.
No.
If she's gonna, if there's gonna be not candy,
anyway, so we go with the nicelady to the other trailer that's
on the property, and she sellsus a mason jar full of
moonshine.
Sarah (14:44):
Okay.
Yeah.
Chris (14:45):
I was like, yeah, I feel like this is appropriate
Sarah (14:46):
and normal.
Okay.
Chris (14:47):
And then she was telling us about her dog, and she said,
I was like, oh, what's his name?
She, he was like a little
Sarah (14:53):
moonshine.
Chris (14:54):
no.
She said his name is DOG.
I was like, DOG, is he Japanese?
No, he isn't Japanese.
Sarah (15:00):
No, he's a dog.
the dog's name is
Chris (15:03):
DOGD, period.
O period.
G Period.
And the way like the SouthernWest Virginia Acts accent made
it sound like D-O-G-D-O-G-D-O-G.
Sarah (15:12):
I was like, that's what it sounds like.
Like what the fuck?
When you call your dog, DOG.
what do you go DOG come here.
I'm offended by this dog name.
Chris (15:22):
It was marvelous.
she had adopted him and therewas a whole tragic country song
about why she had to adopt him.
That I can't remember.
'cause I've wiped, I tookKleenex and just wiped that
story right from my brain'causeI'm not equipped to handle that.
her brother's in thepenitentiary for selling the
moonshine.
I was like, I know that was Soshe just keeping the
Sarah (15:42):
tradition going.
Chris (15:43):
someone has to take care of, them.
Yeah,
Sarah (15:46):
it's way more important to be locking up the moonshiners
than.
pedophiles and shit was,
Chris (15:50):
thats a crime.
It was like, like fuckingamazing me.
Did Rosco pee Coltrane come andarrest him?
He's in the penitent with BonHog involved.
So
Sarah (15:58):
he's taking up, he's taking up a space in the jail.
Which, from what I know, all ofthem are overcrowded.
Chris (16:04):
No.
and we're
Sarah (16:04):
letting this guy have that space.
Chris (16:07):
'cause he sold, some chocolate flavored, not even
alcohol, I'm guessing, becausewe put that shit in the freezer
and it froze.
I was like, I feel like DOGripped me off.
I feel like someone, yeah,
Sarah (16:18):
that shit shouldn't freeze.
Chris (16:19):
I'm like, it tastes like, creamsicle gasoline.
And I don't know why it wouldfreeze, because also I, so maybe
Sarah (16:26):
that's why he's in jail.
'cause he is not, because he isselling people gasoline, but
he's bad at it.
that's what it is.
Chris (16:31):
Like I'm fairly certain we lost a few brain cells on
that whole trip.
Sarah (16:35):
Actually.
Homicide,
Chris (16:37):
it's.
Six years though, so it seemslike a bargain.
Shh.
Sarah (16:40):
O-G-D-O-G-I
Chris (16:42):
am constantly surprised by the difference in accents.
Like when I talk Oh yeah.
And when somebody from anotherstate talks, I was like, I feel,
or
Sarah (16:52):
a real yer.
Chris (16:54):
Same.
Same.
I'm like, wow.
Is it even hi Rosemary, nice tosee you on the podcast.
Yeah.
So that was eye-opening.
I was, and then we were with agroup of people and the group of
people included two Britney's.
Two Britney's, and the Britney'shad, how did they
Sarah (17:10):
end?
What did their names end with?
Chris (17:14):
I did ask, I feel like that's
Sarah (17:14):
how you have to tell'em apart.
Chris (17:16):
No, no one had blonde hair.
Is it I, is it
Sarah (17:18):
two E's?
Is it a y?
Is it an dark hair?
It, ie.
Chris (17:22):
1 1, 1 was called Sippy Cup.
That was her nickname, sippyCup.
loved them.
They were so much fun and acompletely different generation
of people, like completelydifferent generation of people.
Like they show up and I'm like apassenger princess in the side
by side.
Like I just sit there andsomebody fetches me drinks and
snacks.
That's really all I'm lookingfor.
(17:43):
Somebody makes sure I don't gettoo muddy, but muddy enough to
look like I'm having fun, butnot, so yeah, there's a balance.
Uncomfortable.
There's a balance.
somebody takes care of me in theside by side.
These two young ladies showed upin their own side by side and it
is the exact same hot pink coloras my fingernails.
Sarah (17:58):
I would love that.
Chris (17:59):
I know.
I'm so jealous.
I was like, you know who wouldreally
Sarah (18:02):
love that, Heather?
Chris (18:05):
Yes.
I thought of her immediately.
I thought of her immediate.
She would fucking immediately
Sarah (18:09):
dig the shit outta that
Chris (18:11):
Sarah's friend Heather.
Yeah.
She's like a, she's a countrygirl.
Sarah (18:14):
She loves the outdoor lot stuff.
They do the side by side stuffand she loves, pink,
Chris (18:20):
right?
they took the metal parts andthey took them to the, to the
metal.
Painting guy.
The Yeah.
the powder coat.
They powder coated it.
Powder coat is what it's called.
And then the younger Britneysippy cup, if you will, brings
out a beer bong.
And I was like, I'm on the wrongtrip.
No, thank you.
I made a wrong turn.
You want one?
I was like, no, I'm good.
They're like, we're just gonnahave two before we get back in
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the buggy.
I'm like, you have to stilldrive it.
Sarah (18:44):
that's bad for you.
Chris (18:45):
Because it's pink.
and I have never, I have, butI've always surprised by the
fact that dudes will react thesame way to a pretty girl in an
unexpected situation by nearlyripping their heads off, like
trying to turn their head tolook like you're going down the
trail.
It's usually and I'm wearinglike a winter coat.
It's, and the one, it's chili,like the one Brittany has on
(19:08):
just a jog, a bra and a flannel.
I was like, yeah.
Again, different generation.
Rocket.
If you got it, I'm all for it.
I'm cold.
So every guy that would drivepast and it's 98% guys,
everybody would slow down andlook and slow down and look and
yeah, I was like, and the oneBrittany was like, I'm not
(19:28):
trying to get the attention andI don't like it.
I was like, you're a blonde girlin a hot pink, razor.
Sarah (19:35):
Yeah, you know what, Brittany?
Suck a dick.
Chris (19:38):
I was like, you, I bet you're
Sarah (19:39):
wonderful, but you're fucking lying.
Please don't lie.
I was like,
Chris (19:42):
I love the attention.
And if I was 20 years younger, Iwould definitely do exactly
that.
Sarah (19:48):
Yeah.
I.
Chris (19:49):
I'm like, we're all friends here.
It's cool.
Sarah (19:51):
It's fine.
But
Chris (19:52):
yeah, I was like, that guy almost fell off a whole
thing.
Yeah.
that pause was because I raisedmy arm up and saw a bat wing
like I used to fight with on mygrandmother.
Sarah (20:00):
You remember what bat wings are, right?
We talked, I know we talkedabout this on an episode.
Jesus,
Chris (20:06):
I totally forgot about bat wings.
Sarah (20:08):
Yeah.
it's
Chris (20:08):
when your, your nut sack gets sweaty.
Sarah (20:12):
not yours.
Up to the side of your leg.
Chris (20:14):
Not yours.
Not yours.
You don't,
Sarah (20:16):
you gotta stretch it.
You gotta stretch out to get ridof it.
To get'em un get'em separatedand like bat wings.
Look at Becca's face.
Yeah.
Chris (20:23):
I can't believe we, like Boise either.
Surprises me every dime.
Shit.
All right.
So that was my West Virginiastory.
Like still just such good, nicepeople.
And it was so fun and.
I am constantly surprised by thedifference in median income in
different places in the country.
They're the, I don't know, Idon't know what they do for
(20:45):
work.
I, coal mines are stillfunctioning, but like having the
side-by-side and having us comedown there and buy things is
what runs their economy.
It was, I don't know, part of itwas sad.
I'm like, these people, this istheir whole.
They've never been anywhere.
No one new who moves here.
It's just them and their brotherwho's independent and they don't
(21:09):
know anything.
Sarah (21:10):
They don't know anything more and they love it, maybe, or
maybe they just, I don't know.
They just don't have the moneyto do anything else, and that's
just the way it is.
And I,
Chris (21:18):
we were talking to the one guy and they like taxed the
shit on, he rented us the houseand he Sold us our little pass.
You have to have a pass to goride the side by side on the
trail.
And, he said for every, Everydollar that he collects in rent
or whatever, he has to pay a taxon that.
'cause it's for recreation.
so he ends up paying like 12cents, like a 12% tax on every
(21:41):
dollar.
And I would think if you'repaying that much money in taxes,
that there would be like newerschools or like playgrounds
would be
Sarah (21:48):
nicer things.
Chris (21:50):
Like maybe a church that had a roof like.
And yeah, everything is justfalling in.
It would be a great place to goand take pictures.
Sarah (21:57):
maybe Elon should go there and figure out where all
the money's going and fix it.
Chris (22:03):
Something that's, that'll help.
interesting trip.
Loved it.
Really enjoyed that.
That was, it was fun.
And, good.
Rudy commented on my picture andI have to get back to him'cause
we might be going side by sidingand Jeeping together.
Nice.
We'll see.
there's a, there's a forestfestival or forest fairy
festival.
I want it to be a forest fairyfestival so much, but I think
(22:25):
it's just a forest.
Forest.
I don't think it's even a fair,I think it's just a, it's just a
ride through the woods.
Sarah (22:30):
It's just people going into the woods.
Chris (22:32):
Yep.
All right.
I think that's excellent.
That's all the fun news I have.
Do you have other fun news?
Did you do fun things?
Sarah (22:38):
We went to Columbus, Ohio for a soccer tournament.
Chris (22:42):
Did you go to, did you go to the Nike Cup?
Sarah (22:45):
Yes.
Chris (22:46):
Were you in Dublin, Ohio?
Yes.
Yeah.
I sent you guys a
Sarah (22:47):
picture.
I sent a picture on our waythere and I said, on our way,
something like that.
And I said, Liv, I think this isthe tournament where you pulled
that girl's ponytail.
Yeah, and it definitely was.
We weren't at that field, but Irecognized the field like we
were.
We luckily only had to go oneplace for his games.
But yeah, it was fun.
It was fun.
We went to Dave and Buster's onSaturday to celebrate a couple
(23:10):
of the boys their birthdays.
Yay.
So we went to Dave and Bustersand yeah, I got drunk.
Chris (23:15):
it's a soccer tournament.
Were you in the lobby?
What?
What hotel did you stay in?
Here's,
Sarah (23:21):
I don't even know.
I have so many
Chris (23:22):
questions.
Sarah (23:23):
I don't even know.
It was right by Bob Evans.
'cause all I wanted on Saturdaymorning was Bob Evans sausage
gravy.
So the last tournament we wentto in December, I didn't take
beer'cause I thought we'll justbuy beer.
And then it just didn't workout.
We didn't get beer and thenpeople weren't in our hotel,
which.
Nobody did anything.
So this time I was not going tolet that happen.
Chris (23:42):
Oh no.
Sarah (23:42):
I packed enough beer for a week, like on our way there.
I looked at no, and I was like,I think I packed too much beer.
I'm pretty sure like I packed 24beers for each of us.
I'm not sure.
And we weren't getting thereFriday until 10:00 PM So it's
not like we were drinking Fridayand then Saturday we were going
to Dave and Busters.
if anything, we were gonna drinktwo beers at the hotel, but I'll
be damned, we had.
We were ready, I think.
(24:03):
I think combine, we drank maybefive beers.
Chris (24:06):
Is it like when we went to the Hootie and the Blowfish
concert and I all of a suddenthought I needed a case of beer
just for myself?
Sarah (24:12):
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, pretty much.
I was like, I don't know why,but now we have to pack that
cooler back up.
Chris (24:18):
Now I have to lift up this heavy as cooler.
Damnit.
Put it back in the truck.
We tailgated for 15 minutes.
Sarah (24:25):
Yeah.
I was like, ridiculous.
Chris (24:27):
Am I gonna drink a beer a minute?
I might.
Maybe never know.
And then I'll have nineleftover.
Yeah.
Anyway, so yes.
I mean I have been with Davidwhere he is packed a little mini
cooler to take to the field.
Sarah (24:39):
Yeah.
Our games, our game was very,both games, we had 8:00 AM games
both days.
Chris (24:44):
Cute that you think that would stop him?
Sarah (24:46):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, yeah, I did.
I drink water that early in themorning.
Call me crazy.
Chris (24:51):
you do you.
Sarah (24:53):
yeah.
So it was fun.
One scored a goal.
They didn't win.
They won two games, lost one.
And
Chris (24:58):
that's really, they don't
Sarah (24:59):
have any, I love his team.
Team though.
Did, because.
Chris (25:02):
When did they lose?
did they go into, did they gointo like Saturday?
were the parents doing thetournament math at the bar or at
David Buster's?
Were they like, okay, if, thisis why I love,
Sarah (25:13):
this is why I love our parents.
'cause no one gives a fuckbecause everyone's like me and
nobody gives a shit and nobodyelse.
There's nobody coming hard onyour back.
It's great.
Nobody's screaming or yelling.
Chris (25:24):
I feel like you need to explain it to Becca.
The
Sarah (25:26):
tournament we were talking about where Liv pulled
the girl's hair, I drove out to,to hang out with them and watch
Liv play and we're standing andthe parents are loud and they're
yelling and there's a ballcoming down the field and there
the girls.
Running after it.
And they wanted to let her knowthat there was someone, somebody
coming up behind her or someonerunning to her, and so they were
yelling, coming hard on yourback,
Chris (25:49):
coming hard, Lauren on your back,
Sarah (25:51):
coming hard on your back.
Chris (25:53):
And Becca, it was before I was like friends with any of
the moms, and I was like, Yeah.
And then, and then finally likea year and a half later, I was
like, Kelly, I don't think youshould say it like that.
Yeah.
Because at first I thought shewas doing it on purpose, and I
was like, I love her.
And then I realized she didn't.
She didn't know.
No, she didn't know.
She didn't, every time she wouldsay it.
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I would giggle though.
Sarah (26:14):
yeah, giggle.
yeah, so I like our parentsbecause everybody is just chill.
I think in order to get to theplayoffs they needed to 15
goals.
Oh, and the other, one of theother teams had to lose
something like that.
So it was something outrageous,so it didn't really matter.
And we all just, we all, me andmy mom friend Kristen, we talked
(26:36):
about every time a goal wasscored, we were like, all right,
there's only 72 left.
We only need 72 goals sometimes.
At one point it looked like ourboys thought that they might
have a chance because the otherteam was playing on the field
next to us, the one that weneeded to lose, and I looked
over and all of our subs werelike mixed in with that team's
bench and they were watchingthat game.
(26:56):
I.
Chris (26:57):
You guys.
I was like, look at our boys.
What?
Look at those.
What are they doing?
Sarah (27:00):
But yeah.
But yeah, it was a good time.
It was a good time.
I have an aversion to Noah'sdriving well, turns out well.
That
Chris (27:06):
two hour trip to Columbus must have been fun.
Does he not?
Is it,'cause he doesn't turn hisneck anymore.
Sarah (27:11):
Yeah.
that kind of makes things weird.
But he likes to This is the onecar and this is him and we're
going 80.
I know he can hear me right nowtalking about it and he's gonna
listen to this, but it's Iliterally like, and then I have
to say things and then I try todrive and he won't let me.
And I know I'm a better driver.
Chris (27:29):
We always know we're a better driver.
I,
Sarah (27:32):
yeah, but you legitimately are a bad driver.
Chris (27:34):
So is David.
Sarah (27:35):
it's perfect,
Chris (27:36):
but it's, yeah.
Sarah (27:36):
You are a terrible fucking driver.
I
Chris (27:38):
have attention deficit problems.
Sarah (27:41):
You.
You're just a terrible driver.
It has nothing to do withattention deficit when there's a
large fucking rock and you runinto it like, I
Chris (27:49):
didn't hit it.
I just keep running Close.
Doesn't have close.
That's
Sarah (27:51):
not, no.
Chris (27:52):
Listen, we have a book to talk about.
We have a, I know we areavoiding it.
I know you're trying to get outof it.
You
Sarah (27:57):
are the one
Chris (27:58):
who's
Sarah (27:59):
jawing.
Chris (27:59):
I forgot I did so much fun stuff.
Alright, we're gonna get, we'regonna get to the book.
Anything else?
Anything?
Sarah (28:04):
Yeah.
I wanna tell a quick, storyabout our father.
Chris (28:06):
Okay.
Yeah.
Sarah (28:07):
I'm in.
Okay.
It's just a funny little storyabout when we lived in Arizona
and mommy and daddy came out tovisit and we were celebrating
your first anniversary with yourfirst husband.
Oh, yes.
And we had it in the little, itwas the apartment common.
What do you in the, boathouse,what's the name of it?
Boathouse Courthouse.
Courthouse Boathouse.
(28:28):
No, it's not the Courthouse FestFestival House.
I don't know,
Chris (28:32):
like the common area.
I forget what it's
Sarah (28:34):
called.
Yeah, exact.
So anyway, we rented that littleplace or the party room use if
you want the party room.
Party room.
And daddy, we're all having somedrinks.
Daddy goes into the bathroom,which is like a public restroom
and he comes out and I couldhear him and he's saying, Hey
Nita.
Do you see this fancy bathroom?
They have bibs in here and hehad the toilet cover thing.
(28:56):
Toilet seat cover over his
Chris (28:58):
right.
All my friends like, I'm agrownup.
I'm a grownup.
Sarah (29:02):
But immediately, I think everybody loved Daddy before
that, but that was like newpeople.
It was the introduction to Jumboand it was like, yeah, that's my
dot.
And I think he would wore aroundfor a while until.
Mommy ripped it off his neck.
Probably Jumbo.
Jumbo.
Chris (29:17):
And everyone freaking loves him.
All the time.
I don't know, like
Sarah (29:20):
I thought it was really fucking funny.
Chris (29:22):
It is hilarious.
And you got to,'cause they werenew
Sarah (29:24):
then.
Like it's not like they Theywere everywhere.
So I know these are somethingthat have been around your whole
life.
For us, the toilet seat coverswere not around our whole lives.
Like we were expected to justline the seat with toilet paper.
that's what you did.
Chris (29:38):
Or hover.
Sarah (29:39):
I don't hover well.
But anyway, so yeah.
So they were new at the time andmy dad thought it was, and I
can, my favorite part of thisstory is thinking about him in
the bathroom.
I.
Thinking about how he is gonnado it.
Like planning his joke Oh myGod.
And laughing at himself.
'cause I know he did a lot oflaughing at himself in the
(30:00):
bathroom before he came out.
Had I could hear him in his headbeing like, oh, I'm gonna go out
and yell for Nita and show herthis bib
Chris (30:07):
he had and he had to try it on and see how it fits.
Sarah (30:11):
100%.
I could see my pulling it backto make sure it flas properly
Chris (30:15):
in the mirror.
Dear sweet baby Jesus in heaven.
Sarah (30:17):
Yeah.
So I said it was a quick story,but that was, I, that's what I
thought of.
I don't even know what made methink of it.
Maybe it was my use of publicrestrooms this past weekend.
But yeah, so it never ceases toamaze me.
Chris (30:30):
It goes along with the time that your mom and dad came
down to Bethany to, to see meplay during homecoming.
So it's homecoming and we have asoccer game, and the plan was
for Nita and Gemma to come down,watch the game.
give me a high five and then,head on back.
but it's homecoming and there'sa party happening.
There's a tailgating going onafter the soccer game.
(30:53):
So I bebop up there and Mita andJumbo are like, hey.
And for some reason we were atthe Zeta Tent and the Zetas love
jumbo.
Sarah (31:01):
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And
Chris (31:03):
like they adopted him like a puppy.
And like need had to go to work,I think.
And my game was at like 11o'clock in the morning, so they
stay for most of the footballgame that started at one.
We go and get a bite to eat atthe, at Bubba's bison in, we
take along a bunch of Sigmanews.
Like for some reason Jonathanwas there.
(31:26):
And I was gonna say,
Sarah (31:26):
I've heard this story when Jonathan was around.
Chris (31:30):
And like my dad's wearing a hat.
The Sigma News for some reasonhave hats, but they're now,
they're trading like I amcompletely superfluous here.
No one gives a shit if I amthere or not.
Like your mom doesn't care ifI'm there?
Nope.
The Sigma News don't.
The only people that are likehanging out are jumbo and this
group of like 20 something yearold boys.
(31:53):
And then we go back up Tosta.
not in a, like we're gonna hiton you kind of way, but I got
it.
I got it.
This is an elder statesman thatwe have to learn from and he's
telling he That reminds
Sarah (32:04):
me, we have to dumb do an update on the Pope.
Chris (32:06):
Go ahead.
I haven't been keeping up.
I feel like there was a lump.
Okay, so jumbo.
Nita has to call off work'causeat this point Jumbo is into it.
Like he is.
He is at the Zeta house andsomeone asked him if he wants to
buck up for a keg.
And Jumbo is no need to worry,ladies.
I got it covered.
Jumbo buys the cake.
(32:27):
So now he's bought the cake.
He can't very well leave.
Sarah (32:30):
No, Nope.
I'm
Chris (32:30):
taught like I'm ready to go to bed.
Like I'm ready to be done withNita and Jumbo at my sorority,
frankly, because I am going to afraternity and I'm don't wanna
hang out at Zeta.
But now I have to because mydad's bucked up.
He just left his
Sarah (32:43):
ass after.
Chris (32:44):
After that, people are like, Hey, is your dad coming
down?
No.
Sarah (32:48):
Yeah.
Chris (32:50):
Gaster,
Sarah (32:50):
is your dad gonna be here?
Chris (32:52):
I'm here.
And they're like, yeah.
is your dad coming?
God damnit.
Yeah.
More popular than me at all ofmy, on all,
Sarah (32:59):
they came to every one of our soccer games.
It's slippery rock.
the away ones too, like hoursaway, overnight trips.
And they were like the life ofthe party.
And before every trip they, oh,are your parents coming?
Will your parents be there?
Like they would meet us in thelobby.
We're getting on the bus.
Mommy and daddy are getting intheir car.
Chris (33:20):
follow.
Adorable.
Sarah (33:21):
Yeah, adorable.
Wouldn't have any other way.
There were cakes there though.
We didn't have any cakes there.
Chris (33:25):
you guys were a lot
Sarah (33:26):
more serious about things.
Slippery rock and all.
Yeah, and we were in a hotel andRight.
I was 18.
Anyway, let's talk about thisfucking book.
You talk about the book.
I'll just sit here and makesnide comments.
Chris (33:39):
I know we said we were gonna talk about just chapter
two this week, but we are, yeah,we did chapter one
Sarah (33:45):
and two last week.
Chris (33:46):
We did chapter two.
Oh, we were gonna do three andfour.
Here's the thing we're gonnatalk about all the part one,
like we're gonna knock that out.
Yeah.
Because it is a, is a.
How do you say itscientifically?
A bit fucking repetitive.
yeah,
like your brain, you imagining doing things is
equivalent to actually doingthem.
there is scientific research,that talks about the power of
(34:08):
visualizing.
and there God bless you.
Excuse me.
there's some, there are somegood, There are some good
scientific papers that will backthat up.
so if you visualize yourselfplaying, at a high level, then
you are more likely to play at ahigh level.
So the book talks aboutovercoming, overcoming your
(34:28):
environment, your.
Your body, the overcoming time,these are the things that are
keeping you from focusing onthat one string out in the
quantum, space that is your bestlife.
So the illusion that everythinghas to happen with your body,
the illusion that your.
Your body has to be the one thatcontrols everything.
(34:52):
When in reality what happens isyour brain releases chemicals,
your body reacts to thosechemicals, your body gets to be
dependent on those chemicals,and pretty soon you're just
stuck in the same shit you'vebeen doing because you dumb ass
body is like a drug addict whocan't get out of its own way.
Even though you can see thestring out there You can see a
(35:12):
possible future where your lifeisn't the same as it's always
been, and it's possible tochange that, but you can't
continue to live in that samebody with those same chemicals
and that same dependency.
There's also a sticky note.
Sarah (35:27):
It was the one thing I like that I read to change is to
think greater than we feel.
Chris (35:33):
And that's the whole point of part one is to say that
the reason you're stuck isbecause of the, the reaction
between your brain, thechemicals, and the way your body
reacts to the chemicals that getreleased in your brain and the
way that those chemicals insideyour body impact your cells.
And he gets into like geneticexpression.
(35:55):
And I thought that was a cooldiscussion.
Because it isn't so much aboutcuring cancer.
It is creating a.
For me, it's not about curingcancer, like he's convinced that
you can do it if you're in therate, if you're dedicated
enough.
But, a tad skeptical.
What you can do is create ahealthy environment inside of
your body, one that isn't,constantly flooded with stress
(36:18):
chemicals, which kind of forceyour genes to express disease.
Like a lot of disease states arecaused by emotional reactions in
the body.
Those emotional reactions aretriggered by hormones and
flooding your body with,cortisol, the stress hormone
isn't good for it.
So I can buy into a healthierlifestyle based on less stress.
(36:38):
I have trouble buying into ahealthier lifestyle based on
genetic expression of,particular genes.
I'm sure there's some scientificbasis to it, but it sounds like
a lot of, hocus pocus to.
I'm still in.
I'm on board.
Uhhuh, I'm all for creating ahealthier environment inside one
that isn't stressed out all thegoddamn time.
Sarah (36:55):
Yeah, I'm digging it.
I'm digging it just like I'vedug the other books, like I like
the concept of it.
it's a hundred and some pages sofar that could have been, I'm
just that.
Chris (37:03):
Five sentences.
Right?
Sarah (37:06):
And that's what irritated with like I am annoyed is it
mind or body?
But the body is the mind.
The mind is the body.
Mind is
Chris (37:13):
body.
The chemicals are chemicals.
And you're addicted to thembecause you can't do anything
and you're repeating the house
Sarah (37:19):
because you just keep doing the same shit and you do
the same shit and you do thesame shit.
You'll always feel guiltybecause you've always felt
guilty.
'cause you've lived 20 yearsfeeling guilty.
You always feel like you're dumbbecause you've lived 47 years
feeling like you're dumb.
These are the things thathappen.
Chris (37:33):
even my boy Dr.
Joe gets into, we're gonna talkabout a chicken and egg kind of
thing.
as we visualize what we want tobe, as we visualize the things
that we want our life to be,we're going to start
experiencing that in our brains,which is equivalent to actually
experiencing that success.
And then my question is, if I'mconstantly looking to what's
(37:54):
going to be, isn't that the samething as being focused on the
future?
Instead of living in the momentwhere all things are possible,
am I not just focused on thestuff I want to happen now.
So I'm curious about how Imaintain a present while
focusing on the future.
And the kind of thing that Icame to is I don't necessarily
(38:15):
need to focus on the future, Ijust need to understand.
I don't wanna keep doing that.
Like I don't wanna keep wakingorder to a bitter, angry person
Sarah (38:23):
in order to get to the future.
You need to focus on yourpresent.
And I feel like that's what thepart of that's the big part of
it.
That's the meditation, that'show he was talking about the
conscience and the sub, the con.
Yeah.
Subconscious conscious andconscious doesn't sound right
anyway, conscious.
like con shall so we have 5%,only 5% of our thoughts is that
(38:47):
what it is?
Our conscious.
And then 95% of it is just whatwe've trained ourselves in our
unconscious state to think andfeel.
And that's where the meditationcomes from, is that's where
we're trying to pull out.
The conscious, we're trying totake that 5% and make it more
and battle against that 95%.
(39:07):
And that's being in the moment.
And the more we can do that, themore we can look to the future
and try to be that person.
We can't do that letting the 95%of the unconsciousness rule our
lives.
So we need to use the meditationto build up the consciousness.
Yes,
Chris (39:26):
exactly.
Sarah (39:28):
1700 pages.
Chris (39:30):
it's a long, it's a long book.
It's a long book.
Yeah.
We're getting into the partwhere we can stop thinking about
the body and the, we're gettinginto the good part where I get a
little bit body in the mind.
Money.
Sarah (39:39):
Money in my mind.
Money on my mind.
That's what it was.
I was trying to think why, whenI say body is the mind is the
body.
I was trying to think of whatsong that was.
Snoop.
That's what it was.
Chris (39:50):
That's what it was.
Okay.
And I think it goes back tobeing able to recognize a
thought.
And once you can recognize athought, then you can say, oh,
that's a past thought.
That is just a, yeah.
Thank you for reminding me thatI would really like to eat a
snack now.
'cause that's always what I'vedone when I'm stressed.
And, thank you brain for tryingto pull me back into the walking
(40:13):
like ghost-like through my lifeof getting up, brushing my
teeth, sitting down at thecomputer.
Thank you meditation for givingme that.
One second pause where I can golike, Nope, I'm sorry.
we're not that person anymore.
And I think he even talked inone of the chapters about being,
learning how to drive.
And I think we, I was like, ohmy God.
Yeah.
(40:33):
We're me and Dr.
Joe.
We are on the, we're on the samewavelength.
Yeah.
same process.
Like the more that we can workon being here now, the more we
can recognize the bad thingsfrom before and the more we can
channel, the energy and thethings that we.
Would like to happen into goingover positive things in our
(40:53):
head.
Sarah (40:54):
And I do would like to say how crazy I think it is that
a year ago before I did anymeditation whatsoever,'cause I'm
still not like professional.
I'm a daily ish right?
Meditator.
But just the little I've doneand the little I know about it,
I'm still amazed that's what ittook to get me to realize.
About like the thoughts thatwere going on and the fact that
(41:15):
I was constantly living in thepast or in the future and not
really focusing at all on thepresent and what was going on.
It's still amazing to me.
Like 46 years of my life, Inever realized how this was
working.
Chris (41:26):
I know.
It's wild.
It is wild.
On the drive back listening tothis book and he starts talking
about, And this is in part two,so I'll just give you a little
bit of a preview.
He starts talking about how youare constantly in survival mode.
Like you're either stressed outabout shit that happened in the
past, or you're so super worriedabout what's gonna happen in the
future, right?
And a lot of it resonated.
(41:48):
I.
So much like I got a littleemotional on the car ride home
because I constantly live in astate of I gotta do X, Y, and Z,
or something's gonna get fuckedup.
I gotta like all of my, like mythoughts don't tend to go
backwards.
They tend to go so much.
Forward, I'm gonna look like anidiot.
I'm gonna, I just, I gotta get18 things done and if I don't,
(42:11):
then something bad's gonnahappen.
all of my thoughts are aboutshit that's gonna happen in the
future and it's gonna be fineagain, if you mix us together,
Sarah (42:18):
we would just make a whole person, I think'cause most
of mine are, if I wouldn't havefucking done that, wonder where
I'd be now.
If we wouldn't have sold thathouse, wonder how much money we
would've now.
Nope.
We wouldn't have built thishouse, we wouldn't be in this
predicament.
Now
Chris (42:33):
I'm like, what happens if I send that email and everyone
finds out I'm an idiot?
yeah, I hit send and
Sarah (42:39):
then
Chris (42:39):
do that.
Like all of my stress is justpreventative.
I'm like, I gotta, Oh my God.
It's gonna be, it's gonna be abit, some something.
So it's gonna be like,interesting to, to walk the line
between living so much in thefuture and pulling that back to
the right now without Thinking,alright, if I'm gonna be like
somebody, and he talks a lotabout being somebody existing in
(43:01):
some time doing something andhe's you have to focus on being
nobody.
I was like, I don't think I can.
I like being be nobody.
don't think I can be nobody.
He's he doesn't mean it likethat.
What he means is somebody, andI'm like, what a, what am I if
I'm not somebody?
This is a green dick.
Those are just les.
it has
Sarah (43:21):
baby powder in between its balls.
Chris (43:23):
Of course it does.
'cause that prevents, bat wingschafing.
We talked about that.
Go ahead.
Anyway, that was it.
I am gonna be, I'm gonna besuper interested to see how much
of future, I'm gonna be able tolet go and just be like, all
right, live here.
Think about the things that needto be done, get that stuff done.
Don't worry, so much about what.
(43:45):
What's going to happen intomorrow?
Don't worry so much about howsomebody is gonna judge your
email.
Sarah (43:52):
Yeah, and I definitely do worry about the future as well.
I worry about the past too, butYeah.
But
Chris (43:57):
Key takeaways.
Key takeaways.
Your, again, it goes back toyour thoughts are powerful.
Like when you're thinking abouthaving those emotions, when
you're remembering what it waslike to get up in front of
everyone and suck.
When you're thinking about whatit's like to send an email and
have people respond poorly toit, then you are, you're
creating that cycle again.
So instead of thinking aboutthat, let's train ourselves to
(44:20):
have a heartbeat and being like,Hey, thought thank you.
Off you go.
I'm not gonna get sucked intothat whole thing.
You're not your environment.
So again, we come back to you'renot the, outer world.
so you are not a constantreaction to things that are
happening around you all thetime.
So I think what he is getting atthere is that, stuff's gonna
happen and you're gonna have totake your little heartbeat and
(44:41):
be like, oh, okay.
I have choices about how I reactand if I'm living in the
present, then I can pick it andI don't have to just do the
thing that I would have alwaysdone.
I get to choose my string now.
So that's cool.
Your body memorizes youremotions again, the body is the
mind money on my mind.
(45:02):
And time is not linear intransformation is the one where
I'm like, yeah, sure.
Feels linear.
The future exists as apossibility in the now.
So the, it's like having all ofyour strings out there and
focusing your energy on one,because that's how quantum
mechanics works.
So meditation is the accesspoint.
(45:23):
So next week we're gonna starttalking about part two and we're
gonna start talking about thefight or flight and how to get
ourselves out of survival mode.
'cause that's really whereyou're gonna.
Find the way to not live in thebody time or environment.
That's where you're gonna beable to find, that zen state,
the flow as he calls it.
Sarah (45:44):
Can you not listen to that and we can listen to the
next part of this together onour trip down to Raleigh next
week.
Chris (45:51):
Yes.
And we can
Sarah (45:52):
laugh and make fun of it together.
Chris (45:53):
That would be amazing.
Sarah (45:55):
I'm,
Chris (45:55):
yes, I'm in a hundred percent.
I love it.
So next
Sarah (45:58):
week we'll be recording from the road.
Chris (46:01):
on the road again.
Sarah (46:02):
Just can't wait to get on the
Chris (46:04):
road again.
Road again.
I'm already planning where we'reeating.
Sarah (46:07):
When are we?
I'll, we can talk about thatwhen we're not recording.
okay.
I think that's it.
Are you done?
Chris (46:12):
Yeah, I think those are Okay.
That's, that's what I learnedon, eight hours of audio
listening is that, I like it.
Your thoughts are powerful.
Sarah (46:20):
I did forget to mention little thing, I did little
something I did.
I purchased my first how tobecome a coach lesson course.
Chris (46:29):
Oh my God.
We're gonna be so rich.
Yeah.
I'm, that's so nice.
I'm so glad that you're taking astep in a direction that could
be positive for you.
Yeah.
So I'm, please make money so wecan all quit our jobs.
Sarah (46:41):
Taking a coaching course, it's like I'm not getting
certified.
'cause to get certified it costslike a lot, like I have to make
money before I can getcertified, so this was a lot
cheaper.
Chris (46:50):
Listen, we'll get some recent college grads and coach
them.
Sarah (46:54):
The good news is she basically said right off the
bat, listen, I wasted so muchmoney getting certified and
doing all this shit and itwasn't necessary.
And I love the fact that yousay, we'll get recent grads,
because I feel like that's whatI want to do.
I want to coach like that agegroup because I feel like that's
where I did the most damage inmy life.
And I feel like that's where, Icould have used a little bit of
(47:15):
help.
Chris (47:16):
We'll just focus on that group.
We'll build you up a following.
Yeah,
Sarah (47:20):
so anyway, so there's that.
And yeah, next week we'll berecording from the road, so I'm
sure we will have some stories.
We'll tell you about all thefood that we're eating.
Yeah.
Alright.
We don't have a sign off yet, solove you.
Bye.
Chris (47:32):
stay.
Stay.
Alright.
Sarah (47:33):
Are you okay?
Jesus.
Chris (47:36):
Shut up, Sarah.
Sarah (47:37):
All right.
love you.
Bye.
That's how we
Chris (47:38):
sign off.
I just sniffle.
Sarah (47:41):
Bye fuckers.
Chris (47:42):
Love you.
Bye.
Sarah (47:44):
Love you, bye.
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