The Mental Funny Bone

Episode 24: Big Blue Balls

• Gaster Girls • Season 2 • Episode 10

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In this hilarious and heartfelt episode of 'The Mental Funny Bone,' Sarah and Christine navigate through a wide array of topics, from  chaotic events at soccer games, and reminisces about trips to Century III Mall and childhood experiences. They dive into the dynamics of dealing with irritating situations and conclude with quirky segments like the Amish friendship bread recipe and ongoing humorous banter about 'giant blue balls' at a conference. The episode is a mix of comedic relief and thought-provoking discussions, wrapped up in the duo's signature, relatable charm.

How to find mental health help when you're struggling. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
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Apps - Just search mental health where you get your apps.
EAP programs are a great place to look for help!!

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https://globalsportmatters.com/health/2020/12/04/mental-health-resources-2/

Chris:

on your microphone? What are you doing?

Sarah:

Can I do anything right? I can't. I don't think we should do it today.

Chris:

Listen, my nose is running and my feet are bleeding, so there are blisters on my foot. And I was walking in front of somebody yesterday and they said, Oh my God!

Sarah:

You need to learn by now.

Chris:

I don't learn a lesson.

Sarah:

Yeah. Welcome to the Mental Funnybone.

Chris:

Oh,

Sarah:

I'm Sarah.

Chris:

I'm Christine. We don't know what we're talking about. we should give you more resources so that you can, talk to a licensed medical professional when it comes to your mental health.

Sarah:

Do we have a, do we have an outline today? Or we're just going for it?

Chris:

I think we generally know what we talk about. we can talk a little bit about some fan mail if you want to start there.

Sarah:

yeah, let's do that. Do we have fan mail? I have

Chris:

What day is today? I have not looked at the email.

Sarah:

Yeah, this is gonna be a good episode. It's gonna be a good one.

Chris:

I didn't feel good for a lot of the time since we last spoke.

Sarah:

I know that's why I offered to do it by myself So you could take a break Let me

Chris:

I can't let that happen. What if the people like you more?

Sarah:

I know I feel like that's something we should probably talk about and what's funny is I literally thought of that yesterday I was like, she'll never let me do it by myself

Chris:

you could do the next one by yourself.

Sarah:

I don't need to. I'm just saying that's what I thought about.

Chris:

my sister, Think so little of me that you will never let me do this by myself.

Sarah:

Yeah, we have no new fan mail. I can say that I, I spoke with my friends, Ryan and Shauna this weekend and they listen regularly. I believe Shauna listens a little more, Dedicatedly than Ryan does. Ryan said he's a few episodes behind, but still, he said one of these days I swear I'm gonna email you guys.

Chris:

What are these days? I think it's the same story for everybody. Where's Christie? so I got these text messages yesterday while I was sitting in a conference. So listen to the pod loved it. You keep you kept me moving on my walk. I also remember playing you Elizabeth forward in soccer. Your girls played soccer slash football. by which I was confused yesterday and I thought maybe she thought we were British.

Sarah:

Oh, yeah. Okay.

Chris:

But I think what she means is we were fairly aggressive in our play,

Sarah:

she meant rugby.

Chris:

right? And I got it. Christie, I got you now, 24 hours later. she said also, who is your therapist? Also love capital L O V E listening. It makes me miss you.

Sarah:

Oh

Chris:

and I said this is the collection of messages that I needed today. I'm at a conference and I've been talking a bunch of bullshit all day. I told her my therapist and I told her to come to homecoming so that way she wouldn't have to miss me. She could just hang out with me.

Sarah:

There you go. Fantastic

Chris:

I can't wait to listen to this episode and realize that I do that the whole time.

Sarah:

Sniffles Sniffleupagus.

Chris:

So there's our fan mail. and like I say, I was also talking to people at this conference and, the one guy was like, it's so weird to talk to you because I was just listening to you talk this morning. And I was like, I don't know what to do with that. my therapist also asked me how I was at taking compliments. And I said, why don't you tell me that you like something about me and you can watch how gracefully I take a compliment.

Sarah:

there you go.

Chris:

No. I don't take a compliment. I'm done doing it. I'm done sniffling. I promise. What's next? Oh, weekly catch up. We have so much weekly catch up, though.

Sarah:

okay You know what today is? Today is September 10th, which is the first semi annual March 4th day.

Chris:

It is March 4th day.

Sarah:

Yeah So I'm wearing my shirt and anyone else who has a March 4th shirt should wear it today unless you're at a conference and you can't wear a t shirt. but, Jackie and Ed have also requested, some random acts of kindness of us. I don't leave my house, so I'm not really sure. I have a soccer game to go to, but again, I don't sit by anybody at the soccer games, I, and I feel like that is an act of kindness in a, in and of itself.

Chris:

just also for those people who are my friends on Facebook, one of our other friends, Michelle Kapats has a fundraiser going on right now for the American foundation for the suicide prevention,

Sarah:

AFSP. I got it now, sister. I got it.

Chris:

right? We're good at it

Sarah:

I have a fundraiser going on right now for AFSP for the walk. That's open until December 31st.

Chris:

Everybody. So if you're looking for a, act of kindness, that you can do without talking to anybody,

Sarah:

Which is my kind of act of kindness. I'm the worst.

Chris:

that might be an option. also there's a little stain on the hotel desk here and I was like, do you think that's blood?

Sarah:

Bleh.

Chris:

So maybe I should stop listening to true crime while I try to go to sleep,

Sarah:

I was, I had to finish a book last night and it was like a murder mystery thing. and yeah, so therefore I didn't go to sleep until midnight thirty because, I had to finish it because I was freaked out and I needed to make sure everybody was okay in the end.

Chris:

right?

Sarah:

And that my favorite people didn't die. So,

Chris:

I want to say that's crazy, but it's not. this is how I ended up staying up, finishing the Stephen King book, because if the bad guy died at the end, then obviously he wasn't around to hurt me.

Sarah:

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And there were two bad guys and they both died in the end. So I was able to go to sleep. Not before. no, I went to sleep and then Macho decided he wanted to wake up at 1am for some unknown reason. This dog has not woken up in the night to go out to the bathroom in probably a year.

Chris:

He was like, nah. Hey guys.

Sarah:

Yeah. It was like, Hey, he jumped down off the bed and I put him back up on the bed and he jumped down off the bed again. And I was like, Oh, I guess you got to do something. He had to pee and poop.

Chris:

Did he

Sarah:

guess he knows. He knows.

Chris:

I

Sarah:

I didn't let him get that far. didn't think that Noah would appreciate that.

Chris:

mean,

Sarah:

Whatever. All right. You said we had a lot to talk about for Weekly Catch Up.

Chris:

we do. So we had, we talked to a lot of people last week. not a lot of people. We had a very busy Thursday last week is what I think. we talked to, we talked to new interview people. we're getting more bare bones banter. I know it's been a heartbeat since we did the, that last episode with Jackie and Ed, but I couldn't be more excited about the people we're talking to. So I'm not going to say who it is or what it is, but more things are happening. I also realized I get to fly on 9 11. So that's fun.

Sarah:

I actually just almost passed out after you said that.

Chris:

I feel like I have done it, maybe five times? out of the, what, 20, 30? How long has it been? 23 years?

Sarah:

23.

Chris:

That one should be easy to count. It's not like it was in the 90s.

Sarah:

Yeah, but you know why I knew that right off the bat is because Joe and Lissa's 23rd anniversary was just yesterday or the day before or something like that. And that's what sadly, I associate with it

Chris:

Really? Why?

Sarah:

because it was days before.

Chris:

Oh,

Sarah:

Yeah. I had a great time at the wedding. I love that wedding and I would like to redo that wedding. Like that's, there's lots of, it's hard for me not to have a good time at a wedding, but that was one that I had a really good time at. So it didn't ruin the wedding itself. It's just that's. I know it's like right after Joe and Lissa's anniversary. Yeah, and she posted on Facebook, happy 23rd anniversary. And I was like, huh? Yeah. Yeah. It is 2024.

Chris:

That's funny because I don't associate the two at all and I definitely would have flown for that wedding. Interesting. anyway,

Sarah:

home before it happened. So you flew probably right before it.

Chris:

yeah, and I had to get back.

Sarah:

So yeah, I can't, I want to say it was the 7th. I want to say their wedding was on the 7th. So you would have flown back on the 8th.

Chris:

that's crazy. I guess I was on an airplane all the time then.

Sarah:

Yeah. And you flew right after it anyway, cause I've. Saw you in DC.

Chris:

That was a debacle.

Sarah:

Yeah. There's lots of September 11th stories.

Chris:

That was the first time I learned that if you don't take the first part of the flight, then they canceled the second part of the flight.

Sarah:

Oh,

Chris:

I don't know if that's common knowledge, but I had to fly back to, I flew to DC, but I already had plans to go to Bethany homecoming, which was like the next week. So I fly to DC. Like one way thinking that, Oh, I already have the ticket back. But then I show up at the airport, like the following Sunday after homecoming to go back to Arizona. And they were like, Oh no, we canceled that. I was like, but I, why would

Sarah:

confused. Why? Explain to me why, so you flew to DC.

Chris:

pray on a different ticket? So I already had a ticket that was, to get to homecoming like Thursday, and we were flying to DC on the. Thursday before,

Sarah:

Oh, so you just didn't get on the normal flight to get there

Chris:

right,

Sarah:

and you were, you wanted to just hop on the plane back, but it was a round trip ticket. So when you don't do the first part of the round.

Chris:

they don't know

Sarah:

they canceled the second part of the round. I feel like that actually makes sense.

Chris:

it does, once you put two and two together, once you get through that part, but,

Sarah:

Yeah, and especially at that time, you're flying, like everything was a clusterfuck.

Chris:

right, there was no TSA pre check, or, there was no TSA.

Sarah:

Yeah, there wasn't, it

Chris:

they were just letting you they were like looking at you as you walked on the plane to make sure you weren't carrying anything like you could walk like going through like everyone could go through security. You didn't even need a ticket,

Sarah:

No, mommy and daddy used to walk me all the way to the, gate.

Chris:

right? Sometimes Nita would have a knife in her purse.

Sarah:

Yeah, she's wild.

Chris:

She's that's for my apples.

Sarah:

Not once has that ever happened.

Chris:

It did. You don't remember.

Sarah:

No.

Chris:

had a knife, like a little parry knife, in her purse.

Sarah:

When she was flying?

Chris:

When she was, like, going to get you or get me or something, she got to the cage and she's all flustered.

Sarah:

No, I have

Chris:

They took my knife.

Sarah:

The fuck? What the?

Chris:

I swear.

Sarah:

I do not remember this in any way whatsoever, but more who the fuck is carrying a knife for their apples? How many apples have you seen our mother eat?

Chris:

zero. She doesn't eat food.

Sarah:

No,

Chris:

She's a baby bird.

Sarah:

now lives on vapes and coffee used to be cigarettes and coffee.

Chris:

she's a tiny mouse.

Sarah:

She's a little tiny mouse. Yeah, no, no. That's for my apples. I hope you made that part.

Chris:

I did not. She wanted to explain herself to the pre, pre TSA guy.

Sarah:

The TSA guy. Weird. I would like to point out that, sometimes I do remember things better than you do.

Chris:

Yes, like that we had a bird.

Sarah:

that we had a bird and why they called Daddy Willie at

Chris:

Oh, I swear that he told me that. I don't

Sarah:

think you, you make up more things than you think that you do. I love

Chris:

I,

Sarah:

I legit make shit up.

Chris:

I don't know what's real and what's not anymore.

Sarah:

Yeah, I don't either. I really don't. I was fully expecting him to respond to my text and go with your story. And when he did, I was like, wow. Okay. At least I know that. Okay. Yeah. But there are, I feel since we started this podcast, every time I tell a story now, I'm like, I'm not sure if I made this up or not, but I've been telling it for years. So I will just continue.

Chris:

Great. same. Honestly, I don't know what's real and what isn't anymore.

Sarah:

Yeah. it's difficult. it's really difficult.

Chris:

I am 100 percent distracted by this bloodstain on my desk. Did someone hit their head? I feel like someone hit their head. There was a crime in here.

Sarah:

It's a possibility. what you need to do right now is not believe everything you think.

Chris:

Oh, guess who didn't read the book?

Sarah:

I read, let me see. because, listen. I read 31 pages.

Chris:

I feel like close enough.

Sarah:

And, it has all the same shit that I've read in the other books that we've read thus far, which isn't putting it down. I just, I need to get to the end part where it tells me what to do, and I know that probably doesn't exist, but Yeah, but it's about thoughts and thinking and the difference between the two. And it is very interesting, but that's not, I didn't want to lead into that. I wanted to let everyone know that we had dinner with Jackie and Ed.

Chris:

yeah, that was fun.

Sarah:

We got our March 4th, March 4th t shirts. You got all of us sick. Um, you didn't, I don't. I was blatantly made up.

Chris:

a bit bad because I'm always like, Oh no, yeah, you can totally drink out of my straw. I don't have the cooties, but I did. I had the cooties.

Sarah:

Yeah, you did. It's like me being on Girls Week and being like, my herpes aren't active and then coming home and getting a huge herpes.

Chris:

A huge herpy. Yeah. So sorry, Jackie and Ed, I did not mean to snot all over your face.

Sarah:

yeah, I believe, I mean unless they're sick now, they weren't sick when I saw them on Saturday. But yeah, it was a good time. It was a good dinner. I had, I got a huge order of nachos and ate three of them.

Chris:

Giant.

Sarah:

really disappointing because they were really good. Although I had a tiny little bellyache the next day.

Chris:

It could have been the margaritas.

Sarah:

Yeah, and that's what I was telling them on Saturday. I was like, I think that margarita was poisoned.

Chris:

I think it was rotten. the taste of it after, I was like, wait. that is just rotten margarita mix. margarita mix that's been in the fridge too long. Which I don't understand, at a Mexican place, how it can be in the fridge too long. do you just

Sarah:

they have, they, they have the kegs of the margaritas there.

Chris:

Again, are you just leaving that keg in the back?

Sarah:

yeah, that was an old one. No one felt like really moving. I really wish I should have walked around to see who else had the terrible margarita just to see how many people like I hope that they took that thing off the tap like After they served me 17 rotten margaritas

Chris:

pretending it's just me.

Sarah:

listen, that's bad. That's bad. that's bad. Look at it We all know it's bad And then I continued to taste all of them and I feel like that's probably what poisoned me Then by the time we got to the regular like normally made It bartender made margarita.

Chris:

was a big deal. First. What? Here's a bartender made margarita.

Sarah:

yeah. And by then my belly had hurt and I couldn't even really enjoy it. And then Ed told me that they spent it. So,

Chris:

he would know.

Sarah:

he would, he sure would.

Chris:

They're so funny.

Sarah:

So you were sick all weekend

Chris:

I was sick all weekend. I literally, Woke up Friday, and I had a fever.

Sarah:

and you went out to the local businesses and spread it around.

Chris:

had to get my toes done.

Sarah:

I'm with you.

Chris:

you can't, do you know how, do you know how long it takes to get a waxing appointment?

Sarah:

yeah, you make it when you just make that shit as soon as you leave, man.

Chris:

you can't cancel it, and I had a

Sarah:

do you go get waxed? Do you go get like waxed at a regular like local place? Like I go to a European wax center.

Chris:

I go to the waxing the city, but I like the one lady.

Sarah:

city. Ooh, so do you have a monthly membership there? Because I have a monthly. not a monthly thing. It's not a monthly thing. It's a, like they charge me four times for the specific waxing treatments that I want and then that's it's good for a year.

Chris:

know that I don't, I just pay as I go, pay as I go?

Sarah:

I was just wondering. I like waxing the city. I like that name though.

Chris:

it's fun, and I like the one lady because she doesn't hurt me as bad as the other ones do. I thought, I thought that if I kept going, now I'm burping, I thought if I kept going that it would hurt less, and it just doesn't seem to hurt any less.

Sarah:

Really? Are you getting your, I mean you can cut this out if you're not comfortable with it. Are you doing your bikini or you're just doing your face?

Chris:

the whole bikini,

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's gonna hurt. That's gonna hurt no matter what like the face I don't know. I feel like you just get used to it.

Chris:

yeah, the face, like I could literally sit here and pick individual hairs off of my entire face. that's not going to hurt me anymore. Like I've got a callus on that one, but the hoo ha is I'm sweating thinking about it.

Sarah:

Yeah, it's rough. I feel like that eventually you just I don't know I guess the second time you go and you know what you're in for and

Chris:

And it makes I am also afraid that I'm going to hurt this poor girl because when she does like it just involuntarily, my knee wants to come up and smack her on the side of the head.

Sarah:

Yeah,

Chris:

But I had to do that. So I snotted on her for sure. The therapist is guaranteed going to get sick because I sat across from her and talked for an

Sarah:

oh, yeah, you were spitting all over her

Chris:

Right? She said, tell me about your, tell me about how you grew up. And I was like, I don't know. Great. It's fine. Everything's fine. Fine,

Sarah:

Everything's fine. So you had a good therapy session then? You just sat there and kept saying it's fine?

Chris:

it's fine. no, I mean I talked and it's just therapy is weird. I don't think I appreciated how bizarre Therapy is like you just go there and she asks you like two questions And then you just ramble on for 45 minutes.

Sarah:

Yeah, I think I've stated before I've gone several times I've been like I should have canceled like I don't really have anything to talk about and then It's an hour later. She was like listen, I gotta kick you out. I have another appointment. I'm like what the fuck happened,

Chris:

No,

Sarah:

right? but I say that but it's also hard because I'm with you and sometimes I leave and I'm like did I do that right? did I, should I have talked about something else? And then I think and then I overthink it like I do everything.

Chris:

exactly and then right before I left, she was like, did we talk about everything you wanted to talk about? And I'm like, I don't think so. Cause there's, we should talk about how I feel about losing weight and

Sarah:

Yeah, you do need to talk about, you need to talk about your diet.

Chris:

Like I need, I, at this point, I think that I, and she was like, I definitely want to hear more about that. give me the cliff notes. We have three minutes. And I was like, I lost a ton of weight, very much like losing the weight, very much like being a skinnier person, very much like being healthier. but now I am terrified. That I will put that weight back on.

Sarah:

Yeah, terrified to the point where you're gonna get to, here's me analyzing you, terrified to the point that you're gonna get to an eating disorder,

Chris:

this is exactly what I said.

Sarah:

yeah, because you're already too skinny.

Chris:

she said, Are you eating?

Sarah:

and you're not, you're

Chris:

no, I'm,

Sarah:

I asked you the other day what you had to eat and you said a cup of coffee

Chris:

That was at like one o'clock in the afternoon. I then ate two tacos. I ate taco.

Sarah:

and so you ate a cup of coffee. You ate a cup of coffee and two tacos.

Chris:

I feel like that's a thousand calories.

Sarah:

That's not nearly enough food in your little tiny little belly. You need to get some protein shakes. You need to get some protein bar. You need more protein cause you're losing all your muscle. and. I appreciate this because I, need to put on some muscle myself with the weight loss. but the thing that we like about it is that we lost weight and we're feeling healthier, right? But you're going to not be healthy if you don't eat shit.

Chris:

right. also my, my, my point, I was like, yeah, I like being healthier, but I also like that I can see my collarbones.

Sarah:

Yeah, I mean,

Chris:

I'm vain.

Sarah:

I think that's got to be

Chris:

she was like, yes. She's I would need to make sure that you're safe. So are you eating? And I'm like, yeah, I eat enough, not die. this is the first thing we're talking about when you come back.

Sarah:

yeah, I was gonna say I feel like that's what you need to unpack first. I think that you need a few therapy sessions about food

Chris:

She's we'll see you in a week.

Sarah:

I did see a picture from my Facebook memories

Chris:

Is it the one where we're at the 50th anniversary soccer thing. And my arm looks like a ham. this is why! This is why.

Sarah:

but the good news is you have control over that So you just have to work with your therapist to make sure to figure out what you need to do to You Eat enough food and be a nutritious, healthy individual. because yeah, if you don't, you're going to go down a bad path. It's not easy to come back from. So that's what you need to remember. So you can go down the path where you're large and in charge. You can go down a path where we need to have you committed because you're going to kill yourself. And you won't be able, you won't be able to walk on your skinny little bird legs. Or you can go down the path that's just in the middle and we're always trying to be a little bit better and eat a little bit healthier. So, I think that's the path that we should go down. I started doing a shake in the morning.

Chris:

I feel like I have coffee with cream in it.

Sarah:

Yeah. And that's

Chris:

a shake. There's

Sarah:

I don't want to, I'm not going to joke about it anymore because I don't think it's funny and I'm concerned. You should probably have a protein shake. At least start with that.

Chris:

I'm going to breakfast. breakfast is at 8. 15.

Sarah:

are you going to eat at breakfast?

Chris:

Bacon.

Sarah:

Like a half a piece.

Chris:

No, like a whole piece. I had three pieces of bacon and some avocado yesterday. I'm eating. I'm eating. Big was like, I don't like this avocado. So I ate her avocado and her bacon.

Sarah:

so that's good when somebody else is cooking, you can go ahead and grab food, but you need to do that when you're at home too.

Chris:

Yeah, and I'll have lunch. Did I have lunch yesterday?

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. When you're at work, things you eat because

Chris:

everybody else is eating,

Sarah:

even it's just like a little nibble, you're still eating much more than, I don't eat a ton, but like I have a protein shake in the morning, then I have a lean cuisine protein meal at lunch. And then for dinner I'll have whatever Owen makes.

Chris:

except for Owen Cooks, because he's 15.

Sarah:

chicken breast. I don't know. Sometimes I just throw some pasta together and have some broccoli. I don't know, but I'm trying because I wasn't eating at all and I was losing a lot of muscle and I wasn't feeling as good as I wanted to, but I feel even better now that I get the proteins. So there you have it.

Chris:

it also might be why I was sick, because I just, no energy in the body to fight the cold.

Sarah:

yeah,

Chris:

Not a fantastic place. no, I understand, and this is why I brought it up to the therapist, so she can make me, talk about it and work through what's going on. Going on there because I think you and I spent what like 45 minutes one day talking about it And I was like, I am not bless you. I am not doing That great with this. I feel guilty for losing the weight. I felt guilty for being fat in the first place. I feel

Sarah:

You have all sorts, you have all sorts of feels about the weight thing, to be discussed with a professional.

Chris:

right

Sarah:

that's, I don't feel like that's going to be just a one time session. that's going to be a few sessions. You're going to need to unpack that, sort it out, put it in some drawers, separate it.

Chris:

take it out of the boxes. Don't put it back and put it someplace. I can see Over

Sarah:

I'm gonna, I decided I don't want to do boxes anymore. I'm gonna do those big Ziploc bags that you suck the air out of. I

Chris:

Oh, yeah

Sarah:

to put all of my trauma.

Chris:

No, I mean you could fit so much more of it in your closet that way.

Sarah:

it's great. Just gonna suck the air out of all that trauma. That's good. I feel like that's a great way

Chris:

Wow, it really compresses When you put

Sarah:

fits so much in there. See how big that,

Chris:

These trauma pillows really shrink down.

Sarah:

Yowzer.

Chris:

my god, we're so entertaining.

Sarah:

so I would like to mention the, out of the dark walk. Is that what it's called?

Chris:

Out of the darkness?

Sarah:

Yeah, out of the darkness

Chris:

talk about that. I didn't, I couldn't go.

Sarah:

you were six. So nobody wanted you there snotting on everyone. It's fine. okay. Noah went with me, which I thought was actually a big deal because my husband, to those of you that don't know him, is not really, mental health kind of guy. I don't know if that, does that make sense? I guess we all have some sort of mental health going on, but he's not really like a therapist, medication. He's a, he's not someone I go to when I'm in a funk because he's typically the, just feel better.

Chris:

it's stopping sad.

Sarah:

Think about something else. So he's the guy that we talk about when we talk about people not knowing how to deal with. individuals that suffer from mental illness. and he typically just avoids it. So for him to go with me was a big deal. And I think it was a great thing because I think it was pretty eyeopening for him. and of course it was wonderful. I got to meet, Veda and Morgan. So that was pretty awesome. They're both adorable and just adorable. this adorable, like Just cute. Just adorable. and Morgan's boyfriend, I forget his name, I think it's Liam, maybe? And he's adorable and just, he smiles a lot. He was just adorable. It's just

Chris:

I love it.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

Kid after my own heart.

Sarah:

just smiling and hanging out and being there. but yeah, it was a pretty, it was a pretty emotional day for all things that were going on. I don't even really know what to say about it. It's, it was, it's, it was emotional for me, so I can't imagine what it was like for them.

Chris:

to be doing something sad about why you're doing it.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, there's a lot of, Emotion, raw emotion there. And then listening to every, there was a lot of, I don't want to say a lot of speaking, but there was, but it was all like very informative stuff and good stuff to hear. and just knowing that amount of people was in one place and they're all there because they've been affected by this terrible thing. And that's a lot to take in.

Chris:

I mean I had that same thought when you sent me the pictures. I'm like, that's a lot of people. That's a lot of people.

Sarah:

yeah, there was a lot of people there and, the majority, I'm going to take a guess, the majority are there because their loved ones have died from suicide, a lot of the shirts had, Specific people that they were there for, and that's just, that's shitty. That sucks. And that's heart hurting. but I was very glad to be there. I was very appreciative that we were allowed, that, and Jackie didn't mind us. Jumping on their train and walking with them. So that was nice. And I don't know anybody who knows Jackie and Ed, it's just always a joy to be around them. Even if it is in a sad situation, they somehow make it okay. Which is ridiculous. Cause they're like, you should be making it okay for them.

Chris:

right, That is the constant thing that, that surprises me. that is the thing that surprises me the most about hanging out with Jackie and Ed. they just make you feel good and

Sarah:

Right.

Chris:

God bless you guys.

Sarah:

we should be doing something more to make them feel good. And it's

Chris:

They got it covered.

Sarah:

then that goes back to the, like being mad about shit. now I'm going to cry and I don't know why, but it's it just sucks. It sucks that fucking bad shit happens to good people and it just blows.

Chris:

Now you're going to, you're going to make me cry because, okay, but have you looked on Facebook today?

Sarah:

I have not. No, I

Chris:

you seen the picture that I posted of your niece? Because this will pull you out of it. if you need me to pull it up and share screens, I can, but, so I

Sarah:

I'm going to look at it right now. Oh, but the first thing that came up is March 4th and

Chris:

day.

Sarah:

Yeah, and Jackie posted with everybody wearing their March 4th shirts

Chris:

maybe you don't get my posts anymore.

Sarah:

I will never take it for granted that Liv is who she is, and that she is exactly the daughter I needed. Also, this picture is the best representation of her whole personality, and I couldn't love it more. Her face is absolutely pretty. Oh my.

Chris:

So since it's a visual, thing, Olivia is looking at the referee. it's a picture of her playing soccer and she's looking at the referee, like a, she might kill him and be like, he has said probably the most offensive thing that he could ever say to her. And probably what he has said is try not to punch that girl on the face anymore,

Sarah:

I was just gonna say, I can show you this conversation. He blew the whistle, and she was like, Referee! And he said, listen, girl,

Chris:

Sir.

Sarah:

And that's when she said, sir, are you, what, me, what? And he said, you blatantly, shoulder tackled that girl. We are playing soccer, not rugby. and she's looking at him like, no clue what you're talking about. Stop pulling hair. He says, yeah, there's so many things. But yeah, I feel like this is this one needs to be blown up.

Chris:

yeah, her, her elementary school principal was like, that is a back tattoo if I've ever seen one.

Sarah:

Yeah, that's fantastic

Chris:

So no more crying. We're thinking about Olivia, a costing a referee.

Sarah:

I love it. love. I am, so I just did the little reaction thing. I reacted to it and I

Chris:

Oh, thank you.

Sarah:

speaking of in my memories yesterday or one of these days recently, I something, I believe I'm going to guess it was 2016 and the statement I made was during political season, I wish that there was a reaction that says, wow, you're a real fucking asshole.

Chris:

six

Sarah:

I think not too long after that is when I quit Facebook for a little bit.

Chris:

years.

Sarah:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh wow, that's It's still pretty, pretty accurate.

Chris:

I need a different Facebook button. Like

Sarah:

Yeah. I feel like you should be able to create your own sometimes. Just double middle fingers.

Chris:

when the, when this is, wow, not in a good way.

Sarah:

That's interesting. That is an interesting thought you have right there.

Chris:

so I was talking to a client yesterday from the Midwest and, we were discussing something and she wanted to say, I don't think that what you're saying is accurate. she's I don't think that's right. And what she said was, that's interesting. Can you just tell me a little bit more about that? And I was like, Oh, that's Midwest for bless your heart.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris:

like, all right.

Sarah:

Yeah. I don't, I'm bad at, there are a couple of things that we've, Noah and I have talked about. one, Owen had a deck hockey game on Sunday and. Noah and I switch, like depending on what side they're shooting at. And in the beginning, one of our guys slammed a kid, like he got a penalty. It is what it's fucking hockey, first of all. he got a penalty and when the whistle was blown, these three Neanderthal dads who were down by where the penalty was, Said to our kid who's a teenager. That's it son. You go sit down. You take that penalty That's what you get you think about what you did son.

Chris:

Does he,

Sarah:

I said Excuse

Chris:

why are you talking to a child that isn't yours?

Sarah:

I said, excuse me Are you kidding? And Noah looked at me and I was like, what? That's he's a 16 year old. He's playing a sport that they do normally bounce people into the boards. He just did it probably a little more aggressively than he should have. Yeah. He got the penalty. he has a coach and a parent that will take care of him. Thank you. Then when their kids do this is what really irks me because their kids do the same shit and they get called and they're like, yeah, that's it. Good hustle. This is what makes me hate parents, and this is what makes me have to not be around them during games because it just talking about it is making my heart rate go up because I can't stand what we're teaching our kids. I can't stand that we're teaching them that we should bitch if everything's not, if everything doesn't go my way. Like it's just mass hypocrisy all over the place.

Chris:

I, I talked to you, I talked to a sports parent yesterday, one day while we were hanging around here. And I was like, so how's soccer going? I know both your boys play. He's we had to pull him out of the travel league. Like he's I just can't. I. He's like more important than them being good at sports is them growing up to be decent functional human beings and I can't have them around that bullshit.

Sarah:

fucking terrible.

Chris:

he was like, we'll go do, we'll go to club soccer. We'll go do like other, but I can't have them in this league because I had to ask a dad what he was doing.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

the, and. His kids are little, they're like 10 or 11, like just at the point where they would play, where they would try out for things. And he's the dad was yelling, screaming at a 14 year old referee.

Sarah:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Out. People are out of their fucking minds and it's just, this came up because I was talking, I was going to address my inability to keep my mouth shut. Because this is why like I have to it's yeah, I don't want to hear other parents That's one of the reasons I sit by myself. I talk the whole time so I don't want to annoy other parents But ultimately I have to sit by myself So I don't get in a fight because I have no ability to just keep my mouth shut like Noah looked at me and was like Sarah. I was like, this is, and he was like, all right, let's move. So we had to move and stay down the other end. We couldn't go back and forth because I couldn't be close to them because I was going to punch one of these big ass burly, piece of shit dads who thought it was appropriate to Basically heckle a child.

Chris:

I,

Sarah:

So

Chris:

this was always my thing. I'm like, is that your kid? No, it's not your kid. So shut

Sarah:

Exactly. Exactly. and that's exactly what I mean. Like that kid has a coach and that kid has a parent. You worry about your own fucking kid. Like I told that guy at that tournament where Liv pulled his daughter's hair. You worry about yours. She's got a mom. Back the fuck up. Quit following a teenager around the fucking parking lot, you dickwad. And then he says, I think we'd be friends. No.

Chris:

No, we wouldn't.

Sarah:

Oh, and that was right after he called me bra.

Chris:

Bruh.

Sarah:

I'm not your bra.

Chris:

No, sir. I'm very sorry that my child's not fully developed frontal cortex led her to grab your kid by the back of the head and punch her in the face. I'm very sorry that happened.

Sarah:

not really sure what your excuse is for driving around the parking lot looking for said 15 year old. But okay.

Chris:

She's very sorry.

Sarah:

So my next thought was how I lack the ability to, what's the word? Like when somebody annoys me instead of just keeping it in, like I, Okay. Let's say we're talking about me and Noah. Noah does something. Noah does something that drives me nuts. Instead of just keeping that in and walking away from it, I need to be more, I, we need to talk about it. I. Need to be able to say to him, what you just said is fucking stupid, but without saying it like that, and I don't have the ability to do that.

Chris:

I am NOT gonna be the one who's gonna be able to help you here. other than just being completely silent. that's how I deal. I just don't say any ever.

Sarah:

Yeah. That's the problem. That's what we need to communicate better. And one of those steps of communicating is not just walking away. because all those little irritations compound, like compound,

Chris:

huh. Yeah.

Sarah:

and then, and it's not good. So that's one thing that we need to do and I'm, and I even said it, I was like, this is gonna be really hard for me cuz I'm just gonna want to look at you and tell you what a fucking idiot you are and I,

Chris:

it is a style,

Sarah:

I feel like it's harsh and I'm not sure, see, but here's the big problem is that when I, whatever I say, however I say it, he is gonna argue back with me, which is why I don't say anything. So this is, relationships are hard.

Chris:

do you remember? You probably don't. On, the office, Jim and Pam had to go to counseling and they were only allowed to use I feel statements. It was always like, I feel like you're being an asshole,

Sarah:

exactly. I feel like you are the biggest dick I have come in contact with for the last five days. It's,

Chris:

right? Like maybe you just take that strategy. It softens it a little.

Sarah:

I, yeah,

Chris:

And in those kids made it Jim and Pam, they were together at the end of the show.

Sarah:

I just, I am a harsh individual and I like to think that I'm a nice person and I guess I am to most people, but when it comes to the people I love, I guess I'm just, it just comes out a little different. I don't know. Whatever. I'm going to move us along because I want to know as far as a growing up gastro story, do you remember the Amish friendship bread?

Chris:

Oh my God. I do remember the, What in the world?

Sarah:

That's the recipe.

Chris:

didn't somebody have to give you, some mush from an old

Sarah:

It takes 10 days, dude. It is not a simple task, which is why it's been sitting here on my computer for a very long time, but I really want to do it. So it's one of these where you need let me just read this.

Chris:

Oh my

Sarah:

Here's your baking schedule. Day one, do nothing. What?

Chris:

What? Great. So let's go to day two. I've

Sarah:

I'm so confused. Oh, so that means after you put, okay, so you have to prepare. I don't

Chris:

Because you need the goo.

Sarah:

you pour. Okay. So you pour all this shit together in the back into a bag.

Chris:

You make the goo.

Sarah:

First few notes. Okay. So you pour shit into a bag, but where does it tell you what you pour into a bag? Where does it? oh, okay. I was starting on the wrong side. I was on the wrong side. Okay. Okay. So to prepare a new batch, you put like some water, some yeast, some flour and some sugar and some milk and you put it into Ziploc bag. Here's the schedule. Day one, do nothing. This is the date that you received the bag of starter. That's the starter that you put all that shit, the goo. squish and mush the bag.

Chris:

Okay. Good. I'm

Sarah:

Day two, squish and mush the bag.

Chris:

Kay.

Sarah:

three, squish and mush the bag. Can you guess what day four is?

Chris:

Do you squish and mush the bag?

Sarah:

You bet. Day five, squish and mush the bag. day six is big though. You add to the bag one cup of flour, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, squish and mush. Squish and mush for day seven, squish and mush for day eight, squish and mush for nine. On day 10, you bake it. The good news is that one bag puts the, like you separate that into four. And you put one in to bake it, and then the other one you give away, that's the starter, I believe.

Chris:

That's the

Sarah:

and dividing the starter on day 10. Pour entire contents of starter bag into non metal And there's like rules, don't use metal shit. Don't refrigerate the starter. If the air gets in the bag, you got to let it out. It's farting,

Chris:

You gotta let it out. Just

Sarah:

but yeah,

Chris:

to mental health as well. If there's. Something inside you got to let it out blossoming eating disorder. It's

Sarah:

yeah, you got it. You got to get it out. this will help with your eating disorder. You can get some Amish French bread. There's a shit ton of sugar in it, but that's what I remember from it. It was so good. Cause it had the sugar crust on the top of it. Do you remember?

Chris:

Yeah, and you would slice it and you would put it in the toaster and like the ragged edges would catch on fire

Sarah:

Ooh, yeah, it was good. Oh, so delicious.

Chris:

I do recall Your father this might have been I might have this wrong. So hopefully nita will listen and tell me this might have been right around the time that the Irvin works was paying for them to go to outside classes. And your dad took a class on meat cutting because he could then bring home a shit ton of meat for free. Like they had been laid off or something. And they were like, while you're laid off, we'll pay for you to go to class.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

And

Sarah:

I don't know if that's around the same time, but that definitely happened. I, that he went to, the local, was it at the technical school that they taught the meat cutting? I feel like he went to a bunch of classes at still Valley for something.

Chris:

maybe, or CCAC, I can't remember which one,

Sarah:

Ooh, yeah. CCAC. They sent them to as well, or maybe it was just CCAC anyway, they did some cool shit when they got laid off. It would be nicer to have a job and be making like the normal amount of money that you're supposed to make, or any money.

Chris:

Do you remember? Like, where, at one point I was old enough to understand the difference between being on strike and being locked out. if you were locked out, if it was a lockout and not a strike, then you got paid unemployment. And that was big. That was

Sarah:

yeah.

Chris:

we were very excited if it was a lockout because our lifestyle didn't change as much. We didn't have to dig through the couch cushions to find a 1. 50 to go ice skating or whatever we needed. I'm like, I have 45 in quarters that I can use while we're on strike.

Sarah:

We legit had food stamps. We legit had food stamps at points throughout.

Chris:

when that shit happened, it was bad, it was

Sarah:

what's amazing about it is that like I look back and think about it being bad But I don't really remember actively like I feel like mommy and daddy did such a good job at trying to Guard us from that shield us from that or maybe I was just too little But I feel like I knew we have food stamps obviously because I remember that I remember it not being awesome But I don't I don't feel like we suffer. I don't know.

Chris:

we didn't really, we didn't really want for anything, like we, We were pretty simple creatures. Like we ate, we probably ate a lot more gruel than, than we would in, in the best of times, but

Sarah:

F off. I'll eat gruel every day. that shit's phenomenal. That was like a delicacy.

Chris:

So delicious.

Sarah:

mommy knew how to sell it.

Chris:

Wow. Girls, this stuff is so

Sarah:

is delicious. And it costs like point. one cent per serving.

Chris:

All right. So it gruel is, macaroni and cheese in a box prepared the normal way. With a pound

Sarah:

like we've talked about it before. Sorry.

Chris:

onion and corn, a can of corn and all of that mixed together. And it sounds hideous, but it is, if you give it a, if give it a try,

Sarah:

It's

Chris:

so delicious, like primitive hamburger helper. I

Sarah:

Yeah, so good. Yeah, we lived on that shit. I like, this is back when we were like, I don't even remember daddy going on straight when I was in high school. That's how, I guess that's how good they were at getting us through it. Because still, even, in high school, I wanted shit

Chris:

right.

Sarah:

know, I was pretty spoiled. I got new copas or new Puma kinks when I wanted them.

Chris:

Yeah.

Sarah:

cheap. and then we did, just playing soccer in general was a lot of fucking money.

Chris:

mean, I don't, I honestly can't remember when, but I was definitely like junior high when I remember the last time that he went on strike and we did it. We didn't have enough money to do things. I remember like lobbying for us to eat at McDonald's one, like it was a hard sell. Like we were not just willy nilly, like we didn't go to McDonald's as a more convenient way to, to get food in our bellies on the way to soccer practice. that was going out to eat like Applebee's. Are you fucking kidding me? What are we, the Rockefellers? We're not going to Applebee's.

Sarah:

no. Hell no. One of my favorite memories with Daddy, though, was him taking me to beading practice. I don't know. Let's say it was Wednesdays I had beading practice. And Kogo's had, hot dogs for four for a dollar or some shit. So we'd go to practice and stop on the way home and get 8, 000 hot dogs and I'd get a root beer in one of the bottles because I love

Chris:

Oh, sure. Yeah.

Sarah:

bottle. Yeah. And that's what daddy and I did on Wednesdays. We ate hot dogs and drank root beer, but the only reason we did is because the hot dogs were like zero dollars.

Chris:

It was cheap. It was cheap.

Sarah:

Yeah. And I'm pretty sure that's what daddy looked forward to driving my ass all over the country, but we get to go to eat some wieners.

Chris:

can't beat it. We used to go to the, we used to go to Century Three Mall in the late afternoons and evenings because it had air conditioning and we didn't, we were,

Sarah:

those turtles.

Chris:

eat ice cream

Sarah:

Yeah, if you're not from the Pittsburgh area and you don't know what Century three Mall was, it's a source subject.'cause it's really I might cry talking about it. It's so sad. it was such a part of our childhood, like every bit of it from the time I was born to the time we left that area, that was, that was my first job, but it was the, it was an amazing mall. There was, were there three floors?

Chris:

yeah, sometimes there was a part decorated like old Pittsburgh with cobblestone floors. That's where the Dairy Queen was.

Sarah:

There was a sticker shop down there. I really liked that when I was little. There was a cute little sticker shop. I feel like we've talked about this before too. I'm sorry. we're at episode 24. So we're just going to start repeating the same stories.

Chris:

no, I don't, I feel like,

Sarah:

the freaking best. It was just

Chris:

we've touched on it, but yeah, we're, what are you going to do on Friday night? Oh, we're going to the mall. I think Jackie and Ed and I were talking about, we were talking about it when we had dinner. Jackie walked from the mall over to Wendy's and she was supposed to walk it and her mom was at Alt Myers.

Sarah:

Yeah. Or old country buffet was my guess.

Chris:

One of those. And saw her get out of the car. this is just what you did on Friday and Saturday night. You would just go to the mall and walk around.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

A bunch of school districts.

Sarah:

nine.

Chris:

God. Yeah.

Sarah:

Yeah. It was good. And I worked in century three. I used to go sit in the smoking section because that seems normal. Like I was 16 years old and used to just sit in the smoking section of at the mall. Like I wasn't even trying to hide smoking cigarettes. did I think nobody could see me or I guess it was fine because nobody, I don't remember

Chris:

Nobody told your mom.

Sarah:

but what the fuck was I like, wow. And the Christmas tree, Christmastime at century three, wow. You can't beat that. And those fucking cookies were so good. The gyros in the corner and the lemonade and corn dogs. I could go there and get a fucking corn dog any day I wanted to. And a good corn dog, a good

Chris:

On a stick.

Sarah:

dog.

Chris:

And the lemonade from the corn dog place. You get a lemonade there. You get, fries with, cheese and bacon, and then for dessert, you just grab an orange Julius on your way down to National Record Mart.

Sarah:

Ugh. The good

Chris:

Come on now.

Sarah:

Victoria's Secret. We'd go in and steal those little things of, hand lotion.

Chris:

I never did that.

Sarah:

Yeah. That's,

Chris:

do that. I was too shy to go in Victoria's Secret.

Sarah:

I just went in for the lotion. I obviously wasn't getting my underwears there. At that, I still wore underwear then, but I wasn't spending that much on underwear.

Chris:

National Record Mart, and the bookstore. This is

Sarah:

National record mark going to pick up the latest single of whatever.

Chris:

the casingle, yeah, 18 and life,

Sarah:

Oh my god, that's exactly what I was gonna say. A little skid row.

Chris:

100 percent

Sarah:

is the exact song.

Chris:

Everyone had the casingle, cause. You're not going to buy that whole album. Who can afford it?

Sarah:

I don't know.

Chris:

G love and special sauce.

Sarah:

yeah. Good times. Good times. And then the CDs came out and that was big shit.

Chris:

Now I have to, now I have to re buy all of my tapes on CD.

Sarah:

Yeah, Violent Femmes was my first CD.

Chris:

I can't Erasure might have been mine.

Sarah:

Oh, good one. That's a good one. Awesome.

Chris:

let's talk a little bit about healthy habits.

Sarah:

Okay.

Chris:

did you download the, atomic habits app?

Sarah:

Adams. I did. but that is as far as I got, cause I suck.

Chris:

You had a, we had a busy week last

Sarah:

we did have a really busy week. and I was thinking about it and there it is. I keep meaning to do something with it. yeah, so I need to do that. I think that I'll do that as soon as we're done here. I will get my first. Healthy habit.

Chris:

mean, I feel like I did pretty good this week. I, I'm just opening it up so I can see, and it takes me a while to find it. there it is, five out of seven. So five out of seven days, I did my nighttime checklist and it's hard. Now, because I didn't do it last night cause I wasn't home, but I did

Sarah:

not home.

Chris:

I did it before I left. So I'm just carrying those over. Like the PM checklist was done when it needed to be done. So I'm giving myself credit and now I'm going to add my AM checklist. So now I have an AM checklist of things that I like to do before I get started at work. make sure the kitties have food and water. tend to, I don't know, do you guys have a, do you guys have a big water bottle where you get your, where, like a water cooler, like an office water cooler in your house? I don't think you do.

Sarah:

No, we just have a refrigerator where we get, where the water comes from.

Chris:

we have special water, so we have a water cooler and, sometimes I will drain all of the water out of it and then not replace it a because it's heavy B because the water is all the way out in the garage. So I have put that on my checklist to make sure that I replace at least check the water and make sure that I bring in a new water, even if I don't, pop it up on top there. It's a good way to develop the muscles.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

Get rid of the ham arms. but, didn't that is just one thing that I was like, I really need to take care of that. Like it can't sit there empty and I can't constantly be looking at it like, Oh, I would like water, but I don't have any.

Sarah:

You know what would be a good thing to add? Especially if we're talking healthy habits, your AM habit, you should throw a protein shake on there.

Chris:

I should. Um, I feel like, I feel like I'm in a wait until the therapist tells me that's a good idea. not because I don't think it's not a good idea, but because if I wait longer, then I don't have to do it.

Sarah:

yeah. you're basically just talking yourself out of it and giving yourself an excuse to not do something healthy.

Chris:

Yeah. Yeah.

Sarah:

Okay. All right.

Chris:

we'll get there.

Sarah:

As long as you're okay with it. That's fine.

Chris:

here's, because here's how bad it is in my brain. I'm like, as soon as I start doing these healthy things, I'm going to gain 10 pounds.

Sarah:

Which you could use. I'm just saying.

Chris:

you're probably not wrong, but.

Sarah:

I know I'm not wrong.

Chris:

I need to work through the anxiety around that before I can do it.

Sarah:

You do. You have some anxiety work through. I get it. I get it.

Chris:

So I understand I'm eating. It's not like I'm starving myself to death, but, and I do recognize that when, when I show up, for dinner and my clothes are hanging off of me and these are my skinny clothes that it is time to have a chat with the therapist about. How I feel about that.

Sarah:

Yeah. And I, you just keep in mind that, you're going to start looking gross. Okay.

Chris:

I know, and it will be hard for me to tell that I look gross because I'm just gonna be like, Collarbone.

Sarah:

Yeah, because you're gonna, because you have an eating disorder now.

Chris:

I don't think that I have an, if I had an eating disorder, we

Sarah:

on your way there.

Chris:

having an eating disorder.

Sarah:

You're gonna be on your way there.

Chris:

also the name of this episode based on phrases I've heard this week. we can pick, but it is either going to be,

Sarah:

Macho's eye boogers?

Chris:

trough of disillusionment because we're talking about adopting new technologies and clinical research at this conference. And there's a point where everyone gets super excited. like AI, AI is exciting. You'd AI, Chad, everyone's super excited about Chad and then

Sarah:

Wait, what? At dinner with Jackie and Ed. He was talking about something AI and Jackie was like, what's that? He's like artificial intelligence.

Chris:

write

Sarah:

know that

Chris:

that ed.

Sarah:

I'm sorry, go ahead.

Chris:

so they're, everyone's really high, keen on it. And then, they figure out like the problems with it. And then you sink into a trough of disappointment.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Chris:

Or disillusionment. Where? Disillusionment. I like that. also this conversation, where are you? I'm in the event hall standing by the giant blue balls.

Sarah:

I think it's just be giant blue balls. I

Chris:

That's the name of the episode.

Sarah:

feel like

Chris:

Troth of Disappointment. Giant blue balls.

Sarah:

I think just giant blue balls. I like the trough of disillusionment. Is that the word? That sounds like fancy. I feel like that's what you're going to go with because you like to be smart and shit, but I feel like giant blue balls is going to pull a better audience. Yeah.

Chris:

right. And then I was like, wait, they're not blue, they're teal. These are teal balls. And I to text that, but the, The AI changed it from teal balls to real balls.

Sarah:

Oh,

Chris:

I'm by the giant blue balls. Real balls.

Sarah:

balls. Blue balls? No.

Chris:

The guy that I was talking to was like, Do we need to have a conversation with HR? I was like, I don't know what color your balls are, really.

Sarah:

Yeah, I don't like, just stand, they're right here. You could see them. And I'd not, I'm just telling you

Chris:

then I was like, Don't flick them. Because that hurts.

Sarah:

Don't touch the blue balls. I bet teal balls hurt more.

Chris:

I don't know if they're teal, something is very wrong.

Sarah:

I bet if

Chris:

All right.

Sarah:

purple, yeah, they're gonna fall right off.

Chris:

no purple's not a color here. that's not part of the color scheme.

Sarah:

It's not a Keller. It's not a color either.

Chris:

I think you say it wrong.

Sarah:

I probably do. Color, C O L O R,

Chris:

Keller.

Sarah:

Keller.

Chris:

All right. We're

Sarah:

she was blind, wasn't she? And deaf.

Chris:

Helen Keller,

Sarah:

Yeah, I

Chris:

Annie Solomon was a heck of a teacher. anyway, I think that is probably how we end on giant blue balls. If it was a,

Sarah:

that's

Chris:

if this was a friend's episode, it would be the one with the eating disorder,

Sarah:

The one with the eating disorder and blue balls.

Chris:

blue balls, giant blue balls. I'll have to take a picture of them. Falls and send them to you.

Sarah:

Yeah, I would like that. Thank you.

Chris:

All right. so next week I will be in West Virginia. And then the following week I'll be back in, I'll be in North Carolina and then I'll be back here in Boston wondering why there's still blood on this desk.

Sarah:

sounds good.

Chris:

All right. Love you.

Sarah:

Love you, bye.

Chris:

Love you. Bye.

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